Boxing News 2015: ‘Greatest Of All Time’ Muhammad Ali Picks Manny Pacquiao Over Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Widely considered boxing’s “Greatest of All-Time”, Muhammad Ali has made his choice known publicly on who he thinks will win and who he supports in the mega-bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. In an interview, Rasheda Ali, Muhammad’s daughter shared her father’s pick for the highly-anticipated super fight on May 2, 2015 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States.

"My dad is Team Pacquiao all the way!” Rasheda Ali told entertainment and sports website TMZ.com. "He knows Manny's a great fighter... but it's more about what he does outside the ring. He's such a charitable person.”

Rasheda also added in the interview that his father respects Mayweather Jr., who calls himself "The Best Ever", as a fighter but said he was more impressed with Pacquiao as a person.

Ali’s fame rose in the 60s when he refused to be drafted to the U.S. Army service which caused him to miss four years of his prime in the sport after he was stripped of boxing titles and denied to fight in most U.S. states. While inactive as a boxer, his opposition to the Vietnam War inspired other Americans to do be against it as well.

Pacquiao is called the “Fighting Congressman” in the Philippines and is famous for his charitable works for impoverished people in his homeland.

Rasheda also mentioned in the TMZ interview that his father won’t be in Las Vegas to watch the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight live but assured that he will be ordering the pay-per-view, or PPV of the super fight because “it takes my dad way back to when he was fighting.”

While the Mayweather-Pacquiao mega-bout is considered this era’s “Fight of the Century”, Ali (56-5-0, 37 KOs), who won the heavyweight title in 1964, 1974, and 1978, has also been involved in his own super fights during the prime of his career including fights agains other heavyweight champions like Joe Frazier— whom he met three times, George Foreman and Sonny Liston, among many other memorable and historic bouts.

Mayweather Jr. (47-0-0, 26 KOs) and Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs) will meet for the first time on top of the squared ring after years of negotiations. Like Ali, casual and serious fight fans alike are in high anticipation of the fight, which is expected to break PPV and live gates ticket sales records.

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