fantasycurse42
Footballguy Jr.
Let's say you have four random teams, one from each sport... You take the toughest guy on each team and they fight the toughest guy from the other sport. Which sport would have the last man standing?
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Which Sport has the Toughest Athlete? (1 Viewer)
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sporthenry
Footballguy
Baseball loses. Hockey has tough players and fighters but I don't think they have extreme upper body strength and the fight wouldn't be on skates. I think it comes down to basketball/football. Basketball has reach and I don't see anyone taking Dwight or Shaq but football has some insane guys.
fantasycurse42
Footballguy Jr.
I'd actually like to put together a bracket for toughest athlete... I'd nominate:
Zach Randolph, Justin Smith, JJ Watt, Cousins, James Harrison, Suh to start.
Zach Randolph, Justin Smith, JJ Watt, Cousins, James Harrison, Suh to start.
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baymen
Footballguy
I voted basketball based on this picture I saw on the Rock's twitter. Shaq and Barkley make him look tiny.
http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/photos/2013/218/photo-the-rock/
http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/photos/2013/218/photo-the-rock/
East Coast Bias
Footballguy
sports_fan
Footballguy
I voted football but I actually think hockey is the better answer.
Jeff Vader
Footballguy
Not a fan at all, but hockey is the clear answer. Those guys destroy each other with wooden weapons at insane speeds.
The General
Footballguy
There are a few outliers but in general Hockey or Football guy would absolutely murder Baseball or Basketball guy.
sporthenry
Footballguy
What NHL player is going to knock out Dwight Howard? The best fighters in hockey are the tallest ones with the longest reaches. So while Chara is one of if no the best fighters, do you really think he beats Howard?
Ray Lewis is 6'1. JJ Watt is 6'5 with a 6.875' wing span compared to Dwight at 6'10 with a 7.3' wing span. Even if Dwight Howard is a #####, half the guys in the NFL would struggle to hit him in the face and he could just keep them at a distance.
Ray Lewis is 6'1. JJ Watt is 6'5 with a 6.875' wing span compared to Dwight at 6'10 with a 7.3' wing span. Even if Dwight Howard is a #####, half the guys in the NFL would struggle to hit him in the face and he could just keep them at a distance.
rockaction
Footballguy
Football, any day, any time. Hockey players play through incredible stuff, but football has the best physical specimens, IMO. I would never, ever cross an NFL guy.
fruity pebbles
Footballguy
The General
Footballguy
NBA players can't fight and don't get hit for a living. Hockey goon or football player would eliminate that reach advantage really quick.
fantasycurse42
Footballguy Jr.
fruity pebbles
Footballguy
lol at people saying the NBA player. NBA fights look like a couple girls going after each other.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
Is this a boxing match or mma?
If mma,
The baseball guys will drop out due to being on the DL with a hang nail
The NBA guys are all but dead but too dumb to know just how screwed they are, so they will at least fight
The hockey guys won't know when to quit and might be tough on the ground
The NFL guys have the size, strength and speed needed to win in MMA as many football players have a background in wrestling which is a core foundation of mma.
If mma,
The baseball guys will drop out due to being on the DL with a hang nail
The NBA guys are all but dead but too dumb to know just how screwed they are, so they will at least fight
The hockey guys won't know when to quit and might be tough on the ground
The NFL guys have the size, strength and speed needed to win in MMA as many football players have a background in wrestling which is a core foundation of mma.
pollardsvision
Footballguy
Basketball players aren't soft. They just have to act that way on the court because Stern didn't want to scare off white fans.
G
Guest
Guest
Tough call between hockey and football. Could have been a 2 sport poll. Voted hockey for the crazy factor, but football has had a few real life killers.
General Malaise
Footballguy
No Soccer option?
Josie Maran
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
timschochet
Footballguy
Not in the poll, but wrestlers in high school and college were the toughest guys I knew.
Jayrod
Footballguy
I'm not positive, but I don't think the Rock is taller than 6'1".
pats3in4
Footballguy
I suspect the best offensive lineman on each NFL team could beat the snot out of almost all comers. These guys take abuse from 300+ pound guys for a living and dish it right back; you don't get good at that without some kind of nasty streak within. They would toss NHLers around like rag dolls. Baseball players would get hospitalized. Maybe there are some NBA players that could give them a run for their money, but I doubt many.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
It doesn't matter how much size advantage you have if you can't fight. I've never seen an NBA player other than Barkley who can actually throw down at all, and he took Shaq onto the floor in about a tenth of a second.
Football.
