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Yeah, I'm in Africa.
Yeah, Africa's my home.

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Damn America and what America thinks.

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I live in America, but Africa's
the home of the Black man.

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I was a slave 400 years ago

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and I'm going back home to fight
among my brothers! Yeah!

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'For these two African-Americans

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'to come home was
of great, great significance.

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'Because of Hollywood and TV

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'a lot of us
had been taught to hate Africa.'

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Once, if you called a Black person
African they'd be ready to fight.

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'When I get to Africa we'll get
it on because we don't get along!'

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I'm gonna eat him up!

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Too much speed for him!
Too fast! Too fast!

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I'm gonna retire the
heavyweight champion of the world!

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I'm gonna retire
the heavyweight champion!

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September 25th
the world'll be stunned!

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Tell 'em, Ali!

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If you think the world was surprised
when Nixon resigned

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wait till I kick Foreman's behind!

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'An 18-year-old amateur
champion with a charming smile

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'took a physical examination
for his first professional fight.'

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It won't be an easy fight

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but my plan of attack
on a fighter like Alex Miteff

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would be two fast left jabs,

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a rapid right cross
and a left hook.

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'But in the Belgian Congo,

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'freedom was followed
by rioting and an army mutiny.

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'For months,
the political pattern kept changing

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'until pro-Red
Premier Lumumba was seized

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'by the forces
of strongman Colonel Mobutu.'

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After watching Mike DeJohn
and Eddie Machen,

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I would rate myself number two.

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I'm out to break
Floyd Patterson's record

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and this being my 20th birthday,
today, January 17th,

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that leaves me exactly one year
to reach my goal.

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People do say I'm cocky,
some say I need a good whuppin',

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some say I talk too much,

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but anything that I say,
I'm willing to back up.

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The other night I predicted

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that I would knock out Banks
in four rounds and I did.

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I knocked out Don Warner

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and I just annihilated
George Logan in four rounds.

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'Close your mouth
and keep it closed.'

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- That's impossible.
- Keep it closed.

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I'm the greatest
and I'm knocking out all bums.

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And if you get too smart
I'll knock you out.

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'You'd take him on
before the fight?'

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Beat him like I'm his daddy.

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I saw Sonny Liston a few days ago.

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Ain't he ugly?

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I'm young, I'm handsome,

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I'm fast, I'm pretty
and can't possibly be beat.

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Cassius Clay
goes into the record book

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with Corbett, Tunney and Braddock,

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bringing off another great upset
in heavyweight history.

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It is befitting that I leave
the game just like I came in,

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beating a big bad monster
who knocks out everybody

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and no one can whup him.

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When little Cassius Clay
stopped Sonny Liston,

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the man who annihilated
Floyd Patterson twice.

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He was gonna kill me!

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But he hit harder than George.

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His reach is longer,
he's a better boxer

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and I'm better now than when you saw
that kid running from Sonny Liston.

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I'm experienced now, professional.

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Jaw's been broke, been knocked down
a couple of times, I'm bad!

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Been chopping trees,
I done something new.

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- I wrestled with an alligator.

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That's right,
I have wrestled with an alligator!

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I tussled with a whale. I handcuffed
lightning, thrown thunder in jail!

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That's bad!
Only last week I murdered a rock!

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Injured a stone!
Hospitalised a brick!

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- I'm so mean I make medicine sick!
- Bad dude!

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Bad, fast!

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Fast! Fast! Last night,
cut the light off in my bedroom,

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hit the switch and was in the bed
before the room was dark!

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- Incredible.
- Fast!

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You, George Foreman, all you chumps
are gonna bow when I whup him!

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All of you! I know you got him picked
but the man's in trouble!

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I'm gonna show you how great I am!

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I think Ali was scared.
I think he was scared even then.

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He knew he was gonna be very scared
as he got closer to the fight.

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You know the way George fights.

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George comes out...
"I made him the mummy!"

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'With his ego he could tell
himself he would dominate Foreman,

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'make a fool of him, that Foreman
would never lay a glove on him.'

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But in fact, in his sleep
or wherever his private moment came

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he knew that he had not done as well
against two fighters particularly,

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Joe Frazier and Ken Norton,
whom Foreman had demolished.

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Down goes Frazier!
Down goes Frazier!

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The heavyweight champion
is taking the mandatory eight count

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and Foreman is as poised as can be!

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Foreman is going about his job!

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'He had an overpowering
intensity when he punched.

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'Foreman won
by knocking Joe Frazier out

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'and knocked him down
something like seven times.

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'Then he destroyed Ken Norton
in two rounds.

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'The word "murderous" does not
quite apply, Foreman was awesome.'

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This chump has got everybody scared.

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Scared of what?
There's nothing to be scared of.

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Scared of what?

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How many fellas in here
picks George? Be truthful, be men.

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Tell the truth.

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- John, raise your hand.

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Got George?

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You got George. Tell the truth.

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You! You, fella. Yeah.

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No pick? I just wanna know.
You got George...

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The time may have come
to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali,

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because very honestly I don't think
he can beat George Foreman.

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Howard Cosell, you told everybody
I don't have a chance.

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Told 'em I don't have
nothing but a prayer.

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Well, chump, all I need is a prayer
because if that reaches the right man

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not only will George Foreman fall
but mountains will fall!

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Maybe he can pull off a miracle,

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but against George Foreman?

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So young, so strong, so fearless?

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Against George Foreman,
who does away with his opponents

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one after another
in less than three rounds?

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It's hard for me
to conjure with that.

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You always say "Muhammad, you're not
the same man you were 10 years ago."

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I asked your wife

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and she told me you're not the same
man you was two years ago!

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After this fight
I suspect Ali will retire.

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And through all of the years

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my own memories of him
will be as a fighter,

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and as the strange and curious
and gregarious and engaging

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and sometimes cruel,
and sometimes family man that he is.

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I'm gonna let everybody know
that that thing on your head

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is a phoney
and it comes from the tail of a pony.

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A stolen bicycle.

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He had a bicycle
and he went to Columbia Gym.

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There was something going on up there
and he left his bike parked outside.

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So when he came out
someone had stolen it

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and he went inside and he was crying

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and he told the policeman there,
his name was Joe Martin,

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that someone stole his bike.

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And Joe Martin, he also taught the
little boys how to box in the evening

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so he asked would he be interested
in learning how to box

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and he told him yes, because if he
ever found out who stole his bike

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he wanted to know how to fight
so he could beat them up.

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An overhand right
sends Sonny to the canvas!

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Referee Jersey Joe Walcott is trying
to get Ali to a neutral corner.

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Ali yelling at Liston to get up...

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- Anchor punch.
- Which fight?

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I call it the anchor punch.

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- The one Stepin Fetchit helped with?
- Yeah, man.

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People couldn't see it,

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it was so fast Sports Illustrated
got a slow-motion camera,

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they clocked the punch and the punch
flew at 4/100ths of a second.

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You can break a second
down to 100 pieces.

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When people win a ski race
they say one and 16/100ths,

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one and 32/100ths of a second,

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so you break a second into 100 pieces
so, you know...that's quick,

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they got a machine that goes,
like, fr-r-t, real quick, fr-r-t,

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and it counts real quick, real quick.

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And by the time that thing
hit four that's how quick,

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from the time the punch started
to where it landed

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was 4/100ths of a second,
an eye blink, like a camera flash.

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That's 4/100ths of a second.

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When I hit Sonny Liston
all those people blinked,

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so they didn't see it.

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- I swear!

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If you watch the film close,
keep your eyes real close...

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- Keep looking.

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I'm getting ready to hit him.

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You got to hold your eyes and wait
or you won't see it, man!

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Ali was a beautiful...specimen,

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a fighting machine.

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He was handsome,
he was articulate, he was funny,

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charismatic.

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And was whuppin' ass too.

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'Deposed champion
Cassius Clay, at court in Houston,

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'is found guilty of violating
Selective Service laws

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'by refusing to be inducted.

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'He is sentenced to five years
in prison and fined $10,000.'

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'The way he fused
politics and sports.

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'Very few Black athletes had ever
talked the way Muhammad Ali talked

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'without fear of something
happening to their careers.'

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'..as a Moslem minister
made him exempt...'

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'He was already very unpopular
with mainstream Americans

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'because he had joined
the Nation of Islam,

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'which was perceived as
a radical Black separatist group.'

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On top of that,
when he was called for induction

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he refused to take the step forward.

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He absolutely infuriated America.

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Muhammad Ali said,
"No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."

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The king is going home
to get his throne.

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From root to fruit,
that's where everything started at.

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This is God's act
and you're part of it.

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This is no Hollywood set,
this is real.

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Hollywood set up these scenes,

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have somebody in the movies
playing his life.

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We don't pick up a script.

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We get up in the morning,

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sometimes we feel good,
sometimes bad,

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but we go through it with feeling.

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'Muhammad Ali's a prophet, he gonna
be a fisherman for Elijah Muhammad.

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'This is only a stop, look and
listen sign he's doing, fighting.'

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We been fightin' ever since we met.

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We beat Uncle Sam, come out
of the garage and beat number two.

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First man ever did it. Rest of 'em
they put out of the country.

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'This is God's act,
we just actors in it.

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'If Jesus was here
everybody'd want his autograph

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'and they'd be filming him.

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'This is a sport,
that's why you walking, talk to him.'

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I think Muhammad is a prophet.
How you gonna beat God's son?

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Anybody who loves poor people
and little people gotta be a prophet.

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He was champion of the world,
had a table full of food.

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Had a house for his mother, one for
him and he told 'em to shove it.

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If he couldn't love his god,
what do you think he is...mister?

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'Ali trained for the Foreman
fight at Deer Lake, Pennsylvania.

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00:14:03,302 --> 00:14:05,862
'He trained very hard
for that fight,

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'and had very good sparring partners.

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00:14:08,622 --> 00:14:10,902
'Larry Holmes was one of them.

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'I was struck with how well
he actually handled Ali

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'in their sparring sessions.

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'He dominated Ali.
That wasn't uncommon.

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'Ali would often not show his best
stuff with sparring partners,

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'but would work on his weaknesses.

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'He'd go against the ropes
and let people pummel him,

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'very heavy hitters,
he'd let them bang away at him.

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'As if he was training his body to
receive these messages of punishment

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'and absorb them faster than other
fighters could absorb them.'

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'This is in Africa because
they came up with $10 million.'

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$5 million for George Foreman,

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$5 million for me.

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00:14:54,983 --> 00:14:59,064
England was trying to get it.
A promoter said America was trying,

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but none could surpass
the $5 million mark.

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The dream is becoming a reality.

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'Don King
went to George Foreman

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'and got him to sign an agreement

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'saying that if King could deliver
$5 million, Foreman would fight Ali.

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'Then King went to Ali
and made the same deal,

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'so Don King now had both fighters,

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'their signatures
on a piece of paper.

237
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'What he didn't have
was $10 million.'

238
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..a festival to complement
this great sporting event,

239
00:15:31,064 --> 00:15:33,944
the greatest sporting event
in history.

240
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- Of all time!
- All time, as the champ says.

241
00:15:37,025 --> 00:15:38,985
Greatest event of all time!

242
00:15:39,025 --> 00:15:43,505
Bigger than Evel Knievel and
the Kentucky Derby on the same day.

243
00:15:43,545 --> 00:15:47,785
The president of Zaire was willing
to put $10 million

244
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of his country's own very scarce,
hard-earned currency on the line,

245
00:15:53,185 --> 00:15:56,145
not for any
short-term economic reason

246
00:15:56,185 --> 00:15:59,705
but because he felt
that the fight would be good

247
00:15:59,745 --> 00:16:04,505
in terms of promoting Zaire and also
in terms of promoting himself,

248
00:16:04,585 --> 00:16:06,425
and as Ali said at the time,

249
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countries go to war
to get their names on the map

250
00:16:09,865 --> 00:16:12,786
and wars cost
a lot more than $10 million.

251
00:16:12,826 --> 00:16:17,146
Some of the most dynamic
performers from Afro-America

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will appear at the stadium in
Kinshasa on the 20th, 21st and 22nd,

253
00:16:21,746 --> 00:16:24,266
with this theatrical release.

254
00:16:24,306 --> 00:16:27,866
It will be James Brown,
soul brother number one...

255
00:16:27,906 --> 00:16:31,666
- Is he playing?
- Yes, James Brown will be there.

256
00:16:31,706 --> 00:16:34,706
We will have BB King, The Spinners...

257
00:16:34,746 --> 00:16:40,906
This is the first assembly in history
where the top-notch Blacks of America

258
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and the people of Africa had
something together, all on a level,

259
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we're all meeting and learning more
about each other,

260
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the first assembly among American
Black men and Africans in history

261
00:16:53,547 --> 00:16:55,387
and it's a big honour.

262
00:16:55,427 --> 00:16:57,387
Plus I gotta whup George!

263
00:16:58,227 --> 00:17:00,267
'Got to whup George!'

264
00:17:00,307 --> 00:17:03,747
We're gonna rumble in the jungle!

265
00:17:03,787 --> 00:17:05,867
Come on, come on.

266
00:17:10,387 --> 00:17:12,867
Speak up, boy. Go ahead.

267
00:17:14,947 --> 00:17:17,547
- Good boy.

268
00:17:17,587 --> 00:17:19,307
Get down.

269
00:17:20,387 --> 00:17:22,267
- Quiet.
- George?

270
00:17:22,307 --> 00:17:26,107
Is this fight against Ali
the toughest of your career?

271
00:17:31,508 --> 00:17:34,588
Could be, could be. I doubt it.

272
00:17:34,668 --> 00:17:39,068
This is Muhammad Ali, September 10th
at New York City airport,

273
00:17:39,108 --> 00:17:43,268
en route to Zaire to reclaim
the heavyweight title of the world.

274
00:17:43,308 --> 00:17:46,988
Champ, what would you like to say
to the children of the world?

275
00:17:47,028 --> 00:17:52,628
I'd like to say, mainly where they
understand English in America,

276
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to...live a clean life,
stay off the dope.

277
00:17:57,308 --> 00:17:59,588
It's tearing the country up.

