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The 6 Nastiest Hellbows in MMA History

There’s something about an elbow in an MMA fight that just shakes you to the core.

It’s like nothing you’ll see in sports, and even within MMA itself, that sharp motion followed by the dull thud of contact.

Some of them end in an instant KO.

Others, remarkably, are shaken off only for the fight to continue on to its natural conclusion.

Others still, regardless of outcomes immediate or otherwise, are remembered in MMA lore from the minute they land onward.

That’s why we’re here today: To recap the six biggest hellbows in the history of the game, a hellbow, of course, being the label generally reserved for the best of the best to connect and be immediately memorialized.