A look at why the Congo location for Tyson Mayweather makes boxing history for a whole range of factors.
Boxing fans are nostalgic and sentimental, a passionate and educated bunch on the sweet science most of the time.
The new fans flooding into the sport in recent months are as well.
Maybe the biggest cultural phenomenon in heavyweight boxing history was the iconic ‘Rumble In The Jungle’ in Zaire in Africa many years ago now.
Between the one and only Muhammad Ali and the legendary George Foreman.
Both gone but never forgotten living on in heaven forever now, both of them (the only thing that actually lasts forever, heaven, nothing else does of course)
Ali rope a doped Foreman and absorbed a lot of damage in the fight but ultimately chose to take him out inside the distance when he did after wearing him down.
Using Foreman’s rage against him at the time.
Mike Tyson is an iconic of heavyweight boxing himself as the sport’s youngest heavyweight champion in history and to bring a big time boxing event back to Africa after all these years since Ali and Foreman, with Tyson, is astonishing.
And, in an exhibition against a much smaller foe and one of the greatest fighters in history as well — Floyd Mayweather.
The sheer intrigue of the thing is off the hook and the cultural significance of it being in Africa is outstanding.
As the sport continues to expand furiously daily into new countries and markets in the East, it is great to be back in Africa soon.
The whole thing sets the preamble then for Usyk the heavyweight champion of the world to go to Egypt in Africa only a month later then to fight at the Pyramids.
Of course boxing wasn’t going to forget about Africa.
Rumble young man rumble.
Don’t forget to check out our comparison piece on Mayweather and Tyson career money made.
