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George Foreman’s Drugged Water Claim Against Ali Resurfaces

Regis Prograis has drawn new attention to George Foreman’s allegation that he was drugged before losing to Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle on October 30, 1974. After ... continue George Forem

Boxing News 24 · August 27, 2026

George Foreman’s Drugged Water Claim Against Ali Resurfaces

After reading about the story, Prograis presented it as a theory that the heavyweight championship fight may have been tampered with. He then asked older boxing followers for their opinions.

“It’s a theory that the fight was tampered with. For the older boxing guys what do yall think?” Prograis posted on X .

Foreman’s own account is more valuable than the theory raised by Prograis. The former heavyweight champion described receiving suspicious-tasting water shortly before the fight in his 2007 memoir, God in My Corner.

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