They called it ‘The Rumble in the Jungle’, perhaps the most famous heavyweight title fight of all time. In the resulting bloodbath the legendary Mohammad Ali beat George Foreman into a pulp in a steamy jungle night outside Kinshasa in Zaire on October 1974. Add the recent arrival of satellite television to the occasion and seemingly the whole world sat up, through all the time zones, to watch this famous encounter. It was the biggest tv gig since the 1969 moon landing. Perhaps there won’t be as much blood on the floor, given the age of the combatants, but come…

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