Who has the beat chance or beating a prime Muhammad Ali?

Ali had one of the biggests heart in boxing history. Never got KO'ed, always got up. Thus, I don't see anybody who relies on his power defeating him. Ali has to be either outworked or outboxed.

I don't see any heavyweight outboxing him.
His kryptonite was Frazier, who kept coming for 41 brutal rounds. But Prime Ali wasn't as stationary as the version Frazier could smother at will.
Mike Tyson was a better Frazier for 2 rounds, after that he became a slugger. No way can he beat Ali. Never. Ali floats and stings him to a late TKO.

Lennox Lewis didn't convincingly beat an already past prime Holyfield, who was a blown-up cruiserweight carried by his courage in the first place. I don't see how the phlegmatic Lewis could pose a problem to the faster and bigger Ali.

Rocky Marciano has to be a joke. The guy was 5'10" and 185lbs. He was like the baby version of Sonny Liston, whom Ali made look old and slow.

Most opponents in the 60s, including Patterson and Liston, were bedazzled by what Ali did, the dancing, the speed, the movement. Joe Louis, who had his best days 20 years earlier would be just a baffled.

All in all, I don't think any ATG heavy touches Ali in his prime.
I'd seriously consider Wladimir Klitschko as giving him the biggest trouble, although I wouldn't pick Klitschko against any ATG heavy past 1970.
But Klitschko has dicipline, height and reach advantages and doesn't take any risk. Ever. He could pose a serious threat against the no-guard Ali whose style always kinda relied on him being able to reach his opponent at will. Ali himself was no big puncher, so that takes away from the glass-chinned Ukrainians biggest weakness.
Ali has never had to fight a tall, scared Jabber.

 

The Joe frazier that beat Ali would have beaten any version of Ali. He had the style to fight Ali and all the motivation and hate he needed to carry him through anything to victory.

 

I agree.

 

Two names:

Koki Kameda

Manny Pacquiao

 

Joe Frazier
Ken Norton

 

Agreed a prime Tyson creates a Nightmare for Ali, or anyother Heavyweight. Tyson in his Prime was complete , and he did have mental fortitude, he was determined and would follow intructions, The mental lapses happened after 1988, And as far as Lennox goes, he had the tools to beat ali, but he wasn't tough enough mentally, I can see Ali Clowning Lennox and stealing a lot of rounds.

 

Foreman
Holmes
Lewis
Bowe
Golota
Holy
Klitschkos
Adamek (?)

 

Most nights a prime Frazier gives a prime Ali trouble. I know Ali may not have been at his very best the night he lost to a prime Frazier... but he wasn't missing it by much.

 

no, no, no, no............and no. atsch

 

Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes

 

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

 

The Ali of 66/67 was untouchable. Its ok carrying the dope but it means zilch if you cant land so we can forget about the Tysons of this world.
To beat prime Ali would take somebody special and not just good, but reeeaaal good and at the top of their game. Someone who fights his own fight and does so for 3 full minutes of every round, and is capable of doing it in the championship rounds. Theres a case to be made of styles too, as they make fights. So going by that,IMO prime frazier and maybe prime Holmes. Forget the rest.

 

koki Kameda