MMA fighters
having 7 or more
victories by stoppages
Satoko Shinashi 21
Submission (Armbar) 18
Submission (Heel Hook) 3
Megumi Fujii 18
Submission (Armbar) 12
TKO (Punches) 1
(Triangle Choke) 1
Submission (Heel Hook) 1
Submission (Toe Hold) 1
Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) 2
Miku Matsumoto 15
Submission (Armbar) 9
TKO (Knees To The Body)
TKO (Kicks To The Body)
Submission (Kimura)
Submission (Triangle Choke)
Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
TKO (Punches)
Shayna Baszler 13
Submission (Kneebar)
Submission (Armbar) 6
Submission (Twister) 2
Submission (Kimura)
Submission (???)
Submission (Punches)
Submission (Choke)
Tara LaRosa 11
Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 2
Submission (Keylock)
TKO (Doctor Stoppage)
Submission (Triangle Choke)
Submission (Armbar) 3
TKO (Punches) 2
Submission (Punches)
Carina Damm 11
TKO (Punches) 2
Submission (Armbar) 6
TKO (Corner Stoppage)
KO (Punch)
Megumi Yabushita 10
Submission (scarf hold armlock)
Submission (armbar) 7
KO (slam)
Submission (wristlock)
Rosi Sexton 9
TKO (Punches)
Submission (Armbar) 6
TKO (Corner Stoppage)
Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Lisa Ward 9
Technical Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) 3
Submission (Reverse Ankle Lock)
Submission (Toe Hold)
Submission (Kimura)
Submission (Scarf Hold Armlock)
Submission (Armbar)
Submission (Guillotine Choke)
Yuuki Kondo 9
Submission (keylock)
Submission (armbar) 7
TKO (ankle injury) – Ankle lock
Cristiane Santos (Cyborg) 8
KO (Knee to the Body) 1
TKO (Punches) 5
TKO (Stomps) 1
TKO (Corner Stoppage) 1
Alexis Davis 7
Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 3
Submission (Armbar) 2
TKO (Punches) 2
Tonya Evinger 7
TKO (Punches) 2
Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 2
Submission (Armbar)
KO (Punch) 2
Mari Kaneko 7
Submission (armbar) 6
Submission (rear naked choke)
Michelle Waterson 7
TKO (Punches)
Submission (Flying Armbar)
Technical Submission (Armbar)
Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Submission (Armbar) 2
TKO (Corner Stoppage)
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There are three essential ways to win a MMA fight:
1. To force the opponent to submit
Submission (also referred to as a "tap out") is a term for yielding to the opponent, and hence resulting in an immediate defeat. There might be several reasons to submit: suffering an injury; avoiding an intensive pain or injury or losing consciousness; being choked; being overwhelmed by striking, preventing being knocked out or injured. The submission is commonly performed by clearly tapping the floor or the opponent with the hand or sometimes with the foot, to signal the opponent and possibly the referee of the submission; the submission can also be verbal. The submission can also be announced by the fighter’s team. If the submission is decided not by the fighter, it is called technical submission.
2. To knock the opponent out by striking him/her
Knockout is usually awarded when one participant is unable to raise from the canvas within a specified period of time, typically because of fatigue, injury, loss of balance, or unconsciousness. In MMA, KO is relatively rare, more common is early stoppages (Technical knockout also referred to as a TKO) often declared when the referee or other judges (such as official ring physician, the fighter, or the fighter's cornermen) decide that a fighter cannot continue the match, even though he did not fail the count; or, in many regions, a fighter has been knocked down three times in one round.
3. To dominate during the fight in order to be declared a winner by judges after an allotted amount of time has elapsed. If neither of the contestants has won decisively, the outcome is decided by judges.
