I love Muhammad Ali! I can't attest to his boxing skills, but I always liked his personality and attitude. I also enjoyed his sayings:"Float like a butterfly;sting like a bee""Go to college;get the knowledge." What a cool guy!

Ali was the greatest before he lost the 3 1/2 yrs of boxing . Then he couldn't be hit. There is no way marciano or any other heavyweight could have beaten theyoung ali.

There arent many sports people who can be called a legend but Ali is one of them. He had great skill but it's probably his charisma that's made him a sporting great. Purely in terms of boxing he was a dominant force but not quite as far ahead of his main rivals as many would have you believe. After all Frazier beat him on points in the Fight of the Century and was just shaded by Ali in Manila. He had two split bouts with Ken Norton of which Norton won one. Also many of his victories were close run affairs going the distance.

Ali knew how to box.

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As he says himself " the greatest"

ali is great,but he is slightly overrated,dont get me wrong,im just saying hes not the best,but a four star for sure.

I defer to the boxing experts on this site- but it's hard to rank Ali out of the top list of all-time boxers. Even a casual fan like me knows that Ali beat two warriors (Frazier and Foreman) on his way to a stellar resume. . .but there are losses that Ali-philes tend to overlook. As a heavyweight, he's a solid five. All-time? Solid four.

ali was the greatest of all time and when he was at his best he would beat anyone no one could have got near him. i totally agree with the site by rating him the best as he is generally considered as the greatest.

The greatest!

Yeah wth, with out a doubt

There will never be a boxer born with such supreme qualities who can perform in and out of the boxing ring. Muhammad Ali was and is truely the best boxer I have seen who has inspired millions of people around the world. One of the reasons given by Muhammad Ali to be in the boxing profession was not to gain fame or fortune but to touch people's hearts around the world and make a difference. Muhammed Ali is blessed with so much wisdom that he could not be beaten mentally nor physically. With the Parkinsons disease he doesn't seem like half of Muhammad Ali in his peak. May God bless him with all the good deeds that he has done. Ameen.

over-rated...no knockout punch

A great boxer that on most ocassions knew his opponent better that themselves!!!! He had everything that a boxer should have!! UPDATED 02/23/2007 12:24 For his health I wish he had retired earlier!

Muhammad Ali...."It ain't bragging if you can back it up".

Ali was bigger than boxing. He was the greatest there ever was and the greatest there ever will be

Too many GREAT fighters BEFORE him.

This man was just great. i would give him 10 stars if i could. Rocky looks like an amatuer compared to Ali.

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Ali was and still is the greatest. The 60's and 70's were boxing at his prime and he took out the competiton in both era's and if he never had a three year layoff I doubt he would have ever lost to Frazier of Norton

the greatest hands down. the U.S. took away his prime when they took his fighting license for about 4-5 years. thats when he got fatter and slower

I think the saddest thing about Ali is that the world never got to see him in his prime. His 3 and 1/2 year banishment from boxing came right when he hit his peak. His fight against Cleveland Williams in 1966 was just a glimpse of his greatness. Ali connected on almost 80% of his punches, and got nary a glove laid on him. After the long layoff, he had to rely on wit and raw determination more than his speed and footwork, which took a tremendous hit with such a layoff. There's no doubting his toughness, having fought an entire 12-round fight against Ken Norton with a broken jaw which Ali sustained in the first round, and one could just watch the Thrilla in Manilla and realize that no fighter today could ever endure 14 rounds of pure hell as those two warriors did back in 1975. The Ali after the layoff was still a formidable boxer, but we sadly will never know just how truly great he really was.

he was the best

AS good as they get but without the savage power Marciano had.

He was 56-5 never K.O. rarely cut and there was only two boxer that he didn't go back and beat Joe Frasier beat him once then he beat him twice. Leon Spinks beat him once then he beat him right back Ken Norton beat him once then he beat him.

Ali is the greatest of all time. At his best, he would have knocked out any of louis, marcano.... He was very smart, and he knows how to use his strengths to his advantage just as good as his opponents weaknesses. He is too fast and too smart to get involved in power punches, thats why he beat foreman and he would beat the likes of foreman ie. tyson.

Ali is the greatest of all time. At his best, he would have knocked out any of louis, marcano.... He was very smart, and he knows how to use his strengths to his advantage just as good as his opponents weaknesses. He is too fast and too smart to get involved in power punches, thats why he beat foreman and he would beat the likes of foreman ie. tyson.

if any of you dont think that ali was the greatest of all time then you need to just go sit in a corner and beat your self over the head with a tack hammer. if you are trying to think up advanteges for other boxers to try to make them seem better than youre stupid. woopie, rocky marciano had great power and a great chin and body. so did ali. no one can even match ali's mind. he was in your head the fight.

Muhmmand Ali, was most deffinetly the greatest boxer OF HIS TIME!!! Some of these other boxers could be considered better in there time. I mean no disrespect to the Man, he is by far my most looked up too, and favorite Boxer ever.

