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"How Cassius Took Rome,
by Cassius Clay Jr.
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"To make America the greatest is my goal
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"So I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole
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"And for the United States
won the medal of gold
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"Italians said, 'You're greater
than the Cassius of old
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"'We like your name, we like your game
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"'So come make Rome your home
if you will'
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"I said, 'I appreciate your kind hospitality
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"'But the United States of America
is my country still
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"'Because they're waiting
to welcome me in Louisville"'
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That sure is nice of you.
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- Are you proud of me, Momma?
- You know I am.
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Is this how you do it?
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No, it depends on
how the other guy shapes up.
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Come here. Try it like this.
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Put your hands up,
put your left foot in front.
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It depends on how you move.
How you move makes you a good fighter.
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Well, I feel good this morning.
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I'm so proud of you, baby.
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You know,
but I just don't feel right about it...
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...you turning yourself over
to that white lady.
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- What's she got besides a lot of money?
- What's she got? She's got plenty.
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She's got the right complexion,
and the right connections...
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...to give your boy the right protection.
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Cassius.
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Hey, boy, come over here.
Come over here.
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You know you're on
Ms. Fairlie's private property?
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Yes, sir.
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- You know where you are, boy?
- Yes, sir.
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Well, the road's that way.
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John!
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You know this here nigger?
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Yes, sir, Mr. Harry, I know who he is.
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Ms. Fairlie told him to come.
He's going to work here.
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Yes, sir, this here is the boxing boy.
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I'll take him up to the house.
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- He scare you, son?
- Scare me? He can't scare me.
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Can't nobody scare me.
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I don't scare.
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That sucker must not have known
who he was messing with.
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You got a good thing about you.
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You're gonna work out well
with Ms. Fairlie.
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- I will? Is she here today?
- No, she's not down yet.
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You'll get your orders from Miss Sue Ellen.
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Work orders?
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The only kind of work
that makes sense for me is boxing.
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- And I'm good, too.
- I know it, now come on, let's go.
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Mr. Harry, when will I see Ms. Fairlie?
It's been a whole week now.
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You can see me right now.
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Didn't anybody ever tell you
not to touch any of my dogs, ever?
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Not even come near.
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You get your odour on them.
It just confuses them.
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They don't know who to go for in a crisis.
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All right, but I've been trying to...
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I have all kinds of plans for you,
but they'll have to wait.
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I'm late for a fitting.
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I mustn't forget to have the man
make you up some boxing trunks...
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...in the colours of my racing silks.
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I've been running four miles every morning
and I've been training...
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Ain't that a bitch.
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Hey, boy?
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What?
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Now who told you it was leaving time?
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Someone want to come in this gate,
they gotta have your permission, right?
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That's my job. Ms. Fairlie's orders.
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Nobody, especially me, needs permission
of any kind to go out that gate.
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What I'm trying to say is,
I ain't gonna be a part of her kennel.
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I ain't gonna be a part of her stable.
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And you tell her
Cassius Clay ain't gonna play nobody's boy.
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As a matter of ethics,
my clients wouldn't care to intrude...
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...on any prior claim
Trish Fairlie might assert.
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I don't like Ms. Fairlie,
and I don't want her in my business.
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Ms. Fairlie is out.
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Then let's get down to business.
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As a tender of faith, each of my clients
is willing to put up $1,000.
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It's up to my father.
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Mr. Clay?
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It looks like we got the makings of a deal.
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Good-looking boy.
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- Hello there, how are you?
- Fine.
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- It's a pleasure, sir.
- How are you doing?
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- Thank you, we'd love it.
- You like that?
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What's it feel like having a big strong man
pounding into you...
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...with all his strength?
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Well, that's a good question
for another fighter.
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Are you saying it doesn't bother you?
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- You've never been afraid?
- No. Well, I was scared one time.
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- After I won the AAU Championship.
- After you won the championship?
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That qualified me to go to the Olympics
and they were held in Rome this year.
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I had to fly over on a plane.
Just the thought of it scared me to death.
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Well, we're all boxing nuts.
That's why we're doing this.
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We told our wives it'll make us $1 million.
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You're only stating the truth.
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The contract gives you gentlemen
half my earnings.
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Half your earnings.
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You think that's going to make us
$100,000 profit?
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No. You didn't hear what he said.
He said $1 million. Ain't that right?
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Well, why not? It's only money.
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Look, Ronnie. There's Mr. Hollis' car.
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What are we doing here?
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You see this car? This baby is bad, ain't it?
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This is Mr. Faraday Hollis',
one of my sponsors.
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The one I told you about. This is his car.
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How long does she take to get up to 60?
Two seconds?
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I don't know. Get in, man.
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God, man, look at this. Leather interior.
All these dials and knobs and shiny...
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Hey, what do you punk heads
think you're doing?
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Will you leave on your own,
or do I have to call the cops?
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The cops? You must not know who I am.
I'm Cassius Clay the Olympic champion.
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Mr. Faraday Hollis, who owns this car,
is a friend of mine.
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Lia, Obie, this is our boy, Cassius Clay.
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Cassius, this is Mr. And Mrs. Cruikshank,
Mrs. Hollis and Miss Hollis, my daughter.
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- Well, I hear you're quite a fighter.
- Yes, sir.
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Well, your sponsors
expect big things from you.
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Just the Heavyweight Championship
of the World, that's all. Right, Cash?
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- Yes, sir, Mr. Hollis.
- Would you like something to eat or drink?
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Well...
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...I am sort of thirsty.
Maybe I'll have some milk.
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Waiter?
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- Yes, ma'am?
- A glass of milk for the boy.
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Obie, you used to box a little bit
in college, didn't you?
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Well, a little bit.
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Get up, see if you can hit him.
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Why that was over 25 years ago.
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Just see if you can. Just for fun.
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Well.
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All right. He's all right, I'll tell you that.
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I'll tell you one thing, there isn't
any other big guys around that fast.
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- Would you like to take a seat?
- Yes, I guess I would.
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I want to thank you
for the exhibition, Clay.
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We don't want to hold you up
from your ride.
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That's all right, 'cause my friend Ronnie,
I know he'll be a little thirsty, too.
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He was a little shy to come in at first.
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I bet he's thirsty now. He'll come in now.
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Let him stay shy.
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It'll keep him out of trouble.
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But I wanted him to meet
your family and friends, sir.
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Some other time.
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I know you want everything to go nice
and smooth for yourself. Right?
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You understand?
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I'm trying to.
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Well, don't make waves.
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Cash, wait a minute. What are you doing?
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Man, this thing is phoney...
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...gold-plated, and it ain't worth a damn.
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I can't believe you did that!
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God, man, what did you do that for?
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It wasn't worth a shit anyway.
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Angelo Dundee.
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No, you got those hands too low.
Now get them up.
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Hustle, hustle!
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And the hands, the hands!
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Cassius, don't lean back like that!
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What, you prefer this sucker
to hit me in the head?
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Come on, sucker, try it.
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And hold your hands up.
Don't hold them so low. Come on.
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Birdie, how are you?
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Is that the new kid?
The one from Louisville?
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That's him.
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He won the light-heavy gold medal
over there in Rome.
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- Name of Clay.
- I know. I saw the film.
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I bet you worry. Head back like that...
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...then a guy can connect where he lives.
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- All right, so he's got a few bad faults.
- You'd better change that.
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Sometimes I don't even know
who the hell the trainer is.
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But I'm learning.
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Whenever I want him to throw a left hook,
I say to him:
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"Jesus, what a beautiful left hook
that was. "
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And he goes out there and does it.
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All right, time!
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Hey, kid,
I want you to meet Dr. Ferdie Pacheco.
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He's the best fight doctor and savviest guy
in the boxing business.
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Except for you and me.
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See, you know more than he does,
else I'd have him training me.
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And me, I know more, too,
else you wouldn't be going around...
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...showing me off as your prize new boy.
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He's articulate, ain't he? No offence, kid.
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I never saw a heavyweight
move around like you do.
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See, 'cause there's never been a fighter
with my problem.
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Never been a fighter
with such a pretty face.
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And I owe it to my public
to keep it that way.
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- Time to shower, I imagine?
- Go shower, go.
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Hey, kid!
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How much roadwork
did you do this morning?
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Six miles.
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- I thought I told you only four.
- I lost track making up a poem.
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You see what I mean?
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Are you aware that Lamar Clark
has knocked out his last 45 opponents?
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He's a bum.
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That sucker can't go two rounds with me.
Two rounds.
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- You're calling the round?
- Can I quote you?
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Yeah, I know what I'll do.
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I'll get him in two.
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"When you come to the fight
don't block the aisle or the door
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"Archie Moore's going to fall in round four!
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"Besmanoff will stay to seven
then he'll think he's gone to heaven!"
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Hey, you, what's happening?
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You're sure looking good. What you doing?
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How about a date? Let's take a ride.
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Nothing freaky.
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Nothing freaky?
Come on, woman, get in the car.
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Do you recognise me?
I mean, have you ever saw me before?
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I mean, you know who I am, don't you?
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- How the hell would I know?
- Seriously, you don't recognise me?
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I bet you one thing:
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Before the night's over,
we will know each other.
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- Yes, indeed. I will know you.
- Yes, ma'am.
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'Cause we'll have a good time tonight.
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- That's right.
- Give me five.
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- You know a little soul, don't you?
- Give it back.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Would you park over here?
It's that building on the left there.
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I want you to answer me one question.
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Are you anywhere as good as you look?
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I'm better than I have been
but not as good as I'm gonna get.
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Come on, I can't wait.
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- Hey, brother!
- Say, brother!
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Look here a minute.
I got a message for you.
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Look, I'm busy now, man.
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- It's important.
- Important?
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Ain't no more important
than what I've got to do.
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I've a message for you.
I want to invite you to our mosque.
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Ain't nothing more important
than what I'm getting ready to do now.
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- So leave me alone.
- Yeah, but what you going to do, brother?
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Hey, baby! Wait!
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Man, you made me miss the woman.
She's gone.
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- Man, I did you a good favour, brother.
- Did me a favour?
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That's worse than dope and alcohol.
That white woman. Worse than alcohol.
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You're crazy. This pretty woman?
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- I'm not kidding.
- That's right, brother.
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- She's gone.
- Have you ever heard of Malcolm X?
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- I've heard of him.
- He's in the mosque. I want to invite you.
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- He's not over there.
- Would I lie?
235
00:20:36,444 --> 00:20:38,822
- Malcolm X in the ghetto?
- He's right over here.
236
00:20:38,905 --> 00:20:40,573
- Would I lie?
- Do you know who I am?
237
00:20:40,657 --> 00:20:42,075
- I know you.
- What's my name?
238
00:20:42,158 --> 00:20:44,411
- You're Cassius Clay.
- And you know I can fight?
239
00:20:44,494 --> 00:20:46,079
- Don't worry about that.
- Don't lie.
240
00:20:46,162 --> 00:20:48,123
I wouldn't lie. Two minutes of your time.
241
00:20:48,206 --> 00:20:49,958
- I'll stay two minutes.
- That's all.
242
00:20:50,041 --> 00:20:51,459
It'll take two minutes.
243
00:20:51,543 --> 00:20:54,004
- Malcolm X is over here?
- Right now.
244
00:20:54,087 --> 00:20:55,422
- I wouldn't lie to you.
- Right.
245
00:20:55,505 --> 00:20:56,464
That's all it will take.
246
00:20:57,799 --> 00:21:00,010
He's a devil.
247
00:21:00,260 --> 00:21:02,804
Every time you see a white man...
248
00:21:03,930 --> 00:21:07,267
...think about the devil, and you'll see him.
249
00:21:07,642 --> 00:21:11,146
Think of how it is
on your slave fore-parents'...
250
00:21:11,521 --> 00:21:14,774
...bloody, sweaty backs,
that he built this empire.
251
00:21:14,858 --> 00:21:16,651
That's right!
252
00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:22,532
As today, the richest of all nations,
by its evil and its greed...
253
00:21:22,866 --> 00:21:26,161
...make him hated around the world.
254
00:21:26,619 --> 00:21:29,372
This blue-eyed devil...
255
00:21:29,914 --> 00:21:33,626
...took away your name,
took away your language.
256
00:21:34,836 --> 00:21:36,921
Took away your culture.
257
00:21:37,339 --> 00:21:39,966
And what does he offer in return?
258
00:21:40,216 --> 00:21:42,552
A religion that says:
259
00:21:42,635 --> 00:21:45,555
We're all going to sprout wings...
260
00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:49,059
...fly up into the sky.
261
00:21:49,309 --> 00:21:53,021
God will have a special place
for us called heaven...
262
00:21:54,272 --> 00:21:57,859
...while the white devil
enjoys his heaven right now!
263
00:22:01,112 --> 00:22:04,407
And we have accepted this brainwashing...
264
00:22:05,075 --> 00:22:08,244
...Christian religion, we've embraced it.
265
00:22:09,245 --> 00:22:11,998
We have believed in it.
266
00:22:12,165 --> 00:22:15,502
But, now,
the Honourable Elijah Muhammad...
267
00:22:15,585 --> 00:22:18,546
...offers you the Nation of Islam.
268
00:22:23,927 --> 00:22:25,679
The Muslim religion.
269
00:22:26,763 --> 00:22:29,391
A programme of independence...
270
00:22:30,141 --> 00:22:32,560
...for the black man.
271
00:22:32,644 --> 00:22:37,023
How many of you want to follow
the Honourable Elijah Muhammad?
272
00:22:37,148 --> 00:22:38,233
Yes, sir!
273
00:22:38,316 --> 00:22:41,236
How many of you will stand up for Allah?
274
00:22:53,623 --> 00:22:56,835
You know, all this time,
I've been standing up for a white man...
275
00:22:56,918 --> 00:22:59,796
...a blonde-headed, blue-eyed Jesus.
- That's right.
276
00:22:59,879 --> 00:23:03,216
Give him a haircut and shave,
he'll be like the honky policeman...
277
00:23:03,299 --> 00:23:05,760
...busting your head in.
- Never even thought about that.
278
00:23:08,763 --> 00:23:10,890
Champ, I got somebody
I want you to meet.
279
00:23:10,974 --> 00:23:14,853
Bundini Brown. He was with Sugar Ray
Robinson and Johnny Bratton five years.
280
00:23:15,061 --> 00:23:17,022
- I want you to meet him.
- Hey, Champ.
281
00:23:17,105 --> 00:23:19,399
I don't care who you've been with.
I'm tired.
282
00:23:19,482 --> 00:23:22,569
Champ, he's the only man I know
that talks more than you do.
283
00:23:22,652 --> 00:23:23,737
Shoot.
284
00:23:23,820 --> 00:23:28,408
"Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee
You can't hit what you can't see"
285
00:23:31,202 --> 00:23:33,496
Hey, man, who in the world are you?
286
00:23:33,580 --> 00:23:37,334
I mean, what would Johnny Bratton
or Sugar Ray Robinson need with you...
287
00:23:37,417 --> 00:23:38,877
...as great as they were?
288
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,797
'Cause you just don't train the body.
You got to get into the soul.
289
00:23:42,881 --> 00:23:45,425
You can talk all the philosophy
and stuff you want.
290
00:23:45,508 --> 00:23:49,262
Sonny Liston is the king,
and it shall remain that way...
291
00:23:49,346 --> 00:23:52,265
...until he gets in the ring
with Cassius Clay.
292
00:23:52,349 --> 00:23:54,934
"The old master painter
from the faraway hills
293
00:23:55,101 --> 00:23:57,437
"Who painted the violets and the daffodils
294
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,732
"Said the next champ
gonna come from Louisville"
295
00:24:01,399 --> 00:24:04,944
Man, you're all right.
Crazy, just like me, spouting poetry.
296
00:24:05,028 --> 00:24:06,738
Put this one in your little bag.
297
00:24:06,821 --> 00:24:09,157
"When I start fighting
I'm going to be known
298
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,494
"as the greatest of them all
Because they all will fall
299
00:24:12,577 --> 00:24:14,162
"in the round I call"
300
00:24:14,245 --> 00:24:16,498
Why do you call the rounds on people?
