“Go down, fool!” Muhammad Ali once said to Joe Frazier in the midst of their historic heavyweight championship fight. “Don’t you know I’m God?”
A belief in God or a particular religion is certainly not foreign to many a legendary prizefighter. Muhammad Ali famously opposed the war in Vietnam and cited his belief in Islam as his reason for doing so. Ali was definitely the most famous prizefighter of all, but he was certainly far from the only one to hold a devout belief in God.Recent pound-for-pound Kings
The most recent, top two pound-for-pound fighters in the world were Andre Ward and Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez.