Is Muhammad Ali really the greatest?
Yes, he was the greatest heavyweight boxer of his time, and the greatest in history. It also depends how you define “The Greatest” and that was the nickname given to Muhammad Ali, so he was the greatest. ESPN named Ali the greatest boxer of all time. What made him great was his boxing, yet he was also known for his “trash talk” before the boxing matches. He was a great poet and rhymer, which made him both great outside the ring and inside the ring. Muhammad Ali would repetitively call himself the greatest, so it made sense for others to believe he was the greatest. He even said, “I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.” There was even a book and a movie made after Muhammad Ali which called him the greatest.
