Does Pereira have the best low kicking game in UFC history?

[BoxerMaurits]

Antoni Hardonk had pretty good leg kicks too.



@BoxerMaurits

Damn yeah, he throws them like Gaethje

 

[frontkick1]

He likely had harder low kicks than almost anyone in MMA. Ask Barnett. He did the higher kicks more, but he chopped people down with his low kicks also. If you are talking the best low kicks and the hardest, you would be quite mistaken to not include CC.

Sorry i would not qualify CC as a low kick specialist since he barely used it throughout both of his KB and MMA career. That's the simple truth.

 

[pick999]

Rose's boyfriend?

 

[Katsushyro]

Barboza and Jose Alfo

 

[Natural Order]

Ruas or Rizzo baby!

 

[GluttonforPunishment]

RE: Aldo, you may be right. I always thought he had suffered from some sort of injury to his foot/ankle/leg because he went from punishing every opponent constantly with his low kicks to boxing only. While his boxing is very good, it is easier to negate when the punches aren't being followed up with a powerful low kick. I miss those Aldo days!

I do like Poatans low kicks though, his low kick is effortless and very hard to see coming.

I think he broke his foot against the Zombie and his hesitancy started from there.

 

[Lee_]

Sorry i would not qualify CC as a low kick specialist since he barely used it throughout both of his KB and MMA career. That's the simple truth.

The thread didn't say anything about a specialist, it said the best low kicking game. His low kicks were as hard as anyone's. Watch the fight with Yoshida.

 

[chaos_36]

No love for Barboza?






Best switch quick kick in mma, ever…..

Doesn' he have a couple of stoppages by low kick? The recency bias in this thread is unreal haha.

 

[KeeSmyth]

Thiago Alves vs Koscheck was beautiful display of low kicks

 

[CatchtheseHands]

In my opinion.. Yes. He can chop away at your legs with next to no effort and you can't see them coming. Yeah Aldo and Gaethje are nice with the low kicks too but they had to blast those low kicks to get the same results.

 

[TriangleMonkey]

Doesn' he have a couple of stoppages by low kick? The recency bias in this thread is unreal haha.

Dudes got stoppages by kicks to legs, body, head, knees, flying knees, spinning shit


And the absolute best front leg switch-kick in the game, hands down

 

[Shotcy]

Doesn't Edson have like 3 or 4 finishes from leg kicks?

 

[StrikerKing]

Mo Smith or Pedro Rizzo.

Honorable mentions:
Marco Ruas
Brandon Vera
Shogun Rua
Thiago Alves
Alan Belcher

This Pedro Rizzos leg kicks sounded like gunshots

 

[Dude Incredible]

Calf kicking has become a thing. Not sure if it sticks or fades.

I gotta go with Edson for UFC history.

Doesn' he have a couple of stoppages by low kick? The recency bias in this thread is unreal haha.

unreal or just the new normal?

 

[TheTickG]

It’s between him, Aldo and Gaethje imo, and then you narrow it down to Poatan and Gaethje. Hell before the last two fights, Israel had a strong argument for the best leg kicker. I’ve seen Adesanya win title fights just from destroying opponents legs - he did it to Costa. Pereira was able to beat Israel at his own game and for me that elevates him to the best we’ve ever seen at least in the octagon

Jan's shin on shin low kicking game deserves credit.

 

[Goutfather]

pat barrys leg kicks looked especially brutal, yes because he executed them well, but also because he’s a stocky hw with huge legs. when he kicked them, you would see their whole body jolt. he has a few leg kick tkos on his resume where he just chops them down. looks painful. he could probably kick right through most people’s legs, like a knife through butter. it’s a shame things didn’t work out with him and hoost.

 

[Squintz]

Barboza overall for me. Poatan is nice as well.

Not the best but a couple of random, memorable, single fight leg click clinics were by Lorenz Larkin over Magny and Bangkok ready Rountree against Anders. Probably memorable to me cause they were unexpected.

 

[Conan the K-9]

Has izzys low kicks actually hurt anyone? Costa i guess. Vettori and romero seemed fine after the fight

I remember Costas legs/calves were compromized to begin with. He had those cupping marks on his legs before the fight started and was checked by the doctors because his legs were cramping.

The king of leg kicks for me is Edson.


I think that Jan Blachowicz has underrated leg kick game. He checks them very well (like against Adesanya) and can destroy his opponent with them, like we saw against Ankalaev.

 

[ilfirin]

No love for Barboza?






Best switch quick kick in mma, ever…..

Came here to say that. His leg kicks are absolutely insane.

 

[Skarsgard]

RE: Aldo, you may be right. I always thought he had suffered from some sort of injury to his foot/ankle/leg because he went from punishing every opponent constantly with his low kicks to boxing only. While his boxing is very good, it is easier to negate when the punches aren't being followed up with a powerful low kick. I miss those Aldo days!

I do like Poatans low kicks though, his low kick is effortless and very hard to see coming.

If I remember correctly, he broke his foot in a motorcycle accident.