The widespread myth of Ali vs Foreman says otherwise. It insists Ali lost almost every minute of the fight as he stood there and absorbed Foreman’s power shots before the champion finally succumbed to exhaustion. But the truth is Ali won perhaps six of the completed seven rounds as he put...
1996 Oscar-winning documentary of the 1974 Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire. It was originally intended to be a concert film, recording a prefight show with James Brown, B.B. King, The Spinners and Miriam Makeba. The filmmakers got more. Ali looks inspired and at home running with children on...
Both Ali and Foreman spent most of the summer of 1974 training in Zaire to adjust to the climate. Neil Leifer While training before his fight with George Foreman, Ali kisses his mother, Odessa Clay, while his father, Cassius Clay Sr., looks on. Ali's superior strategy and ability to ...
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...
30 in Kinshasa, Zaire after knocking out champion George Foreman in the eighth round. He successfully uses his "rope-a-dope" strategy—Ali allowed Foreman to get him against the ropes and swing away until he tired himself out. Then Ali attacked. 1975 (Jup-Mer) Ali fights Frazier for the...
is "When We Were Kings," about Ali's 1974 comeback fight against George Foreman 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
IN DECAYING STADIUM, THE DISTANT RUMBLE OF FAME ALI-FOREMAN FIGHT IN 1974 WAS MEANT TO PUT ZAIRE ON THE MAPJohn Donnelly Globe Staff
Ali stands against the railing on the River Zaire watching the sunset four days before the Rumble in the Jungle. The fight was sponsored by Zaire to achieve the $5 million purse promoter Don King had promised both Ali and Foreman. Neil Leifer Before employing his famous rope-a-dope strateg...