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...next week, George Foreman and Muhammad Ali each stand to collect a minimum of $5 million-the biggest payday in the history of sport. If the fight goes 15 rounds, they will have earned $110,000 per minute per man. In addition to guaranteeing their wages, the government of Zaïre has put up another $12 million for the combatants' expenses and to doll up the capital city of Kinshasa...
...promoters hope for a TV audience of hundreds of millions in more than 75 countries (closed-circuit arenas and theaters in the U.S. are charging between $12 and $30 a seat). This electronic gate will more than compensate for the fact that there is little chance of filling the Zaïre stadium with paying customers. It may be the first championship fight in modern history for which freebies are given out wholesale...
...sundaes). But most of all Foreman played with his pets-four dogs and two horses. Foreman is particularly proud of his two German shepherds, Pasha and Daggo. He commands them with a smattering of German. "Platz, Daggo!" he will yell. "Stay. Stay." Daggo joined him on the trip to Za...
Outmaneuvering Arum. For this fight, Ali did more than simply agree to appear. He helped arrange the deal. Last February Ali met Zaïre's President, Mobutu Sese Seko, while both were visiting Kuwait. Mobutu proposed the idea of bringing the greatest black American fighters to their ancestral homeland for a championship match. He and Ali parted in agreement that Zaïre should make a bid to have what was then only a potential Foreman-Ali fight...
With his partners Henry Schwartz and Barry Burnstein, two Runyonesque New York promoters, King raised start-up cash from Hemdale Leisure, a British show-business production company. The fighters' $10 million was not as easy to find-until Zaïre came through. After a few days of negotiation in Paris between the promoters and a Mobutu emissary, letters of credit were deposited in the boxers' banks...