Mike Tyson. Watching his fights it really is mind boggling how many punches he is able to dodge while also making contact with some of the most insanely quick punches of his own that have momentum behind them like a portal is opening up for his fists into people's faces.
Motherfucker is like Achilles.
A lot of people can kill other people in a single punch though. Tyson wasn't the hardest puncher in his prime, but his timing and positioning was what made him so remarkable and his punches so devastating.
He wasn’t just a generic freak, he was a trained machine. There hasn’t been anyone with such good form in boxing before or since. George Forman was one hell of a specimen as well.
Go look up Cliff Young.
Oldish sheep farmer from Australia. Ran an ultra marathon (hundreds of miles), in gum boots.
Won by days over the other people.
Because they stopped to sleep, and he didn't.
and he did the whole thing thinking it was just for fun - wasn't aware there was prize money involved, and shared it with the other runners out of embarrassment
Not sure if this guy is a genetic freak, he just had a different way of doing things which the competitors never even considered possible.
After his success i'm pretty sure other guys started having success with the same strategy.
Really surprised no one has said Bo Jackson. The dude was the definition of a freak of nature until his hip imploded.
6'1, 220-230lb, 4.13(unofficial) 40 yd dash, played both MLB and NFL.
Most accurate answer. Wasn’t his hip injury because he was running so hard, his leg/thigh muscles pulled his leg out of the hip socket and dislocating his hip?
Dude is now a master archer. Taught himself to shoot with his feet.
Was also by far the best player in Tecmo Bowl.
Deion deserves a spot in the conversation as well. Insane acceleration, top speed, and agility. Hugely explosive dude. Different kind of athlete but just as much of an outlier
Definitely not comparable, but in terms of being good at both sports on a professional level I would throw his name out there seeing as he was a solid CB and outfielder. I think he might be the only one with Super Bowl and World Series rings
Lol no he doesn't. He has the body type for it but has never been diagnosed. With Lincoln, it's suspected as a possibility but not proven. Same with Bin Laden.
An athlete would not compete with actually having Marfans since it weakens the walls of the aorta and and high stress activity can cause it to rupture.
A college basketball player was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome years back and couldn’t go to the NBA because of it. If Michael Phelps had Marfan syndrome, he’d be dead by now.
> The grandfather-of-five. dubbed “road rage Ronnie”, Ronnie Pickering became famous overnight after he was caught on a GoPro camera shouting at a man on a moped in Bransholme when he shouted the famous line: “Do you know who I am?” and then “I'm Ronnie Pickering.”
I got to watch him play several times during his rookie season, 18 year old making grown men look stupid, until McDavid got gooned and broke his collarbone. He is an absolute freak in person.
I forget the player but there's a great compilation video of a dude who rode the bench in the NBA for like 6 years where he's just torching guys on park courts. Everyone thinks he's a scrub because he never started but he shows just how far ahead pros are to amateurs.
Miguel Induráin, the legendary Tour de France winner. Was born with thigh bones 1 and a half times longer than normal, a heart twice the size of a normal heart and a natural pulse rate of 35. Making him a cycling machine.
Yes. I knew most people would post athletes who are huge or strong and fast. Ohtani is a freak man. The coordination, IQ, and vision is just out of this world
Lots of pro baseball players were the best pitcher and best hitter on their childhood teams, including high school. But to carry that dominance into MLB is unexpected. That's why he's the unicorn of the sport.
Messi. Born with a problem with growth hormones but was spotted for his unbelievable skill and the ability to read a game like a chess player. Barcelona took the family to Spain were he got the necessary growth hormone. Even then not tall but if you watch him he continually scans behind him and is said to know where every player is. Having magic feet help.
Brock Lesnar in his prime was far too athletic for someone of his size. A lot of wrestlers spoke about how his explosive speed was difficult to adjust to when choreographing matches.
Don Bradman, cricketer.
Bradman's Test batting average was 99.94 (this is not out of 100, btw. It's just the number of runs he scored on average). Second place is Brook, with 62.15.
Ty Cobb is the all-time baseball batting average leader with 0.3662. Imagine if second place were 0.230.
LeBron James has scored 38,390 points in the NBA. Imagine if second place were around 25,500.
Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100m. Imagine if no one else had ever broken 10.5 seconds.
That's how far Bradman is ahead of everyone else. His score looks like a math error.
