Browsing Tag Zaire

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    Fear And Loathing In Zaire

    Hunter S. Thompson is undoubtedly an icon of the “counter-culture” movement. He was also undoubtedly a miserable failure as a boxing writer. A motorcycle-racing, gun-loving, Nixon-hating, booze-swilling, narcotic-ingesting ...

    On August 26, 2021 / By
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    When We Were Kings

    With the death earlier this month of filmmaker Leon Gast, many fight fans are fondly recalling his most celebrated creation, a much-loved documentary which somehow seems as fresh ...

    On March 30, 2021 / By
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    Colin Hart: From Caracas To Kinshasa

    For almost six decades, renowned British sports writer Colin Hart has covered the good, the great, and not so great of sporting events across the world. And back ...

    On October 31, 2020 / By
  • When We Were Kings
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    Oct. 30, 1974: Ali vs Foreman

    In 1974, George Foreman reigned supreme. The previous year he had astonished the sports world with his terrifying demolition of Joe Frazier, knocking Smokin’ Joe to the canvas ...

    On October 30, 2020 / By
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    Ali vs Foreman: Busting The Myth

    Ever since Muhammad Ali’s stunning 1974 triumph in Zaire, a simplistic yet popular myth has persisted, that being the so-called “Rope-a-Dope” strategy. In the decades since that great ...

    On October 31, 2018 / By
  • Boxiana 0

    The Final Word

    Everybody stop talking now. Attention! I told you! All my critics, I told you that I was the greatest of all times when I beat Sonny Liston. I ...

    On November 2, 2014 / By
  • Boxiana 2

    The Rumble In The Jungle

    There have been bigger, more lucrative boxing matches, but few more momentous or memorable. When heavyweights George Foreman and Muhammad Ali clashed in a country then called Zaire ...

    On October 25, 2014 / By
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