NEVER SEEN BEFORE ALI PHOTO CIRCA 1974

I know I am not supposed to be a sport editor for 12 Oz but to see how people reacted to the Mayweather posting, I had to do this one. When I was in Art School in Belgium around 1996, I used to hang out with that kid Alain who was from Congo, Africa. We were in the same class and one day we were talking about the Ali / Foreman fight in Kinshasa 1974. He told me to remember that conversation… I forgot about the all thing and couple of weeks later, he brought to the school the most incredible photo album I ever seen. His dad was basically an Olympic Boxer for the Republic of Congo and he was fighting in the opening fight before Ali / Foreman. He trained with Ali and was able to take 100’s of pictures of that memorable fight… He allowed me back then to scan the ticket of his dad and a never published photo. This is flick is for the first time ever online here on 12 Oz… Alain, if you read this, please contact me!!!  I would love to post the entire album of your dad…
Love Kimou

Posted on December 10, 2007 at 09:08 PM   |   Comment  (2 comments)