The Top 5 Most Underrated Athletes

The Top 5 Most Underrated Athletes | Lift Companion

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Zack, Dylan and Chris sit down to discuss some lesser know greats in sports.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:25 - Golf Legends
09:39 - Unknown Sports
17:09 - Wrestling
20:48 - The Bad Guys
31:38 - The Unrepresented Names

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@Bombsuitsandkilts Ай бұрын

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)

@evanscott3187 Ай бұрын

Mark Henry would have been great in NFL, was a great powerlifter, great weightlifter and strongman! A very underrated Athlete!

@jeremyweems4916 Ай бұрын

Greatest natural strength athlete ever.

@yoeyyoey8937 19 күн бұрын

He’s one of my favorite athletes of all time he could have killed it in anything

@wildwilie Ай бұрын

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!

@Snydomite Ай бұрын

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.

@petrvarys8356 Ай бұрын

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.

@romaintagliaferro3189 Ай бұрын

Tennis is very often overlooked when talking about freak athletes, but nowadays these guys are absolute beasts. (I would think about alcaraz, nadal, monfils)

@dogcatdogable Ай бұрын

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

@harrison3910 Ай бұрын

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.

@MrPerfectius Ай бұрын

Dozer and Giraffe are my favorite power couple.

@ulhasanzk2249 Ай бұрын

Zack just loves ppl named Zack. he also liked the guy called Zack in the other vid

@yoeyyoey8937 19 күн бұрын

Why am I not surprised

@user-ii7xc1ry3x Ай бұрын

"Paul Pierce walked past me" and then what? what happened?? I was lowkey invested in the story

@zacktelander Ай бұрын

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

@net-work-error Ай бұрын

@@zacktelander Inside Stuff was must watch TV back in the day, it's understandable

@user-ii7xc1ry3x Ай бұрын

@@zacktelander 😆💀

@williamhull20 Ай бұрын

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

@shmoo1000 Ай бұрын

1. John Daly

@Real28 Ай бұрын

Tigers quote about if Daly even tried half as much as tiger and he'd have been a GOAT is haunting.

@hyperdunkzhd22 Ай бұрын

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 ;)

@artu262 Ай бұрын

I'm just an endurance bro saying Hamish Bond. Dude's an engine

@0kneelbeforezod0 Ай бұрын

This is the way.

@APGMs Ай бұрын

To be fair I love the camera angle where I feel like I’m actually looking across the Atlantic to watch you guys!!

@andrelarocque5967 Ай бұрын

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

@StraitjacketFitness Ай бұрын

This.

@sagebauer1077 Ай бұрын

I guess maybe underrated outside of armwrestling, but anyone who knows about armwrestling labels him as the undisputed GOAT

@andrelarocque5967 Ай бұрын

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.

@StraitjacketFitness Ай бұрын

@@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.

@billnaab7644 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@TheGudeGym Ай бұрын

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.

@dylanlasky2389 Ай бұрын

Ryan crouser is an insane athlete. Joe kovacs too.

@zaboog9149 Ай бұрын

Vijay is from Fiji

@CaelanTierney Ай бұрын

Ji Sung Park for Manchester United, Football (Soccer) - Very underrated.

@johnlapp2163 Ай бұрын

What a great conversation for any sports fan. Well done.

@JakeS-xe3qb Ай бұрын

Love the conversation, but you guys did a huge disservice to Dan Gable, a complete legend for all wrestlers.

@TheFoxter69 Ай бұрын

Jonah Lomu, Dan Carter, Richie McCaw (I'm Australian so that was hard to write)

@madworld109 Ай бұрын

I don't think you could say they were really underrated. They were absolutely the best of their time

@Garrett1240 Ай бұрын

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.

@Ramboer Ай бұрын

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@hybridwarrior1219 Ай бұрын

I am surprised you didn't mention the Saitiev brothers. Those guys are extremely underrated in the West.

@CompensatoryMechanism Ай бұрын

".... so the algorithm picks us up and we can overtake Mr.Beast." 😄😁 Zack, you crack me up.

@ElGuapoChavo Ай бұрын

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@ElGuapoChavo Ай бұрын

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@StraitjacketFitness Ай бұрын

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@BaptisteForiel Ай бұрын

Awesome episode, s/o from France, thanks guys !

@austinohlrich9370 Ай бұрын

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!!

@linctheweightlifter04 Ай бұрын

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@user-ii7xc1ry3x Ай бұрын

LETS GO

@burrit0s827 Ай бұрын

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

@Bjorn_R Ай бұрын

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

@jonmathieu7006 Ай бұрын

More lift companions plz!

@cameronjones4895 Ай бұрын

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

@Ryanv7x Ай бұрын

Love it as always! Gary Peyton for me!

@ethangoss-dickie8544 Ай бұрын

Stephen Neal is my most underrated athlete ever. 2x NCAA wrestling champ and 1999 world champion, 3x Superbowl champion with the patriots.

@ElGuapoChavo Ай бұрын

Jim Thorpe! He won two gold medals with shoes pulled out of the garbage. #TrueStory

@ElGuapoChavo Ай бұрын

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@32srt32 Ай бұрын

they make courses longer, but it just effects the shorter hitters more than it effects the longer hitters.

@timonschneider6290 Ай бұрын

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.

@Carlos-bk5is Ай бұрын

Never thought I see you talk about Bivol

@DreJr Ай бұрын

The batsman who scored 501 was Brian Lara.

@vairagyaupadhyaya5172 Ай бұрын

i am sad thatAB de Villiers isn't mentioned here.

@kevincarter4830 Ай бұрын

rowing/ indoor rowing should get a mention there are some athletes that never get mentioned.