We have reviewed records of 47 prominent female MMA fighters who have had five or more early winnings - by submission or knockout. As you can see, vast majority of them have been achieved by submission; at that armbar is the most popular winning technique. Chokes are the second favorite ones. As far as kicks and punches are concerned, punches turns out to be much more efficient to submit or knock an opponent out. Surprisingly, just two kicks and two knee strikes scored victories out of 253 considered stoppages. The statistics indicates a relative advantage of grappling techniques over striking techniques.
The total number of upright victories - submissions and knockouts – by the 47 female MMA fighters in all their recorded fights is 359
Submissions (253)
Chokes (48)
- Rear Naked Choke 32
- Choke 1
- Guillotine (Twister) choke 9
- Triangle choke 6
- Shoulder choke 1
- Side choke 1
Armlocks (164)
- Armbar 153
- Triangle armbar 1
- Flying armbar 2
- Leg armbar 1
- Scarf Hold Armlock 3
- Kimura 4
- Wristlock 1
- Keylock 3
Leg locks (16)
- Kneebar 5
- Heel Hook 7
- Toe hold 2
- Heel hold 1
- Reverse ankle lock 1
Compression locks (4)
- Achilles lock 3
- Calf slicer 1
Strikes (14)
- [Combined] Strikes 4
- Punches 9
- Kicks 1
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TKO and KO Stoppages (106)
TKO (77)
- TKO (Punches) 59
- TKO (Doctor Stoppage) 6
- TKO (Corner Stoppage) 8
- TKO (Kicks To The Body) 1
- TKO (Knee To The Body) 1
- TKO (Head kick) 1
- TKO (Stomps) 1
KO (29)
- KO (Punch) 24
- KO (Head kick) 1
- KO (Knee) 2
- KO (Body Slam) 2
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MMA terms and the most common winning techniques in MMA
STRIKES
Punch - strike by a fist at the head or body of an opponent - standing or downed.
Elbow strike - strike by an elbow at the head or body of an opponent - standing or downed. This strike is not allowed in boxing and kickboxing.
Kick - strike by a leg at the head or body of an opponent - standing or downed.
Knee strike - strike by a knee at the head or body of an opponent - standing or downed.
Stomp – sort of a kick - downwards strike with the heel of the foot from the stand-up position, and is usually directed at the downed opponent.
CHOKE HOLDS
Rear naked choke (RNC) - удушение сзади — удушающий прием, проводимый сзади
Triangle Choke - a chokehold which strangles the opponent by encircling the opponent's neck and one arm with the legs in a configuration similar to the shape of a triangle.
Guillotine choke (twister) - a chokehold applied from in front of the opponent. The choke involves using the arms to encircle the opponent's neck in a fashion similar to a guillotine.
Scarf hold - a pinning hold that is performed from side control by turning slightly sideways, spreading the legs for stability, and encircling the opponent's head with one arm and holding the other arm close to the chest. Modified scarf hold is similar to the regular scarf hold (kesa-gatame), except that instead of encircling the head, the opponent's arm is encircled.
JOINT LOCKS
Armbar armlock that hyper-extends the elbow joint. Other rare forms of armlocks: flying armbar and Kimura (reverse figure-four lock). Flying armbar is an armbar implemented during taking an opponent down.
Figure-four lock or Americana (or double wrist lock, entangled armlock); in Judo - ude-garami (arm enlargement) - a joint-lock that resembles the number "4". The opponent's arm or head is pinned to the ground so that it is bent at the elbow, with the opponent's palm upwards.
Keylock (also known as a bent armlock or chicken wing) involves holding the forearm and using it to twist the upper arm laterally or medially, similarly to turning a key in a keyhole.
Kneebar - a leglock which hyper-extends the knee
Heel hook is a leg lock affecting multiple joints, and is applied by transversely twisting the foot either medially or laterally. The torsional force puts severe torque on the ankle, which in turn transfers torque to the knee.
Ankle lock (occasionally referred to as a shin lock) is a leglock that is applied to any of the joints in the ankle, typically by hyperextending the talocrural joint through plantar hyperflexion.
Achilles lock (also called achilles squeeze) is a compression lock that involves pressing the achilles tendon into the back of the ankle or lower leg.
