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Most octagon time in UFC lightweight history

The fighter with the most octagon time in UFC lightweight history is Rafael Dos Anjos, with 8 hours 43 minutes, fought between 15 November 2008 and 26 October 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 lightweight bouts only, 1994–2026 · 8,878 fights · 446 qualify for this record
#Octagon timeFighterFights countedAverageFirstLast
18h 43mRafael Dos Anjos3614:322008-11-152024-10-26
27h 29mJim Miller479:332008-10-182026-05-09
37h 03mClay Guida3711:262006-10-142024-12-07
46h 48mJeremy Stephens3611:212007-05-262026-05-09
56h 29mEdson Barboza3311:482010-11-202026-08-15
66h 06mMichael Johnson3211:282010-12-042026-03-07
75h 56mBJ Penn2713:112001-05-042019-05-11
85h 52mDonald Cerrone389:172011-02-052022-07-02
95h 48mDustin Poirier3210:522011-01-012025-07-19
105h 37mNate Diaz2712:292007-06-232022-09-10
115h 22mKing Green3110:232013-02-022026-07-11
125h 22mFrancisco Trinaldo2612:232012-06-232022-10-01
135h 13mNik Lentz2512:332009-09-192021-01-23
145h 08mGleison Tibau2811:022006-11-182018-06-01
155h 02mRoss Pearson2611:382009-06-202019-03-30
164h 55mCharles Oliveira377:582010-08-012026-03-07
174h 31mTony Ferguson2411:182011-06-042024-08-03
184h 17mGray Maynard2012:522007-06-232018-10-06
194h 12mBenson Henderson1418:012011-04-302015-11-28
204h 05mDan Hooker259:492014-06-282026-09-05
214h 02mJohn Makdessi2012:082010-12-112023-09-09
223h 58mSam Stout2011:552006-03-042015-08-23
233h 51mAnthony Pettis2011:352011-06-042020-12-19
243h 50mEvan Dunham2110:582009-02-212020-06-06
253h 44mDennis Siver2110:402007-04-212017-06-25
263h 43mBeneil Dariush268:352014-01-152026-05-02
273h 43mIslam Makhachev1911:452015-05-232026-08-15
283h 41mDrew Dober278:132013-11-302026-03-07
293h 37mKevin Lee1911:252014-02-012023-07-01
303h 33mJoe Lauzon277:532006-09-232019-10-18
313h 26mPaul Felder1513:452014-10-042020-11-14
323h 24mYves Edwards219:432001-09-282014-11-22
333h 22mJustin Gaethje1612:382017-07-072026-06-14
343h 20mSpencer Fisher1711:492005-10-032012-06-22
353h 10mNasrat Haqparast1611:562017-10-212026-08-22
363h 10mAnthony Rocco Martin1512:422014-02-012020-06-06
373h 10mAl Iaquinta1512:412012-06-012021-11-06
383h 08mJared Gordon1810:282017-06-252026-05-09
393h 08mRenato Moicano209:242014-12-202026-04-04
403h 07mKenny Florian1711:022005-04-092011-10-08
413h 06mSean Sherk1215:342001-02-232010-09-25
423h 06mAlexander Hernandez1810:212018-03-032026-04-25
433h 02mMarc Diakiese1512:082016-10-082023-11-04
443h 01mThiago Moises1611:212018-11-102026-04-18
453h 00mDiego Ferreira1810:002014-06-282026-08-08
462h 55mMatt Wiman189:452006-05-272020-12-05
472h 53mDanny Castillo1412:232011-03-032015-12-19
482h 51mKhabib Nurmagomedov1313:132012-01-202020-10-24
492h 51mMichel Prazeres1412:142013-05-182021-06-26
502h 51mRustam Khabilov1313:092012-12-152019-11-09
512h 49mGrant Dawson1511:182019-03-092026-05-09
522h 47mScott Holtzman1312:522015-08-082022-12-03
532h 44mJoe Stevenson1610:172005-11-052011-06-26
542h 44mThiago Tavares189:072007-04-052016-07-08
552h 44mTyson Griffin1411:432006-09-232011-10-29
562h 43mRafa Garcia1213:392021-03-132026-09-12
572h 43mDrakkar Klose1411:422017-01-152026-09-12
582h 42mLudovit Klein1312:292020-09-262026-08-01
592h 39mMateusz Gamrot1411:232020-10-172026-08-08
602h 37mLando Vannata1411:142016-07-132026-04-04
612h 36mAustin Hubbard1213:022019-05-182025-08-23
622h 32mArman Tsarukyan1311:412019-04-202026-09-19
632h 31mJames Krause1311:402013-06-152020-10-17
642h 29mVinc Pichel1212:292012-12-152025-03-29
652h 29mRafael Fiziev1311:322019-04-202026-06-27
662h 29mHermes Franca1113:352003-04-252009-09-19
672h 28mEfrain Escudero1212:242008-12-132016-04-23
682h 28mMark Bocek1311:232007-07-072014-04-16
692h 26mFares Ziam1212:142019-09-072026-09-05
702h 26mMelvin Guillard226:392005-11-052014-03-08
712h 26mOlivier Aubin-Mercier1212:112014-04-162019-07-27
722h 20mMac Danzig1310:502007-12-082013-12-14
732h 12mDaron Cruickshank1310:112012-06-012016-01-17
742h 10mJoaquim Silva1210:542015-09-052025-09-13
752h 08mNorman Parke914:172012-12-142016-02-27
762h 06mIgnacio Bahamondes1111:302021-04-102026-09-12
772h 03mCaol Uno1012:232001-02-232010-03-31
782h 03mKurt Pellegrino1210:192006-07-082011-03-19
792h 02mYancy Medeiros158:102013-04-272021-06-26
802h 01mJamie Mullarkey139:222019-10-052026-01-31
812h 00mStevie Ray1110:562015-04-112019-10-26
821h 59mLeonardo Santos1110:502013-06-082022-08-20
831h 56mJens Pulver912:591999-09-242007-06-23
841h 56mChase Hooper148:212019-12-142026-07-18
851h 56mChristos Giagos148:182014-10-252024-04-06
861h 54mAlan Patrick1011:282013-10-092022-05-14
871h 54mAlex White1011:282014-04-192019-10-26
881h 54mJames Vick148:092013-08-172019-10-12
891h 53mJacob Volkmann1011:182009-11-212013-02-02
901h 52mAnthony Njokuani814:062011-03-192014-10-04
911h 51mMyles Jury129:152012-06-012019-02-17
921h 50mViacheslav Borshchev1011:012022-01-152025-11-15
931h 49mRich Clementi1010:572003-02-282009-02-07
941h 47mJon Tuck911:592012-11-102018-08-25
951h 47mJai Herbert1010:422020-07-252026-04-18
961h 46mGilbert Melendez715:162013-04-202019-07-06
971h 45mTerry Etim119:372007-04-212013-02-16
981h 45mJoe Solecki911:432019-12-072025-01-11
991h 45mDamir Ismagulov715:002018-12-012023-07-01
1001h 44mGeorge Sotiropoulos119:322007-12-082013-10-19
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 1 hour 56 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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