Boxing Junkie doesn’t know why Sports Ranked By Difficulty resurfaced but it remains interesting to us for one specific reason: Boxing is No. 1.
ESPN brought together a panel of experts a few years ago to determine which sports are the most difficult based on 10 categories: endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility, nerve, durability, hand-eye coordination, and analytic aptitude.
The panel was composed of sports scientists, academicians with expertise in muscles and movement, athletes themselves and sports journalists.
“That’s the sport that demands the most from the athletes who compete in it,” ESPN wrote about boxing. “It’s harder than football, harder than baseball, harder than basketball, harder than hockey or soccer or cycling or skiing or fishing or billiards or any other of the 60 sports we rated.
“In Page 2’s Ultimate Degree of Difficulty Grid, boxing scores higher than them all.”
The list is below. Here’s a more detailed look at the package ESPN posted.
