Crouser is insane not just as a shotputter but just overall athletics, I think he would have been a world champion in just about any sport he pursued (other than sports that involve being short)
Add someone here, Phil kessel in hockey. The guy was very good for multiple years, but he played 1064 consecutive regular season games. That is 13 years of hockey without missing a single game!
The first guy I was thinking of was Daniel Cormier... who was in the video on accident when you showed Cael Sanderson beating his ass. DC doesn't get enough credit. Just happened to run into the GOAT in two sports in Jon Jones and Sanderson.
Hello Zack, I love your content. I just want to add that javelin "nerf" came in 1986, roughly 10 years before Železný threw massive 98 meters, thus Železný could make it on your list, since almost nobody knows about him. It took 24 years for someone to even get close to this number and his record still stands strong rn.
Tennis is very often overlooked when talking about freak athletes, but nowadays these guys are absolute beasts. (I would think about alcaraz, nadal, monfils)
Tennis is such a niche sport that is so nerfed by TV that i would say any tennis player is an underrated athlete under the general public's eye. It's hard for people who have never hit with a pro to understand how insane they actually are. As a 5.5-6.0 player, i got one lucky game against a friend who won only a handful of matches on tour over the span of 6 years. There are insanely different levels and that makes the big 3 unfathomably untouchable.
Damn! I was interrupted. So all these incredible players walked past me. I couldn’t utter a word. Then Ahmad Rashad walks past me and I scream out his name. Of all the literal hall of famers I could have had gotten attention from I decided to talk to a tv host
I went to the NBA Draft one year at MSG with my dad and we got tickets to this pre-draft cocktail hour thing. I was like 12 and my dad introduced me to Ahmad Rashad lol
John Breznk, he went 25 years without a loss in worldwide competition. He was the basis for the movie "Over the top" and is discussed in the documentary "pulling john". John is the equivalent of Micheal Jordan never losing a game in 25 years against teams 100lb outside of his weightclass
Well...not undisputed anymore. Levan will likely retire in 10 years without a loss too. I think he might even be a good 20% stronger than prime breznk.
@@andrelarocque5967 So here's a couple thought experiments that I enjoy contemplating: 1) Would the all time prime/peaked version of Levan defeat the all time prime/peaked version of Dennis Cyplenkov? And 2) Who wins in an alternative universe, if a peaked/prime version of Levan that had never used any PEDs, faced the peaked/primed version of John Breznk? Tell me what you think, if you like.
@@andrelarocque5967it’s still undisputed. Longevity and weight matter. Just the number of years he held titles, the number of times he competed, and the way that he competed all make it impossible to deny. If Levan stays on top for 20 years, then goes down a weight class and still kicks ass, then maybe there is a conversation.
I don't know what that guy was talking about with his characterization of Ken Griffey Jr. Griffey is universally considered one of the all-time greats and one of the most prodigious talents the game has ever seen. Along with Willie Mays, Barry Bonds and A-Rod he's the best true 5-tool player in history. His fielding is the standard for center fielders and his combination of grace and power is arguably without equal. He made it sound like Jr was solely a power hitter with a sweet stroke when in fact he had it all.
The Javelin was changed after Uwe Hohn from East Germany threw 104.80m in 1984. They changed it in 1986. The reason being because there was a danger of it being thrown into the distance runners and the fact that the old design being better balanced didn’t always stick into the ground. It bounced a lot and would skip onto the track. The new javelin made sure that it would stick and if it didn’t the throw doesn’t count.
Fking loved this one, do more conversations topics like this! Also, I listen to these while working out and the "close mic while yall are lifting and breathing into it" messes with me. This one was way better in that regard, just my 2 cents. Keep the companions coming!!
