The most unbreakable records in sports
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Records, in sports, are the only formal measurement of greatness. And there’s a select few - will likely never be broken.
Here’s a rundown of some of those unbreakable records.
Seb Stafford-Bloor writes. Marco Bevilacqua illustrates.
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This video should have mentioned Messi's 91 goals in a calendar year instead of the 8 Ballon d'Ors. Messi's record of scoring 91 goals at the rate of 1.3 goals per game in just 69 games in 2012 is widely regarded as the most impressive individual achievement in football history. It surpassed the previous record of 85 goals set by Gerd Müller in 1972. Messi's feat showcased his exceptional goal-scoring ability, consistency, and skill against tough opposition in various competitions. His record is a testament to his magical talent, durability, and overall brilliance on the football field.
This is an american channel, they don’t know anything outside the US
@@burner2363 They talked about cricket, ya bum
Muller’s record was only 6 goals behind though and the two played 30 years apart. It stands to reason that it’s not impossible for someone to achieve 92+ goals 20 years from now. Messi’s ballon d’or record is more “unbreakable” because a gap of 3 trophies is significantly wider than 6 goals. Not to take away from 91 in a year, that is INSANE. I’m just saying that it might not fit the category of “unbreakable” that they’re covering here.
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I get what you’re saying but you need to understand that it's not just a 6-goal difference, given that the level of competition has increased since the 1970s. Today we witness a more defensively organized and tactically sophisticated approach from clubs across Europe. Defenses are more compact, marking is tighter, and teams often employ multiple players to neutralize prolific goal scorers like Messi. Despite these challenges, Messi managed to break a record that had stood for over 4 decades against top clubs like prime Madrid and other tough opponents. Additionally, the majority of his goals were individual efforts due to his dribbling skills.
I think in sometime in the future a goal machine like halaand could beat this record, but an 8 ballon dor in a players career? , i don’t think so
The wildest unbreakable Wilt Chamberlain record is actually highest average minutes played per game in a single season that was more than 48 minutes (the regulation length of a basketball game). This is because he played every single minute including overtimes.
It would never be beaten because it doesn't make any sense for any player now to play a 48 minute game once per season let alone 82
It's an irrelevant record.
Like 50% of his records.
@@vince7207Don't do that. Dont tear down another man's record when it seems impossible. What makes it irrelevant?
@@DJonesIsKing it's not tearing it down... If it pleases you then there's records he should have that are relevant, such as blocks.
They didn't count them back then though.
The 48 min is irrelevant because no one is gonna even attempt to play 48 mins now. It would be silly.
@vince7207 ngl, I really wish blocks were counted before the 70's. Because I'm VERY interested in seeing how many blocks people like Bill Russell averaged
In Don Bradman’s final cricket match he needed to score 4 runs to make his career average over 100. He got bowled out for 0.
Celtic winning the 1967 European Cup, with a line up of 11 players all born within 30 miles of their stadium, will never ever come close to happening again.
As wholesome as that is, it wasn't that rare back then.
Most teams were "locally sourced".
@@vince7207 can you give me a few examples?
@@sharkdom not at 11:54 at night mate 😂
@@vince7207 yeah I thought as much... 🤡
@@sharkdomMost clubs at the time...
You guys really touched the tip of the iceberg for Wayne Gretzky and Lionel Messi's careers.
So Tifo Sport is actually Tifo USA?
Very USA-focused.
Agree but was trying to think of a few I feel will be difficult to beat. Whatever number of slams Djokovic finishes on comes to mind. Hard to see anyone approaching that triumvirate.
@@Number69"One of the most famous records in Sports" for baseball... Wayne Gretzky records definitely more famous than that.
I can promise you, it's not. Baseball was the most popular sport in the US for decades before the NFL took over. The NHL has never, and will never be as popular
They had plenty of non-American sports. The Don Bradman one is cricket which is certainly not popular in America
Wayne Gretzky has a ton of NHL records, most of which will never be broken. Another cool one is that he took the fewest number of games to score 50 goals in only 39! What makes his all time points record even crazier is this - He's the all time leader in goals, assists, and points (goals + assists), and still would be even if he never scored a single goal. That's right, Gretzky has more assists than any player in history has goals + assists!
