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The Rumble in the Jungle

This article is about the boxing event. For other uses, see The Rumble in the Jungle (disambiguation).
The Rumble in the Jungle
Poster promoting the fight
DateOctober 30, 1974 (October 30, 1974)
VenueStade Tata Raphaël, Kinshasa, Zaire
Title(s) on the lineWBA, WBC, and The Ring undisputed heavyweight titles
Tale of the tape
Boxer George Foreman Muhammad Ali
Nickname Big George The Greatest
Hometown Houston, Texas, U.S. Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Pre-fight record 40–0 (37 KO) 44–2 (31 KO)
Age 25 years, 9 months 32 years, 9 months
Height 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
Weight 220 lb (100 kg) 216 lb (98 kg)
Style Orthodox Orthodox
Recognition WBA, WBC and The Ring undisputed
Heavyweight Champion		 Former undisputed heavyweight champion
Result
Ali wins via 8th-round KO[1]
Kinshasa is located in Africa
Kinshasa
Kinshasa
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Location in Africa

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 Stade Tata Raphaël) in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), between undefeated and undisputed heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. The event had an attendance of 60,000 people and was one of the most watched televised events at the time. Ali won by knockout in the eighth round.

It has been called "arguably the greatest sporting event of the 20th century"[2] and was a major upset,[3] with Ali coming in as a 4–1 underdog against the unbeaten, heavy-hitting Foreman.[4] The fight is famous for Ali's introduction of the rope-a-dope tactic.[5]

Some sources estimate that the fight was watched by as many as one billion television viewers around the world,[6][7] becoming the world's most-watched live television broadcast at the time.[8] This included a record estimated 50 million viewers watching the fight on pay-per-view or closed-circuit theatre TV.[3] The fight grossed an estimated $100 million (inflation-adjusted $600 million) in worldwide revenue.[9][10] Decades later, the bout would be the subject of the Academy Award winning documentary film When We Were Kings.[11]

  1. ^ "Ali KO's Foreman in 8th". Milwaukee Sentinel. UPI. October 30, 1974. p. 1-part 2.
  2. ^ Kang, Jay Caspian (2013-04-04). "The End and Don King". Grantland. ESPN. Retrieved 2013-04-04.McDougall, Christopher, ed. (2014). The Best American Sports Writing 2014. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 149. ISBN 9780544147003.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Herald was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Ali Regains Title, Flooring Foreman". The New York Times. October 30, 1974.
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  7. ^ "Oct 30, 1974 CE: Rumble in the Jungle". National Geographic. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
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  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Times was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference Kabanda was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ "When We Were Kings (1996)". IMDb. Retrieved March 3, 2021.

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