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Most octagon time in UFC light heavyweight history

The fighter with the most octagon time in UFC light heavyweight history is Jon Jones, with 5 hours 56 minutes, fought between 9 August 2008 and 16 November 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 light heavyweight bouts only, 1994–2026 · 8,878 fights · 204 qualify for this record
#Octagon timeFighterFights countedAverageFirstLast
15h 56mJon Jones2414:522008-08-092024-11-16
25h 00mTito Ortiz2711:081997-05-302012-07-07
34h 54mJan Blachowicz2312:492014-10-042026-08-01
44h 48mRashad Evans2312:322005-11-052018-06-09
54h 45mLyoto Machida2411:542007-02-032018-05-12
64h 25mGlover Teixeira2311:312012-05-262023-01-21
74h 24mMauricio Rua2411:022007-09-222023-01-21
84h 19mAnthony Smith2510:222013-06-082025-04-26
94h 07mOvince Saint Preux279:092013-04-272024-10-05
103h 31mMagomed Ankalaev1712:272018-03-172026-07-25
113h 27mDaniel Cormier1513:492013-04-202020-08-15
123h 24mRyan Bader2010:142008-12-132016-11-19
133h 24mChuck Liddell238:531998-05-152010-06-12
143h 13mDevin Clark1711:232016-07-132024-02-10
153h 10mGian Villante1711:122013-04-272021-11-06
163h 06mAlexander Gustafsson1810:212009-11-142022-07-23
173h 05mQuinton Jackson1314:152007-02-032015-04-25
182h 55mDustin Jacoby189:452011-10-292026-07-25
192h 55mKhalil Rountree Jr.189:432016-07-082025-10-04
202h 53mStephan Bonnar1511:332005-04-092012-10-13
212h 53mForrest Griffin1511:332005-04-092012-07-07
222h 48mPhil Davis1312:592010-02-062015-01-24
232h 48mPaul Craig218:002016-12-172025-09-06
242h 48mIon Cutelaba218:002016-06-182026-06-20
252h 44mAlonzo Menifield198:402019-01-192026-09-19
262h 44mBrandon Vera1610:152005-10-032013-08-31
272h 42mCorey Anderson1510:502014-07-062020-02-15
282h 37mNikita Krylov227:092013-08-312026-07-11
292h 34mMatt Hamill1510:192006-06-242013-10-09
302h 30mVolkan Oezdemir169:242017-02-042025-11-22
312h 28mIlir Latifi169:182013-04-062023-05-20
322h 23mKen Shamrock1311:021994-09-092006-10-10
332h 19mModestas Bukauskas149:592020-07-152026-09-05
342h 19mAlex Pereira1310:422021-11-062026-06-14
352h 15mFabio Maldonado1112:192010-10-162015-11-07
362h 14mKennedy Nzechukwu168:252019-03-302026-08-22
372h 13mKeith Jardine1310:152005-11-052010-06-19
382h 12mAleksandar Rakic1211:022017-09-022026-08-01
392h 02mRogerio Nogueira139:262009-11-212020-07-25
402h 01mWanderlei Silva1210:091998-10-162013-03-02
412h 01mIgor Pokrajac139:182009-09-192016-04-10
421h 57mDominick Reyes157:512017-06-252026-04-11
431h 56mPatrick Cummins138:592014-02-222019-05-18
441h 54mJamahal Hill1110:262020-01-252025-06-21
451h 54mFrancimar Barroso912:452013-08-032018-01-20
461h 50mVitor Petrino1011:012023-03-112026-08-22
471h 48mJohnny Walker166:462018-11-172026-04-11
481h 47mMarcin Prachnio119:452018-02-242025-07-19
491h 44mRyan Spann176:092018-09-222026-09-05
501h 42mKyle Kingsbury911:212008-12-132014-07-26
511h 39mThiago Silva128:152007-05-262013-10-09
521h 38mVladimir Matyushenko128:132001-06-292013-01-26
531h 34mDa Woon Jung910:272019-08-312024-09-28
541h 32mWilliam Knight713:112020-09-262023-02-18
551h 32mJiri Prochazka910:152020-07-112026-04-11
561h 24mJimi Manuwa127:012012-09-292019-06-01
571h 23mCarlos Ulberg117:362021-03-062026-04-11
581h 20mRenato Sobral108:042000-11-172007-08-25
591h 20mKrzysztof Soszynski98:562008-12-132011-12-10
601h 19mSteve Cantwell613:102008-12-102012-02-25
611h 19mTyson Pedro117:102016-11-262024-03-02
621h 17mJimmy Crute126:272018-12-012025-09-27
631h 14mEric Schafer98:172006-08-262012-01-20
641h 13mMike Rodriguez89:142018-04-072021-09-18
651h 09mMaxim Grishin513:592020-07-112023-06-03
661h 09mJason Brilz79:552008-09-172011-11-19
671h 07mSam Hoger513:252005-04-092007-02-03
681h 06mWilson Gouveia106:392006-06-242009-12-12
691h 06mAnthony Perosh125:322006-07-082015-11-14
701h 06mRyan Jimmo79:292012-07-212015-05-30
711h 06mBogdan Guskov79:272023-09-022026-07-25
721h 05mNavajo Stirling610:542024-12-142026-08-01
731h 05mJustin Ledet79:182016-08-062020-10-31
741h 04mBrendson Ribeiro88:012024-02-172026-07-25
751h 03mEliot Marshall610:372008-12-132011-10-29
761h 03mPhilipe Lins610:352020-05-132024-03-09
771h 03mAzamat Murzakanov79:022022-03-122026-04-11
781h 01mMisha Cirkunov134:432015-08-232022-10-15
791h 00mAleksa Camur415:002020-01-182023-08-05
800h 59mJames Te Huna105:592010-02-202016-03-19
810h 58mNicolae Negumereanu69:452019-03-162022-11-12
820h 58mCyrille Diabate87:182010-05-292014-03-08
830h 55mSean O'Connell77:572014-04-162016-12-09
840h 53mLuiz Cane95:582007-12-292012-10-13
850h 53mGoran Reljic413:182008-05-242010-11-13
860h 51mOumar Sy68:372024-05-182026-09-05
870h 50mJordan Johnson412:402017-01-282018-09-15
880h 48mElvis Sinosic76:572001-02-232007-04-21
890h 48mIvan Erslan412:042024-09-282026-05-16
900h 48mDarko Stosic412:032018-07-222020-01-25
910h 46mRodolfo Bellato59:232023-12-022026-03-07
920h 46mKlidson Abreu411:422019-02-232020-05-30
930h 46mRafael Cavalcante59:182013-06-082016-02-06
940h 46mKhadis Ibragimov411:332019-08-312020-09-26
950h 46mHenrique da Silva67:402016-06-042017-09-22
960h 45mDavid Heath59:102006-08-262008-02-02
970h 45mRodney Wallace315:002009-12-052010-08-07
980h 45mJohn Allan315:002019-07-132021-11-06
990h 44mJason Lambert85:342006-03-042008-09-06
1000h 44mFrank Shamrock58:531997-12-211999-09-24
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. 2 of the rows below share the same 45 minutes. 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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