At that moment, Ali vs Foreman was decided. The former champ took his time, waited for the right moment, and in the eighth round struck with a series of blows punctuated by a perfectly placed straight right. Foreman collapsed, failed to beat the count, and Muhammad Ali, to the astonishmen...
Round Four: The Spell Remains (1974-2016): Directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon. With Wole Soyinka, Salim Muwakkil, Gerald Early, Todd Boyd. Muhammad shocks the world when he defeats George Foreman in Zaire, regaining the heavyweight title a
3. George Foreman:There is no doubt about the ring greatness ofBig George Foreman. Any sensible ranking of the greatest heavyweight champions of all-time has to put him in the top ten, and in 1974 he was regarded, like Sonny Liston before him, as unbeatable. Boxing ins...
“When We Were Kings” is a 1996 Academy Award-winning documentary film about the “Rumble in the Jungle,” Ali’s 1974 fight against then undefeated world heavy-weight champion, George Foreman. The film – set in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) – documents the ...
Muhammad Ali shocked the world by beating George Foreman in Zaire in 1974.Ali, bomaye! Ali, bomaye! 60,000 Zairois chanted "Ali, kill him" as he stepped into the ring against the heavily favored George Foreman in 1974. The cheer was ringing evidence of Ali's international appeal, but it...
Soul Power is a vérité documentary – compiled entirely from footage shot in 1974 – of the astonishing back-to-Africa 3-day music festival “Zaire ‘74”. It was held in Kinshasa ahead of the biggest boxing event of all time: the Muhammad Ali–George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle”....
He was free to continue his boxing career, which he did to great effect, reclaiming the heavyweight crown from George Foreman—who had taken it from Frazier—in the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire in 1974. The year after, he and Frazier met again, in sweltering conditions in ...
In January, he gains a measure of revenge from Frazier, besting the former champ in 12 rounds. Regains the heavyweight title in the "Rumble in the Jungle" on Oct. 30 in Kinshasa, Zaire after knocking out champion George Foreman in the eighth round. He successfully uses his "rope-a-dope...
The Best Of Friends For 35 years, photographer Howard Bingham has traveled the globe, meeting princes and presidents, all thanks to his selfless devotion to a buddy, Muhammad Ali, who happens to be the most famous man in the world.
in Zaire. Ali's embrace of his African heritage is treated as the psychic fuel that enabled him to triumph over Foreman, an aloof-seeming fighter that Zaire-based fans saw as a representative of colonial white values. Mann's film,