Babe ruth - muhammad ali - michael jordan - rank 'em!

[thekeyman]

​i wouldn't piss on ALI if he was on fire

 

[JudgeWapner]

Ali
Jordan
Ruth

 

[packer2012]

I like Nic's answer quite a lot. However, I am just slightly different.

Michael. CLEARLY

The Babe

The Louisville Lip. Reason....obvious!

Sorry to see this thread lost steam yesterday. Just to get it going again......

Anyone voting for Ali may be from Louisville or have some minor brain affliction...... he was an entertainer first and foremost. No vague resemblance to Jordan's career.

The vast difference in eras should have separated The Babe far below Jordan. (But WELL above Ali) I love baseball.... but kind of hard to even imagine what it would have looked like in those days.

Anyone who has ever even called themselves a sports fan should know Michael was and is "The Man".

 

[JudgeWapner]

Not from Louisville so I must have a brain affliction.

 

[packer2012]

I always wondered how Ali would be remembered without Howard Cosell, his name change, the draft dodging talk, and some of his other craziness? He was sure an entertainer and played things for all they were worth!

 

[JudgeWapner]

He was a great fighter. Two fights come to mind. One early in his career and one late. Liston fight. He destroyed Liston who was a very good heavyweight champion himself.The tools he had as a young fighter were sick. NEVER seen a heavyweight with that type of combination of speed and power. And the Foreman fight where he won on smarts. Even Dundee didn't know what he was doing. Still best heavyweight I ever saw.

 

[packer2012]

But no Jordan. By a long shot! You said you are not from Louisville.... but you are obviously a big boxing fan!

 

[JudgeWapner]

Yeah, grew up a boxing fan. Unfortunately the sweet science is not what it used to be.

 

[silver7]

Ruth
MJ
Ray Robinson (the original)
Liston was a thug & NOT "a very good heavyweight champion).

 

[JudgeWapner]

He was a pure puncher, but he beat Patterson twice and that ain't chopped liver.

 

[JudgeWapner]

Ok, he didn't retain the title long, but he was a bad mf who had a hell of a record which probably would have been better had he not been banned several time.

 

[silver7]

Floyd should never have been a heavy. Ali & Liston were way too big for hm. May have been an All Timer as a Liteheavy. Liked him a lot, broke my heart when he lost to the Swede in the 1st one.

 

[JudgeWapner]

Yeah, he was certainly undersized. Patterson got his revenge on Johansson. They became close freinds later in life.

 

[Ticotaco]

I know that the thread question was not fair but all of your replies are great and I thought the lack of anything close to a consensus was very telling. Thank You All. PS To The Boxing Afficcionados - Jersey Joe Walcott told me that Ali was the Best!

 

[HacheMan]

Jordan
Ruth
Ali (Tyson was best ever in his prime)