[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
King of Kings wrote:
Tiger woods
That dude is just cold
If by “cold” you mean “pussy”…
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Get a clue.
[quote]PGA wrote:
Get a clue.[/quote]
I don’t respect your sport. Old farts play it. It’s no more intimidating than stamp collecting.
[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
PGA wrote:
Get a clue.
I don’t respect your sport. Old farts play it. It’s no more intimidating than stamp collecting.[/quote]
Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretsky said Tiger is the greatest athlete (not athletic) they have ever seen.
[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
PGA wrote:
Get a clue.
I don’t respect your sport. Old farts play it. It’s no more intimidating than stamp collecting.[/quote]
Wow I couldnt agree more. I worked at a golf course for a year. You just dont have to be an athelete to play. I mean we had a handicap cart for people who could not walk, one guy who used it shot a fucking 80. What sport can you be competitive and handicap?
Golf is not a sport its an activity, like arts and crafts or playstation.
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
I’m pretty sure the guy was joking. No one would seriously argue that Andre the Giant could hvae beaten Tyson in his prime.
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Imagine the most pissed off, raging, skilled, fast boxer you can think of. Now make him a 9 year old kid between 1/3 and 1/2 your weight. Think you could beat him? Sure he could outbox you, but I bet you could just cover up, ride him to the ground and squash the little fucker.
[quote]swivel wrote:
buster douglas didn’t seem too scared. not like those tigers anyway.[/quote]
This is true. Just a little while after I posted this question, I went to a buddy’s house, and he had just bought Tyson’s greatest fights on DVD.
I had never seen the Douglas/Tyson fight in its entirety, but even if Douglas didn’t knock out Tyson, I think he would have won on points anyways.
People will say he isn’t an athlete because he races cars but Michael Schumacher has my vote along with Tiger Woods.
[quote]Rex30 wrote:
CaliforniaLaw wrote:
I’m pretty sure the guy was joking. No one would seriously argue that Andre the Giant could hvae beaten Tyson in his prime.
Imagine the most pissed off, raging, skilled, fast boxer you can think of. Now make him a 9 year old kid between 1/3 and 1/2 your weight. Think you could beat him? Sure he could outbox you, but I bet you could just cover up, ride him to the ground and squash the little fucker.
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Your comparison doesn’t work because a nine year old doesn’t have knockout power.
man…i’m surprised this thread isn’t respecting the hardball. no one would feel a bit flustered looking at roger clemens on the mound 60 ft away ? nolan ryan ? 6’10" randy johnson on a mound about to throw 95 under your chin ?
[quote]blok wrote:
Nominal Prospect wrote:
PGA wrote:
Get a clue.
I don’t respect your sport. Old farts play it. It’s no more intimidating than stamp collecting.
Wow I couldnt agree more. I worked at a golf course for a year. You just dont have to be an athelete to play. I mean we had a handicap cart for people who could not walk, one guy who used it shot a fucking 80. What sport can you be competitive and handicap?
Golf is not a sport its an activity, like arts and crafts or playstation.[/quote]
This “activity” has produced most well known athlete on the planet. Ruminate on that one for a while…
[quote]Rex30 wrote:
Imagine the most pissed off, raging, skilled, fast boxer you can think of. Now make him a 9 year old kid between 1/3 and 1/2 your weight. Think you could beat him? Sure he could outbox you, but I bet you could just cover up, ride him to the ground and squash the little fucker.[/quote]
LOL. So your analogy is that Mike Tyson in his prime = 9 year old boy.
You don’t get accused of being the smartest guy in the room too often, I imagine.
LT!
The dude averaged two injured players per season. Thats insane! He punished people, the first linebacker to really get after the QB and make him pay.
Sonny Liston in his prime. Sonny Liston was Mike Tyson before Tyson ever existed. Complete hardass in the ring, fucked up personal life, hyped up as completely unstoppable by the media. Then he met his Buster Douglas in the form of Cassius Clay and it all went downhill.
Marvin Hagler. As George Foreman put it, Hagler looked like a “double hard bastard.” 160 pounds of punishment. Hagler-Hearns was the most hard core 9 minutes of sports I’ve ever seen.
I once asked an offensive lineman who started for the Browns in the 80’s early 90’s who the most intimidating guy he ever lined up across from was, and he said Lyle Alzado. He said every single O-lineman in the NFL was secretly scared shitless of Alzado. LT was a pussycat compared to the dirty stuff that Alzado would pull during games he said.
Alexander Karelin. 3 Olympic Gold’s, a silver, and almost 12 years of international competition without a point being scored on him. Every wrestler out there was scared of being a victim of the “Karelin lift”.
[quote]KO421 wrote:
Fedor[/quote]
Fedor has that ice cold intimidation that is just downright creepy. Everytime I watch his first fight with Noguiera I’m mesmerized at how shocked everyone in the arena is at this unheralded fighter completely destroying the champion. The Japanese TV commentator was literally in silent tears at the horrific damage that Fedor was dishing out.
My vote goes to Willie Mason.
Chuck Norris
Christ, I cant believe I conformed to that lame joke.
[quote]PGA wrote:
blok wrote:
Nominal Prospect wrote:
PGA wrote:
Get a clue.
I don’t respect your sport. Old farts play it. It’s no more intimidating than stamp collecting.
Wow I couldnt agree more. I worked at a golf course for a year. You just dont have to be an athelete to play. I mean we had a handicap cart for people who could not walk, one guy who used it shot a fucking 80. What sport can you be competitive and handicap?
Golf is not a sport its an activity, like arts and crafts or playstation.
This “activity” has produced most well known athlete on the planet. Ruminate on that one for a while…[/quote]
A lot of people know who some random actor is. That doesn’t make them an athlete. However, I’m disagreeing with your point. I think golf is a sport too.
I think golfers are athletes just like NASCAR drivers are. It’s rediculous that all these arm chair heroes don’t actually play a sport.
The Williams sisters were quite intimidating at one point also. They seem more human now than they did before. It seemed they couldn’t lose, and were just like machines.
“This young man has had a very trying rookie season, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country’s refusal to accept him, I guess that’s more than most 21-year-olds can handle. Number six, Ogie Oglethorpe”
PGA is right about Tiger, but not because he’s the best known athlete in the world. It’s because top competitors are simply unable to go into competition with him expecting to win. He’s in their heads before the first tee. They can’t play their best against him. That’s intimidation. Psychological intimidation, sure. Not physical, like a Tyson. But real, nontheless.
[quote]Skuebb wrote:
PGA is right about Tiger, but not because he’s the best known athlete in the world. It’s because top competitors are simply unable to go into competition with him expecting to win. He’s in their heads before the first tee. They can’t play their best against him. That’s intimidation. Psychological intimidation, sure. Not physical, like a Tyson. But real, nontheless.[/quote]
Tyson’s intimidation was also psychological. Guys went into the ring expecting to lose. They were scared It just took Buster Douglas with a game plan and some balls to show that Tyson was just another pro-boxer.
Obviously his personal life was interfering with this professional at that time, but even in his prime Tyson would have been exposed sooner or later.
[quote]PGA wrote:
This “activity” has produced most well known athlete on the planet. Ruminate on that one for a while…[/quote]
You mean…Pel?? I would highly doubt that many people outside the US know or care who Tiger Woods is.
[quote]blok wrote:
Golf is not a sport its an activity, like arts and crafts or playstation.[/quote]
My thoughts exactly. It’s an outdoors pastime.