301
00:24:16,581 --> 00:24:19,626
Well, I predict because it sells tickets.
Makes people come.
302
00:24:19,709 --> 00:24:22,545
How big is it for you
to win the Heavyweight Championship?
303
00:24:22,629 --> 00:24:24,798
I dream about it. I always dream about it.
304
00:24:24,881 --> 00:24:28,134
I dream about all the things
I've had to give up, up until now.
305
00:24:28,218 --> 00:24:30,804
All the ice cream, all the cake, all the pie.
306
00:24:30,887 --> 00:24:33,973
I dream about the things
I'll have to give up for that title.
307
00:24:34,057 --> 00:24:37,268
Mainly pretty women, man.
That's hard to pretty women.
308
00:24:37,352 --> 00:24:39,437
You're gonna give up the best part of life.
309
00:24:39,521 --> 00:24:42,607
Me and you should have been together
when you was 12 years old.
310
00:24:42,691 --> 00:24:45,985
What makes you think
little old Cassius Clay can beat the big...
311
00:24:46,069 --> 00:24:47,320
...bad Sonny Liston?
312
00:24:47,404 --> 00:24:49,322
'Cause you'll float like a butterfly...
313
00:24:49,406 --> 00:24:51,950
...and take his crown.
And you and I both know...
314
00:24:52,033 --> 00:24:53,910
...that he's headed for defeat.
315
00:24:53,993 --> 00:24:57,247
On that we both agree,
but there's only one thing:
316
00:24:57,497 --> 00:24:59,791
We have yet to get that chump in the ring.
317
00:24:59,874 --> 00:25:01,126
That's right, brother.
318
00:25:03,378 --> 00:25:04,838
You think I'm just talking...
319
00:25:04,921 --> 00:25:08,800
...you think I'm running my mouth,
but these two fighters in here are slow.
320
00:25:08,883 --> 00:25:11,094
They have no class, no speed, no skill.
321
00:25:11,177 --> 00:25:14,723
Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston
are not in my class.
322
00:25:14,806 --> 00:25:17,475
They're not fast enough,
and you've been robbed.
323
00:25:17,559 --> 00:25:18,685
You're wasting money.
324
00:25:18,768 --> 00:25:20,937
How can you have a title fight without me?
325
00:25:21,021 --> 00:25:23,189
They're ducking me.
They want to brush me off.
326
00:25:23,273 --> 00:25:25,817
They say I'm a loudmouth,
but you just wait.
327
00:25:25,900 --> 00:25:30,071
I'll show all of you, because in the future,
I'll whup Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson.
328
00:25:30,155 --> 00:25:33,283
I'll be crowned the greatest
heavyweight champion of all times.
329
00:25:33,366 --> 00:25:36,036
And there can be no title fight without me.
330
00:25:46,212 --> 00:25:48,006
Sonny Liston!
331
00:25:48,465 --> 00:25:52,218
Attention,
the true heavyweight champion is here!
332
00:25:52,552 --> 00:25:54,721
I've been looking for you all over!
333
00:25:54,804 --> 00:25:57,807
I want you to get all your money
off the craps table.
334
00:25:57,891 --> 00:26:01,811
I'll bet you, I'll whup you right now.
I'm too fast for you, sucker.
335
00:26:01,936 --> 00:26:04,898
I say you ain't nothing
picking Floyd Patterson.
336
00:26:04,981 --> 00:26:08,276
Well, why don't you face me,
since my mouth is so big?
337
00:26:08,485 --> 00:26:09,778
I'll destroy you.
338
00:26:09,861 --> 00:26:13,323
I bet you all the money you've got
right here, right now.
339
00:26:13,406 --> 00:26:15,408
Right now, I'll knock you out, sucker!
340
00:26:15,492 --> 00:26:18,745
Right here. Come on, sucker.
You hear me?
341
00:26:18,828 --> 00:26:23,208
This is Cassius Clay, the greatest fighter
in the history of all boxing!
342
00:26:23,333 --> 00:26:27,671
You are nothing!
You hear me, you gambling sucker?
343
00:26:27,837 --> 00:26:30,131
I'm talking to you.
You can't duck me forever.
344
00:26:30,215 --> 00:26:31,675
You can't duck me forever.
345
00:26:31,883 --> 00:26:33,802
You know who I am. Floyd Patterson.
346
00:26:33,885 --> 00:26:36,304
You knocked him out once.
You'll do it again.
347
00:26:36,388 --> 00:26:38,682
- I'm the one you don't want.
- You're a faggot.
348
00:26:38,848 --> 00:26:40,850
A faggot? I got something for you.
349
00:26:41,017 --> 00:26:42,936
I'll show you while everyone's watching.
350
00:26:43,019 --> 00:26:44,938
Never seen you with no ladies. Faggot.
351
00:26:45,021 --> 00:26:46,272
Don't see me with no ladies?
352
00:26:46,356 --> 00:26:49,192
You've two pretty ones there.
That's why you'll be whupped.
353
00:26:49,275 --> 00:26:52,070
Quit acting a fool.
You're embarrassing coloured folks.
354
00:26:52,153 --> 00:26:54,406
Embarrassing coloured folks?
As ugly as you are?
355
00:26:54,489 --> 00:26:57,826
You, the heavyweight champion,
representing us looking as you do.
356
00:26:57,909 --> 00:26:59,494
I'll tell you what I'll do.
357
00:26:59,577 --> 00:27:02,288
I'm giving you 24 hours
to saddle your horse up...
358
00:27:02,372 --> 00:27:03,998
...and ride out of Las Vegas.
359
00:27:04,082 --> 00:27:06,793
Saddle up your horse and be out of town.
360
00:27:20,056 --> 00:27:21,850
Is this the Daily News?
361
00:27:22,475 --> 00:27:25,770
Well, I'm a citizen who lives in Colorado.
362
00:27:25,979 --> 00:27:29,774
I just saw something
I'm sure you want to know about.
363
00:27:30,233 --> 00:27:32,235
Cassius Clay is in town.
364
00:27:33,069 --> 00:27:36,489
Yes, Cassius Clay! He's in town.
365
00:27:36,573 --> 00:27:40,243
I just saw a big red bus
with the name Cassius Clay...
366
00:27:40,326 --> 00:27:44,581
...painted on the bus and the sign says,
"The world's most colourful fighter. "
367
00:27:45,582 --> 00:27:46,666
Yes.
368
00:27:46,750 --> 00:27:50,086
I'm serious.
This is no crank call, it's no joke.
369
00:27:50,170 --> 00:27:51,880
Cassius Clay is in town.
370
00:27:51,963 --> 00:27:55,800
As a matter of fact,
I'm looking out the window now.
371
00:27:55,884 --> 00:27:58,470
He's outside Sonny Liston's house...
372
00:27:59,137 --> 00:28:01,556
...with a bunch of men on the bus.
373
00:28:02,599 --> 00:28:04,601
Yes, they were all coloured.
374
00:28:06,102 --> 00:28:10,357
Well, I don't like to say this,
but they are all niggers.
375
00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,235
Yes. It's going to be... Trouble?
376
00:28:14,611 --> 00:28:15,945
I don't really know.
377
00:28:16,029 --> 00:28:18,948
He's not here to play checkers.
So I'm calling you now.
378
00:28:19,157 --> 00:28:22,118
Call the police, or get the newspapers...
379
00:28:22,285 --> 00:28:24,079
...because you have a scoop.
380
00:28:24,621 --> 00:28:26,539
I've come to haunt you.
381
00:28:27,457 --> 00:28:29,334
I've come to haunt you.
382
00:28:30,752 --> 00:28:34,631
Sonny Liston, where do you live,
you big, ugly bear?
383
00:28:35,048 --> 00:28:36,549
You big, ugly bear.
384
00:28:36,633 --> 00:28:39,010
I know you're out here somewhere.
385
00:28:39,302 --> 00:28:41,012
You're no champion.
386
00:28:41,096 --> 00:28:44,641
I know you're in there somewhere.
Where you at, Sonny Liston?
387
00:28:44,808 --> 00:28:47,936
Come out of that house.
I know you're sleeping in here.
388
00:28:48,019 --> 00:28:50,563
I know you're in there somewhere,
all comfortable.
389
00:28:50,647 --> 00:28:53,191
Come out of your house, Sonny Liston.
390
00:28:53,858 --> 00:28:57,362
Come out of your house,
sleeping with all them rich folks.
391
00:28:57,445 --> 00:29:00,532
I'm here to get you.
You're trying to get some sleep...
392
00:29:00,657 --> 00:29:03,410
Get off my land! You black faggot bastard!
393
00:29:03,535 --> 00:29:04,994
- Who you calling...
- You!
394
00:29:05,578 --> 00:29:08,748
- You ugly sucker, you.
- Get that bus away from here.
395
00:29:08,832 --> 00:29:10,166
I've come to get you.
396
00:29:10,250 --> 00:29:11,584
Get away from here.
397
00:29:11,668 --> 00:29:13,003
Look at that savage.
398
00:29:13,086 --> 00:29:15,213
Get away from here. Off my land!
399
00:29:16,006 --> 00:29:18,633
Police, arrest that pervert!
400
00:29:19,009 --> 00:29:21,594
Look at that wild man!
401
00:29:21,678 --> 00:29:23,930
Hold that sucker.
402
00:29:24,014 --> 00:29:26,349
Get out of here.
403
00:29:26,433 --> 00:29:28,101
You know I'm the champion.
404
00:29:28,184 --> 00:29:30,895
Why don't you arrest that fool?
Get him off my property.
405
00:29:31,229 --> 00:29:32,897
When are you going to fight me?
406
00:29:32,981 --> 00:29:34,816
Faggot bastard.
407
00:29:35,108 --> 00:29:37,485
Why don't somebody do something?
408
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:40,739
What the hell is this?
409
00:29:40,822 --> 00:29:43,199
Ain't you ever seen one of those before?
410
00:29:43,283 --> 00:29:47,037
I know what it is. That's a bear trap.
411
00:29:58,214 --> 00:30:01,134
Al Carrara's here.
He's got a message from Sonny Liston.
412
00:30:01,301 --> 00:30:03,720
- Yeah, how you doing?
- How you doing?
413
00:30:03,887 --> 00:30:06,723
I was told to give you this message
if you won the fight.
414
00:30:06,806 --> 00:30:09,642
The champ wants you
to drink your orange juice and shakes.
415
00:30:09,726 --> 00:30:11,478
You're in a title bout.
416
00:30:11,561 --> 00:30:13,646
He hopes you can keep your mouth shut...
417
00:30:13,730 --> 00:30:17,609
...or he'll ram his fist down your throat.
It'll take a week to pull it out.
418
00:30:17,692 --> 00:30:19,652
I'll tell you what to do, message boy:
419
00:30:19,736 --> 00:30:24,366
You go back and tell him that I appreciate
the opportunity of fighting for my title...
420
00:30:24,616 --> 00:30:26,326
...'cause it's going to be mine.
421
00:30:26,409 --> 00:30:29,162
Also, tell him that after the fight,
don't worry...
422
00:30:29,245 --> 00:30:32,916
...because he will not be unemployed.
He can be my chief sparring partner.
423
00:30:32,999 --> 00:30:34,292
You go tell him that.
424
00:30:34,376 --> 00:30:35,877
- I'll see you.
- That's right.
425
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,714
Tell him that, message boy.
Be sure he gets mad.
426
00:31:55,373 --> 00:31:58,543
- Boy, you can ride a bike. How you doing?
- Fine, how are you?
427
00:31:58,710 --> 00:32:00,045
All right.
428
00:32:00,170 --> 00:32:03,214
- No, you. Ladies first. I forgot.
- No, after you, Mr. Clay.
429
00:32:03,298 --> 00:32:06,051
- You must be a lot thirstier than I am.
- No, I can wait.
430
00:32:06,134 --> 00:32:08,970
Mr. Clay? How do you...
Where do you know me from?
431
00:32:09,054 --> 00:32:10,305
Lots of places.
432
00:32:10,388 --> 00:32:12,766
No, the picture on your album,
The Greatest.
433
00:32:12,849 --> 00:32:16,269
That album cover The Greatest.
How many times have you heard that?
434
00:32:16,353 --> 00:32:20,440
About 6,000 times.
No, my kid brother keeps listening to it.
435
00:32:20,523 --> 00:32:21,608
Is that right?
436
00:32:21,691 --> 00:32:23,985
- Come on, ladies first.
- Thank you.
437
00:32:31,576 --> 00:32:33,578
You looking at something?
438
00:32:34,496 --> 00:32:37,707
No, I'm not looking at nothing.
Well, it's just your...
439
00:32:37,832 --> 00:32:41,878
- Anything special about my...
- No, nothing special. Well, it is...
440
00:32:41,961 --> 00:32:44,756
- Well, what I mean is...
- You don't sound at all sure...
441
00:32:44,839 --> 00:32:48,385
...about what you mean, Mr. Clay.
- Come on, let me have a drink.
442
00:32:48,468 --> 00:32:50,553
Go ahead, you take a drink.
443
00:32:53,932 --> 00:32:55,225
You know what?
444
00:32:56,643 --> 00:32:58,436
Yours looks pretty special, too.
445
00:32:59,896 --> 00:33:01,231
I'll tell you what.
446
00:33:01,314 --> 00:33:03,650
Don't waste time.
Just answer some questions.
447
00:33:03,733 --> 00:33:05,735
- Questions?
- Number one: What's your name?
448
00:33:05,819 --> 00:33:07,612
Number two: Where do you live?
449
00:33:07,696 --> 00:33:11,574
And number three: Can I pick you up
and take you out tonight?
450
00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:14,035
Well, my name is Ruby Sanderson.
451
00:33:14,411 --> 00:33:17,038
- Hold it. Repeat that.
- Ruby Sanderson.
452
00:33:17,372 --> 00:33:20,583
- I live at 411 South Poinsettia.
- 411.
453
00:33:21,334 --> 00:33:23,461
But I've already got a date.
454
00:33:23,586 --> 00:33:26,131
Well, whoever it is,
he can't be as nice as me.
455
00:33:26,506 --> 00:33:29,009
The sucker can't be as pretty as me.
456
00:33:29,092 --> 00:33:31,803
So why don't you find some way
to just drop him...
457
00:33:31,886 --> 00:33:33,555
...and cancel that date tonight?
458
00:33:33,638 --> 00:33:36,016
- Are you asking me to?
- Yeah, baby.
459
00:33:36,099 --> 00:33:38,101
- Then that's what it takes.
- Out of sight.
460
00:33:38,184 --> 00:33:39,686
- 8:00?
- 8:00.
461
00:33:39,769 --> 00:33:41,563
Be pretty. 'Cause I'll be pretty.
462
00:33:41,646 --> 00:33:43,940
- You are fine.
- All right. See you later.
463
00:33:44,149 --> 00:33:46,818
Be on time. Don't be too slow.
Women are always late.
464
00:33:47,193 --> 00:33:48,778
Especially you coloured girls.
465
00:34:00,582 --> 00:34:03,293
Jackie Robinson meant,
"Give me a place on your team...
466
00:34:03,376 --> 00:34:04,919
"... I'll show you I'm a nice guy. "
467
00:34:05,003 --> 00:34:07,589
A regular person,
only my skin is funny for him.
468
00:34:07,672 --> 00:34:09,632
Before long, you won't even notice that.
469
00:34:09,716 --> 00:34:12,552
That's what happened
because we have more black players...
470
00:34:12,635 --> 00:34:14,721
...now than ever.
- Lf we keep on...
471
00:34:14,804 --> 00:34:17,140
...depending on the goodness
of the man's heart...
472
00:34:17,223 --> 00:34:19,434
...second baseman is as far as we'll get.
473
00:34:19,517 --> 00:34:22,604
No majority ever gave the minority
a fare share without force.
474
00:34:22,687 --> 00:34:25,732
Force is something we can't really do
'cause we're not united.
475
00:34:25,815 --> 00:34:28,360
Once we unite, we will have that force.
476
00:34:28,777 --> 00:34:33,198
For each of them, there's two non-whites,
going on three. Don't forget that.