Toe hold a lock that involves using the hands to hyperextend and/or hyperrotate the ankle, typically by grabbing the foot near the toes, and twisting or pushing the foot while controlling the opponent's leg.
COMPRESSION LOCKS
Compression lock - a muscle lock, muscle slicer or muscle crusher, is a grappling hold which causes severe pain by pressing a muscle into a bone.
Biceps slicer (also called a biceps lock or biceps crusher) is a compression lock that involves pressing the biceps into the humerus.
Leg slicer (depending on the affected muscle also called for instance calf slicer or thigh crusher) is a compression lock that involves pressing the calf and/or thigh muscle into one of the bones in the leg.
OTHER techniques
Body Slam - slamming an opponent down against the mat. Body slams are allowed unless it slam on head
Scissors - a clench an opponent waist or neck by thighs – must be extremely powerful to submit.
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Gina Carano elbows Cristiane 'Cyborg' Santos
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Cristiane 'Cyborg' Santos TKOs Gina Carano at Strikeforce
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Yasuko Tamada kicks Naoko Omuro
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Rosi Sexton (right) knees Debi Purcell
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Satoko Shinaashi finishes Shiyo Yamato by armbar
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Miku Matsumoto submits Tomomi Sunaba by Rear naked choke
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Marloes Coenen submits Roxanne Modafferi by triangle choke
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Sarah Kaufman slams Roxanne Modafferi at Strikeforce
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Megumi Fujii submits all her opponents mostly by joint locks
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MMA fighters
having 7 or more
victories by stoppages
Marloes Coenen 17
Submission (Armbar) 7
Submission (Flying Armbar)
TKO (Punches) 3
KO (Punch)
Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 4
KO (Knee)
Adrienna Jenkins 16
Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 3
TKO (Punches) 6
Submission (Armbar) 3
Submission (Slam)
Submission (Punches) 3
Yuka Tsuji 15
KO (Punches)
TKO (Punches)
Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 2
Submission (Armbar) 9
Submission (Heel Hook)
Submission (Kneebar)
Yoko Takahashi 15
Submission (calf slicer)
Submission (rear naked choke) 2
Submission (heel hook)
TKO (head kick)
Submission (leg armbar)
Submission (kimura)
TKO (punches)
Submission (guillotine choke)
Submission (achilles lock) 2
KO (punch)
Submission (armbar)
Submission (heel hold)
TKO
Submission (kick)
Hisae Watanabe 13
Submission (Armbar) 2
KO (Punch) 8
TKO (Punches) 3
Hitomi Akano 12
Submission (Triangle Armbar)
Submission (Armbar) 10
Submission (Heel Hook)
Jennifer Howe 11
TKO
(Strikes) 4
TKO (Towel)
KO (Punch)
Submission (Punches)
Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 4
Kelly Kobold 10
Submission (Punches) 2
Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
TKO (Punches) 5
Submission (Armbar) 2
Sarah Kaufman 9
KO (Slam) 1
TKO (Punches) 6
KO (Punch)
TKO (Doctor Stoppage)
Amanda Buckner 9
Submission (Guillotine Choke) 3
TKO (Punches)
Submission (Armbar) 2
Submission (Kneebar)
Submission (Achilles Lock)
Submission (Punches)
Aisling Daly 8
TKO (Punches) 5
Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
TKO (Corner Stoppage)
Submission (Armbar)
Laura D'Auguste 7
TKO (Corner Stoppage)
Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 2
TKO (Punches) 2
TKO (Doctor Stoppage) 2
Miesha Tate 7
Submission (Armbar) 2
KO (Head Kick)
Submission (Shoulder Choke)
Submission (Triangle Choke)
KO (Punches) 2
Ikuma Hoshino 7
Submission (scarf hold armlock)
TKO (corner stoppage)
Submission (straight armbar)
Submission (guillotine choke) 2
KO (knee)
KO (punch)
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