The only player yet to have had a chance to challenge Gretzky was Lemieux, and he just wasn't able to have as many games. Gretzky had 1.921 PPG and Lemieux had 1.883. But the next highest is Mike Bossy at under 1.5.
Gretzky is probably the only one deserving of the title GOAT.
@@maxteraform Indeed. The undisputed greatest ever at his respective sport.
Top 5 Most Assists in a season is all Wayne. 😅
@@HarryWessex
He had nine spots in the top ten. Unbelievable
I think Rafa Nadal's clay court records (including 14 French Opens) should be mentioned
>97% Roland-Garros winning percentage in a Major is incomprehensible. If it wasn't for Djokovic, it would be >99%!!! And that's across ~20 years! People should try to wrap their heads around that. It should have been the centerpiece of this video.
Nadal's record 14 Roland Garros Singles Titles will also be NEVER broken imo. Not in a single event anyway by any other athlete anyway.
Ronnie O'Sullivan fastest 147 at 5 minutes 20 seconds is mind boggling
Feels like the Only person who might beat that is Ronnie himself... It is amazing.
Someone could go under 5 pretty soon - there are some remarkable players these days.
What’s a “147”?
@@MikeCee7The perfect snooker break - potting all 15 reds (1 pout each) with 15 blacks (7 points each) and then the six colours yellow (2 points), green (3 points), brown (4 points), blue (5 points), pink (6 points) followed by a final black (still 7 points). Add that up to make 147, which is incredibly difficult because you not only have to make 36 consecutive pots, you also have to be precise with your positional play to keep leaving the black.
Ronnie O’Sullivan did this in 5min8 (a lot of people incorrectly say 5min20 because of a broadcast error), and no one else has got within two minutes of it. I can’t see it being broken, it is recklessly quick.
@@joelwagg8314 Thanks for that info.
Excuse me for sounding ignorant what is a “pots”. Is that when you get the pool ball into one of the pockets?
How could they leave out Ronnie O'Sullivan's fastest 147. A record thats basically physically impossible to break. Also the youngest AND oldest winner of one of the three major tournaments.
Fun fact: Ronnie doesn’t actually hold the record for fastest century. Tony Drago does.
Esther Vergeer's 470 game unbeaten run in singles wheelchair tennis is pretty ridiculous, along with a career win % of nearly 97%.
Jahangir Khan won 555 squash games in a row from 1981-1986
This video is so American centric. How Don Bradman (a cricketer) made the list therefore surprised me 😮😂 👏🏽
One of the undisputed greats. But I'm surprised he didn't mention Lara's 500 run record.
@@Mopark25because a lot of records were there scoring 500+ runs in both innings and single innings in FC Tests
@@Mopark25I think Lara's record is amazing and may last decades. However, it doesn't feel as unbreakable as Bradman's record.
I remember being aware quite a few years ago of American sports statisticians who know very little about cricket but were aware of Bradman's record that is a massive outlier.
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Real Madrid wealth & early CL wins should’ve NEVER been counted🤢🤢🤮They were accomplished via long campaigns of terror & intimidation by Madrid Royal mafia & Franco Regime🤏
Chael sonnen not losing a single round of 1000+ mma fights. Undefeated and undisputed 💪
That is for sure no1. If he ever bumps into this narrator the record is going to increase.
Didn’t he lose to Anderson Silva?
Only defeated by steroid use. USADA stay undefeated
I counter with this: the most unbreakable record in sports is Jim Abbott’s no hitter with the fewest hands, because I don’t see anyone throwing a no-no with zero hands.
Schumachers 2002 100% podium finishes in one season
Max almost had that this past year. Just like Michael, he had all Top-2s except for 1 race.
Yes this one is literally unbreakable. Can only be equalled but if it did it would be even more impressive as it would be across more races in total
Most titles won with different F1 teams: Juan Manuel Fangio (5 titles with 4 different teams)
Oldest World Drivers Champion: Juan Manuel Fangio (46 years, 41 days)
Highest percentage of pole positions: Juan Manuel Fangio (55.77%)
F1 constructor team with a 100% title campaign win percentage : Brawn GP
Youngest driver to start a F1 Grand Prix: Max Verstappen (17 years 166 days)
Jahangir Khan's squash record is unbelievable.
