“It’s a theory that the fight was tampered with. For the older boxing guys what do yall think?” Prograis posted on X.
Foreman’s own account is more valuable than the theory raised by Prograis. The former heavyweight champion described receiving suspicious-tasting water shortly before the fight in his 2007 memoir, God in My Corner.
“Just before the fight with Ali, my trainer handed me a glass of liquid and said, ‘Here’s your water,’” Foreman wrote. “As I took a swig, I almost spit it out. ‘Hey, this water tastes like it has medicine in it.’”
Trainer Dick Sadler assured Foreman that it was the same water he had
