{"id":301792,"date":"2025-11-23T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301792\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:45:07","slug":"im-better-than-ali-heavyweight-legend-says-his-record-proves-that-hes-really-the-best-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301792\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’m better than Ali”: Heavyweight legend says his record proves that he’s really the best ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not many fighters would boldly claim that they are greater than Muhammad Ali<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ali is arguably the biggest name in the history of boxing, becoming a three-time world heavyweight champion after wins over fellow legends like George Foreman and Joe Frazier. <\/a><\/p>\n

He had 61 fights in total, winning 56 of them, as he dominated the sport throughout the 1960s and 1970s before hanging up the gloves.<\/p>\n

Despite his monumental success<\/a>, a former world heavyweight champion believes his own record surpasses anything that Ali achieved.<\/p>\n

The man in question is Evander Holyfield<\/a>, who explained to Seconds Out<\/a> why he has come to that conclusion.<\/p>\n

\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.<\/p>\n

\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

\u201cThey keep saying Ali is the best fighter, no I am. He was three times, I\u2019m four.\u201d<\/p>\n

After becoming undisputed at cruiserweight, Holyfield moved up to heavyweight and it didn\u2019t take him long to become the sole ruler of the banner division too.<\/p>\n

As \u2018The Real Deal\u2019 stated, he is the only four-time world heavyweight champion in history, thanks to victories over iconic fighters such as Mike Tyson, Riddick Bowe, Larry Holmes and Foreman, so it is clear why he does indeed view himself as the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not many fighters would boldly claim that they are greater than Muhammad Ali. Ali is arguably the biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-301792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}