477
00:34:33,281 --> 00:34:36,117
That sounds a little different.
The "white minority. "
478
00:34:36,409 --> 00:34:38,995
They've got the power
but it's moving the other way...
479
00:34:39,079 --> 00:34:40,413
...that's what's important.
480
00:34:40,497 --> 00:34:42,916
Thanks to people like you,
everything'll be okay.
481
00:34:42,999 --> 00:34:45,043
- Salaam-Alaikum.
- Salaam. Thanks, brother.
482
00:34:45,126 --> 00:34:46,378
See you tomorrow.
483
00:35:09,567 --> 00:35:11,194
I saw who you were with.
484
00:35:11,778 --> 00:35:13,697
It was Malcolm X, wasn't it?
485
00:35:14,364 --> 00:35:16,074
Yes, sir, that's who it was.
486
00:35:20,203 --> 00:35:21,454
Cash...
487
00:35:22,330 --> 00:35:24,624
...all your life you've been training...
488
00:35:24,708 --> 00:35:28,586
...for one thing:
The World Heavyweight Championship.
489
00:35:28,670 --> 00:35:31,881
That's right, and I will be
the next world heavyweight champ.
490
00:35:31,965 --> 00:35:34,342
I go to bed thinking about it,
I dream about it.
491
00:35:34,426 --> 00:35:37,679
So, I mean, so what's...
Why are you bringing this up?
492
00:35:37,762 --> 00:35:40,515
Don't you realize
what the papers are going to do?
493
00:35:40,765 --> 00:35:44,644
They say Malcolm X is
the most dangerous man in America today.
494
00:35:44,728 --> 00:35:47,272
They say he's the most dangerous man
in the world...
495
00:35:47,355 --> 00:35:49,816
...but he walked up here by himself.
No bodyguards.
496
00:35:49,899 --> 00:35:53,445
I don't see no police. But he's
the most dangerous man in the world?
497
00:35:53,528 --> 00:35:55,989
Why are whites so afraid
of the name Malcolm X?
498
00:35:56,906 --> 00:35:59,200
I don't know, maybe it's his religion.
499
00:35:59,409 --> 00:36:01,995
Look, Angelo, when it comes to boxing,
you're the man.
500
00:36:02,203 --> 00:36:04,873
You're the sole reason
for me being where I'm at today.
501
00:36:04,998 --> 00:36:06,958
Why are you worried about religion?
502
00:36:07,042 --> 00:36:09,669
Take care of the boxing.
I'll worry about my religion.
503
00:36:09,753 --> 00:36:12,589
'Cause you already got a faith.
Why not stick with it?
504
00:36:12,672 --> 00:36:15,717
My faith, Christianity,
is the white man's faith.
505
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,470
Your Jesus is white.
Your angels are white.
506
00:36:18,553 --> 00:36:20,930
Your Lord's Supper is white.
Everything's white.
507
00:36:21,014 --> 00:36:24,100
I have to die before I go to heaven.
You have everything now.
508
00:36:24,184 --> 00:36:26,353
Let me worry about my religion.
509
00:36:26,436 --> 00:36:29,606
Champ, Bill McDonald is on the phone.
510
00:36:30,273 --> 00:36:34,194
He wants to see you down in his office.
I don't think he likes you no more.
511
00:36:34,277 --> 00:36:37,072
Now he's all upset.
He heard about Malcolm X.
512
00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:39,366
- What do you mean, he don't like me?
- Okay.
513
00:36:39,449 --> 00:36:42,952
He don't like nothing but money.
Whatever nigger can make some money.
514
00:36:43,036 --> 00:36:45,205
If Liston wins, then they'll be his nigger.
515
00:36:45,288 --> 00:36:47,499
- Look.
- What do I care about Bill McDonald?
516
00:36:47,582 --> 00:36:49,376
Wait a minute, just play it cool.
517
00:36:49,459 --> 00:36:52,712
Don't get aggravated
and don't get him aggravated.
518
00:36:52,796 --> 00:36:55,674
After all, there is a compromise,
for Christ's sake!
519
00:37:00,887 --> 00:37:03,306
All right, for Allah's sake.
520
00:37:03,723 --> 00:37:05,850
Okay, for Allah's sake.
521
00:37:06,851 --> 00:37:09,312
- All right. We'll make it.
- I love you.
522
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,983
You flew to New York last week
with Malcolm X?
523
00:37:14,442 --> 00:37:17,362
Visited a mosque
of the Nation of Islam there?
524
00:37:17,821 --> 00:37:20,615
You have two black Muslim
security guards in your camp...
525
00:37:20,699 --> 00:37:23,785
...and Muslim women cooking for you?
Why? I don't understand.
526
00:37:23,868 --> 00:37:26,663
What do you mean, why?
I don't eat pork no more.
527
00:37:26,746 --> 00:37:30,417
I'm going to accept the Islamic faith.
Malcolm X is a brother and friend.
528
00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:33,169
And I have cooking
who I want to cook at my house.
529
00:37:33,253 --> 00:37:36,423
- Malcolm X should be...
- I can go where I want with Malcolm X.
530
00:37:36,506 --> 00:37:39,217
Malcolm X and his family
are your guests here in Miami.
531
00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:43,013
That's right. What about it? He's a black.
He's my brother and friend.
532
00:37:43,096 --> 00:37:44,931
- I can do what I want.
- I want you...
533
00:37:45,015 --> 00:37:47,225
- Why am I explaining to you...
- Wait a minute!
534
00:37:47,308 --> 00:37:51,438
Listen. Fire the guards and the cooks.
Persuade Malcolm X to get out of town...
535
00:37:51,521 --> 00:37:54,691
...and go on radio and TV tonight
and tell the American people...
536
00:37:54,774 --> 00:37:56,901
...you have no connection
with the Muslims.
537
00:37:57,110 --> 00:38:00,864
Why? Just because of the fight?
Because I'm going to make some money?
538
00:38:00,947 --> 00:38:04,159
You think I'll deny the Muslim faith,
which I love and accept?
539
00:38:04,242 --> 00:38:06,870
You think I'm going to deny
Elijah Muhammad...
540
00:38:06,953 --> 00:38:09,330
...the great leader for black people
of America?
541
00:38:09,414 --> 00:38:11,541
- Deny Malcolm X?
- You're not Muslim yet.
542
00:38:11,624 --> 00:38:13,168
I'm going to be one.
543
00:38:13,251 --> 00:38:17,130
You're not one yet and you'll make
over $400,000 in this fight, plus the...
544
00:38:17,213 --> 00:38:19,966
I don't care about that.
You're making money, too.
545
00:38:20,050 --> 00:38:22,969
- You wouldn't be in on it.
- Listen to me. Listen.
546
00:38:23,053 --> 00:38:25,764
You have a chance to make millions
if you win the title.
547
00:38:25,847 --> 00:38:27,682
I'll compromise, if that's the case.
548
00:38:27,766 --> 00:38:31,978
I'm not going to deny my religion.
I won't run Malcolm X out of town.
549
00:38:32,062 --> 00:38:34,689
I'm not going to fire my cooks.
I'll stay quiet.
550
00:38:34,773 --> 00:38:36,816
I won't do nothing until the fight's over.
551
00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:39,319
That's no concession.
You're not giving up a thing.
552
00:38:39,402 --> 00:38:41,154
Make an announcement, or no fight.
553
00:38:41,237 --> 00:38:43,656
And you'll never get another chance
at the title.
554
00:38:43,740 --> 00:38:45,617
- Is that why I'm here?
- That's right.
555
00:38:45,700 --> 00:38:48,078
- I'll announce it right now...
- Announce what?
556
00:38:48,161 --> 00:38:51,706
...unless you tell me what you'll do.
- Here's what I'm not going to do.
557
00:38:51,790 --> 00:38:54,167
- I won't renounce my religion.
- You said that.
558
00:38:54,250 --> 00:38:56,753
Don't run off at the mouth, Cassius.
559
00:38:56,836 --> 00:39:00,048
- I'll call off the fight.
- Call the fight off. To hell with you.
560
00:39:08,348 --> 00:39:10,934
You'll get to meet my people
two days ahead of time.
561
00:39:11,017 --> 00:39:14,020
- They weren't coming till Friday.
- I want to meet your mother.
562
00:39:14,104 --> 00:39:16,773
Yes, she'd like to meet you, too.
563
00:39:20,151 --> 00:39:22,612
How do you know for sure,
when he put it to you...
564
00:39:22,696 --> 00:39:26,366
...you'd be giving all this up?
- When you think about it, it was simple.
565
00:39:26,449 --> 00:39:29,035
For me to turn down
what I believe in and my people...
566
00:39:29,119 --> 00:39:32,664
...the black people,
just to please white folks, to get this fight.
567
00:39:32,831 --> 00:39:36,334
In 10 or 15 years,
when I'm no longer fighting...
568
00:39:36,668 --> 00:39:40,213
...and the white has no more use for me,
and black people remember...
569
00:39:40,296 --> 00:39:43,883
...what I did and turn their backs on me,
then I'm really in trouble.
570
00:39:49,639 --> 00:39:51,683
- Hey, Cash!
- Yeah.
571
00:39:51,766 --> 00:39:54,936
- Angelo, what's up?
- Mr. McDonald wants to talk to you.
572
00:39:55,020 --> 00:39:57,814
Mr. McDonald, I'm surprised to see you.
573
00:39:58,314 --> 00:40:01,860
I thought about what you said,
about your right to your religious faith.
574
00:40:01,943 --> 00:40:04,988
- That's part of the American principle.
- Thank you.
575
00:40:05,071 --> 00:40:07,824
We don't want you to say anything
till after the fight.
576
00:40:07,907 --> 00:40:10,201
Right. Give a little, take a little, right?
577
00:40:10,744 --> 00:40:14,164
I'll see you tomorrow.
Everything is still on. Thank you.
578
00:40:15,999 --> 00:40:17,334
Quiet. Quiet, everyone.
579
00:40:17,751 --> 00:40:20,795
The heavyweight champion of the world,
Sonny Liston.
580
00:40:20,879 --> 00:40:23,131
Weighing 218 pounds.
581
00:40:25,508 --> 00:40:28,386
I'm the greatest fighter that ever lived.
582
00:40:28,470 --> 00:40:31,181
The world is going to find out tonight.
583
00:40:33,892 --> 00:40:36,936
Slip on out of here.
No telling what Clay's going to pull.
584
00:40:37,020 --> 00:40:40,398
No, I'm going to wait
on that faggot nigger.
585
00:40:40,815 --> 00:40:42,192
Give him my evil eye.
586
00:40:42,275 --> 00:40:44,778
Stare him down,
same way I done Patterson.
587
00:40:44,903 --> 00:40:48,573
I've come to destroy Sonny Liston.
Don't you also know how great I am?
588
00:40:48,698 --> 00:40:51,368
People say I'm just talking.
They call me a bigmouth.
589
00:40:51,451 --> 00:40:53,912
After this, you're going to see.
590
00:40:56,873 --> 00:40:58,124
I am the greatest.
591
00:40:58,208 --> 00:41:00,251
Tell the whole world. Tell them all.
592
00:41:00,335 --> 00:41:02,545
I'm the man. I'm the man.
593
00:41:03,213 --> 00:41:06,424
Tell the whole world I'm the champ.
I'll destroy that sucker.
594
00:41:11,805 --> 00:41:14,099
I'm the greatest. I'm the meanest.
595
00:41:14,766 --> 00:41:17,435
There he is. There he is.
596
00:41:17,519 --> 00:41:20,146
You don't scare me.
597
00:41:23,566 --> 00:41:25,485
I can't wait. I can't wait.
598
00:41:28,321 --> 00:41:30,448
I'm going to knock you out, sucker.
599
00:41:30,532 --> 00:41:32,575
I'm going to knock you out.
600
00:41:35,328 --> 00:41:38,915
I'm pretty. You're ugly.
You don't have a chance. You're too slow.
601
00:41:38,998 --> 00:41:41,001
Floyd Patterson was scared of you.
602
00:41:41,084 --> 00:41:44,170
Floyd Patterson was scared of you.
I'm not scared of you.
603
00:41:44,254 --> 00:41:47,173
- I don't care about your fist.
- Yes. That's right.
604
00:41:47,298 --> 00:41:49,759
- I'm not scared of you.
- You're a fag.
605
00:41:49,843 --> 00:41:51,094
A fag?
606
00:41:54,347 --> 00:41:56,516
- You ain't nothing!
- Sit down!
607
00:41:56,599 --> 00:41:57,892
You ain't nothing!
608
00:41:59,394 --> 00:42:01,479
You ain't nothing!
609
00:42:01,604 --> 00:42:04,441
'Cause I'm gonna kick your you-know-what.
610
00:42:04,524 --> 00:42:06,067
I'm gonna beat you.
611
00:42:06,276 --> 00:42:09,279
- Easy, easy.
- Your blood pressure.
612
00:42:09,362 --> 00:42:11,197
- Come on, doc.
- What is it?
613
00:42:11,281 --> 00:42:14,075
200 over 100 and his pulse is going wild.
614
00:42:14,159 --> 00:42:16,870
If his pressure doesn't go down,
there'll be no fight.
615
00:42:16,953 --> 00:42:18,830
Let's go. Get him out of there.
616
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,881
That's 120 over 80.
617
00:42:27,964 --> 00:42:31,009
Now, why did you do that, Cash?
You scared the hell out of us.
618
00:42:31,301 --> 00:42:36,097
I heard Liston wasn't scared of nothing.
As a matter of fact, he scares everybody.
619
00:42:36,181 --> 00:42:37,682
Everybody is scared of him.
620
00:42:37,766 --> 00:42:40,643
I figured if I act crazier
that would really scare him...
621
00:42:40,727 --> 00:42:43,229
...because you never know
what a nut's going to do.
622
00:42:43,313 --> 00:42:45,065
It scared you all, too.
623
00:42:46,149 --> 00:42:47,400
Clay puts a jab on the mouth.
624
00:42:47,484 --> 00:42:49,694
Another one-two.
A left and a right to the jaw.
625
00:42:49,778 --> 00:42:51,946
A right that grazes the chin
of Sonny Liston.
626
00:42:52,030 --> 00:42:55,367
Clay feints a left hand and gives a right
that goes over the head.
627
00:42:55,450 --> 00:42:58,620
Liston catches up with Clay,
and drives both hands to the body.
628
00:42:58,703 --> 00:43:02,499
He's hooking hard to the midsection.
For the first time, Liston looks alive.
629
00:43:02,582 --> 00:43:05,377
Clay is way ahead
as he drives a right hand to the jaw.
630
00:43:05,460 --> 00:43:07,253
Liston is puffing around the eye.
631
00:43:07,337 --> 00:43:10,048
Over in Liston's corner,
he's badly beaten up.
632
00:43:10,131 --> 00:43:13,551
They're applying ointment to the eye.
That right eye is very swollen.
633
00:43:13,635 --> 00:43:15,720
I doubt if Liston can continue.
634
00:43:15,804 --> 00:43:18,515
And if he cannot,
there will be a new champion.
635
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,850
No, Sonny Liston cannot continue.
636
00:43:21,017 --> 00:43:23,687
Cassius Clay is the champion
by a knockout...
637
00:43:23,812 --> 00:43:26,272
...as Liston cannot come out
for the second round.
638
00:43:26,356 --> 00:43:27,941
Clay does a victory dance.
639
00:43:28,024 --> 00:43:29,567
His handlers are jubilant.
640
00:43:29,651 --> 00:43:32,070
They're picking him up.
The crowd is going wild.
641
00:43:32,404 --> 00:43:35,448
Cassius Clay,
the heavyweight champion of the world...
642
00:43:35,532 --> 00:43:37,701
...and a beaten-up Sonny Liston.
643
00:43:38,410 --> 00:43:40,328
I am the greatest!
644
00:43:47,585 --> 00:43:50,046
When did you know
he wasn't coming back, Champ?
645
00:43:51,381 --> 00:43:54,259
Hold it. First things first.
646
00:43:55,051 --> 00:43:58,221
Now, listen, let's get it straight.
Just don't forget it.
