ESPN ranks Floyd Mayweather, Jr as the 17th best athlete of the last 20 years.

Hey, ESPN is a s full of sh** as all of us, they have their bias....same as us!


I can compile a list , and so do you.... It is all subjective....

Maybe , he is a 20 athlete or not maybe top 25 or 50 for me...i World suave the top 10 spots for multi-disciplinary athletes: the likes of :
Jim Thorpe
Bo Jackson
Dion Sanders
Jesse Owens
Ali
Pele
Michael Jordan
Carl Lewis
Jim Brown
Henry Armstrong
Jackie Joyner
Edwin Moses
Roberto Clemente,
I still have Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson, Sergey Budka, Lev Yashin,
William sisters, Martina Navratilova, Michatl Phelps, mark Spitz, Bill Russell, Alexander Karelin, Dan Gable, sugar Ray Robinson, SRL, Vaseley Alexeev, ....these guys dominated their sports facing the TOP COMPETITION.

Etc...before I ever get to PBF, now if you think you can possibly put PBF. Above any on this top of my head list, which I am still missing missing names ...you better have. Hell of a compelling argument... Hell I can name at least 10 more boxers before I get to PBF

 

The list that this thread is mentioning only factors what occurred from 1995-2015, my man!

 

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MVC is Scott gilfoid

 

I still don't considered him top 20....in boxing alone he is NOT in the top 20

 

I thought he be number 1. Floyd is the best runner

 

Didn't know so many people liked tennis

 

neither is golf

 

That list is awfull.

Mia Ham and no ronaldo or zidane.

Brady, Manning and Favre are you kidding me, the only thing they do is throw a ball they have almost zero athleticism, if you want to put someone from the NFL put someone like Adrien Petterson someone who's actually athletic. And how can you have three guys in the list from a sport that is only played in one Country???

Serena Williams and no Rafael Nadal are you kidding me? Put Serena against Rafa and she wouldnt win a set plus Nadal H2H owns Federer.

Tiger Woods FFS Golf isnt even a sport is a just a hobby for rich ppl and retired athletes to play when they are bored .

Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds two of the biggest cheaters in the history of the sport.

No Manny Pacquiao ????

One an two should be Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

They are the two best players in the last 20 years in the most popular and most played sport in the world anyone from a different sport comes a very distant second.

 

Probably already been said but....golf is?

I would massively disagree with this list BUT when you think about it, in every other sport, the best always faces the best, they're forced to because of the structure of the events. Boxing/MMA is the only one that allows you to pick and choose your opponents. Serena may have lost many games but shes played against her greatest rivals and beat every notable tennis player there is.

Same can't be said for boxing.

 

No he didn't. He never even reached the final of the French Open. He only won three clay tournaments in his career. He was nearly as mediocre on it as Andy Murray.

 

They phisically train as much or more than many boxers, and they risk more to be permanently injured or killed.

 

Does that make being in the army a sport?

 

Tiger has never refused to play against mickleson or mcillroy tho,Federer never refused to play nadal or Djokovic either

 

That list is a joke, lol.
Where is Phelps, the most awarded olympic athlete ever?
Where is Rossi, the strongest moto driver ever?
Where is Messi, the records shatterer in the world's most popular and played sport?
Where are Kelly Slater, Mariusz Pudzianoski, tons of other athletes?

Hell, even ole Roid Jones **** all over Mayweather in athleticity.