Its president, Mobutu Sese Seko, had struck a deal in 1974 for the country to host potentially the biggest boxing contest in history: Muhammad Ali, a legend seemingly on the decline, versus George ...

George Foreman, the two-time world heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist whose legendary rivalry with Muhammad Ali culminated in ... abuses and corruption under late President Mobutu ...

Gene Kilroy was ringside during, and inside the ring right after, the epic “Rumble in the Jungle” matching Muhammad ... Mobutu Sese Seko desperately wanted to stage Foreman-Ali in his country ...

“The Rumble in the Jungle”, pitting heavyweight champion George Foreman against Muhammad Ali on October ... circumstances underwritten by Mobutu Sese Seko, the country’s autocratic leader ...

In particular, his fight with Muhammad Ali at the Rumble in Jungle will ... He also explained that Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko was putting up the money — the idea was to attract tourism ...

LEGENDARY boxer George Foreman has died aged 76, his family have said. The sporting icon, a two-time heavyweight world champion, died peacefully surrounded by his family on Friday. Foreman’s ...

It is 50 years since boxing's iconic "Rumble in the Jungle" fight between Muhammad Ali and George ... in financing from Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko, a dictator who seized a propaganda ...