The 10 Most Devastating Kickers in MMA

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The gold standard for leg kicks. Aldo’s chopping low kicks were so devastating they could end fights on their own — most infamously leaving Urijah Faber hobbling for a week.

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A Glory kickboxing champion whose calf kicks and head kicks carry genuine one-shot, fight-ending power all the way up at light heavyweight.

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A kickboxer’s full arsenal — switch kicks, front kicks and teeps — used to control range and punish opponents across a long middleweight title reign.

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The most creative kicker in the sport: spinning, jumping, switching, never predictable. The buzzer-beating elbow gets the clip, but the unorthodox kicks set everything up.

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A Muay Thai-honed dynamo whose spinning wheel kicks and chopping low kicks are among the cleanest and most violent in the lightweight division.

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His low kicks are a weapon of pure attrition that have ground down the legs of elite strikers, and few fighters in history have ever thrown with more bad intentions.

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A dedicated Muay Thai specialist whose kicks at light heavyweight land with brutal, concussive power.

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Heavyweight kicks with the timing and variety of a much smaller man; Gane mixes teeps and body kicks to break opponents down over time.

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Speed-based kicking at its finest — fast, accurate head and body kicks that opponents simply cannot time.

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Explosive, fight-ending kicks have powered her unbeaten UFC run and made her one of the most dangerous strikers in women’s flyweight.