Most dominating athlete ever?

[Wes ManTooth]

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Bo Jackson. Play techmo bowl sometime and you'll see why.

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Easily the best video games sports athlete ever

...LT in this game is second.

[AgentBishop]

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Karelin, Edwin Moses, Secretariat, Sergei Bubka are good picks.

No one has mentioned Michael Johnson who lost like (and I'm not entirely sure of this) one 200m race and maybe one 400 in a decade, if you don't count jogging in second in a prelim. Also his 200m record is comparable to Secretariat's (Belmont?)

Paavo Nurmi (sp?), Emil Zatopek should be mentioned.

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Comparable but not above. He was very dominant in his events. But to say he dominated track and field would be stretching it a bit. None the less his performance in that 200m race was amazing!

[tolbiny]

Dan Gable

Born: Oct. 25, 1948
Wrestling

career wrestling record of 118-1 at Iowa St., where he was a 2-time NCAA champ (1968,69) and tourney MVP in 1969 (137 lbs); won gold medal (149 lbs) at 1972 Olympics; coached U.S. freestyle team in 1988; coached Iowa to 9 straight NCAA titles (1978-86) and 15 overall in 21 years

[slickpoppa]

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Aleksandr Karelin. Super-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler. 13 years or so, never had a point scored on him.

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This is a good answer

[contentless]

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I'm not a big Tyson fan, just anti-Lewis. I was merely probing as to what you thought of Lennox.

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Well, Lewis is the 2nd or 3rd best HW fighter since Holmes (Holyfield is the other). But that's not saying much.

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Heavyweight boxing has long ceased to be interesting.

In terms of boxing, Roy Jones Jr., for a period of time. Certainly not in the category of some non-boxing nominees though.

[jedi]

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Dan Gable

Born: Oct. 25, 1948
Wrestling

career wrestling record of 118-1 at Iowa St., where he was a 2-time NCAA champ (1968,69) and tourney MVP in 1969 (137 lbs); won gold medal (149 lbs) at 1972 Olympics; coached U.S. freestyle team in 1988; coached Iowa to 9 straight NCAA titles (1978-86) and 15 overall in 21 years

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During his gold medal run, he never surrendered a point, and outscored his opponents 130-1 in 21 Olympic qualifying + Olympic matches.

Even so, I'll conceded Karelin was the most dominating, more so than Cael Sanderson, more so than Gable.

[asofel]

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Dan Gable

Born: Oct. 25, 1948
Wrestling

career wrestling record of 118-1 at Iowa St., where he was a 2-time NCAA champ (1968,69) and tourney MVP in 1969 (137 lbs); won gold medal (149 lbs) at 1972 Olympics; coached U.S. freestyle team in 1988; coached Iowa to 9 straight NCAA titles (1978-86) and 15 overall in 21 years

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During his gold medal run, he never surrendered a point, and outscored his opponents 130-1 in 21 Olympic qualifying + Olympic matches.

Even so, I'll conceded Karelin was the most dominating, more so than Cael Sanderson, more so than Gable.

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yep.

13 years, no one scored a point. This is almost like throwing a no hitter for your whole career.

[Momo]

Rudy Ruettiger

[randomfish]

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Aleksandr Karelin.

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This is my choice as well. Google Karelin if you've never heard of him -- he pretty much defined the term 'dominate'.

Sergei Bubka probably deserves mention though.

[NorCalJosh]

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I'd have to say Ricky Carmichael. I know motocross isn't an entirely mainstream sport, but in terms of pure domination of a sport, I think he is untouched. Personally, I'm not even a great big fan of motocross, but I have a friend who is really into it and we just to the first event for this season (quite an exhibition in while trash I must say but it did have its share of hot women as well). Once again, Carmichael won both of the 2 motos by about a 45 second margin each. They only race for 1/2 hour + 2 laps each moto, so nobody is really in the same class as he is. Add in the fact that I think he has been Champion since 1997, first in the 125cc class and moving up to 250cc, during which in this stetch, he has had multiple perfect seasons, where he wins every moto of every event. I just find this kind of domination extremely impressive, regardless of the sport.

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i certainly wouldnt argue about his dominance of motocross, but that reminds me of when all the motocross commercials i would hear would be like "MCGRATH VS THE REST" in the big announcer voice. thats pretty impressive=)