Big George Foreman

When he fought Michael Moorer in Las Vegas, George Foreman wore the same red trunks that he wore in the Rumble in the Jungle in Kinshasa, Zaire (now DR Congo) in 1974. That legendary fight was the climactic scene of Muhammad Ali's biopic Ali (2001) with Will Smith as Ali and Charles Shufford as Foreman and remains Foreman's only loss by knockout. Furthermore, in both the Rumble in the Jungle and Foreman vs. Moorer, the older challenger was trailing the younger and undefeated champion on all of the judges' scorecards late in the fight before winning by knockout. Foreman's victory made him the oldest world heavyweight boxing champion in history at 45 years and 360 days, which beat Jersey Joe Walcott's old record by eight years and is a record that Foreman still holds. Since then, only Vitali Klitschko has been a world heavyweight champion aged 40 or older. Furthermore, Bernard Hopkins and Archie Moore are the only world boxing champions in any weight class at an older age than Foreman was after Hopkins beat Jean Pascal in 2011 for the light heavyweight championships.

Pleasanton, California, where the Job Corps camp is located, is in a valley, nearly surrounded by hills and mountains. There are none to be seen in the film.

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