the cleaner Germany. Nov 25 2013 09:26. Posts 3014
On November 25 2013 07:04 napoleono wrote:
Ronnie O'Sullivan. Back 2 back Crucible wins with a 1 year break inbetween them. Amazing with both hands. He is maybe even 2 levels higher, than anyone ever was. Too bad this affected his motivation (no wonder, though).
blackjacki2 United States. Nov 25 2013 09:42. Posts 2581
what is the crucible?
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blackjacki2 United States. Nov 25 2013 09:45. Posts 2581
Btw can someone tell me how that cricket average is even possible? Wouldn't that be like a baseball player batting .600+ for their career? That would never and could never happen, so how did it happen in cricket?
On November 25 2013 06:39 VanDerMeyde wrote:
Diego Maradona
Soon Magnus Carlsen
Maradona wasn't even the best in his sport...
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EvilSky Czech Republic. Nov 25 2013 10:19. Posts 8915
Jordan imo
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TianYuan Korea (South). Nov 25 2013 10:41. Posts 6817
On November 25 2013 07:42 Rande wrote:
Every sport has its own greats, but the thing is which one is the most dominant taking the competition into consideration,
which is the key to inhuman dominance.
Jahangir Khan was riduculously dominant but the fact that its a quite a small sport makes it a little less spectacular.
Aleksander Karelin, winning 12 years in a row and 6 years without giving the opponents a single point. Small sport.
Phil Taylor winning nearly every competition he entered for a long time span is amazing, but a small sport.
Tiger Woods did something ridiculous at his peak. Take in consideration that golf is a game where there is a high variance in your performance and scores,
but it did not seem to affect him over a long time span. Keep in mind that golf is a game where the 500. ranked player can win, unlike tennis, wrestling, squash, darts.
I go with Woods because the fact that he was up against a talented and wide field and still was so dominant in a game which is nearly impossible to dominate hard.
Please no more federer and messi (= fc barcelona = 15 greatest players around him) here, you are mocking this thread.
If federer is the only one you can think of, please dont say it, and open your eyes.
I don't know if I would call wrestling small, it's world wide and especially in eastern europe it has a pretty good base I think...... Then again I'm not sure if that goes for Greco-Roman in particular.
thewh00sel United States. Nov 25 2013 11:23. Posts 2734
I like people putting horses in here. Best athlete of all time; doesn't know he's competing.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. - Ayn Rand
I feel like OP s doing a social experiment on who ll go into nerd rage in here( or in other words reasearch on social behaviour when discussing famous athletes ) , well played
Jahangir Khan was a beast and then Jansher Khan followed.
Nadal has a winning record against everyone in the top 20 or whatever the number and a sick claycourt record. Having said that, Federer is legendary, he made it to every grand slam semi for ten years. You can argue all you want but there is no denying Federer is the GOAT in tennis. Ask any pro, go ask Laver.
Womens wheelchair tennis player Esther Vergeer won 470 matches in a row, unbeaten for 10 years. Honorary mention.
Boxing has a lot of sick records... i won't even begin. Guys with over 100 KO-s etc.
There a bunch of track&field records that will probably not be broken in the forseeable future. German women on roids doing crazy shit.
Zelezny 98.48m javelin throw.
Jonathan Edwards 18.29m triple jump.
The 100m and 200m sprint records are insane. Hopefully Bolt claims another WR in 100-400m event.
High jump 2.45m Sotomayor. Holm and Jacobs cleared 0.59m (1ft 11inches) over their own head.
On November 25 2013 04:39 Liquid`Drone wrote:
thats just cuz swimming has so many events. olympic medals is a poor way of establishing how dominant someone is anyway, as it's only every 4 years. bubka set 35 world records, but only won 1 olympic gold medal.
You can always pick a single event anyway:
Michael Phelps 200m butterfly:
2001 World Championship Gold
2003 World Championship Gold
2004 Olympic Games Gold 2005 - Didn't swim it in the WC
2007 - World Championship Gold
2008 - Olympic Games Gold
2009 - World Championship Gold
2011 - World Championship Gold 2012 - Olympic Games Silver
Records at pole vaulting are bullshit. A good jumper can basically pick how many times he wants to break a record by adding 1cm to the previous record each time he jumps. Isinbayeva broke 5897123 records too.
I'd say that Phelps was just as dominant as Bolt or Karelin or whoever else has gone undefeated in their whole career, because he was basically unbeatable at 200m butterfly. Since he set a world record for the first time (at the event) in 2001, no one has ever broken any of his records. Chad Le Clos won the 200m butterfly world championship in 2013 with a 1'54'30ish time. You can compare that to Phelps 1'53'98 from 2003.
On November 25 2013 11:44 cariadon wrote:
go ask Laver.
that only means he is humble
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On November 25 2013 14:16 hiems wrote:
Surprised no one mentioned Barry Bonds.
Well, if you're going to pick a baseball player in this thread I think it has to be Babe Ruth. While Bonds was unbelievable (of course on steroids), Ruth just crushed the league offensively at that time. He hit more HRs in 1920 then any other single team combined that year. Yeah you can have all these arguments about whether he could hit like that in today's age and so on, but if you're comparing a player to what he did when he played, he is the most dominant.
Czech Republic. Nov 25 2013 10:19. Posts 8915
