The Rumble in the Jungle  

There are only a handful of true champions . Ali , George , Tyson , sugar ray Robinson. Sugar ray Leonard Joe Lewis , Oscar del , MIKE TYSON.

Loved the build up, and I knew then .....

@@Charles-so1uz awesome list but don’t forget Jack Johnson. They threatened to kill his parents if he didn’t lose

​@@Charles-so1uz you better go back and put Smokin Joe Frazier in that eqaustion. Took Ali on in his Prime and Beat him sqaurely in their First ever fight together. Faught to a draw evenly matched the second fight and Ali got the decision because he was the Chapion. Then the third and last fight both men faught so hard they were both hospitalized for several days. Only to learn later that Joe Fraizier basically was fighting blind in that third and final fight

​@@Charles-so1uz and Pacman

Then he took the mic and sang 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow...' Incredible! X

20 year retirement

@@harrycollins140 No sir. He retired in 1977. He didn't fight again until 1987, his first fight was with Steve Zouski, won by TKO. He regained the title at age 45, becoming the oldest to ever win the title in 1994. He fought for 7 years before getting a title shot.

​@@harrycollins140 10 years he came back to boxing for the money

Never knocked down either in that come back!

much respect for him

That is why I will never appreciate MMA style, the punches allowed AFTER a guy is knocked out and defenseless.

Another champion who had that quality was, believe it or not, Roberto Duran. When Duran saw his opponents falling, he always walked away. Other champions like the young George Foreman, Mike Tyson, Rocky Marciano and Deontay Wilder were terrible, getting in last licks on hurt and falling opponents. That lack of poise separate them from the Greatest and Hands of Stone.

Love you Forman

he sure did,....with Greatest Respect.

If Ali was the only person to ever knock you out, that's hardly a blemish on your resume. He went on to win many more and recapture his title 20 years later, in the same trunks.

Ali won a battle, Foreman won the war.

Ernie shavers passed away a couple months ago and I think that foreman is the only one that is with us as far as heavyweight title contenders from the '70s

That grill made big George crazy 💰💰💰

LMMFAO 🤣

I enjoyed my Foreman grill…until it rusted on me about a year or so later

Ali : my nigga

Ah that’s gold!!! Outstanding

Yeah he let a lot of guys off the hook most notably Jerry Quarry

​@josephwilson2744 yup the quarry fight comes to mind too

there is magic in that grill

What are you talking about George speaks fine..Ali has parkinsons

@@robbienash6963 Are u slow back of the classroom slow. And Ali had as in past tense because he is no longer with us.

Trying to cope with Ali winning?

George had him but Ali turned the table on George ass 🤣

Heard Foreman talk earlier about the fight “Is that all you got, George” “I said “Yeah, that’s pretty much it” “

That fight was more like a chess game than a boxing match.

🎯👍👍👍

That was Ali's strategy, to wear them down by humiliation, then bam he'd knock them out.

Not conceited? Are you joking? He named ALL of his children GEORGE!!! Even the girls!!

​@@kolasom I love Ali, Frazier, Foreman, plus 6 or 7 more heavyweights during that era. You are correct, sir. People use words without understanding ALL its meaning. Many words have multiple meanings; of which some meanings have nothing to do with the other(s).

Lol so much so he named all his sons after him

The legendary Boxers are really what the media's narratives would have us believe they're not. Men of Standard.

​@TH3S1L3NT 1 B3H1NDU dont forget the daughters are named after him, too.

@@toddbashem1430 yeah that person don't know what he talking about, (the most humblest person in the world bah humbug) people just be saying things

I say he's a real close 2nd to Iron Mike. In Tyson's first few years one would think that all he knew was eat bananas and kill and I'm not being racist when I say this because Tyson was a fucking maniac sliver back. Now we see footage of him knocking people out and talk like a well educated man at age 20-21. Very wise man. He didn't need a promoter. When you're that wise at such age in his profession, you're a dangerous man. When you see Tyson in a gymnasium and you're the opponent and pass that threshold , it had to feel like you just stepped into a phone booth.

End of the day. It doesn't matter what you like or think.

@@royalfreshness815 When people find you insufferable, I think you'll find that it matters a lot, edgeboi.