@user-ii7xc1ry3x Ай бұрын

1:47 look at him Chris, so manly 💀

@cstrickers558 Ай бұрын

Hakuho or Chiyonofuji.

@TerriblyNice_Not Ай бұрын

Ok, as no one seems to have clarified it yet, Vijay Singh was Fijian of Indian origin

@wallbreak7057 Ай бұрын

when we talk about dominance in any sport it is 100% Kareli and Phelps

@denniscookecscs Ай бұрын

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

@arturohull14161 Ай бұрын

1. Alistair Overeem 2. Fabio Cannovaro 3. Shakhriyor Juraev 4. Aleksandr Karelin 5. Fadi El Khatib. Honorable mention: Patrick Beverly.

@Ethanbball7 Ай бұрын

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.

@jerodadams1612 Ай бұрын

Baseball Doesn't Exist is an amazing youtube!

@ud4vv Ай бұрын

bivol is the least hit boxer right now godly defence

@Vivacomunismo Ай бұрын

The problem is canelo had been going up multiple weight classes until he get to light heavyweight… it’s not an excuse canelo just hit his ceiling as a short guy

@ulhasanzk2249 Ай бұрын

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.

@th3outs1d3r1984 Ай бұрын

What about a split snatch session with you, Dillion and an old timer?

@jonmathieu7006 Ай бұрын

Yohan Blake is another severely underrated t&f athlete

@jarrodbrown2656 Ай бұрын

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.

@benboy582 Ай бұрын

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!

@StraitjacketFitness Ай бұрын

*JIM THORPE.*

@StraitjacketFitness Ай бұрын

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@CompensatoryMechanism Ай бұрын

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@tooxtalivai0690 Ай бұрын

Love the OJ Simpson bit. Everyone has a price $$$$$$$

@BulkBrogan. Ай бұрын

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

@TerriblyNice_Not Ай бұрын

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

@scottv6726 Ай бұрын

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 😆

@zacktelander Ай бұрын

I’m a huge Nathan fan

@thesea4120 Ай бұрын

Janja Garnbrecht outside of climbing I feel like she doesn't get enough recognition, might be biased cause I've met her in person.

@johnlapp2163 Ай бұрын

It's hard to argue with wilt not being the most dominating athlete ever.

@ninjastrongman28 Ай бұрын

Devon Larratt, people can't fathom how good he really is.

@sethmaginnipig1801 24 күн бұрын

Bro who tf knew this dude was friends with Chris Williamson. A previous club owner made podcaster this world is so small

@patrickbrady8515 Ай бұрын

Sterling Spencer #1 surfer in the world.

@eliasdahlstrom286 Ай бұрын

For me a underrated athlete has to be Grant Holloway

@toffaha2692 Ай бұрын

My top 5 underrated athletes: Tero Pitkämäki, Henri Lebesgue, Herzi Halevi, Usain Bolt and Barack Obama

@StraitjacketFitness Ай бұрын

Jack Lalanne.

@StraitjacketFitness Ай бұрын

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@CompensatoryMechanism Ай бұрын

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@ElGuapoChavo Ай бұрын

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@LeeJCander Ай бұрын

Chris has hints of Welsh in his accent. Is he from Wales or has he spent any length of time here?

@declanwain7581 Ай бұрын

Brain Lara made 501. You should react to a cricket documentary called Fire in Babylon

@jeremynowak2800 Ай бұрын

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.

@vagabondages4089 Ай бұрын

Kevin Mayer, Decathlon world record holder, highest score ever by quite a margin. Probably underrated/unknown because it's not the most popular sport.

@jacobwilson7030 Ай бұрын

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

@Joshtera Ай бұрын

Ji-sung Park, underrated

@CompensatoryMechanism Ай бұрын

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@Skygooose Ай бұрын

VJ Singh is from Fiji, not India.

@denniscookecscs Ай бұрын

How about David Blaine? Dude held his breath for 17 minutes

@madworld109 Ай бұрын

Vijay Singh is Fijian

@wongsburner9560 Ай бұрын

Before watching fully (at 3:45) Yoel Romero should be on someone’s list or I will riot

@olivierstultiens Ай бұрын

I’m so underrated I’m not even in this video

@ElGuapoChavo Ай бұрын

Kyriakos Grizzly.

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@Eliobren Ай бұрын

Jim Brown

@sapthebee6342 Ай бұрын

John Brzenk

@drip369 Ай бұрын

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@drip369 Ай бұрын

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@gagemohelsky569 Ай бұрын

Make a Crouser video!

@zacharyzbeetnoff7043 Ай бұрын

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.

@rocketroomba930 Ай бұрын

levan saganashvilli

@TheBryceSheehan Ай бұрын

Cool Vijay factoid: he was also a scratch golfer left handed 🫠🤯

@Derek-qu5to Ай бұрын

No-lift companion

@jacobwilson7030 Ай бұрын

The fact that Cael Sanderson isn’t considered the greatest college athlete of all time is a joke

@johannest.6652 Ай бұрын

why is he always one his phone?

@cheeks7050 Ай бұрын

Geordie ahh room mate

@Mr.Ciobanu Ай бұрын

literally 99% of track and field athletes

@johnlapp2163 Ай бұрын

Unknown sport. Look up Eddie Feigner

@IsaacMorgan98 Ай бұрын

Shane Warn underrated??? Buddy, that man is worshiped as a god by australians. He's a looooong way from being underrated.

@FPLzed Ай бұрын

This is the most American take on this topic 😂 nothing exists outside of the US

@gerardcraig Ай бұрын

Chris WIlliamson with huge bias for mid English cricketers. The wider cricketing world has much better players and athletes than Collingwood and Billings

@tooxtalivai0690 Ай бұрын

Jonah Lomu