Welcome again folks, this time to Sherdog's list of the 10 heaviest pound-for-pound hitters in MMA history. This was compiled as an average of many different Sherdog contributors' lists, and I will note where my own views deviated considerably. Personally though, the appeal of any such lists isn't the exact ordering, or who was included versus excluded, but the actual discussion below each entry. Anyone can come up with a list with no further commentary and it's no more “right” than another. However, the best such lists have entertaining and informative explanations, which is a goal I hope to accomplish.

Like our recent Top 10 lists of MMA’s greatest strikers and grapplers, the criteria here were left open-ended. To what degree, for instance, should one factor in crushing knockout punches versus brutal kicks? Is this purely a measure of one-strike power or an ability to incapacitate opponents through a furious combo? The voting here was, as with those past two lists, highly diverse, with 30 total fighters receiving points.

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