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5/4/2014 8:56am
5/4/2014 8:56am
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5/5/2014 9:58am
I feel RV is one of the top 2 greatest ever. The reason.....his competition.....I hold Ricky in the number on e spot but I am unsure TBH.Ricky was unquestionably the most winning rider overall and outdoors he was a beast but I don't think he dealt with the level of competition RV has. Ricky was a beast and worked hard for everything but he got a jump start on everyone with his training. His competition wasn't training like RVs comp trains.......ricky beat a lot more talent than athletes. I believe RV beat talent and athletes. MC is the same.....he won and is indisputable as far as sx wins go but who did he really beat? He had years where he could rack u wins with no competition the whole time besides Emig and Lusk.RVs whole career has revolved around him smoking elite talent and elite athletes at the same time.I think his run at the 07 MXDN was the best ride ever by anyone anywhere.....Ricky beat Stewart but Stewart beat himself.....James wasn't training like he has recently. He was all balls but win or crash. I think the James RV is racing is on another level.......ah.....I'm gonna catch schist for this one but here goes.......
I think RV , RC and James are really close for a 2nd because of the amount of championships and being 2nd in the wins dept.
Reed I think should be forth because of two wins and 43 wins? Not sure if that's the right number.
I did get a chuckle out of when the announcer said " And RV has the same amount of championships as Stewart and Reed combined "
A little harsh.....but true.
Rc 5c 48w
Rv 4c 41w
Js 2c 50w
Cr 2c 43w
For me, its pretty clear.
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will be up to interpretation for the next 4 slots with Mr. Hannah be thrown into the mix. In my opinion. MC is the King of SX,
A little harsh.....but true."
I think that chapped Reedy a little bit.
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And if " Giving him a run "....means finishing 96 friggin' points back?........I would hate to see what a bad run would be.
If your combining both series then it's RC #1, RV #2 and once again the Hurricane taking the bronze.
There were trainers back in the MC days and even before - Honda had Jeff Spencer and I remember other riders had them as well. Yes the training gets better every year - it is even more advanced now than Ricky's days. RV is awesome and if he continues to race SX he may get more wins/championships that will put him up with or hire than Ricky - only time will tell.
And for all the talent RV has beat - How many seasons has JS raced the whole season? Same with Reed - he has missed the last two due to injury. I believe RV will go down as one of the greatest SX and MX riders but he needs more time to match MC and RC.
Aside from A1, JS7 has ridden a solid and consistent year that had a streak of unfortunate events that were mainly outside his control. JS7 had everyone covered this year, splitting the pot with RV2.
overall with MX and SX combined, its RC still a while ahead, and the fact he won 10 titles in a row will be very hard to ever catch, RV has won the MX title every year he finished the series, but having missed 3 years due to injury,
It's not the cards you are dealt.....it's how and what you do with them. Chalking it up to bad luck a race or two.....you may be able to get away with it. An entire series? How about 10yrs strait? That sure seems like a lot of bad luck....LMFAO!
Thank god RV , RC and MC never used those excuses.....of course they didn't have to.....they were to busy winning titles.
Rc had stiffest comp 2006. James was fast as hell, and reed was constant all season long. I think 2006 for Rc was hardest season what he faced.
2011 Was rv's hardest season, and 2012 was the easiest title what he had. 2013 and 2014 wasn't too hard either.
This year Stewart was only one who could beat him, but he had so many bad races. So did roczen, And dungey was slow as fuck.
So if someone says Rv had "stiffest comp"... i'd say go to hell
Everyone knows how much bad luck stewart had this season, it depends do you wanna believe that. Villopoto had only 2 "bad" nights.
Ricky did not really get a jump start. He was a pudgy kid on 125's. Still winning but not in shape. After finding out we was not going to win on 250s in that condition, is when he lost 40 pounds and set a new standard for training. But like you say, everyone else had to step up their fitness to keep up with RC. Except they still could not keep up. RC is the GOAT in my humble opinion.
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