I don't think we ever saw the best of Tyson, his list of opponents never allowed him to show how good he could have been because he was in a time when his division was riddled with bums and chumps.
Ali is the most well known boxer of all time (except maybe Stallone) he fought everyone and his time was saturated with great fighters, he fought them all and beat them all.
I like Tyson, he was great for clearing out his division, but then when he was still young, with no 3 year enforced lay off, he got crushed and made to look like a bum by a journeyman in Buster Douglas.
Never happened to Ali until he was ancient, fat, and suffering from Parkinsons disease.
No one can touch Ali's legacy.


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) he fought everyone and his time was saturated with great fighters, he fought them all and beat them all.
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