Anthony Joshua has made a prediction that the former undisputed world heavyweight champion, Mike Tyson, would have defeated Muhammad Ali in a match.

A debate has been raging, following Tyson defeating Ali in a computerized World Boxing Super Series finale recently.

Joshua said he believed that Tyson would have got the better of Ali, if the two boxing greats had ever met in a boxing ring.

Speaking from his garden on an Instagram Live Q&A, hosted by one of Joshua’s key partners, JD, the two-time world heavyweight champion was asked who he thought would win in the match-up.

Joshua said,

It’s quite interesting. Because in the era of Muhammad Ali’s heavyweight reign, the heavyweights were ranked as a cruiserweight (in terms of weight).

(But with the likes) of Mike Tyson, Larry Holmes, George Foreman, Lennox Lewis (era), they started getting bigger.

Hence why, in the amateurs, they then created a super heavyweight division so the current heavyweight division in the amateurs is what we (now) class as the cruiserweight division.

Muhammad Ali went from light-heavyweight and moved his way up but he wouldn’t have been a fully-fledged heavyweight.

Let’s say we bulked Muhammad Ali up and put size and strength to him. I truly believe Mike Tyson would have won.

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