Strongest ufc welter weight ever

[markantony20]

RIP

Still so surreal that he’s gone. RIP Rumble.

 

[gspieler]

Hughes had that kind of strength that can only be had from doing hard physical labor from a very young age. He was basically a mini-Brock. At roughly 3 minute mark, here he casually clean-and-presses a 120lb dumbbell, just messing around with some coworkers on a construction site.

 

[Masturbin]

Till was huge and strong

 

[milos_krasic]

Hughes had that kind of strength that can only be had from doing hard physical labor from a very young age. He was basically a mini-Brock. At roughly 3 minute mark, here he casually clean-and-presses a 120lb dumbbell, just messing around with some coworkers on a construction site.

Gym strength don't mean shit. In sparring gym brose are weak as fuck usually. All these body builder and even power lifters get their ass kicked. It's functional strength that matters.

Wrestling strength, grappling strength and farm boy strength is real strength and power.

Strong men who do farmers walks etc those are bad boys.

Rugby players too are strong functionally.

 

[milos_krasic]

HW Powerlifters and strongmen competitors aren't as strong pound for pound as leaner athletes in a lot of different sports. Gymnasts for example or climbers are stronger pound for pound than those guys, those guys can just lift way more total.

Eddie Hall was something like 432lbs when he deadlifted 1,102lbs which is more than double his weight but I've seen guys that weigh 220 or less that can deadlift 3 times their own weight or more.

Now if you're talking powerlifters below HW then they are going to be much stronger P4P then the HWs are cause at HW it's all about the total cause how much you lift relative to your weight isn't a factor like it is in the lower weight divisions.

True the 105 and below weight class for Olympic lifting. Also the 97 has some real monsters.

Their top lifts are within 20 or 30 kgs away from matching their HW peers who have the best official world records. Not to mention the weight difference which needs to be factored into the equation. Insane p4p strength.

 

[milos_krasic]

wasn’t Palhares a middle weight?

Can't stand that prick. Him and Lombard are such douchebags. Glad he got his shit kicked in. He was indeed extremely strong.

 

[gspieler]

Gym strength don't mean shit. In sparring gym brose are weak as fuck usually. All these body builder and even power lifters get their ass kicked. It's functional strength that matters.

Wrestling strength, grappling strength and farm boy strength is real strength and power.

Strong men who do farmers walks etc those are bad boys.

Rugby players too are strong functionally.

Hughes had all 3 of those kinds of strength. He was simply strong.

 

[RightToBareKnuckles]

wasn’t Palhares a middle weight?

now that I look at his record again, pretty sure he did usually fight at MW. had a handful of fights at 170, so arguable if he was a true welterweight

 

[Bjjpitbull8]

Hughes had that kind of strength that can only be had from doing hard physical labor from a very young age. He was basically a mini-Brock. At roughly 3 minute mark, here he casually clean-and-presses a 120lb dumbbell, just messing around with some coworkers on a construction site.

Hughes had all 3 of those kinds of strength. He was simply strong.

Exactly. There is a difference between being able to lift heavyweights in the gym and being able to pick another human up in the air and run them across a cage to knock them out via slam. Hughes has my vote. Unless, the question is simply which WW could bench the most or hit the hardest. Those are different questions to me than OP’s.

 

[VAfan]

Matt Hughes

probably this. hughes looked like a gorilla in there in his prime, he had that farmboy strength. GSP was more about explosiveness and timing.