ESPN Top 60 Toughest Sports - WTF?!?!?

ESPN's list: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

What sports do you think should be higher or lower on the list? Are there any on the list that you don't consider real sports? What would be your top 10?

My top 10 Toughest Sports:
1. Boxing
2. Wrestling
3. Distance Running
4. Football
5. Hockey
6. Rugby
7. Water Polo
8. Rowing
9. Weightlifting
10. Lacrosse

Honorable Mention - Golf and Skateboarding nearly made my list due to the amount of skill that is involved; however, they weren't physical enough.

In my videos, I often refer to running as the toughest sport, but when I say that, I'm speaking in terms of mental toughness. If you take into account other factors like strategy and learning curve, running gets bumped down a little bit.

*Everyone's list will be subjective, and no one is qualified to make a comprehensive list unless they have played every sport competitively, so I made my list based on experiences, observations, and sports friends that I know.

I tried to affect the thumbnail of the video by putting in a title 1/4 of the way into the video, but I failed epically lol.

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• sport rankings
• cheerleading is not a sport

[bebomac5]

@cicirunner Also, in Basketball, players are not only required to have amazing skill and physicality, but players average 5-7 miles "running" per game. If your going to discuss other sports, at least have basic knowlege of what is intailed.

So let me get this straight, Golf is a sport,..but Cheerleading is not?

Lets take a look:

Golf: watch?v=R5oT2ZPMhqE

Cheerleading: watch?v=cXRWQa9tQLw

Hmmm!

[cicirunner]

@bebomac5 I explained my reasoning. It's an opinion, nothing more. I didn't say cheerleading wasn't hard. As far as basketball is concerned, it doesn't really matter how much you "supposedly run." When I play basketball, the stop and go moments make it too easy. You are clearly a bball/football jock that takes offense to my comments. Even you have to admit that basketball is too high on the list.

[bebomac5]

@cicirunner I agree with you that Running should be higher on the list, but in turn show gret direspect to other sports. Cheerleading's not a sport? They suffer as many injuries as almost any sport, running included. Fat Linebackers and Fullbacks? Don't watch much Football do you? example: LB: watch?vNRF0RwiUFzg

Btw, Lineman would snap you in 2, and you'd never have a chance to put your endurance to use, because their much faster than you.

[cicirunner]

@bebomac5 Being in the toughest sport doesn't automatically mean you are equipped to beat the crap out of someone lol. I still have football as #4 on my list.

[evanms17]

in wrestling u almost never see fat people either and people call it gay cause u were a singlet if u didnt were a singlet ud thing its crazy hard but running is very hard too

[cicirunner]

@evanms17 I know that it's hard. In my personal top 10 list in the video description, I listed wrestling as the 2nd hardest sport, ahead of running. Main reason being that running gets easier when you practice because of muscle memory, but wrestling is never the same. You're always fighting different people with different styles so it never gets easier.

[evanms17]

Wrestling action should be neumber two its crazy hard u dont know hard untill youv wrestled running is crap i respect it and its hard but wrestlings hard

[TheArdScoilRis]

@cicirunner thanks. to be quiet honest you cant really judge the hardest sports in the world but what i find stupid is i could list 20 sports that are much harder than that lists top 10. i mean theres so many sports out there and knowones ever going to be able to do all of them.

[cicirunner]

@TheArdScoilRis ESPN clearly was more interested in appealing to the masses than actually compiling a true list, as you pointed out. I respect your top 5, sir.

[TheArdScoilRis]

@56Database ya i totally agree with you there