Round 8: Ali nails Foreman half a dozen times with single shots in the opening minute. The champion misses wildly with a left and almost falls over the top rope. A big right from Foreman lands clean.

FILE - Challenger Muhammad Ali, right, watches as defending world champion George Foreman goes down to the canvas in the eighth round of their WBA/WBC championship match, on Oct. 30, 1974, in ...

Foreman down the canvas in the eighth round against Ali in Zaire - AP “You know, I was so confident, maybe over-confident,” Foreman said. “I really thought he would go two rounds and no more.

Lyle had rebounded from back-to-back losses to Jimmy Young and Ali with a sixth-round knockout of Earnie Shavers. Foreman was fighting for the first time in more than a year after the loss to Ali ...

In a 1995 biography, entitled By George, Foreman was not at a loss for words regarding Sadler's game plan in Zaire. "In the Ali fight, Dick Sadler was the chief second. Every round he was telling ...

Foreman and Ali turned from fierce rivals to deep friends through shared faith after their legendary 1974 bout. To stream WHAS11 on your phone, you need the WHAS11 app. Download the WHAS11 app ...

George Foreman is an American former professional boxer, the 76-year old competed for 30 years between 1967 to 1997. During ...

LOS ANGELES — George Foreman, the sleek, surly boxer who tangled with Muhammad Ali in the epic “Rumble in the Jungle” heavyweight championship fight before embarking on a lifetime of ...

In many ways, Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle didn’t start on this day 50 years ago at 4:30am. In actual fact, the narrative that would come to define the fight began ...

Using a tactic later known as “rope-a-dope,” Ali was able to withstand Foreman’s punches by leaning back on the ropes, before landing a series of blows in the eighth round in what turned out ...

Round 8: Ali nails Foreman half a dozen times with single shots in the opening minute. The champion misses wildly with a left and almost falls over the top rope. A big right from Foreman lands clean.

George Foreman is an American former professional boxer, the 76-year old competed for 30 years between 1967 to 1997. During his younger days, he was nicknamed Skip to main content ...