It was 40 years ago that two men met just before dawn on October 30,
1974, to earn $5 million in the Rumble in the Jungle. In one of boxing's
most memorable moments, Muhammad Ali stopped the fearsome George
Foreman to recapture the heavyweight title in the impoverished African
nation of Zaire.
The day before the fight in Kinshasa, Foreman and Ali
made separate trips to the presidential palace to pay homage to Mobutu
Sese Seko, the brutal dictator who wanted to put his country (now Congo)
on the world map
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