most well-known?

Correct:yep

It's all been worked out that we are or should be skint by being long time married or divorced as the animal that controls the money ai'nt us, it's her in their ****in eyes:fire How wrong they are:hey

 

Ali is still most recognisable boxer. The idea younger fans dont recognise him as much as Tyson or De la Hoya is inaccurate. The fact that the dream team had a game interrupted to present him with a medal shows how big he is. That Apple and Adidas have used him in recent years for marketing purposes suggests the younger fan is very much aware of who he is.
The Contender has possibly reintroduced Ray Leonard to a new generation

 

No this is the man whos most well known

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Id say Tyson but ODLH will always be in the spotlight cause of his promotions. He might Pass Tyson up one day.

 

De La Hoya is nowhere near as popular as Tyson with the mainstream public (i.e. non-boxing fans). Really, Ali and Tyson are the only two that are widely known by the common people.

 

If I were to believe everything I read, boxing has been dying since it's first day, practically.

 

There never has and there never will be a more popular boxer than Muhammad Ali


For at least 30 years of his life, he was the most popular man on Earth.


Can any other boxer say that?

Most presidents can barely say that.

Until Obama, he was the most written about human being in history, only behind Jesus Christ.


What people tend to forget, is that John L Sullivan and Louis might have been God like in America, but nobody commanded the WORLDS attention like Muhammad. And the fact that he was Muslim made him popular to a whole new demographic of the world.


I know the thread asks for the 2nd most popular, and I would have to say Frazier Foreman or Tyson, but I just wanted to make a point that nobody will ever come close to reaching Ali.


Ali's level of academic education was incredibly poor, yet he was offered professorship at Oxford and Harvard. Who else?

 

As far as I know that's a wrong claim. Shakespeare, and several politicians had had more stuff written about them than Ali, and it's not even close.

 

Yeah right try coming out to my neck of the woods ODLH is just as known if not more so than Tyson and Ali:yep

Everyone and their great Grandma knows who ODLH is.

 

It's true. I met a fat nerdy girl who doesn't even look like she cared about sports calling ODLH the best boxer.

 

There is a world outside of the US. Jones, DLH, Pac, Mayweather, Leonard aren´t even known by some boxing fans over here in Europe, not even talking of the non-boxing people. Over here in Germany it´s Ali, Tyson, Schmeling, Louis, Klitschkos. Hell, people like Maske, DM, Abraham are more known and popular than any of the others you mentiones with the exception of perhaps Frazier and Foreman.

 

Anyone from So California knows what im talking about im not kidding you must see ODLH on the news a few times a week for all kinds of different stuff.

 

i wouldnt disagree with ali...and after that maybe tyson...

but, i have to say in the last two years i am very surprised how many non-boxing fans i have heard speak about floyd mayweather...
i heard so many kids speak about him vs the big show on the wrestling...at my lads school, out on the street. kids shaping up to each other and saying 'i'm money mayweather' 'no, i am', that kind of thing....and then if i was out i was often asked things like "do you think mayweather will fight 'that fella' who beat hatton?"....kinda surprised me...

 

What kills me...what I find so ludicrous, is the notion, recently expressed after the death of Michael Jackson, is that he exceeded Ali in significance as well as fame...hell, these fanatical idiots making this observation had Jackson towering over ALL cultural figures of our time...and to another degree, this thing about Tyson's fame exceeding Ali's. I'm not the biggest Ali fan, by the way and certainly not a nuthugger or worshipper of him, while I recognize his greatness as a fighter, but as for his significance in terms of his influence, throughout the decade of the 60's, esp., and all that he's meant to so many people, both in positive and negative ways, I can say with conviction that he towers over any candidates that modern day idiots in this culture may think has eclipsed him....hate to say it, but just wait till he passes...then their perspectives will be adjusted.

 

And in the East, especially the Phillipines..Manny Pacqiauo reigns supreme..to give another example of the point you're making..it's only natural that other places in this world, outside of the high tech, cultural colossus known as "America" that their homegrown heroes should be more prominent..and why shouldn't they? We can be so arrogant here in the United States..with the tunnel vision of nationalism that we think that there's nothing and nobody anywhere else..I myself am fascinated by what's big in Japan, Africa, Latin Amercan countries and Europe..but I'm a real minority here where I am with interests like that.