{"id":752651,"date":"2026-08-28T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752651\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:12:09","slug":"tyson-fury-weighs-in-on-oleksandr-usyk-or-muhammad-ali-goat-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752651\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury weighs in on Oleksandr Usyk or Muhammad Ali GOAT debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyson Fury<\/a> has outlined the complications with comparing fighters from different eras, such as Muhammad Ali<\/a> and Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>, and deciding who was superior.<\/p>\n

For most, it would be easy enough to say that Ali was a more complete heavyweight, or at least proved himself against a generally higher calibre of opposition.<\/p>\n

He did, after all, craft a remarkable 61-fight resume, with his first world title triumph arriving via a terrific upset and sixth-round finish over Sonny Liston<\/a> in 1964.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Greatest\u2019 would then go on to make nine successful defences, before being stripped of the belt on account of his refusal to participate in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

Still, he returned to the sport and, after losing a 15-round battle with Joe Frazier in 1971, Ali exacted his revenge around three years later and subsequently dethroned George Foreman with an iconic eighth-round stoppage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The American is therefore widely regarded as the greatest heavyweight of all time, having also claimed notable victories over the likes of Ken Norton and Ron Lyle.<\/p>\n

Usyk, meanwhile, has had less than half his number of professional bouts and is now on the verge of retirement, having become a three-time, two-division undisputed king.<\/p>\n

But Fury nonetheless struggles to engage in any form of Ali-Usyk debate, telling ALF Global<\/a> that it seems unfair to rank the two all-time greats against one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really rank boxers from different eras; I only match people with who they can fight today, or [who they could\u2019ve fought] back in the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo to say Muhammad Ali was better than Oleksandr Usyk \u2013 who knows, because they never fought. It\u2019s just a biased opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fury fought Usyk twice in 2025, losing their first encounter by split decision before suffering a unanimous decision defeat in their rematch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury has outlined the complications with comparing fighters from different eras, such as Muhammad Ali and Oleksandr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752651","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=752651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}