Lionel Messi tally of 91 goals in a calendar year is honestly stupid. No one has ever come close to that after or before
Haaland?
odfrey Chitalu's 109 goals in year...
It is breakable
@@HaiLeQuangScored 44 goals in 2023, not even halfway to Messi's record. Don't see him adding another 50 goals to that.
@@Mopark25 it's not even the record
Gretzky was super human.
Real Madrid’s first five European Cups were essentially fixed; they got to invite whoever they wanted to
Karelin's streak of years without a loss in international Wrestling will never be broken
Yeah good one, should have put that in
Nolan Ryan’s 7 no hitters and career strikeouts are also unbreakable records in baseball
And Cy Young's 511 wins.
In sumo, Hakuho’s 45 championship could theoretically be beaten, but no one else in the sport is currently even close to being on pace. Similarly, we will likely never see anyone reach the match 45+ wins in a row ever again. And Raiden’s record makes him stand alone as the peerless rikishi for a reason
Honestly the most unbreakable (besides mins played or consecutive games played) is Gretzky’s career points. For those that don’t understand, points are given for both goals and assists. Gretzky has 2,857 career points. Jagr at second place has 1,921, a full 936 points less. To give you a modern take, Ovechkin is only 58 goals behind Gretzky’s all time career goals (which is amazing) but still needs 1,277 assists to tie Gretzky’s all time career assists record. It’s just impossible to fathom.
A great example of how insane Gretzky's numbers were was that he played 22 years and posted those numbers. The two all-time best among current players, Crosby and Ovechkin, have played since 2005 in the NHL, so 19 seasons each. Their COMBINED points total only caught up to Gretzky's this past season. (Going into the season, they had a combined 2819 points)
Phil Taylor's 16 world championships
Luke Littler
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Cy Young finishing with 511 career wins is by far the most untouchable record in baseball. The game has changed so much that no pitcher would even be given the chance.
Remember In 1966, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, Bubba "Spare Tire" Dixon.
Jordan never lost 3 games in a row. Show me any other player in any sports of this feat.
? Probably Bill Russell
Bradman is legit the most dominant sportsperson in history. He will never be beat
Raducanu’s record of winning a slam as a qualifier, that is, having to come through 3 rounds of qualifying before even getting to the main draw, will almost certainly never be broken. (And she did it without dropping a set! Which makes it even more staggering but is just a footnote). I don’t care if she never wins anything ever again.
This is a good one, there are so many other aspects to her run that will also be super hard to break
Bit confused why Real's 5 consecutive European Cups is in there. It's an incredible achievement but not impossible for it to be broken, though sure it is very unlikely. The idea of beating most of the records on this list is complete fantasy, but I could feasibly imagine a team winning 5 consecutive CLs.
Also Don Bradman's record is the most unbeatable of all these records, fight me.
Came to say the last part. No one has ever or will ever come close. The definition of most unbreakable.
No one had won 2 champions leagues in a row until Madrid did their 3 in a row a few years ago
Its more unlikely that someone wins 14 overall
@@Stuffthatsfunny1 both Bayern and Ajax have 3 peat and there are at least 3 teams who have won the champions league back to back
@@amanneelgund1703 no since it began the champions league only madrid have won it in a row
The craziest thing about Gretzky’s assists is that if he hadn’t scored a single goal in his career he’d still have more points then anyone… and he’s also number 1 in goals all time.
It’s not a popular worldwide sport…. But in rugby league, there’s a record that will never be broken.
Brian Bevan scored 796 career tries, making him the number 1 overall in the world ever. Number 2, Billy Boston, has 571. That shows the magnitude of the achievement.
Untouchable
Was blown away by Wilt Chamberlains 100 points in a single game and his scoring average, but if you know cricket you'll know that Don Bradmans batting average is simply Godly. He was nearly averaging a century. That is just unheard of
The most unbeatable record in cricket is Jim Laker's 19 for 90. That is just an insane record.