278
00:17:59,628 --> 00:18:04,148
Also, if they wanna be like me,
I'm going to whup George Foreman,

279
00:18:04,189 --> 00:18:07,269
and when they see this
I will have beaten him.

280
00:18:07,309 --> 00:18:10,069
Tell them to quit eating
so much candy,

281
00:18:10,109 --> 00:18:14,189
I have three rotten teeth
and I had to have one of 'em pulled,

282
00:18:14,229 --> 00:18:16,509
I can't chew my food like I should.

283
00:18:16,549 --> 00:18:21,189
Eat natural foods
because we must whup Mr Tooth Decay.

284
00:18:21,229 --> 00:18:23,829
I got one right there and one there.

285
00:18:23,869 --> 00:18:28,709
Ali told us he's going to use part
of his money to build a hospital.

286
00:18:28,749 --> 00:18:33,909
Do you intend to use part of your
money for something, a project?

287
00:18:34,829 --> 00:18:38,349
He may think
he may have to be in the hospital.

288
00:18:38,389 --> 00:18:40,549
I want the man!

289
00:18:40,589 --> 00:18:45,070
When I get to Africa we gonna
get it on because we don't get along!

290
00:18:45,110 --> 00:18:47,550
I don't like him, he talks too much.

291
00:18:47,590 --> 00:18:50,830
- Beg your pardon?
- You would continue boxing

292
00:18:50,870 --> 00:18:53,550
- even if you lose?
- I beg your pardon?

293
00:18:53,590 --> 00:18:56,750
- You don't think about losing?

294
00:18:56,790 --> 00:18:59,910
No. But thank you.
Nice talking to you.

295
00:19:01,190 --> 00:19:03,830
Flying over the Sahara desert.

296
00:19:03,870 --> 00:19:09,310
An African airline with all African
stewardesses, all African pilots.

297
00:19:09,350 --> 00:19:12,870
This is the first free feeling
I had in a long time.

298
00:19:12,910 --> 00:19:17,390
Ain't this something, flying in
an airplane with Black pilots?

299
00:19:17,430 --> 00:19:21,631
All Black crew? This is strange
to the American Negro.

300
00:19:21,671 --> 00:19:23,751
We never dreamed of this!

301
00:19:23,791 --> 00:19:28,631
Every time we watch TV they show us
Tarzan and the natives and jungles,

302
00:19:28,671 --> 00:19:33,431
they never told us that Africans
were more intelligent than we are.

303
00:19:33,471 --> 00:19:37,311
They speak English,
French and African.

304
00:19:37,351 --> 00:19:39,671
We can't even speak English good.

305
00:19:54,431 --> 00:19:57,152
Ain't this beautiful? I'm free!

306
00:19:57,192 --> 00:19:58,872
Fantastic!

307
00:19:58,912 --> 00:20:00,512
I'm free.

308
00:20:00,552 --> 00:20:02,392
# Now, I want everybody

309
00:20:02,432 --> 00:20:04,312
# To repeat after me

310
00:20:05,632 --> 00:20:09,512
# If you don't know who you are
and where your place in life is

311
00:20:09,552 --> 00:20:12,072
# Just say to yourself, I am!

312
00:20:13,352 --> 00:20:15,352
# Somebody!

313
00:20:15,392 --> 00:20:17,312
# I am!

314
00:20:17,352 --> 00:20:18,992
# Somebody!

315
00:20:19,032 --> 00:20:21,072
# I may be poor

316
00:20:22,392 --> 00:20:23,952
# But I am somebody #

317
00:20:30,272 --> 00:20:32,512
'It was a great joy

318
00:20:32,552 --> 00:20:36,793
'to see that the championship
was going to happen in Africa.

319
00:20:36,873 --> 00:20:39,393
'People were so happy.

320
00:20:39,433 --> 00:20:43,593
'At last the world was
paying attention to our continent.

321
00:20:43,633 --> 00:20:46,953
'Yes, we knew Muhammad Ali
as a boxer,

322
00:20:46,993 --> 00:20:50,713
'but more importantly
for his political stance.

323
00:20:50,753 --> 00:20:56,633
'When we saw that America was at war
with a Third World country, Vietnam,

324
00:20:56,673 --> 00:21:01,593
'and that one of the children
of the United States said

325
00:21:01,633 --> 00:21:05,953
'"Me? You want me to go
and fight against the Viet Cong?"

326
00:21:05,993 --> 00:21:10,193
'"Why should I fight against them?
They haven't hurt me."

327
00:21:10,233 --> 00:21:15,794
'And for us, it was extraordinary to
see that in the America of that time

328
00:21:15,834 --> 00:21:18,914
'someone could take such a position.

329
00:21:18,994 --> 00:21:23,754
'He may have lost his title,
he may have lost millions of dollars

330
00:21:23,794 --> 00:21:27,554
'but he gained
the esteem of millions of Africans.'

331
00:21:27,594 --> 00:21:31,394
Ali! Ali! Ali!

332
00:21:34,994 --> 00:21:37,714
What is your population?

333
00:21:39,994 --> 00:21:42,914
- 22 million.
- 22 million?

334
00:21:42,954 --> 00:21:46,794
- 22 million.
- How many George Foreman fans here?

335
00:21:48,955 --> 00:21:52,075
- We don't know, we don't know.

336
00:21:52,115 --> 00:21:56,395
- How many Muhammad Ali?
- So many we cannot count them.

337
00:21:58,355 --> 00:22:04,155
'George Foreman?
We had heard he was a world champion.

338
00:22:04,195 --> 00:22:09,675
'We thought he was white, then
we realised he was black, like Ali.

339
00:22:09,715 --> 00:22:14,315
'But still, for us,
Foreman represented America.

340
00:22:14,355 --> 00:22:17,595
'He arrived with a dog,
a German shepherd,

341
00:22:17,635 --> 00:22:20,475
'which immediately offended Africans

342
00:22:20,515 --> 00:22:24,475
'since the Belgians
had used them as police dogs.'

343
00:22:24,515 --> 00:22:27,796
Ali said you're
the out-of-towner here.

344
00:22:27,836 --> 00:22:32,756
Africa is the cradle of civilisation,
everybody's home is Africa.

345
00:23:20,277 --> 00:23:24,397
OK, fine.
So, they're leaving tomorrow...

346
00:23:24,437 --> 00:23:29,357
Typhoid. How do you spell typhoid?
Is that all that we're giving?

347
00:23:29,397 --> 00:23:34,637
Who do you want to be
your beneficiary in case of anything?

348
00:23:34,677 --> 00:23:37,837
'You need
a ticket to get on the plane.'

349
00:23:37,877 --> 00:23:42,358
Let me see some hands of the 51
who don't have airline tickets.

350
00:23:42,398 --> 00:23:46,998
Hi! You know who we are, don't you?

351
00:23:48,118 --> 00:23:53,558
I'm Lola Love, I'm with the dancers
of the James Brown show, revue.

352
00:23:56,678 --> 00:24:00,638
Zai-ere, or Zare,
or whatever, you know?

353
00:24:00,678 --> 00:24:03,158
Yeah, when are gonna get to Zee-air?

354
00:24:03,198 --> 00:24:05,718
- Who?
- Mobutu land.

355
00:24:07,238 --> 00:24:10,878
We're gonna fly in zee-air
till we get to Zaire.

356
00:24:10,918 --> 00:24:12,998
That's right!

357
00:24:16,158 --> 00:24:18,559
# Sittin' in a railway station

358
00:24:18,599 --> 00:24:21,159
# My suitcase in my hand

359
00:24:21,199 --> 00:24:23,159
# Going back where I came from

360
00:24:23,199 --> 00:24:25,639
# I've had more than I can stand

361
00:24:25,679 --> 00:24:28,759
# Marchin' in beside my dreams

362
00:24:28,799 --> 00:24:31,199
# Pack my things
and live those dreams

363
00:24:31,239 --> 00:24:33,399
# I was up but then I've been down

364
00:24:33,439 --> 00:24:35,319
# Ain't gonna hang around

365
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,679
# I'm coming home

366
00:24:39,719 --> 00:24:43,239
# Uh-huh, yes, I am

367
00:24:43,799 --> 00:24:46,319
# More than I can stand, my daughter

368
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,039
# Tell someone to meet me

369
00:24:48,079 --> 00:24:52,559
# I'm comin' home

370
00:24:54,479 --> 00:24:58,160
# Why don't you, mercy me

371
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,840
# Ooh-hoo, let me tell ya

372
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,760
# Came to this old town

373
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,920
# Some fortune and some fame

374
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,000
# Never got the chance
to prove myself

375
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,360
# Tryin' to play every game

376
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,960
# Abusin' people just ain't my thing

377
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,240
# I won't dangle from any string

378
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,400
# Peace movement don't care about now
turning inside out

379
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,400
# I'm coming home, home, yeah

380
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,120
# It's mighty long

381
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,600
# I got it, you know too

382
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,160
# Hey, I know what I'm gonna do

383
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,361
# Tell someone to meet me

384
00:25:33,401 --> 00:25:36,641
# Oh, come on

385
00:25:36,681 --> 00:25:39,681
# Yes, I am, yeah!

386
00:25:39,721 --> 00:25:41,921
# Tell someone to meet me

387
00:25:44,361 --> 00:25:46,241
# I got it, look here! #

388
00:25:47,001 --> 00:25:50,841
The plane is not coming in at six,
it's now coming in between 10 and 11,

389
00:25:50,881 --> 00:25:54,921
so you don't have to have those
trucks up to the airport that early.

390
00:25:54,961 --> 00:25:58,721
- Where's James Brown...?
- James Brown is on his way.

391
00:25:58,761 --> 00:26:01,561
BB King... They ain't nowhere around!

392
00:26:10,762 --> 00:26:14,042
Six, fifth and fourth are done.
Elevators are working.

393
00:26:14,082 --> 00:26:16,602
There's no air conditioning at all?

394
00:26:16,642 --> 00:26:20,442
80%'s out. The circuits are in
but it doesn't work.

395
00:26:20,482 --> 00:26:24,082
What do you mean, 80%?
What floor is out?

396
00:26:24,122 --> 00:26:26,282
I have sixth, fifth and fourth.

397
00:26:26,322 --> 00:26:28,642
I understand, but what about...

398
00:26:28,682 --> 00:26:32,042
It's individual
air conditioning controls...

399
00:26:32,082 --> 00:26:35,002
What apartments
have air conditioning?

400
00:26:35,042 --> 00:26:38,322
How many beds
can we move people into tonight?

401
00:26:38,362 --> 00:26:40,842
- Four. Four rooms.
- Just eight people?

402
00:26:40,882 --> 00:26:42,362
Yeah.

403
00:26:43,762 --> 00:26:46,002
# Everything gonna be all right

404
00:26:46,042 --> 00:26:48,563
# Cos home's
where the heart's at, yeah

405
00:26:48,603 --> 00:26:50,443
# And it's a natural fact

406
00:26:50,483 --> 00:26:52,563
# What you sayin' tell me, won't you?

407
00:26:52,603 --> 00:26:54,483
# Yeah, hey hey

408
00:26:54,523 --> 00:26:56,203
# Gotta make a start today

409
00:26:57,083 --> 00:26:59,563
# Gotta do it in my way

410
00:26:59,603 --> 00:27:01,603
# Gonna see Momma again

411
00:27:01,643 --> 00:27:04,083
# Gonna see my old, old friend

412
00:27:04,123 --> 00:27:05,483
# Africa!

413
00:27:06,123 --> 00:27:07,643
# Africa!

414
00:27:08,683 --> 00:27:10,323
# Africa!

415
00:27:10,363 --> 00:27:13,003
# Ohh, Africa! #

416
00:27:14,083 --> 00:27:15,963
Hello, bubba!

417
00:27:16,883 --> 00:27:18,763
How you doin'?

418
00:27:22,283 --> 00:27:25,564
Ready to dance? I got ants
in my pants, I gotta dance.

419
00:27:29,084 --> 00:27:32,004
'The fight was held in Zaire,
the former Belgian Congo.

420
00:27:32,044 --> 00:27:34,964
'Kinshasa was the capital
on the banks of the Congo,

421
00:27:35,004 --> 00:27:37,844
'this was just before
the rainy season.'

422
00:27:37,884 --> 00:27:40,644
Up to the north
was the flickering of storms,

423
00:27:40,684 --> 00:27:43,964
and it was important to the promoters

424
00:27:44,004 --> 00:27:46,924
that this fight get in
before the storms occurred,

425
00:27:46,964 --> 00:27:50,524
because once the rainy season comes
you can't do anything.

426
00:27:50,564 --> 00:27:54,524
The Congo had such a wonderful name,
Conradian and all that.

427
00:27:54,564 --> 00:27:57,284
To call it Zaire
didn't have quite the majesty,

428
00:27:57,324 --> 00:27:59,284
but there it was, the Congo.

429
00:28:20,645 --> 00:28:23,085
'Mobutu was everywhere.

430
00:28:23,125 --> 00:28:25,565
'He was the equivalent of Stalin.'

431
00:28:25,605 --> 00:28:27,845
'You saw his picture everywhere.'

432
00:28:27,885 --> 00:28:31,765
Part of the vanity of dictators,
with the exception of Mussolini,

433
00:28:31,805 --> 00:28:34,645
who was half ugly
and half attractive,

434
00:28:34,685 --> 00:28:39,246
most dictators are unbelievably ugly
or plain - Franco, Hitler...

435
00:28:43,766 --> 00:28:48,366
'Mobutu looked the archetype,
the epitome of a closet sadist.

436
00:28:48,406 --> 00:28:52,166
'Sort of guy, if you meet him
in a bar, you think, "Oh, my God!

437
00:28:52,206 --> 00:28:55,886
'"Who are the poor women
who are associated with this fella?"

438
00:29:02,166 --> 00:29:06,486
'And since Mobutu was
an extraordinarily practical man,

439
00:29:06,526 --> 00:29:10,446
'down under the stadium,
which seated 100,000 people,

440
00:29:10,486 --> 00:29:13,646
'were detention pens
and rooms and chambers

441
00:29:13,686 --> 00:29:18,367
'where you could imprison as many
as a couple of thousand people.

