Fighters who are much stronger then they look

Romulas said:
While he was atill fighting GSP had probably the densest build out of anyone that ever made 170lbs.
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Majority of the fighters GSP fought were bigger then him at WW but GSP is just ripped hence some ppl assume he is bigger then he is but that is not entirely true. Frank Trigg, T. Alves, Josh Kosh, Jon Fitch and Dan Hardy all were bigger then GSP when they fought him but he just ran thru them.

Example rewatch that GSP vs Jon Fitch fight, he completely destroyed Fitch and was throwing around Fitch as if he was a damn towel and Fitch is a big guy, strong wrestler and bigger then GSP but GSP was the smaller, more athletic and stronger guy. He was just blasting right thru Jon Fitch and he couldn´t do anything about it..

GSP is the definition of farmer strength
 
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Machida. The way he slammed Ortiz who is much bigger.
 
Ibm said:
Anderson
Fedor
Dan Handerson
Jones


These guys are stronger than they look.
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Jones for sure. Fedor and Hendo def look strong, but I think their strength still exceeded their look. Not sure about Anderson.

I also think BJ was much stronger than he looked. Stipe and Cain are also probably stronger than look.
 
gspieler said:
Jones for sure. Fedor and Hendo def look strong, but I think their strength still exceeded their look. Not sure about Anderson.

I also think BJ was much stronger than he looked. Stipe and Cain are also probably stronger than look.
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Anderson was definitely stronger than he looked. He was jacked. He tossed around Chael and Bonnar, these guys are strong as hell. Even Franklin he outmuscled him too. Its hard to notice since his striking is Neo but he actually showed phenomenal feats of strength.
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Hendo for sure. Frank Shamrock said he was the strongest guy he fought and trained with.

D.C. is probably strong, but he also had Olympic-level wrestling technique. That's the main reason he could easily outwrestle HWs.

I agree with Anderson and Jones as well.
 
Valentina Shevchenko. You wouldn't assume she's one of the physically strongest fighters, relative to her division, but she is. She gets basically everyone down, and ragdolls them most of the time. When she has a clear size advantage, even against the likes of Andrade and Zhang moving up, she makes them look like children. She was getting Holm down multiple times at BW, which isn't easy to do. The only fighters she's had difficulty taking down were Nunes and Fiorot (and she got both down). She took Nunes down at BW too, which I think only Zingano and Pena have done (and Nunes was hurt on the feet before their TDs). Fiorot was only taken down 1 time before their fight as well, and is one of the physically biggest female flyweights (perhaps the strongest). I don't want to take credit away from her technical skills, as she has a strong judo background, but the strength is very noticeable in her fights, and you wouldn't think that based on her size/frame.
 
a more interesting thread would be... fighters who are less strong than they look (AKA who has phony juice muscle)

lets start with jon jones. He got out muscled by bloated welterweight Khamzat
 
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I remember fighters saying Anderson Silva was stronger than he looked.
 
When I was in High School, I watched a very skinny kid (who did nothing but smoke weed) walk into the weight room and bench 315. It was 3 plates on each side of the bar (plus the bar), and he weighed something like 150-160. This would be about 1984. I was just shocked. I don't think he trained for anything at all... he was bone thin, like a walking skeleton. He pushed the weight up like it wasn't even there. This is way before any of us had ever heard of steroids.

My point is that these people are indeed out there, and they don't always look like you think they should look.

I have never forgotten the guy.

The Football coach watched this and was suddenly all over him, but he walked out laughing, saying he could "never pass the drug test."

They're rare, but they do exist.
 
Sycho Sid said:
People saying Hendo are weird to me. Dude looks like a tank, of course he is strong as shit.
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I know right, the dude doesnt exactly look like an agile spider-man like fighter. He looks like Fred Flinstone. Guy is a walking unit.
 
octagonation said:
Majority of the fighters GSP fought were bigger then him at WW but GSP is just ripped hence some ppl assume he is bigger then he is but that is not entirely true. Frank Trigg, T. Alves, Josh Kosh, Jon Fitch and Dan Hardy all were bigger then GSP when they fought him but he just ran thru them.

Example rewatch that GSP vs Jon Fitch fight, he completely destroyed Fitch and was throwing around Fitch as if he was a damn towel and Fitch is a big guy, strong wrestler and bigger then GSP but GSP was the smaller, more athletic and stronger guy. He was just blasting right thru Jon Fitch and he couldn´t do anything about it..

GSP is the definition of farmer strength
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I'm not sure about that. Do you mean some of them were heavier? I dont think Thiago Alves and Dan Hardy are really bigger than GSP.

GSP has 76' reach which is really good - pretty sure it's longer than all those guys. The fact that he is nearly all muscle while some of those guys arent kind of points toward him being bigger than them.

George had very good size for a WW. He's not as big as guys like Usman or Khazmat, but he had pretty ideal size.
 
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