Going into the Ali-Foreman fight, people close to the former champion feared for his life.

But Ali, using his now famous rope-a-dope strategy, stopped Foreman in eight rounds, regaining his championship and changing the conversation about him forever.

The preparation for taking on Foreman in Zaire began in this small Pennsylvania town about 20 miles north of Reading in a place on Sculps Hill Road that Ali called “Fighter’s Heaven” — the training camp Ali built and drew inspiration from.