A sprawling Maya city with palaces and pyramids was discovered in a dense Mexican jungle by a doctoral student who unknowingly drove past the site years ago on a visit to Mexico. Tulane University ...

George Foreman, the sleek, surly boxer who tangled with Muhammad Ali in the epic “Rumble in the Jungle ... qualifying for the Summer Olympics in Mexico City in 1968. There, in the Games ...

At the age of 19 he slugged his way to a heavyweight gold medal at the Mexico Olympics ... to second-round defeat in Venezuela. The ‘Rumble in the Jungle’: Ali (right) v Foreman - Alamy ...

George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who lost the "Rumble in the Jungle" to Muhammad ... He made the U.S. Olympic team in 1968 and won gold in Mexico City as a teenager, stopping a 29-year ...

The journey to Rumble In The Jungle remains one of the most remarkable ... Unimpressed, Mobutu was said to have ordered all posters around the city to be torn down and destroyed.

They are many and they are important. The "Rumble in the Jungle" happened in 1974 when Ali knocked out Foreman in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). That fight is one of the ...

George Foreman, the two-time world heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist whose legendary rivalry with Muhammad Ali culminated in the famous ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ title bout ...

qualifying for the Summer Olympics in Mexico City in 1968. Muhammad Ali watches as defending world champion George Foreman falls to the canvas in 1974 in the "Rumble in the Jungle." (Associated ...