George Foreman vs Muhammad Ali, October 30, 1974, Kinszas, Zair
What can we say about this competition, which has not yet been said? Fight when Muhammad Ali apparently passed his best in the age of 32 George Foreman In eight rounds and regained the world heavyweight title. Ali allowed Foreman to hit, introduce his outrageous rope technique, and re -discover himself from the disappearing dancer to the cunning killer. All this happened in Zaire, a distant place that did not know much. It was and there will be a rumble in the jungle forever.
But the past years tried to break into some truths. Many now say that Ali got up and beat Foreman before knockout. He certainly took several terrible blows, but in fact the aged master was controlled from the very beginning, as the values of the judges testify.
And although the juvenile master – with the demolitions of Joe Frazier and Ken Norton, who was widely expected – was widely expected, nervousness did not cause this kind of universal shock, which, let’s say, the victory of Buster Douglas over Mike Tyson 16 years later. Several experts – including the future editor of boxing news, Harry Mullan – chose Ali to win.
However, one should not doubt the colossal significance of this event. This is probably the most celebrated fight in the history of this sport and has added layers of Ali’s legend. And let’s not forget about a loser, whose defeat made him return to the top – 20 years later – sports achievement is unlikely.
Impossible mission Foreman was a terrifying and undefeated specimen. Two men beat Ali, the mentioned Norton and Frazier, and although he took revenge on both, they took him to hell along the way. But none of them could last a second round with Foreman. It was the most bombastic beginning of worldly severe rule in history.
Don King was in its infancy as a promoter and staged a showdown in Zaire. It was a unclear setting, but added to the intrigue. Ali was a hero there. Very villain’s foreman.
And coach Ali knew his warrior would win. Angelo Dundee and Ali carefully studied Lenica and decided that his strengths – widely developing hooks – could also be his loss.
“He strikes as if he were a woodcutter trying to cut trees,” said Ali.
“I knew he would win this fight with Foreman,” Dundee said in 2010. “George was a Hitter at home and used his whole strength. He was created for him.”
Masterplan “I’m going to dance,” Ali predicted. “I intend to dance for 15 rounds if I have to. After eight rounds it will be obvious that he is dead.”
But there would be no dance in the jungle. At the beginning of the fight, Ali realized that the fleet approach would not work. The ring, the prisoner for extreme African elements, was weighty under the feet.
Ali began clearly, shooting from the meters, binding the whining of the brutal as he approached. He pounded in bold right tracks and withdrew to the ropes. He repeated his tactics in the second round.
“Get away from the ropes,” Ali shouted. Angelo Dundee later said: “When he went to the ropes, I felt unwell.” Before the third, Dundee begged his warrior to stay away from the borders. Ali waved him and said, “I know what I am doing.”
Ali consumed terrifying blows over the next few rounds. But he withdrew more and planned one of the biggest boxing performances.
In the eighth round Foreman, behind points, but unable to change his search formula and Nestroy, was absolutely exhausted. When the round approached its end, Ali was locked in a corner with a foreman on him, crazy. The older man saw his chance. He broke the stunning salvo, which the brigadist twisted. The master tried to keep balance, but hits a tired skull.
Suddenly he fell forward, as King Kong fell with Empire State Building and landed at the stake on the canvas. It was an amazing sight. The mission was almost complete. Judge Zack Clayton was up to 10 when Groggy Beast tried to regain the verticality.
“I didn’t really plan what happened that night,” said Ali. “But when the warrior gets on the ring, he must adapt in accordance with the conditions that he is going on. Against George, the ring was ponderous. Dancing all night, my legs would be tired. And George followed me too close to me, cutting off the ring. In the first round I used more energy that he stayed with him than he raced. I got tired. “
Re -suspending his amazing career again for seven years.
Excuses, excuses Foreman’s consequences were shouted directly. He claimed to be poisoned. In fact, he said various types of things to deviate the agony of failure. Twenty years later, dressed in the same shorts he wore in Zaire, he regained the title at the age of 45, knocking out Michael Moorerer. Perhaps it was the greatest return in the history of sport and eventually defeated the ghosts of the jungle.
“I had this convoluted after losing to Muhammad and I really didn’t understand why I lost this match,” Foreman explained in 2012. “And what worried me more was that it did not happen. And to be truthful, I was surprised that I never got a rematch …
“And it ate me for years, not because I didn’t get a shot, but I ate me because I lost. I just couldn’t think of how I got lost. I was in the right position and did all the right things and didn’t win. I didn’t understand. Nobody was able to get up under these shots earlier, and it was strange, and it was strange, and that’s strange, and that’s strange, and that’s strange, and that’s strange, and that’s strange, and that’s strange And it was strange that I was strange.
Then Allan Malamud from Los Angeles, a sports reporter, went down to my ranch. He was on his way to report about Muhammad Ali Fighting Leon Spinks in a dome in Nowy Orleans. And he stopped, and I worked in my garden from all places, and said: “George, what really happened in Africa? I want to know the truth. And I looked at him in the face and said,” You know, I lost; so it happened. He said “What?” “Yes, I was knocked out and lost the title. I even have photos to prove it. And we laugh. And that was the only time when I had some freedom from it. I finished with it.”
