{"id":37078,"date":"2020-08-26T11:14:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/las-cinco-razones-por-las-que-ali-es-el-mas-grande\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:35:07","slug":"five-reasons-why-ali-is-the-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/five-reasons-why-ali-is-the-greatest\/","title":{"rendered":"Five reasons why Ali is the greatest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five reasons why Ali is the greatest<\/strong><\/h2>\n

By Luis Felipe Dominguez<\/p>\n

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Muhammad Ali is the most famous boxer in history and there`s \u00a0contention in that.<\/p>\n

There may be some more powerful, with a better record or even undefeated but no one has reached Ali’s popularity levels.<\/p>\n

He is known as “The Greatest”. That nickname portrays him in full. He may not have been the best, but he was the greatest, the one who transcended boxing and whose legend is even greater than reality.
\nLet’s look at five reasons why we can really say that it is “The Greatest.”<\/p>\n

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His style.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was unlike any heavyweight we’ve ever seen. Sometimes it seemed that he was playing with his opponents, that he was having fun with them.<\/p>\n

His foot movement did not correspond to his weight … he was too agile. He danced on the balls of his feet and moved sideways, back and forth as if he weighed 135 pounds … the opponents were used to exchanging blows, not hunting a man who was much more agile than they. To that must be added the innate talent he had to dodge blows to the head\u2026 he didn’t learn it in the gym, he just perfected it\u2026 he had it with him, it came with the package.<\/p>\n

No one has used the jab like Muhammad Ali. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” is the perfect description of his style … he danced, he walked away, he made his opponent fail And flail, and he made his way with a jab that had a unique speed. He hit with it again and again, not only did it mark, it was a real blow, setting up the right cross. Ali was a wizard of boxing.<\/p>\n

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His belt was taken from him\u2026 and he came back for it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1964 Ali won the World Heavyweight Championship and would proceed to defend it nine times, remaining undefeated and setting his record at 29-0 … until he was halted \u00a0by a war I which \u00a0he did not fight.<\/p>\n

In 1967, when the United States was fighting the Vietnam War, Ali was called up to join the army, which he refused due to his beliefs. In April of that year, the championship belt was taken away and he was denied licenses to fight Although \u00a0he did not go to prison he was kept away from the ring until October 1970… it was 3.5 years in which he could not get into a ring.<\/p>\n

Upon his return, he won two fights, before losing his unbeaten record against Joe Frazier in 1971. From his return through 1978, he racked up 55 career wins from just two losses and would eventually regain the belt that was taken from him.<\/p>\n

Since returning from forced retirement, he \u00a0won 26 fights in a span of 8 years … an admirable record for any fighter at the highest level.<\/p>\n

Ali lost the opportunity to fight between his years 25 and 28 … let’s look at the record of some of the great boxers in history when they were that age:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Floyd Mayweather Jr .: 8-0
\n\u2022 Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez: 13- 0
\n\u2022 Marvin Hagler: 13-0-1<\/p>\n

Muhammad Ali is without a doubt at the level of those boxers … right at 25 we can say that they experienced their best moment physically. We can assume that Ali would have fought 3 or 4 fights per year, which means that he lost between 10 and 15 fights in his prime … how far would he have gone?<\/p>\n

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He was “The Showman.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

From days before his fights, Ali was giving a show … the way he expressed himself, in which he heated up the fights, made the whole world wait eagerly \u00a0for the day of the fight, to see him.
\nSome of his expressions that have gone down in history:<\/p>\n

“When you’re as great as I am, it’s hard to be humble”<\/p>\n