One for Rugby Union would be the largest winning margin in an international match. Australia defeated Namibia by 142 points in the 2003 world cup. Unlikely to be beaten as it happened when the Tier 1 nations had fully adapted to Professionalism, while quite a lot of the lower ranked nations were still amateur. With the fact that higher ranked nations don't play many teams that are outside the top 2 tiers and that the 2007 Portugal world cup team are the last amateur side to qualify, it should remain the record.
The Gretzky assist record is truly Astonishing
Bob Gibson single season SP era at 1.12 is likely to never be touched
DeGrom has come close a couple times, but keeps getting injured
Joey Chestnut holds the world record of world records for competitive eating
Nobody talks about Eddie Feigner enough.
9,743 victories, 141,517 strikeouts, 930 no-hitters and 238 perfect games
Brett Favre’s interception record is also safe.
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Real Madrid wealth & early CL wins should’ve NEVER been counted🤢🤢🤮They were accomplished via long campaigns of terror & intimidation by Madrid Royal mafia & Franco Regime🤏
Rest in peace Kevin Kiptum, the man who took the marathon to sub 2h1m
Wilt Chamberlaim averaging more than 48 minutes per game in the 1961-62 season is the most unbreakable record in all of sports.
Players can score homeruns, points, and goals and win championships, but to play 48.5 minutes of a 48-minute sport every night is downright ridiculous.
A couple from cycling which I think would be hard to break:
* Eddy Merckx: 11 grand tours (Tour de France, Vuelta a España and Giro d'Italia)
* Eddy Merckx: 19 monument wins (Milano-San Remo, Ronde Van Vlaanderen, Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastonge-Liege and Giro di Lombardia)
* Eddy Merckx: 525 race wins in cycling
* Mikkel Bjerg: Youngest winner of the U23 world time trial championships (Bjerg was born late in the year, there's a general bias towards athletes being born early in the year at younger levels, there's a hard split between U19 and U23/adult cyclists, so there are no competitors under 18 at the U23 championships)
* Tadej Pogačar: 4 wins of the Tour de France youth classification
bro forgot ( Jahangir khan ) is the greatest athlete of all time in every sports. 10 year unbeaten streak and 6 world cup.
Another category that could have been added is Richard Petty's multitude of unbeaten records in NASCAR
The 2023 F1 season is legendary. Max leading over 1000 laps, max winning 19/22 races with Red Bull having 21/22, and his 10 race win streak
I see your many and varied baseball records and raise you Jim Laker’s 19 wickets in a test match
He also took all 10 in a single innings in first class cricket twice
@@paulsavagecomedianyes one of those innings in that test match!
Gretzky won an NHL MVP his rookie year, and won 8 consecutive MVPs to start his career. The latter will probably never be done again. Also I think someone has said this, but even more unbreakable is his points record (goals + assists), which is 2,857. The closest person in second is at 1,921, and closest active player is at 1,556 (36 year old). This means that no NHL player has more career points than Gretzky’s assist total, and no one is ever coming close.
Could have done a whole video just on the ridiculousness of Wayne Gretzky’s records. His career assist record is only just the start. But several of his single season records will stand the test of time too. 92 goals in a season; 215 points; +100 rating in +/- rating; also, 12 short handed goals AND 11 short handed assists in the same season is nothing short of insane. And oh yeah, 65 career hat tricks.
The Gretzky family are the highest scoring set of 2 brothers to play NHL. His brother got 4 goals and assists.
The highest scoring set of brothers in NHL history required 5 brothers playing to beat the overall points total
In hockey pools you needed to either pick Gretz's goals OR assists, not both. He counted as two players.
Brent Gretzky was carrying them, we all know it.
Sorry to be so late, but Gretzky's +100 isn't a record; Bobby Orr went +124 in 1970-71.
Sebastian Loeb's 9 consecutive World Rally Championships.
Richard Petty has 200 NASCAR wins, the most in history.
The driver with the second most wins, David Pearson, has 105.
Fun fact about Gretzky's assists record. He has more assists than anybody else has points, goals and assists combined.And he is also the greatest goal scorer of all time. In terms of numbers, Gretzky is the greatest professionnal athlete of all time.
