Floyd Mayweather Jr has revealed the one heavyweight who he believes would have beaten Muhammad Ali.
Best known by his alias ‘The Greatest’, Ali is regarded by many as the greatest fighter in the history of boxing, let alone within the heavyweight division.
Ali enjoyed an accomplished professional career, where he won the world heavyweight championship on three separate occasions. His crowning moment came back in 1964 when he defeated the great Sonny Liston inside just two rounds.
The heavyweight icon would go on to rack up a number of career defining victories in the years that followed, beating the likes of Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Ken Norton to name a few.
Despite his outstanding success, retired five-weight world champion Mayweather Jr believes there is one fighter that would have prevailed in a showdown with a prime version of Ali.
In a round of ‘Winner Stays On’ with Daily Mail Sport, ‘Money’ Mayweather backed former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis ahead of Ali when he was tasked with choosing who he believes would have come out on top.
Known as ‘The Lion’, Lewis is undoubtedly one of the very best heavyweights in the sport’s long history. The British-Canadian won the world heavyweight championship on several occasions during his career, as well as the undisputed championship which he won in his showdown with Evander Holyfield back in 1999. Lewis later named Holyfield his toughest opponent.
Despite suffering defeat on just two occasions during his tenure, ‘The Lion’ actually avenged these losses against Hasim Rahman and Oliver McCall, effectively beating every opponent he had ever faced in the ring throughout his glittering career.
