Rope-a-Dope

The rope-a - dope is a Boxtaktik that Muhammad Ali is particularly attributed to the Rumble in the Jungle against George Foreman.

Technology

The rope-a - dope is performed by the boxers a defensive attitude it has - with Ali, by hanging to the ropes - and allows the opponent to land hits, causing the opponent tired and error concedes that exploits the boxers.

Origin of the term

According to Angelo Dundee, the idea for the strategy against Foreman by George Kalinsky Boxfotographen who said was: ". Sort of a dope on the ropes, letting Foreman swing away but, like in the picture, hit nothing but air" The publicist John Condon made it then the term "rope -a- dope".