Me too, also Ali vs Joe, back then it was 15rounds of all out brain damage blows😲I remember when Cassius Clay took the belt from Sonny Liston & kept saying “what’s my name,what’s my name” just a lad back then but remember as it was yesterday😃

I did too

On ABC, absolutely free. I'm so glad I'm from that era of having a good time without needing a second job to finance it.

I watched it from a stadium in Puerto Rico on a big screen. It was awesome!

No kidding! We were saying what in the world is Ali doing? He’s gonna get killed!! It’s still almost unbelievable that he won!

Muhammad Ali executed the most brillante fights strategy in fights history..everyone thought he would be defeated ...only Ali knew that he could take George Foreman's mauling and "kill the dragon"...the Ali's brilliance..the GREATEST fights of all time!

Just hit him the minimum number of times needed. A true gentleman.

Foreman said in an interview that comment got to him because that was in fact all he had 😂

“Mule kick of a right “ 🫡

Didn't he kill a cow by punching it?!

After his Prime !....He knocked out "Moorer"!

HE. Did. The opposite of what He Said ! And. His Manager put. The Rope. More Élastique !

Ooooooh so true!👍

Foreman at some point came out of retirement and gave Evander Holyfield a boxing lesson..it was a close fight but Holyfield being much younger surprised the world saying " he was close to death only wen he fought out of retirement Foreman 😂😂😂

I remember like it was yesterday. October 74. I was 16. Just joined the navy 3rd Oct the fight was on 30th and all i could think of was this fight. Couldnt catch a glimpse as it was not shown on the base or had a radio back then. Duties and training came first. Could i catch a talk about the fight. No! Guys minds on their duties. Only one oppo would catch up with any news on the build up. The rest is history which still reverberates till this day.

Wow, sorry, my friend, but thank you for your service. In my opinion, as a huge boxing fan, this fight has to rate as the number one fight in my 65 years of life. I've witnessed some classic battles and comebacks in boxing, but this one stands out above the rest. Ali will always be the greatest. One plus is today thanks to modern technology you can watch the fight as many times as you like. Peace out.

He MADE a Big. Mistake When He arrived With. Two. German DOGS. … The SAME of the Police !

Just knowing that entire time Ali was laying in wait until the very second Foreman realized he was in trouble. Ali was a LION!! George is my favorite boxer, but Ali will always be The Greatest!!!

Not great force, but the power of cumulative damage. That was an underestimated element of Ali's thematic strategy. Ali knew that the big punch was only one path to victory, and not the surest. Better was to keep his opponent off balance and just a little impaired from a relentless diet of jabs, so he wasn't really at his best, but didn't really feel it until he got himself into a hopeless condition and stumbled, staggered and reeled around the ring and began to lose his balance, coordination and senses.

It was George's fight to lose, not Ali's to win. George got emotionally invested from the off & simply punched himself out hitting arms & gloves. He didn't pace himself at all & was completely exhausted by the end, where his punches had no power at all. He pretty much fell over from exhaustion.

@@hiyadroogs: It wasn't *just* exhaustion, although that was a factor. One thing that doesn't seem to come naturally is calculating cumulative effects; this is why people smoke, drink, eat junk and remain sedentary for so long before health concerns force them to change. You're right to say Ali wasn't known as a hard puncher, but after five or six rounds of eating his jabs, you see opponents (e.g., Cleveland Williams) wobbling just a bit, and then he lands a sharp jab to the temple, and the opponent almost collapses. This doesn't mean he suddenly walloped his adversary a la Earnie Shavers. It's just the sheer volume of small blows, which eventually become too much. Each individual blow is of no great impact, but collectively they are destructive. (This theme appears across a vast range of choices and actions. For example, smoking one cigarette, eating one Big Mac, or spending one day sitting in front of the television will likely do no harm, but if these choices become habitual, you will ultimately sicken and die.)

@ismailabdelirada9073 That accessment of Ali's style is correct those sharp snappy jabs add up over the duration of a fight, but these shots in particular are very hard shots to the temple. If you've ever taken one, you understand your circut board just doesnt work for 5- 10 seconds, which is lethal for a boxer-- but make no mistake, these were HARD shots. Ali knew he couldn't afford to let him get up. But the fact he wasn't asleep speaks to strength of the only God knows what material Foreman was constructed from.

Remember, he knocked out Sonny Liston in 64 and he was the Champ as well. Ali was, and is, in a world of his own.