Actually for javelin, the person they nerfed it for was Uwe Hohn, who threw 104m with old-rule javelins. Jan Zelezny has the new javelin record with 98.48m, which has stood for over 20 years
WARNE!! 🇦🇺 rip to the man! Not sure if he’s classified as under rated but love for him to get a mention! Idea, do a video on weird rules/changes in sports, off the mention of the golf ball and javelin changes many sports have lots of odd rule changes like this, or strange things that are banned - you can’t front flip/gainer in long jump, you also can’t cartwheel in shot put. David Weir, wheelchair athlete dominated the 2012 paralympics with gold in the 800, 1500, 5000 and the marathon, hugely underrated dominating his T54 category
I saw a documentary about shane warne by pure coincidence, never seen a game of cricket in my life, but that guy was wild. And he was late in the game too, he just had wicked skillset you couldnt ignore
Haven’t even listed to see if you address this: but Vijay learned to play cross handed and he can play legit left handed better than 99% of the population
FOR SURE: Birgit Fischer, she's a German kayaker and won the second most Medals at Summer Olympics ever with 8 gold medals and 4 silver medals. She competed in 6 Olympic games. She won at least one Gold, regularly 3 Golds, at every World Championship she competed in from 1978 up until 1998. (She did not compete in the time immediately after Reunification) She still won a Bronze in 2004 aged 43. All in all she placed first in 36 World or Olympic games, 6 Silver and 4 Bronzes.
Shoaib Akhtar. crazy cricket fast bowler has the world record in fastest ball thrown in cricket. The great Gamma Pakistani legend some believe him to be the best wrestler of all time.
The record for made 3s in a season when Steph came into the league was 269 (Ray Allen). Steph has eclipsed that 9 times in 15 seasons. In the years where he didn’t reach 269, he missed at least a third of the season due to injury in 3 of the 6.
Tyler Clary, American swimmer. He was the third fastest in the world for multiple events multiple Olympic trials. Each country is allotted 2 swimmers per individual event and unfortunately for Mr Clary, the first and second fastest in the world were Americans Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps. Clary did make Olympic teams and won a gold medal but without Lochte and Phelps, a generational and centurational (?) talent respectively, his haul would've been massive.
19:25 I loved high school wrestling and it makes me really sad that there's not wrestling gyms everywhere for adults the same way there's just jitsu gyms everywhere for adults It's one of the most ancient and most prolific sports of all time In an ideal world I'd be both focused on Strongman and wrestling but here we are and I'm lifting stones in a parking lot lol
I would add Nathan Florence -- big wave surfer, broke a vertebrae for his sport. Maybe Koa Rothman also, I think he also broke a vertebrae at Pipeline. Athlean X 😆
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Another hockey player, Pavel Datsyuk. Made players look silly every time. And also single-handedly create the modern style with a skill based game. Ahead of his time.
Kyle Snyder, 4x World/Olympic champion, 6x World medalist. Hasn’t lost to an American wrestler in almost a decade. Isn’t the face of wrestling in America bc of Jordan Burroughs even though Kyle has been out performing him for years
Chris WIlliamson with huge bias for mid English cricketers. The wider cricketing world has much better players and athletes than Collingwood and Billings
Crouser is insane not just as a shotputter but just overall athletics, I think he would have been a world champion in just about any sport he pursued (other than sports that involve being short)
Add someone here, Phil kessel in hockey. The guy was very good for multiple years, but he played 1064 consecutive regular season games. That is 13 years of hockey without missing a single game!
Mark Henry would have been great in NFL, was a great powerlifter, great weightlifter and strongman! A very underrated Athlete!
Greatest natural strength athlete ever.
He’s one of my favorite athletes of all time he could have killed it in anything
The first guy I was thinking of was Daniel Cormier... who was in the video on accident when you showed Cael Sanderson beating his ass. DC doesn't get enough credit. Just happened to run into the GOAT in two sports in Jon Jones and Sanderson.
Hello Zack, I love your content. I just want to add that javelin "nerf" came in 1986, roughly 10 years before Železný threw massive 98 meters, thus Železný could make it on your list, since almost nobody knows about him. It took 24 years for someone to even get close to this number and his record still stands strong rn.