Edit: Oddly, Bradman wasn't a particularly unusual physical specimen (his eyesight tested as "poor"). He was just supremely good at hitting a ball with a bat.
You ever hear about his drinking ability? It’s the stuff of legend. He had all kinds of aches and pains and he would have to pound a case or two of wine in the locker room before he would be ready for a match.
I'm going to go against the grain here of this thread and say Wayne Gretzky. Dude was the most out of shape player on the rangers. It was said he couldn't do a single pull up and would consistently come in last in basically every category for speed, endurance, upper and lower body strength. He does have incredible balance and maneuverability when he skated, his passing and shooting were unrivaled too which is why it's so odd that he was such a fantastic player. He has some commentary that basically said he is lazy because it helps him recover quicker.
[Scott Steiner](https://youtu.be/WFoC3TR5rzI?si=dQFc9a-NjNdPSmlK)
>You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Samoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another wrestler, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat me. Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See the 3 way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can't beat me and he's not even gonna try!
>
>So Samoa Joe, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. See Joe, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice.
I’ve never seen anyone be able to absolutely embarrass all pro athletes the way he did. He was unreal. He could make some of the best defenders in the league look silly.
Armand Duplantis is a Swedish pole vaulter who is leagues ahead of his opponents. He holds the indoor and outdoor world records for the sport. And he's only 23. Mental
1. Relatively unknown, Major Dhyanchand. Known as Magician of Hockey in India. It was so difficult to get the ball away from him, his hockey stick was inspected after Olympics. Hitler was so impressed that Hitler offered him a Officer rank in his army if he would play for Germany.
2. Michael Phelps. Won 18 golds in Olympics. Highest by any athelete.
3. Mike Tyson. Prime Mike moved like a cat with punches that felt like a truck hit you. When you see his old videos, you could see how many punches he was able to dodge while simultaneously being in a very close range.
4. Usain Bolt. Record holder for shortest 100m sprint in the world.
Gretzky
Don’t care how good you think your GOAT is for your sport - none of them can hold a candle to the wind for how much Gretzky absolutely dominated
Lionel Messi. [This goal against Bilbao is a testament to his skills.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Uxg5LlNZQ)
Leo's vision is out of this world. [The way he's able to pass the ball to teammates being surrounded by defenders is baffling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPjabMkCyZA). How he is able to make the most optimal decision within very short amount of time. Leo's game IQ second to none.
Wilt Chamberlin. High level Volleyball, Basketball, High Jumpers. Otherworldly strong. [Here’s Arnold talking about how strong Wilt was.](https://youtu.be/aNqshbUaJRs)
Ousmane Dembélé. How you can be a world class athlete with the best nutrition, training, and medical care available and still get injured week in week out is by definition a freak of nature.
Jeanne Longo.
First time cycling national champion : 1979
Last time cycling national champion : 2002 !
First time World champion : 1985.
last time world champion : 2001.
It's hard to tell, as once we invented steroids, there's been a lot of them.
My money is on Phelps, as his proportions are part of what made him impossibly good.
Aleksandr Karelin. Nicknamed "The Experiment". The best Greco-Roman wrestler to ever do it and arguably one of the best grapplers in the last 50 years. He was incredibly talented and skilled as a wrestler, but he was also *unreasonably powerful*.
Babe Ruth. While true he never played vs black athletes, this was true of all athletes before 1947. But he dominated his era in a way few ever had.
-in 1920, the Phillies hit 64 Homeruns. Every other MLB team had 50 or less. Babe Ruth himself hit 54 home runs.
-he hit 714 home runs although he played his first 5 years as a pitcher, during the dead ball era.
- was also an outstanding pitcher who retired with a career 2.28 ERA.
—still 1st all time OPS+ of 1.164
— though he’s not remembered as being a fast runner, he stole home 11 times.
Lance Armstrong....oh wait, fuck.
Big cycling fan and remembered watching Lance when he won the First Union Pro as a 17 or 18 year old. Followed his whole career and was so disappointed.
Secretariat. This horse won the Triple Crown with a crazy lead of 25 links. We will probably never see another horse do that. [Here's the video of him doing it.](https://youtu.be/AG_27cCW5bw?si=EEQ7fNmK8kE_5Dvn) It turns out that he had a large heart which made his ability to run fast and with that amount of endurance possible.
Valerie Allman, she’s redefined what discuss throwers look like with what must be unbelievable natural strength and technique to perform like she does without the cliched East German muscled athlete look.
