who is the most popular boxer in history

Ali. I can't think of another boxer who sold his name for 50M$ 30 years after his career.

 

Tyson overtook Ali albeit dubiously. Mostly due to his exploits out of the ring.

 

Right at this moment in time, I would definitely say Ali.
Certainly not at the time, but he is now!
Wheras Tyson, rightly or wrongly, still has a pretty negative image.

 

Ali - people died knowing Ali and never knowing who Tyson was. This thread doesn't take much thought. It's Ali and then Tyson. Then everyone else is arguable.

 

ali hands down

 

on this board i did a survey on who got them started on boxing and a clear majority of the ESB board members starting watching boxing not because of Ali and Rumble in the Jungle.

they started watching Boxing because of Tyson because most that are here on this board of are a younger generation.

i think it was about 80% answered Tyson got them into boxing.

 

ali would **** tyson up in the head so bad.

 

1st Tyson
2nd Ali
3rd De La Hoya
4th Foreman

 

As it seems to me, some are mixing things up: it's about who is the most widely known, not who is the most loved one.
It is Mike Tyson. He is the most popular in America, Asia, probably Europe. In Africa, it should be Ali by a wide margin. Not sure about Australia, probably Tyson.

 

tyson is a poor man and ali shines over him.

 

Golota????

 

Keep telling yourself that. Tyson would smother Ali, confuse him, and knock him flat on his draft-dodging ass.

 

The younger crowd doesn't understand the Ali thing, but it's Ali by a landslide.

Tyson is a distant second compared to the level Ali reached.