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Various locations. October 2024 + FILE.
Location and date unknown.
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1. 00:08 Muhammad Ali training
Location unknown. 25th June 1974.
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2. 00:21 SOUNDBITE: (English) Muhammad Ali, 1942 – 2016:
" I said last night, I had a dream, when I got to Africa I had one hell of a rumble, I had to beat Tarzan’s behind first for claiming to be the king of the jungle, for this fight I wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with the whale, I done handcuffed lightning and put thunder in jail, you know I’m bad, I have murdered a rock, I injured a stone and I hospitalised a brick, I’m so bad I make medicine sick, I’m so fast, man, I can run through a hurricane and don’t get wet, when George Foreman meets me he’ll pay his debt, I can drown a drink of water and kill a dead tree, wait ’til you see Muhammad Ali."
Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) – 24th September 1974.
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3. 01:01 People in stadium
4. 01:04 Muhammad Ali in stand clowning and pretending to box
5. 01:11 George Foreman and Muhammad Ali walk onto stage and have hands held aloft by President Mobutu
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo – 26th October 2024
6. 01:18 Various of Landry Matete Kankonde, a Congolese amateur boxer, walking towards the ring for his fight during the African Amateur Boxing Championships
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo – 18th October 2024
7. 01:32 SOUNDBITE (French): Landry Matete Kankonde, boxer:
“It’s thanks to this event (Rumble in the Jungle) that Congo became known. Celebrating the 50th anniversary for us is an honor. Fortunately it’s during this anniversary that the African championship happens here at home. It’s a way to celebrate that.”
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo – 26th October 2024
8. 01:50 SOUNDBITE (French) Josue Loloje, boxing fan:
“The Ali vs. Foreman fight that was organized here in DRC is the foundation, the base on which we are seeing these talents that are emerging in Congolese boxing. It started there.”
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo – 19th October 2024
9. 02:07 Various of spectators dancing and singing during the boxing championships
SOURCE: Associated Press
DURATION: 02:20
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October 30 will mark fifty years since the “Rumble in the Jungle”, the name given to the epic fight between boxing legends Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, held in Kinshasa, the capital of what was then Zaire.
The fight was an upset for Foreman, and ended when Ali knocked him out in the eighth round of a 15-round bout, regaining the world heavyweight title.
A historic match in its own right, the fight left a lasting legacy on boxing in the Congo. And ahead of the anniversary, boxers from around the continent headed to Kinshasa as it was host to the 21st African Amateur Boxing Championships.
Landry Matete Kankonde, known as “Balo”, represented Congo in the men’s heavyweight class. He credits “Rumble in the Jungle” for putting Congo on the map in the world boxing scene.
“Celebrating the 50th anniversary for us is an honor. Fortunately it’s during this anniversary that the African championship happens here at home. It’s a way to celebrate that,” he said.
Kankonde lost to Senegal’s Karamba Kebe in the last fight of the finals.
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