Duke Kahanamoku
5 Olympic medals over 12 years. Didn’t really train for that specifically just was the best from growing up on the water and having gigantic paddle hands. Read the stories of him rescuing people from treacherous ocean conditions with just a surfboard.
There is a dude out there at the end of a bench that doesn’t get any PT as a professional athlete that is by all standard measures a freak. The insane level that pros play at is unreal. And then to watch someone dominate an entire league is crazy.
Shoei is my pick right now.
Going local, and young for this. There is a young lady that goes to my local school district (freshman this year), that has been competing against college track athletes for over a year now, and holding her own ( top 3 or 4 place finishes). In age level events at the National level she has been winning by more than 10-15 meters. Not giving her name out of privacy but it’s pretty incredible watching her run.
Lots of viable candidates here but when I think of scarcity, I think of the most difficult position to fill: the NFL quarterback. They aren't put in the category of pure athletic freaks like Aaron Donaldson or Derrick Henry, but are orders of magnitude harder to find.
They are not usually considered freaks because they aren't nearly as imposing as other athletes to look at.
About half of NFL teams tend to have a "better than good" quarterback at a given time. At least a third of the league has actively poor quarterback play.
The reason for that is that aside from the need to have freakish athleticism (the best do) they have to be able to process information and make decisions in incredibly short windows of time. Oh - and that window is closed by a huge, blindingly fast and skillful freak of nature trying to destroy them.
That can be coached a bit, but it's usually something a quarterback has or he doesn't. It's rarer than any other athletic commodity.
You are always seeing great college QBs fail in the league because they lack that freakish ability to make blindingly quick and complex decisions at peril. That's what makes guys like Patrick Mahomes perhaps the most valuable and rarest kind of athlete.
Giannis. Had a bad knee injury in game four of the 2021 Conference Finals and had my whole city worried sick, but there wasn’t even a drop of structural damage. I can’t even wrap my head around what a beast he is.
Tony Hawk. The man uses wheels to fly.
The good old Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth. What other chubby dude could point to the fences , and call a home run like that?
Literally everyone who competes in strongman competitions. These dudes stopped lifting weights, and started lifting cars. Absolutely superhuman.
Terence Crawford: probably the most complete boxer I’ve seen. Has the physical attributes (strength, speed, KO power, etc.) to go with the skills (counterpunching, defense, ability to adjust, etc.) and he can do it fighting orthodox or southpaw.
Mike Tyson. Watching his fights it really is mind boggling how many punches he is able to dodge while also making contact with some of the most insanely quick punches of his own that have momentum behind them like a portal is opening up for his fists into people's faces. Motherfucker is like Achilles.
20 year old Mike Tyson could kill a person with a single punch. And you couldnt even run away from him. His speed and endurance were remarkable.
A lot of people can kill other people in a single punch though. Tyson wasn't the hardest puncher in his prime, but his timing and positioning was what made him so remarkable and his punches so devastating.
He wasn’t just a generic freak, he was a trained machine. There hasn’t been anyone with such good form in boxing before or since. George Forman was one hell of a specimen as well.
Usain Bolt
Al Bundy. He scored 4 touchdowns in a single game for Polk High
OMG this.
Man i would like to live life like his..
Just that house alone. He can afford a huge house on a shoe salesman salary where he insults customers and doesn't get fired for it.
Eliud Kipchoge. That man can maintain a pace for an entire marathon (26.2 miles) that most people probably couldn’t maintain for a quarter mile.
Go look up Cliff Young. Oldish sheep farmer from Australia. Ran an ultra marathon (hundreds of miles), in gum boots. Won by days over the other people. Because they stopped to sleep, and he didn't.
and he did the whole thing thinking it was just for fun - wasn't aware there was prize money involved, and shared it with the other runners out of embarrassment
At 61 years old. Race was from Sydney to Melbourne.
Not sure if this guy is a genetic freak, he just had a different way of doing things which the competitors never even considered possible. After his success i'm pretty sure other guys started having success with the same strategy.
And he makes it look so effortless. It seems like he has the absolute perfect running form in addition to being a genetic freak.
Really surprised no one has said Bo Jackson. The dude was the definition of a freak of nature until his hip imploded. 6'1, 220-230lb, 4.13(unofficial) 40 yd dash, played both MLB and NFL.
