Rumble In The Jungle Game

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When We Were Kings" winning Best Documentary Feature". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-05.

Casselberry, Ian (2016-06-08). "Ranking the 5 best films about Muhammad Ali". Awful Announcing . Retrieved 2019-02-03. The cult Serbian series Državni posao (The State Job) mentioned this event in the episode "Lov" ( "Hunting"). [47] Ali (2001) is a biographical feature film that depicts The Rumble in the Jungle as the film's climax.

Dixon, Tris (January 8, 2012). "Muhammad Ali: 'The Greatest' at 70". CNN . Retrieved March 31, 2012. It had a large television audience in the United Kingdom, [25] where the fight was watched by 26 million viewers on BBC One, [26] nearly half of the UK's 56 million population in 1974. [27]

In total, including closed-circuit and free television, the fight was reported to have been watched by a record estimated television audience of one billion viewers worldwide, [6] [28] about a quarter of the world's four billion population in 1974, [29] as the world's most-watched live television broadcast at the time. [8] However, caution should be exercised here, as the only officially confirmed event with a billion viewers before 2011 was the 2008 Summer Olympics, with most such claims otherwise being highly exaggerated. [30] Legacy [ edit ] The robe worn by Muhammad Ali in this fight is part of the collections of National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution together with a pair of gloves he used in training for the fight. [37] Music [ edit ] Greatest Sporting Moments – Results". London: Channel 4. 2002. Archived from the original on 4 February 2002 . Retrieved 8 August 2019. In addition, the events surrounding the fight, such as its musical acts ( B.B. King, the Fania All Stars, and James Brown, among others), added to its cultural impact. [33] The concert portion of the event would later be featured in the documentary Soul Power. Kang, Jay Caspian (2013-04-04). "The End and Don King". Grantland. ESPN . Retrieved 2013-04-04. McDougall, Christopher, ed. (2014). The Best American Sports Writing 2014. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p.149. ISBN 9780544147003.Ali had told his trainer, Angelo Dundee, and his fans that he had a secret plan for Foreman. As the second round commenced, Ali began to lean on the ropes and cover up, letting Foreman punch him on the arms and body (a strategy Ali later dubbed the rope-a-dope). As a result, Foreman spent his energy throwing punches (without earning points) that either did not hit Ali or were deflected in a way that made Foreman hitting Ali's head difficult, while sapping Foreman's strength due to the large number of punches he threw. This loss of energy was key to Ali's rope-a-dope tactic. [ citation needed] In a 2002 UK poll conducted by Channel 4, the British public voted the fight as number seven in the list of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments. [34] Film [ edit ] When We Were Kings (1996) is an Academy Award-winning documentary film that depicts the events before and during this bout. (The film's editor directed a separate documentary about the concurrent Zaire 74 music festival; Soul Power was released in 2009.) Middleweight: Joey Hadley of Catskill, New York, vs. Cove Green of Bridgeport, Connecticut (scheduled for 4 rounds)