{"id":233026,"date":"2025-10-30T00:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233026\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:27:08","slug":"boxings-only-4-time-heavyweight-champion-says-hes-been-cut-out-of-history-im-the-best-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233026\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing’s Only 4 Time Heavyweight Champion Says He’s Been ‘Cut Out Of History’: “I’m The Best Ever”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A legendary heavyweight champion believes he has been \u2018cut out\u2019 of the debate on the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n

The heavyweight division is widely regarded as being the banner weight class in all of boxing, having been host to some of the biggest names in the history of the sport.<\/p>\n

Those include the likes of Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, George Foreman and Lennox Lewis, but now another iconic name has had his say on his own legacy.<\/p>\n

It was October 25th 1990 when Olympic bronze medallist Evander Holyfield<\/a> etched his name into the boxing history books by becoming the first fighter of all time to win the undisputed championship at both cruiserweight and heavyweight.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Real Deal\u2019 stopped countryman James \u2018Buster\u2019 Douglas in the third round of their Las Vegas showdown to achieve this feat and cement himself as one of the greatest heavyweights to have ever graced the sport.<\/p>\n

Holyfield would go on to win the world heavyweight championship on four separate occasions during his 27-year professional career<\/a>, an impressive record that remains unbroken to this very day.<\/p>\n

Despite this, \u2018The Real Deal\u2019 revealed in an interview with SecondsOut that he believes he has been \u2018cut out\u2019 of boxing history, claiming that he deserves to be ranked as the greatest heavyweight of all time ahead of Ali.<\/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. \u201cThey keep saying Ali is the best fighter, no I am. He was three times, I\u2019m four.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whilst Holyfield makes a solid argument for himself, it would be unfair to say that Ali does not belong in the conversation for being one of, if not the greatest heavyweight of all time.<\/p>\n

Ali made his mark during arguably the greatest era of heavyweight boxing history<\/a>, defeating the likes of Joe Frazier, Sonny Liston and Foreman amongst many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A legendary heavyweight champion believes he has been \u2018cut out\u2019 of the debate on the greatest of all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-233026","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\/233026","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=233026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}