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re: who is the most popular athlete in the world right now (besides messi/ronaldo)

Posted on 5/10/18 at 7:21 am to
Posted by J Murdah
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 7:21 am to
Ninja the Fortnite player
Posted by CptBengal
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 7:23 am to
These daily LeGOAT threads from you disciples reeks on insecurity
Posted by Mr Personality
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 7:32 am to
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athlete


quote:

popular


Your mom
Posted by Trauma14
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 7:54 am to
Posted by Hamma1122
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 7:57 am to
Tiger Woods
Posted by Hogwarts
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 8:03 am to
As Ichiro would say, "Who the %$#* is Tom Brady?"

Posted by Hoops
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 8:06 am to
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World - Lebron James


lol
Posted by slackster
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 8:09 am to
It's not an ESports guy for damn sure.
Posted by oleyeller
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 8:14 am to
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conor mcgregor is right up there,


is this a troll
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 8:16 am to
The answers are Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan. Both are still immensely popular in the most densely populated areas of the world. Current players probably Steph Curry he's one of the biggest names in Asia.

These are outside of the soccer stars, of course.
This post was edited on 5/10/18 at 8:17 am
Posted by PortCityTiger24
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 8:24 am to
Yao
Posted by rondo
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 8:46 am to
UFC is trashy as frick.
Posted by sweetwaterbilly
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 8:51 am to
You disagree?

Outside of soccer, LeBron is probably the most popular and well known athlete. People around the world LOVE basketball - especially in Asia. Shoot even Stephon Marbury was a hero in that part of the world. I guess the debate is popular vs. well known. People like Federer, Tiger Woods, etc. are extremely well known - but I think more people like basketball than those other sports.
Posted by Bench McElroy
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 8:54 am to
Neymar is the third most famous athlete in the world hands down. Soccer is so much bigger globally than basketball. In fact, I would say the only athletes who even comes close to the fame of the top soccer players are LeBron, Usain Bolt and Tiger Woods.
Posted by RedPop4
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 9:14 am to
Usain Bolt is a good shout.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Manny Pacquiao
Posted by AU_251
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 9:36 am to
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who is the biggest name that ur average office worker will recognize.


LeBron. Michael Jordan.

Scalabrine
Posted by VaBamaMan
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 9:36 am to
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John Cena


I just can't see him making a top 5 most popular athlete list.
Posted by Harry Caray
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 9:39 am to
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NASCAR - Jimmy Johnson

Posted by Mahootney
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:04 am to
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World - Tiger Woods

NBA - Lebron James
NFL - Beastmode
MLB - Ichiro
PGA - Tiger Woods
NHL - Ovechkin
Tennis - Roger Federor
Soccer - Lionel Messi
Boxing - Tyson
NASCAR - Earnhardt
Posted by 1BamaRTR
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:10 am to
Usain Bolt

He has the distinction of being the fastest human in the world. As popular as soccer is around the world, not every single person watches it. So they don’t care who’s the best, highest payed, etc. athlete. Meanwhile pretty much everyone finds it interesting who’s the fastest person ever.
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