{"id":777217,"date":"2026-07-03T21:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777217\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T21:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:16:11","slug":"evander-holyfield-says-his-record-surpasses-muhammad-alis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777217\/","title":{"rendered":"Evander Holyfield Says His Record Surpasses Muhammad Ali&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxing247.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add East Side Boxing as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEV0p2ZUdsdVp6STBOeTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow East Side Boxing on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Holyfield, however, argues that his own resume surpasses Ali\u2019s. He believes his accomplishments have largely been overlooked despite becoming the only four-time heavyweight champion after surpassing Ali\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the only four-time heavyweight champion of the world, but they are still talking about Ali when I broke his record. I\u2019ve been the only four-time heavyweight champion of the world for 24 years,\u201d said Holyfield to Secondsout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t talk about it until you break someone\u2019s record; they don\u2019t say nothing about me. How do you cut somebody out of history? Now I didn\u2019t even know I was the first person to be undisputed in two weight divisions until Usyk did it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey keep saying Ali is the best fighter, no I am. He was three times, I\u2019m four.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holyfield won his fourth heavyweight title in 2000 when he defeated John Ruiz to reclaim the WBA belt. More than two decades later, nobody has matched that feat.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond his heavyweight accomplishments, Holyfield was also the first fighter to become the undisputed champion at both cruiserweight and heavyweight, a distinction later matched by Oleksandr Usyk. His career included victories over Mike Tyson, Riddick Bowe, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Michael Dokes and Michael Moorer.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over the greatest heavyweight of all time remains subjective, with many fans continuing to rank Ali first because of his accomplishments inside and outside the ring.<\/p>\n<p>Holyfield remains the only four-time heavyweight champion in boxing history, while his achievement of becoming the first undisputed champion at both cruiserweight and heavyweight was later matched by Oleksandr Usyk. Those accomplishments form the basis of his belief that his place in the sport\u2019s history has been overlooked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Youtube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783113371_667_hqdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holyfield, however, argues that his own resume surpasses Ali\u2019s. He believes his accomplishments have largely been overlooked despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-777217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}