At their peak, who was more popular: Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, John Cena, or Cristiano Ronaldo?

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

Mike Jackson a different nikka..

I remember when he pulled up to al Sharpton church years back and you had security literally pushing the elders back like they were fukking teenagers...

fukking grandparents and great grands willing to put themselves at harms risk just to touch that man..

fukk a hood pass..

Mike could walk thru anywhere in the continent and no one DARE lay a finger on that man..

From the killers to the fukking jackboys

Right even presidents and kings have been killed. No one on the planet would touch Mike.

 

[papa pimp]

do you know how popular Football is, Basketball is niche in comparison. Its worn torn countries where people have no clue who jordan is but have seen Cr7 play. Don't be ridiculous

You do realize there was a whole wave of Eastern European and African players from "war torn" countries who were/are in the league now and state they fell in love with the game watching MJ?

 

[Budda]

You do realize there was a whole wave of Eastern European and African players from "war torn" countries who were/are in the league now and state they fell in love with the game watching MJ?

Peoplare overexaggerating either way, Jordan and Ronaldo are close but both are a tier below Jackson.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Michael Jackson
Muhammad Ali
Michael Jordan
CR7
Cena

I’d flip Jordan and CR7

 

[LiveFromLondon]

You do realize there was a whole wave of Eastern European and African players from "war torn" countries who were/are in the league now and state they fell in love with the game watching MJ?

did jordan ever have 700 million people watch him play simultaneously

 

[Rekkapryde]

Jackson and it ain't even close.

 

[MaxBundles]

I really don't think people understand or grasp the concept of how BIG Michael Jackson was....something like what was shown in this video will NEVER happen again

 

[Unbothered]

1. Michael Jackson
2. Michael Jordan
3. Cristiano Ronaldo
4. John Cena (lol that he's even in the Convo )

I know Ronaldo is popular but I feel his popularity is a bit overstated in the same vein as Djokovic, Nadal, etc, are in their respective sport maybe I'm wrong since I don't really watch sports that much but sometimes it seems like euro sports/athletes tend to get overrated by being “different” than American athletes.

He's popular but I don't think his popularity runs that deep with the average person .

 

[Ghost Utmost]

I don’t think there was a decline at all. Negative press, yeah but that tour was about to sell out and I still remember paparazzi pictures and him being stalked wearing masks etc.

I was thinking more of his album releases which were declining ... which is totally understandable after Thriller and such.

But yeah. As a celeb he was still a HUGE draw. People were feinding for that tour

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

1. Michael Jackson
2. Michael Jordan
3. Cristiano Ronaldo
4. John Cena (lol that he's even in the Convo )

I know Ronaldo is popular but I feel his popularity is a bit overstated in the same vein as Djokovic, Nadal, etc, are in their respective sport maybe I'm wrong since I don't really watch sports that much but sometimes it seems like euro sports/athletes tend to get overrated by being “different” than American athletes.

He's popular but I don't think his popularity runs that deep with the average person .

I watch American sports (like basketball) and association football (soccer).

I’d give Cristiano Ronaldo the edge over Jordan. CR7 was the most popular athlete, in his prime, on 5 continents and his rivalry with Lionel Messi is probably the greatest sporting rivalry of all time (even greater than Ali v Frazier). CR7 continues to have over 500 million followers on Instagram.

We were blessed to see Messi and CR7 face each other in La Liga (top Spanish football league) for several years

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

The more I think about Messi v Ronaldo

We need them to face off one more time - for the (global) culture



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messi–Ronaldo_rivalry

I pray Mbappe and Haaland will restore the feeling

 

[Complexion]

1) Michael Jackson

































2) Anybody else, anywhen you'd care to mention and thats with each space representing a quantum leap in presence.




Mans was just another a whole nother level...

 

[It is a mystery]

1. Micheal Jackson
2. Ronaldo
3. Micheal Jordan
4. John Cena

Ronaldo is bigger than MJ off the strength that Soccer/Football is MUCH bigger than basketball. Basketball is big in a few places but soccer is huge EVERYWHERE.

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

I was at a BBQ and every car that passed by was playing a different track on John Cena’s album

 

[Badda_Bing]

Man only Jesus and Mohammed seeing my nikka Mike