{"id":566556,"date":"2026-03-28T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566556\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:38:07","slug":"mike-tyson-ranks-just-one-man-above-muhammad-ali-as-the-greatest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566556\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson ranks just one man above Muhammad Ali as the ‘greatest ever’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Tyson<\/a> has often credited Muhammad Ali<\/a> as being his boxing hero but that hasn\u2019t stopped him conceding that there is another man he views as the greatest.<\/p>\n

Tyson and Ali are both regarded as two of the best heavyweight boxers of all time<\/a>, with Ali first to transcend the sport when he dominated the banner division throughout the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n

He became a three-time world heavyweight champion and claimed victories in some of the most iconic fights of all time, such as the \u2018Rumble In The Jungle\u2019 against George Foreman<\/a> and the \u2018Thrilla In Manila\u2019 against Joe Frazier.<\/p>\n

After retiring from the sport in 1981, it was then Tyson\u2019s turn to take the mantle, as he made his debut in March 1985 and just over 18 months later won the WBC title to become the youngest world heavyweight champion in history at the age of 20.<\/p>\n

Just like Ali, Tyson\u2019s fights were must-see affairs, becoming the number one attraction in the sport for the next two decades, with that even proving to be the case when \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 took part in a controversial bout with YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in 2024.<\/p>\n

When it came to naming the best boxer of all time, Tyson didn\u2019t choose Ali, instead making another pick<\/a> that is widely accepted throughout the boxing world. Reflecting on a meeting with the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson<\/a>, he described him as the true greatest ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know he\u2019s the greatest fighter to ever live.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to argue with Tyson\u2019s beliefs due to the achievements of Robinson, who was world champion at welterweight and middleweight, and at one point had a record of 129-1-2 with 85 knockouts, going on a 91-fight unbeaten streak in the process.<\/p>\n

In the end, Robinson retired having won 174 of his 201 fights, making it clear exactly why Tyson and so many others view him as the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson has often credited Muhammad Ali as being his boxing hero but that hasn\u2019t stopped him conceding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-566556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566556","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=566556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}