647
00:43:58,388 --> 00:44:00,724
Sonny Liston was supposed to destroy me.
648
00:44:00,849 --> 00:44:02,434
How wrong all of you were.
649
00:44:02,517 --> 00:44:03,810
You got to admit it.
650
00:44:03,893 --> 00:44:07,439
You got to all bow
and tell me that I'm the greatest.
651
00:44:07,522 --> 00:44:09,858
That's right.
652
00:44:09,941 --> 00:44:12,235
I have another announcement
I have to make.
653
00:44:12,318 --> 00:44:16,531
The name Clay, Cassius Clay,
my name is no longer Cassius Clay.
654
00:44:18,575 --> 00:44:19,617
That's right.
655
00:44:19,701 --> 00:44:21,536
You've heard the rumours.
656
00:44:21,619 --> 00:44:23,830
I am a Muslim. That's my religion now.
657
00:44:23,913 --> 00:44:25,331
My religion is Islam...
658
00:44:25,415 --> 00:44:29,502
...and the Honourable Elijah Muhammad
has named me Muhammad Ali.
659
00:44:29,711 --> 00:44:31,046
You are a black Muslim?
660
00:44:31,296 --> 00:44:33,131
Black Muslim. It's just Muslim.
661
00:44:33,214 --> 00:44:36,676
We have white Muslims, brown, yellow.
We have all coloured Muslims.
662
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,553
We have different coloured Christians.
663
00:44:38,636 --> 00:44:41,389
You don't ask a man
if he's a black or white Christian.
664
00:44:41,473 --> 00:44:43,266
Another announcement I want to make.
665
00:44:43,350 --> 00:44:46,644
My manager is now the son
of the Honourable Elijah Muhammad.
666
00:44:46,770 --> 00:44:51,358
The Lowell sponsoring group
has allowed him to be my manager.
667
00:44:51,566 --> 00:44:55,695
Herbert Muhammad. Please meet him.
Could you come here, brother Herbert?
668
00:44:55,779 --> 00:44:59,449
From now on, he will be my adviser
and he will call the shots.
669
00:44:59,532 --> 00:45:00,950
He's a spiritual leader.
670
00:45:01,034 --> 00:45:03,870
I've a question.
What does he know about boxing, Cassius?
671
00:45:03,953 --> 00:45:06,081
And what about your Louisville sponsor?
672
00:45:06,164 --> 00:45:10,126
Do you think we're going to go along with
this black Muslim business?
673
00:45:10,210 --> 00:45:13,505
- You'll still be Cassius Clay to me.
- You want to keep me a slave.
674
00:45:13,588 --> 00:45:16,383
I'm known as Muhammad Ali.
Cassius Clay is dead.
675
00:45:16,466 --> 00:45:18,718
You, of all people, should know that.
676
00:45:18,802 --> 00:45:20,136
Why should I know that?
677
00:45:20,220 --> 00:45:22,722
Because there was your article
I read this morning.
678
00:45:22,806 --> 00:45:25,517
You said,
"Sonny Liston will murder Cassius Clay. "
679
00:45:57,632 --> 00:46:01,678
Boy, I got all the girlfriends tonight,
and all these ugly men.
680
00:46:20,113 --> 00:46:23,199
- Hey, Champ. How you feel, baby?
- I feel pretty good.
681
00:46:23,283 --> 00:46:25,035
Just a little hot and thirsty.
682
00:46:26,119 --> 00:46:30,623
- Could have a cold ginger ale or something.
- Okay, let's go.
683
00:46:35,670 --> 00:46:38,006
This dress.
I don't like these types of clothes.
684
00:46:38,089 --> 00:46:39,841
It's too short. Your chest's showing.
685
00:46:39,924 --> 00:46:42,844
I don't want you parading around here,
especially with me.
686
00:46:42,927 --> 00:46:44,971
Let me get a waiter to take care of it.
687
00:46:45,055 --> 00:46:48,141
I've been sitting here.
I'd like to get up and move around.
688
00:46:48,224 --> 00:46:50,643
Hold it. I said no. Just stay right here.
689
00:46:50,727 --> 00:46:53,021
- Let me get you a drink.
- Hold it.
690
00:46:53,104 --> 00:46:57,108
Why are you so anxious to run around
and find me a drink in this type of dress?
691
00:46:57,192 --> 00:47:00,028
Parading around with your legs out
and breasts showing.
692
00:47:00,111 --> 00:47:02,989
- You bought me this dress.
- I bought you the dress for me.
693
00:47:03,073 --> 00:47:04,574
For me and you. I told you.
694
00:47:04,657 --> 00:47:07,869
For me to watch around the house,
not for everyone here to see.
695
00:47:07,952 --> 00:47:10,538
I need a drink.
And it ain't going to be ginger ale.
696
00:47:44,155 --> 00:47:45,740
Get off of me!
697
00:47:49,577 --> 00:47:52,622
Come on, woman.
It looks like you might be crazy.
698
00:47:57,252 --> 00:47:58,712
- You make no sense.
- Stop it.
699
00:47:58,795 --> 00:48:01,589
It don't make no sense.
You'll dress like I tell you.
700
00:48:01,673 --> 00:48:05,135
You come with me. Get through here.
701
00:48:08,096 --> 00:48:09,889
How are you going to be my woman...
702
00:48:09,973 --> 00:48:13,268
...if everything you are doing
is embarrassing me tonight?
703
00:48:13,351 --> 00:48:15,812
My woman walking around
with her chest all out.
704
00:48:15,895 --> 00:48:18,898
Your knees all out
and your dress 5 inches over your legs...
705
00:48:18,982 --> 00:48:22,694
...with horny crackers and niggers
looking at you, drooling at the mouth.
706
00:48:22,777 --> 00:48:25,697
You bought the dress. You picked it out.
Let me out.
707
00:48:25,780 --> 00:48:29,826
Hold it. If it was just a dress,
it wouldn't be so bad. It ain't just a dress.
708
00:48:29,909 --> 00:48:31,911
Look at all that makeup on your face.
709
00:48:31,995 --> 00:48:34,831
You told me you were going to stop it.
Powder and rouge.
710
00:48:34,914 --> 00:48:37,751
- You're smoking, even took a drink.
- I don't belong to you.
711
00:48:37,834 --> 00:48:39,419
- We're not married.
- Come here.
712
00:48:39,502 --> 00:48:42,672
How you gonna be my wife?
What you're doing don't represent me.
713
00:48:42,839 --> 00:48:47,135
You're against my religion and everything.
I'll tell you what you're going to do.
714
00:48:47,218 --> 00:48:50,138
This dress is going to come down
2 inches over your knees.
715
00:48:50,221 --> 00:48:52,182
Let me out of here.
716
00:48:52,515 --> 00:48:55,143
Stop it, you're tearing it.
717
00:48:58,688 --> 00:49:00,857
Come back here!
You've got no clothes on!
718
00:49:07,405 --> 00:49:10,450
I explained to Mr. Muhammad
this contract gives his man...
719
00:49:10,533 --> 00:49:14,746
...20 percent of all ancillary rights,
including closed-circuit television.
720
00:49:14,829 --> 00:49:18,041
I told him there was a bonus
of $50,000 for him personally...
721
00:49:18,124 --> 00:49:20,460
...the day the Champ signs the deal.
722
00:49:20,669 --> 00:49:23,088
Mr. Muhammad said, "Not enough money. "
723
00:49:24,172 --> 00:49:26,466
All right, so we agreed already.
724
00:49:26,883 --> 00:49:28,927
We'll make him a final offer.
725
00:49:29,177 --> 00:49:30,428
$75,000.
726
00:49:30,512 --> 00:49:33,098
If you're going to give me
that much money...
727
00:49:33,515 --> 00:49:36,059
...for my fighter to take 20 percent...
728
00:49:37,936 --> 00:49:41,398
...you really ought to give him 40.
729
00:49:42,565 --> 00:49:45,568
- You're crazy.
- No way. That can't happen.
730
00:49:46,027 --> 00:49:47,737
Better than that...
731
00:49:48,279 --> 00:49:52,909
...is to cut out all of you middlemen,
start our own ancillary company...
732
00:49:54,202 --> 00:49:55,995
...and give him 50 percent.
733
00:49:56,871 --> 00:49:58,623
I wouldn't try that.
734
00:49:59,833 --> 00:50:04,546
You don't know it, gentlemen,
but almost every black fighter...
735
00:50:04,629 --> 00:50:08,091
...in the history of boxing, ended up broke.
736
00:50:09,676 --> 00:50:12,762
That is not going to happen
to Muhammad Ali.
737
00:50:28,486 --> 00:50:33,116
Maybe you don't know my reputation,
Mr. Muhammad, as a prophet.
738
00:50:34,242 --> 00:50:37,370
So many times I've said,
something terrible...
739
00:50:37,454 --> 00:50:40,123
...is going to happen to a particular fellow.
740
00:50:40,957 --> 00:50:44,127
And what do you think happens?
He comes to grief.
741
00:50:46,129 --> 00:50:49,966
That's very interesting, Mr. Curtis.
You see...
742
00:50:52,635 --> 00:50:55,180
...because I'm a bit of a psychic myself.
743
00:50:55,638 --> 00:51:00,101
And I'm predicting that if any grief comes
to anyone I know...
744
00:51:00,977 --> 00:51:05,982
...there's going to be twice as much
of the same to whoever caused it.
745
00:51:17,077 --> 00:51:18,995
Do you know you've been reclassified
in the draft?
746
00:51:19,079 --> 00:51:22,165
No, sir. All I know is
the last they had me pretty dumb.
747
00:51:22,248 --> 00:51:24,042
I was classified 1Y.
748
00:51:24,501 --> 00:51:27,379
That's because you flunked
the intelligence test, right?
749
00:51:27,462 --> 00:51:28,421
I flunked it.
750
00:51:28,505 --> 00:51:31,758
I told you all I was the greatest.
Never said I was the smartest.
751
00:51:31,841 --> 00:51:32,801
Right.
752
00:51:32,884 --> 00:51:36,262
They've got you reclassified 1A,
which means you can be inducted.
753
00:51:36,346 --> 00:51:37,597
Ain't that something?
754
00:51:37,681 --> 00:51:41,226
That shows you how wise they are
to reclassify me, switch me to 1A...
755
00:51:41,309 --> 00:51:42,560
...without a test.
756
00:51:42,644 --> 00:51:46,231
Maybe they got heavy mail about why
you're not over there doing your job.
757
00:51:46,314 --> 00:51:49,442
How would you feel about that?
Being sent to Vietnam?
758
00:51:49,526 --> 00:51:52,028
Don't feel nothing. I'm not excited at all.
759
00:51:52,112 --> 00:51:54,823
You're not interested in going
to fight for freedom?
760
00:51:54,906 --> 00:51:57,992
Fight for freedom? Whose freedom?
I'm not free right here.
761
00:51:58,076 --> 00:51:59,869
We've places on Miami Beach I can't go.
762
00:51:59,953 --> 00:52:03,164
- My people aren't free. Fighting for who?
- Fighting the enemy.
763
00:52:03,248 --> 00:52:06,001
Whose enemy?
The Vietcong never called me no nigger.
764
00:52:06,084 --> 00:52:07,544
They're your enemy, not mine.
765
00:52:07,627 --> 00:52:08,837
Niggers ain't crazy.
766
00:52:09,379 --> 00:52:11,715
Incredible, totally incredible.
767
00:52:12,549 --> 00:52:16,553
Sport's personality, now page one,
newspapers throughout the world...
768
00:52:16,636 --> 00:52:18,179
...radio, and TV.
769
00:52:18,304 --> 00:52:20,098
He fought them one at a time.
770
00:52:20,181 --> 00:52:22,892
Maybe the pound for pound
greatest in history.
771
00:52:22,976 --> 00:52:27,188
Now he challenges the policy,
if not the conscience, of the nation.
772
00:52:27,897 --> 00:52:30,025
Sam Geisen, for News Center.
773
00:52:31,109 --> 00:52:32,736
Now they've reclassified you 1A...
774
00:52:32,819 --> 00:52:35,155
...which means
you can be inducted at any time.
775
00:52:35,238 --> 00:52:38,158
That shows you how wise they are
to reclassify me 1A...
776
00:52:38,241 --> 00:52:39,868
...without even checking me out.
777
00:52:39,951 --> 00:52:43,496
Maybe they got heavy mail about why
you're not over there doing your job.
778
00:52:43,580 --> 00:52:47,334
How would you feel about that?
Being sent to Vietnam?
779
00:52:47,417 --> 00:52:48,501
How would I feel?
780
00:52:48,585 --> 00:52:50,170
I haven't even thought about it.
781
00:52:50,253 --> 00:52:51,671
Can I have a little service?
782
00:52:51,755 --> 00:52:54,549
You're not interested in going there
to fight for freedom?
783
00:52:54,632 --> 00:52:55,800
Fight for freedom?
784
00:52:55,884 --> 00:52:58,386
Who wants to hear that loudmouth,
Muhammad Ali?
785
00:52:58,470 --> 00:53:00,472
You can't talk that way about...
786
00:53:01,765 --> 00:53:04,476
Surprised you! Tricked you, didn't I?
787
00:53:05,143 --> 00:53:07,937
- I'm sorry.
- No, that's all right. Don't be sorry.
788
00:53:08,021 --> 00:53:11,608
I like your spirit.
What I'd like right now is some service.
789
00:53:13,777 --> 00:53:15,111
What can I do for you?
790
00:53:15,195 --> 00:53:17,364
Well, you know I'm new in town, right?
791
00:53:17,447 --> 00:53:20,200
I don't know my way around.
I don't know nobody.
792
00:53:20,283 --> 00:53:22,911
Well, to tell you the truth, I'm lonely.
793
00:53:25,747 --> 00:53:28,291
- A man like you, lonely.
- "A man like you, lonely. "
794
00:53:28,375 --> 00:53:32,879
You figure because I'm Muhammad Ali,
nice looking, I have everything I want:
795
00:53:32,962 --> 00:53:36,341
Parties, women,
just everything waiting for me, right?
796
00:53:37,467 --> 00:53:39,636
- Something like that.
- Well, it's not so.
797
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:42,806
And then it is so.
I don't have too much trouble...
798
00:53:42,972 --> 00:53:45,600
...but I don't appreciate things
that come too easy.
799
00:53:45,684 --> 00:53:49,312
I was just walking across the street,
I saw this pretty sister over here.
800
00:53:49,396 --> 00:53:51,940
I thought I would just come
over here and...
801
00:53:53,108 --> 00:53:55,652
What I'm really trying to say, sister...
802
00:53:56,861 --> 00:53:58,947
Do you know what I really want?
803
00:54:03,451 --> 00:54:04,953
Some cupcakes?
804
00:54:09,541 --> 00:54:12,252
We have... Our specialty is bean pie.
805
00:54:12,335 --> 00:54:14,421
And we have carrot cake and...
806
00:54:14,504 --> 00:54:16,464
...everything here is freshly baked.
807
00:54:16,548 --> 00:54:19,467
Well, if that's the case,
I'll take some bean pie.
808
00:54:20,051 --> 00:54:22,095
I'll take some cupcakes.
809
00:54:22,345 --> 00:54:24,222
I'll take some carrot cake...
810
00:54:24,305 --> 00:54:27,976
...and most of all,
I'll take you out to dinner tonight.
811
00:54:34,941 --> 00:54:37,360
I can't go out to dinner with you.
812
00:54:38,862 --> 00:54:39,988
I mean...
813
00:54:40,864 --> 00:54:42,866
...you'd have to ask my parents.
814
00:54:43,199 --> 00:54:46,619
I've already done that.
I've already asked your parents.
815
00:54:46,703 --> 00:54:49,330
I've talked to them already.
I figured you'd say that.
816
00:54:49,414 --> 00:54:51,541
So I'm a step ahead of you.
817
00:54:51,958 --> 00:54:53,335
You know my parents?
818
00:54:53,418 --> 00:54:57,297
I know your parents, I know you.
I've watched you at the mosque.
819
00:54:57,380 --> 00:54:59,341
I saw you at the religious services.
