Greatest sportsman ever (in any sport)?

[minidog]

Eddie ' The Eagle' Edwards

:rofl2:

 

[Gugi22]

Diego Armando Maradona - Soccer

You must be joking,he's the greatest cheater in any sport ever,Messi is in 2nd place!

Magic Johnson
Paolo Maldini
Brett Favre

 

[Bigoldowls]

Sir Don Bradman - Cricket

What about W.G.Grace? Yes, he bent the laws sometimes to suit him, but certainly on a par with Bradman - although from a different generation.

 

[bru_master]

Ty Cobb

 

[Dawn]

Wayne Gretzky

 

[marquis2]

What about W.G.Grace? Yes, he bent the laws sometimes to suit him, but certainly on a par with Bradman - although from a different generation.

Yes, Grace and Bradman both dominated the sport in their time in a way which is almost unheard of.
To those uninitiated in cricket, a world class batsman in international cricket is lucky to average around 50.Bradman averaged-over his whole international career-99.96.
Grace's averages with bat and ball are less impressive but they were earned under much more difficult conditions and swamped the efforts of all other players.

 

[bnaked]

Cal Ripken

 

[Danizingo]

Roger Federer'
Ronnie O'Sullivan

and there is a number of track'n'fielders

 

[Adore this Girl]

Im a football fan so for me has to be ...pele..

 

[Werewolf]

Artur Friedenreich (voted FIFA-Striker of the 20th Century)
Pele
Magic Johnson
Wayne Gretzky
Björn Borg

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Jim Thorpe

 

[bandanoantri]

Kjetil André Aamodt (Alpine Skiing/NOR)

Ole Einar Bjørndalen (Biathlon/NOR)

Bjørn Erlend Dæhlie (Cross Country Skiing/NOR)

Eddy Merckx (Cycling/BEL)

Edison Arantes do Nascimento [aka Pelé] (Football/BRA)

Matti Nykänen (Ski Jumping/FIN)

Jan-Ove Waldner (Table Tennis/SWE)

Pete Sampras (Tennis/USA)

 

[marquis2]

Yes, Grace and Bradman both dominated the sport in their time in a way which is almost unheard of.
To those uninitiated in cricket, a world class batsman in international cricket is lucky to average around 50.Bradman averaged-over his whole international career-99.96.
Grace's averages with bat and ball are less impressive but they were earned under much more difficult conditions and swamped the efforts of all other players.

I know I'm quoting myself but I forgot Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers as the greatest cricketer in the history of the game. Not as good with the bat as Bradman though his average was 58 , not as good a bowler as Shane Warne but put the two together and he was the greatest all round performer.

Cricket by the way is second only to soccer in terms of world popularity.

 

[Elwood70]

Brooks Robinson-greatest 3rd baseman ever

 

[CitizenErased]

#1 Micheal Jordan
#2 Tiger Woods

These two just dominated their sports like no one ever has nor ever will.

don bradman begs to differ. infact it's not even close. bradman's domination of cricket pisses on jordan and woods domination from a great height.

as for the boxing nominations, there are weight divisions outside the heavys. the P4P greatest title should fall to one of sam langford, harry greb, sugar ray or henry armstrong. the likes of ali, marciano and louis don't deserve a mention as far as that title goes.

 

[Isaac Hunt]

Joe Calzaghe (boxing) retired undefeated champion.
Steve Redgrave (rowing) five times consecutive olympic champion (spanning 20 years)!
Michael Phelps (swimming) obvious.
Roger Bannister (athlete) for questioning and beating what was thought to be impossible.

 

[dogbone27]

Ali lost,Joe Louis fought Bum Of The Month
there can be no better record than 49-0

LOL WUT!!!!

Rocky Marciano was a bum he fought nothing but bums, wash up fighters and no bodies, and many fighters that fought him and won were rob....Ali and the brown bomber will always be the greatest.

 

[dogbone27]

Joe Calzaghe (boxing) retired undefeated champion..

Same as Rocky Marciano .... He fought bums and wash up fighters.
If he fought roy jones or bernard hopkins 8 or 9 years ago he would had got his ass whoop, no doubt.

 

[broderic_randal]

basketball: Michael Jordan
hockey: Wayne Gretzky
baseball: babe ruth

 

[CitizenErased]

Same as Rocky Marciano .... He fought bums and wash up fighters.
If he fought roy jones or bernard hopkins 8 or 9 years ago he would had got his ass whoop, no doubt.

prime roy beats prime joe.

prime hopkins v prime joe is highly debateable.

bums and washed up fighters? it's safe to say you know nothing about the sport.