Boxing Legend Says “People Don’t Want To Hear This” But I’m Greater Than Muhammad Ali

In the eyes of many, Muhammad Ali is the greatest fighter to have ever laced up the gloves.

Known as ‘The Greatest’, Ali entered the professional ranks back in 1960, just a couple of months after he walked away from the Olympic Games in Rome with a gold medal in the light-heavyweight division.

He captured world honours for the first time in 1964 with a dominant victory over the legendary Sonny Liston, stopping him in the sixth round of their showdown in Miami. Ali repeated this feat in their rematch a year later before going onto make nine defences of his title.

Perhaps the most famous victory of Ali’s entire career came in 1974, when he stopped George Foreman in the eighth round of their historic battle in Zaire, which is more commonly known as ‘The Rumble In The Jungle’.

Despite the technical brilliance and outstanding ability of Ali, legendary heavyweight Larry Holmes revealed in an interview with Seconds Out that he believes he is actually the greatest fighter of all time.

“No matter how good of a fighter I was and I consider myself as one of the greatest fighters of all time, people don’t wanna hear that but the facts is in the pudding.

Listen who beat me? My record speaks for itself, 75 fights, 69 wins, 44 knockouts, in the six fights they say I lost I didn’t lose, and Muhammad Ali even when I beat him they said well he was old, so we gotta get old, if he can’t do the things stay out of the ring…

I think I have the right to say that I’m the greatest”

Ali was defeated by Holmes in the penultimate bout of his career back in 1980, although it was reportedly made common knowledge that the health of ‘The Greatest’ had began to deteriorate in the build-up to the fight, with many left wondering whether he should have even been allowed to fight.