Best conditioning ever in MMA?

[Rubios]

Taking everything into account.

Functional strenght & strength endurance, cardio, agility, speed, explossiveness, quickness, mobility...

I don't mind PEDs.

Thks for the insight!

 

[Hotora86]

Merab Dvalishvili



and the Diaz bros

 

[Cobra 03]

I would say Max Holloway would have to be in the equation. He has gone hard for 5 rounds many times, and is still fighting hard at the end. Just ask Justin Gaethje!

 

[HuskySamoan]

Kamaru, Yan, Dillashaw, Holloway, Mighty Mouse, Merab, GSP, Jon Jones are some of the names that come to mind for me.

 

[Superman Elbow]

Clay Guida /thread

 

[StonedLemur]

Kamaru, Yan, Dillashaw, Holloway, Mighty Mouse, Merab, GSP, Jon Jones are some of the names that come to mind for me.

Even though I hate em, Colby had pretty good conditioning sir.

 

[RockyLockridge]

Notables include

-Edgar
-GSP
-Cain Velasquez
-Bisping
-Strickland
-Max
-Merab
-Joanna

 

[RockyLockridge]

Even though I hate em, Colby had pretty good conditioning sir.

the lawler fight is a dizzying amount of strikes and cardio shown.

 

[muaythaibeast]

Very hard to look past Romero. His athleticism was ridiculous.

 

[Michael Wetzel]

Prime Cain Velasquez had cardio unseen in heavyweights.

 

[haj02]

Your list of attributes isn't conditioning, it's athletic attributes of which conditioning is one of those things. I'd say @HuskySamoan has good list but I'd add Khabib who was a super athlete (fast twitch, great engine, super strong) to that list along with Anderson Silva who whilst extremely technical, got away with a lot because of his athleticism.

 

[IronGolem007]

Very hard to look past Romero. His athleticism was ridiculous.

Athleticism ≠ Conditioning

 

[VAfan]

recency bias, but you could make a case for merab for sure. the guy is like a little machine.

 

[IronGolem007]

Taking everything into account.

Functional strenght & strength endurance, cardio, agility, speed, explossiveness, quickness, mobility...

I don't mind PEDs.

Thks for the insight!

Khabib for me.

The pace and pressure he would put out was > than what Merab does.

Merab really doesn't try to hurt or finish anyone, just smother them to "stop the real fighting."

Khabib was trying to kill people. His fight with Abel Trujillo was astounding, and the number of takedowns that he had.

If they were the same size, Khabib would melt and finish Merab, and would have the ability to dominate him in the technical grappling, and by a country mile.

 

[StonedLemur]

the lawler fight is a dizzying amount of strikes and cardio shown.

Yeah that was depressing to watch honestly lol

 

[Natural Order]

Clay Guida, Frankie Edgar

 

[muaythaibeast]

Athleticism ≠ Conditioning

He wasn't gassing out after a round. If all we were looking at was not getting tired, you'd lean towards someone like Diaz or Bisping, but neither was in the same world as Romero for power, strength and those aspects

 

[stronghulk]

Frank Shamrock, but pacing was a thing of his.. Pure gastank, there are a few examples mentioned here but Nicolas Dalby hasn't been mentioned. Love his output, constant pressure.

 

[IronGolem007]

He wasn't gassing out after a round. If all we were looking at was not getting tired, you'd lean towards someone like Diaz or Bisping, but neither was in the same world as Romero for power, strength and those aspects

Sorry, "not gassing out after a round" ≠ The BEST Conditioning EVER, either.

What's wrong with you, to write something this daft?

The BEST Conditioning EVER requires a little bit more scrutiny than "not getting tired after a round."

The Diaz brothers' stamina was 1 -part good conditioning, 1-part lazy style. They were relaxed, didn't expand a whole bunch of effort, and were very tough. People would often punch themselves out him trying to KO one of the Diaz's, and then would lose. But they weren't exactly dynamos in the cage either.

Part of assessing the BEST conditioning EVER = the ability to put out A HIGH-ENERGY OUTPUT ... and to sustain it for A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.

For example, many people can jog for 30 minutes. But no one can run full blast for 30 minutes.

Jogging doesn't take much energy. However, running as fast as you can takes a ton of energy.

To me the best-conditioned athletes are able to put up A FRENETIC PACE ... and can then SUSTAIN THIS for an exceptional amount of time.

This is the very definition of "Weaponizing Pace + Pressure"

Guys like Khabib, Ferguson (in his prime), Merab are known for this ...

 

[DOMMA]

Even though I hate em, Colby had pretty good conditioning sir.

True for the most part. He gassed early in his last fight against Leon. He was slow and sucking wind after the first round.