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Most fights in UFC lightweight history

The fighter with the most fights in UFC lightweight history is Jim Miller, with 47 fights, fought between 18 October 2008 and 9 May 2026.

How many times each fighter has walked to the octagon on the official UFC record — every bout, whatever the result.
Correct as of 20 September 2026 · UFC lightweight bouts only, 1994–2026 · 8,878 fights · 446 qualify for this record
#FightsFighterWinsLossesFirstLast
147Jim Miller28182008-10-182026-05-09
238Donald Cerrone23142011-02-052022-07-02
337Clay Guida18192006-10-142024-12-07
437Charles Oliveira25112010-08-012026-03-07
536Jeremy Stephens15202007-05-262026-05-09
636Rafael Dos Anjos21152008-11-152024-10-26
733Edson Barboza18152010-11-202026-08-15
832Michael Johnson16162010-12-042026-03-07
932Dustin Poirier2292011-01-012025-07-19
1031King Green17122013-02-022026-07-11
1128Gleison Tibau16122006-11-182018-06-01
1227BJ Penn12132001-05-042019-05-11
1327Joe Lauzon15122006-09-232019-10-18
1427Nate Diaz16112007-06-232022-09-10
1527Drew Dober15112013-11-302026-03-07
1626Ross Pearson12132009-06-202019-03-30
1726Francisco Trinaldo1882012-06-232022-10-01
1826Beneil Dariush1782014-01-152026-05-02
1925Nik Lentz1492009-09-192021-01-23
2025Dan Hooker14112014-06-282026-09-05
2124Tony Ferguson1592011-06-042024-08-03
2222Melvin Guillard1292005-11-052014-03-08
2321Yves Edwards10102001-09-282014-11-22
2421Dennis Siver1282007-04-212017-06-25
2521Evan Dunham1192009-02-212020-06-06
2620Sam Stout9112006-03-042015-08-23
2720Gray Maynard1172007-06-232018-10-06
2820John Makdessi1192010-12-112023-09-09
2920Anthony Pettis1192011-06-042020-12-19
3020Renato Moicano1372014-12-202026-04-04
3119Kevin Lee1182014-02-012023-07-01
3219Islam Makhachev1812015-05-232026-08-15
3318Matt Wiman1082006-05-272020-12-05
3418Thiago Tavares1072007-04-052016-07-08
3518Diego Ferreira1172014-06-282026-08-08
3618Jared Gordon982017-06-252026-05-09
3718Alexander Hernandez1082018-03-032026-04-25
3817Kenny Florian1252005-04-092011-10-08
3917Spencer Fisher982005-10-032012-06-22
4016Joe Stevenson882005-11-052011-06-26
4116Justin Gaethje1152017-07-072026-06-14
4216Nasrat Haqparast1062017-10-212026-08-22
4316Thiago Moises882018-11-102026-04-18
4415Al Iaquinta962012-06-012021-11-06
4515Yancy Medeiros682013-04-272021-06-26
4615Anthony Rocco Martin962014-02-012020-06-06
4715Paul Felder962014-10-042020-11-14
4815Marc Diakiese872016-10-082023-11-04
4915Jalin Turner962018-10-062026-08-15
5015Grant Dawson1222019-03-092026-05-09
5114Tyson Griffin862006-09-232011-10-29
5214Danny Castillo772011-03-032015-12-19
5314Benson Henderson1132011-04-302015-11-28
5414Michel Prazeres1042013-05-182021-06-26
5514James Vick952013-08-172019-10-12
5614Christos Giagos682014-10-252024-04-06
5714Lando Vannata482016-07-132026-04-04
5814Drakkar Klose1042017-01-152026-09-12
5914Chase Hooper952019-12-142026-07-18
6014Mateusz Gamrot952020-10-172026-08-08
6114Terrance McKinney862021-06-122026-07-11
6213Mark Bocek852007-07-072014-04-16
6313Mac Danzig582007-12-082013-12-14
6413Takanori Gomi492010-03-312017-09-22
6513Khabib Nurmagomedov1302012-01-202020-10-24
6613Daron Cruickshank662012-06-012016-01-17
6713Rustam Khabilov1032012-12-152019-11-09
6813James Krause942013-06-152020-10-17
6913Scott Holtzman762015-08-082022-12-03
7013Arman Tsarukyan1122019-04-202026-09-19
7113Rafael Fiziev852019-04-202026-06-27
7213Jamie Mullarkey672019-10-052026-01-31
7313Ludovit Klein842020-09-262026-08-01
7413Benoit Saint Denis942021-10-302026-07-11
7512Sean Sherk842001-02-232010-09-25
7612Kurt Pellegrino752006-07-082011-03-19
7712Efrain Escudero572008-12-132016-04-23
7812Myles Jury842012-06-012019-02-17
7912Vinc Pichel752012-12-152025-03-29
8012Olivier Aubin-Mercier752014-04-162019-07-27
8112Joaquim Silva752015-09-052025-09-13
8212Matt Frevola562018-01-142025-10-18
8312Joel Alvarez842019-02-232026-08-15
8412Austin Hubbard482019-05-182025-08-23
8512Fares Ziam842019-09-072026-09-05
8612Rafa Garcia752021-03-132026-09-12
8711Hermes Franca652003-04-252009-09-19
8811Terry Etim652007-04-212013-02-16
8911George Sotiropoulos742007-12-082013-10-19
9011Abel Trujillo642012-12-082017-12-16
9111Leonardo Santos732013-06-082022-08-20
9211Stevie Ray742015-04-112019-10-26
9311Ignacio Bahamondes742021-04-102026-09-12
9410Caol Uno352001-02-232010-03-31
9510Rich Clementi552003-02-282009-02-07
9610Jacob Volkmann642009-11-212013-02-02
9710Erik Koch552011-03-192019-07-27
9810Ramsey Nijem552011-06-042015-07-25
9910Alan Patrick542013-10-092022-05-14
10010Chad Laprise642014-04-162018-12-08
What counts. Every bout on the record counts as a fight, including draws, no-contests and overturned results: the fighter fought. The wins and losses beside the total do not count those, which is why the three columns need not add up. A win is a bout the official UFC record names this fighter the winner of. An overturned result is not a win here — the result was taken away — and it is not a loss either; it is counted as a fight and as nothing else. Draws and no-contests are counted the same way. 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. 13 of the rows below share the same 13 fights. 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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