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You know, the wayne gretzky's of fly-fishing or whatever.

• Lasha Talakhadze, weightlifting

Kane Waselenchuk - racquetball

Dawid Zalewski, slap fighting

Don Bradman and cricket in the US.

Lee Young Ho, Starcraft

lacrosse-jim brown

ive heard this alot but still never actual looked myself.

Jason Belmonte- Bowling

Golf - Lee Carvallo

pinky0926 posted...

Sports no one cares about

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wut

WNBA had a team (or maybe it was NCAA Ladies?) Basketball had a team that won so many games in a row, it shattered basically every win streak record in modern history.

also fuck you for calling Gretz/NHL "something no one cares about". It's clearly 4th in america (still ahead of pro soccer!), but it's huge in a lot of other countries.

BuckVanHammer posted...

lacrosse-jim brown

ive heard this alot but still never actual looked myself.

LAX Legends, at least here in canada

John Tavares
Gary Gait
John Grant Jr.

Lebron james. Nobody outside the usa give a fuck lol

Stallion_Prime posted...

Lebron james. Nobody outside the usa give a fuck lol

Lebron James is one of the most popular athletes in the world.

Naysaspace posted...

also fuck you for calling Gretz/NHL "something no one cares about". It's clearly 4th in america (still ahead of pro soccer!), but it's huge in a lot of other countries.

Nah man, I was using Gretzky as the example of a legend everyone knows from a popular sport to illustrate the idea that maybe such legends must exist in lesser known sports. Hence, "the Wayne Gretzky of fly fishing".

I.e. implying that maybe there's some legendary fly Fisher on Gretzky's level but because its fly fishing no one has ever heard of him.

Stallion_Prime posted...

Lebron james. Nobody outside the usa give a fuck lol

Vyrulisse posted...

Lebron James is one of the most popular athletes in the world.

ya that take had to be sarcastic. LeBron is the closest thing to Tiger Woods, athlete-wise. Bigger than Messi/etc because the Chinese market cares about basketball more than soccer.

Naysaspace posted...

ya that take had to be sarcastic. LeBron is the closest thing to Tiger Woods, athlete-wise. Bigger than Messi/etc because the Chinese market cares about basketball more than soccer.

I was with you until that last part. Americans always seem to underestimate just how big soccer is.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/4/AADfCWAADh8O.jpg

Bigger physically than Messi, at least.

Naysaspace posted...

ya that take had to be sarcastic. LeBron is the closest thing to Tiger Woods, athlete-wise. Bigger than Messi/etc because the Chinese market cares about basketball more than soccer.

LeBron is playing in a softer era.

Defenders now just simply stand in the paint and look at the ball sinking through the hoop.

Like stick a knee or elbow out.

Trip or closeline his ass.

The highest paid athlete in all human history is thought to be Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles.
He won 1,462 of the 4,257 four-horse races he competed in, and finished second in an additional 1,438 races.
He retired after racing for 24 years, and it was extremely rare to survive that long.
He earned over 35 million Sesterces for his races. That is something like 15 billion dollars. Todays highest paid athlete, Michael Jordan is only worth 2 billion dollars.

Phil Taylor - Darts

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

Jason Belmonte- Bowling

Hell yeah, Belmo is great!

PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

LeBron is playing in a softer era.

Defenders now just simply stand in the paint and look at the ball sinking through the hoop.

Like stick a knee or elbow out.

Trip or closeline his ass.

I know next to nothing about basketball but isn't this more to do with a change in the hand checking rules rather than players being softer?

Didnt Jim Thorpe do all sorts or classic Olympic events like the decathlon

pinky0926 posted...

I was with you until that last part. Americans always seem to underestimate just how big soccer is.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/4/AADfCWAADh8O.jpg

Bigger physically than Messi, at least.

thats not how a pie chart works...

Careful, the rugby players will get you

Naysaspace posted...

ya that take had to be sarcastic. LeBron is the closest thing to Tiger Woods, athlete-wise. Bigger than Messi/etc because the Chinese market cares about basketball more than soccer.

Lm fuckin ay oh

K181 posted...

Don Bradman and cricket in the US.

I know literally zero about Cricket, but someone explained to me once that if Bradman played baseball he'd have like a .400 batting average or some ridiculous nonsense.

Mike Trout is currently batting .303 for his career. Shit's hilarious.