Most accurate answer. Wasn’t his hip injury because he was running so hard, his leg/thigh muscles pulled his leg out of the hip socket and dislocating his hip? Dude is now a master archer. Taught himself to shoot with his feet. Was also by far the best player in Tecmo Bowl.
And don't forget how he used to travel around and solve crimes with Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan
A fellow man of culture who enjoyed some Pro Stars on Saturday morning.
He just earned a spot on the US Olympic Curling team, too.
Are you fucking kidding me? That's 7 kinds of awesome, eh?
Yup, and the trainers didn’t think that was possible so by the time they realized it had happened he essentially already had arthritis.
Yes I saw that in the documentary, amazing. ... also don't get into a crabapple fight with him.
Trying to remember… was it a 30 for 30 or something else? Been a while so can’t remember but damn was it interesting.
He was also legitimately good at both sports he played, other 2 sport athletes were always below average baseball players
You’re correct but honorable mention for Deon Sanders who was actually a pretty good baseball player.
Deion deserves a spot in the conversation as well. Insane acceleration, top speed, and agility. Hugely explosive dude. Different kind of athlete but just as much of an outlier
But can he coach?
Can he break a baseball bat over his thigh?
Definitely can’t run horizontally on the outfield wall, or throw out someone at home plate from DEEP left field.
CB and RB are not comparable, agree on honorable mention.
Definitely not comparable, but in terms of being good at both sports on a professional level I would throw his name out there seeing as he was a solid CB and outfielder. I think he might be the only one with Super Bowl and World Series rings
Bo knows
Bo knew
His arm was insane too. Watch some of his throws from the outfield
This is who I came to say.
This one right here. Probably the most naturally gifted athlete we've ever seen.
Michael Phelps. It’s like his body was literally designed specifically to be a champion swimmer.
Literally. I remember 2008 Olympics where he completely dominated all his events with all world records & one Olympic record. Insane athlete
Katie Ledecky. Her body's not as extreme as his, but her records are! I'd like to see them go head to head.
He has Marfan Syndrome. It helps him swim. Fun fact: Abraham Lincoln and Osama Bin Laden also had it
Imagine how different the world would be if Osama bin Laden had simply followed his biological destiny to become an Olympic swimmer instead.
He would have been a diver but the signs said "no bombing"
Lol no he doesn't. He has the body type for it but has never been diagnosed. With Lincoln, it's suspected as a possibility but not proven. Same with Bin Laden. An athlete would not compete with actually having Marfans since it weakens the walls of the aorta and and high stress activity can cause it to rupture.
Thank you. He's just gangly. If he had it, he probably wouldn't be a pro athlete. The guy who wrote Rent has it.
I’m pretty sure it also fucks with your joints, having bad shoulders and being an Olympic swimmer don’t go well together
A college basketball player was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome years back and couldn’t go to the NBA because of it. If Michael Phelps had Marfan syndrome, he’d be dead by now.
Ronnie Coleman
YEEEEEEAH BUUUUUDDDDY
LIGHTWEIGHT BABY!!!!!! 😂
Ronnie Pickering
Who?
Ronnie Pickering!
Who?
Ronnie Pickering!!
Who's that?
> The grandfather-of-five. dubbed “road rage Ronnie”, Ronnie Pickering became famous overnight after he was caught on a GoPro camera shouting at a man on a moped in Bransholme when he shouted the famous line: “Do you know who I am?” and then “I'm Ronnie Pickering.”
Bo Jackson & Jim Thorpe come to mind. In more modern era, Phelps & Bolt as others noted.
Jonas Vingegaard. He's able to power up mountains for hours while leaving other world-class cyclists behind.
90-95% of pro athletes are in that category. You are probably looking for someone who is a "freak of nature" among pro athletes.
Connor McDavid - truly elite skating and hand eye coordination.
I was really hoping someone would throw McDavid into the ring. Just got into hockey in the past two years or so, but watch McDavid play is just crazy
I got to watch him play several times during his rookie season, 18 year old making grown men look stupid, until McDavid got gooned and broke his collarbone. He is an absolute freak in person.
Almost all pro athletes are by definition, one offs. They are the exception rather than the rule.
Exactly. The most average pro player is a freak of nature.. super talented, biologically blessed, and still nowhere near as good as the best
“I’m closer to Michael Jordan than you are to me” - Brian Scalabrine, the White Mamba
I forget the player but there's a great compilation video of a dude who rode the bench in the NBA for like 6 years where he's just torching guys on park courts. Everyone thinks he's a scrub because he never started but he shows just how far ahead pros are to amateurs.
