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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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Yeah, 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.
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Yeah!
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For these two African Americans
to come home
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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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There was a time
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if you called a black person "African,"
they'd be ready to fight.
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When I get to Africa,
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we gonna 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!
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Too fast! Too fast! That's right!
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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 of the world!
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September 25, the world will be stunned!
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- Tell 'em, Ali!
- That's right.
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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 boxing
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, 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,
freedom was followed by rioting
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and army mutiny.
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For months, the political pattern
kept changing with kaleidoscopic speed
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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 the other night,
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I would rate myself number two now.
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I'm out to break Floyd Patterson's record,
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and by this being my 20th birthday,
today, January 17,
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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
that I would knock out this Banks
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in four rounds, and I did.
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I knocked out Don Warner
in four rounds,
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and I just annihilated George Logan
in four rounds.
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Let me see you close your mouth
and just keep it closed.
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- You know that's impossible.
- No, keep it closed.
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You know that's impossible.
I'm the greatest.
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I'm knocking out all bums. And if you
get too smart, I'll knock you out.
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- You'd take him on before the fight?
- Beat him like I'm his daddy.
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I saw Sonny Liston
a few days ago, Cassius...
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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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as another who brought off
one of the great upsets
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in the 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
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who knocks out everybody
and no one can whup him.
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That's when that little Cassius Clay
from Louisville, Kentucky,
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came up and 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 was longer than George.
He's a better boxer than George.
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And I'm better now
than I was when you saw
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that 22-year-old undeveloped 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 times.
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I'm bad!
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Been chopping trees.
I done something new for this fight.
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I done rassled with an alligator.
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That's right.
I have rassled with an alligator!
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I done tussled with a whale.
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I done handcuffed lightning,
throwed thunder in jail.
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That's bad!
Only last week, I murdered a rock!
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Injured a stone! Hospitalized a brick!
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- I'm so mean I make medicine sick.
- Bad dude!
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- Bad. Fast.
- Ain't no doubt.
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Fast! Fast!
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Last night,
I cut the light off in my bedroom,
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hit the switch, was in the bed
before the room was dark.
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- Incredible. Incredible.
- Fast.
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And 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.
I know you got him picked.
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But the man's in trouble.
I'm gonna show you how great I am!
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Hell, 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.
George comes out...
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I named him the Mummy!
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With his ego, he could keep
telling himself he would dominate Foreman,
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that he would beat him,
that he would dance, make a fool of him,
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that he would show him superior boxing,
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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 had to know
that he had not done nearly as well
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against two fighters particularly:
Joe Frazier and Ken Norton,
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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 had won his championship
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.
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Foreman was awesome.
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This chump has got everybody scared.
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Scared of what?
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Nothing to be scared of.
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Scared of what?
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How many fellas in here now 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.
- Me?
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- No pick.
- No pick?
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I just wanna know. You got George.
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The time may have come
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to say good-bye to Muhammad Ali,
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because very honestly,
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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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You told 'em
I don't have nothing but a prayer.
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Well, chump, all I need is a prayer,
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because if that prayer
reach 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,
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who does away with his opponents
one after another
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in less than three rounds?
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It's hard for me to conjure with that.
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You're always talking about,
"Muhammad, you're not the same man
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you were ten years ago."
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I asked your wife, and she told me
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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
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and engaging and sometimes cruel
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and sometimes family man that he is.
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I'm gonna let everybody know
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that that thing you got on your head
is a phony,
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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 stole 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 would also teach
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the little boys how to box in the evening.
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So he asked him, would he be interested
in learning how to box?
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And he told him yes,
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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
trying to get Ali to a neutral corner.
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Ali yelling at Liston to get up and fight!
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The anchor punch.
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- Which punch?
- Anchor. I call it the anchor punch.
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- The one Stepin Fetchit helped you with?
- Yeah, man.
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And people couldn't see it.
It was so fast...
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Sports Illustrated clocked it.
They got a slow-motion camera.
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They clocked the punch, and the punch
flew at 4/100 of a second.
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You can break a second
down to a hundred pieces.
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You know how people win a ski race,
they say, "He won in 16/100,
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he won in 32/100 of a second."
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So you break a second down to 100 pieces.
So, you know, yeah, it's quick.
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So 4/100... They got a machine
that goes, like, br-r-r-t, real quick.
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Br-r-r-t. And it counts real quick.
You know, br-r-r-t. 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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it was 4/100 of a second,
which is an eye blink.
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Like a camera flash.
That's 4/100 of a second.
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Now, the minute I hit Sonny Liston,
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all those people blinked at that moment,
and that's why they didn't see the punch.
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I swear.
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If you watch the film close...
You gotta hold your eyes real close...
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Keep looking.
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All right, I'm getting ready to hit him.
You can't just...
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You got to hold your eyes and wait
or you won't see it, man!
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They have this beautiful,
you know, specimen, a fighting machine,
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that was handsome, he was articulate,
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he was funny,
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charismatic...
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and was whuppin' ass too.
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Deposed heavyweight champion Cassius Clay,
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at a federal court in Houston,
is found guilty
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of violating the US Selective Service laws
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 them in their career.
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...status as a Black Muslim
minister made him exempt from the draft.
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He was already very unpopular
with mainstream Americans
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because he had joined an organization
known as the Nation of Islam,
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which was perceived
as a radical black separatist group.
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And then on top of that,
when he was called for induction
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and 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 the root to the fruit.
That's where everything started at.
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This is God's act, and you a part of it.
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This is no Hollywood set. This is real.
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Hollywood come in and take
these kind of scenes and set 'em up,
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have somebody in the movies
playing his life.
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This is real. We don't pick up a script.
We get up in the morning feeling tired.
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Sometimes we feel good, sometimes bad.
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- But we go through it with feeling.
- