So I was watching an episode of the I AM ATHLETE show from several months ago, and we haven’t had a thread title on this topic, greatest ATHLETE of all time. Only criteria is all sports, you can also give your goat from men’s or women’s if you want, but who is number one overall in your books? 2 names stick out to me, Lebron James and Bo Jackson. My personal criteria has less to do with winning and more to do with who do I think could be the greatest high level athlete at any sport.
Now the reason it was interesting or inspired me creating the thread was that they had a woman on there who claims Serena is the greatest athlete, man or woman, ever. Her argument was the 23 individual grand slam titles. I’m not a huge tennis fan but I know Roger (20) Rafa (19) and Jokr (17) all had or have had extended prime careers compared to the norm. Personally, I think tennis is underrated as a sport from an athletic stand point, and Rafa is the goat IMO of tennis, but I wouldn’t have a tennis player in my top 10 of all time athletes.
Now the reason it was interesting or inspired me creating the thread was that they had a woman on there who claims Serena is the greatest athlete, man or woman, ever. Her argument was the 23 individual grand slam titles. I’m not a huge tennis fan but I know Roger (20) Rafa (19) and Jokr (17) all had or have had extended prime careers compared to the norm. Personally, I think tennis is underrated as a sport from an athletic stand point, and Rafa is the goat IMO of tennis, but I wouldn’t have a tennis player in my top 10 of all time athletes.
