The Greatest vs His Airness

Basketball is just a well packaged kid's game that didn't go international until the mid 1980's. Brilliantly marketed, like all of the big team sports are. Boxing, conversely, went international in the early 1700's, has a strong tie-in with the ancient civilizations; and is far more than a game...... And THAT just compares the sporting part of what Muhammad Ali gave the world with his simple message to the common man. Ali's peers are not simply sportsmen and entertainers. They are people such as Columbus, Cai Lun, Alexander The Great, Gandhi, Einstein, Mandela, Curie, Napoleon, Hubble, Jesus of Nazareth, Lincoln, Gautama Buddha, Pasteur, Confucius, Moses, Rembrandt, Mozart, Shakespeare, de Vere, Bohr, Becquerel, Qin Shi Huang, Graham Bell, Washington, Rutherford, Henry Ford, Newton, King, Twain, Guttenberg, etc. His intellect was purely average, but his message travels wide. In short....It isn't even close.