820
00:54:59,424 --> 00:55:03,887
I even talked to your father,
met your mother. I even know your name.
821
00:55:06,348 --> 00:55:08,183
What's my name?
822
00:55:09,351 --> 00:55:11,478
Your name is Belinda, right?
823
00:55:19,527 --> 00:55:21,321
Well, what did they say?
824
00:55:21,404 --> 00:55:23,656
They told me that I'd have to watch it...
825
00:55:23,740 --> 00:55:27,327
...your father said,
because you're still kind of young, yet.
826
00:55:32,707 --> 00:55:34,334
What did you say?
827
00:55:34,584 --> 00:55:37,003
I said to him I realize you're young.
828
00:55:37,087 --> 00:55:39,923
I can wait a few days.
You're gonna get older.
829
00:55:40,006 --> 00:55:44,427
But, you're so big for your size,
I told him I hope you stop growing.
830
00:56:06,116 --> 00:56:07,575
They're fighting.
831
00:56:08,785 --> 00:56:10,578
He hit that woman.
832
00:56:10,662 --> 00:56:12,497
- What's that?
- Look.
833
00:56:39,024 --> 00:56:41,735
Can anybody tell me
how I can stay out of jail?
834
00:56:41,818 --> 00:56:45,030
Well, you gotta make that first step
to find out.
835
00:56:45,155 --> 00:56:47,407
"Kiss ass, kiss ass, nigger man,"
they holler.
836
00:56:47,490 --> 00:56:50,535
- Nigger was yesterday.
- What did Herbert say?
837
00:56:50,618 --> 00:56:53,413
Herbert said I can take the step
or not take the step.
838
00:56:53,496 --> 00:56:55,081
It's up to me.
839
00:56:55,165 --> 00:56:58,752
Herbert is my conscience.
Herbert had two brothers...
840
00:56:58,918 --> 00:57:02,380
...three brothers that went to jail
for not going into the Army.
841
00:57:02,464 --> 00:57:05,300
- I'll wait for you here.
- Good luck, Ali.
842
00:57:06,384 --> 00:57:09,971
Line up in alphabetical order.
First four in front and so forth.
843
00:57:13,183 --> 00:57:16,978
"You're about to be inducted into
the Armed Forces of the United States...
844
00:57:17,062 --> 00:57:20,899
"... in the Army, the Navy,
the Marine Corps, or the Air Force...
845
00:57:21,149 --> 00:57:25,028
"... as indicated by the service announced
following your name when called.
846
00:57:25,111 --> 00:57:28,448
"You will take one step forward
as your name and service are called.
847
00:57:28,531 --> 00:57:33,661
"And such a step will constitute
your induction into the service indicated.
848
00:57:36,039 --> 00:57:38,375
"John Allen, Navy.
849
00:57:40,877 --> 00:57:43,046
"James Austin, Army.
850
00:57:45,632 --> 00:57:47,550
"Louis Cerrato, Army.
851
00:57:52,263 --> 00:57:54,432
"Cassius Clay, Army.
852
00:57:59,020 --> 00:58:00,647
"Cassius Clay, Army. "
853
00:58:03,942 --> 00:58:06,945
Please step forward
and be inducted into the Armed Forces...
854
00:58:07,028 --> 00:58:09,322
...of the United States.
855
00:58:21,668 --> 00:58:23,253
Follow me, please.
856
00:58:29,050 --> 00:58:30,635
"Lyle Cornels... "
857
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:34,472
- Sit down, young man.
- Yes, sir.
858
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,562
You'll have another chance
in a few minutes to reconsider...
859
00:58:40,645 --> 00:58:43,648
...and be inducted.
You'll go back, they'll call your name...
860
00:58:43,732 --> 00:58:46,443
...and they'll tell you once again
to take that step.
861
00:58:46,526 --> 00:58:50,572
Well, sir, I'd rather not do that
'cause it'd just be wasting everyone's time.
862
00:58:50,655 --> 00:58:53,867
It's not a waste of time.
It's standard procedure.
863
00:58:54,534 --> 00:58:57,245
There are a few things
that I would like to tell you...
864
00:58:57,328 --> 00:58:59,622
...before you get that second chance.
865
00:58:59,748 --> 00:59:03,668
The first is that your legal defence
is ridiculous.
866
00:59:03,793 --> 00:59:07,589
I'm a lawyer in civilian life,
and your claim to be an Islamic minister...
867
00:59:07,672 --> 00:59:09,341
...is just silly.
868
00:59:09,424 --> 00:59:12,761
So is your case on the grounds
of your own religious convictions.
869
00:59:12,844 --> 00:59:15,430
Lots of your fellow Muslims
are in the Army now.
870
00:59:15,513 --> 00:59:18,767
Public opinion is going to be
much rougher on you because...
871
00:59:18,850 --> 00:59:22,395
...of the special rewards and the privileges
that you've had.
872
00:59:23,313 --> 00:59:26,191
They're not going to be satisfied
to see you in a dungeon.
873
00:59:26,274 --> 00:59:28,485
They're going to want your blood.
874
00:59:29,402 --> 00:59:32,280
Excuse me, Major,
I couldn't resist butting in.
875
00:59:34,741 --> 00:59:38,036
How do you do? I'm Colonel Cedrich.
Sit down, please.
876
00:59:38,161 --> 00:59:42,665
First thing my kid'll ask me tonight is,
"Did I talk to the Champ?"
877
00:59:43,041 --> 00:59:46,753
You know, I saw both the Terrell
and the Williams fights, and...
878
00:59:46,836 --> 00:59:49,089
...Patterson in Las Vegas, the year before.
879
00:59:49,172 --> 00:59:53,176
We were just talking about what it means
to resist induction.
880
00:59:54,177 --> 00:59:59,057
Have you talked about what it means
to accept for a man of Mr. Ali's talents?
881
01:00:00,266 --> 01:00:02,769
I wonder if you realize
how unlikely it would be...
882
01:00:02,852 --> 01:00:05,897
...for the Army to send you
as a combat soldier to Vietnam.
883
01:00:05,980 --> 01:00:07,732
If we draft a chemistry professor...
884
01:00:07,816 --> 01:00:11,569
...we don't put him into a combat
infantry unit with a rifle in his hands.
885
01:00:11,653 --> 01:00:14,739
- And we wouldn't put a rifle in your hands.
- Of course not.
886
01:00:14,823 --> 01:00:17,117
Morale is very important to us.
887
01:00:17,242 --> 01:00:19,953
And sports are very important for morale.
888
01:00:20,578 --> 01:00:23,415
Do you know what Sergeant Joe Lewis did
in World War II?
889
01:00:23,498 --> 01:00:25,667
Yes, sir. I think he boxed exhibitions...
890
01:00:25,750 --> 01:00:28,837
...did personal appearances,
and things like that.
891
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:30,296
Right.
892
01:00:30,380 --> 01:00:33,174
Now, there are no guarantees,
but you can be quite sure...
893
01:00:33,258 --> 01:00:35,802
...that's what you'll be doing
after basic training.
894
01:00:35,885 --> 01:00:39,180
We'd be crazy to use you
where you don't have the most value.
895
01:00:39,264 --> 01:00:42,350
Value for who?
I mean everybody knows where I stand.
896
01:00:42,434 --> 01:00:44,102
I'm against the war in Vietnam.
897
01:00:44,185 --> 01:00:46,688
I've said to the press
I don't think black people...
898
01:00:46,771 --> 01:00:49,107
...should go to Vietnam and fight Asians...
899
01:00:49,190 --> 01:00:52,235
...who've never lynched us,
raped us, called us "niggers"...
900
01:00:52,318 --> 01:00:55,947
...deprived us of freedom, justice, equality,
for the same white man...
901
01:00:56,031 --> 01:00:58,158
...who's not freeing us here in America.
902
01:00:58,241 --> 01:01:01,453
My conscience won't allow me to go.
However, I won't have to go.
903
01:01:01,536 --> 01:01:05,665
You offer me deals where I probably
won't have to fight or I could have it easy...
904
01:01:05,749 --> 01:01:08,335
...or do like Joe Lewis.
But still, you're using me...
905
01:01:08,418 --> 01:01:12,005
...to lead people to the service,
which is leading them to the slaughter.
906
01:01:12,088 --> 01:01:14,215
And my conscience will still bother me.
907
01:01:14,299 --> 01:01:16,468
Sir, I'd just rather go to jail.
908
01:01:20,805 --> 01:01:23,850
...sentences you to five years in prison
and a $10,000 fine.
909
01:01:26,478 --> 01:01:28,438
Come to order, please.
910
01:01:28,605 --> 01:01:30,440
Bail to be continued.
911
01:01:33,193 --> 01:01:35,195
We plan to appeal, Your Honour.
912
01:01:35,487 --> 01:01:37,947
You made that clear, Mr. Eskridge.
913
01:01:38,531 --> 01:01:40,200
Court is adjourned.
914
01:01:40,283 --> 01:01:41,910
All rise, please.
915
01:01:50,085 --> 01:01:51,836
Come on now, don't worry.
916
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:55,632
We have at least two years,
the attorney told me, before the appeal.
917
01:01:56,466 --> 01:01:59,094
What if you lose?
You'll spend five years in prison.
918
01:01:59,469 --> 01:02:03,056
If we lose that's the will of Allah.
We'll just get used to it.
919
01:02:03,139 --> 01:02:07,310
Anyway, you haven't gone to Las Vegas
and you haven't gone to Hawaii.
920
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:09,562
You haven't gone to Miami.
921
01:02:09,646 --> 01:02:11,940
And just let it stay like that.
922
01:02:12,190 --> 01:02:15,860
Attorney, you are my legal adviser
on legal affairs.
923
01:02:16,569 --> 01:02:19,698
I don't need no legal advice
on where to have honeymoons.
924
01:02:19,781 --> 01:02:24,119
You're going to pay with credit cards?
Well, just let me have a look at them.
925
01:02:27,664 --> 01:02:30,417
- Yeah, there you go.
- I don't understand.
926
01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:32,627
Is that all of them? Got any more in there?
927
01:02:32,711 --> 01:02:35,547
No. That's it.
You think they're not up-to-date?
928
01:02:35,672 --> 01:02:37,340
They're fine, they're fine.
929
01:02:37,424 --> 01:02:39,426
Why did you put them in your pocket?
930
01:02:39,509 --> 01:02:43,346
Do you know how much it'll cost
to take this case to the Supreme Court?
931
01:02:43,430 --> 01:02:46,433
- We never talked about fees.
- Fees can always be deferred.
932
01:02:46,516 --> 01:02:48,226
I'm talking about court costs.
933
01:02:48,309 --> 01:02:51,604
- How much are you talking about?
- How much do you have in the bank?
934
01:02:51,688 --> 01:02:54,357
Well, you need that and a lot more.
Believe me.
935
01:02:54,733 --> 01:02:56,526
Excuse us, please.
936
01:03:03,908 --> 01:03:05,452
Are you still number one?
937
01:03:05,535 --> 01:03:08,705
Lt'll all be going out,
and nothing coming in to live on.
938
01:03:09,205 --> 01:03:13,585
You made it to the top, but it's as steep
going down as it was coming up...
939
01:03:13,668 --> 01:03:15,337
...and a hell of a lot faster.
940
01:03:15,420 --> 01:03:17,672
You got to get used to another kind of life.
941
01:03:17,756 --> 01:03:21,760
I don't care about that.
I've been broke longer than I've been rich.
942
01:03:21,885 --> 01:03:24,888
- I mean, I can adjust to that.
- We'll see.
943
01:03:28,641 --> 01:03:32,270
I mean, in just the last few days
things have changed.
944
01:03:32,687 --> 01:03:34,773
The conditions are changed.
945
01:03:35,315 --> 01:03:37,525
It's still the same for me. Isn't it for you?
946
01:03:37,609 --> 01:03:41,154
How can it be when I'm not the champion?
They took my title.
947
01:03:41,321 --> 01:03:43,406
I don't want you for your title.
948
01:03:44,741 --> 01:03:46,493
I appreciate that, and I know it.
949
01:03:46,576 --> 01:03:49,913
But if I'm not the champion,
I have no source of income.
950
01:03:49,996 --> 01:03:52,665
This whole marriage thing,
you'd better reconsider.
951
01:03:52,749 --> 01:03:55,001
Maybe it's something
you don't want to do.
952
01:03:55,085 --> 01:03:57,754
I've already made my mind up
what I want to do.
953
01:03:58,004 --> 01:04:00,799
So, the rest is left up to you.
954
01:04:01,091 --> 01:04:04,844
I'm not winning no popularity contest.
I'm a draft resistor.
955
01:04:05,261 --> 01:04:07,347
"The nigger won't serve his country.
956
01:04:07,430 --> 01:04:10,767
"He's against the Vietnam war.
He's not patriotic. "
957
01:04:10,892 --> 01:04:15,647
How do we know some redneck cracker
won't try to do something to harm us...
958
01:04:15,772 --> 01:04:19,567
...and the family, thinking it's patriotic
on America's part, or something?
959
01:04:20,110 --> 01:04:21,569
Well, you know what?
960
01:04:21,861 --> 01:04:25,824
It might be too dangerous,
so I think that I'd just better take another...
961
01:04:25,907 --> 01:04:29,494
Hold it, hold it now.
It ain't that serious. Now come here.
962
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:33,540
Maybe I'm putting too much emphasis.
I'm not trying to scare you.
963
01:04:33,623 --> 01:04:37,168
Now, do you really want me to tell you
what I think you should do?
964
01:04:37,377 --> 01:04:38,753
Yeah.
965
01:04:39,004 --> 01:04:41,339
Well, if you take the good with the bad...
966
01:04:41,423 --> 01:04:45,343
...add it all up, if I were you,
I would marry me.
967
01:04:50,557 --> 01:04:53,560
Hold it.
Give me just a little kiss on the lip.
968
01:04:54,310 --> 01:04:57,522
Come on now, pretty girl,
you can just give me a kiss on the lip.
969
01:04:57,605 --> 01:05:00,942
I don't want to wait until we marry
to find out what a kiss is like.
970
01:05:01,026 --> 01:05:04,154
Just something light. Not serious.
971
01:05:07,699 --> 01:05:09,409
Thank you.
972
01:05:10,952 --> 01:05:13,913
I'm glad you made the right decision for us.
973
01:05:13,997 --> 01:05:15,165
I hope so.
974
01:05:16,958 --> 01:05:20,670
Muhammad Ali,
would you take this beautiful lady...
975
01:05:20,754 --> 01:05:22,964
...Miss Belinda Board...
976
01:05:23,131 --> 01:05:27,093
...to be your lawful wedded wife?
If so, will you say, "I do. "
977
01:05:27,552 --> 01:05:28,845
I do.
978
01:05:29,179 --> 01:05:31,765
In New York, Joe Frazier
knocked out Buster Mathis...
979
01:05:31,848 --> 01:05:34,017
...in the 11th round.
With Muhammad Ali now...
980
01:05:34,100 --> 01:05:38,229
...out of the picture, it means that in
New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Illinois...
981
01:05:38,313 --> 01:05:41,441
...Texas and Pennsylvania,
Joe Frazier's now recognised...
982
01:05:41,524 --> 01:05:44,027
...as the heavyweight champion
of the world.
983
01:05:44,486 --> 01:05:47,113
Some world. Six states.
984
01:05:48,198 --> 01:05:50,867
And the main reason
I didn't go to Vietnam...
985
01:05:51,034 --> 01:05:53,203
...is because of my religious beliefs.
986
01:05:53,286 --> 01:05:55,747
My religion teaches me
not to take the lives...
987
01:05:55,830 --> 01:05:59,376
...of other humans,
and that is the Islamic, Muslim religion.
988
01:05:59,542 --> 01:06:02,545
The Islamic religion
has no colour distinction...
989
01:06:02,629 --> 01:06:05,715
...as all religions shouldn't have
a colour distinction.
990
01:06:05,882 --> 01:06:11,012
All people are God's people, for all souls
are nearer and dearer to the Creator.
991
01:06:30,407 --> 01:06:32,033
He's coming back.
992
01:06:33,284 --> 01:06:35,704
Ellis won the decision in 15 rounds.
