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4/18/2017 8:42pm
4/18/2017 8:42pm
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Supercross top 10.
1.) Jeremy McGrath: King of the modern way of how to skillfully race modern obstacles.
2.) James Stewart: No one has ever gone faster. Just too inconsistent over his whole career.
3.) Ryan Villopoto: Thought about RC here but I truly believe RV was slightly better.
4.) Ricky Carmichael: Greatest overall rider ever.
5.) Ryan Dungey: Thought about Chad but Ryan has more titles and has had deeper pool of competition.
6.) Chad Reed: I could see him as high as 3rd but only 2 titles and those were not very strong fields.
7.) Ricky Johnson: The predecessor to McGrath in SX skill. Was first rider I recall to consistently skim whoops.
8.) Jeff Ward: Hannah could be here but Wardy was Johnsons main threat for the longest time.
9.) Bob Hannah: 3 titles and the heart of a Lion.
10.) Jeff Stanton: The true Diesel.
Motocross all time top 10
1.) Ricky Carmichael: 102 wins outdoors.
2.) James Stewart: 48 wins outdoors and the most in the lites class.
3.) Ryan Dungey: 46 wins outdoors and 4 titles.
4.) Ryan Villopoto: 31 wins outdoors and 5 titles. If he would've had a little stronger 450 MX career he would be 2nd.
5.) Ricky Johnson: Could have been higher but for that broken navicular bone.
6.) Jeff Ward: Titles on 125, 250, and 500.
7.) Jeff Emig: 29 wins outdoors and 3 titles. At his best I think he could hang with RC outdoors.
8.) Broc Glover: the golden boy rode the 500 to many wins.
9.) Jeff Stanton: got er done!
10.) David Bailey: Had to put him on here some where. He was amazing to watch and just didn't get to show us long enough!
SX
1.) Mc
2.) RC
3.) JS7
4.) RV
5.) CR22
6.) RD
(Besides Emig, these are the only guys who have won championships while I've been cognizant. And sorry, if a dude hasn't won a championship, I can't put him on a GOAT list.)
MX
1.) RC
2.) RV
3.) JS
4.) KR94
5.) RD
1.) Mc
2.) RC
3) RV
4.) RD
5)JS7
6)RJ
MX
1.) RC
2.) RD
3.) JS7
4.) RV
5.) JW
6) JS
SX
1. RV
2. JS7
3. RC
4. CR (22)
5. RD
MX
1. RC
2. RV
3. RD
4. JS7
5. ET (I was at Glen Helen 15 bro, you had to be there)
The Shop
1st RC
2nd Everts
3rd RV
4th Cairoli
5th Stewart
6th Roczen
7th Dungey
8th Gaiser
9th Tortelli
10th Smets
If those 10 were racing a series that took place on tracks all around the world, that's what my bet slip would look like.
Maybe I'd swap 4th & 5th. It's tight. Any of those 10 could beat the other on their day I think. Reed and Townly probably make up 11th and 12th. And it won't be long until Herlings is on that list.
I think a better top 10 list would be, especially after Sunday's ride by Cairoli, best rides of all time.
Like RC at Millville, Everts at the 06 mxdn, Stewart at Budds Creak or Tortelli at the 99 glen helen national etc.
1. McGrath
2. Carmichael
3. Villopoto
4. Dungey
5. Johnson
6. Stanton
7. Stewart
8. Ward
MX:
1. Carmichael
2. Villopoto
3. Dungey
4. Stewart
5. McGrath
6. Johnson
7. Stanton
8. Ward
Villopoto could have been even better as awesome as he was
McGrath is the most underrated outdoor rider ever, he has more wins than Villopoto.
He beat Stanton, Bradshaw, Emig, Big Bird, Lamson, Swink, Lusk, RC, DV, Button, Ferry, Larocco, Kiedrowski, Huffman...do I need to go on?
1. Jeremy McGrath
2. James Stewart
3. Ricky Carmichael
4. Rick Johnson
5. Ryan Villopoto
6. Bob Hannah
7. Chad Reed
8. Jeff Ward
9. David Bailey
10. Damon Bradshaw
MX:
1. Ricky Carmichael
2. James Stewart
3. Stefan Everts
4. Roger Decoster
5. Bob Hannah
6. Ryan Villopoto
7. Rick Johnson
8. Heikki Mikkola
9. Ryan Dungey
10. Mark Barnett
I'm willing to play around with some of these numbers.
Everts
Cairoli
Rv
Rd
SX
1. J. McGrath - 72 wins speaks volumes.
2. J. Stewart - #2 all-time wins at 50, but man he legitimately had a chance at MC's record.
3. R. Carmichael
4. R. Villopoto
5. J. Ward - I like Ward over Dungey purely because the level of competition faced.
6. R. Dungey
7. B. Hannah
8. C. Reed
9. R. Johnson
10. J. Stanton
Side note. Lots of first names with J or R.
