Pop-Quiz: The Ten Most Dangerous Sports in the World
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The World Atlas has now put some numbers to our most manly of manly sporting exploits. So you think you know danger? Prove it here.

Pop-Quiz: The Ten Most Dangerous Sports in the World

Highlights


Ever notice how you never "play" boxing the same way you play soccer?

That's because some sports are just so painful or dangerous nobody plays them. They endure them.

We all know what happens immediately after your buddy says, “Hey, watch this.” Or, “Hey, hold my beer.”

The World Atlas has now put some numbers to our most manly of manly exploits.

So you think you know danger?

Prove it here:

Arrange these sports in order of most- to least-dangerous:

  • Auto or motorcycle racing where speeds exceed 200 MPH
  • BASE jumping
  • Boxing
  • Bull-riding
  • Cheerleading
  • Gymnastics
  • Helicopter skiing
  • Jallikattu (India’s sport of team bull-wrestling)
  • Luge
  • Soccer

Answers:

Here’s how World Atlas ranks these sports from most- to least-dangerous:

  1. BASE jumping
  2. Jallikattu
  3. Boxing
  4. Soccer
  5. Bull-riding
  6. Gymnastics
  7. Auto or motorcycle racing where speeds exceed 200 MPH
  8. Luge
  9. Cheerleading
  10. Helicopter skiing

 

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