Evander Holyfield has a strong opinion when it comes to the greatest fighter of all time.
To a lot of people, when mentioning the greatest ever there is only one man that comes to mind, and it the one who shares that very same moniker, Muhammad Ali.
Ali was a three-time heavyweight champion and undisputed from 1974 to 1978, defeating fellow greats like George Foreman, Joe Frazier and Sonny Liston during his illustrious career.
Holyfield doesn’t agree with the assessment of calling Ali the best ever though, as he told Seconds Out that he views himself as the greatest.
“I’m the only four-time heavyweight champion of the world but they are still talking about Ali when I broke his record. I’ve been the only four-time heavyweight champion of the world for 24 years.
You can’t talk about it until you break someone’s record, they don’t say nothing about me. How do you cut somebody out of history? Now I didn’t even know I was the first person to be undisputed in two weight divisions, until Usyk did it.
They keep saying Ali is the best fighter, no I am. He was three times, I’m four.”
As Holyfield states, he is the only four-time world heavyweight champion, and was the first man to be undisputed at both cruiserweight and heavyweight until Oleksandr Usyk repeated the feat last year.
Holyfield defeated boxers like Mike Tyson, Larry Holmes, Riddick Bowe and Foreman during his time inside the ring, and he has named the one fight he had where he was hit so hard he felt like all his teeth had been knocked out.
