Who's the most intelligent fellow to ever enter the ring?

George Foreman.

Signing on the dotted line to front up the BBQ grill earned him a ****ing fortune !!!

 

A mathematician and boxer. Now that’s hard to beat.

 

Calvin Brock? The boxing banker?
Juan Diaz? Didn't he have some decent career out of the ring. Can't remember now.

 

Bob Dylan

 

JMM might be a **** drinking closet case but he always came across as a very smart guy outside of that.

 

He has a 2.2. the Klits have PhDs.

 

Depends what you mean by 'enter the ring'

Ernest Hemingway claimed to be semi-professional

 

Forget the dudes name who became a lawyer

 

Klitschkos have fake degrees. You don't get a real Ph.D from Ukraine while living, training, boxing full time in Germany in your early to mid-20's. It was just something to boost their image abroad.

 

Chris Algieri has a degree in nutrition management.
Juan Diaz got a degree in Polysci after finishing his career.

 

Panama Al Brown spoke six languages, if we're using that as a metric of intelligence.

 

I'm baffled this thread made it four posts before somebody mentioned K2. You know, the pair of actual doctoral PhD holders that also became world heavyweight titlists, so the first & foremost names that ought to spring to mind answering this question?

 

If we're talking IQ, It's a Brit!


Nicky Piper. A member of MENSA International.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Piper

He was a half decent fighter, too.

 

Going back through many years of brain fuzz, but I want to say he was a fair commentator as well? Can't remember if it was for Sky or BBC or Ch5 or what have you.