Muhammad Ali should change his name to The Second Greatest. Floyd is The Greatest

[tibbar]

oh yeah floyd beat everyone in their PRIME! he beat the one arm FOTD in a close fight, one arm.

[tangalog2200]

Muhammad Ali is great, but not The Greatest. Muhammad Ali has 5 losses. I don't see Ali winning championship belts in FIVE different weight classes. I don't see Muhammad Ali selling 4 million PPV. I don't see Ali defeating 23 world/former world champions. However, I DO see Ali getting knocked out by Larry Holmes. I aint ever seen anyone knocking Floyd out.

Floyd Mayweather = Greatest boxer in history and will possibly remain The Greatest for at least another 10,000 years.

Muhammad Ali = Great heavyweight boxer, one of the best in his era.

oh boy....

opening threads left and right..

and getting burned to a crisp!

i admire your guts....

by the way, have some inspiration to open/dwell on, a worthy thread

[kiDynamite92]

- Ali had a global audience of half the world when he was fighting which was 2 billion at the time.

- It's ****** to compare weight classes but if you want to get technical, Ali had a plus/minus of 70 pounds in regards to his opponents.

- Ali won the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world, Floyd hasn't unified any divisions he fought in.

[BrometheusBob.]

Dude... I have Floyd down as the greatest boxer to lace them up but some of the points you mentioned were pure bull****.

1) Ali was a heavyweight. It's physically impossible for him to fight in 5 divisions bro, wtf.

2) PPV Numbers shouldn't justify how great a fighter is, it justifies their popularity. Don't forget, Pacquiao was half of the reason why 4.6 million homes bought the PPV.

3) With the modern state of all these governing bodies, there are more world champions today than there ever was. So this point is kind of invalid when comparing the number of champions on Floyd's resume to Ali's.

4) Ali was THE GREATEST of his era. Not one of.

Agreed with these points except that I wouldn't put Floyd quite as high as Ali on an ATG list personally.

Anyway #1 for me is easily SRR.

[oscar9992]

Mayweather may be the best pure boxer ever. But he is not "the greatest".

It goes to Ali. To be called "the greatest" you need to be a great person outside of the ring. And be more than just a great boxer.


BTW my grandpas and parents all know who Ali is, but somehow know nothing about Mayweather and never heard about him.
Shows how much influence Ali had all over the World. Him and Tyson are most recognisable and famous boxers on the planet. Even though I am not biggest Tyson fan at all.

[BrometheusBob.]

Manny Pacquaio is the greatest lb for lb. He fought Mayweather to a close decision victory, only to be robbed, with only 1 arm!!

Floyd Mayweather is the 2nd best boxer of all time.

As for Muhammad Ali, he ranks about number 5 in an achievement sense after Wladimir Kltischko, Vitali Klitschko, Lennox Lewis and Larry Holmes.

In H2H terms he definitely ranks in the top 100 but it's a far fetched fantasy to assume he ranks higher than top 50.

^ This is actually flattering since he boxed 50 years ago!!

Muhammad Ali is literally a bum compared with Floyd in summary.

Comedy gold. I mean none of the guys you mentioned are better than Ali but Vitali is not even remotely worth bringing up.

[Bozbay]

Agreed with these points except that I wouldn't put Floyd quite as high as Ali on an ATG list personally.

Anyway #1 for me is easily SRR.

That's fair enough dude. I have #1 Floyd. #2 SRR. #3 Ali. I switch that up all the time. You can make a case for any

[kiDynamite92]

How the **** is Floyd #1 on anyone's P4P list??? SRR, SRL, Hearns, Hagler, Duran, Whittaker, Charles, Jones... Anyone ever heard of these guys?

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