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UFC submission rate by country

Across the UFC record, the submission rate is highest in Brazil at 24% (446 fights) and lowest in France at 14% (64 fights).

How often a UFC fight ends in a tap, across the whole official record.
Computed from 8,240 fights · 14 countrys · 17 withheld under 30 fights (296 bouts) · updated 20 September 2026
Submission rate by country14 bars. Highest: Brazil at 24% from 446 fights. The table below carries every value.USAUSA: 20% (5,943 fights)20%BrazilBrazil: 24% (446 fights)24%CanadaCanada: 16% (420 fights)16%United KingdomUnited Kingdom: 21% (333 fights)21%United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates: 16% (269 fights)16%AustraliaAustralia: 20% (253 fights)20%MexicoMexico: 20% (107 fights)20%ChinaChina: 17% (103 fights)17%JapanJapan: 20% (79 fights)20%SingaporeSingapore: 19% (70 fights)19%FranceFrance: 14% (64 fights)14%SwedenSweden: 23% (61 fights)23%GermanyGermany: 20% (56 fights)20%RussiaRussia: 17% (36 fights)17%
Submission rate by country · every value is in the table below, with the number of fights behind it.
CountrySubmission rateSubmissionsFights
USA20%1,1905,943
Brazil24%106446
Canada16%68420
United Kingdom21%70333
United Arab Emirates16%43269
Australia20%50253
Mexico20%21107
China17%18103
Japan20%1679
Singapore19%1370
France14%964
Sweden23%1461
Germany20%1156
Russia17%636
See also. This page is how often; these are the extremes on the same record: Fastest submissions in UFC history · Most submissions in UFC history
What counts. A submission is the official record’s own method code; a technical submission from strikes is filed as a KO/TKO and is not counted here. 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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