Ali couldn't fight, are you effin' kiddin' me ?!!

[jahmez]

The fact that people are still debating the level of his achievements from both sides of the argument decades later is testament to the depth of his career alone. The guy fought everybody in arguably the best heavyweight era of all time. Not only were there so many great fighters in the division but they all had completely unique styles and characters of their own. The craziest thing for me is I have still never seen a fighter move as beautifully as Ali did in any weight division and this guy was doing it as a fucking heavyweight

[Master]

Ali beat 3 great heavies, fought with a broken jaw, got up from a Frazier left hook, took the bombs from Foreman, fought in the fight of the century, had 3 of his prime years taken away from him what more must a man do to be considered the best?

[Alexkebert]

Ali was awesome.

I love the way he would pull his head back and make an opponent clearly miss rather than put up his guard and block and maybe the judges think he got hit when he actually blocked.

Ali was brilliant.

[greynotsoold]

It has always seemed to me that Ali is considered 'great' because he fought fighters that are considered 'great' because they fought Ali.

[AdamGB]

Sonny Liston was around before Ali, Big George was feared whilst Ali was in exile and I seem to remember him doing something special a few decades later