442
00:29:18,407 --> 00:29:23,247
'Before the fight came, the criminal
rate in Zaire began to go up.'

443
00:29:23,287 --> 00:29:28,287
A few white foreigners
had been killed, driving their cars.

444
00:29:28,327 --> 00:29:33,487
And Mobutu decided that this would be
a disaster in terms of publicity,

445
00:29:33,527 --> 00:29:40,447
so on a given day he had a thousand
of the leading criminals in Kinshasa

446
00:29:40,487 --> 00:29:46,247
rounded up and put in this stadium,
down in the detention pens.

447
00:29:46,287 --> 00:29:51,047
'And then the legend has it, and I
suspect the legend may even be true,

448
00:29:51,087 --> 00:29:54,728
'that he had 100
taken at random and killed them.

449
00:29:54,768 --> 00:29:57,528
'And the reason was
a particularly simple one

450
00:29:57,568 --> 00:29:59,648
'from Mobutu's point of view.'

451
00:29:59,688 --> 00:30:04,088
Career criminals have connections who
protect them when they're in trouble,

452
00:30:04,128 --> 00:30:07,768
and by making this kill
of 100 out of 1,000 arbitrarily,

453
00:30:07,808 --> 00:30:12,488
Mobutu was saying "Your connections
are worth nothing. I am Jehovah.

454
00:30:12,528 --> 00:30:17,168
'"I will blast you out of existence
if you fool around with me."'

455
00:30:24,768 --> 00:30:29,448
'He made his point, Kinshasa was
one of the safest cities in Africa,

456
00:30:29,488 --> 00:30:33,649
'in all the world, while the foreign
press was there for the fight.'

457
00:30:47,209 --> 00:30:51,769
'To me, the drum was the communicator
since the beginning of time,

458
00:30:51,809 --> 00:30:55,009
'I'm sure it was
the first message ever sent.

459
00:30:55,049 --> 00:30:58,209
'The beat today
and the beats centuries ago

460
00:30:58,249 --> 00:31:01,489
'are the only thing
that's kept us together.'

461
00:31:06,369 --> 00:31:11,050
We had this thing, when we hurt,
we sung for trial and tribulation,

462
00:31:11,090 --> 00:31:13,850
and for relief, we sung songs to God

463
00:31:13,890 --> 00:31:17,570
and this music that you hear today
is the same songs

464
00:31:17,610 --> 00:31:22,450
that have been made popular around
the world without any volition.

465
00:31:23,370 --> 00:31:24,810
Oh!

466
00:31:57,571 --> 00:31:59,931
'So anybody who knows anything

467
00:31:59,971 --> 00:32:03,771
'about the rhythm and the blues
as they're so-called,

468
00:32:03,811 --> 00:32:05,931
'should know about Africa.'

469
00:32:06,651 --> 00:32:09,211
# When I first met you, baby

470
00:32:14,491 --> 00:32:17,291
# Baby, you were just

471
00:32:17,331 --> 00:32:19,211
# Sweet sixteen

472
00:32:21,771 --> 00:32:24,372
# When I first met you, baby

473
00:32:27,412 --> 00:32:32,492
# Baby, you was just sweet sixteen

474
00:32:37,092 --> 00:32:40,292
# Just off your homeland, baby

475
00:32:43,212 --> 00:32:48,292
# Oh, the sweetest thing
I'd ever seen #

476
00:32:54,292 --> 00:32:58,492
The music I listen to, in most white
people's houses, I don't hear this,

477
00:32:58,532 --> 00:33:00,613
because your culture wouldn't...

478
00:33:00,653 --> 00:33:04,933
Your woman doesn't leave you
and slip away like our women,

479
00:33:04,973 --> 00:33:07,893
because you had money
to keep your woman.

480
00:33:07,933 --> 00:33:12,373
Your songs are like, "And the train
comes around that mountain,

481
00:33:12,413 --> 00:33:16,333
"In the Folsom Prison,
in the Folsom Prison".

482
00:33:16,373 --> 00:33:18,893
You know, "Y'all come, y'all come."

483
00:33:18,933 --> 00:33:22,773
Chinese got diddly music,
"Pleen ting tang tong ting."

484
00:33:22,813 --> 00:33:27,133
I don't want that and he understands.
Everybody's got their culture.

485
00:33:27,173 --> 00:33:32,253
So we're not saying we hate you
or we're never talking to you again

486
00:33:32,293 --> 00:33:34,893
and doing business, we don't do that.

487
00:33:34,933 --> 00:33:38,294
We're saying
that we want to be independent.

488
00:33:38,334 --> 00:33:40,054
# Baby, I wonder

489
00:33:40,094 --> 00:33:41,574
# Yes, I wonder

490
00:33:41,614 --> 00:33:43,454
# Baby, I wonder

491
00:33:47,814 --> 00:33:54,214
# Oh, I wonder what in the world
is gonna happen to me #

492
00:34:01,854 --> 00:34:05,414
'The great place
to visit in Kinshasa

493
00:34:05,454 --> 00:34:08,134
'was a compound
about 20 miles up the Congo.

494
00:34:08,174 --> 00:34:11,774
'A place called Enseli,
a presidential palace.

495
00:34:11,814 --> 00:34:16,135
'That was where we saw Foreman,
who seemed incredible.'

496
00:34:16,175 --> 00:34:19,895
I'd seen him fight before,
I saw him destroy Frazier

497
00:34:19,935 --> 00:34:24,095
and the thing I always remembered
was that the beaten fighter,

498
00:34:24,135 --> 00:34:27,055
even a man as powerful
and big as Frazier,

499
00:34:27,095 --> 00:34:30,015
and he was very much favoured
to win that,

500
00:34:30,055 --> 00:34:32,655
suddenly becomes the size of a pygmy.

501
00:34:32,695 --> 00:34:35,335
They just diminish in size,

502
00:34:35,375 --> 00:34:39,655
and Foreman suddenly became
this gigantic figure.

503
00:34:41,695 --> 00:34:45,535
'And he had a trainer, Dick Sadler,
tiny by comparison,

504
00:34:45,575 --> 00:34:50,455
'and Sadler would hang on to this
heavy bag while Foreman would hit it.

505
00:34:50,495 --> 00:34:53,896
'Sadler would have been
picked off his feet.'

506
00:34:55,456 --> 00:34:57,576
'Foreman hitting the bag

507
00:34:57,616 --> 00:35:02,336
'is one of the more prodigious sights
I've had in my life.

508
00:35:02,376 --> 00:35:06,816
'Of all the people I've seen hit
heavy bags, including Sonny Liston,

509
00:35:06,856 --> 00:35:09,256
'no one hit it the way Foreman did.'

510
00:35:09,296 --> 00:35:13,536
At the end of 15 minutes
of pounding the heavy bag,

511
00:35:13,576 --> 00:35:17,936
there'd be a hole,
not a hole but a huge dent,

512
00:35:17,976 --> 00:35:22,296
the size of half a small watermelon
in that tremendous bag,

513
00:35:22,336 --> 00:35:25,816
and Foreman used to use
the biggest heavy bag around.

514
00:35:25,856 --> 00:35:30,217
'What would be interesting is Ali,
who would train after Foreman,

515
00:35:30,257 --> 00:35:34,337
'would pass this large hall
where the training took place

516
00:35:34,377 --> 00:35:37,617
'and he never looked at Foreman
hitting the heavy bag.

517
00:35:37,657 --> 00:35:40,977
'He just walked right by
as if Foreman didn't exist.

518
00:35:41,017 --> 00:35:43,177
'If you were gonna fight the man

519
00:35:43,217 --> 00:35:46,897
'you didn't want to see him
hitting that heavy bag.'

520
00:35:46,937 --> 00:35:49,697
I'm a speed demon!
I'm a brain fighter!

521
00:35:49,737 --> 00:35:51,897
I'm scientific! I'm artistic!

522
00:35:51,937 --> 00:35:53,857
I plan my strategy!

523
00:35:54,777 --> 00:35:56,977
He's the bull, I'm the matador!

524
00:35:59,337 --> 00:36:01,337
He's scared to death.

525
00:36:01,657 --> 00:36:03,737
He's scared to death!

526
00:36:05,817 --> 00:36:08,818
He wish he could
get out of the whole thing!

527
00:36:08,858 --> 00:36:12,538
He wish he could get out of the whole
thing! The man is frightened!

528
00:36:12,578 --> 00:36:16,418
He's meetin' his master,
his teacher, his idol!

529
00:36:16,458 --> 00:36:18,778
- Time!
- Is that all?

530
00:36:20,818 --> 00:36:24,178
When I talk and work I'm in shape,
it's all I do.

531
00:36:25,298 --> 00:36:28,498
'Ali announced
he was gonna dance.

532
00:36:28,538 --> 00:36:30,658
'He spoke about it all the time.

533
00:36:30,698 --> 00:36:33,578
'Every interview
in that period he'd say

534
00:36:33,618 --> 00:36:37,738
'"How is Foreman going to get
near to me? I'm going to dance!

535
00:36:37,778 --> 00:36:42,498
'"I'm going to dance and dance! He'll
look foolish trying to find me.'

536
00:36:42,538 --> 00:36:45,059
"And as he gropes his way forward

537
00:36:45,099 --> 00:36:48,939
"in this storm of blindness
at the speed of my dancing

538
00:36:48,979 --> 00:36:51,059
"I will strike him with my jab!

539
00:36:51,099 --> 00:36:54,019
"Poo! Poo! Poo!"
he would go and so forth.

540
00:36:54,059 --> 00:36:57,779
We heard this over and over
and Foreman heard it too.

541
00:36:59,179 --> 00:37:03,099
'Foreman was working now on
what's called cutting off the ring.

542
00:37:03,179 --> 00:37:05,339
'This essentially just means

543
00:37:05,379 --> 00:37:09,539
'cornering your opponent
against the ropes or in a corner.

544
00:37:09,579 --> 00:37:13,979
'It's an art, a balletic art,
you have to have very good footwork.

545
00:37:14,019 --> 00:37:16,259
'Foreman's footwork,
he was a big man,

546
00:37:16,299 --> 00:37:19,459
'but his footwork was better
than anyone had expected.

547
00:37:19,499 --> 00:37:21,700
'He worked with very fast fighters,

548
00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:24,700
'smaller than himself,
who certainly could dance

549
00:37:24,740 --> 00:37:26,820
'and he worked on cornering them.

550
00:37:26,860 --> 00:37:30,180
'And the combination
of watching the heavy bag

551
00:37:30,220 --> 00:37:32,980
'and watching Foreman
cut off the ring

552
00:37:33,020 --> 00:37:36,220
'made most fight writers,
myself included,

553
00:37:36,260 --> 00:37:38,860
'pessimistic about Ali's chances.'

554
00:38:13,141 --> 00:38:17,301
The guy threw up his elbows
to protect himself from Foreman

555
00:38:17,341 --> 00:38:19,941
and Foreman walked into his elbow.

556
00:38:19,981 --> 00:38:21,981
That's how he got cut in the eye?

557
00:38:30,941 --> 00:38:32,061
What else can happen?

558
00:38:34,781 --> 00:38:37,542
I saw the man's cut
and this man cannot fight.

559
00:38:37,582 --> 00:38:40,742
This man cannot fight
for a world championship...

560
00:38:40,782 --> 00:38:44,382
- You're not a doctor.
- I don't give a damn. I know what...

561
00:38:44,422 --> 00:38:48,182
The Zaireans kicked us out
and they did not want us around,

562
00:38:48,222 --> 00:38:52,142
and they want the fight to go on,
that's all there is to it.

563
00:38:52,182 --> 00:38:55,102
He won't fight with that eye,
he's not dumb.

564
00:38:55,142 --> 00:38:56,862
He's not that dumb?

565
00:38:56,902 --> 00:38:59,462
That's all you want is a fight.

566
00:38:59,502 --> 00:39:01,342
Excuse me, gentlemen.

567
00:39:06,822 --> 00:39:11,822
I respectfully ask are the fighters
remaining here because they want to

568
00:39:11,862 --> 00:39:15,103
or has the government
requested they remain?

569
00:39:21,903 --> 00:39:25,983
Mr Sadler told me
to convey to the press

570
00:39:26,023 --> 00:39:27,983
that it is just an accident.

571
00:39:28,023 --> 00:39:31,823
They will be contacting
the promoters of the fight

572
00:39:31,863 --> 00:39:35,543
and it is possible
that we may have to delay the fight

573
00:39:35,583 --> 00:39:38,943
and he will let the press know
as soon as possible.

574
00:39:38,983 --> 00:39:41,463
Did they have to stitch Foreman?

575
00:39:41,503 --> 00:39:44,423
They had to stitch him.
Holy shit, man.

576
00:39:44,463 --> 00:39:46,423
So how long is the delay?

577
00:39:46,463 --> 00:39:50,824
It'll take a day to get
any intelligence, this just happened.

578
00:39:50,864 --> 00:39:52,944
Then we can make a decision.

579
00:39:52,984 --> 00:39:54,904
How does George feel?

580
00:39:54,944 --> 00:39:59,024
Like anybody, he's only human.
How would any individual feel?

581
00:39:59,064 --> 00:40:01,704
Does he want it postponed?

582
00:40:01,744 --> 00:40:03,624
Who? Why should he?

583
00:40:03,664 --> 00:40:08,224
- Should he go ahead with it?
- Why should he make any decision?

584
00:40:08,304 --> 00:40:10,904
Who knows what another man thinks?

585
00:40:10,944 --> 00:40:14,904
How could I truthfully tell you
what you would think?

586
00:40:14,944 --> 00:40:19,224
A man may have mixed emotions,
I couldn't speak for George,

587
00:40:19,264 --> 00:40:22,904
I can only speak for Dick Sadler,
not for somebody else.

588
00:40:22,984 --> 00:40:24,984
I'm not that intelligent,

589
00:40:25,024 --> 00:40:30,065
I don't have that knowledge, that
ability to speak another man's mind.

590
00:40:30,105 --> 00:40:32,105
He never discussed it to me,

591
00:40:32,145 --> 00:40:35,305
and a person's mind
change from time to time.