I still believe that is the fact.. to this day

Rope a dope! Nonsense 👎

​​​@@dolawale1934 George was a damn fool to punch himself out like that! What else could you call it? Short for making your opponent think...he's got you trapped against the ropes...ROPE A DAMN, DUMB, FOOL, DOPE!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

​@@evnstvn58 In the past George has said he was too young in that fight and inexperienced.

@@frankpaya690 He had the late great Archie Moore in his corner, who knew better than to let his man punch hinself out like that but, even he too was fooled! Your cornermen are supposed to see things you can't see! You mean to tell me that, they couldn't see that, he might punch him self out? That's why...it was called...the rope a dope...you dope! 🤣🤣

@@dolawale1934 what a hater ..the only reason someone would feel that way is because you have to been a racists.what kind of person would go against intelligence and toughness.

Ya, we all watched the video...no need to write it down

He still can't admit Ali beat him fair and square

Ali didn't beat him fair and square. I remember after that fight George Foreman said they put something in his water. He was dizzy in that last round. Just saying

​@@MrBiggin49 I don't believe you believe in that nonsense.

@@MrBiggin49 good to see not everybody got fooled, rumble in the jungle was the fix of the 20th century.

But this Time in Was in the. Rope

Spot on

Yeah Foreman is a little delusional now but it's been so long ago he probably thought in his head that he was beating them up Ali beat that dude from pillar to Post but I loved George

Ali did control the fight from stem to stern...it was his plan.

Maybe mentality but physically foreman is easily one of if not 5 hardest hitting sluggers in boxing , any real clean hook that landed would’ve Hurt enough to feel to quit but ail didn’t let much come through clean/solid

@@mrscaryfox3955 naw. You have to re watch the fight again.. Ali is just as big as George he physically handled him too.. people believe that because he can move around like a light heavyweight or middleweight that he wasn't big I was like 6'3 218 lb he's a big dude

I can see how Muhammad Ali masterfully reconstructed a whole new plan from the first round, and whoop George every round, yes Muhammad Ali took some punishment some hard blues to the arms some hard blues to the body some hard blues to the hips some hard blows to the Head but every round he was capitalizing he whooped that butt and he knocked him out I saw his confidence, back then I remember listening to it on the radio, I remember the commentators had it all mixed up it was all scared that everybody worried but not the greatest of all times he wasn't worried soon as he Mastermind that new plan from the first round on second round rather

He sacrificed his health to win, that was his true skull, determination to win at any cost. If he wasn't prepared to take so much damage round by round he would never tire Foreman out

If only he was healthy and didn't have the disease man he could have ruled for way longer

It was sort of his prime, not really. He was still very inexperienced.

​@@GrubKiller436 It was in his prime

I dont think so,ali took a beating,just like the holmes fight,he should have retired,parkinson,was already starting

Second most important in boxing history. The first was Joe Lewis v Max Schmeling.

@@bobwilson5041he didn’t take a beating. Most of the punches were to his body.

Nah, it was the third fight with Frazier...

I think George understands he was losing the whole fight but it makes the story more interesting this way.

He was THERE, of course he understood what was happening. He's telling the story from what was happening in his mind. Clearly he's saying he thought he had him beat, until Ali said "Is that all you got George?" His ego was overinflated until Ali said that-- so it wasn't until that moment that he knew he was in trouble. Ali pounced and it was too late. Pay attention. Lol He's explaining to you the brilliance and cunning of Ali.

@@skepchica Exactly. Very well stated!

@@skepchica what was going on in his kind and what was really happening are 2 different things in other words he didn’t understand what was really happening .. he wasn’t winning at all he was losing and was down on all cards ..

@@bobbyhulll8737 He didn't until "Is that all you got, George?" You said he didn't understand all these years later, which obviously he does.

Mohamed was a fraud! Like every other Mohamed before him! He was screaming he was the greatest b4 he'd even had his first fight 😂

@@dolawale1934 The Greatest Heavyweight we will ever see in the history of boxing my silly little fool.

@@brettwilkinson9529 😂😂😂

If the guy turns away it’s legal. See Louis v Schmeling II

Yep Ali was not a dirty fighter but he knew that first sneaky right hand and that second sneaky right hand stunned George and ALI POUNCED. George stumbled and was off balance falling into the ropes when Ali was letting that third right fly.