Muhammad Ali in media and popular culture Muhammad Ali in media and popular culture This article covers the boxer Muhammad Ali's appearances in media and popular culture. Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ—One of the world's largest dedicated Parkinson's Centers "When We Were Kings" is a 1996 Academy Award-winning documentary film about the "Rumble in the Jungle", Ali's 1974 fight against George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The high school cheer squad in Happy Harbor on the cartoon "Young Justice" use Ali's "Floats like a butterfly Stings like a bee" line as their cheer. The
The Rumble in the Jungle forward, after the fifth round he looked increasingly worn out. Ali continued to taunt him by saying, "They told me you could punch, George!" and "They told me you could punch as hard as Joe Louis." According to Foreman: "I thought he was just one more knockout victim until, about the seventh round, I hit him hard to the jaw and he held me and whispered in my ear: 'That all you got, George?' I realized that this ain't what I thought it was." As the fight drew into the eighth round, Foreman's punching and defense became ineffective as the