Tennis is very often overlooked when talking about freak athletes, but nowadays these guys are absolute beasts. (I would think about alcaraz, nadal, monfils)
Serena too. Athleticism is the big difference maker in the top women i'd say, possibly even more so than in the men's game
Tennis is such a niche sport that is so nerfed by TV that i would say any tennis player is an underrated athlete under the general public's eye. It's hard for people who have never hit with a pro to understand how insane they actually are. As a 5.5-6.0 player, i got one lucky game against a friend who won only a handful of matches on tour over the span of 6 years. There are insanely different levels and that makes the big 3 unfathomably untouchable.
Zack just loves ppl named Zack. he also liked the guy called Zack in the other vid
Why am I not surprised
"Paul Pierce walked past me" and then what? what happened?? I was lowkey invested in the story
Damn! I was interrupted. So all these incredible players walked past me. I couldn’t utter a word. Then Ahmad Rashad walks past me and I scream out his name. Of all the literal hall of famers I could have had gotten attention from I decided to talk to a tv host
@@zacktelander Inside Stuff was must watch TV back in the day, it's understandable
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I went to the NBA Draft one year at MSG with my dad and we got tickets to this pre-draft cocktail hour thing. I was like 12 and my dad introduced me to Ahmad Rashad lol
Dozer and Giraffe are my favorite power couple.
To be fair I love the camera angle where I feel like I’m actually looking across the Atlantic to watch you guys!!
That English dude downplaying how hard a ground ball is to field in baseball is crazy! But he did shoutout Baseball Doesn’t Exist so it offsets ;)
1. John Daly
Tigers quote about if Daly even tried half as much as tiger and he'd have been a GOAT is haunting.
John Breznk, he went 25 years without a loss in worldwide competition. He was the basis for the movie "Over the top" and is discussed in the documentary "pulling john". John is the equivalent of Micheal Jordan never losing a game in 25 years against teams 100lb outside of his weightclass
This.
I guess maybe underrated outside of armwrestling, but anyone who knows about armwrestling labels him as the undisputed GOAT
Well...not undisputed anymore. Levan will likely retire in 10 years without a loss too. I think he might even be a good 20% stronger than prime breznk.
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So here's a couple thought experiments that I enjoy contemplating:
1) Would the all time prime/peaked version of Levan defeat the all time prime/peaked version of Dennis Cyplenkov?
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2) Who wins in an alternative universe, if a peaked/prime version of Levan that had never used any PEDs, faced the peaked/primed version of John Breznk?
Tell me what you think, if you like.
@@andrelarocque5967it’s still undisputed. Longevity and weight matter. Just the number of years he held titles, the number of times he competed, and the way that he competed all make it impossible to deny. If Levan stays on top for 20 years, then goes down a weight class and still kicks ass, then maybe there is a conversation.
I don't know what that guy was talking about with his characterization of Ken Griffey Jr. Griffey is universally considered one of the all-time greats and one of the most prodigious talents the game has ever seen. Along with Willie Mays, Barry Bonds and A-Rod he's the best true 5-tool player in history. His fielding is the standard for center fielders and his combination of grace and power is arguably without equal. He made it sound like Jr was solely a power hitter with a sweet stroke when in fact he had it all.
The Javelin was changed after Uwe Hohn from East Germany threw 104.80m in 1984. They changed it in 1986. The reason being because there was a danger of it being thrown into the distance runners and the fact that the old design being better balanced didn’t always stick into the ground. It bounced a lot and would skip onto the track. The new javelin made sure that it would stick and if it didn’t the throw doesn’t count.
Ryan crouser is an insane athlete. Joe kovacs too.
I'm just an endurance bro saying Hamish Bond. Dude's an engine
This is the way.
Vijay is from Fiji
What a great conversation for any sports fan. Well done.
