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UFC significant strikes per minute by country

Across the UFC record, fights are fastest in China at 8.11 significant strikes a minute (103 fights) and slowest in Germany at 5.52 (56 fights).

The pace of a UFC fight: significant strikes landed per minute, both corners together.
Computed from 8,231 fights · 14 countrys · 17 withheld under 30 fights (296 bouts) · updated 20 September 2026
Significant strikes per minute by country14 bars. Highest: China at 8.11 from 103 fights. The table below carries every value.USAUSA: 7.04 (5,935 fights)7.04BrazilBrazil: 6.51 (446 fights)6.51CanadaCanada: 7.13 (420 fights)7.13United KingdomUnited Kingdom: 6.54 (332 fights)6.54United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates: 7.30 (269 fights)7.30AustraliaAustralia: 7.36 (253 fights)7.36MexicoMexico: 7.00 (107 fights)7.00ChinaChina: 8.11 (103 fights)8.11JapanJapan: 5.73 (79 fights)5.73SingaporeSingapore: 7.95 (70 fights)7.95FranceFrance: 7.48 (64 fights)7.48SwedenSweden: 5.90 (61 fights)5.90GermanyGermany: 5.52 (56 fights)5.52RussiaRussia: 5.65 (36 fights)5.65
Significant strikes per minute by country · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.
CountryStrikes / minuteStrikes landedFights
USA7.04439,4725,935
Brazil6.5128,914446
Canada7.1334,616420
United Kingdom6.5422,647332
United Arab Emirates7.3022,917269
Australia7.3619,751253
Mexico7.008,179107
China8.118,522103
Japan5.734,87679
Singapore7.956,20870
France7.484,95164
Sweden5.903,53161
Germany5.523,43756
Russia5.652,30336
What counts. Significant strikes are the official record’s own landed count, added across both corners and divided by the total time those fights lasted — pooled, so a fifteen-second knockout cannot pull the average up. 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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