Strongest MMA fighters ever?

[tehMoose]

Pudzilla

 

[Diet Otsuka]

Maybe not the strongest ever but I can imagine Tim Boetsch lifting a tractor or something so someone can crawl underneath to make a repair.

 

[TheDarkEmperor]

Pudz
Carwin
Lesnar
Ubereem
Bob Sapp

By far.

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

Hard not to go with the obvious. Pudz and of course Tank. SlamPage was legit. I bet Ngannou can throw around some weights. That guy has explosive power.

 

[Summoning]

/thread

 

[Bacco]

can Pudz out muscle Brock Lesnar in a fight?

He have the strenght to outmuscle him, but not the skill to avoid getting grapplefucked

So essentially not

 

[tasticles]

Matt Hughes and Sean sherk for their size

 

[DWAYNEAMERICA]

Natty.

Skips calf day.

 

[Anialater]

 

[Gregoire1]

Ubereem
Lesnar
Ngannou
Jones
Cain
DC

 

[Lots]

The video of Tank bench pressing is FAKE. He admitted it years ago. It’s common knowledge yet somehow every time that vid gets posted it takes 5 pages for somebody to say it’s fake.

Mariuz is the strongest weight lifter in mma history but it doesn’t translate to mma. Sylvia said he didn’t feel all that strong when they fought.

DC lifting up guys isn’t all that impressive. It’s not that difficult to carry a man from that position. More technique. I doubt he considers himself very strong. He’s still an amazing fighter.

Probably..

Lesnar, Ubereem, Francis, Carwin, Rampage, Jones, Hunt

 

[MMAandBOXINGfan]

Hughes is continuously said to be p4p one of the strongest dudes ever by many fighters.... Hughes himself said GSP is an extremely powerful individual.. so if hughes himself says that about GSP when everyone else says that about hughes, thats really saying something.

 

[clutchCAT420]

P4p ITS BROCK. AND HES A HW. DEAL WITH IT!...

 

[Deleted member 429137]

Pudz
Budd Jeffries
Mark Robinson

legit strongest men in the world

 

[BoogerDawson]

Working on Alaskan fishing boats and smoking weed makes you strong.

 

[vcmmafan]

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.

Powerlifting IS functional

 

[mkt]

The video of Tank bench pressing is FAKE. He admitted it years ago. It’s common knowledge yet somehow every time that vid gets posted it takes 5 pages for somebody to say it’s fake.

Mariuz is the strongest weight lifter in mma history but it doesn’t translate to mma. Sylvia said he didn’t feel all that strong when they fought.

DC lifting up guys isn’t all that impressive. It’s not that difficult to carry a man from that position. More technique. I doubt he considers himself very strong. He’s still an amazing fighter.

Probably..

Lesnar, Ubereem, Francis, Carwin, Rampage, Jones, Hunt

I've heard that claim, but no one has ever provided a link or source of Tank saying that. Regardless, Tank circa 1996 was very strong--definitely stronger than Rampage and Jones, unless you're talking P4P. He also had some massive power. His brutal, short punch KO of Nelmark was as impressive as anything Carwin did.

 

[wilKO]

People are confusing technique with strength. Brock and DC throw people around because they have wrestling technique. Strength is strength and Mariusz Pudzianowski is probably the strongest man in history. He would get thrown around by Brock because of grappling technique not lack of strength. This isn't even a debate.

 

[Tyler Durden]

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.

I would argue that, I got a friend who can bench press over 450lbs.

He came a few time to my gym, and nobody could do anything with him on the ground.
exept maybe kneebar and ankle lock. (but you don't really use those in training)

He's basicaly a white belt, but when he's "squeeze" you it's kind of over.

(and I'm 240lbs myself)

I'm sorry, how much do you weigh again Sonny?

 

[mkt]

I would argue that, I got a friend who can bench press over 450lbs.

He came a few time to my gym, and nobody could do anything with him on the ground.
exept maybe kneebar and ankle lock. (but you don't really use those in training)

He's basicaly a white belt, but when he's "squeeze" you it's kind of over.

He hurt me real bad with an arm-triangle-choke once.

(and I'm 240lbs myself)

Maybe this is why it took Oleg Taktarov over 17 minutes to submit Tank. The same Oleg submitted David Beneteau (a judo black belt and big/strong guy) twice in about 1 minute. Admittedly, Tank got subbed easier when he got older, visibly weaker and seemed to only show up for a paycheck.