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5 Most Physically Dominant Athletes

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First off, how in the heck would Mike Tyson make one of these lists? He knocked out a couple of stiffs in quick succession, but then was destroyed when it came time to face really capable fighters.

As for the list:

Babe Didrikson - Greatest Female athlete ever. Dominated Golf, Basketball and Track and Field.
Dave Winfield - Multi-sport athlete in college. Was the only player to be drafted by four teams in three different sports. Hall of Famer.
Bo Jackson - All-star in two different sports. If it weren't for injury very likely could have been in hall of fame in both sports as well
Jim Brown - 3rd all-time leading rusher in the NFL despite playing fewer games and fewer seasons than anyone on the list. Considered by many to be the greatest Lacrosse player in the history of the sport.
Jim Thorpe - You Name it, he dominated it.
 
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I don't see Bo Jackson as being dominate. He was a very good two sport pro (which is rare) but he didn't dominate either sport. In baseball, he was a .250 hitter who was always swinging for the fences. Yet he only hit +30 HRs one year. In pro football, he never had 1,000 yard rushing season and only scored 18 TD in his four year career. He only made the Pro-Bowl one year and the MLB All-Star game also one time. That is not dominant in either sport and doesn't belong in either hall of fame. The rest of your list is spot on.
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Everyday stats are somewhat meaningless in this discussion. The topic is most physically dominant. Bo was a beast of a running back. Won the Heisman. The highlights reels don't lie. If he doesn't have that freak injury against the Bengals in the playoffs, who knows what he accomplishes. The fact that he could play All Star-caliber baseball as well is rare. Only Deion Sanders was close to his prowess.
 
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Mike Tyson was not physically imposing ??? Ok, might be time to close this one up. He got soft after making it big. He was just a straight nightmare. John "The Beast" Mugabi (google some of this mfer's fights and get back with me) and Marvin Hagler could have been in physically dominating , it did not say "best at their sport or position."
 
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GrandePdre said:
Everyday stats are somewhat meaningless in this discussion. The topic is most physically dominant. Bo was a beast of a running back. Won the Heisman. The highlights reels don't lie. If he doesn't have that freak injury against the Bengals in the playoffs, who knows what he accomplishes. The fact that he could play All Star-caliber baseball as well is rare. Only Deion Sanders was close to his prowess.
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Jackson was dominate in college but not the pros (like others). He had four healthy regular seasons (his injury was in the playoffs) in football and only made the pro-bowl once. That is not just a stat. He actually had a fairly long baseball career. Again nothing special at the plate other than one season. So Bo was an amazing all around athlete but his pro career was not dominate. His rep was greatly enhanced by Nike's marketing machine.
 
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Deion was not physically intimidating. I am a Cowboys fan, and I think Deion's tackling is bs. Did I misread the thread title ??? Bo while not a long time or hall of fame athlete, he was physically intimidating. Christain Okoye was also, it is a personal opinion thread, but physicality has to be part of it for the sport they played. Like one of my picks, Bolt, while not exactly intimidating to a football player, he sure as hell is to track guys.

take a guy like Mark Eaton for the Utah Jazz all those years, not hall of fame, but sure as hell was physically intimidating.
 
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Alexander Karelin. Dude was MFing Ivan Drago.

 
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I honestly don't understand how the Serena steroid discussion isn't louder. We have heard this story over and over again, and all of those people turned out to be on steroids.

The Checklist:
More powerful than peers
Prime extended much longer than average
Injuries that linger much longer than they seem like they should
Bigger hat size
Weird reactions to steroid allegations

Serena's game is entirely power, but she doesn't have great form, and she is well past the normal prime for female tennis players . . . yet she magically hits harder than anyone else in the game. Watch her play Venus. Venus has a beautiful form for her serve, and is a good 5 inches taller than Serena . . . but still doesn't serve as hard as Serena. She missed about a year of tennis in her prime because she stepped on a broken glass. I'm no doctor, but out 10 months for stepping on some glass? That sounds ridiculous. Her head is gigantic, and she allegedly went into her panic room when the WTA drug tester came to her house.

Cmon sports fans. We've seen this 100 times. She's obviously on the juice, but nobody wants to be called sexist.
 
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ckwils2 said:
I honestly don't understand how the Serena steroid discussion isn't louder. We have heard this story over and over again, and all of those people turned out to be on steroids.

The Checklist:
More powerful than peers
Prime extended much longer than average
Injuries that linger much longer than they seem like they should
Bigger hat size
Weird reactions to steroid allegations

Serena's game is entirely power, but she doesn't have great form, and she is well past the normal prime for female tennis players . . . yet she magically hits harder than anyone else in the game. Watch her play Venus. Venus has a beautiful form for her serve, and is a good 5 inches taller than Serena . . . but still doesn't serve as hard as Serena. She missed about a year of tennis in her prime because she stepped on a broken glass. I'm no doctor, but out 10 months for stepping on some glass? That sounds ridiculous. Her head is gigantic, and she allegedly went into her panic room when the WTA drug tester came to her house.

Cmon sports fans. We've seen this 100 times. She's obviously on the juice, but nobody wants to be called sexist.
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Never really thought about it until you mentioned it, but Sorena's head is really huge. Like, big huge. And she is definitely a juicer. No lady-like qualities whatsoever. And what she did to that racket in the 2013 Australian Open looked like something I once saw a silverback gorilla do at the Bristol Zoo Gardens. And then there was her double foot fault in the '09 US Open, when her giant head and instincts took over, put her into a natural rage, and she turned on the lady, wielded her racket like a weapon, threatened her, told her she would kill her. Sorena is one mean b*tch.
 
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Who the hell is Sorena? Learn how to spell, Ayn Rand slurper.
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hybrid I gave to her for being "Sore" loser beeyatch. Figured anybody who had read a decent book in their life would have picked up on that. Still do.
 
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