it used to be crocop among fighters with more than 5 fights.
who is the best now with 5 fights mma or more?
Anderson silva is who i was thinking of... given how he seriously fucked up leben, hendo, rich franklin with kicks.
It has to be Aldo.
P4P Jose fucking Aldo.
Although Manhoef is evil too. He destroyed Lawler's legs.
Notable mention to Hardonk.
Aldo is vastly, vastly overrated. I'd say the best kicker is one of these guys:
Lyoto
Shogun
Rich Franklin
Hardy
Pat Barry
CC
Cung
Aldo ...
is not overrated
Kikuno
Kimbo IMO
Tim Sylvia
^^^ I think you've got Franklin way too high...The man who crocop'd cropcop and broke Randy's arm should be on their just for sheer power....
Gotta go with Anderson Silva though. He's the best striker probably in all facets. Doesn't need a huge telegraphing windup for anything. He can work a head kick so smoothly off a punch combo rather than using it as a big lead easily switching stances as well.
Shogun seems to be most effective with the low leg kicks...pulls the trigger really fast taking his opponent out of rhythm better than anyone
I totally agree on Aldo being overrated. Torres and Faber got the same treatment and were in peoples p4p top 5 but look at them now.
3 words: Side check kick
jhendo79 - Tim Sylvia
Butterbean
goggs2009 - I totally agree on Aldo being overrated. Torres and Faber got the same treatment and were in peoples p4p top 5 but look at them now.
Exactly mate. Those divisions are so new that the level of competition is not good enough to make anybody in them P4P fighters. I mean, Aldo is fighting Manny Gamburyan next. Enough said...
Probably ASilva now. Shogun, Aldo and Barry all very good as well. Zaromiskis had a few highlight reel headkick KO's as well. He doesnt spend enough time standing, but GSP has a wide variety of kicks. He sets up great kicks off of his superman punch when he gets his opponent moving backwards. Im always a fan of the spinning back kick as well.
Barry has wicked kicks dudes legs are like tree trunks.
Pedro Rizzo has to be mentioned.
p4p, Aldo.
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Those divisions are so new that the level of competition is not good enough to make anybody in them P4P fighters.
Problem is were talking kicking not overall fighters in general. You have to take into account the effect of the kicks themselves, not just the flash.
thiago alves
First person I thought of was Hardonk