Flound said:
Well, I mostly did it for a joke, but it really is true.
22 Olympic medals (the most ever - 18 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze), a 37 time world record holder and a whack of golds at world championships versus a guy that won't fight a wrestler without a single Olympic medal.
I'll watch Silva before Phelps every day of the week and twice on Sundays. 'Cause I like MMA way more than I like competitive swimming and I think the Spider is the best fighter on the planet.
Phelps still gets my vote.
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Yeah but.....its swimming.
Reckin007 said:
Yeah but.....its swimming.
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Exactly my point.
Look at it this way, if you lose against someone noteworthy, in your league so to speak, you can still hold your head up high. But if you lose to the equivalent of an 8 year old flopping about a pool, it's way worse.
It's even more of an issue than that when you really get down to it.
You see, Phelps went head to head against his team-mates all the time.
Silva's response? "Quack, I'm a duck!"
Flound said:
Exactly my point.
Look at it this way, if you lose against someone noteworthy, in your league so to speak, you can still hold your head up high. But if you lose to the equivalent of an 8 year old flopping about a pool, it's way worse.
It's even more of an issue than that when you really get down to it.
You see, Phelps went head to head against his team-mates all the time.
Silva's response? "Quack, I'm a duck!"
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The comparisons you give of the two sports are unbalanced and quite frankly don't make sense/aren't relevant.
Originally posted by: C-Me-No-More Date: February 11, 2013 at 03:53 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/go-help-mma-to-get-regocnition.51684/
Reckin007 said:
Don't be silly....soccer isn't even a real sport. It's like an acting audition full of drama queens and pre-madonnas.
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than in that case either is baseball,
Knippz said:
The comparisons you give of the two sports are unbalanced and quite frankly don't make sense/aren't relevant.
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Really?
It's puzzling why you'd hold my piercing insights in such low esteem.
Flound said:
Well, I mostly did it for a joke, but it really is true.
22 Olympic medals (the most ever - 18 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze), a 37 time world record holder and a whack of golds at world championships versus a guy that won't fight a wrestler without a single Olympic medal.
I'll watch Silva before Phelps every day of the week and twice on Sundays. 'Cause I like MMA way more than I like competitive swimming and I think the Spider is the best fighter on the planet.
Phelps still gets my vote.
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Yea. As much as it would be awesome, Phelps just simply OWNED Olympic swimming. Doesn't matter what event Phelps is in, chances are, he will win.
Personally, Jordan takes this whole thing though.
Knippz said:
So piercing...
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Do you mean to say you found my characterizations to be gross exaggerations and/or bear little to no semblance to reality? That one could even go so far to say the remarks might be accurately described as caricatures of comments? Is that what you're saying?
Ya know, now that you mention it, I'm thinking you might be onto something.
Keep digging - let's see where this leads us....
Tgilb2007 said:
Yea. As much as it would be awesome, Phelps just simply OWNED Olympic swimming. Doesn't matter what event Phelps is in, chances are, he will win.
Personally, Jordan takes this whole thing though.
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There were a lot of good NBA players before Jordan. I agree he was amazing....but he didn't advance the game the way that Woods/Gretzky did. I'm not saying Jordan wasn't a one of a kind player, he was, but there was still other competition when Jordan was around. Woods/Gretzky completely owned/dominated their respective sports. Real sports that they dominated for a decade....not sports that come around once every four years.
This poll is to determine who the best athlete is, not who is the best at their sport. It is "based on a series of metrics including speed, strength, durability, reaction time and much more." I voted Bo Jackson with Carl Lewis a close 2nd.
GroveStud said:
This poll is to determine who the best athlete is, not who is the best at their sport. It is "based on a series of metrics including speed, strength, durability, reaction time and much more." I voted Bo Jackson with Carl Lewis a close 2nd.
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Those two also crossed my mind when I looked at the list.
GroveStud said:
This poll is to determine who the best athlete is, not who is the best at their sport. It is "based on a series of metrics including speed, strength, durability, reaction time and much more." I voted Bo Jackson with Carl Lewis a close 2nd.
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Yeah unfortunately Carl Lewis was hopped up on PEDs....so....yeah he's not that good.
