Recently, with the news of the comeback of the boxing king Tyson, people's attention to boxing has increased greatly, and after lamenting the luck of seeing Tyson on the stage again in his lifetime, he can't help but miss the heroic posture of a generation of heavyweight boxing king Muhammad Ali, after all, in the eyes of Chinese, Ali and Tyson are the highest symbols of boxing.
It is worth mentioning that looking around the world, in the eyes of many boxing fans, Ali is also an insurmountable boxing great, no one is greater than him, and the truth is not so, in the eyes of the greatest boxing historian and authoritative sports columnist In the eyes of Bot Schuger, Ali is not the greatest, and the greatest boxer is Shug Ray Robinson, who is known as the "fist saint".
Probably most domestic boxing fans do not know who Robinson is, Robinson was originally named Walker Smith, he is Ali's spiritual mentor, but also the pioneer of all technical genre boxers, his influence on boxing, comparable to Bruce Lee's promotion of Chinese kung fu, Robinson's amateur record is 85 games to win 69 KO opponents, of which the first leg ended opponents 40 games, he played a total of 201 games in his career, achieved a horror record of 174 wins, 19 losses, 6 draws and 109 KO opponents, the first 132 games only lost 1 Robinson also won the championships at the sub-middleweight and middleweight levels, knowing that there was no super-middleweight and super-middleweight level at that time, and he retired in the 13th round due to the hot weather when he hit the light heavyweight gold belt. It can be said that Robinson has made great contributions and examples in promoting the development of boxing.
In addition, Schuger also ranked Armstrong, Piper and others in the top three, while Ali only ranked 7th, although the ranking given by Schuger has also aroused widespread discussion, but he is the most respected scholar in professional boxing, in addition to him, can not find a second boxer who can list more than 100 years of boxers and give a relatively convincing ranking.
Xing Wei, an Asian boxing promoter and a veteran practitioner known as "China's Bot Schuger", said: "Bot Schuger has been dead for 8 years, but his books have left valuable wealth for the boxers behind, as to who is greater, Ali and Robinson, this is a matter of opinion. Broadly speaking, Ali is more well-known, but in the hearts of hardcore boxing fans, Robinson does not lose to Ali in any way, and even Ali admits that Robinson is his idol, so it is still difficult to draw conclusions about who is greater. That's the charm of boxing, though— it's always controversial, it's always fighting. ”