{"id":793254,"date":"2026-10-06T02:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793254\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:08:08","slug":"tyson-fury-sets-the-record-straight-on-who-would-win-prime-mike-tyson-vs-prime-muhammad-ali-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793254\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury sets the record straight on who would win prime Mike Tyson vs prime Muhammad Ali fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/tyson-fury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a> has revealed who he would back to come out on top between the prime versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/mike-tyson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tyson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/muhammad-ali\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muhammad Ali<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson and Ali are viewed as two of the greatest heavyweights in boxing history, with each of them ruling the division during separate eras.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Iron Mike\u2019 still holds the honour of being the youngest world heavyweight champion of all time, having claimed world honours at the age of just 20, before going on to become undisputed.<\/p>\n<p>His ferocious power is what once earned Tyson the moniker of \u2018The Baddest Man On The Planet\u2019, with 44 of his 50 victories coming by knockout, stopping fighters such as Larry Holmes, Michael Spinks and Frank Bruno over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Ali\u2019s nickname also says plenty about his skillset, having been referred to as \u2018The Greatest\u2019 after a career which saw him become a three-time world heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>He was involved in some of the most memorable fights ever, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/30\/sport\/rumble-in-the-jungle-50-years-on-spt-intl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">defeating George Foreman in the \u2018Rumble In The Jungle\u2019<\/a> and Joe Frazier in the \u2018Thrilla In Manila\u2019, as Ali hung up the gloves with 56 wins from his 61 professional contests.<\/p>\n<p>With all of that in mind, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@yamaljamal99\/video\/7691678052228795671?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-9AIaWVsC97W\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asked by Daily Mail Boxing<\/a> who would be victorious in a fantasy match-up between Tyson and Ali, Fury decided to side with Ali.<\/p>\n<p>Fury himself has a chance to match Ali in becoming a three-time world heavyweight champion when he is scheduled to collide with long-term rival Anthony Joshua in Cardiff in December, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/hofer-on-fury-joshua-not-deserving-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with the WBA belt set to be on the line for that bout.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury has revealed who he would back to come out on top between the prime versions of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793254","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\/793254","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=793254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}