592
00:40:35,345 --> 00:40:38,585
- The decision is yours...
- It is mine to make

593
00:40:38,665 --> 00:40:43,185
and I haven't made any...
I don't have any decisions to make.

594
00:40:43,225 --> 00:40:46,305
Let's get this show
on the road.

595
00:40:46,345 --> 00:40:49,785
This meeting is called to order.
Here, here.

596
00:40:49,825 --> 00:40:54,625
The delay won't have
any effect on the fight at all.

597
00:40:54,665 --> 00:40:58,105
There hasn't been...
there will not be a delay.

598
00:40:58,145 --> 00:41:00,265
The fight will be rescheduled

599
00:41:00,305 --> 00:41:04,546
but when it happens it'll be
actually intended for that time.

600
00:41:04,586 --> 00:41:07,826
Fate intended it for another time.
There is no delay.

601
00:41:07,866 --> 00:41:11,346
How does
Ali feel about it?

602
00:41:11,386 --> 00:41:14,986
If there ever has been
any disappointments in sports,

603
00:41:15,026 --> 00:41:18,746
setbacks or rainy days
that stopped a ball game, anything,

604
00:41:18,826 --> 00:41:21,026
this is the worst of all time.

605
00:41:21,066 --> 00:41:25,106
'Muhammad went through
a bad couple of hours

606
00:41:25,146 --> 00:41:29,506
'and wanted to move the whole fight
back to the United States,

607
00:41:29,586 --> 00:41:34,346
'then he said "Bring Joe Frazier
over and I'll fight him again

608
00:41:34,386 --> 00:41:37,586
'"and instead of each of us
getting $5 million,

609
00:41:37,626 --> 00:41:41,106
'"I'll take $3 million
and Joe can take $1 million."

610
00:41:41,146 --> 00:41:45,067
'Then he realised
nothing could be done about it

611
00:41:45,107 --> 00:41:50,147
'except stay in Zaire an extra
six weeks and make the best of it.'

612
00:41:50,187 --> 00:41:54,547
Now I gotta wait. He'll get his
whupping but I just have to wait.

613
00:41:54,587 --> 00:41:58,707
Boy, I was ready!
I was gonna upset the world again!

614
00:41:58,747 --> 00:42:03,387
The whole world was gonna
crawl and bow the next morning!

615
00:42:03,427 --> 00:42:07,587
I was gonna defeat that big
indestructible George Foreman,

616
00:42:07,627 --> 00:42:09,347
gonna rip him up!

617
00:42:09,467 --> 00:42:12,227
I'm gonna get him
for a sparring partner.

618
00:42:13,307 --> 00:42:16,707
My dream's all messed up
for six more weeks.

619
00:42:18,107 --> 00:42:21,028
The man's in trouble,
the man is scared.

620
00:42:21,068 --> 00:42:24,388
- He's in my country to start with!

621
00:42:27,548 --> 00:42:31,628
He's in my country.
You wanna see some of my country?

622
00:42:31,668 --> 00:42:33,748
Ali, boma ye!

623
00:42:33,788 --> 00:42:38,188
Ali, boma ye!
Ali, boma ye!

624
00:42:38,228 --> 00:42:42,708
Can you picture 100,000?
Can you picture 100,000?

625
00:42:42,748 --> 00:42:48,148
How you say it?
Ali, boma ye, Ali, boma ye!

626
00:42:48,188 --> 00:42:49,988
Ali, boma ye!

627
00:42:50,028 --> 00:42:53,588
When I hear them brothers
howling like that, whoo!

628
00:42:53,628 --> 00:42:55,508
I get my soul and spirit,

629
00:42:55,548 --> 00:42:59,629
100,000 African brothers
hollering "Ali, boma ye!"

630
00:42:59,709 --> 00:43:01,509
And I'm gonna... Ooh!

631
00:43:01,549 --> 00:43:05,669
I'm tired, can't take it no more,
let me get out of here.

632
00:43:05,709 --> 00:43:09,669
I wanna... I'm going to my room,
I'll talk to you later.

633
00:43:15,629 --> 00:43:17,269
I said I'm gone!

634
00:43:21,229 --> 00:43:23,069
# What you give me

635
00:43:24,509 --> 00:43:26,389
# When I miss you, baby!

636
00:43:27,829 --> 00:43:29,989
# Oh, man!

637
00:43:31,709 --> 00:43:33,589
# Baby, you understand?

638
00:43:35,870 --> 00:43:37,750
# I'll be good!

639
00:43:39,190 --> 00:43:40,990
# In a cold sweat

640
00:43:43,110 --> 00:43:44,150
# Ow!

641
00:43:47,150 --> 00:43:49,030
# Turn it back #

642
00:43:51,350 --> 00:43:54,710
'Black acts in America
have not learned

643
00:43:54,750 --> 00:43:58,990
'that once their record
is off the charts they're finished.'

644
00:43:59,030 --> 00:44:03,230
I heard a speech by Jesse Jackson,
saying we must recognise

645
00:44:03,270 --> 00:44:06,870
that we're only useful
as long as we're necessary.

646
00:44:06,910 --> 00:44:11,751
So they don't realise that your
strength comes from your community.

647
00:44:11,791 --> 00:44:14,631
And you have to deal
from your strength.

648
00:44:14,671 --> 00:44:17,991
In dealing from your strength
you got somebody

649
00:44:18,071 --> 00:44:20,991
so if somebody
wants to hurt James Brown,

650
00:44:21,031 --> 00:44:24,071
somebody gonna raise a voice
and say "why?"

651
00:44:24,111 --> 00:44:27,471
You got soldiers,
somebody that's concerned.

652
00:44:27,511 --> 00:44:32,271
But as an individual, no matter
how big you get, you still a nigger.

653
00:44:32,311 --> 00:44:36,591
You don't care how much money
you get. You are still a nigger.

654
00:44:36,671 --> 00:44:38,751
When you become unnecessary.

655
00:44:38,791 --> 00:44:40,231
# Listen

656
00:44:41,471 --> 00:44:43,591
# Extend your love

657
00:44:45,671 --> 00:44:47,551
# Can I get a drum?

658
00:44:48,912 --> 00:44:51,152
# Can I get a little taste? #

659
00:44:51,712 --> 00:44:55,352
Do unto others as you would have them
to do unto you.

660
00:44:55,392 --> 00:44:57,472
Would you ask somebody to lynch you

661
00:44:57,512 --> 00:45:02,512
and tell you where to go and how
to look, then refuse to pay you?

662
00:45:02,552 --> 00:45:05,472
Would you ask somebody
to take advantage of your woman

663
00:45:05,512 --> 00:45:07,592
and you can't even speak to his?

664
00:45:07,632 --> 00:45:11,632
Would you like to pay taxes for
something that you never received?

665
00:45:11,672 --> 00:45:15,072
Do unto others as you would have
somebody do unto you.

666
00:45:15,112 --> 00:45:18,472
And I don't have to use
the word "FM" backwards.

667
00:45:23,992 --> 00:45:27,393
We left Africa in shackles,
fetters and chains.

668
00:45:27,433 --> 00:45:31,113
We're coming back
in an aura of splendour and glory.

669
00:45:31,153 --> 00:45:36,313
The champions are here, champions of
the sports world and the music world,

670
00:45:36,393 --> 00:45:40,553
so put 'em together and we got
one champion that's so intermingled

671
00:45:40,593 --> 00:45:42,993
that we're fused into one entity.

672
00:45:43,033 --> 00:45:46,713
The brother said something there!
Yeah!

673
00:45:46,753 --> 00:45:48,673
Don King put this together.

674
00:45:48,713 --> 00:45:52,113
It was not a colour put it together,
you understand?

675
00:45:52,153 --> 00:45:54,233
I'd like to call him the Messiah.

676
00:45:54,273 --> 00:45:57,273
'This fight
came into existence

677
00:45:57,313 --> 00:46:01,153
'because of Don King's
desire to break out of the pack.

678
00:46:01,193 --> 00:46:06,674
'He was either going to become an
enormously prominent man, at least,

679
00:46:06,714 --> 00:46:09,994
'or go back to obscurity again
if it failed.'

680
00:46:10,034 --> 00:46:12,794
Oh, I'm so happy
to see you, my brothers.

681
00:46:12,834 --> 00:46:15,794
This is the Minister of Finance
of Zaire.

682
00:46:15,834 --> 00:46:19,594
Yes, I have met
the Minister of Finance. How are you?

683
00:46:19,634 --> 00:46:22,634
I appreciate your talent
and expertise.

684
00:46:22,674 --> 00:46:26,314
This is what it's all about.
I welcome you with love.

685
00:46:26,394 --> 00:46:30,714
We must deal with it as such,
but with love, not with hostility.

686
00:46:30,754 --> 00:46:33,114
You know, just but with love.

687
00:46:33,194 --> 00:46:34,994
Bravo, Mr King!

688
00:46:35,034 --> 00:46:36,714
My brother!

689
00:46:36,754 --> 00:46:40,275
'King had
this huge air of welcome.

690
00:46:40,315 --> 00:46:44,475
'Rarely has anyone ever been welcomed
the way King could do it.'

691
00:46:44,515 --> 00:46:46,395
'A joy came off him.'

692
00:46:46,435 --> 00:46:49,915
I knew his reputation,
how he'd been in jail,

693
00:46:49,955 --> 00:46:52,475
how he was thoroughly untrustworthy

694
00:46:52,515 --> 00:46:55,275
but nonetheless
he made you feel good.

695
00:46:55,315 --> 00:46:57,755
Don't leave! I need your strength!

696
00:46:57,795 --> 00:46:59,675
He was startling looking.

697
00:46:59,715 --> 00:47:04,115
Writers found different ways
to describe this uprush of hair.

698
00:47:04,155 --> 00:47:07,915
Some would say that he'd stuck
his thumb into an electric socket.

699
00:47:07,955 --> 00:47:10,475
Falling through an elevator shaft.

700
00:47:10,515 --> 00:47:12,795
'The fight was postponed.

701
00:47:12,835 --> 00:47:17,596
'Don King turned up and it seemed
maybe the fight wouldn't happen.'

702
00:47:17,636 --> 00:47:20,116
Nothing as big as this
ever runs smoothly,

703
00:47:20,156 --> 00:47:22,756
anything worthwhile
is worth fighting for.

704
00:47:22,796 --> 00:47:25,796
If you think
about what Shakespeare said,

705
00:47:25,836 --> 00:47:27,916
"the sweet uses of adversity,

706
00:47:27,956 --> 00:47:32,876
"ugly and venomous like a toad yet
wears a precious jewel in his head."

707
00:47:32,956 --> 00:47:37,156
"Ugly and venomous like a toad
yet wears a precious jewel."

708
00:47:37,196 --> 00:47:41,036
How many fight promoters have tried
even one line of Shakespeare?

709
00:47:41,076 --> 00:47:44,756
I can relate to the denial
they are confronted with,

710
00:47:44,796 --> 00:47:50,316
the rat-infested hovels, sub-standard
tenements, overcrowded tenements.

711
00:47:50,356 --> 00:47:54,556
I've been a part of it.
I know about roaches and rats.

712
00:47:54,596 --> 00:47:56,677
When he started talkin' to me

713
00:47:56,717 --> 00:47:59,157
I can understand him
and he can understand me.

714
00:47:59,197 --> 00:48:02,117
So, when I do this here
he can understand.

715
00:48:02,157 --> 00:48:04,037
Now he will believe in me

716
00:48:04,077 --> 00:48:07,157
because he feels
that I have shared with him

717
00:48:07,197 --> 00:48:11,117
the same anguish and anxiety,
the same pain that he has felt.

718
00:48:11,197 --> 00:48:12,877
It's a big difference.

719
00:48:12,917 --> 00:48:15,797
What would happen
if you took a small part

720
00:48:15,837 --> 00:48:19,357
of the vast sums of money
being made from the fight

721
00:48:19,397 --> 00:48:21,997
and put it into something that was...

722
00:48:22,037 --> 00:48:25,597
that would help a number of people
rather than a few?

723
00:48:25,637 --> 00:48:27,837
This is my dream and desire,

724
00:48:27,877 --> 00:48:33,518
and I feel that I would need...
white counterparts to do this here.

725
00:48:33,558 --> 00:48:38,638
I would say let me engender a large
amount of money, if it's possible,

726
00:48:38,678 --> 00:48:43,278
and then don't just let the money
sit there and wither away and die

727
00:48:43,318 --> 00:48:47,958
but put it into the sun so it could
germinate, blossom and grow.

728
00:48:47,998 --> 00:48:50,438
'He's a remarkable man.

729
00:48:50,478 --> 00:48:54,478
'Don King is one of
the brightest people I've ever met,

730
00:48:54,518 --> 00:48:58,478
'he's one of the most
charismatic people I've ever met,

731
00:48:58,518 --> 00:49:02,798
'he's one of the hardest working
people I've ever met.'

732
00:49:02,838 --> 00:49:05,918
He is also totally amoral

733
00:49:05,998 --> 00:49:12,399
and I can't think of a man who has
done more to demoralise fighters,

734
00:49:12,439 --> 00:49:18,079
exploit from fighters and ruin
fighters' careers than Don King.

735
00:49:18,119 --> 00:49:20,239
But you have to give him his due

736
00:49:20,279 --> 00:49:25,039
for what he did to make Muhammad Ali
versus George Foreman in Zaire.

737
00:49:25,079 --> 00:49:28,239
And nobody does anything for nothing.

738
00:49:28,879 --> 00:49:30,559
You understand that?

739
00:49:30,599 --> 00:49:33,599
Fight or no fight,
what business are we in?

740
00:49:33,639 --> 00:49:36,039
- Music!
- I was starting to wonder.

741
00:49:36,079 --> 00:49:37,919
I felt like
we've been in the fight business.