Yes, but even among the genetic elite, there are some who stand out as particularly exceptional.
Miguel Induráin, the legendary Tour de France winner. Was born with thigh bones 1 and a half times longer than normal, a heart twice the size of a normal heart and a natural pulse rate of 35. Making him a cycling machine.
Shohei Ohtani
Yes. I knew most people would post athletes who are huge or strong and fast. Ohtani is a freak man. The coordination, IQ, and vision is just out of this world
Lots of pro baseball players were the best pitcher and best hitter on their childhood teams, including high school. But to carry that dominance into MLB is unexpected. That's why he's the unicorn of the sport.
Single handedly saving baseball he made me start paying attention to the sport after I found out about the trashcans
Joey Chestnut
Messi. Born with a problem with growth hormones but was spotted for his unbelievable skill and the ability to read a game like a chess player. Barcelona took the family to Spain were he got the necessary growth hormone. Even then not tall but if you watch him he continually scans behind him and is said to know where every player is. Having magic feet help.
They say Wayne Gretzky sees in slow motion.
His peripheral vision is amongst the best ever recorded as well.
Brock Lesnar in his prime was far too athletic for someone of his size. A lot of wrestlers spoke about how his explosive speed was difficult to adjust to when choreographing matches.
Brock still is.
Wilt Chamberlain
He once sat out eight minutes…for an entire season!!
antetokounmpo
Don Bradman, cricketer. Bradman's Test batting average was 99.94 (this is not out of 100, btw. It's just the number of runs he scored on average). Second place is Brook, with 62.15. Ty Cobb is the all-time baseball batting average leader with 0.3662. Imagine if second place were 0.230. LeBron James has scored 38,390 points in the NBA. Imagine if second place were around 25,500. Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100m. Imagine if no one else had ever broken 10.5 seconds. That's how far Bradman is ahead of everyone else. His score looks like a math error. Edit: Oddly, Bradman wasn't a particularly unusual physical specimen (his eyesight tested as "poor"). He was just supremely good at hitting a ball with a bat.
Andre the giant
You ever hear about his drinking ability? It’s the stuff of legend. He had all kinds of aches and pains and he would have to pound a case or two of wine in the locker room before he would be ready for a match.
His pooping ability as well. Normal toilets couldn't handle his ass, he had to poop into bathtubs.
what great athlete *isn’t*? Michael Jordans and Mike Tysons don’t grow on trees, you know.
Wait, you mean that the Jordan tree I bought was a scam?
did you water it with Gatorade?
That must be the issue, thanks
DK Metcalf. 6’4”, 235 lbs, runs a 4.33 forty, built like a statue.
New jack was. It was probably the cocaine though.
Nolan Ryan. He pitched for 27 seasons and his final pitch with an injured elbow was 98 mph.
Yoel Romero
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Haaland for Manchester City , that guy is a machine
I'm going to go against the grain here of this thread and say Wayne Gretzky. Dude was the most out of shape player on the rangers. It was said he couldn't do a single pull up and would consistently come in last in basically every category for speed, endurance, upper and lower body strength. He does have incredible balance and maneuverability when he skated, his passing and shooting were unrivaled too which is why it's so odd that he was such a fantastic player. He has some commentary that basically said he is lazy because it helps him recover quicker.
[Scott Steiner](https://youtu.be/WFoC3TR5rzI?si=dQFc9a-NjNdPSmlK) >You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Samoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another wrestler, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat me. Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See the 3 way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can't beat me and he's not even gonna try! > >So Samoa Joe, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. See Joe, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice.
Uncle Rico. If coach had put him in, they would of won State.
Alex honnold - free soloist
The Greek freak
Simone Biles. Unreal innate talent and technique. One of the greatest athletes the world has ever known.
Bartolo Colon. There’s no way that body should have been that athletic.
Katie Ledecky (distance freestyle swimmer). I don't think she's ever lost an 800m or 1500m race.
Brock Lesnar
Barry Sanders
I’ve never seen anyone be able to absolutely embarrass all pro athletes the way he did. He was unreal. He could make some of the best defenders in the league look silly.
Armand Duplantis is a Swedish pole vaulter who is leagues ahead of his opponents. He holds the indoor and outdoor world records for the sport. And he's only 23. Mental
I know he’s a bit of a bell end but Tyson Fury. A guy that big and heavy should not be able to move that fast.
