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Sometimes the experts get it catastrophically wrong! Join us as we count down the most embarrassing predictions and hot takes in sports history. From Alan Hansen's infamous "can't win with kids" comment to Max Kellerman's Brady cliff prediction, these pundits would love to have these moments back!
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00:00LeBron James was made for the regular season.
00:03He's a regular season dynamo.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at 10 times pundits managed to make a total
00:09mess of their picks, predictions, and overall opinions of the sports they cover.
00:12Kobe was there to entertain the fans, not to win games.
00:17Micah Richards' Champions League predictions
00:19Pre-tournament predictions can be a tricky business.
00:21Arsenal Bayern, the Arsenal!
00:24But for the former Man City defender Micah Richards, he could not have made a bigger
00:27mess of his 2024-25 Champions League quarterfinal picks if he tried.
00:31According to Richards, Arsenal, Manchester City, Atletico Madrid, and Barcelona would all make
00:36it out of their respective ties to meet in the semis.
00:39Semifinal!
00:40What are we gonna go with?
00:41What are we gonna go with?
00:44Just Atletico, sorry Barcelona!
00:46In the end, all four of those teams lost, and it was Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Borussia
00:51Dortmund, and Bayern Munich who ended up in the Final Four.
00:54Even if he was guessing randomly, Richards would only have around a 6% chance of getting
00:58all of his picks wrong, an all-time great prediction blunder.
01:01Just down!
01:02Six!
01:03He went like that!
01:04MMA was a far more barbaric sport in its earliest form in the 1990s, with very few rules compared
01:09to its modern counterpart.
01:10The problem was with the old UFC was McCain came out and said, you can't put on these
01:16unregulated fights with no athletic commission.
01:19But as Dana White and the Fertitta brothers got involved and began to clean up the sports
01:23image, things changed.
01:24But during that push for mainstream acceptance, many pundits from other sports, mainly boxing,
01:28openly wrote mixed martial arts off as a fad and nothing more.
01:31Then we went to our first UFC event, and we sat in the crowd and started to go, man, imagine
01:36if they did this, and imagine if they did that.
01:38This thing could be big.
01:39Jump forward to the 2020s, and the UFC have built a brand that is right in the thick of
01:43the mainstream.
01:43A brand that has been bolstered by huge global superstars like Conor McGregor, John Jones,
01:48Ronda Rousey, and more.
01:49So, yeah, unfortunately for them, they were pretty wrong about MMA's staying power.
01:53It just is what it is.
01:54Tony Mandarich can't miss OL Prospect.
01:57Earning your place in the history books as an all-time draft bust is one terrible way to
02:01be remembered.
02:01But this sportin' turned out to be a Trojan horse.
02:05The hype behind Tony Mandarich ahead of the 1989 draft was truly on another level.
02:09Experts called him the greatest offensive line prospect of all time.
02:12And so, when the Green Bay Packers drafted him, it was like a dream come true.
02:16Tony Mandarich is the draftee.
02:19This guy, once in a lifetime.
02:21Turns out he wasn't anywhere near as suitable for the top level as expected.
02:24Four underwhelming years in the NFL were enough for the Packers to release him.
02:28Though he did mount to come back in 96 with the Colts.
02:30He retired in 98 due to a shoulder injury.
02:32The gold standard for draft busts in any sport.
02:35In all the hype and all the euphoria, forgot to check whether he could play football.
02:40Jamie Carragher.
02:41Holland picked the wrong club.
02:42A lot of people wanted to hate on Erling Haaland when he moved to the Premier League.
02:46You called Haaland overrated recently?
02:48Yeah, I stand by that.
02:49I think he is.
02:50Nobody could doubt the stats in his goal-scoring record.
02:52But it's wild to see how many fans and pundits dismissed him as an overrated goal poacher.
02:57Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher even openly questioned whether Haaland had picked the right
03:01club.
03:01He may have actually picked the wrong club.
03:04To actually get the best out of him.
03:06By the time the 2022-2023 season was finished, however, there were no doubts left over his
03:11pedigree.
03:12With 36 goals, Haaland became the highest single-season goal-scorer in Premier League history, ending
03:17the campaign with 52 goals and 53 games across all competitions.
03:21In the end, to say he was a success story would be putting it mildly.
03:24It's an amazing feeling.
03:26I think you are the only one that maybe knows how to score a lot of goals.
03:30Dietmar Hamann doubts Claudio Raniere's appointment.
03:32It's hilarious to look back on it now, but when Claudio Raniere was announced as the Leicester
03:37City coach, many pundits saw it as a poor decision by the club's board.
03:41Did the choice of Raniere surprise you?
03:43Shot.
03:44Absolutely shot.
03:45Couldn't believe it.
03:46Raniere had solid experience, but nothing seemed to indicate that he was the right choice
03:49for this struggling Premier League.
03:51Former Liverpool star Dietmar Hamann was one of the most vocal skeptics of Raniere's appointment.
03:56Little did we know that he was about to pull off the most unlikely miracle in the
03:59history of English football.
