WIN tickets to Rumble in the Jungle Rematch
Your chance to experience an immersive theatrical retelling of the boxing match complete with sounds, smell, food, music and feeling
If you weren’t around in 1974 or busy doing something else, missing the infamous championship bout between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman is probably one of your biggest regrets. Yes, footage is available somewhere online, but that’s a sad kind of catch-up for boxing fans who wished they had seen Rumble in the Jungle.
Now they can. Rematch, a company that recreates iconic sporting moments, will transport you to Kinshasa, Africa for a theatrical retelling of the boxing match complete with sounds, smell, food, music and feeling. There will be street markets, dancers press conferences and the chance to witness the boxers’ gruelling training as they prepare for one of the greatest moments in sporting history.
That’s when we meet the Jewish friend in Muhammed Ali’s corner. Drew Bundini Brown Jr was Ali’s assistant trainer, cornerman, “spiritual adviser,” and the author of some of his famous lines, including: “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Born in Florida, Bundini married Russian-Jewish Rhoda Palestine in 1950 and happily converted, for which he got abuse.
Then the Nation of Islam abused him for having a white Jewish wife when Ali became a Muslim, but Bundini threw the punches and was proud to be a Jew. His son, Drew Brown III, a former Navy pilot said, “Growing up, I never once thought of myself as less than anyone else. My parents, if anything, taught me that I was better. I had the Black side and the Jewish side. I had the best of both worlds.”
Advertising guru Trevor Beattie, who has designed the marketing, merchandising and ‘look’ for the Rumble recreation, got many of the prized items in his Ali Collection at the Bundini auction after he died in 1987. “They are incorporated into the production,” said Trevor, who will be on full-time duty as the Ali expert throughout 1974.
We have three pairs of tickets to give away to the Rumble in the Jungle Rematch spectacle at London’s Dock X in Canada Water. To enter fill out the form below. Closing date 30 September. Only one entry per household.
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