Based off their rule set, Usain Bolt is the greatest sportsman in human history. The triple triple, world record and length of time he held the title make his achievements even greater
@@WishMount Noah Lyles very well could end up breaking bolt’s record. He also has gold in 2019 4x100, 2022 200m (nr), 2023 100m, 200m, and 4x100 (first since bolt 2025), and 2024 100m & 200m
Usain Bolt, every athlete has ran or attempted to not everyone can swim, throw a ball or kick a ball, skate or drive or throw a punch. But everyone has ran.
Very Niche but Toni Bou is heading towards his 40th world title within Motorcycle trials, if he keeps going by either next year or 2027 he will have won 20 indoor and 20 outdoor world championships CONSECUTIVELY! I genuinely think that’s the greatest world champion level achievement in any sport (maybe there is another even more niche sport idk about)
Not a popular sport, but Jahangir Khan's 555-match consecutive winning streak is the longest in any sport-pure domination. He won 10 British Opens, six World Championships, and redefined squash with unmatched skill, endurance, and mental toughness. No one has ever owned their sport like he did.
The reason he signed a 10 year contract is to protect his value against form, injuries etc. he’s getting paid for 10 years even if he gets a career ending injury tomorrow.
IM PRETTY SURE THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS, cause if his career ends next months , 1 million % city terminates.his contract, why tf would they pay him for the next 9 years to do nothing
@@mregg771this is false. Depends on the contract, but you cant just “terminate” the contract and just end payments lol. If its a guaranteed contract, the player could have a career ending injury but will continue to get paid unless both parties agree to settlements or something else
@Zhangjiajie425 bro Neymar and his club parted ways, same way these 2 would have, im not saying they will kick him out but he 100% wont be getting paid for 9 years if he breaks his leg in 2 next match
1:32 Man Utd. gambled on Alexis Sánchez. A free agent at the time, who got a huge contract. But he completly fell down the drain in onfield results. And Man utd. could not get rid of him. As long as he held up his part of the contract off the field they had to pay him. The same could happen with Haaland, thats the gamble..
Man United could at least ship Sanchez to another club when he didn't work out for the Red Devils When you think of Emiliano Sala's case: Nantes sold him for the club record fee, he would also be an all-time most expensive signing for Cardiff City FC, and Cardiff desperately needed him to strengthen their squad to stave off relegation in 2018-19 season Unfortunately, Sala died in the plane crash when flying from Nantes to Cardiff, thus never playing for the Welsh club. And it was a terrible tragedy for the football world as a whole But after that, the real shitshow started. Cardiff argued that they shouldn't pay for Sala's transfer, since they never got the player. Nantes tried to get the money that was contractually obligated, which led to hearings in CAS, investigations into the pilot's license and credentials, possible malpractice in choosing the pilot who wasn't certified to fly the plane with passengers onboard, all that jazz
nope, ovechkins about to beat his all time scoring record 😂 donald bradman cricket - 2-10 best cricket players ever had a batting average of 57-60 while bradman has a 99.95 average 😂😂
Usain Bolt, since he broke the world record and is the undisputed best with his own sports. (And I guess any other athletes that have achieved the same in their respective sport)
i was gonna comment as soon as i heard the hamilton shout, but luckily you guys share the same opinion as me. Never pick a sports person that gets his/her wins based on being in a team stacked with great players or using a tool or a vehicle superior to his/her peers. Hamilton got 6 of his 7 titles driving the fastest car on the grid, Messi and Ronaldo have won 90% of their achievements with billion dollar transfer value teams. Cant be lance armstrong either because of doping (although it is said almost all ofem use it, its not ALL of them.
Thats silly to say. Hamilton still had to beat his teammates. Rosberg was a very good driver. He also pretty fierce competition from Vettel in Ferrari. He has also done very well against his teammates Even when he didnt win the title. 2007 was very impressive f.ex.
