Most significant strikes landed in UFC lightweight history

King Green holds the UFC lightweight record for most significant strikes landed with 2,077 significant strikes.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

#	Fighter	Significant strikes	Fights
1	King Green	2,077	30
2	Dustin Poirier	1,377	21
3	Michael Johnson	1,335	28
4	John Makdessi	1,293	19
5	Justin Gaethje	1,271	16
6	Jim Miller	1,268	44
7	Evan Dunham	1,225	20
8	Tony Ferguson	1,221	21
9	Nasrat Haqparast	1,191	16
10	Donald Cerrone	1,127	23
11	Edson Barboza	1,093	25
12	Rafael Dos Anjos	1,021	25
13	Sam Stout	990	19
14	Ross Pearson	972	23
15	Dan Hooker	968	18
16	Clay Guida	946	30
17	Diego Ferreira	892	18
18	Jared Gordon	857	15
19	Beneil Dariush	836	26
20	Francisco Trinaldo	793	21
21	Drew Dober	788	25
22	Nate Diaz	777	17
23	Al Iaquinta	774	15
24	Frankie Edgar	767	13
25	Kevin Lee	749	16
26	Nik Lentz	724	17
27	Scott Holtzman	723	13
28	Esteban Ribovics	713	9
29	Rafa Garcia	710	12
30	BJ Penn	707	16
30	Paul Felder	707	14
32	Rafael Fiziev	706	13
33	Benson Henderson	683	12
34	Alexander Hernandez	670	16
35	Drakkar Klose	657	14
36	Charles Oliveira	644	25
37	Khabib Nurmagomedov	630	12
38	Lando Vannata	623	12
39	Austin Hubbard	622	12
40	Mason Jones	618	8
41	Joe Lauzon	605	27
42	Gleison Tibau	601	27
43	Spencer Fisher	599	15
44	Max Holloway	586	4
45	Arman Tsarukyan	575	13
46	Vinc Pichel	567	12
47	Rongzhu	560	7
48	Matt Wiman	557	18
49	Yves Edwards	552	20
50	Viacheslav Borshchev	550	10

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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.