Muhmmand Ali, was most deffinetly the greatest boxer OF HIS TIME!!! Some of these other boxers could be considered better in there time. I mean no disrespect to the Man, he is by far my most looked up too, and favorite Boxer ever.

Muhmmand Ali, was most deffinetly the greatest boxer OF HIS TIME!!! Some of these other boxers could be considered better in there time. I mean no disrespect to the Man, he is by far my most looked up too, and favorite Boxer ever.

Ali KO'd George Foreman who had KO'd Frazier and Norton in the first three rounds of their fights! So just that feat proves that Ali has the endurance, skill, and technique to beat any boxer. Sonny Liston was the best boxer of his time in his prime and Ali KO'd him in the first minute of the first round. If you actually watch his fights you will see that no one's skill compares to his

this freakin retard just let people beat the hell out of him umtil they were tired and then he'd start fighting. I'll tell ya who was the greatest fighter of that era, Smokin Joe Frazier. He could only see out of one freakin eye for most of his professional career, yet he fought all the same people Ali did and lost 2 less fights in his career. I'll give Ali a lil bit of credit tho. He did win all but 6 of his fights, even though he has a freakin hole in his brain now because he didn't really know how to defend himself like all great boxers do. He ain't a champ, he's a chump. Call somebody the greatest when they have actually earned the title. I'm talkin about boxers like Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, Lennox Lewis, and Jack Dempsey.

Clay,Ali, is one guy I like more now, probably due to sympathy and also due to the fact that others can no longer use him for political and selfish purposes as was the case in the past.
Cassius Clay/Ali was a great fighter. Great against most types of fighters. His natural quickness and reflexes hid his lack of a true technical defense that the best boxers strive for. When he ran into fighters who put real pressure on him and threw punches in bunches, he had great difficulty due to this shortcoming. When he met fighters who tried to methodically setup punches, and plod after him with average punches he was at his best. However if his opponent pressured him and fired bombs, he became at times, just a good fighter and he took some hard punches (Cooper, Chuvalo, Norton, Frazier etc.). He habitually pulled his head straight back against incoming left hooks and was nailed by them very often. Cooper was not a large man, normally under 175 but fought Clay at 183. Doug Jones as 188. You don't have to necessarily be bigger to punch hard.
Against Norton, Ali had trouble slipping the punches and was hurt often. Norton was hardly polished, in fact he was awkward and had a porous defense, but was unafraid and kept the pressure on Ali, continually making him pay. Chuvalo easily took Ali's best punches and then was able to connect many punches on Ali, and this was when Ali was in the very midst of his Prime, just two fights and just ten months after Clay's second fight with Liston. Clay/Ali had real difficulty against agressive bombers who were not afraid to take a punch. He depended upon the aggressor getting tired and discouraged, but those who kept up the pressure were able to connect and hurt him, there is no doubt about this fact. Styles make fights and Ali was at his best against fighters who could not bring themselves to wade in aggressively throwing punches like a Dempsey, Frazier, and Marciano. Marciano would have given him absolute fits due to his all out agressive punching with power. Ali was not the best ever, but he has many votes as such because he could look almost incredible against the average predictable, orthodox, boxer who could not deliver nonstop pressure or decided they did not want to take punches in order to land a few themselves. Sugar Ray Robinson, best pound for pound ever. I lean toward the great Joe Louis as the best heavyweight ever due to his fast and powerful combinations. Joe's twelve year reign is a real feat. I rate Ali lower due to several decisions he was given, when he had really lost the fights, also his weakness against aggressive sluggers due to his lack of punching power and defensive flaws are factored in. On a side note, I think he did harm to sports and culture in general by his hot air and politicking, helping to create a sports culture of poor sportsmanship that is thinly covered by the all-excusing-veil of "oh, its just promotion and hype". Politically, he was just someone's puppet as it turns out.

Ali was one of the greatest fighters of all time - that much is not up for debate; neither is the fact that he was the wittiest and most charismatic boxer ever. Whether he would have beaten the other great fighters had they met at their peak isn't clear - it is not cut and dried whether he could or not. It is never easy to compare sporting greats as they fought in different eras and against varying standards of opponents. Joe Louis (who became a good friend of Ali) said that had no doubts that he would have beaten Ali. What is irrefutable, is that Ali was by far the best heavywieght in the sixties. His demolition of Cleveland Williams is considered one of the best heavyweight boxing displays ever. It was Ali's finest hour. We mustn't forget that Ali was undefeated as a pro prior to his enforced lay-off in 1967. Although he was still a good fighter on his return in 1970, it was evident that, although still very good, he was not the same boxer he was once was. Ali could be enigmatic - He could show a nasty side, as witnessed in his bout against Canadian, Ernie Terrell - taunting and humilating the man mercillessly because he refused to call him Ali. It was a side to Ali that no one liked or admired. Conversly, he could also show great compassion, both in and out of the ring. Would he have beaten the likes of Marciano or Dempsey? I think in all probablity, at his best, he would have. As for Joe Louis? Who knows? Ali was once asked whether he thought he could defeat Mike Tyson, when Tyson was at the height of his powers; Ali replied, "I wouldn't even get into the ring with him - he'd kill me, he's an animal!" Who knows whether Ali said it in a tongue-in-cheek manner or not. What we do know is that Ali was a true one-off; a great athlete, a great fighter, and an icon to millions. We'll never see his like again.

