Toughest Sport

[BoyEngland]

Can we please just stop this back and forth banter about nothing? I am tired of seeing the same opinions getting thrown around, I want to see some new ones. I'm not telling people not to post, just move away from the hockey vs the world argument. Lets talk about how tough other sports are.

New discussion: Out of the actual fighting sports (boxing, UFC, real wrestling, etc), which does everyone think is the toughest?

Personally I think UFC is because it combine almost all the other fighting sports and just lets each person unload almost whatever fighting style they see fit on their opponent. Boxing is also very tough, just look at Ali to see what boxing can do to a guy.

My step dad used to train with Clinton Woods (a pro boxer) so knows what it feels like to get knocked around the ring, can do some real damage even in sparring.

[Scuba Steve]

Originally Posted by BoyEngland

Can we please just stop this back and forth banter about nothing? I am tired of seeing the same opinions getting thrown around, I want to see some new ones. I'm not telling people not to post, just move away from the hockey vs the world argument. Lets talk about how tough other sports are.

Then prove it isn't the toughest. If you want to discuss other sports, no one is stopping you. However, don't try and stop others from doing something simply because you dislike it.

For the final time, I'm waiting for someone who thinks football or rugby is tougher to post a video proving so. That's all I've been saying and no one has been able to deliver.

[Magnum Force]

I still don't understand the idea of what sport is tougher.

Tougher how? Hits? Ability and skill? Demanding both on and off a game? How much training and conditioning? Requirements and expectations?

Scuba, as much as I love hockey, not everything revolves around hockey with the "toughest sport" category. Football is tough because they have to run, which gets tiring faster and not to mention the opponents are pushing and shoving you almost every second (hockey too, but not for the entire game).

Hockey is tough because there are many skills that are required: skating, stick handling, defensive/offensive aspects, goaltending, hitting, etc. But the edge given to hockey is that they are skating, which takes a small portion off of the work needed to move during a game. Yea, there's fighting, but only because it's allowed and used strategically. There's been plenty of fights in other sports, but they aren't part of the game.

Wanna know what hockey players do during the summer to condition and stay in shape? They play soccer. More than half of the Sharks players play soccer to keep themselves fit. A bunch of other NHL players do as well. Like I said before, each sport has its own tough areas. There is no toughest sport.

So yeah. Wrestlings the toughest sport.

[BoyEngland]

Originally Posted by Homicide.V2

So yeah. Wrestlings the toughest sport.

I'm not saying I disagree (although I do), but why do you think this?

Pro-Wrestling like WWE can be tough, just look at the Sid Vicious character and his leg break, but I don't think it's the toughest fighting sport out there.

Olympic wrestling is very difficult and can also lead to horrible injuries. School wrestling is pretty much Olympic wrestling but obviously not at the same level and is also grueling.

[Mr~Pan]

Originally Posted by Scuba Steve

The same KO's in UFC occur in hockey all the time. A hockey hit is ten times as vicious as a heavy punch from the UFC. Do you even watch hockey? Fights can last a long time for it being taken place in an ice arena while on skates with an actual sporting event going on. Fighting on skates is an entirely different fighting form. If you don't know what you're doing, you'll get your *** kicked. I guarantee a UFC fighter wouldn't last against a hockey player on skates. I'm not saying a hockey player could necessarily last against a UFC fighter in the ring, but hockey players don't make a living by fighting. Players never grab the jersey over the other player's head. Stop watching Mighty Ducks, it just isn't true.

Fights can last a long time? Your off your rocker a fight in hockey lasts under a minute because its just two guys that want to put on a show and wail on the other as soon as they get a good hit in its broken up. You can not defend the jersey issue I see it all the time, I have been to Bruins games it happens it is from from myth.

Again, UFC is only fighting. Hockey combines that with so much more. The hits in hockey will never be matched by UFC, or any other sport, for that matter.

