Foreman vs Moorer HD | Look of SHOCK & AWE | Full Fight Highlights HD

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Foreman said after the fight that he was out to lay his ghost from the Rumble in the Jungle to rest, referring to the legendary fight twenty years beforehand in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Congo) where Muhammad Ali had overcome a previously undefeated Foreman and knocked him out in the eighth round (which remains Foreman's only loss by knockout) to win the heavyweight title that Foreman had held after defeating Joe Frazier in 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica by knocking him down six times in two rounds. Not only did Foreman wear the same red trunks that he had worn in Zaire, but in his corner was Ali's legendary trainer Angelo Dundee, who had been in Ali's corner for that fight.
For most of the fight, Foreman had difficulty keeping up with the younger and faster Moorer. Through the first nine rounds, Moorer dominated the fight, winning seven of the nine rounds, and the three judges had Moorer ahead on the scorecards by two scores of 88–83 and one score of 86–85. Despite this, Foreman kept standing in front of Moorer and taking his hardest shots while landing a few of his own. Foreman said he was trying to set up for one hard right, and Moorer's trainer Teddy Atlas picked up on what Foreman was doing. Repeatedly, he told Moorer not to advance on Foreman because he was looking for the opening to land the one punch he would need to put Moorer down. Moorer, meanwhile, had been landing so many shots to the challenger's face that his left eye was nearly swollen shut. As the tenth round began, Dundee told a tired Foreman that he needed a knockout to win and this was the time to get it.

The tenth was a turning point in the fight. Moorer was slowed down by a body shot early in the round, and Foreman's punches started landing more consistently. His planning, as Foreman said later, was to use the jab and the occasional hook to the body to f..