Boxing Hall of Famer George Foreman shockingly recalled the exact words of Muhammad Ali moments before they took on each other.
Forty-seven years after he went toe-to-toe inside the ring with Muhammad Ali, George Foreman still vividly remembers how the late boxing icon tried to get under his skin just seconds before the opening bell rang.
When replying to fan's query on Twitter, Foreman revealed that Ali didn't hold back and told him that he doesn't belong in boxing.
“'George you a kid in high school when I fought Liston you don’t belong in here.' I wanted to laugh cause I never went to high school,” the 72-year-old wrote.
“George you a kid in high school when I fought Liston you don’t belong in here” I wanted to laugh cause I never went to high school https://t.co/CP3OcGA6Sj
— George Foreman (@GeorgeForeman) November 14, 2021
Despite beating up each other inside the ring, Foreman and Ali became close friends. In fact, the Ali that Foreman fought was completely the opposite of that he became pals with.
“He’s (Ali) never had anything negative to talk about, always, even when he couldn’t speak a lot, he had a joke to tell you,” Foreman said last year via Elie Seckbach of EsNews.
“I asked him one time, ‘Muhammad, I want a rematch, what do you think?’ he said, ‘You crazy!.’ I said, So Muhammad, how’s your wife? ‘She crazy!’,” he continued.
Billed as “The Rumble in the Jungle,” the epic Ali vs. Foreman heavyweight showdown went down in history as one of the greatest boxing fights of all time.
Though Foreman evidently had the size and power, Ali's natural-born talent was just too much for “Big George.” On the eight round, the older Ali finally stopped the then-25-year-old to become the heavyweight champion of the world for the second time in his illustrious career.
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