Most dominant athlete of all time

We have had a topic similar to this before and I found it pretty interesting and entertaining. The question is what one person in history had the largest skill gap between themselves and #2? So not just a GOAT, but such a GOAT that even the 2nd best ever looks like a chump to them.

Not just dominant, but literally in a league of their own and doing stuff that no other competitor came close to matching.

Some names that came up last time... Schumacher, Karelin, Tiger Woods, Usain Bolt, Phelps, Jordan, Gretzky, Pele, etc.

P.S. "athlete" doesn't have to be taken so literally. Feel free to throw in any freakish mind-blowing feat. Chess, video games, horse racing, poker, whatever... this is just for fun. Although I would give more credit to someone that is an outlier in a sport played by a billion people than in a sport played by thousands.

I would put Secretariat right up there with the rest of them. Not only did he win the triple crown but he set track records in all 3 races that still stand 40 years later. Kind of remarkable when you think of how far sports medicine has advanced. I would imagine that PEDs use is just as prevalent in horse racing as in other sports so how has nobody beaten those marks in 40 years? Although Man O' War was considered an equally dominant thoroughbred so Secretariat wasn't quite so unprecedented...

Fedor Emelianenko

Muhammad Ali

Idrajit

Lance Armstrong

Rodney Mullen ainec

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34 out of 35, lol at comparing Wood's 14 major wins in 70 played to this

Tiger Woods in his prime and it's not even close.

Jahangir Khan. Undefeated for 10 years straight.

On November 24 2013 21:16 Floofy wrote: Muhammad Ali

Ali wouldnt even make top 10 most dominant boxers my friend lol

in beore Nazgul says Karelin

Djenghis Khan!!!!

Federer?

federer and ken jennings

Federer not even the most dominant in his sport, lol, ppl just missing the point of the thread completely

dr.dre

On November 24 2013 23:24 PoorUser wrote: federer and ken jennings

No idea who Ken Jennings is but yeah Federer and Messi
Federer was unstoppable in his sport for a huuuuuuge amount of time where every week matters, he s just getting old now
Also O'Sullivan except he s had so many personal and mental issues, however its clear that he s basically in another world when playing at a 100% - thnk he proved it winning 2 back to back world Cruicibles with no other tournament inbetween played

Rod Laver was a LOT more dominant, possibly Borg too, maybe even Nadal lol

They have played 32 times, and Nadal leads their nine-year-old rivalry 22–10.

Meanwhile some people mentioned have been undefeated for most of their career

usain bolt.

if you pick some unpopular sport then you dont face any tough competition. and the major sports dont have anyone that dominant that really stands out. i mean MJ = Lebron and are either as "dominant" as wilt? best football player of all time? peyton? calvin johnson? who knows. best tennis player of all time has a lopsided losing record to a guy with 13 majors. hockey there is a consensus #1 but is he really head and shoulders ahead of lemeiux, orr, and todays players? babe ruth isnt that far ahead of ty cobb, ted williams, barry bonds.

whereas usain bolt shatters records and is the fastest human being of all time. and its not even close. nobody in any other sport besides sprinting can break 10.0 in the 100m. from 1968 to 2007 the world record in the 100m dash dropped .21 seconds. from 2007 to bolt it dropped .16 and the guy is slowing up in races to showboat.

if you want to define dominance as never losing, then bolt doesnt really qualify. but to me hes just so clearly the best of any human being that has ever existed at what he does and by such a wide margin. and in other sports you cant really say that for certain due to smaller samples or discrepancy

Pele. football is the most popular sport in the world, what's with people putting golf and tennis players? Even cricket is more popular than that. Also for people who live in opposite land, football is a game where a ball gets kicked around with feet.

Perhaps right about Federer in some aspects, he s obviously most dominant overall in tennis tho.
I dont see how Bolt's "samples" are anything, but small. How many competitions do sprinters have yearly... 15?
If i have to pick just one guy its probably Messi althought its still somewhat soon to decide on that, however its obvious that he can destroy pretty much anyone playing football and winning 4 Ballon D'ors both overall and in a row is unprecedented ( possibly 5 with this year). People like Pele seem completely overrated considering he was only playing in Brazil and he was playing during times where football was another game. You stay in your comfort zone your whole life and not go after bigger challenges when you obviously have the skillset to do so and then claim yourself being the best at what you do ... thats just retarded on so many levels.