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Average UFC fight length by country

Across the UFC record, fights are longest in United Arab Emirates at 11:40 (269 fights) and shortest in Sweden at 9:49 (61 fights).

How long a UFC fight actually lasts, measured from the opening bell to the stoppage or the final horn.
Computed from 8,231 fights · 14 countrys · 17 withheld under 30 fights (296 bouts) · updated 20 September 2026
Average fight length by country14 bars. Highest: United Arab Emirates at 11:40 from 269 fights. The table below carries every value.USAUSA: 10:31 (5,935 fights)10:31BrazilBrazil: 9:58 (446 fights)9:58CanadaCanada: 11:34 (420 fights)11:34United KingdomUnited Kingdom: 10:26 (332 fights)10:26United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates: 11:40 (269 fights)11:40AustraliaAustralia: 10:37 (253 fights)10:37MexicoMexico: 10:56 (107 fights)10:56ChinaChina: 10:12 (103 fights)10:12JapanJapan: 10:46 (79 fights)10:46SingaporeSingapore: 11:09 (70 fights)11:09FranceFrance: 10:20 (64 fights)10:20SwedenSweden: 9:49 (61 fights)9:49GermanyGermany: 11:07 (56 fights)11:07RussiaRussia: 11:19 (36 fights)11:19
Average fight length by country · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.
CountryAverage lengthTotal timeFights
USA10:311,040 hours5,935
Brazil9:5874 hours446
Canada11:3481 hours420
United Kingdom10:2658 hours332
United Arab Emirates11:4052 hours269
Australia10:3745 hours253
Mexico10:5619 hours107
China10:1218 hours103
Japan10:4614 hours79
Singapore11:0913 hours70
France10:2011 hours64
Sweden9:4910 hours61
Germany11:0710 hours56
Russia11:197 hours36
See also. This page is how often; these are the extremes on the same record: Longest UFC fights ever · Shortest UFC fights ever · Latest finishes in UFC history · Most octagon time in UFC history
What counts. Fight length 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. A handful of bouts carry a recorded clock that cannot be right (a decision timed short of the round it was scored in); they are left out of this page rather than averaged in. A fight is a UFC bout on the official record with a result. Draws, no-contests and overturned results are excluded from every count on this page; disqualifications and could-not-continues are counted as fights, which is why the knockout, submission and decision shares do not add up to 100%. How this table is cut. The country the event was held in, from the official event table. 17 countrys withheld. Ireland, Netherlands, Azerbaijan, South Korea, Poland, New Zealand and 11 more rest on fewer than 30 fights (296 between them), so no percentage is printed for them — a rate off a handful of bouts is arithmetic, not a statistic. 187 fights are outside this table. They were fought on a date that table gives no single venue for — mostly the five nights the UFC ran two cards, which the fight record cannot split between them. They are not missing from our record — they are on the year-by-year archive like every other bout; there is simply no row here for them to sit in. Check us. Every number here is recomputed from the official UFC statistical record on each build — nothing on this page is typed in by hand. Search every fight to filter the same record yourself, or start from the year-by-year archive.
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