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46 years since Ali, bomaye!

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Ali watches the fallen Foreman,  while referee Clayton prepares to count the 10 seconds. https://www.wbaboxing.com/boxing-news/46-years-since-ali-bomaye Boxing News , Featured Stories by Jesús Cova , translated by WBA Press October 27th, 2020 October 30th marks the 46th anniversary of the fight for the WBA and WBC belts between the legendary Muhammad Ali and the brutal puncher George Foreman, the defending champion, at the 20th of May stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire -- today Democratic Republic of Congo -- filled with 60 thousand expectant spectators of that fight which has surely been the most publicized by the media , which brought together nearly 300 million fans and viewers of all over the world in front of their TVs, the highest legion of followers of a sports event of any kind, then and now, only surpassed by the arrival of man to the moon in Apollo XI on July 20th, 1969 , which was seen by some 600 million people . The fight, considered the best in history (it can hardly be com...