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In 1967, then-champion Ali was stripped of his title and suspended from boxing for 3 + 1⁄ 2 years for his refusal to comply with the draft and enter the U.S. Color commentary was done by Jim Brown, David Frost, and Joe Frazier. The play-by-play commentary was done by 'Colonel' Bob Sheridan. The fight was broadcast on closed-circuit television in theaters in the United States and on over-the-air television throughout the world. Although King is most closely associated with the fight, Hemdale and Video Techniques Inc., with whom King was a director, were the bout's official co-promoters. King had pulled together a consortium that included Risnelia Investment from Panama the Hemdale Film Corporation, a British company founded by film producer John Daly and the actor David Hemmings Video Techniques Incorporated of New York and Don King Productions.

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In a TV interview, King stated that Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was involved in making the payment for the purse money for the athletes and other major expenses, although the precise process was not made clear. Fred Weymar, an American advisor to Zaire's dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, persuaded Mobutu that the publicity such a high-profile event would generate would help his regime, and Mobutu agreed for the fight to be held in his country. However, as King did not have the money, and was not welcomed to stage an event of such a profile in the United States, he began seeking an outside country to stage and sponsor the event. Such an amount of money, quite enormous for those days, was purported to prevent other top boxing promoters from attempts to arrange a Foreman vs. King managed to get Ali and Foreman to sign separate contracts saying they would fight for him if he could get a $5 million purse. Inception ĭon King arranged the fight with music businessman Jerry Masucci, who took his record label's showcase group, the Fania All-Stars, to play at the venue. Decades later, the bout would be the subject of the Academy Award winning documentary film When We Were Kings. The fight grossed an estimated $100 million (inflation-adjusted $600 million) in worldwide revenue.

This included a record estimated 50 million viewers watching the fight on pay-per-view or closed-circuit theatre TV. Some sources estimate that the fight was watched by as many as one billion television viewers around the world, becoming the world's most-watched live television broadcast at the time. The fight is famous for Ali's introduction of the rope-a-dope tactic. It has been called 'arguably the greatest sporting event of the 20th century' and was a major upset, with Ali coming in as a 4–1 underdog against the unbeaten, heavy-hitting Foreman.

The event had an attendance of 60,000 people and was one of the most watched televised events at the time. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Rumble in the Jungle, was a heavyweight championship boxing match on October 30, 1974, at the 20th of May Stadium (now the Stade Tata Raphaël) in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), between undefeated and undisputed heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali.

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