993
01:06:35,787 --> 01:06:38,623
That, according to
the World Boxing Association...
994
01:06:38,707 --> 01:06:41,167
...makes him
the new heavyweight champion.
995
01:06:43,586 --> 01:06:47,674
That shows how great my hometown is,
Louisville, Kentucky.
996
01:06:47,757 --> 01:06:51,678
Who would believe that we would have
two world heavyweight champions...
997
01:06:51,761 --> 01:06:53,388
...at the same time?
998
01:06:54,472 --> 01:06:58,351
Cancellation of his passport
has made it impossible for my client...
999
01:06:58,435 --> 01:07:00,020
...to earn his living.
1000
01:07:00,103 --> 01:07:03,314
But for the proposed fight with Frazier
in Toronto...
1001
01:07:03,398 --> 01:07:05,358
...he doesn't need a passport...
1002
01:07:05,442 --> 01:07:10,196
...only the permission of the court
to drive 75 miles across the border...
1003
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:12,657
...for a mere 18 hours.
1004
01:07:13,116 --> 01:07:15,618
For this, we propose to post a bond...
1005
01:07:15,952 --> 01:07:19,372
...of $100,000 to insure his return...
1006
01:07:20,123 --> 01:07:25,378
...plus 70 percent of the purse in escrow
against any income tax claims.
1007
01:07:27,213 --> 01:07:30,467
And as many marshals
as the government deems necessary...
1008
01:07:31,217 --> 01:07:34,804
...to ride in his car, both ways,
and sit in his dressing room.
1009
01:07:34,888 --> 01:07:37,390
May it please the court,
the government objects...
1010
01:07:37,474 --> 01:07:39,225
...very strongly to this proposal.
1011
01:07:39,309 --> 01:07:44,147
- To grant a felon the same rights...
- The district court, in my home city...
1012
01:07:44,397 --> 01:07:47,067
...has just granted Abbie Hoffman,
a white defendant...
1013
01:07:47,150 --> 01:07:50,445
...also appealing a five-year sentence
in the Chicago Eight Case...
1014
01:07:50,528 --> 01:07:53,531
...the permission to leave this country
for 26 days...
1015
01:07:53,948 --> 01:07:55,742
...and to go to Cuba, Your Honour.
1016
01:07:55,825 --> 01:07:58,870
Hoffman isn't planning to earn
$1 million on his trip.
1017
01:07:58,953 --> 01:08:01,706
Objection. That's completely irrelevant.
1018
01:08:01,873 --> 01:08:03,667
Objection sustained.
1019
01:08:04,834 --> 01:08:06,461
Petition denied.
1020
01:08:08,630 --> 01:08:11,883
If I were you,
I wouldn't even think about retiring.
1021
01:08:12,175 --> 01:08:15,679
You see, 'cause you've still got boxing
in your blood.
1022
01:08:15,762 --> 01:08:18,056
That's why I called this meeting.
1023
01:08:18,139 --> 01:08:20,308
Herb, I'm glad you did,
because you're right.
1024
01:08:20,392 --> 01:08:23,103
I do have boxing in my blood,
and I want to fight again.
1025
01:08:23,186 --> 01:08:24,354
I know.
1026
01:08:24,437 --> 01:08:27,941
Where would you like to have
your first comeback fight?
1027
01:08:29,192 --> 01:08:30,902
Name a state.
1028
01:08:32,529 --> 01:08:35,240
- How does Georgia sound to you?
- Georgia?
1029
01:08:35,907 --> 01:08:38,410
- Me in Georgia?
- Governor Lester Maddox?
1030
01:08:38,785 --> 01:08:41,871
The mayor of Atlanta is a Jewish liberal...
1031
01:08:41,955 --> 01:08:45,166
...who was elected with the support
of a black state senator...
1032
01:08:45,250 --> 01:08:46,668
...named Leroy Johnson.
1033
01:08:46,751 --> 01:08:51,339
And Mr. Maddox needs the help
of both of them in order to function.
1034
01:08:51,464 --> 01:08:55,719
So, Mr. Maddox went on the air
about half an hour ago...
1035
01:08:56,219 --> 01:09:00,432
...in order to tell the world how he feels
about an Ali fight in Georgia.
1036
01:09:03,268 --> 01:09:04,686
Do you mind?
1037
01:09:06,438 --> 01:09:07,605
Hello.
1038
01:09:08,356 --> 01:09:10,358
No, this is Angelo Dundee.
1039
01:09:11,067 --> 01:09:12,819
Go ahead, I'll hang on.
1040
01:09:12,902 --> 01:09:14,738
You mean to tell me that...
1041
01:09:14,821 --> 01:09:17,323
...we might get Joe Frazier after all?
1042
01:09:17,824 --> 01:09:19,576
Go ahead, I got it.
1043
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:21,703
Right.
1044
01:09:23,246 --> 01:09:25,081
Right, I got you.
1045
01:09:25,790 --> 01:09:27,751
Thank you.
1046
01:09:28,251 --> 01:09:31,921
Gentlemen,
these are the words of Lester Maddox.
1047
01:09:32,380 --> 01:09:34,591
"We're all entitled to our mistakes.
1048
01:09:34,799 --> 01:09:38,178
"I see no reason for him not to fight
in the state of Georgia. "
1049
01:09:38,261 --> 01:09:42,182
I knew something was going to happen.
I knew things had to work out.
1050
01:09:42,265 --> 01:09:45,101
I can't believe it.
We're going to finally get Joe Frazier.
1051
01:09:45,185 --> 01:09:48,188
No. Not Joe Frazier. Not right off.
1052
01:09:48,271 --> 01:09:49,522
Not the first fight.
1053
01:09:49,606 --> 01:09:52,108
Durham said we let him down
too many times.
1054
01:09:52,317 --> 01:09:54,194
He's got some nerve.
1055
01:09:54,277 --> 01:09:56,905
It wasn't our fault things worked out
like they did.
1056
01:09:56,988 --> 01:09:58,490
He knows that.
1057
01:09:58,615 --> 01:10:02,702
Every time we got a state that'll allow us
to fight in it, somebody stops it.
1058
01:10:03,286 --> 01:10:06,915
- Now you can't blame him for that.
- He says go fight somebody else.
1059
01:10:06,998 --> 01:10:09,501
Prove you can get a license.
Then you got Joe.
1060
01:10:09,584 --> 01:10:11,920
Ain't that something. After all we've done.
1061
01:10:12,003 --> 01:10:14,881
Three and a half years of waiting.
Now he's talking funny.
1062
01:10:14,964 --> 01:10:18,301
- How about Jerry Quarry?
- Jerry Quarry?
1063
01:10:21,137 --> 01:10:23,890
He's big, strong, and slow.
1064
01:10:25,350 --> 01:10:26,976
Hey, and he's white.
1065
01:10:27,435 --> 01:10:30,271
Now I see. Boy, you all are smart.
1066
01:10:30,480 --> 01:10:32,065
Now I see what you're doing.
1067
01:10:32,148 --> 01:10:35,151
Muhammad Ali, the draft dodger, Muslim...
1068
01:10:35,902 --> 01:10:38,488
...fights the great white hope, Jerry Quarry.
1069
01:10:38,571 --> 01:10:40,407
Stops this bigmouth nigger.
1070
01:10:40,490 --> 01:10:43,827
- Boy, we all stand to get rich now.
- Or lynched.
1071
01:10:58,008 --> 01:11:01,094
Did you see them evil eyes looking at us?
1072
01:11:01,177 --> 01:11:04,597
But when they looked at us twice,
their eyes popped...
1073
01:11:04,681 --> 01:11:06,141
...when they saw who it was.
1074
01:11:06,224 --> 01:11:08,143
They don't believe what's happening.
1075
01:11:08,226 --> 01:11:10,937
I wouldn't believe it either,
if I was a white man.
1076
01:11:11,021 --> 01:11:14,441
Here's a draft dodger nigger,
ain't allowed to fight in America...
1077
01:11:14,524 --> 01:11:17,861
...but winds up in Georgia, of all places,
to whup a white man.
1078
01:11:17,944 --> 01:11:20,405
- Would you believe it?
- That's right.
1079
01:11:22,532 --> 01:11:24,451
That's why we'll put something on it.
1080
01:11:24,534 --> 01:11:26,202
- That's a bold nigger.
- That's right.
1081
01:11:28,038 --> 01:11:29,205
Hey, Champ.
1082
01:11:29,873 --> 01:11:31,124
Hey, Drew.
1083
01:11:36,504 --> 01:11:38,673
- You gonna dance, Champ?
- I'm ready.
1084
01:11:38,757 --> 01:11:39,966
You gonna dance?
1085
01:11:40,050 --> 01:11:43,053
- That Jerry Quarry's in trouble.
- You gonna shuffle on him?
1086
01:11:43,136 --> 01:11:45,305
I'm gonna show them all,
I'm really the champ.
1087
01:11:45,388 --> 01:11:48,808
- There you go. Throw that punch on him.
- I'm too fast for him.
1088
01:11:48,892 --> 01:11:51,561
I'm gonna shock the world.
They think we're through.
1089
01:11:51,644 --> 01:11:54,230
- We'll show them I'm champ.
- This is the resurrection.
1090
01:11:54,314 --> 01:11:56,566
- I'm the greatest of all time.
- Right.
1091
01:11:56,649 --> 01:11:58,068
What's that?
1092
01:12:00,528 --> 01:12:01,780
Get down!
1093
01:12:02,238 --> 01:12:04,949
Get out of town, you black son of a bitch!
1094
01:12:06,743 --> 01:12:08,745
These crackers are crazy!
1095
01:12:13,083 --> 01:12:15,335
Who is it? It's for you, shall I take it?
1096
01:12:15,418 --> 01:12:19,381
- Stay low, stay low.
- I'll take it. Hold it. I'm going crazy.
1097
01:12:20,548 --> 01:12:22,592
- Sit down. Sit down.
- Hello, who is it?
1098
01:12:22,676 --> 01:12:25,095
Nigger, you ain't fighting no fight
in Atlanta.
1099
01:12:25,178 --> 01:12:28,098
If you're in town tomorrow,
you're gonna die.
1100
01:12:35,563 --> 01:12:38,692
- Now, we call the police.
- We're not going to do no such thing.
1101
01:12:38,775 --> 01:12:40,777
Stay cool. We ain't going nowhere.
1102
01:12:40,860 --> 01:12:43,363
First thing tomorrow,
we'll check into a nice hotel.
1103
01:12:43,446 --> 01:12:47,033
We're not giving nobody any excuses,
especially Governor Lester Maddox.
1104
01:12:47,117 --> 01:12:50,578
We came here to get Jerry Quarry.
That's my job, and we'll get him.
1105
01:12:50,662 --> 01:12:53,873
And there ain't no redneck crackers
running us out of here.
1106
01:14:04,069 --> 01:14:05,445
Muhammad Ali and Jerry Quarry.
1107
01:14:05,528 --> 01:14:07,697
Ali looking very good in the third round...
1108
01:14:07,781 --> 01:14:10,575
...after that enforced idleness
of over three years.
1109
01:14:10,658 --> 01:14:13,286
Quarry picks out a left hand,
takes a jab on the chin.
1110
01:14:13,370 --> 01:14:14,871
Quarry's cut around the left eye.
1111
01:14:14,954 --> 01:14:16,831
That's going to be bothering him.
1112
01:14:16,915 --> 01:14:20,794
Ali misses a left hand over the head.
Ali's in with a light jab on the nose.
1113
01:14:20,877 --> 01:14:23,755
Quarry drives him into a corner
and holds on for a moment.
1114
01:14:23,838 --> 01:14:26,966
And the referee gets them apart.
Ali feints a left hand.
1115
01:14:27,050 --> 01:14:29,928
Quarry's back towards the ropes.
And there is the bell.
1116
01:14:30,011 --> 01:14:32,806
Quarry goes back to his corner
with a badly cut eye.
1117
01:14:34,265 --> 01:14:36,309
And Quarry cannot continue.
1118
01:14:36,393 --> 01:14:38,228
He is very unhappy about it.
1119
01:14:38,311 --> 01:14:40,397
But, nevertheless, he's game.
1120
01:14:40,897 --> 01:14:43,692
He goes over
to congratulate Muhammad Ali.
1121
01:14:51,157 --> 01:14:53,076
Let him through.
1122
01:14:54,452 --> 01:14:56,413
Let him through, please.
1123
01:15:00,917 --> 01:15:03,878
Are you the same lady
I saw at my fights before?
1124
01:15:03,962 --> 01:15:06,715
- I come to all your fights.
- Thank you.
1125
01:15:06,798 --> 01:15:08,758
I like fans like you. Keep on coming.
1126
01:15:08,842 --> 01:15:10,593
Don't worry, I will.
1127
01:15:11,469 --> 01:15:14,514
Until I see them carry you out
on a stretcher.
1128
01:15:15,015 --> 01:15:17,767
Did you say, "carry me out on a stretcher"?
1129
01:15:18,101 --> 01:15:21,438
Why would you want to see that?
What have I ever done to you?
1130
01:15:21,688 --> 01:15:23,273
I don't know you.
1131
01:15:25,567 --> 01:15:28,236
God won't always let the devil win.
1132
01:15:28,862 --> 01:15:33,575
I want to be there when they bust
your guts and split your face.
1133
01:15:33,825 --> 01:15:35,076
I want to be there.
1134
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:38,788
If there's a God in heaven, it will happen,
and I want to be there.
1135
01:15:39,831 --> 01:15:42,792
You conceited nigger.
I'm going to be there.
1136
01:15:44,794 --> 01:15:47,213
How many of you want to be like me?
1137
01:15:47,297 --> 01:15:49,382
Obey your mothers and fathers...
1138
01:15:49,466 --> 01:15:53,011
...do your school work, don't drink,
don't smoke, stay out of bad gangs.
1139
01:15:53,094 --> 01:15:54,471
You hear me?
1140
01:15:54,971 --> 01:15:58,350
Muhammad Ali, you're free, you're free!
1141
01:15:58,433 --> 01:16:01,686
Right! I just heard it on the radio.
The Supreme Court says so.
1142
01:16:01,770 --> 01:16:03,938
- You're free.
- You heard what on the radio?
1143
01:16:04,022 --> 01:16:06,191
Right, the Supreme Court says you're free.
1144
01:16:06,274 --> 01:16:09,861
- I won the draft decision?
- The draft, everything. It's all over.
1145
01:16:10,070 --> 01:16:11,237
I'm free!
1146
01:16:14,199 --> 01:16:16,451
Are we going to whup Joe Frazier?
1147
01:16:17,660 --> 01:16:19,913
In the words of the decision:
1148
01:16:19,996 --> 01:16:21,915
"It is indisputably clear...
1149
01:16:21,998 --> 01:16:24,167
"... the Justice Department was wrong...
1150
01:16:24,250 --> 01:16:27,587
"... as a matter of law,
in advising that Ali's beliefs...
1151
01:16:27,671 --> 01:16:31,508
"... were not religiously based
and were not sincerely held. "
1152
01:16:32,217 --> 01:16:34,719
Now these are strong words, gentlemen...
1153
01:16:35,136 --> 01:16:37,847
...and the decision was unanimous.
1154
01:16:38,515 --> 01:16:40,934
This is going to be the biggest event
of all times.
1155
01:16:41,017 --> 01:16:44,479
I want you to get it right.
When Ali meets "Smokin"' Joe Frazier.
1156
01:16:44,562 --> 01:16:46,815
- Joe says your hands are bad.
- My hands bad?
1157
01:16:46,898 --> 01:16:49,943
I've had hand trouble
but my hands'll be ready for Frazier.
1158
01:16:50,026 --> 01:16:53,571
Tell Joe Frazier my hands are well,
and I'm going to hit him so hard...
1159
01:16:53,655 --> 01:16:57,617
Get this down, I'm talking too fast for you.
I'm going to hit him so hard...
1160
01:16:57,701 --> 01:17:01,287
...it's going to jar his kinfolks in Africa.
Go back and tell him that now.
1161
01:17:11,881 --> 01:17:13,758
It's the 15th and final round...
