The winner of the heated festival for the belt used to be Indianapolis Colts proprietor Jim Irsay, in step with Heritage Auctions in Dallas.
In a tweet Sunday, Irsay showed he bought the belt for his number of rock song, American historical past and popular culture memorabilia this is recently traveling the rustic.
The belt will probably be displayed on Aug. 2 at Chicago’s Army Pier and on Sept. 9 in Indianapolis.
“Proud to be the steward!” Irsay tweeted.
“After a number of hours of staring at two bidders pass from side to side over this belt, this proved to be a struggle worthy of the Rumble itself,” Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of sports activities auctions, mentioned in a commentary.
The 1974 battle used to be one in all boxing’s maximum memorable moments. Ali stopped the fearsome George Foreman to recapture the heavyweight identify within the African country of Zaire. Ali received the battle in a knockout within the 8th spherical.