@@101notfound17He has faced the 2 greatest players of the sports (by a long shot) all of his career and came out on top on every meaningful statistic. That is definitely more impressive than living in an era without any competition.
@@querry999 it’s 31-29 in nadal vs djokovic it’s not like he ‘s dominating here by a long shot that’s what I literally said and it’s not fair to compare him and federer since federer is way older and had his prime before djokovic
This is such a weird debate because is it the person who dominated the most in their sport or is it the most Athletic because surely then its a basketball player Speed strength Explosiveness stamina.
Think the boys make a valid point about the best sportsman of all time having to be someone who plays/played an individual sport. Heck, even Pele couldn't help the current Manchester United team, and I doubt the New York Jets would have won a superbowl even if they had Tom Brady!
Personally I think it starts becoming difficult once you try comparing athletes from different sports.. as a whole though. However, if a decision had to be made. Michael phelps, is BY FAR the best/ most dominant athlete we have EVER seen. My list would be this tho 1. Michael Jordan 2. Muhammad Ali 3. Usain Bolt 4. Tiger woods 5. Michael phelps
As an Athlete Lebron is more impressive than Jordan. for me Jordan is a better basketball player. but when describing someone as athletic your usually describing speed power explosiveness.
One of them mentioned Tom Brady. No. He's the GOAT quarterback, not the GOAT NFL player. The positions are SO different, it shouldn't even be a debate.
QB is the hardest position by far though so yes, Brady is the goat of the NFL. He has the stats and the accolades to back it up too, no one is close to him in the NFL EVER
The answe is Ali... Nobody is spoken about the way he is STILL. He didn't take nobody fights, he did it with worse trainers, gloves etc. It's Ali and it isn't close.
Michael Jordan. The Chicago Bulls have been terrible for their entire franchise history apart from the decade that he was there (on and off). Won 6 NBA titles. Three before he retired and three afterwards. No Bulls titles in the intervening years despite the rest of that team still being there.
As someone who watches f1, soccer, American football, hockey, baseball, and basketball, idfk. But, if I had to pick someone right now, I’d probably say Wayne Gretzky or MJ. No one dominated their individual sport like they did, and their legacy means a lot too. If I had to pick one, it would probably be Gretzky…
@ soccer was the original name for it, and was popularized by the English. The two names were used interchangeably until the term football started to take over in the 1980s
@ gridiron was a term used, but football has always been the predominant. Most people falsely believe it’s called football because you kick a ball with your foot, however the original term was used to describe a game played on your feet. Rugby was the first football game, and from it came soccer, American football, Australian football, and probably more that I don’t know off the top of my head. The term soccer was used to differentiate between the game we know today and rugby, which were both called foot ball. Fast forward and soccer has far outgrown its original sport, rugby (or foot ball), so everyone just started calling it football. Well, everyone except the US, AUS, and some other countries. Because while soccer outgrew rugby, Australian football and American football were still their respective countries biggest versions of the game, so they kept the term soccer and use “football” to describe their version of the original “foot ball” game, rugby.
@@SHyaway64 cool story but my point still stands. Just because it used to be called soccer, don’t mean it’s the correct name for it now much like gridiron isn’t
That's not how it works, to be the greatest athlete you have to have the accolades too , ronaldo has not even won the biggest accolade possible in football that is the world Cup. In football it's either messi Or pele there is no other.
Lebron, he is the greatest athlete bc he could legitimately play any sport with his mentality and talent and athleticism. The mf is 40 and still dominating
@@GRFreeman1 Jordan is my goat and to me he is a more dominant player, no one was able to slow Jordan down. People have been able to slow down LeBron. Jordan is 6-6 in the finals and in between his two 3 peats decided to go play professional baseball.
@@Mattpack1233Yeah I’ve heard all the arguments before but doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a massive debate in Basetball fans. Therefore if basketball fans can’t decide who their GOAT is then Jordan can’t be a GOAT athlete over all sports.
