BOXING] MUHAMMAD ALI vs. GEORGE FOREMAN - AN ORIGINAL STADIUM POSTER FOR THE RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE SIGNED BY BOTH FORMER CHAMPI... Kinshasa, Zaire: 30 October 1974. Original stadium poster printed in colors with the yellow printed sticker overlaying the original fight date, the printed text in French. Inscribed "To George/from Muhammad Ali/10-5-93" under his picture and signed "George Foreman" under his. 37 1/2 x 23 1/8 inches (95.5 x 59 cm). In a matching yellow frame. Poster laid to board, two slight surface abrasions, edges very slightly toned, some minor wrinkles, in very attractive condition overall. One of the rarest fight posters, this stadium poster is one of only a few copies known and possibly the only example signed by both fighters. The Rumble in the Jungle remains one of the most historically important boxing matches ever. Underwritten by the President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko as a gift to the Zairian people ("Un Cadeau Du Citoyen" as printed on the poster) the fight is long remembered for its complicated political backdrop. Athletically, the fight represented a long awaited opportunity for Ali to regain the Heavyweight title and was originally scheduled for September 1974 but was delayed after Foreman cut his eye during training (hence the printed overlay on the poster). Employing an early version of the rope-a-dope technique, Ali tired out Foreman and won by technical knockout in the eighth round becoming Heavyweight Champion for the second time in his career. The present poster was brought back to the United States by noted Chicago Tribune sportswriter Rick Talley who attended and covered the fight for the paper. Talley gifted the poster to the current consignor, a former Chicago roommate, and it proudly hung in a sports-themed home bar and was later displayed in the consignor's office at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, where it was eventually signed by both Ali and, reluctantly, Foreman. According to an informal poll of sportswriter predictions which hung in Ali's training camp before the fight, Talley was the only writer of forty-four participants who predicted correctly that Ali would win by knockout in the 8th round (the prediction poll was sold by Christie's Los Angeles in 1997). The Rumble in the Jungle, the subject of the 1996 documentary When We Were Kings, remains one of the most storied championship boxing matches of all time. C
BOXING] MUHAMMAD ALI vs. GEORGE FOREMAN - AN ORIGINAL STADIUM POSTER FOR THE RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE SIGNED BY BOTH FORMER CHAMPI... Kinshasa, Zaire: 30 October 1974. Original stadium poster printed in colors with the yellow printed sticker overlaying the original fight date, the printed text in French. Inscribed "To George/from Muhammad Ali/10-5-93" under his picture and signed "George Foreman" under his. 37 1/2 x 23 1/8 inches (95.5 x 59 cm). In a matching yellow frame. Poster laid to board, two slight surface abrasions, edges very slightly toned, some minor wrinkles, in very attractive condition overall. One of the rarest fight posters, this stadium poster is one of only a few copies known and possibly the only example signed by both fighters. The Rumble in the Jungle remains one of the most historically important boxing matches ever. Underwritten by the President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko as a gift to the Zairian people ("Un Cadeau Du Citoyen" as printed on the poster) the fight is long remembered for its complicated political backdrop. Athletically, the fight represented a long awaited opportunity for Ali to regain the Heavyweight title and was originally scheduled for September 1974 but was delayed after Foreman cut his eye during training (hence the printed overlay on the poster). Employing an early version of the rope-a-dope technique, Ali tired out Foreman and won by technical knockout in the eighth round becoming Heavyweight Champion for the second time in his career. The present poster was brought back to the United States by noted Chicago Tribune sportswriter Rick Talley who attended and covered the fight for the paper. Talley gifted the poster to the current consignor, a former Chicago roommate, and it proudly hung in a sports-themed home bar and was later displayed in the consignor's office at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, where it was eventually signed by both Ali and, reluctantly, Foreman. According to an informal poll of sportswriter predictions which hung in Ali's training camp before the fight, Talley was the only writer of forty-four participants who predicted correctly that Ali would win by knockout in the 8th round (the prediction poll was sold by Christie's Los Angeles in 1997). The Rumble in the Jungle, the subject of the 1996 documentary When We Were Kings, remains one of the most storied championship boxing matches of all time. C
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