Muhammad ali the greatest fighter ever?

Muhammad Ali is the greatest fighter who ever lived.

Greater than Sugar Ray Robinson.

Absolutely.

 

By "his politics" what exactly are you referring to?

 

He's got arguably the greatest resume of any heavyweight, one of top p4p fighters ever and is the face of boxing the way Jordan is for basketball. To me that makes him the greatest ever

 

Ali was an ATG, but he was beaten three times and that has to be acknowledged

 

Numero uno...

 

Rakim Oaks was the most highly decorated American soldier in Vietnam, and the most decorated American soldier ever to have been court martialed. His entire military record was expunged by executive order signed by Lyndon Johnson in June 1967.

Your math is terrible. Let's say Oaks was 18 years old when he was a professional bareknuckle boxer on the streets of New York in 1964, where Cus D'Amato saw him and offered to train him. Instead Oaks enlists and goes to Nam. That makes him 45 in 1991 when he schools Mike Tyson in prison. George Foreman won the heavyweight title for the second time at the age of 45. So no, not too old.

 

I googled him back when some had a thread on the same matter and recently and nothing comes up because it's a mythical person.

 

He had been devoured by a big foot before Ali was even drafted.

 

For me Muhammad Ali is was & always will be The Greatest!!!!!! When you consider we were deprived of 3 1/2 years of Ali's prime for purely political reasons think what more he could have accomplished??
Before you start the refused induction into the army BS. Have you forgotten a certain William Jefferson Clinton fled to England to avoid the draft. His punishment? You made him President of the United States!!!
At least Ali stayed here and faced the music. He will always be my hero

 

In later years, Cus D'Amato recalled seeing Oaks fight bareknuckle in New York in the early 1960's and said Oaks was the best heavyweight fighter he ever saw. In his book, Mike Tyson says that D'Amato gave him instructions on how Mike would beat every heavyweight champion who ever lived. Mike said he knocked out Larry Holmes exactly the way Cus told him to. But friends of Cus say he also told Mike, "There's no film of Oaks and I have no idea how you would beat him. But don't worry. He's dead."

 

Fought and beat the best ducked no one and I mean no one over 2 decades.
Frazier x 3, Norton x 3, Liston x 2,Quarry x 2, Patterson x 2, Chuvalo x 2, Foreman, Lyle, Shavers, Bonavena, Young etc the best heavyweight champion resume by a mile.
There was a controversial win or two in there but which fighter over a long career doesn't have that?
He NEVER lost 3 times to Norton, he was up at a count of 2 with Cooper, like some of the clowns on here with an agenda you concentrate on the negative rather than the man's fantastic achievements.

 

He's 2nd in my HW all time rankings, behind the king Joe Louis

 

He is and I feel like people on this forum are unnecessary critical of him...

 

The peoples champ he is the best loved boxer of all time.

 

#1 at HW, top 10 (closer to 5) overall.