Rope-a-dope of other combinations. This strategy led him to the junior welterweight championship of the WBU where he took the belt from Shea Neary. Floyd Mayweather often utilizes this technique in his bouts, as he demonstrated in his August 2017 fight against Conor McGregor. Notes Bibliography Rope-a-dope The rope-a-dope is a boxing fighting style commonly associated with Muhammad Ali in his 1974 Rumble in the Jungle match against George Foreman. In many competitive situations, rope-a-dope is used to describe strategies in which one contender lets their opponent fatigue themself by drawing non-injuring offensive actions. This then gives the contender an advantage
Muhammad Ali (writer) Muhammad Ali (writer) Muhammad Ali (; ‎; 1874 – 13 October 1951) was an Indian writer, scholar, and leading figure of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam. Ali was born in Murar, Kapurthala State (now in Ludhiana district, Punjab, India) in 1874. He obtained an Master of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Laws in 1899. He joined the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1897 and dedicated his life to the service of the movement as part of what he saw as a restored and pristine Islam. He died in Karachi on October 13, 1951, and is buried