Both sports are considered amongst the toughest out there, but for Allen it is demanding just for his mental toughness and endurance - boxing has that plus more.
Bo narrowly beat Federer in the power metric, while Federer easily won in durability, and Bo in difficulty of sport.
The voters agreed with the result - after 4,494 votes Brown was well ahead with 63.2% of the votes How did they get to that conclusion?This match up of two baseball players makes comparison easier. At 6-1, 210 pounds, he was a 1950s version of a physical phenom.Simpson is one of the fastest running backs in the history of college football, with a best of 9.53 in the 100-yard dash and a 10.3 in the 100-meter dash. At one stage the online voters (after 2,505 votes) had Pele just ahead with 52.9 % of the votes, though it was Robinson who prevailed and went through to the semi final.The greatest football (soccer) player ever against a skateboarder? Bo Jackson Jackson might be the best athlete in the history of the Heisman. This must have been a close one, with the all-round athleticism required by Silva making him a great athlete, but he was beaten by Phelps based on his dominance in his sport.When it comes to speed, agility and endurance, there two are closely matched. That contradictory statement could be true because of changes in the way the 40 is timed at the combine and changes in the combine itself.
Although Gretzky lead in the durability sport science metric, Brown was ahead in the power and versatility metric, and overall Brown scraped past Gretzky with a combined total of less than 2% higher.Both of these players have streamed into the semis, but unfortunately only one can advance. Even without the science, public vote had him well ahead - after 27,397 votes Jackson was well ahead with 79.5% of the votes. Not only was Brown maybe the best ever football player, he also played basketball and was so dominant in lacrosse too. Tony hawk may be a great athlete, but I can't see him beating Pele.
At LSU, he threw the heavier college shot over 54 feet and improved his 100 time to 9.5 seconds (9.4 wind-aided). It was not surprising that there seemed to be a US bias (a majority of visitors to the ESPN website would be from the US). Public voting also had Jordan ahead.Brown's multisport abilities helped set him apart from the hockey great.
Newly-crowned…Given those marks, it’s quite possible that Jackson could have gone on to be a world-class decathlete had he not played football.No story about Davis’ athletic accomplishments would be complete, however, without recounting what happened later that spring. As a junior in high school, he ran a nation-best-tying 13.46 in the 110-meter high hurdles and a nation-leading 49.56 in the 400-meter hurdles (the second-fastest time in prep history).