Was Shane Carwin the most ripped heavyweight?

[NicholasJBasile]

Cheick Kongo takes the title

Cheik Kongo looks like the guy you'd think is the best in the sport if you never watched MMA and just went by looks

 

[NicholasJBasile]

Honorable mention to Melvin Manhoef.
He wasn't a heavyweight but he KO'd Mark Hunt.

I still think it's wild that he was the first guy to KO hunt -- a smallish middleweight that landed a counter shot in the opening moments of the fight... just wild.

 

[Koro_11]

Excuse me ?

/thread

 

[blackheart]

the most ripped? no
the most jacked? maybe

 

[SCTwins]

'Ripped'?

Carwin hasn't massively chiseled.

No more than Pavlovich, anyway.

Yeah I consider guys like Carwin to be more "jacked" than "ripped".

Brock is one of the rare specimens that was both at the same time.

 

[mkt]

Excuse me ?

About as juiced as this ripped HW.

 

[mkt]

Kongo is a freak. Almost 50 and still jacked.

Something about Scott Coker HWs. Remember Overroid, Barnett, Werdum and Bigfoot fought for him in Strikeforce and never tested positive...until they came to the UFC where all 4 were busted.

 

[BearVictim]

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I met Kevin at an Amma event back in the day, he was ridiculously jacked, very friendly personality behind the scenes.

 

[Joshuaace]

Kerr was a unit

 

[Brit_Brawler]

Carwin was many things. A slab of a man with dynamite in his hands but he wasn't ripped. He had a lot of muscle and not particularly low body fat from what I remember. Being massive doesn't equal being ripped. He's not even close to being the most ripped. You'd be hard pressed to beat ubereem. Conditioning was insane at that juiced up peak.

 

[PaulieVegas27]

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Yeah I'd have to agree, I'd give it to the "horse meat" version of Overeem.

 

[Levi_]

Roy Nelson always stayed under 8 percent bodyfat if I recall correctly

lol I think you left off a zero that would go behind the 8......

 

[Here's Johnny!]

How does he even maintain that pose in the last picture? I understand core strength and all that, but I'd assume his plant hand would have to be below his face or else he'd just tip over.

He was in that position for just long enough to take the picture... momentum

 

[markys00]

I don't even think he was the largest. Def not the most ripped. Not even close