Anthony Joshua runs 100m in 11.5 second video. Most athletic heavyweight of all time.

Lol you underestimate the power of PEDs

 

He's surprised me twice now as in the Whyte fight and against Wlad he looked totally gassed and yet somehow he has the ability to switch off,maybe just goes on half power and he gets it's back.
That said I've long thought that Wilder has the better gas tank

 

Maybe because guys that big are playing other sports!?? Get some young elite athletic 6.6 guys from the nba and train them solely for the 100sprint for a few years and you will see multi ten second flat times.

ybe

 

That's not fast at all. I was running 11s in middle school

 

That's really fast.. Not just for AJ, if you know anything about sprinting 11.5 is fast regardless. For a heavyweight boxer it's quite insane.

 

Men have been running the 100 meters for a century and a half, from countries all over the world, most where basketball is an afterthought.. Everyone of them who has approached or broken 10 seconds is super elite, a freak of nautre. Yet, the average height for the athlete achieving this is around 5-11. There is a biomechanical reason for this. To pick Joshua to be the one to magically break this rule seems far fetched. To assume that multiple bballers could do just defies the stats on human acheivement. And there is a HUGE difference between 11.5 and 10.00. Hundreds of school kids every year go 11.5 or faster. A handful of super elite freaks break 10.00.

 

There are men who make the Olympic final who have never gone sub 10

 

not any more
sub 10 is now common and i would have to look it up but i would be more than 99% sure that the way the 100m now works with 3 semi finals first 2 going through and then 2 fatest others that all 8 100m finalists are now well into sub 10 times.

 

The OP doesnt know that Corrie Sanders ran 10 and change.

 

11.50 for a massive HW boxer who doesn't train for sprints is impressive. But for those people claiming he could go sub 10, let's put this into perspective... Andre Degrasse ran 10.90 in his very first competition with zero sprint training background, standing start (no blocks) and basketball shoes. He's now running just under 10 seconds. I seriously doubt AJ, especially at 6'6, could pull that off. Bolt's 6'5 height isn't a good arguing point since his height has been the major exception in elite level sprint history. I'd say AJ could max out at 10.50, which is high school level.

 

Long legs are the recipe for a successful sprinter

 

I bet that was hand timed not electronic, probably another legit 11.53 like AJ, I am always sceptical of hand timed times

Also if you haven't trained with blocks they probably make your times slower than standing start lol.

AJ might have been quicker standing start

DeGrasse went from 10.9 to winning a medal at the Olympics pretty impressive.

Who's to say AJ @ 220lbs couldn't have run a 10.2-10.3 its possible, but he would have had to become a fully professional sprinter.

 

Good point. I've never seen Wilder really gassed. I guess that's a bright point to an otherwise meh champion.

 

Asafa Powell is 6ft3
Ryan Bailey is 6ft4

There are some decently tall top level sprinters other than Bolt

 

Think your reading into it a little, there is alot of great 6foot five athletes on this planet who if thet chose to juice up and pursue a boring 100mtre sprint career over an nba or nfl career could run 10flat,,we live on a big planet with lots of talent out there.

The 4 minute mile had the same mistique as that 10second mark, now it gets broken quite frequently.
Joshua and many other athletic 6.6 freaks from other sports with the same roids and training as these olympian sprinters could def hit the ten second mark.
also these olympic champs