742
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,120
# My body

743
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,320
# My body

744
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,120
# Shake your body

745
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,440
# Shake your body

746
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,801
# Shake your body

747
00:50:25,161 --> 00:50:27,241
# We're gonna have a funky good time

748
00:50:27,681 --> 00:50:30,481
# We're gonna have a funky good time

749
00:50:32,121 --> 00:50:34,721
# We're gonna have a funky good time

750
00:50:35,721 --> 00:50:38,361
# We're gonna have a funky good time

751
00:50:39,521 --> 00:50:42,281
# We're gonna have a funky good time

752
00:50:43,281 --> 00:50:45,601
# We're gonna have a funky good time

753
00:50:45,641 --> 00:50:47,161
# Pick 'em up!

754
00:50:47,201 --> 00:50:52,081
# We're gonna take you high

755
00:51:02,082 --> 00:51:04,562
# We're gonna have a funky good time

756
00:51:05,202 --> 00:51:07,922
# We're gonna have a funky good time

757
00:51:09,442 --> 00:51:11,962
# We're gonna have a funky good time

758
00:51:13,122 --> 00:51:15,562
# We're gonna have a funky good time

759
00:51:15,602 --> 00:51:17,522
# Pick 'em up!

760
00:51:17,562 --> 00:51:22,242
# We're gonna take you high, yeah! #

761
00:51:32,482 --> 00:51:35,682
I'm gonna play me
some soul music, man.

762
00:51:37,162 --> 00:51:40,723
The Spinners...to James Brown.

763
00:51:40,803 --> 00:51:43,323
- # Make me high
- # Get me high

764
00:51:43,603 --> 00:51:45,523
- # Make me high
- # Get me high

765
00:51:45,563 --> 00:51:48,963
- # A natural high
- # Groovy high... #

766
00:51:49,003 --> 00:51:51,843
Ali! Ali!

767
00:51:51,883 --> 00:51:54,283
# Downright high

768
00:51:54,323 --> 00:51:56,683
- # Everybody high
- # Legal high

769
00:51:56,723 --> 00:51:58,563
# Need to get high

770
00:51:58,603 --> 00:52:01,403
- # Down high... #
- I'm ready.

771
00:52:01,443 --> 00:52:03,523
- # Bad!
- # Bad!

772
00:52:04,083 --> 00:52:05,363
- # Bad!
- # Bad!

773
00:52:05,843 --> 00:52:07,243
- # Bad!
- # Bad!

774
00:52:07,643 --> 00:52:09,523
- # Bad!
- # Bad!

775
00:52:09,603 --> 00:52:11,323
- # Bad!
- # Bad!

776
00:52:11,683 --> 00:52:12,723
- # Bad!
- # Bad!

777
00:52:13,203 --> 00:52:14,643
- # Bad!
- # Bad!

778
00:52:15,083 --> 00:52:16,764
- # Bad!
- # Bad! #

779
00:53:04,725 --> 00:53:06,685
Sucker, you ain't nothin'!

780
00:53:06,725 --> 00:53:08,405
You're too ugly!

781
00:53:08,445 --> 00:53:11,285
You don't represent
us coloured folks.

782
00:53:11,325 --> 00:53:13,925
These Africans make all of us ugly.

783
00:53:15,005 --> 00:53:16,645
Sucker, look at you!

784
00:53:18,645 --> 00:53:20,765
You out, sucker.

785
00:53:23,965 --> 00:53:26,165
Ali, boma ye!

786
00:53:26,205 --> 00:53:28,365
Ali, boma ye!

787
00:53:28,405 --> 00:53:30,526
Ali, boma ye!

788
00:53:30,766 --> 00:53:32,966
Ali, boma ye!

789
00:53:33,006 --> 00:53:34,766
That mean kill him!

790
00:53:34,806 --> 00:53:38,686
When I walk
down the street kids follow me

791
00:53:38,726 --> 00:53:41,526
screaming "George Foreman, bumba yu"

792
00:53:41,566 --> 00:53:43,446
er, "boma ye", yeah.

793
00:53:43,486 --> 00:53:46,886
And that hasn't...
I don't think that's so nice.

794
00:53:46,926 --> 00:53:51,086
I'd like, if they have anything
to say about me they could say

795
00:53:51,126 --> 00:53:55,926
"George Foreman loves Africa"
or "George Foreman loves being here"

796
00:53:55,966 --> 00:53:59,486
not "George Foreman, kill him,"
I don't like that.

797
00:53:59,526 --> 00:54:01,846
Boma ye!
Boma ye!

798
00:54:03,006 --> 00:54:06,246
George Foreman.
Boma ye! Boma ye!

799
00:54:10,767 --> 00:54:13,687
- There he is!
- Boma ye!

800
00:54:13,727 --> 00:54:15,767
Sucker, you wasn't nothing!

801
00:54:15,807 --> 00:54:17,967
Even they understand English.

802
00:54:18,007 --> 00:54:21,807
'We were all for Muhammad Ali.

803
00:54:21,847 --> 00:54:24,567
'Foreman? We didn't know him.

804
00:54:27,087 --> 00:54:29,887
'Foreman said "Why?

805
00:54:29,927 --> 00:54:32,847
'"I'm black,
blacker than Muhammad Ali.

806
00:54:32,887 --> 00:54:34,967
'"Why all this bias?"

807
00:54:36,207 --> 00:54:39,287
'Yes, Muhammad Ali, he was lighter,

808
00:54:39,327 --> 00:54:42,807
'but he was a real person,
he was genuine.

809
00:54:42,847 --> 00:54:46,728
'Muhammad Ali could have been
even lighter-skinned

810
00:54:46,768 --> 00:54:49,968
'but for us
he was defending the good cause,

811
00:54:50,008 --> 00:54:52,768
'for Africans and the whole world.'

812
00:54:52,808 --> 00:54:54,648
Watch this, seven punches.

813
00:54:55,848 --> 00:54:58,248
I'm gonna fight for the prestige,

814
00:54:58,288 --> 00:55:01,328
not for me
but to uplift my little brothers

815
00:55:01,368 --> 00:55:05,208
who are sleeping
on concrete floors today in America.

816
00:55:05,248 --> 00:55:08,608
Black people living on welfare,
who can't eat,

817
00:55:08,648 --> 00:55:13,848
Black people who don't know no
knowledge of themselves or no future.

818
00:55:13,888 --> 00:55:18,488
I wanna win my title and walk down
the alleys with the wine-heads,

819
00:55:18,528 --> 00:55:21,888
walk with the dope addicts,
the prostitutes.

820
00:55:21,928 --> 00:55:26,249
I could help people, show 'em films,
take this documentary,

821
00:55:26,289 --> 00:55:29,849
and help uplift my people
in Louisville, Kentucky;

822
00:55:29,889 --> 00:55:33,049
Indianapolis, Indiana;
Cincinnati, Ohio;

823
00:55:33,089 --> 00:55:36,489
go through Tennessee, Florida
and Mississippi

824
00:55:36,529 --> 00:55:41,009
and show Black Africans who didn't
know this was their country,

825
00:55:41,049 --> 00:55:44,729
"You look like your brothers
in Alabama, in Georgia.

826
00:55:44,769 --> 00:55:47,169
"They never knew you was over here."

827
00:55:47,209 --> 00:55:50,049
God is blessing me
and it was an accident

828
00:55:50,089 --> 00:55:52,169
to help get to all these people

829
00:55:52,209 --> 00:55:56,889
and show them films I haven't seen!
I'm well and I haven't seem them!

830
00:55:56,929 --> 00:56:01,770
Now I can get all these films, you
governments can let me take pictures

831
00:56:01,810 --> 00:56:05,130
and I can take
all this back to America!

832
00:56:05,210 --> 00:56:09,770
But - it's good to be a winner,
all I've got to do is whup Foreman.

833
00:56:09,810 --> 00:56:13,490
I realise how unfortunate
and uncomfortable it is

834
00:56:13,530 --> 00:56:16,090
for you guys to have travelled so far

835
00:56:16,130 --> 00:56:18,130
and expecting so much

836
00:56:18,170 --> 00:56:20,210
and getting so little.

837
00:56:20,250 --> 00:56:22,850
'George Foreman
was a phenomenon.

838
00:56:22,890 --> 00:56:25,370
'He was almost like a physical guru.

839
00:56:25,410 --> 00:56:29,090
'He almost never spoke
but it was always arresting.

840
00:56:29,130 --> 00:56:34,210
'You never quite knew what he meant,
it might be deep or non-responsive.

841
00:56:34,250 --> 00:56:38,091
'He was Negritude.
He was this huge Black force.'

842
00:56:38,131 --> 00:56:42,211
Because of this I had expected
Muhammad Ali to be here today.

843
00:56:42,251 --> 00:56:46,971
I was gonna hit him in his mouth
to give you some entertainment.

844
00:56:47,011 --> 00:56:51,091
Now when I go in the ring,
you see what kind of mind I got now?

845
00:56:52,171 --> 00:56:54,291
Oh! Oh!

846
00:56:54,331 --> 00:56:56,411
I just got to pound him.

847
00:56:56,451 --> 00:56:58,331
I'm not gonna even realise...

848
00:56:58,371 --> 00:57:01,771
I might look at his face
and say, "How'd I do that?"

849
00:57:01,811 --> 00:57:06,651
Allah, God, I'm his tool. God got
in me on purpose for my people.

850
00:57:06,691 --> 00:57:09,931
God has made this man
look like a little kid.

851
00:57:09,971 --> 00:57:14,612
His so-called right hand ain't
nothing now, I don't even feel 'em!

852
00:57:14,652 --> 00:57:18,852
I walk right in and take my shots
because I have God in my mind.

853
00:57:18,892 --> 00:57:23,732
I'm thinking of my people being free
and I can help with just one fight.

854
00:57:23,772 --> 00:57:27,852
He looks little in comparison
to what I'm getting from it!

855
00:57:27,892 --> 00:57:30,492
But if I think about just me...

856
00:57:30,532 --> 00:57:34,052
George Foreman knocked out
Joe Frazier like he was God.

857
00:57:34,092 --> 00:57:36,172
He knocked out Ken Norton.

858
00:57:36,212 --> 00:57:39,132
And the white press,
the power structure

859
00:57:39,172 --> 00:57:41,492
rank me to get tired in five or six,

860
00:57:41,532 --> 00:57:45,612
then I go in like Norton
and the rest of them and get scared.

861
00:57:45,652 --> 00:57:47,172
But my God controls the universe.

862
00:57:57,613 --> 00:58:01,693
'I was interested
in people called "f�ticheurs".

863
00:58:01,773 --> 00:58:04,453
'They are witches, soothsayers,

864
00:58:04,493 --> 00:58:07,293
'and in Western Africa
almost everybody has one.

865
00:58:07,333 --> 00:58:10,013
'They go to a witch doctor
the way we would go to a dentist.'

866
00:58:12,733 --> 00:58:16,373
Muhammad Ali had been
to Mobutu's f�ticheur.

867
00:58:18,653 --> 00:58:20,533
And...

868
00:58:21,453 --> 00:58:23,693
He had said that...

869
00:58:23,733 --> 00:58:27,773
The f�ticheur had said
that a woman with trembling hands

870
00:58:27,813 --> 00:58:30,254
would somehow get to Foreman.

871
00:58:30,294 --> 00:58:32,174
A succubus.

872
00:58:32,214 --> 00:58:34,854
'And that impressed me enormously.'

873
00:59:39,335 --> 00:59:44,896
'The heavyweight
championship produces an excitement

874
00:59:44,936 --> 00:59:48,096
'that's unlike
almost any other spectacle.

875
00:59:48,136 --> 00:59:50,816
'It's almost physically unendurable

876
00:59:50,856 --> 00:59:54,336
'to wait for that bell
to ring for the first round.

877
00:59:54,416 --> 00:59:58,176
'In 1974 in Zaire, the fight started
at four in the morning,

878
00:59:58,216 --> 01:00:01,496
'in order that it could be shown
on TV in America

879
01:00:01,536 --> 01:00:03,816
'at a reasonable hour like 10.'

880
01:00:03,856 --> 01:00:06,496
Boma ye! Boma ye!

881
01:00:06,536 --> 01:00:11,056
'Before the fight,
I saw a scene that was incomparable.

882
01:00:11,096 --> 01:00:14,016
'Ali's dressing room
was like a morgue.'

883
01:00:14,056 --> 01:00:16,136
It was like The Last Supper.

884
01:00:17,136 --> 01:00:19,856
And at a certain point Ali said,

885
01:00:19,896 --> 01:00:22,857
"Why is everyone...

886
01:00:24,297 --> 01:00:26,177
"so unhappy?

887
01:00:26,217 --> 01:00:28,777
"What is the matter with all of you?"

888
01:00:28,817 --> 01:00:34,297
The sense was that we were watching
a man who was going out to be...

889
01:00:34,337 --> 01:00:36,537
going out to the gallows.

890
01:00:36,577 --> 01:00:41,217
They all believed he was gonna get
defeated and they were terrified.

891
01:00:41,257 --> 01:00:43,617
They thought that with his pride

892
01:00:43,657 --> 01:00:46,777
he would take one of the world's
worst beatings ever

893
01:00:46,817 --> 01:00:48,617
and he wouldn't give up.

894
01:00:48,657 --> 01:00:52,497
And he was gonna be destroyed.
Killed or maimed, they knew not what.

895
01:00:52,537 --> 01:00:54,857
But they were deeply frightened,

896
01:00:54,897 --> 01:00:59,818
as if they were taking whatever fear
Ali might have had and absorbing it.

897
01:00:59,858 --> 01:01:02,378
After a while he looked at Bundini

898
01:01:02,418 --> 01:01:05,298
and said,
"We're gonna dance tonight."

899
01:01:05,338 --> 01:01:08,698
They said, "You're gonna dance!"

900
01:01:08,738 --> 01:01:12,298
Muhammad Ali was so funny
repeating this.

901
01:01:12,338 --> 01:01:15,338
"What am I gonna do?!"
They said, "Dance!"

902
01:01:15,378 --> 01:01:19,338
He said, "Yes!
And that man's gonna be bewildered!

903
01:01:19,378 --> 01:01:21,618
"I'm gonna dance and dance!"

904
01:01:21,658 --> 01:01:25,818
And they said, "You're gonna dance!"
I swear they were all crying.

905
01:01:25,858 --> 01:01:28,898
And he built them up to a degree

906
01:01:28,938 --> 01:01:31,098
so that for him
they became half-happy.

