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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsESPNW: Ronda Rousey Voted Geatest Female Athlete Of All Time
Ronda Rousey is the greatest female athlete of all-time and ESPNW has the numbers to back it up. Sure, those numbers are from Internet bracket voting, but thats pretty damn scientific. Just an FYI theres no recency bias. The W stands for Women, not Whos Now? Rouseys path to glory included wins over Missy Franklin, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Diana Taurasi, Florence Griffith-Joyner and Serena Williams. Heres the methodology used to select the field of 32:
We had some fun because what else could it be but fun to compare athletes from different eras (short shorts versus long shorts) and different sports (frontside 1080 versus 14-second armbar)? and named eight seeds and drew the rest of the slots.
What does drew slots mean? Apparently, a random character generator pulled the greatest female athlete of all-times name out of a virtual hat. Pretty lucky actually. This just goes to show that no matter who your target audience is, brackets arent just for March anymore. Thanks ESPNW! Ronda Rousey takes on 3 judo guys on Japanese Game Show
brush
(53,857 posts)Let's check back in a few years into her career.
safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)Mike Tyson was the greatest ever until Buster Douglas figured him out.
Inside and out of the ring, Paige Vanzant may pass her some day.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)But I don't think anybody would say that Buster Douglas is one of the best boxers of all time, and I don't think anybody would rank Buster Douglass above Mike Tyson.
safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)he figured out Tyson's weakness and that was it for Mike.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Seems like her sport doesn't have a lot of high level competitors who can really test her.
Give me someone like Serena, who has battled against top competition. Or hell, some of the other Olympians who have won multiple gold medals over several olympics.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Serena Williams
Abby Wambach
Hope Solo
There's a list of people in line in front of her.
Don't get me wrong. She is a great fighter. And that's athletic. But the greatest? No yet.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)FloJo
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Cheryl Miller
Dianna Nyad
Martina N
Chrissie E
Billy Jean K
Stephie G
All had long and dominating careers.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)A lot more. But, she wasn't on tee vee, which is what counts these days.
kairos12
(12,872 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)The best all around female athlete. She excelled at whatever she attempted.
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)Iggo
(47,565 posts)Ronda's impressive as hell, but many names have already been mentioned in this thread who are more deserving.
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)I still love her!
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)She to me is amazing.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)SHE can always smell what. The. Rock. Is. Cooking!
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Wow...
for sure!
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)It is very possible she might eventually be the greatest athlete of all time, but she's not there yet.
BklnDem75
(2,918 posts)Seems legit.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Even just this year Serena has earned that title equally.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Not to take anything away from her skills, but who has she beaten? Ronda should actually face some competition before receiving that award.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Even though her career has been relatively short, her displays are more dominant than anyone I've seen since Tyson. Like Tyson's early years, it's not a matter of whether she wins, it's how long her opponent can withstand the onslaught.
Women don't even last a full minute against her. It's one thing to dominate a sport, it's another to make a sport uncompetitive by overwhelming superiority. Rousey is the latter.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Darb
(2,807 posts)Hard to believe that this is even a discussion.