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Just out of curiosity, out of MMA strikers, who would you put on a list of fighters with great leg kicks ? I'll start off.


Thiago Alves
Pat Barry
Hardonk
Ubereem
Cro Cop
Melvin Manhoef
Forrest Griffin
Brandon Vera
Shogun
Dos Anjos (the Emerson fight was brutal)
GSP (when he keeps it standing. His wrestling has been put to use more lately)
Jose Aldo
Dominick Cruz
 
Just out of curiosity, out of MMA strikers, who would you put on a list of fighters with great leg kicks ? I'll start off.


Thiago Alves
Pat Barry
Hardonk
Ubereem
Cro Cop
Melvin Manhoef
Forrest Griffin
Brandon Vera
Shogun
Dos Anjos (the Emerson fight was brutal)
GSP (when he keeps it standing. His wrestling has been put to use more lately)
Jose Aldo
Dominick Cruz

Shogun(ask Machida)
Aldo(ask Faber)
Alves(cut down Kos with them)
Vera( such an enigma)
Wandy(whenever he uses them)
 
Pedro Rizzo should get a life time achievement award.
 
lol @ wandy

I'd say Aldo, Barry, Rizzo back in the day, and for some reason Arona packed some decent power in his kicks.
 
lol @ wandy

I'd say Aldo, Barry, Rizzo back in the day, and for some reason Arona packed some decent power in his kicks.

Wandy loves to brawl but he has extremely hard chin kicks whenever he throws them which is few and far between.
 
I remember Florian showing some good technique against Dokonjonosuke Mishima...

Alves vs Lytle

Rizzo vs Couture

Aldo vs Faber
 
Rizzo, Alves, Aldo, Florian, Shogun, Somdet, Vera, Mirko, HD Barry.

You've got some up and coming guys, too- Tractor Oliveira showed some very hard leg kicks against Escudero, basically chopped his front leg to bits.

Edit: Dominick Cruz & Frank Edgar also have good leg kicks, but they both tend to stick & move rather than really plant themselves and dig in with their kicks. They like to get in range, distract the other guy w/ hands, and get off with a quick kick to the leg or ribs, and then get out.
 
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Where is Arona? He threw great leg kicks
 
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