Most submission wins in UFC heavyweight history

Frank Mir holds the UFC heavyweight record for most submission wins with 8 submission wins.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

#	Fighter	Submission wins	Fights
1	Frank Mir	8	27
2	Aleksei Oleinik	7	17
3	Stefan Struve	6	24
4	Valter Walker	5	6
5	Gabriel Gonzaga	4	22
5	Fabricio Werdum	4	18
7	Ben Rothwell	3	17
7	Serghei Spivac	3	16
7	Alexandr Romanov	3	10
7	Jailton Almeida	3	9
11	Randy Couture	2	14
11	Mark Kerr	2	4
11	Pete Williams	2	8
11	Andrei Arlovski	2	42
11	Josh Barnett	2	10
11	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	2	11
11	Luis Henrique	2	5
11	Juan Espino	2	3
11	Maurice Greene	2	8
11	Ciryl Gane	2	14
11	Tom Aspinall	2	10
22	Mark Coleman	1	4
22	Justin Martin	1	1
22	Steven Graham	1	2
22	Dan Bobish	1	2
22	Alex Hunter	1	2
22	Maurice Smith	1	7
22	Kazushi Sakuraba	1	2
22	Vitor Belfort	1	5
22	Tra Telligman	1	5
22	Mike van Arsdale	1	2
22	Jeremy Horn	1	1
22	Kenichi Yamamoto	1	1
22	Scott Adams	1	1
22	Kimo Leopoldo	1	3
22	Paul Buentello	1	6
22	Marcio Cruz	1	4
22	Jeff Monson	1	6
22	Dan Christison	1	2
22	Brandon Vera	1	7
22	Christian Wellisch	1	4
22	Mike Ciesnolevicz	1	1
22	Tim Hague	1	5
22	Mirko Filipovic	1	11
22	Brock Lesnar	1	8
22	Sean McCorkle	1	3
22	Rob Broughton	1	3
22	Christian Morecraft	1	4
22	Travis Browne	1	17
22	Philip De Fries	1	5
22	Brendan Schaub	1	11
22	Justin Ledet	1	3
22	Francis Ngannou	1	14
22	Marcelo Golm	1	4
22	Cyril Asker	1	5
22	Dmitry Sosnovskiy	1	1
22	Adam Wieczorek	1	3
22	Daniel Cormier	1	6
22	Rodrigo Nascimento	1	8
22	Jake Collier	1	8
22	Marcos Rogerio de Lima	1	12
22	Jon Jones	1	2
22	Martin Buday	1	8
22	Alexander Volkov	1	19
22	Marcin Tybura	1	25
22	Vitor Petrino	1	4
22	Ryan Spann	1	4
22	Jose Montanha	1	1
22	Anthony Wint	1	2

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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.