Strongest MMA fighters ever?

[FastSmith7]

Who would you rate as the strongest MMA fighter in any organisation?

 

[Genital Warts]

Tank Abbott.

 

[MusterX]

Yea, supposedly Tank could bench press 600 pounds.

I don't know how much this is but here is an example of Tank's strength.

 

[Sapp]

Pudz and it isn't even close.

 

[executionermma]

 

[Moral Victory]

Pudz is such an easy answer every time, like it ruins the fun and conversation all together.

 

[JOLLYjoe]

Marius Pudzianowski.

 

[mkt]

Tank Abbott.

Early Tank was surely strong. He came closer to tossing someone out of the cage than anyone else. This question is always hard to answer, though, and gets a bunch of different perspectives. Are we talking weight-lifting strength or functional MMA strength (however you define that)? And what about technique? A D-1 wrestler can make a stronger powerlifter look silly. Here's a quick list of some of the strongest HWs over the years, though:

Early Tank
Early Goodridge
Mark Kerr
Tom Erickson
Brock Lesnar
The "Ubereem" version of Overeem (not the current USADA one)
Pudz (the overall strongest based on his pre-MMA accomplishments...doesn't necessarily show it in the cage like someone with better technique, though)
Maybe Ngannou

Sapp is way up there too...if we're counting super HWs. There's no way he could ever make 265, though.

 

[redbrownhaze]

Overeem when he was at his biggest. Strongest in the cage!

Coleman and Randleman where pretty savage as well.

 

[Draxton]

Fucking fish oil man.

 

[theleerygoose]

P4P strongest GSP

 

[MMACroatia]

Again this topic..
Answer is always the same
Mariusz of Poland

 

[TAK47]

Mark Hunt

 

[loisestrad]

Mr. Coleman is very strong.

 

[Credo]

Shen Kamrock was damn strong they said

 

[froggyluv]

^^^ with Horse Meat help true.

Without

 

[Draxton]

 

[beastman]

Full juice Bob Sapp was a thing.

 

[BKB92]

Manhandling Barnett is something else, man.....

 

[mkt]

Back to my point about technique...Cormier could toss strongman contestants around easily...but he certainly couldn't do the same stunts and feats of strength as well as them.