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  • Nobody can do nothing up here to May.

  • Dishing out a little verbal abuse was never a problem for these athletes.

  • Welcome to watch motel dot com, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 best trash talkers in sports.

  • I was gonna rip his heart out.

  • I'm the best ever.

  • I'm the most brutal.

  • Michigan most ruthless champion has never 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 Fuck best.

  • Are you gonna send it for you real quick?

  • Hello, B number 10 Rhonda Rousey.

  • Need that timing bitch.

  • Between 2011 in 2015, Rhonda 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, Rosie 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.

  • It was like a in the medical room, and I was like, down in the corner, I was in the corner and I was like, What am I anymore?

  • If I'm not this number nine Shannon Sharpe Throughout the nineties and early two thousands, Shannon Sharpe dominated the NFL.

  • The 6 ft 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 Sharps dominance is what allowed him to be one of the most ruthless trash talkers to ever step on an NFL field.

  • I'm called the president president way.

  • Need the National Guard way?

  • Need as many minutes you could spare cut.

  • 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 daughter's air over there.

  • I think it's mixed.

  • They think I'd probably lose the Serena.

  • I believe that I could still take her.

  • You dio.

  • 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 seventies, 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 1985 for an example of McEnroe's trash talking abilities.

  • Look no further than the time, he said of his rival, Ivan 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.

  • OK, 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 TB.

  • 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 Connor McGregor in Las Vegas.

  • Number five Connor McGregor.

  • The UFC has produced a number of impressive trash talkers over the years.

  • All one needs to do is listen to jail, son and destroy Anderson Silva over and over again to know that mm A is a sport where you need to be tough before, during and after a fight.

  • However, Connor McGregor is in a league of his own.

  • If I was to compare myself and yourself, all I would have to do is go to the numbers because at the end of the day, the numbers do not like.

  • 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 would more than your whole suit you had on your little bum.

  • You broke things, 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 car, his little head.

  • I'm gonna knock him out inside four rounds.

  • Mark my words.

  • Number four.

  • Chad Johnson, the man formerly known as Ochocinco, was one of the most talented trash talkers to ever play the game of football.

  • Anybody that writes about whatever I say that that you call me Ochocinco 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 postgame 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 waas retiring is a six time Pro Bowler with over 11,000 receiving yards.

  • Number three Michael Jordan.

  • For two decades, Thean NBA watched in awe as Michael Jordan ran rough shot 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 toe wear his air.

  • Jordan shoes by quipping quote, My sneakers are for all Stars.

  • Ouch!

  • Number two 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 toe 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, but we didn't have to ask Thio.

  • He just wants you all to see how good he looks.

  • I don't know if it's the light, but I look good.

  • I look good.

  • I tell you what, the NBA is giving you all out giving out money to because so you're looking.

  • Then you have the all important guys like Sean Avery, the king of all agitators.

  • E fired first team on Tucker comes back.

  • I knew I knew I was a joke and I was like this one.

  • You know, Ref was intimidated by his talk with a lot of guys like you said, It's just it's not delicious.

  • It's just what you're doing.

  • Uh, I just hate it when a guy thought he could guard to me, To be honest with you, I'm like, Dude, please just work hard, but you can't stop me before we continue.

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  • Number one, Mohamed Ali.

  • He's still gonna be the world.

  • The world seems to be pretty like me In the pantheon of sports trash talkers, one man reigns supreme.

  • The moment the cameras began to roll, Mohammed Ali would explode into a devastating and eloquently assembled rent aimed to humiliate and mentally disable his opponents.

  • No, What I did last week last week, I'm murdered her off into the stone, hospitalized a brick.

  • I'm so mean.

  • I make medicine.

  • Sick theme man who came to be known is 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, boys.

  • Models.

  • I'm the greatest.

  • He's not a topper.

  • I'm gonna fight Sonny Liston right after a mallet in the 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.

  • Don't like a butterfly and staying like me, huh?

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