If you want to be a professional MMA fighter, what is the quality that you should possess first and foremost? Athletic ability? No. Childhood karate classes? No. The answer is toughness.
All great fighters have the ability to take a punch and fight through it.
Some fighters, however, have a seemingly inhuman ability to receive punishment. Whether over the course of a single fight or over several years, they inspire us with their durability. Many have built reputations off of being able to take a beating. They are indestructible.
In some cases, we see a fighter victimized by a particularly vicious looking strike or technique and we have to take a step back and just say, “Wow, how did he survive that?”
Throughout MMA’s history, there have always been indestructible fighters, but these are the ones that stand out. Even if their durability may have started falling off at some point, their reputations precede them.
These are the 15 most indestructible fighters in MMA history.