@@GRFreeman1 good thing my list doesn’t include the opinions of all basketball fans. I see your point, but all of these are subjective no matter what. I also listed Messi but not Ronaldo or pele but each of them can be considered the goat
basically all wrong except maybe phelps and messi 😂😂 djokovic > nadal federer brady > montana jordan is too close to lebron to consider him theres better boxers than ali and jackie robinson isnt even top 10 of all time 😂
its pretty easily just not messi thats just completely wrong mate 😂😂😂im a huge messi fan and said he was already the GOAT in 2012 but based off stats across every sport its not him, sir donald bradman is are the biggest statistical outlier in sports history - at least of the biggest sports the 2-10 best cricket players ever had a batting average of 57-60 - bradman had an average of 99.95 😂
LeBron can’t even clean Ronaldo’s and Messi’s shoes mate. Bron is only big in America. Being the best in the biggest sport >>>> being the best in basketball
Based off their rule set, Usain Bolt is the greatest sportsman in human history. The triple triple, world record and length of time he held the title make his achievements even greater
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@@WishMount Noah Lyles very well could end up breaking bolt’s record. He also has gold in 2019 4x100, 2022 200m (nr), 2023 100m, 200m, and 4x100 (first since bolt 2025), and 2024 100m & 200m
@@SHyaway64delusional Americans always crack me up
Phelps and his Olympic haul would like a chat 😂
Usain Bolt, every athlete has ran or attempted to not everyone can swim, throw a ball or kick a ball, skate or drive or throw a punch. But everyone has ran.
Very Niche but Toni Bou is heading towards his 40th world title within Motorcycle trials, if he keeps going by either next year or 2027 he will have won 20 indoor and 20 outdoor world championships CONSECUTIVELY! I genuinely think that’s the greatest world champion level achievement in any sport (maybe there is another even more niche sport idk about)
Kind of niche too, but Cael Sanderson’s one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. 4 time national champ, he never lost a match
The Indian submarine will always be my goat
Its Donald Bradman, such a statistical anomaly in cricket its not even close.
He played his last test in 1948 mate i am pretty sure you can’t name 1 world class bowler in his era
easily correct
@@varunchandracherukuri962 ok so why wasnt every other batsmen averaging stupidly high runs regard 😂😂
@@adam-z9e2j because he was best among that worst lot
@adam-z9e2j Athletes didn't train or try as hard back then
Not a popular sport, but Jahangir Khan's 555-match consecutive winning streak is the longest in any sport-pure domination. He won 10 British Opens, six World Championships, and redefined squash with unmatched skill, endurance, and mental toughness. No one has ever owned their sport like he did.
Wayne Gretzky was unreal in the NHL, you can take away all his goals in his career and hr would still have the most all time points in the league
Djokovic and Messi for me
The reason he signed a 10 year contract is to protect his value against form, injuries etc. he’s getting paid for 10 years even if he gets a career ending injury tomorrow.
IM PRETTY SURE THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS, cause if his career ends next months , 1 million % city terminates.his contract, why tf would they pay him for the next 9 years to do nothing
@@mregg771this is false. Depends on the contract, but you cant just “terminate” the contract and just end payments lol. If its a guaranteed contract, the player could have a career ending injury but will continue to get paid unless both parties agree to settlements or something else
@Zhangjiajie425 bro Neymar and his club parted ways, same way these 2 would have, im not saying they will kick him out but he 100% wont be getting paid for 9 years if he breaks his leg in 2 next match
Phelps that Olympic haul of medals and doing it stoned 😂
Don Bradman from Cricket. 2nd biggest sport in the world and the guy's stats is like double of what everyone else has had comparably.
1:32 Man Utd. gambled on Alexis Sánchez. A free agent at the time, who got a huge contract. But he completly fell down the drain in onfield results. And Man utd. could not get rid of him. As long as he held up his part of the contract off the field they had to pay him.
The same could happen with Haaland, thats the gamble..