Again, this doesn't make sense. Fighting is allowed in hockey, how does that not make it tough? Have you even seen bench-clearing brawls? Every single player on the ice is fighting at once, even the goalies. It's like Braveheart on ice. Hell, there's even been cases where players have climbed over the glass and started fighting with the fans.

Like I said I voted Hockey because the endurance to skate, hit each other, and handel the puck is hard but if it was a rough I would vote rugby because it has the endurance and hard hits with minimal padding.

Anyone can skate? Have you ever been on the ice? Let's take any random Joe off the street, give them gear and throw them in a hockey game. They wouldn't last.

In a pro hockey game no obviously thats just stupid but put a Joe off the street in a fun pick up game and if he has ANY skating experience he would manage and get better during the game. I have not skated in 10 years but if I put skates on again I could go right back to where I was, I would not match up against a pro but I could play just like if you put a soccer ball in front of me I could kick the damn thing how hard is that.

How is rugby more brutal?

All you people claim it is, yet never back it up. I've posted several videos of huge hits that other sports couldn't even compare to.

Not to mention the possibility of getting a puck flying at over 100 miles an hour hitting you in the face (very common), a stick hitting you in the face (again, very common), getting cut by skates, etc.

Other sports don't even come close

Soccer can have hard hits but I still think its a girls sport. Getting hit by a puck, how about a baseball or a bat? Getting cut by skates and high sticking is illegal in hockey (well the high stick is) I might happen but its not like every minute a dude is getting cut open on a skate or smacked in the face.

Originally Posted by Homicide.V2

So yeah. Wrestlings the toughest sport.

Wow I almost deleted your post because its so ****ing stupid because you don't explain why. Wrestling is fake on TV and when it is done in reality just two guys roll around on the ground trying to stop the other from moving, how is that tough, who ever is stronger is gonna win.


For anyone that doesn't like the argument don't post. This is a good topic of back and forth points and opinions. If it gets insulting or carryed away I will stop it.

[Workman23]

in reality just two guys roll around on the ground trying to stop the other from moving, how is that tough, who ever is stronger is gonna win.

Sorry, but you obviously have never wrestled or had anyone close that does wrestle. If you did you would never be saying those things. It is beyond toughness and strength. There are so many damn moves and also you are in the same weight-class so there are no real dramatic differences in strength. I would gladly go on more and get my brother on here who has been wrestling for years and have him explain the crazy **** they go through day to day and difficulty of the wrestling match... but he is on spring break but will be back soon.

That is real wrestling I was talking about... The TV wrestling is fake as ****.

[Mr~Pan]

Originally Posted by Workman23

Sorry, but you obviously have never wrestled or had anyone close that does wrestle. If you did you would never be saying those things. It is beyond toughness and strength. There are so many damn moves and also you are in the same weight-class so there are no real dramatic differences in strength. I would gladly go on more and get my brother on here who has been wrestling for years and have him explain the crazy **** they go through day to day and difficulty of the wrestling match... but he is on spring break but will be back soon.

That is real wrestling I was talking about... The TV wrestling is fake as ****.

I have wrestled and it is not hard it is fun in my opinion because I love martial arts so grabbeling people is fun, far from hard. Every once in a while you get a knee in the head or something by accident but its FAR from hard, or tough its all about skill and strenght. If you have them both its GG. Wrestling is tiring but so is water skiing but I don't call that tough.

[Workman23]

Originally Posted by Mr~Pan

I have wrestled and it is not hard it is fun in my opinion because I love martial arts so grabbeling people is fun, far from hard. Every once in a while you get a knee in the head or something by accident but its FAR from hard, or tough its all about skill and strenght. If you have them both its GG. Wrestling is tiring but so is water skiing but I don't call that tough.

wrestled in high school?

[_NIGHTBRINGER_]

CZW(Combat Zone Restling)

Is the toughest sport.

Smashing people into flourescent lightbulbs, wrestling in wrings filled with broken glass and thumbtacks, slamming people into tables that are one fire, getting a weedwacker to the chest, etc.

Are all the NORM in CZW.

Seriously, that sh*t is brutal.