It is 50 years since boxing's iconic "Rumble in the Jungle" fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire—now the Democratic Republic of the Congo—and which ended in spectacular ...
Ali hadn't been champion for seven years, after he was stripped of his boxing license for refusing, for religious reasons, to go to war in Vietnam. Ali had something different in store for Foreman ...
Kinshasa (AFP) – Alfred Mamba was just 12 when boxing great Muhammad Ali descended on Kinshasa, at that time the capital of Zaire, in October 1974 in a bid to regain his heavyweight title.
(CNN) — In many ways, Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle didn’t start on this day 50 years ago at 4:30 a.m. local time (10:30 p.m. ET). Nor did it start seven weeks ...
Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle” by knockout in the eighth round. More than the expected anointing of a new superstar in George Foreman, the savage-punching ...
KINSHASA, DR Congo — Alfred Mamba was just 12 when boxing great Muhammad Ali descended on ... better known as “The Rumble in the Jungle”, has stayed with him for 50 years.
Alfred Mamba was just 12 when boxing great Muhammad ... between Ali and fellow-American George Foreman in the early hours of October 30. The memory of the event, better known as The Rumble in ...