Johnny Wakelin on 30 October 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire, against George Foreman in a matchup known as The Rumble in the Jungle, gaining victory in the eighth round. The song was Wakelin's "Black Superman (Muhammad Ali)" released in late 1974. In January 1975 the song reached number seven in singles charts of both UK and Australia. It also spent six months in the US "Billboard" Hot 100 in more than one chart run in 1975, eventually peaking at No. 21 in September of that year. 1975 brought a further single, "Cream Puff," backed by "Gotta Keep on Going"; it flopped, but both
Muhammad Ali Ali dropped an exhausted Foreman with a combination at center ring; Foreman failed to make the count. Against the odds, and amidst pandemonium in the ring, Ali had regained the title by knockout. Reflecting on the fight, George Foreman later said: "I thought Ali 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." Ali's next opponents included Chuck Wepner, Ron Lyle, and Joe Bugner. Wepner, a journeyman