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Most octagon time in UFC heavyweight history

The fighter with the most octagon time in UFC heavyweight history is Andrei Arlovski, with 6 hours 49 minutes, fought between 17 November 2000 and 29 June 2024.

Total time spent fighting inside the octagon — every bout added up, opening bell to finish or final horn.
Correct as of 20 September 2026 · UFC heavyweight bouts only, 1994–2026 · 8,878 fights · 269 qualify for this record
#Octagon timeFighterFights countedAverageFirstLast
16h 49mAndrei Arlovski429:452000-11-172024-06-29
24h 43mDerrick Lewis328:502014-04-192026-06-14
34h 41mRandy Couture2411:441997-05-302011-04-30
44h 39mMarcin Tybura2511:102016-04-102026-08-01
54h 07mJunior Dos Santos2310:442008-10-252020-12-12
64h 06mAlexander Volkov1912:572016-11-192026-05-09
73h 35mStipe Miocic1911:212011-10-082024-11-16
83h 28mCurtis Blaydes229:282016-04-102026-09-12
93h 22mRoy Nelson1910:392009-12-052017-04-15
103h 20mMark Hunt1811:092010-09-252018-12-01
113h 13mFabricio Werdum1810:442007-04-212020-07-25
123h 07mStefan Struve247:482009-02-212020-10-24
133h 04mAlistair Overeem209:142011-12-302021-02-06
143h 01mCiryl Gane1412:592019-08-102026-06-14
152h 50mBen Rothwell1710:022009-10-242021-11-13
162h 49mPedro Rizzo1412:051998-10-162003-11-21
172h 43mCheick Kongo189:042006-07-082013-04-27
182h 41mWaldo Cortes Acosta1411:312022-10-292026-09-12
192h 40mTai Tuivasa198:272017-11-182026-09-19
202h 40mChase Sherman1510:412016-08-062023-05-13
212h 35mFrank Mir275:452001-11-022016-03-19
222h 29mDon'Tale Mayes1212:292019-10-262025-05-03
232h 28mJake Collier1410:362014-12-202023-09-23
242h 21mJairzinho Rozenstruik159:272019-02-022025-02-01
252h 20mSerghei Spivac168:462019-05-042026-08-22
262h 17mGabriel Gonzaga226:152005-11-192016-04-10
272h 17mTim Sylvia1310:342002-09-272008-02-02
282h 16mTravis Browne178:012010-06-192017-07-08
292h 10mBlagoy Ivanov816:152018-07-142023-07-01
302h 07mJoey Beltran1012:442010-02-062013-10-09
311h 59mTanner Boser1110:522019-10-182026-04-18
321h 56mMirko Filipovic1110:362007-02-032015-04-11
331h 56mKevin Randleman716:381999-03-052002-01-11
341h 55mAleksei Oleinik176:482014-06-282022-10-01
351h 53mDan Severn138:421994-12-162000-09-22
361h 51mMark Coleman129:181996-07-122010-02-06
371h 51mCain Velasquez157:242008-04-192019-02-17
381h 46mJared Rosholt813:192013-11-302016-02-06
391h 44mShamil Abdurakhimov119:272015-04-042023-01-21
401h 43mWalt Harris166:292013-11-302021-06-05
411h 42mMarcos Rogerio de Lima185:432014-05-312024-02-17
421h 42mDavid Abbott185:411995-07-142003-11-21
431h 40mMaurice Smith714:181997-07-272000-11-17
441h 39mAugusto Sakai911:032018-09-222023-02-25
451h 38mFrancis Ngannou147:002015-12-192022-01-22
461h 35mDaniel Omielanczuk811:582013-09-212017-07-08
471h 33mAntonio Rodrigo Nogueira118:282007-07-072015-08-01
481h 31mJosh Barnett109:112000-11-172016-09-03
491h 31mJailton Almeida118:192022-02-052026-02-07
501h 28mMatt Mitrione146:172009-12-052016-01-17
511h 25mJeff Monson712:112000-09-222006-11-18
521h 25mRodrigo Nascimento810:382020-05-162024-11-02
531h 25mMartin Buday712:092022-04-162025-07-26
541h 23mRicco Rodriguez711:512001-06-292003-11-21
551h 22mTimothy Johnson711:492015-04-042018-02-03
561h 21mJared Vanderaa711:342021-02-202022-10-29
571h 20mMohammed Usman613:262022-08-062025-06-21
581h 17mBrendan Schaub117:032009-12-052014-12-06
591h 17mPete Williams89:391998-05-152002-03-22
601h 16mShawn Jordan107:362012-03-022015-10-03
611h 15mAlexandr Romanov98:252020-09-122024-11-02
621h 15mThomas Petersen710:442024-02-032026-07-25
631h 15mHeath Herring515:002007-01-252008-08-09
641h 15mCarlos Felipe515:002020-07-182021-10-16
651h 14mGreg Hardy107:272019-01-192022-03-05
661h 13mTsuyoshi Kohsaka612:191998-03-132002-05-10
671h 12mLuis Henrique612:082015-12-192018-09-22
681h 10mJosh Parisian710:082020-11-282024-03-09
691h 09mJake O'Brien79:592006-08-172009-07-11
701h 09mPat Barry125:452008-12-272013-12-06
711h 07mMaurice Greene88:272018-11-302021-05-08
721h 07mAntonio Silva116:062012-05-262016-09-24
