Do you know what happened on October 30, 1974 in the Mai 20 Stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire?

The Heavyweight champion of the world, George Foreman, battled it out against former Heavyweight champion and challenger Muhammad Ali. Ali won by knocking out Foreman in the eighth round.

But that’s not when he really lost the fight.

You see, Ali was one of the few that could ‘walk-the-walk’ and ‘talk-the-talk’. That boy could back up just about everything that came out of his mouth. I say just about because he did lose a couple fights, but only a couple.

It was really over when the bell rang because Ali started calling Foreman out. Telling him to punch harder and tempting Foreman to hit him when he was on the ropes. These blows did very little other than start to wear Foreman down. Ali took great advantage of this and delivered several blows to Foreman’s face causing severe damage.

Then it happened.

In the fourth round Foreman was noticeably getting tired and worn out. But Ali was just getting started and landing a staggering combination. As the fight went on Ali kept saying to him, “they told me you could punch George.” And “they told me you could punch as hard as Joe Louis.” This was fueling the fire within Foreman and he finally landed a crushing body blow. But Ali had an answer, a strategy. When they were locked together right after that he whispered into Foreman’s ear, “is that all you got?” George told him it was and shortly after that Ali knocked him out.

See, at the time, Foreman was known to be the hardest hitting fighter in the ring, in the world for that matter. And after he delivered a bone crushing blow to Ali’s body and Ali asked him if that was all he had, he was demoralized. He didn’t have an answer. All he could think about was he just hit this guy with all he had and the response was taunting. That would be tough to overcome, but maybe it could’ve been done.

What if Foreman’s thinking would’ve gone to ‘I have an arsenal of those blows and they’re about to be unleashed all over you?’ Instead of thinking, ‘I just hit this guy as hard as I can and he’s taunting me… I might as well throw in the towel.’ Maybe it would’ve been a different outcome but we’ll never know.

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