Who has the most heart? - Your top 5

Heath Herring
Enson Inoue
Evan Tanner
Gary Goodridge
Clay Guida
 
P fucking VZ? gtfo of here with that shit.

Heart is not about taking a beating without tapping to strikes. Heart is about believing you can win, no matter the odds stacked against you, no matter how hurt or how tired you are, you find a way to not only survive, but take something of your own back.

1. Frankie Edgar - The internationally recognised unit of measurement for heart. If you are over 0.5 Frankies, then you are doing very well indeed.
2. Jon Jones - The way he has come back to win against Gus and Cormier after barely training and copping early beatings is phenomenal.
3. Robbie Lawler - This guy was once about to get cut from strikeforce and find himself in the IFL. Now he is writing his name into the UFC Hall of Fame with grit and determination.
4. Leonard Garcia - No one puts their health on the line like this guy and he will be trying to KO you right until the final bell.
5. Wanderlei Silva - Let me just use the recent example of his fight with Stann. He was dropped four times before he KO'd the American war hero.

There are some honorable mentions, like Dan Henderson, Jake Shields, Alan Belcher, Sakuraba, Mark Hunt, Anderson Silva.
 
unclemilty said:
The #1 attribute I enjoy in a fighter is "bushido", or warrior spirit. To me this means valuing violence and spirit over and above winning. I am thinking of the type of fighter who doesn't lose spirit when takin an ass whooping (think, the opposite of say Crocop, Lesnar).

This isn't about beating your opponent; its about not losing to yourself.

My top 5 examples, in no particular order, are:

1) Sakuraba - the epitome of this was his war with Arona (wars with Wand too). He had an excellent quote about his desire to fight rather than stall which brings me to tears.

2) Nogeuria - the beatings he took from Sapp, Crocop, Fedor x 3 ... he had little regard for his health

3) Minowa - I will never forget the ass whooping Rampage put on him - and he got right back up, went cup to cup with Quentin and challenged him to fight at next years event

4) Hunto - When the man says dying in the ring would be an honor, I believe him

5) Lawlor - his wars with MacDonald and Condit serve as a template for digging deep under pressure. His fight with Manhoeff back in the day, same. The staredowns with MacDonald and the following of Hendricks after their second war, epic. As a Toronto native, I can only compare his pressure performance with Jose Bautista's bat flipping ways in the Oct'15 playoffs.

Honorable mention goes to
Diego...
JDS
Paige
Moldonado
Matt Brown
Edgar

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I started this thread because I am sure there are even better examples and I would love to hear about them.

Who are your top 5 and why?

(edited for honorable mentions... some fucking gems there!)
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I wanted to like your post but then you wrote "Lawlor" instead of Lawler, now I want to punch you.
 
Roy might have an enlarged heart. And maybe Johny.
 
Chris Leben, Chris Lytle, Diego Sanchez, Junior Dos Santos, Tim Boetsch to some extent, Roy Nelson just to name a few.

Some of those guys only really have heart going for them
 
Frank Mir has a ton of heart. He definitely embodies the live by the sword, die by the sword mentality.

Also KZ. Dude tried popping his shoulder back in during the Aldo fight. Crazy.
 
SirKratos said:
Disagree.
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He's been finished in every single loss and cut the most weight in the history of the sport, to fight small guys, despite having no height or reach disadvantage, even at Heavyweight.

Other than that, sure, why not.
 
LongSlenderBody*** said:
He's been finished in every single loss and cut the most weight in the history of the sport, to fight small guys, despite having no height or reach disadvantage, even at Heavyweight.

Other than that, sure, why not.
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Yup,other than that.

Rumble is a warrior.
 
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