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Most submission wins in UFC light heavyweight history

Glover Teixeira holds the UFC light heavyweight record for most submission wins with 7 submission wins.

UFC fights only. Updated October 20, 2026.

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1 Glover Teixeira 7 23
2 Paul Craig 6 17
3 Jon Jones 5 22
3 Ovince Saint Preux 5 26
3 Misha Cirkunov 5 11
3 Anthony Smith 5 18
7 Renato Sobral 4 9
7 Nikita Krylov 4 19
7 Jimmy Crute 4 12
10 Frank Shamrock 3 5
10 Wilson Gouveia 3 6
10 Phil Davis 3 13
10 Anthony Perosh 3 9
10 Daniel Cormier 3 9
10 Ryan Spann 3 12
16 Tito Ortiz 2 23
16 Forrest Griffin 2 15
16 Randy Couture 2 10
16 Stephan Bonnar 2 15
16 Eric Schafer 2 7
16 Krzysztof Soszynski 2 9
16 Alexander Gustafsson 2 17
16 Ilir Latifi 2 12
16 Gadzhimurad Antigulov 2 6
16 Tyson Pedro 2 11
16 Jan Blachowicz 2 23
16 Alonzo Menifield 2 19
16 Ion Cutelaba 2 21
16 Brendson Ribeiro 2 9
16 Billy Elekana 2 4
16 Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev 2 3
32 Evan Tanner 1 5
32 Sam Hoger 1 5
32 Jason Lambert 1 7
32 Dean Lister 1 1
32 Mike Nickels 1 2
32 Rob MacDonald 1 3
32 David Heath 1 5
32 Alan Belcher 1 1
32 Lyoto Machida 1 15
32 Steve Cantwell 1 4
32 Eliot Marshall 1 6
32 Ricardo Romero 1 3
32 Igor Pokrajac 1 13
32 Vinny Magalhaes 1 5
32 Cyrille Diabate 1 8
32 Ildemar Alcantara 1 1
32 Ryan Bader 1 20
32 Chael Sonnen 1 4
32 Marcos Rogerio de Lima 1 6
32 Henrique da Silva 1 6
32 Dominick Reyes 1 15
32 Da Woon Jung 1 9
32 Ed Herman 1 9
32 Danilo Marques 1 4
32 Brendan Allen 1 1
32 Jiri Prochazka 1 9
32 Johnny Walker 1 16
32 Kennedy Nzechukwu 1 11
32 Vitor Petrino 1 6
32 Volkan Oezdemir 1 16
32 Carlos Ulberg 1 11
32 Oumar Sy 1 6
32 Modestas Bukauskas 1 13
32 Bogdan Guskov 1 7
32 Tuco Tokkos 1 4
32 Uran Satybaldiev 1 1
32 Luis Hernandez 1 1

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