Mike Tyson defends Muhammad Ali's legacy after Floyd Mayweather's claims of superiority

Mike Tyson defending Muhammad Ali after Floyd Mayweather said he's greater than himFloyd Mayweather has repeatedly claimed to be greater than Muhammad Ali — pointing to his undefeated record, his technical perfection and his financial dominance of the sport. Then someone asked Mike Tyson what he thought. What followed was not a measured sports analysis. It was Mike Tyson — the man who idolised Ali, who cried at his funeral, who has spoken about Ali with reverence his entire career — defending the legacy of the man he considers the greatest human being who ever stepped into a boxing ring. Tyson does not debate this. He does not compare records or statistics. He explains, with the particular intensity that only Mike Tyson can produce, why the question itself is a disrespect to someone whose significance went so far beyond boxing that comparing him to any other fighter is to fundamentally misunderstand what Muhammad Ali was. Floyd Mayweather won every fight he ever had. Mike Tyson’s point is that Ali won something bigger.