907
01:01:33,858 --> 01:01:36,139
Here comes the
Ali people out of the dressing room

908
01:01:36,179 --> 01:01:39,219
and all of the questions
will be answered.

909
01:01:39,259 --> 01:01:41,819
The awesome power of George Foreman

910
01:01:41,859 --> 01:01:45,499
against the varied boxing skills
of Muhammad Ali.

911
01:01:45,539 --> 01:01:48,059
It's age against youth.

912
01:01:48,099 --> 01:01:50,299
The experience of Muhammad Ali

913
01:01:50,339 --> 01:01:54,259
against the youth and brute force
and blinding speed.

914
01:01:54,299 --> 01:01:57,019
You can hear the band strike up
in the background

915
01:01:57,059 --> 01:01:59,139
as Ali moves to the ring.

916
01:01:59,179 --> 01:02:03,259
This is what Muhammad Ali lives for,
this is the man's life.

917
01:02:03,299 --> 01:02:05,539
This may be an historic event,

918
01:02:05,579 --> 01:02:09,779
Muhammad Ali coming into
the boxing ring for the last time.

919
01:02:09,819 --> 01:02:11,819
Should Muhammad Ali retire,

920
01:02:11,859 --> 01:02:15,620
this will be, what you're seeing now,
a very historic event.

921
01:02:15,660 --> 01:02:19,900
Here comes the heavyweight champion
of the world, George Foreman,

922
01:02:19,940 --> 01:02:22,020
jogging out!

923
01:02:22,060 --> 01:02:25,180
George Foreman
decked out in his red robes,

924
01:02:25,260 --> 01:02:27,340
coming in with his people.

925
01:02:27,380 --> 01:02:30,860
'No one in the press
ever saw Mobutu

926
01:02:30,900 --> 01:02:33,260
'and he didn't come to the fight.

927
01:02:33,300 --> 01:02:36,260
'He watched the fight
on closed circuit.

928
01:02:36,300 --> 01:02:38,340
'It was the only one in Zaire.

929
01:02:38,380 --> 01:02:41,420
'He was terribly afraid
of assassination.

930
01:02:41,460 --> 01:02:44,820
'This stadium
was a true arena for gladiators.

931
01:02:44,860 --> 01:02:50,341
'The floor you could not see beneath
the floor was covered with blood.

932
01:02:50,381 --> 01:02:54,981
'That blood had been washed away
but the effect was still there.'

933
01:02:55,021 --> 01:02:58,581
There was talk
about the possibility of rain,

934
01:02:58,621 --> 01:03:02,261
I don't think the weather could be
any more beautiful than it is.

935
01:03:02,301 --> 01:03:04,981
Ali is getting the people to chant!

936
01:03:05,021 --> 01:03:08,101
"Ali, boma ye,"
that means "Ali, kill him."

937
01:03:08,141 --> 01:03:13,341
'The atmosphere before
the bell rang for that first round

938
01:03:13,381 --> 01:03:16,741
'was as intense
as any I ever recall.'

939
01:03:16,781 --> 01:03:21,901
As they stare, Muhammad
Ali talking to George Foreman.

940
01:03:21,941 --> 01:03:24,061
Really staring at each other.

941
01:03:24,101 --> 01:03:27,742
Foreman looking serious,
Ali definitely talking.

942
01:03:27,782 --> 01:03:31,542
Look at the stare on Foreman.
Look at Ali give him the word.

943
01:03:31,582 --> 01:03:35,382
The stage is set, we're just about
ready to begin round one.

944
01:03:35,422 --> 01:03:37,582
The championship is at stake

945
01:03:37,622 --> 01:03:40,982
and $5 million will be paid
to both fighters.

946
01:03:41,022 --> 01:03:45,062
Ali ready, Foreman ready,
we're waiting for the bell.

947
01:03:46,622 --> 01:03:49,582
Here we go,
Ali quickly across the ring.

948
01:03:49,622 --> 01:03:53,702
Round one, Ali bouncing around,
shifting left to right.

949
01:03:53,742 --> 01:03:57,102
George moves slow,
Ali gets the first punch in,

950
01:03:57,142 --> 01:04:01,342
a light right-hand taken
on the forehead by the champion.

951
01:04:01,382 --> 01:04:03,862
Foreman moving slow, stalking.

952
01:04:03,902 --> 01:04:07,183
Ali looks like he's ready to go here.

953
01:04:07,223 --> 01:04:10,423
He's not staying away,
he's going after his man.

954
01:04:10,463 --> 01:04:15,143
Foreman cautious in the first round,
looking to drop that left hook.

955
01:04:19,623 --> 01:04:22,703
Foreman's locked his man
to the far corner.

956
01:04:22,743 --> 01:04:26,703
There's that left upper-cut
into the body of Muhammad Ali.

957
01:04:26,743 --> 01:04:30,223
Ali tries to hang on
to the head of George Foreman.

958
01:04:30,263 --> 01:04:33,543
Foreman dances...
Ali with a right-hand lead!

959
01:04:33,583 --> 01:04:37,223
Has Foreman slightly confused
with that right-hand lead,

960
01:04:37,263 --> 01:04:40,103
which I haven't seen
too many times before.

961
01:04:40,143 --> 01:04:44,424
A right-hand lead, where you throw
your right without countering,

962
01:04:44,464 --> 01:04:47,184
you throw it first, like a jab.

963
01:04:47,224 --> 01:04:51,504
That has to travel that extra
distance across the shoulders.

964
01:04:51,544 --> 01:04:56,344
'Professionals rarely use this
because it's so dangerous to throw

965
01:04:56,384 --> 01:04:58,744
'since you are open to a left hook.

966
01:04:58,784 --> 01:05:01,704
'Since fighters work in milliseconds

967
01:05:01,744 --> 01:05:05,504
'they can see a right coming
much faster than a jab.'

968
01:05:05,544 --> 01:05:08,824
Nobody had thrown a right-hand lead
at Foreman in two years,

969
01:05:08,864 --> 01:05:12,024
and none of his sparring partners,
for $50 a day,

970
01:05:12,064 --> 01:05:15,704
was going to start
throwing right-hand leads at him

971
01:05:15,744 --> 01:05:19,305
because it's a great insult
to a top professional.

972
01:05:19,345 --> 01:05:23,305
'It suggests he's slow enough
that you can hit him with it.'

973
01:05:23,345 --> 01:05:28,265
'Instead Ali figured out Foreman's
not expecting a right-hand lead.

974
01:05:28,305 --> 01:05:31,985
'"I'm gonna hit him with a right hand
and knock him out."

975
01:05:32,025 --> 01:05:36,945
'Ali threw 12 right hand leads, he
hadn't told anybody he was going to.'

976
01:05:36,985 --> 01:05:40,905
He may have debated whether to
up until the last moment.

977
01:05:40,945 --> 01:05:44,425
But he didn't knock Foreman down
or knock him out.

978
01:05:44,465 --> 01:05:46,505
Instead, Foreman went crazy.

979
01:05:46,545 --> 01:05:50,385
That punch
did no damage. That one did!

980
01:05:50,425 --> 01:05:53,625
Two wild right hands
taken on the head of Ali!

981
01:05:53,665 --> 01:05:57,026
A real strong right hand
just underneath the heart.

982
01:05:57,066 --> 01:05:59,826
Ali is taking some punishment now!

983
01:05:59,866 --> 01:06:02,146
Eight seconds left in the round.

984
01:06:02,186 --> 01:06:04,266
Bell rang.

985
01:06:04,906 --> 01:06:07,226
Ali went back to the corner...

986
01:06:07,266 --> 01:06:11,626
Finally the nightmare
he'd been awaiting in the ring

987
01:06:11,666 --> 01:06:13,906
had finally come to visit him.

988
01:06:13,946 --> 01:06:17,666
'He was in the ring
with a man he could not dominate,

989
01:06:17,706 --> 01:06:21,466
'who was stronger than him,
who was not afraid of him,

990
01:06:21,506 --> 01:06:25,586
'who'd try to knock him out,
and who punched harder than Ali,

991
01:06:25,626 --> 01:06:29,626
'and this man was determined
and unstoppable.

992
01:06:29,666 --> 01:06:32,386
'Ali had a look on his face
that I'll never forget.

993
01:06:32,426 --> 01:06:35,467
'It was the only time
I ever saw fear in Ali's eyes.'

994
01:06:35,507 --> 01:06:38,827
Ali looked as if
he looked into himself and said,

995
01:06:38,907 --> 01:06:41,107
"All right, this is the moment.

996
01:06:41,147 --> 01:06:43,907
"This is what
you've been waiting for.

997
01:06:43,947 --> 01:06:46,787
"This is...that hour.

998
01:06:47,747 --> 01:06:50,867
"Do you have the guts?"
And he kind of nodded,

999
01:06:50,907 --> 01:06:53,867
like, "Really got
to get it together, boy.

1000
01:06:53,907 --> 01:06:58,107
"You are gonna get it together...
you WILL get it together."

1001
01:06:58,147 --> 01:07:02,827
He nodded some more, as if he were
looking into the eyes of his maker,

1002
01:07:02,867 --> 01:07:06,907
and then turned to the crowd
and went "Ali, boma ye!"

1003
01:07:06,947 --> 01:07:10,987
and 100,000 people
all yelled back "Ali, boma ye!"

1004
01:07:11,027 --> 01:07:16,068
And this huge reverberation
of the crowd came back into the ring.

1005
01:07:16,108 --> 01:07:19,348
'Ali picked it up as if
"these are my people,

1006
01:07:19,388 --> 01:07:21,428
'"this is what I'm here for.

1007
01:07:21,468 --> 01:07:25,788
'"The time has come, I'm gonna find
a way to master this man."'

1008
01:07:25,828 --> 01:07:28,428
Ali tries
to tie him up.

1009
01:07:28,468 --> 01:07:31,148
No real damage done in that exchange.

1010
01:07:31,188 --> 01:07:36,028
'Foreman, like everyone,
had assumed that Ali would dance,

1011
01:07:36,068 --> 01:07:41,308
'and so Ali now went to the ropes
and went into the Rope-a-Dope.

1012
01:07:42,228 --> 01:07:46,268
'And a lot of people thought
that moment the fight was over.

1013
01:07:46,308 --> 01:07:50,829
'Especially on TV, it looked like
Foreman was killing a very weak Ali.'

1014
01:07:50,869 --> 01:07:52,749
You don't go to the ropes.

1015
01:07:52,789 --> 01:07:55,909
And there he was, leaning way back.

1016
01:07:55,949 --> 01:07:59,029
'I wrote about it, like a man
leaning out of his window

1017
01:07:59,069 --> 01:08:02,029
'trying to see
if there's something on his roof.'

1018
01:08:02,069 --> 01:08:03,949
And, you know, taking it.

1019
01:08:03,989 --> 01:08:06,229
Here were these great broadsides

1020
01:08:06,269 --> 01:08:09,869
and it looked like
he was being set up for the kill.

1021
01:08:09,909 --> 01:08:12,469
It happened so quickly
and so abruptly,

1022
01:08:12,509 --> 01:08:17,189
that I said, I shouted to Norman,
"The fix is in."

1023
01:08:17,229 --> 01:08:19,869
'He's supposed to go down
in the first or second.

1024
01:08:19,909 --> 01:08:22,469
'Ropes is halfway house
to the floor.'

1025
01:08:22,509 --> 01:08:25,229
'It just looked as though
he had to cave in.'

1026
01:08:25,269 --> 01:08:30,390
..some awkward but
very powerful hooks with both hands.

1027
01:08:30,430 --> 01:08:34,390
'They became so basic that
they were like two kids fighting.'

1028
01:08:35,990 --> 01:08:39,310
'For that round and the next round
and the next round

1029
01:08:39,390 --> 01:08:43,110
'Ali lay against the ropes,
and he kept talking to Foreman.

1030
01:08:43,150 --> 01:08:44,830
'It was extraordinary.

1031
01:08:44,870 --> 01:08:47,630
'You had to be close to see it.'

1032
01:08:47,670 --> 01:08:51,430
'And Foreman was throwing
these prodigious punches

1033
01:08:51,470 --> 01:08:54,350
'and Ali swung
like a man in the rigging.'

1034
01:08:54,390 --> 01:08:57,190
He'd go all the way back,
he'd slide out like that.

1035
01:08:57,230 --> 01:09:00,750
Occasionally, he'd get hit and he'd
say "George, you disappoint me.

1036
01:09:00,790 --> 01:09:05,071
"You don't hit as hard
as I thought you would, George,

1037
01:09:05,111 --> 01:09:07,631
"you're not breaking popcorn!"

1038
01:09:07,671 --> 01:09:09,991
'And Foreman's insane with rage,

1039
01:09:10,031 --> 01:09:12,871
'wanging at him and wanging at him,

1040
01:09:12,911 --> 01:09:15,471
'powerful, powerful, powerful.

1041
01:09:15,511 --> 01:09:19,391
'And middle of the fifth round
Foreman had punched himself out.

1042
01:09:19,431 --> 01:09:21,471
'It had taken three rounds.'

1043
01:09:21,551 --> 01:09:26,071
Ali picks it up,
40 seconds left in round five.

1044
01:09:30,431 --> 01:09:35,071
First good combination by Ali
lands on the head of Foreman.

1045
01:09:35,111 --> 01:09:37,631
Foreman with that right hook.

1046
01:09:37,671 --> 01:09:39,671
Ali scores a hook!

1047
01:09:39,711 --> 01:09:42,792
Quick jab with the right
backs up Foreman!

1048
01:09:42,832 --> 01:09:44,792
Backs him up in his tracks!

1049
01:09:44,832 --> 01:09:48,392
Foreman tries the hook!
Ali goes to the right!

1050
01:09:48,432 --> 01:09:50,752
Foreman gets knocked to the left!

1051
01:09:51,912 --> 01:09:53,952
Foreman hit again!

1052
01:09:53,992 --> 01:09:58,032
Foreman has been hit
three or four times!