Man United could at least ship Sanchez to another club when he didn't work out for the Red Devils
When you think of Emiliano Sala's case: Nantes sold him for the club record fee, he would also be an all-time most expensive signing for Cardiff City FC, and Cardiff desperately needed him to strengthen their squad to stave off relegation in 2018-19 season
Unfortunately, Sala died in the plane crash when flying from Nantes to Cardiff, thus never playing for the Welsh club. And it was a terrible tragedy for the football world as a whole
But after that, the real shitshow started. Cardiff argued that they shouldn't pay for Sala's transfer, since they never got the player. Nantes tried to get the money that was contractually obligated, which led to hearings in CAS, investigations into the pilot's license and credentials, possible malpractice in choosing the pilot who wasn't certified to fly the plane with passengers onboard, all that jazz
Wayne Gretzky - Hockey
nope, ovechkins about to beat his all time scoring record 😂
donald bradman cricket - 2-10 best cricket players ever had a batting average of 57-60 while bradman has a 99.95 average 😂😂
@@adam-z9e2j And yet if you take all of Gretzkys goals away he still has a far higher point total
When you're discussing about the topic of "Greatest athlete of all time" not mentioning"Mohammed Ali" is a crime.
He’s not even the greatest boxer. Influence and legacy sure, but at the sport itself, no way.
What ? @@awesome619ification
If yall research Wayne Gretzky and his accomplishments and how he dominated the NHL, there really shouldnt be a debate
Cycling men: Eddy Merckx
Cycling women: Marianne Vos
I genuinly believe Marianne Vos is the greatest female athlete of all time.
Usain Bolt, since he broke the world record and is the undisputed best with his own sports. (And I guess any other athletes that have achieved the same in their respective sport)
i was gonna comment as soon as i heard the hamilton shout, but luckily you guys share the same opinion as me.
Never pick a sports person that gets his/her wins based on being in a team stacked with great players or using a tool or a vehicle superior to his/her peers.
Hamilton got 6 of his 7 titles driving the fastest car on the grid, Messi and Ronaldo have won 90% of their achievements with billion dollar transfer value teams.
Cant be lance armstrong either because of doping (although it is said almost all ofem use it, its not ALL of them.
Thats silly to say. Hamilton still had to beat his teammates. Rosberg was a very good driver. He also pretty fierce competition from Vettel in Ferrari. He has also done very well against his teammates Even when he didnt win the title. 2007 was very impressive f.ex.
Bolt 🇯🇲
Djokovic no? Has won everything there is to win in singles tennis
He wasn’t that dominant in his sport he has now become the best for sure but at times nadal and federer were better than him
@@101notfound17He has faced the 2 greatest players of the sports (by a long shot) all of his career and came out on top on every meaningful statistic. That is definitely more impressive than living in an era without any competition.
@@101notfound17 head 2 head of the big three says a different story though
@@querry999 it’s 31-29 in nadal vs djokovic it’s not like he ‘s dominating here by a long shot that’s what I literally said and it’s not fair to compare him and federer since federer is way older and had his prime before djokovic
Best Athlete but not Tennis player
This is such a weird debate because is it the person who dominated the most in their sport or is it the most Athletic because surely then its a basketball player Speed strength Explosiveness stamina.
Think the boys make a valid point about the best sportsman of all time having to be someone who plays/played an individual sport. Heck, even Pele couldn't help the current Manchester United team, and I doubt the New York Jets would have won a superbowl even if they had Tom Brady!
