Strongest MMA fighters ever?

[Andre Xiong]

Overall strength: offense, defense, striking, brute.

Prime Rampage Jackson easily

 

[mkt]

Manhandling Barnett is something else, man.....

Yep...but he never did that to "chicken legs" Jon Jones...

 

[Prutfis]

Pudz

If we count Karellins one worked fight he would be up there.

 

[Sonny Qc]

Yea, supposedly Tank could bench press 600 pounds.

I don't know how much this is but here is an example of Tank's strength.

I got a bench press addiction, I weight around 240lbs.

To bench press 600lbs you got to be a fckng monster.

I'm nowhere near that.

Prime Tank was a killer no doubt.

 

[UFCLEGEND88]

Strong how, as measured by weights and lifts? who looks biggest? who wins the fight?

And if you get your ass beaten around the cage does any other measure of how strong you are matter?

EDIT: But yh Mariusz

 

[007]

Bob Sapp

 

[BoD 2.0]

 

[Zelig]

can Pudz out muscle Brock Lesnar in a fight?

 

[Terpizzle]

Bobby Lashley?

 

[brickhands]

its a hard thing to define i work with a guy about 6 ft 1 235 goes to the gym and in the gym can out lift me 3 to 1 on the job cannot when we wrestle i can take him down and hold him with relative ease im 5ft10 180.my good friend is a pro hockey player almost impossible to move cant lift a whole lot and i wouldnt consider him strong until you try to moved him.my father had natural strength of a lumber jack could throw 20 foot trees around like nothing couldnt bench much.its a weird thing to try and quantify

 

[DLX]

P4p? Frankie Edgar.

Natural 135er dominating 155ers was always impressive to me.

 

[Cantalope]

Matt Hughes was a beast in his prime.

 

[mkt]

its a hard thing to define i work with a guy about 6 ft 1 235 goes to the gym and in the gym can out lift me 3 to 1 on the job cannot when we wrestle i can take him down and hold him with relative ease im 5ft10 180.my good friend is a pro hockey player almost impossible to move cant lift a whole lot and i wouldnt consider him strong until you try to moved him.my father had natural strength of a lumber jack could throw 20 foot trees around like nothing couldnt bench much.its a weird thing to try and quantify

Yep. I once hired some neighbors to help me do landscaping work. One of them owns a small landscaping service and is a part-time personal trainer--pretty muscular dude. The other guy was a skinny-fat type (thin arms and a little pot belly). The skinny-fat guy was actually better at digging out tree roots and hauling heavy things around.

 

[in the liver]

Ilir latifi could deadlift your spine out of your body

 

[JackSchtotll]

It's Jon Bones Jones if you do a mass/force ratio.

The man stopped DC and threw the great HW wrestler around.

 

[JackSchtotll]

 

[Tornado]

How is there an answer other than Pudzianowski? If we're asking who the stronger (not the best) MMA fighter is, he is the only answer as long as he competes.

 

[DaWrassler007]

End of thread, seriously

 

[bully4me]

Early Tank was surely strong. He came closer to tossing someone out of the cage than anyone else. This question is always hard to answer, though, and gets a bunch of different perspectives. Are we talking weight-lifting strength or functional MMA strength (however you define that)? And what about technique? A D-1 wrestler can make a stronger powerlifter look silly. Here's a quick list of some of the strongest HWs over the years, though:

Early Tank
Early Goodridge
Mark Kerr
Tom Erickson
Brock Lesnar
The "Ubereem" version of Overeem (not the current USADA one)
Pudz (the overall strongest based on his pre-MMA accomplishments...doesn't necessarily show it in the cage like someone with better technique, though)
Maybe Ngannou

Sapp is way up there too...if we're counting super HWs. There's no way he could ever make 265, though.

Shane Carwin was pretty freaking strong. Remember him having his was with Brock till he gassed. Sheer strength and power, he has to be up there

 

[Dana_is_your_GOD]

Fucking fish oil man.

It's called cell tech brah