This planet will never have another Muhammad Ali, but Tyson Fury can be his closest when it comes to pure magnetism.
I have had the honor of being with 36 world heavyweight champions, including all-time greats Larry Holmes and Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Mike Tyson.
But they could not seduce a crowd with the immense force of their personalities as Ali and Fury could.
They were born spontaneously and without scripting, with the ability to entertain millions of people with their humor and bombast.
It is amazing to think that Ali and Fury were hate figures at one time due to their controversial views on race and religion, among other issues.
It is not easy to change public opinion from hatred and anger to love, but they did it with amazing results.
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Dillian Whyte is a great man, but Tyson is why 94,000 people paid PS13million to watch the Gypsy King defend his WBC title tonight at Wembley Stadium.
Another million people will pay PS24.95 to view it on pay-per -view TV.
It will be the third largest crowd in heavyweight history.
A staggering 120,557 people were present at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Stadium to witness the first Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney fight in September 1926.
BETTING SPECIAL - GET FURY AT 30/1 OR WHYTE AT 100/1The return was made at Soldier Field in Chicago a year later. Tunney won both the points and the return.
This will be my 76th World Heavyweight Championship fight.
It didn't matter where I was, whether it was New York, Las Vegas, or Tulsa in Oklahoma. There is nothing that makes me more nervous than waiting anxiously for the opening bell in a fight for the richest prize.
Whyte is out of reach for Fury, who is a huge 1-6 favorite. He should have taken a stroll in Wembley Park, according to the odds-makers. This is what he dubiously claims to be his swansong.
Tyson is facing a former sparring partner as he fights at home for his first time in four year.
That was ten years ago. It would be foolish to let complacency dismiss Whyte as a simple touch.
Dillian is a powerful fighter with a sleep-inducing lefthook. He has scored 19 KOs in his 28 victories.
He has waited impatiently for years for his chance at glory and the enormous riches that come with it.
Fury is far from a beautiful body, but he is an extraordinary athlete with a sharp boxing brain.
He is a man of 6ft 9in height and close to 20st. His foot speed and hand speed are unmatched, which is why he has remained unbeaten in 14 years and 32 professional fights.
Although he may not be a powerful puncher, he has enough dynamite to make sure that 22 of his victims don't hear the last bell.
No matter what happens to Whyte, Tyson's legacy will be his trilogy against Deontay wilder, which made him a favorite of the Americans.
These thrilling wars rank alongside Ali-Frazier's great heavyweight three-timers Holyfield-Bowe, and establish him as the greatest heavyweight in his generation.
In his fights against Wilder, Fury was on the ground four times. This proved Fury's extraordinary abilities of recovery and Ukrainian-type bravery.
Wilder could not knock him out. It is impossible that Whyte can.
It is hard to believe that he can out-box the larger man in the same way Oleksandr Usyk did with Anthony Joshua.
I believe Tyson will be defensively more clever than Whyte and that his precise combination punches can deck Dillian and win it by half-way.
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We should enjoy every moment of Fury's truthful words and his fight for the last time.
Marianne Williamson, an American author, said that "Charisma can't be bought with sparkle money."