New York Yacht Club - holders of the America's Cup for 132 years.
Every other record looks tiny compared with one that lasts a century and a third.
Didnt they change the rules every year to ensure that they won?
I'm shocked that nobody has mentioned Jahangir Khan's record of 555 consecutive wins in Squash. It's difficult to comprehend let alone actually go on and do it. I think it's one of the greatest sporting achievements but his name is rarely ever mentioned.
The longest cricket game ever took place between South Africa and England in 1939 and lasted 10 days, and only ended because England would have missed their boat home. After that, test matches were fixed at 5 days maximum. As a result, that record will never be broken.
Clicked on this video for Messi cause that’s the pinnacle of MULTIPLE UNBREAKABLE RECORDS. But no I ended up hearing “European Football”
There’s no way you covered Gretzky for 5 seconds… you take all his goals away? He still has more points than the one behind him.
Cy Young's 511 wins in baseball is very safe from being broken. Only one other pitcher has broken 400 career wins and we aren't likely to see many if any more pitchers get 300 career wins with how bullpens and rotations are used.
What about Johnny Vander Meer throwing two No-hitters in a row?
Jonathan Edwards triple jump wr...
Ipswich Town's unbeaten home record in European games will never be beaten (P31, W25, D6, L0)
UCLA basketball winning 88 games in a row and 7 national titles in a row under John Wooden is a good one
Eddy Merckx has over 500 professional victories in cycling races. Nobody comes close
You forgot about Michael Phelps's longest putt that was captured on video.
When talking about Tennis I'm surprised you didn't bring up the longest match ever played between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut that lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes over the course of 3 days at Wimbledon.
"Never"is a long time. The rushing record seems unbreakable now due to the diminishing role of the single RB, but who knows they may reverse again in the future.
Five and a half minutes to get to Gretzky is criminal
I don't know about the football records mentioned at the end. Winning five consecutive European cups is admittedly very impressive, and while it has become even more difficult today due to an increase in scope and matches you have to participate in to win the title, I don't think a team winning five straight Champions League titles is completely unthinkable, especially if there is no end date to that prediction. "All" it takes is for one very dominant team to arise and have some luck with the draws and outcomes for a couple of seasons. It's a gargantuan feat should it ever be achieved again, definitely, but I wouldn't die of shock if it did even within the next two decades.
5 goals in 9 minutes by Robert Lewandowski
Ronnie O’Sullivan being the oldest and youngest player to win a triple crown snooker tournament is not gonna be beat
Also Fred Davis won 15 straight snooker world championships without being defeated. Whilst also being world billiards champion 4 out of 5 years. He only ever lost to his brother Joe Davis. You can trace a history of the sport from 1927-2024 using only 3 champions playing each other in the world championship. 1927 Fred Davis wins. Beaten by Joe Davis. Joe Davis beaten by Ronnie O’Sullivan (1994). Ronnie O’Sullivan current champion
Don Bradman average of 99 and Sachin's total runs most difficult to break
I think Sachin's total is beatable given the amount of games teams play now and the general batting friendly pitches nowadays. Kohli - barring injuries - can definitely beat Sachin's total runs scored record.
Not just kohli, Root will over take this too
@@Duckiman no one is going to break Sachin runs in test given that there will be less & less test matches.
I think it wouldve been worth mentioning the Gretzky has more assists than any other player has points ever (points are goals + assists)
Don Bradman's average of 99.94
Cy Young's 511 wins is the safest record, by far.
I actually disagree on the Messi record. He missed plenty of potential Balon d'Or wins because he played at the same time as another all-time great. The next all-time great just needs to make sure there aren't any others around to compete with!
But the counter-argument is: how many did the other all-time greats win? Zidane, Ronaldinho?
Plus, not only would you need an all-time great, he needs to be healthy like Messi.
Have you guys not heard of Wayne Gretzky? Lmao
Rowing's pretty low key but it still blows my mind that Eric Murray and Hamish Bond won every single race they ever competed in (i.e. including heats) over a span of eight years (this captured two Olympics; they were paired after 2008).
I wish that this list had fewer examples and took more time to explain why these players were so great, and how the sports have changed since then. Either you're a fan of the sport and you already know these, or you aren't and you lack context for how great the accomplishments are.