Pete Weber - bowling

mustachedmystic posted...

Pete Weber - bowling

Who do you think you are? I am!!!

Eliud Kipchoge, men's marathon

Doyle Brunson: Poker

He retired now, but he was such a legend that used to rent out his personal good luck charms for $400 an hour to other players.

Poker tournaments can go hours or days even so assuming a player borrowed his charm for the entire tournament, and they made it far, thats thousands of dollars in profit for absolutely 0 work or effort.

electricbugs2 posted...

I know literally zero about Cricket, but someone explained to me once that if Bradman played baseball he'd have like a .400 batting average or some ridiculous nonsense.

Mike Trout is currently batting .303 for his career. Shit's hilarious.

Absolutely, for example one measure in cricket of (loosely) comparing batsmen is called a Test Cricket Batting Average. Bradman's was 99.94. Out of the best players in the world currently, the highest is 60.

Naysaspace posted...

WNBA had a team (or maybe it was NCAA Ladies?) Basketball had a team that won so many games in a row, it shattered basically every win streak record in modern history.

also fuck you for calling Gretz/NHL "something no one cares about". It's clearly 4th in america (still ahead of pro soccer!), but it's huge in a lot of other countries.

You are thinking of the University of Connecticut's women's basketball team, who went undefeated for years.

Dale Earnhardt

Shotgunnova posted...

Golf - Lee Carvallo

You have entered POWER DRIVE.

Joelypoely posted...

Absolutely, for example one measure in cricket of (loosely) comparing batsmen is called a Test Cricket Batting Average. Bradman's was 99.94. Out of the best players in the world currently, the highest is 60.

The kicker is that in his final test match he just needed 4 runs to make it a perfect 100.
146]
In the final Test at The Oval, Bradman walked out to bat in Australia's first innings. He received a standing ovation from the crowd and three cheers from the opposition.[147] His Test batting average stood at 101.39.[148] Facing the wrist-spin of Eric Hollies,[149] Bradman pushed forward to the second ball that he faced, was deceived by a googly, and was bowled between bat and pad for a duck.[150] An England batting collapse resulted in an innings defeat, denying Bradman the opportunity to bat again and so his career average finished at 99.94;[147][151][152] if he had scored just four runs in his last innings, it would have been 100. A story developed over the years that claimed Bradman missed the ball because of tears in his eyes,[152] a claim Bradman denied for the rest of his life.[153]

A_Good_Boy posted...

Dawid Zalewski, slap fighting

Dude's got nothing on my boy Vasily Kamotsky

Tony Hawk

Paavo Nurmi - marathon running

el Santo

pinky0926 posted...

Bradman pushed forward to the second ball that he faced, was deceived by a googly, and was bowled between bat and pad for a duck.

what

Philip Matthew doyle - parkour. Not really a legend compared to atheletes of older sports..His prime time was just a lil over a decade ago but the sport is still young and his techniques were more refined than majority of people practicing parkour back then. He was featured in a lot of UK parkour vids from 2007 to 2010 era (outside of his own channel which have vids of him training in 2006). Still shows up in UK parkour vids but is no longer a big highlight.

bigtiggie23 posted...

You are thinking of the University of Connecticut's women's basketball team, who went undefeated for years.

They were a huge rival of the Lady Vols.

HolierThanMao posted...

what

You need to understand what a crumpet is before you understand cricket

Irony posted...

Tony Hawk

Came to say this.

pinky0926 posted...

I was with you until that last part. Americans always seem to underestimate just how big soccer is.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/4/AADfCWAADh8O.jpg

Bigger physically than Messi, at least.

Half of that cricket slice is India

Kurt angle Olympic wrestling. He made more a killing using that as his gimmick in fake wrestling.

I'll even admit I watched the match he allegedly broke his neck or back in. I couldn't tell where it happened. But he's a helluva fighter to still win the match. Boring as hell though. Wrestling is one of those sports it's more fun to do than watch. I did it in middle school and I wouldn't even really watch other people between my matches.

Sport or not, Magnus Carlson has been absolutely dominant in chess since he topped the ratings charts. The timing for him is also perfect because he has some personality, speaks English, is a good person, and actively streams.

There are YouTube videos of him destroying some of the best players in the world while drinking with his friends and purposely playing bad positions. He is just on a completely different level.