Laila Ali gets ready to rumble in Africa

Following in her legendary father's footsteps, Laila Ali is making history. She is taking on Gwendolyn O'Neill in the first fight in South Africa to be headlined by female boxers on February 3.

She follows the footsteps of her father, Muhammad Ali when he took part in the probably most talked about fight in the history of boxing in Africa, in 1974, where Ali beat George Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) to recover the world heavyweight crown.
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Laila at a press conference in Soweto, South Africa



Laila meeting with Winnie Mandela


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