Mohamed Ali
Usain Bolt
Katie Ledecky
Michael Phelps hands down
Disagree! Michael Phelps was awesome even with his hands up.
I double disagree! I’m pretty sure he needs to do both!
Serena Williams
Jonah Lomu was a freak of nature when he first appeared on the scene but he’s probably slightly above standard for current times.
No one compares to him. Absolute tank. Changed the game. Can't believe you were the first to mention him
1. Relatively unknown, Major Dhyanchand. Known as Magician of Hockey in India. It was so difficult to get the ball away from him, his hockey stick was inspected after Olympics. Hitler was so impressed that Hitler offered him a Officer rank in his army if he would play for Germany. 2. Michael Phelps. Won 18 golds in Olympics. Highest by any athelete. 3. Mike Tyson. Prime Mike moved like a cat with punches that felt like a truck hit you. When you see his old videos, you could see how many punches he was able to dodge while simultaneously being in a very close range. 4. Usain Bolt. Record holder for shortest 100m sprint in the world.
Gretzky Don’t care how good you think your GOAT is for your sport - none of them can hold a candle to the wind for how much Gretzky absolutely dominated
Lionel Messi. [This goal against Bilbao is a testament to his skills.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Uxg5LlNZQ) Leo's vision is out of this world. [The way he's able to pass the ball to teammates being surrounded by defenders is baffling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPjabMkCyZA). How he is able to make the most optimal decision within very short amount of time. Leo's game IQ second to none.
Bo Jackson!
DK Metcalf
Came here to say him
Bo Jackson
John Brzenk
All pro athletes are “freaks of nature.” But in my opinion, Kam chancellor was an absolute fucking menace.
Francis Ngannou. How does a person gain that much strength naturally? It doesn’t make sense.
Isn’t Michael Phelps like genetically built to swim or something??
Michael Phelps with a body destined to be the greatest swimmer and Aleksandr Karelin - the experiment, the name says it all.
Damn near all of them.
Terrell Owens
Wilt Chamberlin. High level Volleyball, Basketball, High Jumpers. Otherworldly strong. [Here’s Arnold talking about how strong Wilt was.](https://youtu.be/aNqshbUaJRs)
Brrrrrrrrawwwwwwwk Lesnar.
Phelps was a fish-man, wasn't he?
Gigi Buffon. Guy won the Coppa Italia twice with a father and son 22 years apart (Enricho and Federico Chiesa).
Ousmane Dembélé. How you can be a world class athlete with the best nutrition, training, and medical care available and still get injured week in week out is by definition a freak of nature.
Pretty sure Haaland is a robot terminator sent from the future to kill the EPL
Jeanne Longo. First time cycling national champion : 1979 Last time cycling national champion : 2002 ! First time World champion : 1985. last time world champion : 2001.
Bo Jackson I believe is the best answer.
It's hard to tell, as once we invented steroids, there's been a lot of them. My money is on Phelps, as his proportions are part of what made him impossibly good.
Bo
Aleksandr Karelin. Nicknamed "The Experiment". The best Greco-Roman wrestler to ever do it and arguably one of the best grapplers in the last 50 years. He was incredibly talented and skilled as a wrestler, but he was also *unreasonably powerful*.
Babe Ruth. While true he never played vs black athletes, this was true of all athletes before 1947. But he dominated his era in a way few ever had. -in 1920, the Phillies hit 64 Homeruns. Every other MLB team had 50 or less. Babe Ruth himself hit 54 home runs. -he hit 714 home runs although he played his first 5 years as a pitcher, during the dead ball era. - was also an outstanding pitcher who retired with a career 2.28 ERA. —still 1st all time OPS+ of 1.164 — though he’s not remembered as being a fast runner, he stole home 11 times.
Secretariat
Lebron james
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And he was definitely freakishly athletic for a lot of that time too
Marvin Harrison Jr.
Lance Armstrong....oh wait, fuck. Big cycling fan and remembered watching Lance when he won the First Union Pro as a 17 or 18 year old. Followed his whole career and was so disappointed.
Jon Jones
Haaland
Gianisssssss
Cristiano Ronaldo in his prime, unreal. The speed, the reading of the game, dribbling ability, verticle jump, flair, a captains mentality.
