Best known atheletes worldwide...

[dandruff]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: dandruff

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Almost as bad as your flaunting your inability to spell your.

LOL, this is going to be fun:laugh:

sheesh .. is that the best you could do ... look at ur own grammer ...

here dbl pwnage - try this ... Almost as bad as YOU flaunting your inability to spell your. or your flaunting OF your ...

grammer and spelling policing .. hmmm .. u (hey again) got one thing right ... this is fun :laugh:

1) ur = your
2) grammer = grammar
3) here = Here
4) dbl = double
5) RD's post was grammatically sound.
6) grammer = grammar
7) Excessive use of ellipses makes you look like an even bigger tool.

Whee! Now this is how you spend a Friday afternoon!

Sure!

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Maybe Wayne Gretzky and Roger Clemens should be on that list, although not sure how closely China follows baseball or hockey.

Definitely agree with the rest.

baseball and icehockey have very limited audiences

 

[kalster]

Most NFL/Basketball/baseball players arent really known outside America, around the world soccer players and in the Asian subcontinent cricket players are most popular (in terms of pure numbers)

Beckham would be 1 of the most popular players I think, Sachin Tendulkar in terms of pure numbers is right up there

 

[yosuke188]

To be honest, I didn't know Pele until I looked it up today. I'm only 16 anyway 😛

 

[Compton]

I really think Arnold should be added to your list. I consider bodybuilders to be athletes, and as a movie star he's known all over the world.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: kalster
Most NFL/Basketball/baseball players arent really known outside America, around the world soccer players and in the Asian subcontinent cricket players are most popular (in terms of pure numbers)

Beckham would be 1 of the most popular players I think, Sachin Tendulkar in terms of pure numbers is right up there

basketball is huge in europe now which you can easily tell by how many europeans get drafted each year. and its getting bigger in asia and south america cause of players like yao and ginobili.

 

[Skunkwourk]

Mike Tyson?

 

[WildHorse]

Nominations:

1. Pelé (soccer, T H E world sport)
2. Maradona (soccer druggie wastrel)
3. Ronaldo (soccer)
4. David Beckham (soccer)
5. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball)
6. Michael Jordan (basketball)
7. Some of those women tennis players (Maria Sharapova, Hottie Kournikova , others)

 

[Aznguy1872]

Michael Jordan for sure or Ali

 

[MasterAndCommander]

Mike Tyson

 

[Inspector Jihad]

mike tyson doesnt break into the top 8 in the OP...lets look at it agian...i think the sports that are most global are soccer, tennis, boxing...in that order...basketball 4th?????

 

[jadinolf]

Franklin Pangborn.

 

[Rayden]

I don't know too much about sports, but you guys are wrong to say that hockey isn't well known outside of the US. Canada and all of Europe don't count? It isn't the international sport that football is, but it is certainly not restricted to North America.

 

[JASANITY]

yao easily.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: dandruff

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: dandruff

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Almost as bad as your flaunting your inability to spell your.

LOL, this is going to be fun:laugh:

sheesh .. is that the best you could do ... look at ur own grammer ...

here dbl pwnage - try this ... Almost as bad as YOU flaunting your inability to spell your. or your flaunting OF your ...

grammer and spelling policing .. hmmm .. u (hey again) got one thing right ... this is fun :laugh:

1) ur = your
2) grammer = grammar
3) here = Here
4) dbl = double
5) RD's post was grammatically sound.
6) grammer = grammar
7) Excessive use of ellipses makes you look like an even bigger tool.

Whee! Now this is how you spend a Friday afternoon!

Sure!

yeah, I think you lose.

 

[Rill22]

Some good ones in here, some that I had forgotten about. Mark Spitz perhaps? I was a swimmer all my life ... that dude was hella athletic.

 

[eits]

#1 = carl lewis
#2 = jim thorpe
#3 = jackie joyner-kersee

anyone who thinks the world's greatest athlete is mohammad ali or michael jordan or anything equaly as ignorant/stupid is a gigantic moron.

 

[murphy55d]

Originally posted by: Rayden
I don't know too much about sports, but you guys are wrong to say that hockey isn't well known outside of the US. Canada and all of Europe don't count? It isn't the international sport that football is, but it is certainly not restricted to North America.

Very true. Most of Europe plays hockey... Sweden, Russia, Finland, Czech Rep., Slovakia, etc. It has a pretty big following. So if you want to say some Indian Cricket player who isn't known outside of whatever countries play that, it isn't out of the question to say someone like Gretzky.

My pick though has to be Michael Jordan. everyone knows him. After that, Pele is possibly number two.

 

[Patt]

Originally posted by: eits
#1 = carl lewis
#2 = jim thorpe
#3 = jackie joyner-kersee

anyone who thinks the world's greatest athlete is mohammad ali or michael jordan or anything equaly as ignorant/stupid is a gigantic moron.

Great argument, I really like how you completely don't explain your 'logic' whatsoever. 😛

 

[GasX]

Cmon, I want more bating of Red Dawn!!!

Beckham is one of if not THE highest paid athlete in the world. Why? Because his name sells more merch than anyone else's.

Muhammed Ali WAS the greatest, IS the greatest and forever WILL BE the greatest.

The rest are also-rans

 

[marincounty]

Valentino Rossi pwns Honda.
And here's another one-Bruce Lee.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: murphy55d

Originally posted by: Rayden
I don't know too much about sports, but you guys are wrong to say that hockey isn't well known outside of the US. Canada and all of Europe don't count? It isn't the international sport that football is, but it is certainly not restricted to North America.

Very true. Most of Europe plays hockey... Sweden, Russia, Finland, Czech Rep., Slovakia, etc. It has a pretty big following. So if you want to say some Indian Cricket player who isn't known outside of whatever countries play that, it isn't out of the question to say someone like Gretzky.

My pick though has to be Michael Jordan. everyone knows him. After that, Pele is possibly number two.

for the sake of argument, cricket is a much more popular and worldwide sport than is hockey...there are cricket teams on damn near every contintent, with it being the most popular sport in many countries while hockey has a very limited audience in most near every country its played in.


Regardless...hockey cannot be considered a world sport. Nothing against hockey, it just doesnt have the appeal of other sports.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: eits
#1 = carl lewis
#2 = jim thorpe
#3 = jackie joyner-kersee

anyone who thinks the world's greatest athlete is mohammad ali or michael jordan or anything equaly as ignorant/stupid is a gigantic moron.

anyone who posts in a thread with over a 100 posts and is still so damn off topic is an even bigger moron.

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: eits
#1 = carl lewis
#2 = jim thorpe
#3 = jackie joyner-kersee

anyone who thinks the world's greatest athlete is mohammad ali or michael jordan or anything equaly as ignorant/stupid is a gigantic moron.

anyone who posts in a thread with over a 100 posts and is still so damn off topic is an even bigger moron.

??? huh? that doesn't make too much sense...

this is an off topic thread...

i don't see what you're getting at in your post....

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: Patt

Originally posted by: eits
#1 = carl lewis
#2 = jim thorpe
#3 = jackie joyner-kersee

anyone who thinks the world's greatest athlete is mohammad ali or michael jordan or anything equaly as ignorant/stupid is a gigantic moron.

Great argument, I really like how you completely don't explain your 'logic' whatsoever. 😛

i didn't think i'd need to explain why multiple gold-winning olympians in various events at various olympics were better athletes than a boxer, a basketball star who sucked at baseball, and anyone else who was only good at one sporting event.