Greatest Heavyweight of all time....almost certainly. Greatest pound for pound boxer of all time? Well, it's either Ali or the original Suger man!

True, I agree. I would have to say the Muhammed Ali is truly one of the best boxers of all time, but he ain't no Rocky Marciano! By the way, Mr. T was not supposed to be Muhammed Ali, Apollo Creed in fact was supposed to be Muhammed Ali, and Rocky Balboa was supposed to be Chuck Wepner (The Bayonne Bleeder). Sylvester Stallone was inspired to make Rocky after watching the Ali-Wepner fight in 1975, in which Wepner was considered a real underdog, and stood no chance against Muhammed Ali. Wepner ended up knocking Ali down with a sharp right hand to the ribs in the eighth round. Wepner went the distance with Ali (15 rounds), before he himself was knocked out by Ali in the last seconds of the last round. Mr. T was supposed to be Ali, hahahahaha.

this man is true greatness personified and no person can ever deny this! xXx

muhammad ali had accuraccy smartness and strength and speed and heart he was the greatest fighter that ever lived i mean come on now can any other boxer think of the rope a dope?

By far the Greatest Ever !!!!!!!

WAY OVERRATED........ NUFF SAID......

Muhhamed ali is the best. By the way drummond i meant rock Marciano you got it? Any way how did you reply so fast?. Tell me plz

Uh, kivash? Rocky is a fictional character. And if boxers boxed like they did in the Rocky movies, their faces would turn to mush. Incidently, in a way Rocky did fight Ali. The Mr. T character in the third movie was supposed to be Ali - a white man's fantasy of beating the upstart negro who opposed the war in Viet Nam. Update: Oops.

Muhammad Ali IS the greatest boxer of all time and a leading for greatest sportsman of the century, and it comes down to his renowned rhyme:’ Your hands can't hit what your eyes cant see, float like a butterfly sting like a bee' Louis, Marciano and Robinson are undoubtedly amongst the true greats of boxing but Ali is in a league of his own as Marciano, Louis and Robinson would agree that Ali was fighting in the golden age of boxing where he dominated it and the only fighter to win the coveted title Ring Magazines Fighter of the Year and Fight of the Year 5 times and also that Louis, Marciano and Robinson would wholeheartedly agree that they can't knockout what they cant see, and Ali's extraordinary verging on inhumane footwork, reflexes and boxing intelligence makes him in this prime ('65,especially '66 and '67)untouchable. What also made him so famous was his great endeavour for social equality, freedom and justice for blacks in America in the 60s where he sacrificed his somehow possible prime of his people which is enough credit to the man, notable mentions that must be made on Ali's Career was the FACT that he is the only Heavyweight to win the heavyweight title three times, he beat Foreman in his prime, Frazier twice, Moore, Liston twice(and only got hit when he was blinded)and anyone who says he was overrated should watch his Cleveland Williams, Zora Folley, George Chuvalo, Ernie Terrell, Floyd Patterson I fights (all when he was facing incarceration for 5 years and his boxing licence and title away in a disgraceful attempt by the racist establishment to stem the Civil Rights Movement), in addition lasting 11 rounds with Larry Holmes(a great HW)while having a hole in his membrane leading him to become a revered public figure and the most famous man in the world, BUT apart from that he was an average if not overrated fighter.

Muhammad Ali IS the greatest boxer of all time and a leading for greatest sportsman of the century,and it comes down to his renowned rhyme:'Your hands

Awesome fighter, but better than Marciano- not hardly. He is number 2 and any boxing expert will tell you the same thing.

ali is my hero i look up to him.

He's the greatest i don't need to say anymore

Ali is the greatest boxer to ever live. In his prime, that is before he was suspended from boxing, he was untouchable. It was virtually impossible to land a solid punch on Ali when he entered the sport, and his hand speed was unrivaled. Although there have been many boxers that could hit harder then Ali, none could avoid a punch like he could. If it wasn't enough for him to have the fastest feet and quickest jab of all time, he was possibly the smartest boxer to ever live. His boxing instincts are what allowed him to be a great boxer even after he lost his foot speed, which is how he beat Foreman. He is the greatest boxer to ever live, and he would have beaten any boxer prior to his era, and any boxer since his era. Also despite what some people are saying on this site, Ali never boxed or sparred against Rocky Marciano.

Ali was a solid boxer, but the most over-rated of all time. His KO/win ratio is one of the worst of the major heavyweights. He could only win by decision over many second rate boxers. Foreman initially claimed his manager drugged him the night he lost to Ali. That's suspicious to me, esp. because boxing can be a crooked & fixed sport. Marciano knocked down Ali during a sparing match & Ali quit at that point.