{"id":780912,"date":"2026-09-24T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780912\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:26:19","slug":"muhammad-ali-crowned-one-man-above-him-as-the-best-of-all-time-he-was-the-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780912\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Ali crowned one man above him as the best of all time: “He was the greatest”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muhammad Ali<\/a> once revealed who he believed to be the pound-for-pound greatest fighter of all time.<\/p>\n

Ali is arguably the biggest name to ever grace boxing, becoming a global cultural figure not just for what he accomplished inside of the ring, but also for his activism efforts outside of it.<\/p>\n

He was a three-time world heavyweight champion, and claimed wins in a number of epic battles, including the \u2018Rumble In The Jungle\u2019 against George Foreman<\/a>, and the \u2018Thrilla In Manila\u2019 against Joe Frazier.<\/p>\n

Ali finished with a record of 56 wins from his 61 professional bouts, and despite all of his success, Ali conceded<\/a> that another man ranked above him as the number one fighter in boxing history, admitting that he feels Sugar Ray Robinson is deserving of that honour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say I\u2019m the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound-for-pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robinson competed professionally from 1940 to 1965, having a remarkable 201 fights during that time, winning 174 of them. At his peak, Robinson once had a record of 129 wins from 132 fights, with 85 of those wins coming by knockout.<\/p>\n

He went on a 91-fight unbeaten streak during that time, as he held the world welterweight title for five years, before becoming world middleweight champion on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n

Ali isn\u2019t the only boxing legend that believes Robinson is the best ever, with fellow heavyweight icon Mike Tyson also sharing the same view.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muhammad Ali once revealed who he believed to be the pound-for-pound greatest fighter of all time. Ali is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780912","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\/780912","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=780912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}