MUHAMMAD ALI WAS NOT THE GREATEST

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....Name one fighter....Make that Athlete to even compare to him all around...Not in one aspect but the whole package!!!!!!........

I agree with you, he is definitely the athlete/personality of the 20th century. The only person who I think can come close in terms of recognition and supremacy within their sport is Pele - but he did not become the social symbol that Ali (maybe not wholly intentionally) became.

u mean in skills ?? then i pick larry holmes both similar both quick both had good right hands both had good footwork both had granite chins and my opinion anyway i think holmes had better jab than ali

Yeah, Larry Holmes was a great fighter, but I think the guy who comes first gets much more credit (maybe as Holmes stylistically had some things in common with a mid-career Ali, he was written off unfairly as a clone or carbon-copy). Ali broke the mold for a heavyweight fighter, in the way he fought as well as the way he conducted himself.Also, I suppose, many of Homes' defences were for alphabet belts while Ali defended the WORLD title. Not entirely Holmes' fault, but it is still the way that it is?

agreed i just think holmes is forgotten for how much skills he actually had he reminded me bit of ali im not saying holmes can compete with ali in things he done but surely there isnt much between them in there skills ??

I think you're right - Holmes has been almost criminally underrated. His crime was following a dominant all time great. He is Ezzard Charles and Gene Tunney all over again (they were underrated, and still are, having followed Louis and Dempsey)

Holmes would have given any heavyweight in history a damn good fight in his prime, and not at long odds either.