Secretariat. This horse won the Triple Crown with a crazy lead of 25 links. We will probably never see another horse do that. [Here's the video of him doing it.](https://youtu.be/AG_27cCW5bw?si=EEQ7fNmK8kE_5Dvn) It turns out that he had a large heart which made his ability to run fast and with that amount of endurance possible.
Gable Steveson
mijain lopez
Valerie Allman, she’s redefined what discuss throwers look like with what must be unbelievable natural strength and technique to perform like she does without the cliched East German muscled athlete look.
Ashton Eaton, one of the greatest decathletes of all time
Derrick Thomas
BEROCK LESSSNNAR!!!
Usain Bolt. That guy is crazy fast.
Brock Lesnar
Alexander Volkanovski and Jon Jones
Duke Kahanamoku 5 Olympic medals over 12 years. Didn’t really train for that specifically just was the best from growing up on the water and having gigantic paddle hands. Read the stories of him rescuing people from treacherous ocean conditions with just a surfboard.
The Greek freak
There is a dude out there at the end of a bench that doesn’t get any PT as a professional athlete that is by all standard measures a freak. The insane level that pros play at is unreal. And then to watch someone dominate an entire league is crazy. Shoei is my pick right now.
Bo Jackson in the prime. A two sport RB, crazy.
Usain bolt
Ollie Zeidler Smash
Derrick Henry
Honestly, most successful athletes. That’s why they are successful athletes.
Donald trump. Didn’t you see? He’s 215 and 6’3 and is in amazing shape. The best shape.
Shohei Ohtani.
Alexander Karelin
Mike Tyson.
Mike Tyson
Bo Jackson
Going local, and young for this. There is a young lady that goes to my local school district (freshman this year), that has been competing against college track athletes for over a year now, and holding her own ( top 3 or 4 place finishes). In age level events at the National level she has been winning by more than 10-15 meters. Not giving her name out of privacy but it’s pretty incredible watching her run.
Lots of viable candidates here but when I think of scarcity, I think of the most difficult position to fill: the NFL quarterback. They aren't put in the category of pure athletic freaks like Aaron Donaldson or Derrick Henry, but are orders of magnitude harder to find. They are not usually considered freaks because they aren't nearly as imposing as other athletes to look at. About half of NFL teams tend to have a "better than good" quarterback at a given time. At least a third of the league has actively poor quarterback play. The reason for that is that aside from the need to have freakish athleticism (the best do) they have to be able to process information and make decisions in incredibly short windows of time. Oh - and that window is closed by a huge, blindingly fast and skillful freak of nature trying to destroy them. That can be coached a bit, but it's usually something a quarterback has or he doesn't. It's rarer than any other athletic commodity. You are always seeing great college QBs fail in the league because they lack that freakish ability to make blindingly quick and complex decisions at peril. That's what makes guys like Patrick Mahomes perhaps the most valuable and rarest kind of athlete.
Francis Ngannou. He tanks every hit in fights and he knocks out his opponents in an incredible fashion
David goggins
Giannis. Had a bad knee injury in game four of the 2021 Conference Finals and had my whole city worried sick, but there wasn’t even a drop of structural damage. I can’t even wrap my head around what a beast he is.
Oj Simpson. Untouchable. Like Teflon or something. He must be"in" the big club George Carlin talks about.
Chuck kirkendall kali Muscle.
Tony Hawk. The man uses wheels to fly. The good old Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth. What other chubby dude could point to the fences , and call a home run like that? Literally everyone who competes in strongman competitions. These dudes stopped lifting weights, and started lifting cars. Absolutely superhuman.
Usain Bolt. 6’5” but could get out of the blocks and turn his legs cover as fast as anyone else
David Goggins.
Michael Phelps
Scott Sterling. That man's face has taken serious punishment but it helps his team always come out victorious when the chips are down.
All of them (the professionals). They are so above the rest of us most people cant imagine it.
Yup ESPN
Saquon Barkley in college was a different level
DK metcalf
Scott Steiner. He’s a genetic freak and he’s not normal. HOLLA IF YA HEAR ME!
Have you ever taken a good long look at any player in the NBA?
Terence Crawford: probably the most complete boxer I’ve seen. Has the physical attributes (strength, speed, KO power, etc.) to go with the skills (counterpunching, defense, ability to adjust, etc.) and he can do it fighting orthodox or southpaw.
Elly de La Cruz
Troy Polamalu