Axis Kalambay at PTS 15 Iran Barkley Octabar 23 1987; Palazzo dello Sport, Livorno, Italy Kalambay’s Sumbay is often overlooked when historians call the best medium weights in the era of post-Marvin Hagler. But when someone thinks that Kalambay defeated Herola Graham (twice), Mike McCallum, Steve Collins and Iran Barkley, it is clear that he should not. The Italian silky idol was Muhammad Ali and against the free, gritty and strenuous (and let’s not forget, very good) Barkley, Kalambay showed his extensive repertoire in the last fight for the title WBA Middle Wweight to plan 15 rounds. More educational than exhilarating, Kalambay shows exactly why it was very arduous to beat to raise a free belt.
Do you know? The title of WBA was deprived of Hagler after he signed a contract for the fight with Sugar Ray Leonard instead of a compulsory pretender, Herol Graham. Kalambay upset Graham in the fight for the title of EBU – which was a crazy fight for a “bomber”, in retrospect – to get a shot in a free crown.
Watch out for: The operate of a left stabbaya is arduous to determine. At the end of the fight, Barkley is bruised, bloody and well beaten.
Boxing weight classes – except for natural growth – is rarely a recipe for success, as the aged maxim was revealed, “good” UN always beats a good diminutive “Un”. In October 1937, a 21-year-old warrior from Deptford mentioned Tommy Martin He decided to overthrow the general principle.
Less than two years earlier, Tommy was a welterweight. But now he was tailored to a heavyweight with Jim Wilde of Swansea, who weighed as much as 15. 5 pounds. According to press reports, Martin was two lighter, but his actual weight could be even lighter. “In the best part of my career I have never been more than in medium weight,” he said later. “I used to wear a belt around the waist equipped with lead weights to look heavier.”
Even more surprising is that Tommy was successful as a ponderous weight, winning the nickname “Great Britain Brown Bomber”, of course, a great bow to Joe Louis. Jim Wilde was heavily outlined by 10 rounds in Empress Hall to give Martin the first of many wins in ponderous weight. Tommy would prove that he is one of the best in the country in delicate and ponderous weight, but unfortunately as a man with a mixed race he could not box the British title due to the absurd “colorful bar” BBBOFC, which required the players from the players born in Great Britain with two white parents.
Born in reading in January 1916 in the White English Mother and Jamaican Father, Tommy moved with his family to Deptford in South London in 1917. At the age of 14 he escaped from home and got a job as a boy from boxing Billy Stewart, ultimately becoming a fighter. This and later experience at the Billy Wood stand gave Martin precise knowledge about boxing.
He had his first official professional in 1933, at the age of 17 and quickly developed a great CV won, from time to time a failure. His scalps in Welter and Middle Weighing included high -quality men, such as Harry Mason, Jack Lewis, Paul Schaeffer, Bill Hardy and Moe Moss. Until 1938 and 1939, Tommy’s Fighting Wage oscillated between a delicate and ponderous weight when he gathered a 15-handing series of wins with wins on how Frank Hough, Jack Hyams, Tino Rolando, Al Robinson and the future British heavyweight champion Jack London (to whom he gave the third Stone).
At the beginning of 1940, Tommy went to America for a campaign organized by manager Harry Levene. He made his debut in Los Angeles in April against the highly rated Bob Nestelle, who stopped Lee Ramage and King Levinsky. Martin shook his knee in the fight and lost points, but a month later Ko’dell in return. Another noteworthy victory from Tommy’s brief spell in the USA was Pat Valentino, who later challenged Ezzard Charles about the world -heavy crown. However, Martin’s most impressive victory was above Buddy Knox (then 102-11-8), who defeated the former world king Bob Olin. Tommy developed Knox in September 1940, but was overtaken in return.
Martin’s career seemed to sail on her American route. He had only three fights and lost them all: a point defeat in returning with Jacek London, stopping Freddie Mills and KO in the first round at the hands of the previous victim of Al Robinson. Tommy’s concentration turned to the war service. He served with RAF and then to a sales jacket, but was wounded by a torpedo explosion and hospitalized in Montreal. He lost, and then, after two operations, he regained his sight before he joined American maritime infantry soldiers. After leaving the services, Tommy moved to Hollywood and founded the gym, but later qualified as a physiotherapist and opened his practice in Novel York. After the wedding, he settled on the Virgin Islands, where he worked as a prison governor until his retirement. He died in 1987.
Marco Antonio Barrera in PTS 12 Johnny Tapia~ November 2, 2002; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV This is not classic, but it is worth visiting again as a reminder of these two irresistible fighters. Barrera was probably the best at that time, while taping, try his best, he could not conjure up his highest form. Perhaps this partly applies to Barrera’s perfection, so natural, so bright in the ring, which did not allow the aging taps to be abutment. But Tapia, winning his first seven -digit payment day, showed a lot of classes. Ultimately, Barerra won the results of 118-110 twice and 116-112 to preserve his world championships in a featherweight.
Do you know? At the back of the shorts, Barrera was the name “tapia”. It was not, as it was often, a tribute to Johnny, but instead a tribute to his mother, whose maiden name was tapia.
Watch out for: Changing tactics from both. Tapia effectively falls into the opening round only so that Barrera changes the attack line. In the second half of the competition Tapia, a witness that it is sent, forces the exchange inside to refer to a larger (but not sufficient) success.
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