{"id":10201,"date":"2014-10-31T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/31\/rumble-in-the-jungle-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T16:51:09","slug":"rumble-in-the-jungle-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/31\/rumble-in-the-jungle-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumble in the Jungle anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>The sporting world remembers Muhammad Ali\u2019s triumph against George Foreman<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" width=\"467\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/Gallery\/muhammad-ali-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIt was 40 years ago that Muhammad Ali beat then world heavyweight champion George Foreman in reportedly, \u201cthe greatest sporting event of the 20th century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe fight titled \u2018The Rumble in the Jungle\u2019 took place in The Democratic Republic of the Congo, then Kinshasa, Zaire, in 1974. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAli landed a devastating straight right-hand punch that knocked out Foreman in spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBefore the fight, bad blood was evident between the two fighters with Foreman saying Ali\u2019s children would soon be in an orphanage. It was a tense day with British sportswriters summing up the mood in a single sentence, \u201cAs we go to the stadium at that unreal hour we shall be hoping for a miracle but dreading a calamity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAli was confident and kept to a strict regime pre-fight to ensure his win. His daily routine in Zaire started with a 4am run, breakfast, a late-morning movie, a nap, his daily afternoon training session in the gym, dinner and then a stroll along the river before lights out at 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAli eventually knocked Foreman out in the eighth round in front of a jubilant crowd, on returning to the US he received a hero\u2019s welcome. Gene Kilroy, one of the men in Ali\u2019s corner recounts the atmosphere, \u201cNew York stopped. Cars honked. People rushed to embrace him. He was no mere fighter then, he was the king of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe event, 40 years on, is still remembered as a staple in sporting history.&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sporting world remembers Muhammad Ali\u2019s triumph against George Foreman &#13; It was 40 years ago that Muhammad Ali beat then world heavyweight champion George Foreman in reportedly, \u201cthe greatest sporting event of the 20th century.\u201d &#13; The fight titled \u2018The Rumble in the Jungle\u2019 took place in The Democratic Republic of the Congo, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}