1162
01:17:13,842 --> 01:17:16,302
...for the Heavyweight Championship
of the World.
1163
01:17:16,386 --> 01:17:19,514
Two great champions,
Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.
1164
01:17:19,597 --> 01:17:20,724
Both undefeated.
1165
01:17:20,807 --> 01:17:23,309
The title could hang on the result
of this round.
1166
01:17:23,393 --> 01:17:26,938
The referee is Arthur McKinney.
There have been no knockdowns so far.
1167
01:17:27,022 --> 01:17:29,149
This fight is so close.
1168
01:17:29,399 --> 01:17:31,026
The referee dances around them.
1169
01:17:31,109 --> 01:17:33,403
Frazier is relentless,
coming after his man...
1170
01:17:33,486 --> 01:17:36,990
...but Ali is tying him up
on the inside as they go to the ropes.
1171
01:17:37,073 --> 01:17:39,242
Frazier's got his hands down low.
1172
01:17:39,743 --> 01:17:42,620
He's very tired. Both men are tired.
1173
01:17:42,954 --> 01:17:46,416
This is the final round.
There's a left hook to the jaw by Frazier.
1174
01:17:46,499 --> 01:17:47,917
Ali is down.
1175
01:17:50,337 --> 01:17:52,672
The only knockdown in the fight so far.
1176
01:17:57,052 --> 01:18:01,139
Ali was wide open for that punch
and down he went, flat on his back.
1177
01:18:01,473 --> 01:18:04,434
We'll see how he can make out.
We're ready for action again.
1178
01:18:04,517 --> 01:18:06,728
Frazier comes after him,
trying to finish him.
1179
01:18:06,811 --> 01:18:10,565
Both men are very tired and exhausted.
They go to close quarters.
1180
01:18:10,648 --> 01:18:13,193
Ali tries to shake off the results
of that punch.
1181
01:18:13,276 --> 01:18:15,487
The only knockdown of the fight so far.
1182
01:18:15,570 --> 01:18:18,907
This could be the finisher.
The round is almost over now.
1183
01:18:18,990 --> 01:18:21,034
It's the 15th and final round.
1184
01:18:21,117 --> 01:18:23,620
And the scoring in New York
is on a rounds basis.
1185
01:18:23,703 --> 01:18:25,872
A hard right to the body,
thrown by Frazier.
1186
01:18:25,955 --> 01:18:29,042
Another, and then a left hook
to the body by Frazier.
1187
01:18:29,125 --> 01:18:31,252
The referee comes over to get them apart.
1188
01:18:31,336 --> 01:18:34,381
Ali looks very, very tired indeed.
And so does Frazier.
1189
01:18:34,464 --> 01:18:36,132
The round is almost over.
1190
01:18:36,216 --> 01:18:39,386
Frazier ducks under a couple of lefts.
And it's all over.
1191
01:18:39,594 --> 01:18:40,970
The fight is over.
1192
01:18:41,096 --> 01:18:44,307
The massive crowd at Madison Square
Garden is up on its feet...
1193
01:18:44,391 --> 01:18:48,019
...cheering what probably could be
the greatest fight of all time.
1194
01:18:48,978 --> 01:18:52,232
Joe Frazier, the winner,
by a unanimous decision.
1195
01:18:52,315 --> 01:18:54,359
Ali in his corner, a bit disappointed.
1196
01:18:56,736 --> 01:18:59,030
We'll get him next time, Champ.
1197
01:19:04,536 --> 01:19:07,622
Baby, you did fine. Real fine.
1198
01:19:07,706 --> 01:19:10,166
Let's get him dressed
so they can X-ray that jaw.
1199
01:19:10,250 --> 01:19:12,836
All right. All right, everybody out, huh?
1200
01:19:12,919 --> 01:19:15,255
- Please, everybody out.
- Please, everybody out.
1201
01:19:15,338 --> 01:19:17,966
Okay, you heard him. Come on, move it.
1202
01:19:23,179 --> 01:19:25,932
I learned a big lesson.
I'm glad it all happened.
1203
01:19:26,016 --> 01:19:28,351
I played too much and wasn't serious.
1204
01:19:28,435 --> 01:19:30,603
Clowning and talking.
1205
01:19:30,687 --> 01:19:33,898
I got just what I deserved.
But let me tell you something:
1206
01:19:34,024 --> 01:19:37,110
Next time, we'll get him next time.
I promise you.
1207
01:19:38,528 --> 01:19:42,365
Like I told you when you were a kid:
"As long as you keep on trying. "
1208
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:03,720
That's the artist in him.
Was it ever a fight?
1209
01:20:05,263 --> 01:20:08,350
To tell you the truth,
I didn't know what to expect.
1210
01:20:09,225 --> 01:20:12,145
How could you? He's never lost before.
1211
01:20:14,230 --> 01:20:17,484
The question is:
What happens now, Ferdie?
1212
01:20:18,526 --> 01:20:21,279
He'll get up in the morning
and scream for a rematch.
1213
01:20:21,363 --> 01:20:22,447
Sure.
1214
01:20:22,530 --> 01:20:24,824
And Frazier's not going to give it to him.
1215
01:20:24,908 --> 01:20:28,411
I mean,
after all the crap he's taken from Ali.
1216
01:20:28,495 --> 01:20:31,748
Listen,
he's just going to make him squirm like...
1217
01:20:31,873 --> 01:20:33,875
...going through a bunch of fights...
1218
01:20:33,958 --> 01:20:37,170
...just to get another shot at the title,
that's all.
1219
01:20:39,089 --> 01:20:41,591
I'd rather see him quit. Right now.
1220
01:20:42,175 --> 01:20:44,052
What are you afraid of?
1221
01:20:46,429 --> 01:20:48,098
Time.
1222
01:20:48,932 --> 01:20:50,600
Time, Ferdie.
1223
01:20:51,893 --> 01:20:53,645
And the man himself.
1224
01:20:53,895 --> 01:20:57,440
Buster Mathis takes a left
and a right to the jaw. He is hurt.
1225
01:20:57,691 --> 01:21:01,319
Ali measures him and drives a right
to the chin. Mathis is down.
1226
01:21:02,654 --> 01:21:04,322
Chuvalo's driven into a corner.
1227
01:21:04,406 --> 01:21:08,034
A left and right to the jaw by Ali.
Two more. Three lefts to the chin.
1228
01:21:08,118 --> 01:21:11,371
Chuvalo tries to fight,
but he's ripped with a right to the jaw.
1229
01:21:11,955 --> 01:21:13,540
Jerry Quarry is hurt.
1230
01:21:13,623 --> 01:21:16,042
And Ali is asking the referee
to stop the bout.
1231
01:21:16,126 --> 01:21:19,462
Ali puts a jab on the mouth
and a right uppercut to the jaw.
1232
01:21:19,713 --> 01:21:22,465
Quarry is staggering and the fight is over.
1233
01:21:24,634 --> 01:21:27,762
Patterson goes into a crouch,
takes a left high on the head.
1234
01:21:27,846 --> 01:21:30,932
Ali drives a right over the head,
drives a right to the head.
1235
01:21:31,016 --> 01:21:34,269
A left on the chin, thrown by Ali.
A grazing right to the jaw.
1236
01:21:34,352 --> 01:21:36,312
A left and a right to the head.
1237
01:21:36,438 --> 01:21:38,815
Bob Foster,
the light heavyweight champion.
1238
01:21:38,898 --> 01:21:41,818
Ali feigns being hurt.
Puts a jab on the mouth.
1239
01:21:42,652 --> 01:21:46,114
Foster sticks out a jab,
takes a right, a left uppercut to the jaw...
1240
01:21:46,197 --> 01:21:48,491
...and Foster is down and maybe out.
1241
01:21:49,492 --> 01:21:52,454
Ali is finding Joe Bugner
is a tough customer.
1242
01:21:52,537 --> 01:21:55,665
Bugner backs to the ropes.
Both hands to the head by Ali.
1243
01:21:55,749 --> 01:21:57,959
Bugner hooks a left
that goes over the head.
1244
01:21:58,043 --> 01:22:00,378
Drives Ali into the ropes
and holds him there.
1245
01:22:01,671 --> 01:22:04,257
Norton moves into Ali,
driving both hands to the body.
1246
01:22:04,341 --> 01:22:06,384
The referee gets them out of a clinch.
1247
01:22:06,468 --> 01:22:10,513
At long range, Norton feints a left hand.
Puts a jab on the mouth, at the bell.
1248
01:22:13,058 --> 01:22:15,810
What are you doing?
Just because you won the first round.
1249
01:22:15,894 --> 01:22:18,980
- His mouth's bleeding.
- How can you tell if your jaw is broken?
1250
01:22:19,064 --> 01:22:21,608
- It makes a sound, Champ.
- I heard something pop.
1251
01:22:22,734 --> 01:22:23,860
I can hear it.
1252
01:22:23,943 --> 01:22:26,863
- There's a fracture.
- I can move it around with my tongue.
1253
01:22:26,946 --> 01:22:28,656
What do you want to do, stop it?
1254
01:22:28,740 --> 01:22:31,618
Don't call it off.
Doctor, what do you think if I carry on?
1255
01:22:31,701 --> 01:22:34,162
Nothing but a lot of pain.
It's going to hurt bad.
1256
01:22:34,245 --> 01:22:36,873
If there's any danger,
I'll make that decision.
1257
01:22:36,956 --> 01:22:39,250
Just a matter of pain. He can make it.
1258
01:22:39,334 --> 01:22:42,337
God will help you,
if you help yourself, Champ.
1259
01:22:46,549 --> 01:22:48,301
Norton drives Ali into the ropes.
1260
01:22:48,385 --> 01:22:50,929
A right and a left to the head.
A right to the body.
1261
01:22:51,012 --> 01:22:55,100
Norton is in command of this fight
as the referee gets them out of a clinch.
1262
01:22:55,183 --> 01:22:59,229
Norton goes in with a left hand
to the head, drives a right to the body.
1263
01:22:59,312 --> 01:23:01,314
Another right to the body by Norton...
1264
01:23:01,398 --> 01:23:04,150
...and a very tired Ali tries to hold on.
1265
01:23:04,234 --> 01:23:08,196
He misses him with a right hand.
There's the bell.
1266
01:23:08,279 --> 01:23:10,198
And Ali is awfully tired.
1267
01:23:10,281 --> 01:23:13,451
And rumour has it
that he may have a broken jaw.
1268
01:23:13,535 --> 01:23:17,747
The crowd is stunned
as they see Ali on the verge of defeat.
1269
01:23:18,248 --> 01:23:20,375
We're waiting for the decision.
1270
01:23:20,458 --> 01:23:23,837
Ken Norton carried the fight
in the later rounds.
1271
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:26,214
Ali seems to have something wrong
with him.
1272
01:23:26,297 --> 01:23:28,591
And they're worried in his corner.
1273
01:23:28,675 --> 01:23:31,386
Norton is the winner, by a decision.
1274
01:23:31,469 --> 01:23:33,763
A very jubilant Ken Norton.
1275
01:23:33,888 --> 01:23:38,309
A very happy Norton.
And the pro-Norton crowd is taunting Ali.
1276
01:23:38,518 --> 01:23:42,105
A tired Ali, and a beaten Ali,
goes towards his dressing room.
1277
01:23:47,110 --> 01:23:50,739
You nigger son of a bitch.
We finally got you.
1278
01:23:52,741 --> 01:23:58,413
Who's the prettiest? Who's the greatest?
1279
01:24:04,169 --> 01:24:05,962
Easy. Easy.
1280
01:24:09,007 --> 01:24:10,467
It hurts.
1281
01:24:11,384 --> 01:24:13,762
Only X-rays will tell us how bad it is.
1282
01:24:21,144 --> 01:24:23,480
Can I speak to my baby alone, please?
1283
01:24:23,563 --> 01:24:24,981
Hi.
1284
01:24:25,148 --> 01:24:28,151
I'm sorry. I'm sorry I lost.
1285
01:24:28,401 --> 01:24:29,861
I should've stopped it.
1286
01:24:29,944 --> 01:24:32,697
I should've when I had the idea.
I should've stopped it.
1287
01:24:32,781 --> 01:24:35,158
I shouldn't have let it
go past the sixth round.
1288
01:24:35,241 --> 01:24:36,993
He may never fight again.
1289
01:24:37,160 --> 01:24:39,579
- How do you feel, son?
- I'm all right.
1290
01:24:39,662 --> 01:24:41,915
I just want you to promise me one thing.
1291
01:24:41,998 --> 01:24:44,209
That this is the last one.
1292
01:24:44,292 --> 01:24:48,838
Mama, I can't make no promise like that.
I was just talking.
1293
01:24:49,005 --> 01:24:52,884
I had my mouth open, I was clowning
and I just got hit in the wrong place.
1294
01:24:52,967 --> 01:24:55,178
You won the fight you wanted most...
1295
01:24:55,679 --> 01:24:59,015
...with the Supreme Court.
That was no split decision.
1296
01:24:59,683 --> 01:25:03,520
Now you don't have to go to jail,
you got money put by...
1297
01:25:04,020 --> 01:25:06,272
...and four of the most gorgeous babies.
1298
01:25:06,356 --> 01:25:09,818
- And you and Belinda have got everything.
- Where is Belinda?
1299
01:25:09,984 --> 01:25:11,861
Why's she not here?
1300
01:25:11,945 --> 01:25:13,905
- She's down the hall.
- Down the hall?
1301
01:25:13,988 --> 01:25:16,533
- She's all right.
- Why is she down the hall?
1302
01:25:17,283 --> 01:25:19,327
Champ, where are you going?
1303
01:25:19,577 --> 01:25:21,162
Belinda, why isn't she here?
1304
01:25:21,246 --> 01:25:24,541
- She's in shock.
- Shock? What do you mean shock?
1305
01:25:31,631 --> 01:25:34,175
Ali is dead. He's dead.
1306
01:25:38,638 --> 01:25:41,391
I'm not dead, I'm not dead.
1307
01:25:43,935 --> 01:25:46,396
Help. No, no.
1308
01:25:57,157 --> 01:25:59,367
Mr. Ali, you can come in now.
1309
01:26:02,287 --> 01:26:05,123
I hope she's all right.
I haven't slept all night.
1310
01:26:11,171 --> 01:26:15,258
If I just knew I wouldn't have to sit there
and watch you fight again.
1311
01:26:16,134 --> 01:26:18,928
Look, baby, I would really feel better...
1312
01:26:19,095 --> 01:26:22,182
...if you just stayed home
and just didn't come to the fight.
1313
01:26:22,265 --> 01:26:24,392
No, that's not what I meant.
1314
01:26:25,310 --> 01:26:28,313
If you fought and I wasn't there,
it'd be worse.
1315
01:26:33,943 --> 01:26:37,155
I wouldn't have to watch you
if you didn't do it anymore.
1316
01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:39,282
Well, when you watch, I mean...
1317
01:26:39,532 --> 01:26:42,577
...what goes through your mind?
Why are you so upset?
1318
01:26:43,036 --> 01:26:45,705
What do you think about
when I'm fighting?
1319
01:26:48,750 --> 01:26:50,710
I feel every blow.
1320
01:26:52,045 --> 01:26:54,381
Just like I was being hit myself.
1321
01:26:57,634 --> 01:26:59,260
When you're tired...
1322
01:27:01,388 --> 01:27:03,098
...I feel tired.
1323
01:27:08,103 --> 01:27:09,979
I feel your hands hurt.
1324
01:27:15,276 --> 01:27:17,028
Come on.
1325
01:27:23,493 --> 01:27:27,664
- It ain't that bad.
- When he kept hitting you like that.
1326
01:27:31,001 --> 01:27:33,837
When you feel helpless, I feel helpless.
1327
01:27:36,673 --> 01:27:40,176
If anybody ever knocked you out,
I think I'd die.
1328
01:27:41,219 --> 01:27:43,555
Come on, baby, now.
1329
01:27:44,681 --> 01:27:47,851
You can't help me like this.
Nobody's never knocked me out.
1330
01:27:48,101 --> 01:27:50,854
And I'm never going to be knocked out.