MX
1. R. Carmichael - 102 wins, enough said.
2. J. Stewart - Underachieved, but did things that have still never been duplicated.
3. J. Ward - Dude won on all size bikes, and went 7-0 in MXDN's.
4. R. Dungey
5. R. Villopoto - Like Stew, underachieved for his talent level, but still a total badass.
6. R. Johnson
7. B. Hannah
8. J. Stanton
9. J. Emig
10. E. Tomac
McGrath (obvious choice, titles & wins)
Stewart (wins & speed)
Carmichael (titles & tenacity)
Villipoto (see above)
Hannah/Johnson tie (impact on sport & brash attitudes, without their respective injuries might be farther up this list)
Reed (patterned himself after "The King", got titles while racing two of the fiercest SXers we've ever seen)
Stanton (can't argue with three straight)
Bradshaw (Bubba without a title)
Bailey (the little professor would have won multiple titles had he not gotten hurt)
*Jimmy Ellis (Captain Cobalt was an early champ on Can Ams!)
MX
Carmichael (obvious choice, titles & wins & heart, refused to lose and hammered his competition into the dirt)
Villipoto/Hannah/Johnson (I've seen them all in their hay day and they all raced like their lives depended on it)
Stewart (FMFOTP!, imho by far the best 125 two stroke pilot ever)
Dungey/Stanton (very similar MX careers imo, both great in their own way)
Ward (tough as nails, won a title on every size two stroke)
Bailey (so perfect on the bike, again we were robbed of what could have been by his injury)
Bradshaw (just like with SX no titles but Bubba like in speed and aura)
*Gary Jones (the original and first 3 time champ all on different brands)
Special Category
Danny "Magoo" Chandler! (unbelievably spectacular to watch ride, he dropped the mic on the MX world when he won all four motos of the Trophy and Motocross Des Nations in 1982)
Lyle Swann
Ricky Carmichael
Ryan Dungey
Tony Cairoli
Ryan Villapoto
Jeremy McGrath
Ricky Johnson
Jeff Ward
Jeff Stanton
Tim Gasjer
As much as I like lots of riders he keeps bringing it year after year and is a threat.
Stewart was the fmotp years ago and could be a threat for random wins but since suspensions he isn't a top ten guy anymore.
2. McGrath
3. Cairoli
4. Everts
5. Villopoto
6. Stewart
7. Johnson
8. Dungey
9. Stanton
10. Reed
such as:
nat. titles
sx titles
reg. sx titles
nat. wins
sx wins
reg. sx wins
You could also add in off season races or GP titles / wins, win percentages, etc...
Once you figured out the criteria for ranking and what value to assign each... you'd
get a pretty good idea on un-bias rankings. I'm sure racerx or someone has done it
already.
Here's a quick one I made as an example:
Pit Row
1. RC 124 wins 12x champion
2. MC 87 wins 8x champion
3. RD 72 wins 6x champion
4. RV 53 wins 6x champion
5. JS7 70 wins 3x champion
Your list is invalid.
you put chad reed on your sx list, and i agree !!! besides the fact that he too is not american and did start his international carrear in mxgp. Maybe its because he is from australia and made america his home.....
but to call "his american tour" to what JMB accomplished in AMA racing i think is close to insulting......
he came in from france, won every thing that could be won sx/mx, proved that americans were not unbeatable, fought alone against a nation that didn't like the idea of his victory. And did beat them all on their backyard
i don't care where they were born, i care for skill and hart and JMB was one of the best ever to race AMA mx/sx just for what he showed every time he went behind the gate. but to consider CR22 for just the american scene and leave out the JMB "tour" really shows where this is going at........
JMB is the most underrated sx/mx champion on this site......no wonder why !!!!!!!
he went to race in america after being 125 and 250 world champion, in a time when americans were the great and it was said that were unbeatable at home and the gods of super cross, no one would even dare to try what he did, and it toke i think 2/3 year to get to where he wanted, 250mx one year, 250 sx and 500mx the next (if i remember well, not really sure)......
them went along to be factory yamaha for top class motogp and them world champion of endurance racing (24h races) with suzuki, even raced enduro competitively in french national...there is a video of him in a cr250 i think where he races a toboggan in a ice toboggan course.....check youtube...
as i sayed i`m not upset, i just think JMB deserves a lot more respect for the racer he was, and specially for his constant seek of challenges on moto racing, that even made him come back to sx with RogerD after all the road racing thing...
so if your list was of americans i would be quiet as usual here.....but since you put CR22 on your list, i think there is no reason not to put JMB since he is probably the most gifted human to ride 2 wheels that we know !!!!!!!
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