Most dominant pro athlete in any sport during his era?Made others look mortal.

[BrentCrude]

Bobby Orr.Watch all the reels on all networks of games of any sport from days gone by and he absolutely stands out.He was a next 12 year veteran player career generation ahead of the guys he was playing with and against.I'm talking about a good player in any sport playing right now being able to be a standout with the best players in 2020.Sure,you had Wilt Chamberlin but it was just his height advantage.I'm talking the whole tallent package.

[jjgold]

Jordan
Tiger
Gretzky

[mmike032]

pistol pete maravich,
he invented all the flashy play that the street ballers try to take credit for

[JRS21386]

Michael Jordan
Tom Brady
Barry Sanders
Nolan Ryan
Wayne Gretzky

[mmike032]

Walter Payton

[ryanXL977]

pedro and unit from like 1997-2002

[LMAOFISH]

Federer up until a year ago.
Tiger.

[tacomax]

Jimmy Gobble

[Dark Horse]

Ali
Pele
Jordan

[Matt Rain]

Mario Lemieux often looked like he was playing against semi-retarded kids.



You know you're good when a commentator says "Wow, what an assist!"

[Casperwaits]

Tiger
Kobiashi
Federer
Hogan (Hulk)

[CaneDawg]

all though i love phil

TIGER

[rjt721]

Roy Jones. In his prime, didn't lose rounds. Untouchable.

[RumpledForeskin]

Jimmy Gobble

I'll see your Gobble and raise you a Dick Trickle

[Matt Rain]

Roy Jones. In his prime, didn't lose rounds. Untouchable.

[pavyracer]

Pele. He won 3 world cups. One as a 17 year old, one in his 20's and one in his 30's. Pele is second to none in terms of dominance.

[Chi_archie]

How can this thread not have any mention Babe Ruth yet...

I know its cliche... but at the same time, people don't really understand how dominant he was.

I don't have the stats in front of me... but before babe ruth the single season hr record was like 13..

the year the bambino hit 58 I think.... He hit more homeruns then like the rest of the entire American League...... seriously one individual hitting more homeruns then the rest of the league combined... that's making others look like mere mortals.


the other athletes were often times a few levels better then their opponents in their ere... but the babe was off the chart..


and oh yeah... he woulda been a hall of famer as a pitcher if he never would have switched to hitting....

we make so much about rick ankiel.... but the babe was actually a great pitcher..

[zentiense]

Lemieux was sick. My favorite hockey player of all time. Arguably the only one of the era who could even touch Wayne.

[Matt Rain]

True, hard to argue against The Babe.

[bbyhill]

Rocky Marciano The only undefeated heavy weight champion of the world ever.

[Chi_archie]

and Wilt actually would be a good example... that dude wasn't just tall.. he was the total package..

he was an NCAA national champion at shot put..
he ran like a 10 flat 100 yards
he had a 40-50 inch vertical (accounts vary)

dude AVERAGED 50 a game for a whole season
and it wasn't just height that made him good, otherwise Bill Russel woulda been scoring like wilt too.

oh yeah... he led the league in assists one year? any big men today gonna do that? is that just height?


while we are on basketball greats.

Oscar Robertson AVERAGED a triple double for a seaon? c'mon....

Pistol pete was amazing in college also

[Kingctb27]

LeBron James. There isn't a player in the league close to him right now. Makes others better, leads a team that isn't very good while compiling awesome statistics. On the fast break there isn't a better player in the history of the game. It's almost a given two points. We've never seen an athlete play basketball with his combination of athleticism, jumping ability and passing ability.

[dle]

Richard Petty

[Chi_archie]

gotta throw Koufax in the ring...

and Bob Gibson circa 1968.. he was unreal

[teaserpleaser]

Roy Jones.... he played with some good guys like they were kids, Just the other night i was at what he did to James Toney.

[Bostongambler]

Sue Bird

[Chi_archie]

royce gracie

[frostno98]

Iron Mike Tyson

[teaserpleaser]

royce gracie

really?? if anything I would say Frank shamrock or Wanderlei Silva in Pride. Who did Royce beat that was any good?

[Matt Rain]

royce gracie

Nice call. Dude was like a real-life Ryu during the early days of the UFC.

[bbyhill]

Iron Mike Tyson

been beat and bites ears unlike Marciano

[bettilimbroke999]

Hockey is gay, how can you be the most dominant athlete ever when you play a sport that only Canadians play, hell 90% of Americans have never even gone ice skating much less tried to become pro hockey players

[teaserpleaser]

Nice call. Dude was like a real-life Ryu during the early days of the UFC.

At that time other than ken shamrock nobody even knew what BJJ was at the time... all these greats are on a even playing field against other guys who know whats going on. Royce is a grappler Ryu is karate not even close.

[Chi_archie]

really?? if anything I would say Frank shamrock or Wanderlei Silva in Pride. Who did Royce beat that was any good?

I accidently wrote up my gracie selection in the wrong thread...

more so his brothers/family...

they basically created UFC just for the Gracie's as they were so dominant in martial arts/jiu jitsu....

so go back in time for the first UFC and see how no one knew what they were doing, when martial arts became actual fighting... and fighting 5 times in a night at that.


to be so dominant in a genre that they CREATE a sport for you... is pretty impressive...

the stuff guys are doing now... no one but royce was doing it in the first handful of ufc's

[Matt Rain]

At that time other than ken shamrock nobody even knew what BJJ was at the time... all these greats are on a even playing field against other guys who know whats going on. Royce is a grappler Ryu is karate not even close.

Ryu also throws fireballs. My bad.