1053
01:09:58,072 --> 01:10:00,512
Ali came off the ropes
and hit him a right

1054
01:10:00,552 --> 01:10:04,752
and you can see the sweat pour off
like a fountain off Foreman's face

1055
01:10:04,792 --> 01:10:09,032
and you suddenly realised
there was design in this madness.

1056
01:10:09,072 --> 01:10:12,472
So I turned to Norman,
he was somewhat puzzled,

1057
01:10:12,512 --> 01:10:15,192
but I said,
"The succubus has got him!",

1058
01:10:15,232 --> 01:10:18,233
referring to this woman
with the trembling hands

1059
01:10:18,273 --> 01:10:22,193
that the witch doctors had said
would touch Foreman and destroy him.

1060
01:10:24,073 --> 01:10:28,833
..Ali's tactics,
to let the man punch himself out.

1061
01:10:28,873 --> 01:10:31,233
30 seconds left in round eight.

1062
01:10:34,313 --> 01:10:36,193
Very even fight.

1063
01:10:36,233 --> 01:10:38,513
Ali a sneaky right hand.

1064
01:10:39,273 --> 01:10:41,233
Another sneaky right hand.

1065
01:10:41,273 --> 01:10:43,793
Works over the shoulder of Foreman.

1066
01:10:43,833 --> 01:10:45,673
There's the combination!

1067
01:10:48,113 --> 01:10:50,553
Two...three...

1068
01:10:50,633 --> 01:10:53,273
Four...five...

1069
01:10:53,313 --> 01:10:56,834
Foreman gets up to the knee at eight!

1070
01:10:57,714 --> 01:11:00,354
That's it! The fight is stopped!

1071
01:11:00,434 --> 01:11:03,874
Muhammad Ali with
a dramatic eighth round knockout!

1072
01:11:03,914 --> 01:11:07,714
He knocks out...George Foreman!

1073
01:11:07,754 --> 01:11:10,714
He's done it! Muhammad Ali
has done it! Muhammad Ali has...

1074
01:11:13,754 --> 01:11:15,274
Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali...

1075
01:11:15,314 --> 01:11:19,714
'Muhammad Ali,
he was like a sleeping elephant.

1076
01:11:19,754 --> 01:11:23,994
'You can do whatever you want
around a sleeping elephant,

1077
01:11:24,034 --> 01:11:29,714
'but when he wakes up...
he tramples everything.'

1078
01:11:32,875 --> 01:11:35,955
Muhammad Ali, boma ye.

1079
01:11:35,995 --> 01:11:40,835
Boma ye. Muhammad Ali,
boma ye George Foreman.

1080
01:11:40,875 --> 01:11:42,875
He did it.

1081
01:11:42,915 --> 01:11:46,395
'He's champion again,
we couldn't believe it.

1082
01:11:46,435 --> 01:11:49,835
'It was such a classic performance
and so beautiful

1083
01:11:49,875 --> 01:11:53,555
'that at the moment
Ali hit the knockout punch,

1084
01:11:53,595 --> 01:11:57,315
'Foreman began to go,
Ali followed him around,

1085
01:11:57,355 --> 01:12:00,515
'Ali had his right cocked
for one more punch

1086
01:12:00,555 --> 01:12:02,155
'but he never threw it,

1087
01:12:02,195 --> 01:12:07,115
'as though he didn't want to ruin the
aesthetic of this man going down.'

1088
01:12:08,155 --> 01:12:11,436
One has mixed emotions
when you see the end of a fight.

1089
01:12:11,476 --> 01:12:14,636
'I always feel sympathy
for the man losing it,

1090
01:12:14,676 --> 01:12:18,756
'particularly when you see
a titanic, formidable figure

1091
01:12:18,836 --> 01:12:20,756
'suddenly on the ground.'

1092
01:12:20,796 --> 01:12:23,476
'Now,
when we see George on TV,

1093
01:12:23,516 --> 01:12:26,196
'and know that after that knockout

1094
01:12:26,236 --> 01:12:30,076
'he went through two years
of the deepest depression,

1095
01:12:30,116 --> 01:12:32,516
'he almost didn't come out of it.

1096
01:12:32,556 --> 01:12:35,396
'To see the man who's come out of it,

1097
01:12:35,476 --> 01:12:38,796
'the way he reconstructed
his personality,

1098
01:12:38,836 --> 01:12:44,196
'it's hard to find anyone in America
more affable than George Foreman.

1099
01:12:44,276 --> 01:12:48,317
'Foreman has become
a fabulous person in American life.'

1100
01:12:48,357 --> 01:12:50,437
Just as the fight finished,

1101
01:12:50,477 --> 01:12:54,637
the monsoons, the African rains,
came, and they came so hard

1102
01:12:54,677 --> 01:12:58,837
that the waters were about
three feet deep in the dressing rooms

1103
01:12:58,877 --> 01:13:02,437
where we'd just been an hour ago,
I'd never seen such a downpour.

1104
01:13:02,477 --> 01:13:05,597
And we rode back
through the African night

1105
01:13:05,637 --> 01:13:08,077
from the boxing ring into Kinshasa

1106
01:13:08,117 --> 01:13:12,437
and there were crowds on the roads
standing in the pouring rain

1107
01:13:12,477 --> 01:13:16,797
leaping up and down because
news had got around that Ali had won.

1108
01:13:16,837 --> 01:13:21,077
'He stayed up all night
from what I heard,

1109
01:13:21,117 --> 01:13:25,838
'and in the morning he spoke to
African groups who'd come to see him,

1110
01:13:25,878 --> 01:13:28,918
'and they more than revered him,
he was a god.

1111
01:13:28,958 --> 01:13:32,838
'And he spoke to them
very simply and beautifully,

1112
01:13:32,878 --> 01:13:36,758
'and he said,
"Afro-Americans, in America,

1113
01:13:36,798 --> 01:13:38,838
'"we're not as good as you are.

1114
01:13:38,878 --> 01:13:41,318
'"Some of us are richer than you are,

1115
01:13:41,358 --> 01:13:45,278
'"but you have a dignity
in your poverty that we don't have.

1116
01:13:45,318 --> 01:13:47,198
'"We are spoiled in America,

1117
01:13:47,238 --> 01:13:51,398
'"we have lost what you still have
in Africa and you must keep that."

1118
01:13:51,438 --> 01:13:55,598
'And I thought, on top of everything
else he's a political leader

1119
01:13:55,638 --> 01:13:57,918
'and he's gonna be
a great political leader.'

1120
01:14:00,678 --> 01:14:03,159
I have a lot of things to do
in the Black neighbourhoods,

1121
01:14:03,199 --> 01:14:07,279
we have a lot of problems
we have to solve among ourselves.

1122
01:14:07,319 --> 01:14:09,759
Prostitution, dope, gang fights.

1123
01:14:09,799 --> 01:14:13,799
Knowledge of self. Black people
have no knowledge of themselves.

1124
01:14:13,839 --> 01:14:16,559
We have been made
just like white people mentally.

1125
01:14:16,599 --> 01:14:19,359
White people have made us
so much like them

1126
01:14:19,399 --> 01:14:22,159
it's hard to teach them
about themselves,

1127
01:14:22,239 --> 01:14:26,639
it's hard to teach them to unite
and marry and be with their own.

1128
01:14:26,679 --> 01:14:29,279
Black people
are now like white people,

1129
01:14:29,319 --> 01:14:31,559
we have to re-brainwash 'em now,

1130
01:14:31,599 --> 01:14:35,959
teach them about themselves
and their history and language,

1131
01:14:35,999 --> 01:14:38,159
to do something for themselves

1132
01:14:38,199 --> 01:14:42,640
and quit begging white people
for things they should do themselves.

1133
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:46,120
I never heard Ali say
he would never fight again.

1134
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,960
If he had said it,
and usually he told the truth,

1135
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:51,040
I wouldn't have believed it.

1136
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:54,880
He was born to fight,
born for the ring and loved it,

1137
01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:56,840
he truly loved fighting.

1138
01:14:56,880 --> 01:15:01,960
And...as happens with people who love
a thing too much, it destroys them.

1139
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:05,520
It was Oscar Wilde that said
you destroy the thing you love.

1140
01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:09,400
It's the other way round,
what you love destroys you.

1141
01:15:14,840 --> 01:15:17,761
'He came back,
he had 22 fights.

1142
01:15:17,801 --> 01:15:20,721
'Some were most honourable,
some very difficult.

1143
01:15:20,761 --> 01:15:23,281
'Some were comedies and farces.

1144
01:15:23,321 --> 01:15:28,001
'He hurt himself in those 22 fights
after the fight in Africa.'

1145
01:15:31,521 --> 01:15:35,721
'There is a tendency
to look at Muhammad and say

1146
01:15:35,761 --> 01:15:37,761
'he's wounded, he's ill.

1147
01:15:37,801 --> 01:15:42,361
'There are no intellectual deficits,
it's a motor skills problem

1148
01:15:42,401 --> 01:15:45,401
'and he doesn't try
to hide his condition.

1149
01:15:45,481 --> 01:15:48,121
'He goes out and lets
the whole world see it.

1150
01:15:48,161 --> 01:15:50,641
'He doesn't feel sorry for himself

1151
01:15:50,681 --> 01:15:55,442
'and there's really no reason for
anybody else to feel sorry for him.

1152
01:15:55,482 --> 01:15:57,842
'He loves being Muhammad Ali,

1153
01:15:57,882 --> 01:16:01,482
'he truly believes
that he's doing God's work

1154
01:16:01,522 --> 01:16:05,122
'and he's as happy with each day
as anybody I know.'

1155
01:16:06,162 --> 01:16:10,162
'Today's young generation,
they don't know anything.'

1156
01:16:11,122 --> 01:16:15,202
Something happened last year,
they know nothing about it.

1157
01:16:15,242 --> 01:16:19,762
So there are these great great
stories, great historic events,

1158
01:16:19,802 --> 01:16:22,802
and I'm not talking
about 1850s stuff,

1159
01:16:22,842 --> 01:16:26,922
they don't know who Malcolm X is,
they don't know who JFK is,

1160
01:16:26,962 --> 01:16:30,723
Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson,
you can go down the line.

1161
01:16:30,763 --> 01:16:32,643
And it's scary.

1162
01:16:32,683 --> 01:16:37,443
'They're missing a lot if they don't
know the legacy of Muhammad Ali,

1163
01:16:37,483 --> 01:16:40,403
'because no matter
what era you live in,

1164
01:16:40,443 --> 01:16:42,643
'you see very few true heroes.'

1165
01:16:47,363 --> 01:16:49,523
Ali, boma ye!

1166
01:16:49,563 --> 01:16:54,443
Ali, boma ye! Ali, boma ye!
Ali, boma ye!

1167
01:16:56,203 --> 01:16:58,563
Back up, sucker, back up.

1168
01:16:59,483 --> 01:17:01,923
Come get me, sucker, I'm dancin'!

1169
01:17:01,963 --> 01:17:04,123
I'm dancin'! Follow me, chump!

1170
01:17:04,163 --> 01:17:06,283
I'm not there, I'm here!

1171
01:17:08,164 --> 01:17:10,444
Sucker, you ain't got nothing!

1172
01:17:19,044 --> 01:17:21,684
# In every heart

1173
01:17:21,724 --> 01:17:25,084
# There is a drum that beats

1174
01:17:25,124 --> 01:17:27,164
# Steady and strong

1175
01:17:27,204 --> 01:17:30,844
# It does not know defeat

1176
01:17:30,884 --> 01:17:33,484
# I feel its power

1177
01:17:33,524 --> 01:17:39,364
# And know for certain
the true belief

1178
01:17:42,324 --> 01:17:45,164
# In every soul

1179
01:17:45,204 --> 01:17:48,005
# There is a memory

1180
01:17:48,045 --> 01:17:50,925
# Of standing tall

1181
01:17:50,965 --> 01:17:54,125
# The proudest we could be

1182
01:17:54,165 --> 01:17:56,925
# I cannot fall

1183
01:17:56,965 --> 01:17:59,245
# For I recall

1184
01:17:59,285 --> 01:18:02,805
# We were born in majesty

1185
01:18:05,365 --> 01:18:12,005
# And when the long night
has been fought and won

1186
01:18:12,045 --> 01:18:16,325
# We'll stand in the sun

1187
01:18:16,365 --> 01:18:19,045
# And we will raise our hands

1188
01:18:19,085 --> 01:18:21,765
# We will touch the sky

1189
01:18:21,805 --> 01:18:27,926
# Together we will dance
in robes of gold

1190
01:18:27,966 --> 01:18:33,966
# And we will leave
the world remembering

1191
01:18:34,006 --> 01:18:39,326
# When we were kings

1192
01:18:39,566 --> 01:18:43,926
# When we were kings

1193
01:18:46,086 --> 01:18:48,246
# Now is the time

1194
01:18:48,286 --> 01:18:51,806
# Here is the mountaintop

1195
01:18:51,846 --> 01:18:57,366
# When one man climbs
the rest are lifted up

1196
01:18:57,446 --> 01:19:00,247
# When memories stay

1197
01:19:00,287 --> 01:19:03,167
# We're closer, yeah

1198
01:19:03,207 --> 01:19:08,247
# To our higher destiny

1199
01:19:09,287 --> 01:19:15,727
# And when we reach up
to claim the throne

1200
01:19:15,767 --> 01:19:19,487
# Every man will know

1201
01:19:19,527 --> 01:19:22,247
# We will raise our hands

1202
01:19:22,287 --> 01:19:25,207
# We will touch the sky

1203
01:19:25,247 --> 01:19:31,007
# Together we will dance
in robes of gold

1204
01:19:31,047 --> 01:19:37,408
# And we will leave
the world remembering

1205
01:19:37,448 --> 01:19:43,008
# When we were kings

1206
01:19:43,288 --> 01:19:47,448
# When we were kings

1207
01:19:47,488 --> 01:19:49,688
# Ooh

1208
01:19:49,728 --> 01:19:52,288
# When we were kings

1209
01:19:53,368 --> 01:19:55,368
# Yeah

1210
01:19:55,408 --> 01:19:56,848
# When we were kings

1211
01:19:56,888 --> 01:19:59,128
# Float like a butterfly

1212
01:19:59,168 --> 01:20:03,328
# Sting like a bee

1213
01:20:03,688 --> 01:20:05,768
# Float like a butterfly

1214
01:20:07,528 --> 01:20:09,648
# I remember... #

1215
01:20:13,048 --> 01:20:17,209
Years after the fight in Zaire,
perhaps ten years after,

1216
01:20:17,249 --> 01:20:22,089
I'd run into Ali on occasion after
that, but I remember this meeting.

