Physically strongest fighters in each Weight Class

[Final Say]

Those would be one way to measure it.

Yes, and two men grappling with each other would be another lmao

 

[Mark Cutting]

Only one man should be mentioned when considering the GOAT deadlift. Majestic form.

The technique and form many of these top tier guys display is just appalling. Their strength and conditioning coaches seem clueless.

 

[smiles mma]

It's not about hate, it's your ignorance and lack of knowledge of the sport.

 

[Dead Kennedy]

Anyone who says otherwise is wrong. Strongest at HW is by far Marius “The Natural” Pudzianowski...

 

[Sansnom]

I don't follow all weight classes closely but what with all the deadlifting chat lately I thought this would be an interesting dicussion. What do you think?

HW: Mark Hunt, unless Lesnar comes back
LHW: Rumble

WFW: Cyborg but Megan Anderson is a powerful lass
WBW: Nunes
WFLW: Alexis Davis

Noob.

 

[Bacco]

SHW: Pudz, if we want take a less part-time fighter Sapp

HW: Coleman some say was absurd strong in his prime. Can think lot of names that could get there though

LHW: Rampage no doubt

MW: Toquinho had many problems as fighter, but dude was ridicolous, Baroni once said Matt Lindland was incredibly strong in a slow not-explosive way

WW: Hughes

LW: Sherk


FW: Mendes

Strongest is very subjective. You've got two distinct classes. Strongest strikers and strongest grapplers. Their strengths are very different.

For how i see it

striking: power <-- speed is involved too
grappling: strenght

 

[PEDS Help me Post]

Yes, and two men grappling with each other would be another lmao

Yeah, totally.

There's actually zero technique or skill required in wrestling at all. In fact, I hear the only thing they do to train wrestling is just get guys to push against each other and see who's stronger.

Gegard Mousasi took Hunt down and finished him in a minute. He's very, very super strong. Apparently he's even stronger than Stipe Miocic.

 

[Final Say]

Yeah, totally.

There's actually zero technique or skill required in wrestling at all. In fact, I hear the only thing they do to train wrestling is just get guys to push against each other and see who's stronger.

Gegard Mousasi took Hunt down and finished him in a minute. He's very, very super strong. Apparently he's even stronger than Stipe Miocic.

Don't be a dumbass

 

[PEDS Help me Post]

Don't be a dumbass

Why not? You are.

 

[kalabula]

Apparently benched 600 lbs. I think there's a video of it somewhere.

 

[Final Say]

Why not? You are.

Lol, it's way, way dumber to say strength makes no difference while grappling than it is to say that said grappling is a good measure of either man's strength

 

[kalabula]

Stipe manhandled Hunt

D.C. manhandled Rumble

Technique?

 

[TheChance]

Kerr?

According to Barnett no

 

[kalabula]

HW Pudz for sure.

LHW maybe latifi. This is a very difficult thing to say based only on the fights.

Ya. A lot of ppl are posting how one fighter dominated another in the ring. I dont think that's an accurate metric for a strength contest.

 

[Ghost in the Dark]

Tank benching 600 explains how he got some of the most savage KOs in the history of MMA. Real brain damage sh*t.

Also almost threw his opponent out of the cage once lol

The way Lesnar with his limited skillset was able to bully 285lb Hunt was also impressive

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

The answer is Tank Abbott. I have many old stories of Tank that I got from Paul Herrera. If I told you Tank's deadlift you would think I was trolling, and I am 100% not, thats how crazy strong he is.

Also Tank did not have a gimmick in UFC, it was not a gimmick at all, it was totally real and true life.. he was a bad-ass and knocked many guys out in street fights. He used to deliberately looked for ripped guys and he would knock them out cold. I was told many stories. if you had a 8 pac then it was on!!!, and Tank would just knock these guys out cold, he was in out and of prisons and houses of detentions throughout the late 80's and early 90's

 

[Final Say]

Technique?

Technique?

Of course it matters. But Overeem also handled hunt in the clinch and Overeem talked about how unbelievably strong Stipe is

 

[Bacco]

The way Lesnar with his limited skillset was able to bully 285lb Hunt was also impressive

Limited skillset?
Was'nt Lesnar very accomplished during his teen years in actual real wrestling?
Googled,
"Lesnar won the 2000 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I heavyweight wrestling championship his senior year after being the runner-up to Stephen Neal the year prior. He finished his amateur career as a two-time NJCAA All-American, the 1998 NJCAA Heavyweight Champion, two-time NCAA All-American, two-time Big Ten Conference Champion and the 2000 NCAA Heavyweight Champion, with a record of 106–5 overall in four years of college"

He got much more wrestling/grappling experience than Hunt, similar weight with much less fat and was on roids while at it lol

 

[Bubblun]

Ilir Latifi by far.

 

[Koniradi98]

HW: Mariusz Pudzianowski (5 time world strongest man) or Szymon Kolecki (olympic gold medalist in weight lifting)