Bolt, Mayweather, O’Sullivan: Jamie Carragher names his sporting GOATs

Jamie Carragher along with Roy Keane were on Monday Night Football this week, with them doing their top threes for things such as films, footballing GOATs and sporting GOATs.

They made some bold claims in their predictions, with Carragher’s top three sporting greats raising some eyebrows in the studio.

It’s always fascinating to see these segments on the show, with the Liverpool legend not disappointing with his three, sparking plenty of debate!

He let us know the criteria for the people he’s picked, with it not just being down to sporting achievements in his opinion, the watchability of the athletes is important and their entertainement factor.

Opening up his three, he said: “I chose people who I’ve watched. I didn’t want to you know, some people always think of Muhammad Ali in that one, but I just wanted people who have taken my breath away watching them.”

That’s a sensible route to go down, it’s incredibly hard to comment on those sporting legends that you may not have watched or been around for during their peaks, with just replays and stories to go off not the best way to form your list.

Carragher starts his list off with the iconic Olympian, backing up his selection by saying: “Usain Bolt, just watching him in sort of the 100 metres and 200 metres how far ahead he was of everybody at the time, so that’s Usain Bolt.”

It’s hard to argue with the sprinter being high up on a list like this, especially when you consider how easy he made his sport look, so much so he slowed down in races and still got the win.

When throwing Floyd Mayweather into his top three, Carragher claimed: “I have picked sports I like so had to pick one for boxing, and I just thought Floyd Mayweather, I know he’s not everyone’s cup of tea the way