I was watching the English Super League the other day and noticed that Mark Riddel was actually looking fatter then when he was in the NRL. He had a decent sized keg protruding from his Jersey. This made me wonder about who is possibly the best fat athlete in the history of sport.
There seem to be a few cricketers who fit into the category. People like Lehman, Hughes and Boon clearly drank too much piss and didn't do too much running on the field. There are some fat League stars that come to mind i.e. Ridell, Craige, Widders, Lazarus and Webcke. Other international "Fatletes" include John Daly, Ronaldo (not Cristiano) and Shaq.
Do you know of any other "Fatletes" ??
Who do you nominate as the most skillful and talented "Fatlete" in the history of sport ?
Craig Young at the back end of his career was massive as was Arthur Beetson. My favourite Fatlete all all is Long John Daly. Surely the most gifted Fatlete of all time who just loves drinking, smoking and gambling and sometimes plays golf.
ReplyDeleteJohn Daly for me too. What an amazing fatlete. Great post George
ReplyDeletep.s. Matt Dunning wishes he could be on this list!
babe ruth and david ortiz from baseball
ReplyDeletecraig stadler and craig parry from golf
ranatunga from sri lankan cricket
butterbean from boxing
william perry aka the fridge from nfl
ReplyDeleteand man boobs mickleson
cant forget possibly the greatest football player ever diego maradona
ReplyDeleteDanny Wicks, Paul Osborne and David Gillepspie. Also that massive English Female Golfer Laura Davies??? Hugemongous. Butterbean the Boxer is a large human. All class fatletes.
ReplyDeletedavid foster the wood chopper is probably the fattest world champion out there
ReplyDeletetough to say that webkce and shaq deserve to be on this list.
ReplyDeletei like the babe ruth reference- he singlehandedly made baseball what it is today.
id throw the old version of george foreman in there.
the greatest fat aussie athletes are shane warne and artie beetson.
plus, fridge perry wasnt good, just fat.
ReplyDeleteand boxhead, cement gillespie wasnt fat either- just one of the great hitters of all time.
great post jungle.
gotta tip the hat to merv and boonie too
ReplyDeleteTwo words: Martin Bella !! Fat, bald, moustache and a gun and extremely ugly league player. He should almost win this award on his looks alone.
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Shaq is fat. I think he deserves to be on the list. From what I have read he had issues at LA cause of his weight and it was one of the reasons he left there. Not sure how much truth there is to it but it seemed reliable.
Webke is borderline fat and borderline solid as a brick. I just remember him as a massive unit that is in a different mold to current leaner props like Price, Civoniceva and Kite.
Looks as though John Daly is a clear front runner. He will probably be dead in a few years so we better send him the award of "greatest fatlete on earth" asap.
yeah you cant compare guys like lazarus and webkce to modern props- it's like they're playing a different sport. webkce didn't have a lot of weight to lose- lazzo did at times and even bella was just big, not that fat.
ReplyDeleteshaq was a lazy trainer at the lakers, has been his whole career. he started at 19 in the league weighing about 135-140 kg (he is 7'1" though) with not an ounce of fat on him- he is just a gigantic human being. it's true that he has expanded as he's gotten older, but until recently when estimates have him around 165-170 kg he would always been in pretty good shape by mid season, and he's 36 now. fat's a tough call. my vote for best fat basketballer would be Charles Barkley who played power forward at about 6'4" against guys 4-6 inches taller, but who was never in shape, yet carved the league up routinely.
also, the main reason that shaq left the lakers was that kobe and shaq couldn't co-exist any more, shaq was slightly past his prime while kobe was just entering his, ,and management chose the younger, hungrier guy. shaq's weight wasn't an issue, but his work ethic was as his lack of off-season work led to a lot of niggling injuries.
ReplyDeleteThey chose the younger player, but not sure about the hungrier one, looking at Shaq's Fat as Fuck frame of late
ReplyDeleteTony Lockett was a fat monster throughout his career, I think he ate Paul Kelly.
ReplyDeleteI was watching the major league baseball the other day and a guy called Prince Fielder is a huuuuuuuuuge bitch. Check out http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=425902 and watch the one of the videos to see his huge frame
you are correct PAWD Prince Fielder is a fat heap of goo. His dad, ,Cecil Fielder, was an All-star too and also a mudguts.
ReplyDeleteAmazingly, Prince Fielder started being a vegetarian two or three years ago.
John Daly may lose his Fatlete tag soon. He's had lap-band surgery and has so far lost 27kg. Only another 30 to go till he's the size of a normal human!!!
ReplyDeleteA Fatlete that was forgotten was Greg Ritchie, who played cricket in the 80's when Australia was atrocious and we couldn't be too fussy when it came to selections!!!
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ReplyDeleteDarryl Brohman
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