Please allow 14 days for delivery once shipped. Once shipped, your order should arrive within 1-7 business days. Prints may take 1-2 weeks to be printed, signed, packed, and shipped. Prices are displayed at checkout once your shipping address has been entered. International shipping is a set price per country regardless of image size and quantity. They should've been smart enough to say, 'Pace yourself George, don't try to win every round.Shipping is FREE on all (U.S.) domestic purchases. I waited, my corner told me to hold it, I jumped up, the fight was over.'įoreman said that afterward he 'fired 'em all. 'That right hand was the fastest punch I've ever been hit with. I braced myself to stop the fall and hit the floor. I was hitting on him, he squeezed and turned around and hit me with a combination, a one-two punch. In the eighth round, Ali again took himself to a corner and weathered some fatigued Foreman rights before moving off and unloading a flurry of punches, including a left that stunned Foreman and a crushing right to the head that caused the massive man to crash to the canvas. This guy can take a punch and can hit back.' 'I saw his face and realized this is not the fight I planned. After the third round, the bell rings, he says, 'I made it!' He just covered up and went back to the ropes.

somebody lied.' I hit him in the side real hard. 'After three rounds, I had hurt him a few times and he looked at me and I realized, 'This is a different fight. 'All I was getting from my corner was 'Kill him, kill him, kill him!' It was like a rap song. I just wanted to finish him,' Foreman said. 'Usually, you finish a guy after hurting him. On fight night, Ali implemented the 'surprise' tactic he'd discussed before the fight, the famed 'rope-a-dope,' in which he backed to the ropes and blocked or absorbed a slew of Foreman's heaviest punches, letting the champion exhaust himself. 'Look, all those amateur boxing matches he had, Sonny Liston.

I'd put a hand near his face and he'd act scared,' Foreman said. I'm going to fight for a few rounds, then coast a little bit, then fight a couple more rounds.' If I had just read a couple of those things, I would've beaten him.'įoreman laments he 'played right into Ali's hands' by believing the challenger was actually afraid of him as the fight neared. ' In one interview, he said, 'Nobody can fight for 15 rounds. 'Afterward, I read the Playboy he was in and then every interview he did and I realized, 'This guy, he was talking about how I couldn't go 15 rounds. Ali, who compiled a 56-5 professional record, is considered one of the greatest boxers of all-time.

World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali poses at the Royal Artillery Gymnasium in London while training for a 1966 fight against British champion Henry Cooper.

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