The rope a dope is a boxing fighting technique commonly associated with muhammad ali in his 1974 rumble in the jungle match against world heavyweight champion george foreman.
Rope a dope ali vs foreman.
This loss of energy was key to ali s rope a dope tactic.
When the two fighters were locked in clinches ali consistently out wrestled foreman using tactics such as leaning on foreman to make foreman support ali s weight and.
In many competitive situations rope a dope is used to describe strategies in which one contender lets their opponent fatigue themself by drawing non injuring offensive punches.
It should now be mandatory for anyone composing a list of the biggest myths in boxing to install in the top five in addition to joe louis needing a knockout to win against billy conn and willie pep winning a round without throwing a single punch foreman s defeat to ali being the result of the vaunted rope a dope strategy.
There are better written accounts of the rumble in the jungle the ali v foreman bout contested in zaire for which both men received 5 million when ali adopted his rope a dope tactic.
Ap i told him that george wants a rematch said kilroy smiling.
Meanwhile ali took every opportunity to shoot straight punches to foreman s face which was soon visibly puffy.
Explanations exist for the misinterpretation of the rope a dope even though debunking the role it played in ali foreman is now as simple as watching the bout in its entirety on youtube.
Ever since muhammad ali s stunning 1974 triumph in zaire a simplistic yet popular myth has persisted that being the so called rope a dope strategy in the decades since that great upset victory the idea that the greatest achieved his unexpected win over george foreman primarily by absorbing punishment and letting the champion punch himself out became widely accepted to the.
Foreman attacks as ali plays rope a dope credit.
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.