Love the conversation, but you guys did a huge disservice to Dan Gable, a complete legend for all wrestlers.
Jonah Lomu, Dan Carter, Richie McCaw (I'm Australian so that was hard to write)
I don't think you could say they were really underrated. They were absolutely the best of their time
Ji Sung Park for Manchester United, Football (Soccer) - Very underrated.
Get your straps boyzzzzz, lift companion just dropped!
".... so the algorithm picks us up and we can overtake Mr.Beast."
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Zack, you crack me up.
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I am surprised you didn't mention the Saitiev brothers. Those guys are extremely underrated in the West.
Fking loved this one, do more conversations topics like this!
Also, I listen to these while working out and the "close mic while yall are lifting and breathing into it" messes with me. This one was way better in that regard, just my 2 cents.
Keep the companions coming!!
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Stephen Neal is my most underrated athlete ever. 2x NCAA wrestling champ and 1999 world champion, 3x Superbowl champion with the patriots.
Jim Thorpe!
He won two gold medals with shoes pulled out of the garbage.
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Actually for javelin, the person they nerfed it for was Uwe Hohn, who threw 104m with old-rule javelins. Jan Zelezny has the new javelin record with 98.48m, which has stood for over 20 years
Awesome episode, s/o from France, thanks guys !
More lift companions plz!
WARNE!! 🇦🇺 rip to the man! Not sure if he’s classified as under rated but love for him to get a mention!
Idea, do a video on weird rules/changes in sports, off the mention of the golf ball and javelin changes many sports have lots of odd rule changes like this, or strange things that are banned - you can’t front flip/gainer in long jump, you also can’t cartwheel in shot put.
David Weir, wheelchair athlete dominated the 2012 paralympics with gold in the 800, 1500, 5000 and the marathon, hugely underrated dominating his T54 category
Hakuho or Chiyonofuji.
1:47 look at him Chris, so manly 💀
I saw a documentary about shane warne by pure coincidence, never seen a game of cricket in my life, but that guy was wild. And he was late in the game too, he just had wicked skillset you couldnt ignore
they make courses longer, but it just effects the shorter hitters more than it effects the longer hitters.
i am sad thatAB de Villiers isn't mentioned here.
The batsman who scored 501 was Brian Lara.
Haven’t even listed to see if you address this: but Vijay learned to play cross handed and he can play legit left handed better than 99% of the population
FOR SURE: Birgit Fischer, she's a German kayaker and won the second most Medals at Summer Olympics ever with 8 gold medals and 4 silver medals. She competed in 6 Olympic games.
She won at least one Gold, regularly 3 Golds, at every World Championship she competed in from 1978 up until 1998. (She did not compete in the time immediately after Reunification)
She still won a Bronze in 2004 aged 43. All in all she placed first in 36 World or Olympic games, 6 Silver and 4 Bronzes.
Shoaib Akhtar. crazy cricket fast bowler has the world record in fastest ball thrown in cricket. The great Gamma Pakistani legend some believe him to be the best wrestler of all time.
when we talk about dominance in any sport it is 100% Kareli and Phelps
Baseball Doesn't Exist is an amazing youtube!
bivol is the least hit boxer right now godly defence
Love the OJ Simpson bit. Everyone has a price $$$$$$$
rowing/ indoor rowing should get a mention there are some athletes that never get mentioned.
The record for made 3s in a season when Steph came into the league was 269 (Ray Allen). Steph has eclipsed that 9 times in 15 seasons. In the years where he didn’t reach 269, he missed at least a third of the season due to injury in 3 of the 6.
Yohan Blake is another severely underrated t&f athlete
Jack Lalanne.
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Ok, as no one seems to have clarified it yet, Vijay Singh was Fijian of Indian origin
Zelezny threw the new Javelin, the old Javelin was changed due to Uwe Hohn who threw 104M! Zelezny nearly made them change it again, lol!