Also, Hamilton got sat into those cars, while Schumi helped to build the winning Ferrari from a shitbox
If you look at the numbers - Richie McCaw💪🏼
Ronnie O'Sullivan, don't watch snooker. But wasn't he unstoppable
Wayne Gretzky "The Great One"
Messi is the GOAT
Personally I think it starts becoming difficult once you try comparing athletes from different sports.. as a whole though. However, if a decision had to be made. Michael phelps, is BY FAR the best/ most dominant athlete we have EVER seen. My list would be this tho
1. Michael Jordan
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Usain Bolt
4. Tiger woods
5. Michael phelps
As an Athlete Lebron is more impressive than Jordan. for me Jordan is a better basketball player. but when describing someone as athletic your usually describing speed power explosiveness.
random comment but i loved simons trousers
I'mean this is typical british behaviour towards Hamilton 😅
Vik is right, Phelps sounds count because he has genetics give him an unfair advantage
The answer is tiger woods transcended the game of golf forever
michael jordan
One of them mentioned Tom Brady. No. He's the GOAT quarterback, not the GOAT NFL player. The positions are SO different, it shouldn't even be a debate.
QB is the hardest position by far though so yes, Brady is the goat of the NFL. He has the stats and the accolades to back it up too, no one is close to him in the NFL EVER
@@grjmassacre4886 It just simply isn't the hardest position. At all. If it was, they'd have much shorter careers than 20 years.
You do wonder... Have these people ever watched any sports
Tiger woods. Simple.
can simon stop doing this faux hawk with his hair
The answe is Ali... Nobody is spoken about the way he is STILL. He didn't take nobody fights, he did it with worse trainers, gloves etc. It's Ali and it isn't close.
Indian would still say sachin lol
Based on pure numbers alone it’s gotta be Genghis Khan
Usain Bolt or Lewis Hamilton or Ronaldo
Michael Jordan.
The Chicago Bulls have been terrible for their entire franchise history apart from the decade that he was there (on and off). Won 6 NBA titles. Three before he retired and three afterwards. No Bulls titles in the intervening years despite the rest of that team still being there.
I don’t follow the nba but I know enough of it to say Michael Jordan is the GOAT not LeBron.
hamilton doesn't make the top 25 unfortunately
Definitely a Lance stroll fan
Thats cap
Got to be Tiger Woods
It’s Messi. Simple as
No. Watch something other than football.
@@studywithtaz don’t need to
@@studywithtazah yes the biggest sport in the world with 6 billion viewers but not enough for you
@@dragonflame99k34 Just because its the most popular does not make Messi the greatest.
@ oh yea sorry tennis is better
As someone who watches f1, soccer, American football, hockey, baseball, and basketball, idfk. But, if I had to pick someone right now, I’d probably say Wayne Gretzky or MJ. No one dominated their individual sport like they did, and their legacy means a lot too. If I had to pick one, it would probably be Gretzky…
Calling it soccer disqualifies you
@ soccer was the original name for it, and was popularized by the English. The two names were used interchangeably until the term football started to take over in the 1980s
And American football was originally called ‘gridiron’. Should we all call it that now then?
@ gridiron was a term used, but football has always been the predominant. Most people falsely believe it’s called football because you kick a ball with your foot, however the original term was used to describe a game played on your feet. Rugby was the first football game, and from it came soccer, American football,
Australian football, and probably more that I don’t know off the top of my head. The term soccer was used to differentiate between the game we know today and rugby, which were both called foot ball. Fast forward and soccer has far outgrown its original sport, rugby (or foot ball), so everyone just started calling it football. Well, everyone except the US, AUS, and some other countries. Because while soccer outgrew rugby, Australian football and American football were still their respective countries biggest versions of the game, so they kept the term soccer and use “football” to describe their version of the original “foot ball” game, rugby.
@@SHyaway64 cool story but my point still stands. Just because it used to be called soccer, don’t mean it’s the correct name for it now much like gridiron isn’t
there is no way its not ronaldo. even though hes not the best footballer i think hes the best athlete
That's not how it works, to be the greatest athlete you have to have the accolades too , ronaldo has not even won the biggest accolade possible in football that is the world Cup. In football it's either messi Or pele there is no other.