731h 03mMike Russow610:382009-08-292013-01-26
741h 03mSergei Pavlovich125:172018-11-242026-05-30
751h 03mMick Parkin512:402023-07-222025-03-22
761h 02mAnthony Hamilton106:172014-06-282017-11-18
771h 02mJustin Willis512:302017-07-162019-03-23
781h 00mBrock Lesnar87:322008-02-022016-07-09
791h 00mHamdy Abdelwahab415:002022-07-302025-10-25
801h 00mJamal Pogues415:002023-02-182025-02-01
811h 00mKarl Williams415:002023-03-112024-08-10
820h 59mSoa Palelei78:332007-12-292015-08-01
830h 59mLukasz Brzeski78:262022-08-132025-07-19
840h 58mParker Porter87:202020-08-152023-08-26
850h 56mJon Madsen511:212009-12-052011-03-26
860h 56mJunior Tafa96:172023-04-222026-06-06
870h 56mJhonata Diniz511:162024-04-272025-10-11
880h 55mShamil Gaziev77:562023-12-162026-08-22
890h 54mMarco Ruas69:071995-09-081999-07-16
900h 54mJustin Tafa105:272019-10-052025-02-08
910h 53mEddie Sanchez68:502006-09-232008-12-10
920h 51mArjan Bhullar412:592017-09-092019-05-04
930h 51mAntoni Hardonk86:242006-11-182009-10-24
940h 50mViktor Pesta510:012014-05-312017-01-15
950h 46mJustin McCully411:442007-04-052009-08-29
960h 46mIan Freeman67:422000-03-102003-06-06
970h 45mRobelis Despaigne411:192024-03-092026-09-19
980h 45mRuslan Magomedov315:002014-05-312015-10-03
990h 45mCaio Machado315:002023-11-182024-11-02
1000h 45mGuilherme Pat315:002025-12-132026-08-08
See also. This page is the extreme; these are how often it happens across the whole record: Average UFC fight length by weight class
What counts. Fight time is elapsed time from the opening bell, derived from the round the bout ended in, the clock at that moment and how long each round of that format was booked for — so an open-format bout from the 1990s is measured by its real length rather than as though every round were five minutes. Nine bouts on the record carry a clock that cannot be right (a decision recorded as ending before the bell of the round it was scored in). A career total is a sum, so one wrong clock stays wrong: those bouts are left out of the total and out of the fight count beside it. One name on the record is shared by two different fighters our source roster cannot tell apart, so any career total under it would be two people’s added together. It is left out of every page in this family entirely — the same reason that fighter’s own page is withheld — rather than published as a total that is nobody’s. A bout carries a weight class; a career does not. On a division page each fighter is filed under the division they were in for most of the bouts THIS record counts — where the wins were actually won, not where they finished up — with a tie going to their most recent bout. Fighters whose counted bouts carry no weight class on the record (catchweight, open weight, the 1990s tournaments) appear only on the all-divisions page. Ties. 3 of the rows below share the same 1 hour. Where two fighters share a total they are listed by the earlier start to their record and then alphabetically — they did not reach the same number in any order, so a tie-break claiming precedence would be an assertion the record does not contain. How a fighter gets a division. A bout carries a weight class; a career does not. On a division page each fighter is filed under the division they were in for most of the bouts THIS record counts — where the wins were actually won, not where they finished up — with a tie going to their most recent bout. Fighters whose counted bouts carry no weight class on the record (catchweight, open weight, the 1990s tournaments) appear only on the all-divisions page. Check us. Every total here is counted from the official UFC statistical record on each build; nothing on this page is typed in by hand. Each name links that fighter’s own page, where every fight the total is made of has its own row and its own bout page — so a number can be checked one fight at a time. Search every fight to filter the whole record yourself, or start from the year-by-year archive.
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