ht was held in a foreign country. Ali was veryexcited about being in a place operated entirely by black people. The fight took placeoutside in 90 degree weather on October 30. Thirty seconds into the second round, Alistopped dancing and started leaning to lean on the ropes.. Dundee and everybody else inhis corner was shocked and was screaming for him to move, but Ali stayed. He blocked,dodged and took the heavy punches of Foreman for six rounds straight. With the intenseheat beating down on him, Foreman began to get tired and his punches started gettingsofter as the time went by. In the eight round, he was extremely tired, but he did not haveany respect for Ali’s punching power and pursued him with his guard down. As Foremanmissed a punch, he turned around and was greeted with a barrage of blows. A right handknocked him down for the first time in his professional career and when the refereesignaled the K.O., a mob of fans jumped into the ring to greet the new heavyweightchampion of the world.A little while later Muhammad was ready to fight Frazier for the third time. Theearly rounds began to Ali, who used his speed to throw off the challenger. But in themiddle rounds, it was Joe Frazier who had his opponent against the ropes. It was a hardbattle with both opponents losing energy in the late rounds. In the last rounds, Ali startedto dominate again, knocking Frazier’s mouthpiece out and closing up his eyes. Finally,when Frazier went to his corner after the fourteenth round, his trainer decided to throw inthe towel. After Frazier announced he was not able to return, Ali collapsed in his corner. Even though he won, Ali was in bad physical shape. After the vicious battle againstFrazier, Muhammad Ali stated that fight was the closest thing to death he knew of.After that fight the rest of his career went downhill. Ali went in and out ofretirement and fought little fights against “easy” opponents, but eve...
