D'arce Choke

Neck50 Finishes · 2.9% of All Submissions

Total Finishes

Share of All Subs

2.9%

Most by One Fighter

Peak Year

2013

Year by Year

18 Years with a Finish

Statistical overview

The sixth most used submission in the UFC

Every figure below covers complete years only, from 2007 through 2025. The current year is left out until it is finished, because a part-season is both a smaller sample and a lopsided one — this section rewrites itself each January.

47finishes

2.9%of all 1,644 submissions

#6of 39 distinct submissions

2013peak year, 5 finishes

How’s it trending?

+22%on a good run

Across the last 1,000 men’s fights the d'arce choke finished 7 against 5.8 its earlier rate predicts — 0.70 per 100 fights against 0.57 before. It sits below our threshold for calling a trend shift, though. On 7 finishes in a window this size, a run like this turns up often enough by chance that we will not call the underlying rate changed — a genuine move and a good spell look the same until more fights land. Worth watching rather than worth re-planning a camp around.

And over the long run

2.3%of submissions2007–2020

4.2%of submissionslast five years, 2021–2025

The d'arce choke first appears in 2007. That looks like a gap, but on 448 it is well inside what chance alone would produce. Treat the two as the same. Over five years it is holding roughly the share it always had.

That looks like a gap, but on 448 it is well inside what chance alone would produce. Treat the two as the same.

4.2% against 2.3% · 19 of 448 · 95% range −0.2 to 4.0 points

95% range −54% to 175% · 2024-06-28 to 2026-09-19, men’s divisions. Measured as the rate at which the d'arce choke ends a fight, not its share of submissions — share moves whenever the overall submission rate moves.

When does the finish come?

38.3%Round 1

40.4%Round 2

17.0%Round 3

2.1%Round 4

2.1%Round 5

d'arce choke every other submission

38.3% of these finishes come in the first round, against 51.5% for every other submission. That looks like a gap, but on 47 it is well inside what chance alone would produce. Treat the two as the same. Within the round itself the median comes at 2:45 against 2:52 — 7 seconds earlier.

Does weightclass matter?

Welterweight and middleweight3.3%16 of 488

Featherweight and lightweight4.5%20 of 446

Light heavyweight and heavyweight0.8%2 of 240

Flyweight and bantamweight0.9%2 of 235

Women's divisions1.8%3 of 168

The d'arce choke is at its strongest in featherweight and lightweight, taking 4.5% of the submissions there against 2.3% elsewhere — 2.2 points clear, interval 0.1 to 4.3. It is weakest in light heavyweight and heavyweight at 0.8%, 2.4 points below the rest of the sport, interval −3.8 to −0.9.

The men’s and women’s divisions

Across the women’s divisions the d'arce choke accounts for 1.8% of submissions — 3 of 168 — against 3.0% everywhere else. That looks like a gap, but on 168 it is well inside what chance alone would produce. Treat the two as the same. That said, the women’s sample is 168 submissions in total, so it moves on a handful of fights in a way the men’s does not.