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George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Rumble in the Jungle, was a heavyweight championship boxing match on October 30, 1974, at the 20th of May Stadium (now at the Stade Tata Raphaël) in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo ), between undefeated and undisputed heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali.
- October 30, 1974
- Houston, Texas, U.S.
- George Foreman
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May 3, 2024 · Rumble in the Jungle, heavyweight boxing match held on October 30, 1974, between then heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo ). The fight was attended by 60,000 people and watched on television by as many as one billion worldwide.
Nov 16, 2009 · The “Rumble in the Jungle” (named by promoter Don King, who’d initially tagged the bout “From the Slave Ship to the Championship!” until Zaire’s president caught wind of the idea and ...
Oct 30, 2014 · Foreman, a 3-1 betting favorite and seven years Ali’s junior, had not lost any of his 40 fights. He had annihilated Ken Norton and Joe Frazier, two fighters who had defeated Ali, in second-round ...
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Oct 30, 2020 · The Rumble in The Jungle: Revisiting Muhammad Ali v George Foreman 46 years on. On this day - 30 October - in 1974, Muhammad Ali took on George Foreman in Zaire, in a fight dubbed The Rumble in ...
The phrase “Rumble in the Jungle,” in fact, was not a King promotional idea, but something Ali ad-libbed in front of the cameras while training for the fight. Ali, left, walking through the streets of Kinshasa in 1974. As a live event in Zaire, the fight was a disaster. Originally scheduled for September 25, the fight was pushed back over a ...