List of surprisingly physically strong fighters

[0verlord]

Good guy Barboza hasn't lost too many times but these few times were some serious ass-whooping I'm surprised he still shows up to fight the top tier

 

[Kertol]

Latifi, Miocic, Cro Cop, Boetsch, Rampage, Zabit, Francisco Trinaldo

 

[pookiyama]

Jeremy Stephens said the Rafael Dos Anjos was freakishly strong when he fought him, and then went on to say he's on the juice now.

 

[Mmaprovost]

farm strength

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Matt on old ufc show lifted a 100 pound dumbbell from the floor to straight up in the air above his head with one hand. Did it like it was nothing.

 

[orca]

Cro cop looks strong.

 

[William Huggins]

Mark Hunt.

Overeem has said Hunt is by far the strongest guy he's ever fought and when he fought Hunt he was already on the horse meat.

and then there's the fact that Mark Hunt beat Bob Sapp pretty easily in a tug of war match

Lower center of gravity, bigger legs.....he also had a better technique......not saying he is not strong but against Sapp, who looked like he was just trying to use his upper body .......<Lmaoo>

 

[Dark Individual]

Joned and Khabib

 

[William Huggins]

How about fighters that look stronger than they are.......

 

[theTKDguy]

Khabib
Ronda
Hughes
Hendo
Ngannou
Boetsch
Trinaldo

 

[Ilovepizza]

Ngannou also said that when he was fighting Overeem, Overeem tried to hold him against the fence and he was thinking "Really, that's all the strength you got?" or something along those lines.

Of course he was passed his prime, but not sure what to make of that.

lmfao.

Ecoreem strength is overrated. stipe tossed him like a child.

this 31 y/o UBEREEM would have destroyed them both (ngannou&ecoreem) on the same night.

 

[GreatWhiteBuffalo]

Sans Oleynik your list is of clearly strong fighters. Dan Henderson deserves his shout. D.c. also doesn’t look nearly as impressive as he performs. Jon jones appears to have strongman esque strength in the cage yet Bambi like limbs.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Tank Abbott is the strongest fighter ever in UFC. can deadlift close to 1,000 Ibs

 

[linvillegorge]

Numerous fighters including Rampage have commented on Forrest Griffin's surprising strength. I say surprising because Forrest doesn't come from a heavy grappling background and he didn't really have KO power. Usually a guy will have one or both if he's really strong. Pretty much wveryone who comes from serious wrestling pedigree is going to feel strong as hell in a fighting situation.

 

[g*r*b]

lmfao.

Ecoreem strength is overrated. stipe tossed him like a child.

this 31 y/o UBEREEM would have destroyed them both (ngannou&ecoreem) on the same night.

Thanks for dragging Stipe's name into this, it gives me an excuse to post this picture again:

 

[clutchCAT420]

 

[MMAandBOXINGfan]

farm strength

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Sherk back in the day and Hughes of course were some of the strongest out there and GSP seemed stronger than both. Hughes is considered pound for pound one of the strongest ever and he himself said GSP was Extremely strong.

 

[MMAandBOXINGfan]

Seems like you mostly put big guys with knockout power.

I don't think having knockout power necessarily means you are strong.

Guys like Khabib, DC and GSP aren't knockout out artists but are known to be very strong. They can over power and manhandle any guys in their division and even guys in the divisions above. A lot of their opponents have commented on the amount of strength they have as well.

man i love that gif of GSP i wanted to see that exchange of that fight.. in some post the other day someone said GSP had a weakness and couldnt " in fight " or win exchanges .. maybe he cant but how many can look as smooth as he did in this particular exchange.

 

[Sapp]

Tamdan McCrory

That fucking form holy shit.

Fitting nickname.

 

[MMAandBOXINGfan]

Rory MacDonald. Look what he was able to do to a guy as big as Nate Diaz!

man i liked conor when he was coming up. thought hed do some big things in the ufc... then he started fkn talking even more and more and more.. lost all respect with all the smack talk about smaller guys and then saying size doesnt matter and then saying this shit after losing to Nate..

Anyways, The Diaz bros would be damn near un beatable if they had a little bit of strength at least lol. man they just seem so weak it sucks.

A couple other guys that are stronger than they look are Frankie Edgar and Lyoto Machida. Machida for some reason seemed so much stronger at 205 than at 185, and Frankie constantly fought guys bigger than him as well and always held his own.

 

[Vlastelin]

Did better against Sapp than Ubereem, Hunt or 172kg British strongman.