04:00Despite being amongst the biggest underdogs for the title, Raniere led Leicester to their
04:05first Premier League trophy, pulling off an upset victory that will undoubtedly be
04:09marveled at several decades from now.
04:11Leicester City are champions of the Premier League.
04:15The greatest story ever told has its happy ending for Claudio Ranieri and his players.
04:22Max Kellerman.
04:23Tom Brady will fall off a cliff.
04:25Tom Brady truly is a freak of nature when it comes to his longevity in the sport of football,
04:29so it's only natural that a few pundits would have voiced their doubts about him over the years.
04:32Tom Brady's just about done.
04:34When Max Kellerman very bluntly stated in 2016 that Brady, at 39 years old, was doomed to
04:38fall off a cliff, he was really putting his neck out there.
04:41He is going to fall off a cliff.
04:43Unfortunately for Kellerman, Brady had another Hall of Fame-worthy career still in the tank,
04:47and over the next five years he won another three Super Bowl rings, utterly destroying
04:51Kellerman's opinion through his excellence on the field.
04:53I stand down.
04:54He is the goat, and the boat, and everything else.
04:58Max Kellerman puts Kobe Bryant's on All-Decade Worst Team.
05:01Turns out multiple All-Star selections aren't enough to avoid being placed on Max Kellerman's
05:05All-Decade Worst Team.
05:06It's not that Kobe's on the third team that's the outrage, it's that he's on any of these
05:12teams at all that is the outrage.
05:14For Kobe Bryant, he seemingly wasn't doing enough on the court to convince the iconic boxing
05:18pundit that he wasn't a bottom-of-the-barrel player.
05:20Somehow Kellerman was so unimpressed with Kobe in the 2010s that he decided to ignore all
05:24of the positives in his performances when he was healthy and fit.
05:27What team would he be on?
05:28He would be on the All-NBA Worst Team, actually.
05:31The take was so outlandish that Kellerman's co-host, Molly Karam, decided to walk off set
05:35as soon as he made the claim.
05:36Was he simply looking for attention?
05:38Possibly.
05:38But this remains an all-time stinker.
05:40And what I'm contending is no player as ineffective offensively as Kobe was at that point,
05:46as inefficient, was ever allowed to shoot that much.
05:50Ever.
05:51That makes him the most destructive.
05:52And he couldn't play any defense.
05:54Terry Venables on Messi's aerial ability.
05:57The truly great athletes know how to address criticism head-on.
05:59In this case, Lionel Messi took that notion quite literally.
06:03After veteran manager Terry Venables commented on Messi's inability to score with his head
06:07compared to the more physically imposing Cristiano Ronaldo, Leo decided to do something about it.
06:12And so he went out there in the 2009 Champions League final against Manchester United and
06:16made Venables look incredibly foolish for ever bringing it up.
06:19Not only did Messi prove his well-roundedness, but he later went on to call this headed effort
06:23his favorite ever goal.
06:25Skip Bayless.
06:26LeBron is more Robin than Batman.
06:28Skip Bayless is widely known to be one of LeBron James' biggest detractors.
06:31I'm going to give LeBron a break today because he did have a triple-double, including 19 rebounds.
06:38So I'm going to give him a D-minus.
06:40And that's D as in dog, minus.
06:42That is.
06:43It doesn't appear to be anything personal, but ever since he burst onto the scene,
06:46Skip has been looking for any opportunity to knock him down a few pegs.
06:49Sure, LeBron made that a little easier in his early days due to his tendency to fail at the final
06:53hurdle.
06:53I saw a Prince James that once again was crumbling under the pressure and the expectations to be King James.
07:00For a while, many people totally wrote off his chances of winning an NBA championship ring.
07:04And Bayless was right at the front of it all.
07:06He famously said that while James has Batman-level talent, he's a lot more of a Robin when push comes
07:10to shove.
07:11He's Robin more than he's Batman.
07:13He's Pippen more than he's Jordan.
07:16Four championships later and Bayless has been made to eat crow in more ways than one.
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07:36You can't win anything with kids.
07:38Nine times out of ten, Alan Hansen might have been right when he famously said that you can't win anything
07:42with kids in football.
07:44I think they've got problems. I wouldn't say they've got major problems.
07:47Unfortunately, he just so happened to be writing off the chances of a generationally gifted squad of Manchester United youngsters.
07:53If you have players like Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, and David Beckham talking out for you, it doesn't matter what
07:58age they are.
07:59You can't win anything with kids.
08:00You look at that line at Manchester United today and Aston Villa at quarter past two when they get the
08:04team sheet, it's just going to give them a lift.
08:06Sure, United lost their first game of the season to Aston Villa, which was the catalyst for the comment.
08:10But seasons are not won and lost on match day number one.
08:14Of course, Hansen was proven spectacularly wrong when United went on to win the title, becoming one of the truly
08:19great Premier League squads in the process.
08:22As I said, I think we definitely deserved it.
08:23You know, the young lads have come in and been absolutely fantastic and square for the club.
08:26But what incredibly short-sighted punditry opinion do you think is worth a mention?
08:30Let us know in the comments below.
08:31Let us know in the comments below.
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