Muhammad Ali admitted a boxing legend could have beaten him in his prime

Muhammad Ali once named the heavyweight he said gave him the most trouble in a boxing ring.

Ali has taken on everyone during his brilliant careerand managed to defeat the majority of them, scoring iconic victories over other greats. like George Foreman and Joe Frazier.

Several losses towards the end of his career allowed Ali to finish with a record of 56 wins and 5 losses, but he was a man who retired undefeated and that, according to “The Greatest”, would have been his most difficult assignment.

In a previous interview with ESPN, Ali once explained why he thought it would have been a difficult task if he faced Rocky Marciano.

“The toughest fight would be the one that’s the hardest to take down…a guy that had no style just a bull, Rocky Marciano…he would pose the most problems I think.”

Ali also spoke about Marciano further in another interview.

“Rocky wasn’t a great fighter scientifically, just a mauler and a brawler. In a fight his nose hung off and he kept coming. I can’t put him down. I can’t teach people to fight like Marciano. He just had his own style.

“He wasn’t as great as me, he wasn’t as handsome, but I don’t know if I would have beaten him like that.”

Marciano held the world heavyweight title from 1952 to 1956, retiring with a perfect 49-0 record after successful defenses against fighters such as Archie Moore and Ezzard Charles.

Perhaps his most famous victory came in October 1951, when he scored an eighth-round TKO victory over Joe Louis, in what proved to be the final fight for “The Brown Bomber.”