Love it as always! Gary Peyton for me!
Never thought I see you talk about Bivol
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Tyler Clary, American swimmer. He was the third fastest in the world for multiple events multiple Olympic trials. Each country is allotted 2 swimmers per individual event and unfortunately for Mr Clary, the first and second fastest in the world were Americans Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps. Clary did make Olympic teams and won a gold medal but without Lochte and Phelps, a generational and centurational (?) talent respectively, his haul would've been massive.
Sterling Spencer #1 surfer in the world.
Brain Lara made 501. You should react to a cricket documentary called Fire in Babylon
Michael "Ducksie" Walsh or Hakuho are the two most dominant champions I can think of who most people wouldn't know outside of Ireland or Japan
Janja Garnbrecht outside of climbing I feel like she doesn't get enough recognition, might be biased cause I've met her in person.
It's hard to argue with wilt not being the most dominating athlete ever.
19:25 I loved high school wrestling and it makes me really sad that there's not wrestling gyms everywhere for adults the same way there's just jitsu gyms everywhere for adults
It's one of the most ancient and most prolific sports of all time
In an ideal world I'd be both focused on Strongman and wrestling but here we are and I'm lifting stones in a parking lot lol
For me a underrated athlete has to be Grant Holloway
Bro who tf knew this dude was friends with Chris Williamson. A previous club owner made podcaster this world is so small
I would add Nathan Florence -- big wave surfer, broke a vertebrae for his sport. Maybe Koa Rothman also, I think he also broke a vertebrae at Pipeline. Athlean X 😆
I’m a huge Nathan fan
Chris has hints of Welsh in his accent. Is he from Wales or has he spent any length of time here?
What about a split snatch session with you, Dillion and an old timer?
Ji-sung Park, underrated
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PLEASE DO A LC WITH CLARENCE KENNEDY
Devon Larratt, people can't fathom how good he really is.
Another hockey player, Pavel Datsyuk. Made players look silly every time. And also single-handedly create the modern style with a skill based game. Ahead of his time.
Vijay Singh is Fijian
Kyle Snyder, 4x World/Olympic champion, 6x World medalist. Hasn’t lost to an American wrestler in almost a decade. Isn’t the face of wrestling in America bc of Jordan Burroughs even though Kyle has been out performing him for years
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VJ Singh is from Fiji, not India.
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Kevin Mayer, Decathlon world record holder, highest score ever by quite a margin. Probably underrated/unknown because it's not the most popular sport.
Before watching fully (at 3:45) Yoel Romero should be on someone’s list or I will riot
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Cool Vijay factoid: he was also a scratch golfer left handed 🫠🤯
John Brzenk
Shane Warn underrated??? Buddy, that man is worshiped as a god by australians. He's a looooong way from being underrated.
Rodney Mullen. People didn't even understand what he was doing so the whole 90s skate culture gave him so little of the props he deserved.
Make a Crouser video!
levan saganashvilli
How about David Blaine? Dude held his breath for 17 minutes
1. Alistair Overeem 2. Fabio Cannovaro 3. Shakhriyor Juraev 4. Aleksandr Karelin 5. Fadi El Khatib. Honorable mention: Patrick Beverly.
The fact that Cael Sanderson isn’t considered the greatest college athlete of all time is a joke
why is he always one his phone?
Unknown sport. Look up Eddie Feigner
This is the most American take on this topic 😂 nothing exists outside of the US
I’m so underrated I’m not even in this video
Geordie ahh room mate
literally 99% of track and field athletes
Chris WIlliamson with huge bias for mid English cricketers. The wider cricketing world has much better players and athletes than Collingwood and Billings
My top 5 underrated athletes: Tero Pitkämäki, Henri Lebesgue, Herzi Halevi, Usain Bolt and Barack Obama
Obama is overrated and Usain is a GOAT in sprinting.
Jonah Lomu