1217
01:20:22,129 --> 01:20:25,409
Esquire was giving a party
for various people

1218
01:20:25,449 --> 01:20:29,489
who had distinguished themselves
in Esquire that year.

1219
01:20:29,529 --> 01:20:31,609
Ali, for whatever he'd done,

1220
01:20:31,649 --> 01:20:35,849
I was there probably because I had
a good story in Esquire that year,

1221
01:20:35,889 --> 01:20:38,649
maybe 25 of us, honoured guests,

1222
01:20:38,689 --> 01:20:41,329
I was there with my wife
and we saw Ali

1223
01:20:41,369 --> 01:20:43,369
and we were talking with him

1224
01:20:43,409 --> 01:20:45,889
and he couldn't have been nicer.

1225
01:20:45,929 --> 01:20:49,209
I remember I was 62 then,
cos he said, "How old are you now?"

1226
01:20:49,249 --> 01:20:54,250
I said "62," he said "Oh," same as
when we were jogging that night,

1227
01:20:54,290 --> 01:20:59,250
"Oh, I hope I'm as young as you are
when I'm 62," he went on like that.

1228
01:20:59,290 --> 01:21:03,450
I got so pleased and so vain that,
you know, I'm like a dog.

1229
01:21:03,490 --> 01:21:07,290
What did I have to do?
I had to go urinate, and I did.

1230
01:21:07,330 --> 01:21:10,850
I went away and once I was gone
he turned to my wife,

1231
01:21:10,890 --> 01:21:15,090
who's much younger than I am,
and he looked at her hard and said,

1232
01:21:15,130 --> 01:21:17,770
"You still with that old man?"

1233
01:21:19,810 --> 01:21:22,930
And for me that's always been...
That's Ali.

1234
01:21:23,810 --> 01:21:27,370
You love him even when
you turn your back on him.

1235
01:21:27,410 --> 01:21:32,531
I heard him once talking to the
Harvard senior class commencement.

1236
01:21:33,931 --> 01:21:38,291
He gave this extraordinary speech,
you know he was dyslexic,

1237
01:21:38,331 --> 01:21:40,731
and he would look
at a paper and say,

1238
01:21:40,771 --> 01:21:44,211
"What does this word mean?"
I'd say, "Appendicitis."

1239
01:21:44,251 --> 01:21:48,731
He'd say, "How d'you get a word
like appendicitis? It's so long."

1240
01:21:48,771 --> 01:21:51,131
Here he was delivering a lecture,

1241
01:21:51,171 --> 01:21:56,531
senior class day with these
1,000, 2,000 Harvard graduates,

1242
01:21:56,571 --> 01:22:00,131
and...he had these little cards
in front of him.

1243
01:22:00,171 --> 01:22:05,131
He gave this wonderful speech
about he hadn't had the opportunity

1244
01:22:05,171 --> 01:22:09,932
but they had and they should use that
to make the world a better place.

1245
01:22:09,972 --> 01:22:14,692
It was moving and funny, and a great
roar of appreciation at the end.

1246
01:22:14,732 --> 01:22:17,732
Then someone shouted out,
"Give us a poem!"

1247
01:22:17,772 --> 01:22:20,572
And everybody quieted down.

1248
01:22:20,612 --> 01:22:25,732
Now, the shortest poem according
to Bartlett's Quotations is called

1249
01:22:25,772 --> 01:22:27,932
"On the Antiquity of Microbes"

1250
01:22:27,972 --> 01:22:30,412
and the poem is "Adam had 'em."

1251
01:22:30,452 --> 01:22:32,172
Pretty short.

1252
01:22:32,212 --> 01:22:34,572
But Muhammad Ali's poem was

1253
01:22:34,612 --> 01:22:37,852
"Me, we."

1254
01:22:38,652 --> 01:22:40,292
Two words.

1255
01:22:40,332 --> 01:22:44,973
I wrote Bartlett's Quotations
and I said, "Look, that's shorter."

1256
01:22:45,013 --> 01:22:48,613
It stands for something more
than the poem itself.

1257
01:22:48,653 --> 01:22:51,093
"Me, we." What a fighter he was.
And what a man.

1258
01:22:55,813 --> 01:22:59,893
# Refugee cat... Ali, boma ye

1259
01:22:59,933 --> 01:23:03,213
# Yes, yes... Rumble in the jungle

1260
01:23:09,173 --> 01:23:10,573
# Come on!

1261
01:23:10,613 --> 01:23:13,013
# Root to the fruit
more bass than Bootsy Collins

1262
01:23:13,093 --> 01:23:15,813
# You versus me
that's like Ali versus Foreman

1263
01:23:15,853 --> 01:23:18,733
# God's act, stand back and watch

1264
01:23:18,773 --> 01:23:21,734
# Devil's time-out
can't be timed with no Swatch watch

1265
01:23:21,774 --> 01:23:24,134
# Who I am, the Black Abraham

1266
01:23:24,174 --> 01:23:26,974
# Zunga zunga zang
yellow man, Vietnam

1267
01:23:27,014 --> 01:23:29,374
# Add an extra bar
as I spar with literature

1268
01:23:29,414 --> 01:23:30,774
# Taking kingdoms from Tsars

1269
01:23:30,814 --> 01:23:32,414
# Winning more wars than the Moors

1270
01:23:32,454 --> 01:23:35,054
# Hey, what's the deal?
I seen the Devil spar with Allah

1271
01:23:35,094 --> 01:23:37,774
# Mathematics was the key
to set my whole race free

1272
01:23:37,814 --> 01:23:40,534
# You might debate we,
a refugee no harm hurt me

1273
01:23:40,574 --> 01:23:43,374
# Dying, thirsty from the struggle
to my own hustle bubble

1274
01:23:43,454 --> 01:23:46,094
# On the low, woe is me
to show the Free Bob right

1275
01:23:46,134 --> 01:23:47,534
# The righteous Asiatic thinker

1276
01:23:47,574 --> 01:23:49,014
# While Satan rob light

1277
01:23:49,054 --> 01:23:50,494
# Civilised like the Molly

1278
01:23:50,534 --> 01:23:51,894
# Burgundy, wildly rocking

1279
01:23:51,934 --> 01:23:53,454
# Seen the fifth when Ali clocked him

1280
01:23:53,494 --> 01:23:54,934
# John Forte will keep you locked in

1281
01:23:54,974 --> 01:23:57,454
# People all around
you got to recognise and witness

1282
01:23:57,494 --> 01:24:00,295
# The Mister who swift enough
to knock you out with mic fitness

1283
01:24:00,335 --> 01:24:01,615
# Hands blistered
from holding the mic tight

1284
01:24:01,655 --> 01:24:02,895
# Some say it's fight night

1285
01:24:02,935 --> 01:24:06,015
# Well, throw the R after the F
cos I'm gonna take away your breath

1286
01:24:06,055 --> 01:24:08,695
# The bell rings
and it's just a daily operation

1287
01:24:08,735 --> 01:24:11,535
# Yo, you saw my lubrication
you can see this occupation

1288
01:24:11,575 --> 01:24:14,055
# (The winner)
You know we're here from Q-borough

1289
01:24:14,095 --> 01:24:17,175
# L-Booie and Clef the trainers
Prazwell promote the throw

1290
01:24:17,215 --> 01:24:19,975
# We used to bite the bullets
with the pigskin cases

1291
01:24:20,015 --> 01:24:22,775
# Now we perfect slang
like a gang of street masons

1292
01:24:22,815 --> 01:24:25,335
# Scribe check make connects
true pyramid architects

1293
01:24:25,375 --> 01:24:27,735
# Replace the last name with the X

1294
01:24:27,775 --> 01:24:29,575
# The man's got a God complex

1295
01:24:29,615 --> 01:24:30,935
# But take the text
change the picture

1296
01:24:30,975 --> 01:24:33,655
# Watch Muhammad play the messenger
like holy Moslem scripture

1297
01:24:33,695 --> 01:24:36,576
# Take orders from only God
only one when it's jihad

1298
01:24:36,616 --> 01:24:39,376
# See Ali appears in Zaire
to reconnect 400 years

1299
01:24:39,416 --> 01:24:40,856
# But we're the people
dark but equal

1300
01:24:40,896 --> 01:24:42,256
# Give love to such things

1301
01:24:42,296 --> 01:24:44,976
# For the man who made the fam'
remember when we were kings

1302
01:24:45,016 --> 01:24:47,256
# Block's on fire

1303
01:24:47,296 --> 01:24:49,736
# Flames getting higher

1304
01:24:49,776 --> 01:24:52,616
# Robbin' blue collar

1305
01:24:52,656 --> 01:24:55,456
# Killin' for a dollar

1306
01:24:55,496 --> 01:24:58,176
# Youths get tired

1307
01:24:58,216 --> 01:25:00,976
# We're dealin' with them liars

1308
01:25:01,016 --> 01:25:03,896
# From Brooklyn to Zaire

1309
01:25:03,936 --> 01:25:06,896
# We need a ghetto messiah

1310
01:25:07,976 --> 01:25:12,776
# Send me an angel
in the morning, baby

1311
01:25:13,057 --> 01:25:18,457
# Send me an angel
in the morning, darling

1312
01:25:18,497 --> 01:25:23,897
# Send me Muhammad
in the morning, baby

1313
01:25:24,137 --> 01:25:29,577
# Send me an angel
in the morning, darling

1314
01:25:29,617 --> 01:25:31,697
# Once the pen hits the pad
it's danger

1315
01:25:31,737 --> 01:25:32,977
# To this I'll be no stranger

1316
01:25:33,017 --> 01:25:34,937
# Step inside the ring
and I'll derange you

1317
01:25:34,977 --> 01:25:37,737
# I'm hearing no comments
everyone looks despondent

1318
01:25:37,777 --> 01:25:40,497
# Dejected, rejected
similar to Liston catching licks

1319
01:25:40,537 --> 01:25:43,057
# Beat it, Sonny, my man
is still the greatest in history

1320
01:25:43,097 --> 01:25:45,737
# To hell with Frazier,
yapping about that negative shit

1321
01:25:45,777 --> 01:25:48,897
# Now, listen, you can try
and escape if you want to

1322
01:25:48,937 --> 01:25:51,898
# But ask yourself
who the hell you gonna run to?

1323
01:25:51,938 --> 01:25:54,738
# Like Sade Abu
you got a punch that I can sleep to

1324
01:25:54,778 --> 01:25:57,298
# Fugees, Tribe, Busta Rhymes
forever coming through

1325
01:25:57,338 --> 01:25:59,938
# You sing Amazing Grace
over two dollar plates

1326
01:25:59,978 --> 01:26:02,818
# One roll, snake-eyes,
like Jake the Snake

1327
01:26:02,858 --> 01:26:05,778
# Many lies, put up for stakes,
wash our sins at the Great Lakes

1328
01:26:05,818 --> 01:26:08,538
# You and I cannot see eye-to-eye
so therefore we can't relate

1329
01:26:08,578 --> 01:26:11,138
# I'm here
when I make myself crystal clear

1330
01:26:11,178 --> 01:26:13,938
# You fled to Cape Fear
when I aced you up in Zaire

1331
01:26:13,978 --> 01:26:16,618
# Tussle with a lasso
in the Royal Rumble

1332
01:26:16,658 --> 01:26:19,618
# Separate boys from men
in the concrete jungle

1333
01:26:19,658 --> 01:26:21,778
# I remember when Cassius Clay
flipped the script

1334
01:26:21,818 --> 01:26:23,338
# Taking trips to Zimbabwe

1335
01:26:23,378 --> 01:26:26,378
# Africans started calling the God
Ali, boma ye!

1336
01:26:26,418 --> 01:26:29,979
# It be the God stricken,
God nutrition, lightly stricken

1337
01:26:30,019 --> 01:26:32,059
# Blow that make you feel
like you was poison bitten

1338
01:26:32,099 --> 01:26:34,499
# Ha! Yo, I'm 'bout to blister
you and your sister

1339
01:26:34,539 --> 01:26:37,379
# Predicting every ass whipping
before my fights, my nigga

1340
01:26:37,419 --> 01:26:40,659
# This be your last warning
once you walk past the doorman

1341
01:26:40,739 --> 01:26:43,539
# Ali and Foreman gonna lock ass
until the morning

1342
01:26:43,579 --> 01:26:46,219
# Marvellous finances
provided by Joseph Mobutu

1343
01:26:46,259 --> 01:26:49,419
# Special guests of honour
like the Archbishop Desmond Tutu

1344
01:26:49,459 --> 01:26:51,299
# We watched the Rumble In The Jungle

1345
01:26:51,339 --> 01:26:54,059
# To see who be the targeted uncle
to be the first to fall and fumble

1346
01:26:54,099 --> 01:26:56,779
# Nuff blows they getting thrown
like solid milestones

1347
01:26:56,819 --> 01:26:59,819
# Internally shaking up niggas
imbalance your chromosomes

1348
01:26:59,859 --> 01:27:01,659
# With the force
of a thousand warriors

1349
01:27:01,699 --> 01:27:04,659
# When I bust your ass
identify me as the lord victorious

1350
01:27:04,699 --> 01:27:06,780
# Blocks on fire

1351
01:27:06,820 --> 01:27:09,780
# Flames getting higher

1352
01:27:09,820 --> 01:27:12,500
# Robbing blue collar

1353
01:27:12,540 --> 01:27:14,820
# Killing for a dollar

1354
01:27:14,860 --> 01:27:17,900
# Youths get tired

1355
01:27:17,980 --> 01:27:20,900
# We're dealing with them liars

1356
01:27:20,940 --> 01:27:23,460
# From Brooklyn to Zaire

1357
01:27:23,500 --> 01:27:25,980
# We need a ghetto Messiah #