Nepal's cricket team has two records unbeatable, but probable of being reachable. A player, Meheboob Alam, took all 10 wickets against a team in a single match, in a competitive competition. And just recently, D.S. Airee scored a half century, crossing 50 runs, in just 9 balls, which is mathematically impossible to beat, it can just be reached. Among many others which can be reached but has never been done before or since.
Henderson's stolen base record is so absurd
14 Roland Garros!
Emma Raducanu winning the US open from Qualifying without dropping a set, no tennis player man or women would break the record
How about Reggie Jackson strikeout record? (That seems to be pretty safe)
Another good mention would be Messi’s goals scored in a calendar year back in 2012, looks almost impossible to top with the way football is these days.
Baseball, cricket, us handegg. .. Games that are played in 3 countries. This is not serious. Where is Kostadinovas high jump record that has not been bettered since 1987?
Chelsea only conceding 15 goals in a season is insane. I don’t think anyone will ever come close again.
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Real Madrid wealth & early CL wins should’ve NEVER been counted🤢🤢🤮They were accomplished via long campaigns of terror & intimidation by Madrid Royal mafia & Franco Regime🤏
Jonathan Edwards triple jump record will never be beaten
None of these are unbreakable, they’re just unlikely
Only literally unbreakable record that springs to mind is youngest F1 race start. Max Verstappen did it at 17, and it’s now required for drivers to be 18 and have a road driving licence
Of the top of my head
Karin Muir from South Africa 🇿🇦
1965
Twelve year old girl breaks swimming world record...
And Alexander Karelin Russian 🇷🇺
Greco-Roman Wrestler
887 wins and only 2 losses
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No idea of cricket? Murali taking 800 test wicket is untouchable
Was sure they would miss Bradman but they had it! Legends
Nolan Ryan's 7 no hitters is probably safe
Sachin's 100 100's is also an unbreakable record.
Smaller sports. But Ken Climos 12 world disc golf championships. And hakuhos 45 championships, 1187 wins, and 1093 in the top division. The closest in those fields are 32, 1047, and 879.
i'm shocked that they didn't mention messi's 91 goals in a single calendar year
Isn't necessarily a single unbreakable record as I'm sure eventually someone will unseat her fastest time but I can't imagine any one swimmer will dominate the record books like Katie Ledecky has. In the 800M Freestyle, she owns the 30 fastest times in history. It's one of the most impressive stats I've ever seen.
You forgot 2012 Messi. 91 goals in a calendar year.
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Real Madrid wealth & early CL wins should’ve NEVER been counted🤢🤢🤮They were accomplished via long campaigns of terror & intimidation by Madrid Royal mafia & Franco Regime🤏
FUN FACT:
Don Bradman doesn't have the highest batting average.
While of course he's the GOAT, and quite possibly the greatest sportsperson of all time - he only has the highest average if you include a qualifier for minimum number of innings batted (generally a minimum of 20 innings batted in is considered a decent benchmark)
Andy Ganteaume of the West Indies scored 112 in his only Test innings in 1948 and was never selected again due to being criticised for scoring too slowly.
In recent times Kurtis Patterson of Australia, now 30 years old, played 2 Tests in 2019 and scored 114* and 30 - therefore leaving him with an average of 144 - the highest average of all time.
It's highly unlikely that Patterson will ever play for Australia ever again, and in fact was recently dropped from his State side due to loss of form. His first class batting averages is currently 36.62 from 169 innings.
If you want to know the REAL cricket record that will never be broken:
Jim Laker's Test Match bowling figures of 19-90 vs Australia in 1956
Meaning he took 19 out of the 20 wickets available to his team in the match.
To put this record in to context:
Thoughtout the 147 year history of Test Cricket, there have only been 3 x 10 wicket hauls and 19 x 9 wicket hauls in a single innings - and Laker did one of each in each innings of the same Test Match!
Another unbreakable one for baseball is Joe West's games umpired. With how they changed the system where umpires have to spend a certain number of time doing reolay work as well, that one is untouchable
Tifo football and they don’t mention the Invincibles… shame