This then gives the contender an.
Ali foreman rope a dope.
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Nobody expected him to win against the big scary foreman.
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.
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Skill courage and strategy the heroic things people associate with the rope a dope did not factor significantly into ali s decision to employ it against foreman.
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.
Ali went to the ropes simply.
This loss of energy was key to ali s rope a dope tactic.
But ali was.
But ali called it rope a dope the strategy was that instead of moving around the ring ali chose to fight for extended periods of time leaning back into the ropes in order to avoid many of foreman s heaviest blows.
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Ali s long time supporters were all tipping him to be knocked out.
Meanwhile ali took every opportunity to shoot straight punches to foreman s face which was soon visibly puffy.