{"id":189590,"date":"2025-10-10T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189590\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:54:09","slug":"malik-scott-names-the-two-heavyweights-better-than-oleksandr-usyk-and-muhammad-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189590\/","title":{"rendered":"Malik Scott Names The Two Heavyweights Better Than Oleksandr Usyk And Muhammad Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mailk Scott feels that Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> and Muhammad Ali<\/a> pale in comparison to two other heavyweights.<\/p>\n

Scott competed as a heavyweight 42 times during his own career, but came up short whenever stepping up, suffering defeats to the likes of Deontay Wilder, Derek Chisora and Luis Ortiz.<\/p>\n

He has since began operating as a trainer, spending a number of fights in the corner of Wilder<\/a>, whilst also working with fighters such as Gerald Washington and Gilberto Ramirez.<\/p>\n

The current king of the heavyweight division is Usyk, who has become a two-time undisputed champion in the banner division after victories over Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois.<\/p>\n

Ali was also undisputed on multiple occasions, with his battles against fellow legends like George Foreman and Joe Frazier regarded as some of the most iconic fights of all time.<\/p>\n

Despite the success that Usyk and Ali have achieved, Scott feels two men are even better, after he was asked by ESNews<\/a> about who would be on his Mount Rushmore and two heavyweights made the list.<\/p>\n

\u201cLennox Lewis, Larry Holmes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewis dominated the heavyweight division throughout the 1990s, with his best victory coming against Evander Holyfield in 1999 to become undisputed champion.<\/p>\n

He ended his career with wins against Mike Tyson and Vitali Klitschko<\/a>, finishing with 41 wins from his 44 fights, 32 victories by knockout.<\/p>\n

Holmes defended his world title on 20 occasions during a seven-year reign from 1978 to 1985, with his highest profile win arguably coming when he defeated Ali in the boxing legend\u2019s penultimate fight in October 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mailk Scott feels that Oleksandr Usyk and Muhammad Ali pale in comparison to two other heavyweights. Scott competed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-189590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}