The Toughest Path to Pro Sports

The consensus path to determining the hardest sport to go pro in involved a series of eliminations,

beginning with Soccer defeating the NFL due to its vast global talent pool, and the NHL prevailing

over boxing given the structured, highly competitive professional ladder required in ice

hockey. In the next pairings, Golf was chosen over the NBA because of the individual

difficulty and sheer number of competitors vying for limited tour spots, while MLB surpassed

Tennis, largely due to the systemic difficulty of its minor league structure.

This led to a "Final Four" where Soccer edged out the NHL, primarily because the requisite skill

level to compete with the world's best is exceptionally high, and MLB beat Golf,