7 Toughest Fighters in UFC History

Chris Leben

Leonard Garcia and Roy Nelson are guys that could absorb lots of punishment, but Chris Leben was a guy that actually got better as he ate punches. Many of his knockouts were preceded by him walking opponents down, eating shots and boxing them up close and KOing them. Go look him up, all you new UFC fans!

Robbie Lawler

Just look back on his most recent fights against Johny Hendricks, Rory MacDonald and Carlos Condit. He entered each one clean, and exited all of them bloody, cut up, swollen and victorious. Just look at his fight with Rory MacDonald at UFC 189, where he left with his lip split apart! Could you do that? Could any normal human being?

Dominick Cruz

Cruz isn’t like most of the fighters on this list. He’s not tough because he can take a beating in the cage and win anyway. Cruz is the toughest because of what he’s had to overcome in his UFC career. The man lost nearly five years of his MMA career due to multiple knee surgeries and other serious injuries to his legs and feet…and still managed to dust himself off, fight back and defeat TJ Dillashaw to retake his bantamweight title. There are so many times where Cruz could have quit, and he just didn’t.