Football.
pollardsvision
Footballguy
What football players have you seen that can really throw down?
People are ripping the on court/field fighting in basketball and baseball, but I don't recall seeing too many good fights in football. Seems any punch thrown is usually a shrimpy little WR/CB battle where tough guys take a few swings while wearing a helmet.
With football taking 45% of the vote here, you'd think you'd see football player fights with 2 tough guys taking off their helmet and going to fisticuffs with some regularity. With all those tough guys, you know. I'm not sure if I've ever seen it though. I know they'd get flagged immediately, but hey, if you're a tough guy, what do you care.
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BustedKnuckles
Footballguy
Define ''Tough''
pollardsvision
Footballguy
Yeah, I'll take a good college wrestling team in a bar fight over any professional sports team in another sport (assuming similar numbers).
Ditka Butkus
Footballguy
Hockey and it is not even close. I've seen football players carted off for arm injuries and I've also seen hockey players skate off with a severed juggler veins, bleeding like a stuck pig.
Basketball shouldn't even be an option, those guys are the biggest p***ies I've ever seen.
Basketball shouldn't even be an option, those guys are the biggest p***ies I've ever seen.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Punching isn't the only way to fight. Every single NFL player is capable of throwing a 275 lb. man to the ground violently. Including kickers.
A number of ex-NFL players have gone on to be MMA fighters and won multiple fights. Matt Mitrione beat internet sensation Kimbo Slice. I'm not aware of NBA players who have done the same.
The question seemed more like who would win a fight (last man standing). Hockey players are toughest, but not he biggest/strongest.
BustedKnuckles
Footballguy
NBA players fight like little girls....they shouldnt even be in this pole ...same goes for baseball ...id rather see Rugby or boxing/mma as options
Henry Ford
Footballguy
And I've seen football players carried to the pocket with a broken leg to take a snap and play QB. Or taking hits to the chest wearing kevlar for a fractured sternum. Or playing safety with casts on both hands. Or finishing a game and taking off a glove before realizing part of his finger was amputated inside the glove during the game.
Or Anquan Boldin holding on for a touchdown despite a hit that required plates in his skull and surgery to keep his CSF from leaking out.
TobiasFunke
Footballguy
Ice skating in a sweater for 45 seconds before you get too tired and have to go sit down for a while is pretty much the opposite of tough.
East Coast Bias
Footballguy
Shaq wouldn't fight Jose Canseco. Basketball is out. I've seen Canseco fight so baseball is out. I don't watch hockey anymore so they are out. That leaves football.
mr roboto
Footballguy
pollardsvision
Footballguy
True, though it might be that the NBA doesn't do as good a job as the NFL at leaving players broke, beat up, and desperate enough to try to their hand at MMA.
I'd probably vote football too, but basketball players aren't the ####### they are being made out to be in here.
Certainly though, the influx of all these euros from soccer cultures hasn't helped.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Yes, NFL players are so beat up that they go kick the #### out of professional fighters in professional fights. I see what you mean.
tom22406
Footballguy
4 votes for baseball players 
It would be very interesting to see how football and hockey players would do against each other in fights and I think it would be a lot closer than many think simply because some of the goons in hockey are some pretty big boys who can throw down and even some of the smaller guys have skills.Of course this is done on skates but I'm sure it translates well on solid ground.
Slight edge to football because of the size advantage but it would not shock me to see some of the NHL guys hand the NFL players a beating.
It would be very interesting to see how football and hockey players would do against each other in fights and I think it would be a lot closer than many think simply because some of the goons in hockey are some pretty big boys who can throw down and even some of the smaller guys have skills.Of course this is done on skates but I'm sure it translates well on solid ground.
Slight edge to football because of the size advantage but it would not shock me to see some of the NHL guys hand the NFL players a beating.
mr roboto
Footballguy
This is the right perspective.4 votes for baseball players
It would be very interesting to see how football and hockey players would do against each other in fights and I think it would be a lot closer than many think simply because some of the goons in hockey are some pretty big boys who can throw down and even some of the smaller guys have skills.Of course this is done on skates but I'm sure it translates well on solid ground.
Slight edge to football because of the size advantage but it would not shock me to see some of the NHL guys hand the NFL players a beating.
TobiasFunke
Footballguy
Fighting is a weird way to define of "tough" anyway, isn't it? It's a very specific skill set. And obviously the hockey players are gonna be the best fighters, because fighting is part of the sport, they do it all the time. Teams have guys who are on the team in part for that exact purpose. It's like asking which sport's players are the most athletic and then measuring it by who can perform the best dunks.
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