nobody's gonna do nothing nobody can do
nothing up here to me dishing out a
little verbal abuse was never a problem
for these athletes
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
best trash talkers in sports i was going
to rip his heart out i'm the best
ever i'm the most brutal and michigan
most ruthless champion has ever been
for this list we're looking at current
and former athletes who reveled in their
ability to bad-mouth
their opponents who was talking about
you
crabtree don't you open your mouth about
the best are y'all gonna set it for you
real quick
l.o.b number 10 ronda rousey
you need that charming [ __ ] between
2011 and 2015
ronda rousey was the most dominant
female mixed martial artist
on the planet she defended her title at
the ufc women's bantamweight
championship
seven times often defeating her
opponents in less than a minute
during this time rousey wasn't afraid to
voice her opinions on other fighters
and would often berate them with strings
of verbal taunts during pre-fight press
conferences
alas her unexpected loss to holly holm
in 2015
seems to have humbled her some proving
that the quickest way to shut someone up
is to beat them at their own game i was
like
in the medical room and i was like down
in the corner i was sitting in the
corner and i was like
what am i anymore if i'm not this number
nine shannon sharp
throughout the 90s and early 2000s
shannon sharp
dominated the nfl the six foot two tight
end was the perfect combination of size
speed and skill making it a nightmare
for other players to try and defend him
he won three super bowls during his
career and set numerous positional
records
why are we telling you this because
sharp's dominance is what allowed him to
be one of the most
ruthless trash talkers to ever step on
an nfl field
i've called the president president we
need the national guard
we need as many many as you can spare
cause we are killing the patriots
it didn't matter if he was giving it to
opposing players fans or even his own
teammates
sharp could chew you up and spit you out
with ease
number eight john mcenroe my daughters
are over there
i think it's mixed they think i probably
lose this arena
i believe that i could still take her
you do
since its inception the sport of tennis
has been synonymous with the upper
class a gentleman's game meant to be
treated with respect
however in the late 70s one man came
along who trash-talked his opponents
berated umpires and generally got under
the skin of all who opposed him
and that man was john mcenroe the kicker
was that he could back it up on the
court
spending 170 weeks as the top-ranked
tennis player in the world between 1980
and 1985.
for an example of mcenroe's trash
talking abilities look no further than
the time he said of his rival evon lendl
quote i've got more talent in my pinky
than lendl has in his whole body
you told you topped yourself sir you
told npr
that if serena williams won the men's
circuit she'd be like number 700 in the
world
okay number seven richard sherman
what is it about richard sherman that
makes opponents lose their minds
the seattle seahawks cornerback has gone
toe-to-toe with some of the nfl's best
wide receivers
and more often than not they end up
losing their cool
while sherman is arguably one of the
best at his position there is a case to
be made that his trash talking game is
so strong
that it's part of the reason he
continues to dominate on the field
who could forget his battle with michael
crabtree in the 2013 nfc championship
game
attempting to shake a man's hand after
embarrassing him with your skill
is a bold move number six
floyd mayweather jr i think i've earned
the right
you know to call myself tbe sporting an
all-time record of 49-0
mayweather is considered one of the
greatest boxers to ever strap on the
gloves
however his skill inside the ring is
often overshadowed by his
constant need to destroy opponents with
strings of profanity-laden smack talk
his list of victims stretches from
opponents all the way up to renowned
boxing analyst
larry merchant whom he infamously said
should be fired after a 2011
championship fight
to fight mayweather is to be his
punching bag in the ring and his trash
talk depository outside of it
as especially evidenced during the
promotional tour for the highly
anticipated boxing match
between him and conor mcgregor in las
vegas
number five conor mcgregor the ufc has
produced a number of impressive trash
talkers over the years
all one needs to do is listen to chael
sonnen destroy anderson silva
over and over again to know that mma is
a sport where you need to be tough
before
during and after a fight however conor
mcgregor is in a league of his own
um if i was to compare myself and
yourself all
i would have to do was go to the numbers
because at the end of the day the
numbers do not lie
the irish fighter goes well beyond the
call of duty when discussing his
opponents
verbally emasculating them before the
fight has even begun
your whole suit my socks were more than
your whole suit you had on you little
bump you broke this gives him the
psychological edge long before he steps
into the octagon
his trash talking game is so strong one
can't help but look on in admiration
with the lead up to his first
professional boxing match against the
undefeated mayweather at the t-mobile
arena a particularly interesting watch
his little legs his little core his
little head
i'm gonna knock him out inside four
rounds mark my words
number four chad johnson the man
formerly known as ocho cinco was one of
the most talented trash talkers to
ever play the game of football anybody
that writes about whatever i say today
you call me ultra single do not say chad
the cincinnati bengals wide receiver
famously kept a list of the cornerbacks
he faced in his locker
crossing out their names in post-game
interviews when they failed to cover him
johnson would climb inside the minds of
his opponents and
rattle their cages with stunning
consistency
however the best part about johnson was
that he could put his money where his
mouth was
retiring as a six-time pro bowler with
over 11 000 receiving yards
number three michael jordan for two
decades
the nba watched in awe as michael jordan
ran roughshod over
anyone and everyone who got in his way
and
much like the others on this list he
utilized trash talk with great
efficiency
mj would constantly call his moves
during games infuriating defenders as he
swooped by them on the way to the hoop
jordan didn't care who you were if you
got in his way you were going to be
subjected to a wave of no holds barred
verbal abuse and that included teammates
as
one story has jordan denying a teammate
the right to wear his air jordan shoes
by quipping
quote my sneakers are for all stars
ouch number 2. mike tyson
whereas many of the others on this list
like to poke fun at their opponents as a
way of throwing them off their game
mike tyson took trash talking to a much
scarier level
his rants are the stuff of legend with
the ferocious heavyweight boxer once
infamously threatening to eat lennox
lewis's children during a post-fight
interview
and that's just scratching the surface
my style is impetuous
my defense is impregnable and i'm just
ferocious i want your heart i want to
eat his children
praise be to allah iron mike couldn't
cross the line
because he didn't even know the line
existed he terrified people with his pre
and post-fight tirades
often using profanity to hammer his
points home
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions
right but we didn't have to ask t.o no
he just wants y'all to see how good he
looks hey
i don't know if it's the light but i
look good
i look good and i'll tell you what the
nba is giving y'all out i'm giving out
money too
before y'all looking and then you have
the all-important guys like sean avery
the king of all agitators
i knew i knew i was in show because i
was like this you know the referee's
intimidated by his talk but a lot of
guys like you said it's just
it's not delicious it's just what you're
doing
i just hate it when a guy thought he
could guard me to be honest with you
i'm like dude please just just work hard
but you can't stop me
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number one muhammad ali he's too ugly to
be the world's tale
the world tends to be pretty like me in
the pantheon of sports trash talkers
one man reigned supreme the moment the
cameras began to roll
muhammad ali would explode into a
devastating and eloquently assembled
rant
aimed to humiliate and mentally disable
his opponents
know what i did last week last week i
murdered the rock injure the stone
hospitalized a brick
i'm so mean i make medicine sick
the man who came to be known as simply
the greatest earned that name by being
an unstoppable force in the ring
and a downright vicious smack talker
outside of it
well let me finish let me talk this
bar's modest i'm the greatest he's not a
tougher
i'm gonna fight sonny liston right after
i now laid into cooper he would
regularly insult
taunt and berate his rivals with never
before seen precision
the problem for his opponents was simple
ali was the best
and he knew it like a butterfly and
thing like
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