Better opposition Ali Or Oscar

Ali beat the better fighters, while Oscar fought the better fighters. As good as the likes of Frazier, Foreman, Liston and Patterson are by Heavyweight standards, they're just not a better group than prime or close to prime versions of Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Bernard Hopkins, Shane Mosley and Felix Trinidad. Add very past it but still world class versions of Pernell Whitaker and Julio Cesar Chavez and it's just a done deal.

Oscar has fought the best array of fighters since the time of the Fab 4, so like, of the last 40 years or so.

 

Voted Ali but damn it's close

I mean facing Mayweather and Pacquiao at their best alone is outstanding

 

Oscar fought better fighters the best guy Ali fought was Frazier after that they’re all just solid.
De La Hoya on the other hand had a murderers row of names.

 

Gotta say De La Hoya.

 

Regardless of wins, lets see the top 5 of each fighter..
Muhammad Ali- Larry Holmes, George Foreman, Joe Fraizer, Sonny Liston, Ken Norton
Oscar De La Hoya- Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquaio, Felix Trinidad, Shane Mosley, Pernell Whitaker


It's close, but I'd probably give the edge to DLH.

 

Floyd is top 10, Manny is top 20 if not 10, and Whitaker is top 30 at worst. I don't think Ali even fought a top 30 guy.

 

The Golden Boy easy.

 

That’s just a few, though. It gets clearer when looking across their whole careers.

 

Moore but obviously contextually it’s not the same as Oscar fighting Floyd Manny or Pernell

 

Floyd, Manny, Mosley, Tito, Pernell, Chavez, Hopkins, Camacho, Gatti, Leija, Miguel Gonzalez, Vargas, and Quartey. Oscar's comp blows Ali's outta the water imo.

 

If you say Moore, I’ll say Chavez. And Chavez actually had something for the first fight.

 

I voted Oscar

 

If we include the people they both LOST to then it’s Oscar.

 

Oscar clearly lighter weight classes tend to have better fighters generally