Even if you combined aspects of everyone mentioned above you still couldn’t come up with an Ali equivalent. So, though the idea of building a modern Ali is fun, it’s also futile. “The Greatest” will be an accurate title for years to come.
So there we were, my coworkers, and I, sitting in the newsroom totally stumped.
We were trying to think of an athlete from the past two decades who most resembled Muhammad Ali, and the tumbleweeds kept rolling through.
What recent sports figure has blended fame, dominance, charisma and courage like “The Greatest”? Who has managed to rail against the establishment without sacrificing an inch of his global reach?