Lebron, he is the greatest athlete bc he could legitimately play any sport with his mentality and talent and athleticism. The mf is 40 and still dominating
He’s not even the greatest athlete in his sport
@@ZicoTheDonhe is
You yanks will forever be crazy
He couldn’t score an open goal 😂
Phelps, Gretzky, and Jordan are the top 3 not in order. Can also throw Messi, Usain Bolt, and someone like Federer in there
Jordan vs Lebron is a huge debate in basketball so you can’t have Jordan there as he’s not even considered by a lot the best in his sport
@@GRFreeman1 Jordan is my goat and to me he is a more dominant player, no one was able to slow Jordan down. People have been able to slow down LeBron. Jordan is 6-6 in the finals and in between his two 3 peats decided to go play professional baseball.
@@Mattpack1233Yeah I’ve heard all the arguments before but doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a massive debate in Basetball fans. Therefore if basketball fans can’t decide who their GOAT is then Jordan can’t be a GOAT athlete over all sports.
@@GRFreeman1 good thing my list doesn’t include the opinions of all basketball fans. I see your point, but all of these are subjective no matter what. I also listed Messi but not Ronaldo or pele but each of them can be considered the goat
@@GRFreeman1Jordan vs LeBron is like Messi vs Ronaldo, those who have a brain and know and watch the sport know who the better player is.
Usain Bolt and Tom Brady don’t @ me
It’s Bo Jackson….
Good shout, Jim Thorpe up there too
The don no questioned asked
Cristiano Ronaldo. Period!
Vik saying you can’t win f1 without the best car even tho max won the championship last season with the 4th best car 😂
Nadal
Tiger Woods
Messi.
Its messi, Jordan, Phelps, Nadal or Federer, Ali, Bolt, Joe Montana, Jackie Robinson
basically all wrong except maybe phelps and messi 😂😂
djokovic > nadal federer
brady > montana
jordan is too close to lebron to consider him
theres better boxers than ali and jackie robinson isnt even top 10 of all time 😂
Federer
deluded this people f1 fan
usain bolt ????
Djokovic
It’s Ronaldo, Jordan, Brady, messi
Mess is the goat but he's not the best athlete, he's short
@ he’s 4th on my list Ronaldo’s first
ronaldos not even top 10 😂😂
Best and most popular sport = Football
Best footballer = Messi
Simple
You know full well if Hamilton wasnt British (and his career was the exact same) these lot arent gonna mention him
bro is statistically the greatest driver of all time, he is in consideration for one of the greatest
That's like saying the Turkish consider arda guler to be the best but if he wasn't Turkish they wouldn't give a shit
nah
It’s pretty easily Messi. A level of statistical anomaly that’ll never be seen again in any sport for many decades to come.
its pretty easily just not messi thats just completely wrong mate 😂😂😂im a huge messi fan and said he was already the GOAT in 2012 but based off stats across every sport its not him, sir donald bradman is are the biggest statistical outlier in sports history - at least of the biggest sports
the 2-10 best cricket players ever had a batting average of 57-60 - bradman had an average of 99.95 😂
@ true he’s up there too, forgot about him
Messi, just Messi.
hows it messi? its pretty clearly bolt or sir donald bradman
no team sports you muppet
Easily LeBron James
why is Vik talkin bout sports...
me
no
vouch
Virat kohli
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
All those “individual” sports they mentioned have coaches so it’s not really individual
It's Alex Honnold no questions asked - climbed El Capitan without any protection, never been done and will never be done again
Has to be Usain Bolt in my opinion
👍👍👍👍
still first
first
LeBron clears everyone else but you UK people don’t get it
LeBron can’t even clean Ronaldo’s and Messi’s shoes mate. Bron is only big in America. Being the best in the biggest sport >>>> being the best in basketball
@@ElDragow lebron is better at basketball than ronaldo is at soccer, i dont even watch either sport
@Z4NKA1ronaldo could compete in sprinting and hurdles. Lebron can’t do anything outside of basketball buddy
Are you rage baiting
Fakest rage bait I've ever seen
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Hamilton ❤
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