Who defeated more world champions Floyd or Ali?

[secondsin]

Let's just focus on the terrible pbc
ratings we got today.lol

[BrometheusBob.]

I was wondering this today. I know both men fought their fair share of world champions. But who fought more past/current champions? Floyd Mayweather or Mohammad Ali?

Feel like making this kind of comparison is a bit apples and oranges. Much of his career was absent of the alphabet soup of titles we have nowadays. He beat several opponents that would easily crush today's heavyweights outside of Klitschko.

The numbers are probably pretty close, I don't know them offhand, but the quality is a bit onesided a discussion. Mayweather's resume is great, and probably would have only been even better in a different era.

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You literally cannot compare them, not out of fairness to Ali, just because there's no formula for it. The number of champions has dramatically increased and we don't know who to consider real or fake.

It's like comparing a bank account in the '80s to one now without subtracting 70% for inflation. Your "winner" would just be an meaningless number.

[HanzGruber]

Hard to say.

A reporter said Chavez and Mayweather were tied but that was quite a few years ago but I'm sure after research that wasn't correct. But I forget.

That was past/past/future world champions by the way.

Box rec says jcc is 18-4

[Wolfie*]

Can't fairly compare. World champions reproduce like rabbits nowadays. I've probably punched out some guy who was a boxing world champion without knowing it.

Lol basically. Ali was beating "world champs" when that actually meant something.

[lefthook2daliva]

I was wondering this today. I know both men fought their fair share of world champions. But who fought more past/current champions? Floyd Mayweather or Mohammad Ali?

Your seed finds no purchase in this rocky, barren ground.

[Showtime..]

Box rec says jcc is 18-4

Is Floyd the GOAT in your opinion, Hanz?

[CANELOLUJAH]

ya'll DKSAB

Mayweather undefeated and Ali wasnt.

[W1LLPARK3R]

ya'll DKSAB

Mayweather undefeated and Ali wasnt.

Prime Ali only lost to Joe Frazier..a fighter who usually cracks most heavy ATG TOP ten lists..Ali was a better puncher than Mayweather and had the speed of a lightweight..

[Chrismart]

It's kind of unfair to compare, now that we are at a time in the sport when belts are handed out like confetti.