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UFC first-round finish rate by country

Across the UFC record, the first-round finish rate is highest in China at 32% (103 fights) and lowest in Russia at 19% (36 fights).

How often a UFC fight is over inside one round.
Computed from 8,240 fights · 14 countrys · 17 withheld under 30 fights (296 bouts) · updated 20 September 2026
First-round finish rate by country14 bars. Highest: China at 32% from 103 fights. The table below carries every value.USAUSA: 28% (5,943 fights)28%BrazilBrazil: 31% (446 fights)31%CanadaCanada: 24% (420 fights)24%United KingdomUnited Kingdom: 28% (333 fights)28%United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates: 23% (269 fights)23%AustraliaAustralia: 29% (253 fights)29%MexicoMexico: 30% (107 fights)30%ChinaChina: 32% (103 fights)32%JapanJapan: 28% (79 fights)28%SingaporeSingapore: 24% (70 fights)24%FranceFrance: 27% (64 fights)27%SwedenSweden: 28% (61 fights)28%GermanyGermany: 21% (56 fights)21%RussiaRussia: 19% (36 fights)19%
First-round finish rate by country · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.
CountryR1 finish rateFirst-round finishesFights
USA28%1,6865,943
Brazil31%137446
Canada24%100420
United Kingdom28%94333
United Arab Emirates23%62269
Australia29%73253
Mexico30%32107
China32%33103
Japan28%2279
Singapore24%1770
France27%1764
Sweden28%1761
Germany21%1256
Russia19%736
What counts. A first-round finish is a knockout or submission the official record places in round one. 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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