Best sportsman to ever walk the Earth?

[T-Boon]

the reason why Slater isn't even top 50 is because very few people surf or care about surfing and those that do are usually drug addict slackers. Being the best surfer in the world is little more than impressive.

 

[reanimate]

the reason why Slater isn't even top 50 is because very few people surf or care about surfing and those that do are usually drug addict slackers. Being the best surfer in the world is little more than impressive.

 

[T-Boon]

Its got to be Bolt.
Winner of the 100m is the alpha.

 

[blue bags]

tom Brady, 7 super bowls

 

[Wizardman]

It is really just too hard to choose a person for that title. In most sports, it is hard enough to choose a GOAT for just one sport. In sports like cricket (Bradman) and NFL (Brady), it is pretty clear cut. Most other popular sports, it is very debatable

 

[kdalymc]

Mundine for sure

 

[gUt]

3. "Marvelous' Marvin Hagler

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-14/boxing-great-marvelous-marvin-hagler-dies/13246858

Marvelous Marvin Hagler, one of boxing's greatest champions, dies aged 66

 

[Parra]

Slater just won the pipeline comp again. 30 years since he first won. Just shy of his 50th birthday. Had to defeat the son of one of his earlier rivals.

 

[The Lounge Lizard]

1. Paul Carige

2. Steve Bradbury

3. Me

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Wally Lewis
Jonathan Thurston
Allan Langer

 

[blue bags]

What about the Aussie guy who won 21 world championship titles in a row

 

[blue bags]

And that Winter Olympics guy who has been to 7 or 8 consecutive Olympics

 

[Parra]

Reinhold Messner

 

[The_Frog]

Golf - Tiger Woods

If golf is a sport, so too is chess. I nominate Garry Kasparov.

 

[Parra]

If golf is a sport, so too is chess. I nominate Garry Kasparov.

If we want to go that route we could use Hemingway's quote.

'There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.'

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Reinhold Messner

Good call

 

[The Lounge Lizard]

I suppose Shane Warne has gone up a few levels.

 

[Mr Angry]

I still say Phelps. Freak of Nature. Usain Bolt HM.

Warney is not even close.

 

[Parra]

Good call

I'll double down on this one and add "it's not even close"

 

[The Lounge Lizard]

Gary Kasparov and Bobby Fischer.