“That’s horrendous,” Ade said . “What? Because he can sell grills, all of a sudden he can fight?”
He then assigned almost all the Rumble in the Jungle’s importance to Muhammad Ali, arguing that Ali could have faced someone else and produced the same event.
“I’d never heard anything about Foreman,” Oladipo said. “That is all Muhammad Ali.”
During his interview with Helwani, Oladipo first claimed the clip had been taken out of context. He described the original exchange as a light argument over the most famous boxer ever, with Gough bringing up the Foreman grill while Oladipo defended Ali. That account softened t
