Who has the best low kicks in MMA ?

MAS-chance · Post #1 » by **MAS-chance** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:44 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKNUVP2ezto

I never thought of Arona, but I still have Jose Aldo as the best the right now.

Cammo101 · Post #2 » by **Cammo101** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:04 am

Jose Aldo and Thiago Alves.

cowboyronnie · Post #3 » by **cowboyronnie** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:16 am

Aldo throws that hook to the body and then dead legs the kick and ducks out, it's nice.

I'm trying to think of finishes from low kicks. See it kickboxing all the time. Just Cro Cop vs Yoshida in MMA? That skinny guy from TUF doesn't count.

Post #4 » by **CPT** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:25 am

Brandon Vera used to have pretty good ones. I seem to remember him TKOing someone or coming damn close via low kicks.

Edson Barboza did so recently. He's a guy that came to mind immediately.

For some reason I want to say Pat Barry did as well. Don't know if his are in the running for the best in MMA, but best at HW, sure.

Anyone fighting Rampage seems to have pretty good leg kicks.

REDDzone · Post #5 » by **REDDzone** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:43 pm

Pat Barry has several iirc. Did Cerrone finish some guy (Rocha?) with leg kicks, or did he just brutalize him with them and get the tko some other other?

SDM · Post #6 » by **SDM** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:58 pm

Machida is underrated too. Sokodju has two leg kick TKOs, the one on Nakamura was nasty.

cowboyronnie · Post #7 » by **cowboyronnie** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:39 pm

Buncha underlooked names, yeah.

duppyy · Post #8 » by **duppyy** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:36 pm

Pat Barry used to.

Gold Chain · Post #9 » by **Gold Chain** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:26 pm

Maybe not the best, but I wouldn't want a shin to shin blast from Belcher.

Bas Rutten as well.

NZB2323 · Post #10 » by **NZB2323** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:34 pm

Carlos Condit did set the record for most leg kicks in a round...

MAS-chance · Post #11 » by **MAS-chance** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:08 pm

Cerrone landed some nasty ones on Nate in their fight, and I remember Tony Ferguson DESTROYING "trash bag Charlie " with them in the semi-finals of TUF.

REDDzone · Post #12 » by **REDDzone** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:05 pm

Just racking my brain for leg kick tko's: Didn't Bas have one in the fight where he randomly returned to mma?

cowboyronnie · Post #13 » by **cowboyronnie** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:07 pm

True, against Warpath. Warpath was in there on like 20 minutes notice and was real unskilled.

REDDzone · Post #14 » by **REDDzone** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:47 am

Yea, I've literally never seen announcers more biased than that fight. Kept saying "watch this" implying Bas was about to have an epic knock out or flying gogo or something. But Bas didn't look good at all.

Posey H8er · Post #15 » by **Posey H8er** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:57 am

whatever happened to Arona? he had a couple losses to top guys in Pride and disappeared to the beaches of Rio after the Sokoudjou fight... he was a fun fighter.

back in the day Pedro Rizzo was a monster with low kicks. Overeem uses them very well to set up other combos too. just watch that 15 second fight with Duffee. it was a thing of beauty.

but in terms of pure devastation, i don't think there is a stronger low kicker than Melvin Manhoef.

cowboyronnie · Post #16 » by **cowboyronnie** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:19 am

Manhoef and Rizzo, yeah.

There were rumors of Arona signing with the UFC - he'd been training, looked super buff, but it never got done. White publicly said nice things.

REDDzone · Post #17 » by **REDDzone** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:40 pm

I doubt Lawler walked for weeks after facing Manhoef (then again, does Manhoef eat solid foods anymore after Lawler's KO?).

There is just no way Arona is still good. Its been like 17 years haha. I guess Hunt is though so who knows.

SDM · Post #18 » by **SDM** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:55 pm

Arona is apparently rolling in cash from some of his business endeavors in Brazil. If he comes back, it won't be for money.

cowboyronnie · Post #19 » by **cowboyronnie** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:54 pm

REDDzone wrote:I doubt Lawler walked for weeks after facing Manhoef (then again, does Manhoef eat solid foods anymore after Lawler's KO?).

There is just no way Arona is still good. Its been like 17 years haha. I guess Hunt is though so who knows.

Lawler insisted he was walking fine the next day.

Either a crazy lie or years and years of kickboxing have conditioned his leg to feel nothing.

One of my fave fights ever.

REDDzone · Post #20 » by **REDDzone** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:08 pm

That's crazy, he looked like Gumby in there at the time.

Also, anyone remember Faber posting pics of his legs after the Aldo fight? Pretty messed up.