1331
01:27:51,021 --> 01:27:53,606
Look, I'll make you one promise.
1332
01:27:53,690 --> 01:27:55,483
Listen to me. Cool.
1333
01:27:55,608 --> 01:27:58,236
If you're really that serious...
1334
01:27:58,778 --> 01:28:03,033
...and seeing what happened to you now,
I promise you if I ever fight again...
1335
01:28:03,825 --> 01:28:07,662
...if I ever fight again,
I'll be in top condition. I promise.
1336
01:28:07,787 --> 01:28:10,248
And then God will be with me.
1337
01:28:50,705 --> 01:28:52,582
Five seconds.
1338
01:28:56,294 --> 01:28:58,088
Ten seconds to go.
1339
01:29:12,477 --> 01:29:13,853
Time.
1340
01:29:22,696 --> 01:29:24,906
Ali sticks out a left hand.
It's short of the mark.
1341
01:29:24,989 --> 01:29:27,867
Norton coming in on him.
Ali drives both hands to the head.
1342
01:29:27,951 --> 01:29:30,745
Norton takes them without a return.
1343
01:29:30,870 --> 01:29:32,914
Ali drives a right high on the head.
1344
01:29:32,997 --> 01:29:36,626
Takes a left and a right to the jaw.
Ali's better in this return bout.
1345
01:29:36,710 --> 01:29:40,171
Final round. Ali sticks a left and a right
high on the head.
1346
01:29:40,255 --> 01:29:42,215
Norton puts a left to the body...
1347
01:29:42,298 --> 01:29:46,511
...drives Ali into the ropes.
They're in a clinch, the bout is over.
1348
01:29:46,594 --> 01:29:49,389
It has been a very, very close fight.
1349
01:29:49,514 --> 01:29:52,642
Ken Norton goes back to his corner.
Ali is not sure...
1350
01:29:52,809 --> 01:29:57,188
...whether or not he won this fight.
He needs it for a match with Foreman.
1351
01:29:58,231 --> 01:30:01,860
Ken Norton is awaiting the decision.
Ali is the winner.
1352
01:30:06,948 --> 01:30:10,535
See, it was hard to see,
but Foreman hit him with a hard punch.
1353
01:30:10,618 --> 01:30:14,789
Foreman shook him up. He's out
on his feet. Norton's in a dream world.
1354
01:30:15,749 --> 01:30:17,500
Listen, Champ...
1355
01:30:17,584 --> 01:30:21,046
...does it bother you
that Foreman knocked him out?
1356
01:30:21,129 --> 01:30:24,924
No, it don't bother me. It shows you
two main weaknesses Foreman's got.
1357
01:30:25,008 --> 01:30:28,136
- And what are they?
- He's never been hit hard, knocked down...
1358
01:30:28,219 --> 01:30:32,474
...and never went over five or ten
good rounds to test his endurance.
1359
01:30:35,685 --> 01:30:38,897
Yes, sir. This is where it all starts...
1360
01:30:39,230 --> 01:30:44,194
...right here in the training camp.
What happens here will determine Africa.
1361
01:30:46,196 --> 01:30:48,615
I'm going to cut out in a minute or two.
1362
01:30:48,990 --> 01:30:52,994
My doctor says it's okay to exercise...
1363
01:30:53,787 --> 01:30:57,165
...but when it becomes a strain,
you better quit.
1364
01:30:57,374 --> 01:31:00,585
Your doctor don't know what he's saying.
You want to strain.
1365
01:31:00,669 --> 01:31:02,504
You want to run until it pains.
1366
01:31:02,587 --> 01:31:05,256
You want to run
until your throat feels like sandpaper.
1367
01:31:05,340 --> 01:31:07,884
You want to run
until it feels like you'll throw up.
1368
01:31:07,967 --> 01:31:10,178
You want to keep running
until your legs ache.
1369
01:31:10,261 --> 01:31:12,180
Till you're going to die, fall out.
1370
01:31:12,263 --> 01:31:15,141
Run until your stomach feels
like it's going to burst.
1371
01:31:15,225 --> 01:31:18,144
And your heart starts pounding
and you want to quit.
1372
01:31:18,228 --> 01:31:22,607
Feels like you can't go another inch,
can't go another step. But you keep going.
1373
01:31:22,816 --> 01:31:24,609
What kind of man is that?
1374
01:31:24,693 --> 01:31:27,570
You keep going until you want to fall out
in your tracks.
1375
01:31:27,904 --> 01:31:32,158
Then after that, you've only gotten
about halfway through...
1376
01:31:32,867 --> 01:31:34,452
Oh, man. Look.
1377
01:31:37,747 --> 01:31:39,290
Come on.
1378
01:31:40,291 --> 01:31:44,462
You see, what's eating George is,
he's a champ...
1379
01:31:44,838 --> 01:31:46,506
...but only he ain't.
1380
01:31:46,589 --> 01:31:51,177
And every time he hears them call you
the "people's champ," he goes bananas.
1381
01:31:51,261 --> 01:31:53,388
Let me tell you something.
The other day...
1382
01:31:53,471 --> 01:31:55,724
...I saw George down the street. I said:
1383
01:31:55,807 --> 01:31:58,935
"Let's walk down the street
to see who's the most recognised. "
1384
01:31:59,019 --> 01:32:00,812
Hey, my man Payton.
1385
01:32:00,895 --> 01:32:03,106
Look, you are just in time.
1386
01:32:03,857 --> 01:32:06,526
See that man right there?
That's Bossman Jones.
1387
01:32:06,609 --> 01:32:07,944
Do you know who he is?
1388
01:32:08,028 --> 01:32:10,530
That's George Foreman's
former sparring partner.
1389
01:32:10,613 --> 01:32:13,366
Why former?
Because Foreman wouldn't pay him right.
1390
01:32:13,450 --> 01:32:15,118
Now he's here to work for me.
1391
01:32:15,201 --> 01:32:18,621
He knows George, he works with him
six or seven weeks before a fight.
1392
01:32:18,705 --> 01:32:23,293
He can tell us a lot. This is a good story
for the new book you're writing on me.
1393
01:32:23,376 --> 01:32:27,839
Let's talk about how George fights.
How often does he really get to you?
1394
01:32:28,631 --> 01:32:30,759
Are you kidding? Too often.
1395
01:32:30,842 --> 01:32:33,803
Too often? Look, Bossman, stop and think.
1396
01:32:34,054 --> 01:32:37,432
I realize my arms are longer than yours
and your arms are short.
1397
01:32:37,515 --> 01:32:40,602
- But you must hit George sometimes.
- That's right.
1398
01:32:41,144 --> 01:32:42,729
Nobody hits George.
1399
01:32:42,812 --> 01:32:45,023
None of his sparring partners.
1400
01:32:45,648 --> 01:32:47,650
Besides, he don't pay enough.
1401
01:32:47,942 --> 01:32:49,277
And you hit him...
1402
01:32:49,361 --> 01:32:51,321
...he might tear your head off.
1403
01:32:52,489 --> 01:32:56,493
I've seen fighters that can stun you,
who can knock you out.
1404
01:32:56,659 --> 01:33:00,205
George is the first dude I've been
in the ring with that could kill you.
1405
01:33:00,288 --> 01:33:04,167
I mean, he can lift you off your feet
with one punch.
1406
01:33:04,542 --> 01:33:06,419
Play on the ropes and try and rest...
1407
01:33:06,503 --> 01:33:08,004
...he'll break your ribs.
1408
01:33:08,088 --> 01:33:11,299
By the time the referee gets to you,
you might be beat to death.
1409
01:33:11,383 --> 01:33:13,051
This man's been brainwashed, Champ.
1410
01:33:13,134 --> 01:33:15,595
We don't need no double agent
in our camp.
1411
01:33:15,679 --> 01:33:17,263
Man, you're crazy.
1412
01:33:17,347 --> 01:33:19,849
I'm telling you straight. He's a brute.
1413
01:33:20,141 --> 01:33:23,353
Tell the truth. If we should run it
tomorrow, who'd you bet on?
1414
01:33:23,436 --> 01:33:25,480
Who do you think would win?
1415
01:33:26,648 --> 01:33:28,024
I have to say George.
1416
01:33:28,358 --> 01:33:30,276
I have to say George.
1417
01:34:10,150 --> 01:34:13,069
Why are you all looking so damned scared?
1418
01:34:13,278 --> 01:34:16,656
Act like you're going to a funeral.
I'm the one fighting.
1419
01:34:16,948 --> 01:34:18,658
George Foreman.
1420
01:34:18,742 --> 01:34:22,495
You didn't believe all that stuff
you've read about how hard he hits?
1421
01:34:22,579 --> 01:34:24,956
George Foreman knocking out Joe Frazier.
1422
01:34:25,040 --> 01:34:26,416
He'll destroy me here.
1423
01:34:26,499 --> 01:34:29,002
You're my friends
and the public's expecting you...
1424
01:34:29,085 --> 01:34:33,048
To hell with him. When you get out here,
you'll be afraid to smile.
1425
01:34:33,131 --> 01:34:35,133
Just act like you're happy.
1426
01:34:35,216 --> 01:34:38,094
I'm not going to win
if I went out there thinking like you.
1427
01:34:38,178 --> 01:34:39,888
Damn George Foreman.
1428
01:34:43,266 --> 01:34:48,605
The king's going home to get his crown.
It's the closing of the book.
1429
01:34:48,730 --> 01:34:52,484
The king's going to work.
He's not scared of his work.
1430
01:34:53,651 --> 01:34:58,323
The king's gonna win.
Three and a half years in exile.
1431
01:35:12,962 --> 01:35:17,884
A beautiful evening in Kinshasa, Zaire,
for the World Heavyweight Championship.
1432
01:35:18,635 --> 01:35:21,763
Muhammad Ali
wants to get the crown back.
1433
01:35:21,846 --> 01:35:25,433
The champion, George Foreman.
He is awesome.
1434
01:35:25,517 --> 01:35:29,312
Ali is dancing in his corner,
meditating for a moment.
1435
01:35:31,481 --> 01:35:36,152
We're ready for the start of what may be
an epic battle for the heavyweight title.
1436
01:35:36,319 --> 01:35:38,738
The champion, George Foreman,
in the red trunks.
1437
01:35:38,822 --> 01:35:42,617
Ali in white.
Ali is dancing around, as is his custom.
1438
01:35:42,909 --> 01:35:45,328
Backs towards the ropes.
Foreman coming in on him.
1439
01:35:45,412 --> 01:35:48,331
Blocks a right thrown at his head.
1440
01:35:48,498 --> 01:35:51,376
Ali is against the ropes now.
Foreman is holding him there.
1441
01:35:51,459 --> 01:35:53,670
And this is not the Ali we expect.
1442
01:35:53,753 --> 01:35:57,132
He is not "floating like a butterfly
and stinging like a bee. "
1443
01:35:57,215 --> 01:36:00,218
Ali just stays there.
Foreman's coming in on Ali again.
1444
01:36:00,301 --> 01:36:04,139
Foreman drives both hands to the body.
A vicious left hook to the midsection.
1445
01:36:04,222 --> 01:36:06,766
Ali opens up with both hands.
A right to the jaw.
1446
01:36:06,850 --> 01:36:09,519
Gets away from a left hand by Foreman.
1447
01:36:09,853 --> 01:36:12,772
Foreman's up and holding Ali
against the ropes.
1448
01:36:12,856 --> 01:36:16,317
He hooks a wild swing at the head
and Ali shakes his head.
1449
01:36:16,401 --> 01:36:20,196
The referee gets them apart.
Foreman has Ali against the ropes again.
1450
01:36:20,280 --> 01:36:23,700
Drives both hands to the body.
A left and a right to the midsection.
1451
01:36:23,783 --> 01:36:26,244
Two more in there. Ali just stands there.
1452
01:36:26,411 --> 01:36:29,706
Foreman has Ali against the ropes again.
1453
01:36:32,375 --> 01:36:35,670
Foreman has Ali against the ropes.
Throws out a left jab.
1454
01:36:35,754 --> 01:36:39,174
Foreman could well punch himself out
the way he's been fighting...
1455
01:36:39,257 --> 01:36:40,592
...on this hot night in Zaire.
1456
01:36:42,969 --> 01:36:46,556
What are you doing on the ropes?
That's how you blew it with Frazier.
1457
01:36:46,639 --> 01:36:49,642
What's wrong with you?
He keeps stacking up points on you.
1458
01:36:49,726 --> 01:36:52,228
I can't dazzle 15 rounds.
I got to take my time.
1459
01:36:52,312 --> 01:36:54,356
I know what I'm doing. Let him punch.
1460
01:36:54,439 --> 01:36:57,275
- He's just punching.
- He lifted you right up off the floor.
1461
01:36:57,359 --> 01:37:01,905
Let him. A couple more like that and
he'll be tired. He'll be all gone, all mine.
1462
01:37:01,988 --> 01:37:03,990
Let me plan my own strategy.
1463
01:37:06,117 --> 01:37:08,870
Ali on the ropes again, round after round.
1464
01:37:08,953 --> 01:37:12,540
Foreman has held him there,
pounding the body, pounding the head.
1465
01:37:14,751 --> 01:37:17,629
Foreman may punch himself out
as we said earlier.
1466
01:37:17,712 --> 01:37:19,464
A wild left hand by Foreman.
1467
01:37:19,547 --> 01:37:23,510
And Ali's strategy may be
to let Foreman tire himself out.
1468
01:37:23,593 --> 01:37:26,096
And George does look a little bit tired.
1469
01:37:26,179 --> 01:37:28,348
Ali opens up with both hands to the head.
1470
01:37:28,431 --> 01:37:31,184
A jab on the chin.
A right to the jaw by Muhammad Ali...
1471
01:37:31,267 --> 01:37:35,480
...as he suddenly turns tiger and again
Foreman pushes him against the ropes.
1472
01:37:37,065 --> 01:37:39,401
A wild left hand to the jaw
by George Foreman.
1473
01:37:39,484 --> 01:37:42,904
Ali comes back with a right on the chin.
Another jab on the mouth.
1474
01:37:42,987 --> 01:37:44,364
They go to close quarters.
1475
01:37:44,447 --> 01:37:47,534
Foreman misses a left hand
and Ali gets a headlock on him.
1476
01:37:47,617 --> 01:37:49,869
Again Ali is against the ropes.
1477
01:37:49,953 --> 01:37:52,080
Foreman visibly tired now.
1478
01:37:52,163 --> 01:37:55,667
His punches don't have the strength
that they had earlier in the fight.
1479
01:37:55,750 --> 01:37:58,545
Ali is tired, too,
but maybe not as tired as Foreman.
1480
01:37:58,628 --> 01:38:00,046
Foreman holds him there.
1481
01:38:00,130 --> 01:38:02,841
Rips that right, a left,
another right to the body.
1482
01:38:02,924 --> 01:38:05,927
Ali was just about to push him away
at the bell.
1483
01:38:08,138 --> 01:38:11,641
Champ, I think you can take him
this next round.
1484
01:38:11,891 --> 01:38:14,310
I've got to get him in the next round.
1485
01:38:15,145 --> 01:38:17,939
As tired as I am,
I don't have much more left in me.
1486
01:38:18,023 --> 01:38:21,359
It's the eighth round of the Heavyweight
Championship of the World.
1487
01:38:21,443 --> 01:38:24,863
Ali sticks out a left hand.
Ali who wasn't given much chance...
1488
01:38:24,946 --> 01:38:27,824
...is still in there, battling with Foreman.
Ali opens up.
1489
01:38:27,907 --> 01:38:30,618
A left and a right to the jaw.
Foreman is staggering.
1490
01:38:30,702 --> 01:38:33,955
Foreman is twisting around.
Takes a left and a right to the jaw.
1491
01:38:34,039 --> 01:38:36,541
A right to the jaw and Foreman goes down.
1492
01:38:37,834 --> 01:38:40,253
Muhammad Ali has done the impossible.
1493
01:38:40,503 --> 01:38:44,507
He has regained the Heavyweight
Championship of the World.
1494
01:38:46,176 --> 01:39:02,859
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