Boxing lives!
Muhammad Ali is back!
Forget the flowers, cancel the eulogy, scrub the dirge. Get ready for more talk, more boasting, more poetry. Muhammad Ali is heavyweight champion of the world again.
In the most stirring, most spectacular fight of his career, the 32-year-old former, and once again, heavyweight champion of the world became only the second man in boxing history to regain the heavyweight title last night when he knocked George Foreman flat in 2:58 of the eighth round in their "rumble in the jungle" in Kinshasa, Zaire.
Only Floyd Patterson before him had lost his title and won it back. Now Muhammad Ali has done it, too, upsetting the oddsmakers, who had made him a 3-1 underdog, upsetting the experts who said, at 32, he was too old, and removing the cloak of invincibility that had been draped around the broad powerful shoulders of the 25-year-old Foreman.
The cloak had been put there because Foreman had won all of his 40 professional fights, 37 of them by knockout, giving him the best knockout record in the history of the heavyweight division, better than John L. Sullivan, better than Jack Dempsey, better than Joe Louis, better than Rocky Marciano, better than everybody.
This was to be the heavyweight fight to end all heavyweight fights, a $40-million spectacular in Africa at four in the morning.
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