Foreman drugged to lose Rumble in the Jungle to Ali?

Two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, George Foreman, says that a secretly administered drug caused him to lose his 1974 Rumble in the Jungle to Muhammad Ali.

New York, May 21 : Two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, George Foreman, says that a secretly administered drug caused him to lose his 1974 'Rumble in the Jungle' to Muhammad Ali.

He writes in his memoirs, God in My Corner, that just the before the match had begun, his ex-trainer gave him a cup of water that tasted as if it contained some medicine.

"I almost spit it out . . . Man, I know this water has medicine in it," the New York Post quotes him as writing.

Foreman says that telling the matter to his trainer proved of no use because the latter denied that the water was spiked.

He writes that the drug had started to make him go weaker by the time the bout entered the third round, and Ali eventually knocked him out in the eighth round.

"I climbed into the ring with that medicinal taste still lingering in my mouth . . . After the third round, I was as tired as if I had fought 15 rounds. What's going on here? Did someone slip a drug in my water?" he writes.

ANI