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Most head strikes landed in UFC heavyweight history

Andrei Arlovski holds the UFC heavyweight record for most head strikes landed with 875 head strikes.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

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1 Andrei Arlovski 875 42
2 Stipe Miocic 737 19
3 Alexander Volkov 734 19
4 Junior Dos Santos 682 23
5 Marcin Tybura 629 25
6 Curtis Blaydes 590 22
7 Fabricio Werdum 568 18
8 Waldo Cortes-Acosta 558 14
9 Cain Velasquez 542 15
10 Derrick Lewis 538 32
11 Chase Sherman 531 15
12 Ben Rothwell 496 17
13 Serghei Spivac 443 16
14 Ciryl Gane 438 14
15 Jake Collier 426 8
16 Tim Sylvia 422 13
17 Alistair Overeem 386 20
18 Mark Hunt 378 18
19 Randy Couture 366 14
20 Daniel Cormier 345 6
21 Roy Nelson 341 19
22 Blagoy Ivanov 329 8
23 Stefan Struve 310 24
24 Tai Tuivasa 307 19
25 Jairzinho Rozenstruik 298 15
26 Joey Beltran 285 7
27 Josh Hokit 278 4
28 Martin Buday 272 8
29 Parker Porter 269 8
30 Augusto Sakai 255 9
31 Cheick Kongo 253 18
31 Steven Asplund 253 3
33 Josh Barnett 248 10
34 Alexandr Romanov 242 10
35 Aleksei Oleinik 239 17
36 Travis Browne 238 17
37 Sergei Pavlovich 237 12
38 Carlos Felipe 232 5
39 Don'Tale Mayes 231 12
40 Tanner Boser 228 10
41 Matt Mitrione 225 14
42 Rodrigo Nascimento 224 8
43 Walt Harris 215 16
44 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 212 11
45 Jared Vanderaa 207 7
46 Greg Hardy 203 10
47 Hamdy Abdelwahab 198 4
48 Brendan Schaub 191 11
49 Shawn Jordan 189 10
49 Mohammed Usman 189 6

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How we count: results and statistics are from official UFC fight data. Strike and takedown numbers only exist for fights where the UFC recorded them.