It depends on what you mean by hardest to win. From who's perspective? For the player? For the fans? For the GM/Coach? Mathematically it would have to be the World Series. Only eight teams make the playoffs. Four less than the NFL and half the number of teams that make the NHL and NBA playoffs. Physically as has been mentioned has to be the Stanley Cup. From a GM/coaching standpoint it would have to be a Superbowl title. More parts to fit together to field a winning team. The NBA would have to be the easiest. Half the league makes the playoffs, not as physical as hockey or football and you only have six or seven players that get any real playing time to piece together.
Hardest championship to win in pro sports?
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Ace Bandage
The one and only.
From my perspective, it's the World Series. My Blackhawks and Colts have already won championships in my lifetime. However, my great-grandparents were the last ones to see the Cubbies when win it all.
tartanterrier
Is somewhere outhere.
I would have to say the Stanley Cup 
football because if you team has one bad day, its over.
The champions League. :yesyes: :yesyes: :yesyes: :tongue:
These choices are bunk.
The real hardest championship to win in all of sports right now is:
The UFC Light-Heavyweight Title.
Amongst team sports, the most difficult has to be the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. The tournament is the most highly contested in all of sport.
Amongst the American pro sports, it is the Stanley Cup simply because hockey is the most difficult to play to begin with.
The real hardest championship to win in all of sports right now is:
The UFC Light-Heavyweight Title.
Amongst team sports, the most difficult has to be the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. The tournament is the most highly contested in all of sport.
Amongst the American pro sports, it is the Stanley Cup simply because hockey is the most difficult to play to begin with.
The LHC has the highest turnover of any title. MW and WW have had the most dominant champs in ufc by far. Would that not make those titles harder to win?
PlasmaTwa2
The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
Soccer is hard?
I think LHW is a little more difficult right now. If GSP moves up to meet Anderson Silva, then I think it will be far and away the most difficult.
Right now, the LHWD features:
Jon Jones (champ)
Rashad Evans
Lyoto Machida
Rampage Jackson
Dan Henderson
Shogun Rua
King Mo Lawal
Forrest Griffin
Phil Davis
and Thiago Silva
as their top 10. That is a very stiff class, and I think most difficult ladder to climb to a title. Most of these guys have fought each other already, and this is the most experienced division as well, which I think makes this the most difficult class to climb through.
I have the MWD being a very close second with them being a very solid 7 or 8deep.
As much as I want to agree with the popular opinion,I just can't.I said The World Series is the hardest.Just ask the KC Royals,Milwaukee Brewers,Pittsburgh Pirates,and all of the other small market teams that pretty much don't have a chance at all because the lack of a salary cap,and let's not forget about big market teams that still can't will like The Cubs.
All the other sports in the poll really give every team a "fair" opportunity to win.It's up to the GM's of those teams to put together a team that can win.In the MLB,there's just way too much off an uphill battle for the smaller markets to even compete.
And let's not forget the fact that the season is 162 games.That's just way too much time for a team to completely fall apart do to poor play late in the season,or injuries.
Yup,I'm going with World Series just edging out The Stanley Cup.
All the other sports in the poll really give every team a "fair" opportunity to win.It's up to the GM's of those teams to put together a team that can win.In the MLB,there's just way too much off an uphill battle for the smaller markets to even compete.
And let's not forget the fact that the season is 162 games.That's just way too much time for a team to completely fall apart do to poor play late in the season,or injuries.
Yup,I'm going with World Series just edging out The Stanley Cup.
Easily the hardest championship to win of those listed is a Super Bowl.
1. Football is clearly the most physically violent of all those listed (for those who question this, try to physically play a full football game on Sunday then another on Tuesday like some of the other sports listed). On nearly every play nearly every contributor on the field is involved in what can best be described as a car crash. Which means there is more chance of injury and by extension you have to keep your key personnel healthy for a SB run under more challenging circumstances.
2. Outside elements play a role in the outcomes of games (throughout the season).
3. The layoff in some cases between the the Conf. championship games and SB is thought to help the teams get a bit more healthy for the game but it's probably also the case that it disrupts their rhythm and sharpness more so.
1. Football is clearly the most physically violent of all those listed (for those who question this, try to physically play a full football game on Sunday then another on Tuesday like some of the other sports listed). On nearly every play nearly every contributor on the field is involved in what can best be described as a car crash. Which means there is more chance of injury and by extension you have to keep your key personnel healthy for a SB run under more challenging circumstances.
2. Outside elements play a role in the outcomes of games (throughout the season).
3. The layoff in some cases between the the Conf. championship games and SB is thought to help the teams get a bit more healthy for the game but it's probably also the case that it disrupts their rhythm and sharpness more so.
BAYAMONXXX
Land Of The Snakes
Yep the World Series is the hardest. the NY Mets are also a big market team that hasn't won in years.
1.Have to disagree for the fact that there are hockey players that are the same size as linebackers,plus the fact that they are hitting you with way more impact that you will ever get hit in football.don't know about you,but I would rather get hit by Ray Lewis running full speed than Zdeno Chara skating full speed.
Hockey also has more games than football,so those guys take way more punishment than football players.
Like I said before,with a salary cap in a sport,everyone is on the same playing field as far as "buying" a championship,so every team has a legitimate shot on day one to actually win.In baseball,there are no illusions of the teams that have no shot of winning.Just ask Pirate fans for the last 16 some odd years.
The correct title for the world's undisputed No 1 sport is football. :yesyes: :yesyes: :yesyes: :clap:
And the answer to your question is .....
:yesyes: :yesyes: :yesyes: :nanner:
1. On every play in football the objective of the defense is to stop a player. In hockey the defensive objective is to stop a puck. It would stand to reason then how football would be a more physical sport by nature of the objective.
The range of players who are attempting to stop the player with the ball in football goes anywhere from high 100 lbs. to 3 or 4 hundred pounds. Where is the 300 or 400 lb. hockey player?
2. Hockey is a physical game but if it was anywhere near as physical play in and play out there is no way they could play that many games. There is checking in hockey but that is a tactic in hockey...not the objective.
3. That's just the hitting part. It undoubtedly takes skill and stamina to skate..but I doubt it's as physically challenging to skate as it is to actually use the brute strength of your muscles to get you from one speed on a football field to another, change directions and expose your limbs/joints to twists, jarring and impact.
It is much more of a challenge to stay healthy short term and long term in football than hockey IMO. Without taking anything away from hockey as I know how some feel but I don't even see the debate on that one.
Go to youth ube and find some vids of great hits in hockey and then some of the great hits in football....I think the football hits will certainly be more violent...in some cases helmet to helmet, helmet to sternum, etc. Considering the average weight of a bowling ball can weigh what about what a football player's head and helmet weigh...that can be like taking a bowling ball in the chest or against your head.
I definitely hear what you are saying,and agree to some extent,but those 300-400 lb players are generally hitting people of the same size with the same resistance and impact.Strapping skates to your feet and hitting someone while skating at about 20 mph is a whole other story.Oh,and never mind being hit by a puck that's moving as speeds of over 100 mph.
I'll just let the video do the rest of the talking.
Here's a pretty good shot by Ray Lewis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-I4h0s2jnU
And here's Brian Campbell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAFGzsPCFrI&feature=related
If you can find some harder NFL hits,I'd be happy to look at them,but I'm almost 100% positive that for every football hit that you find,I can find a harder hockey hit.
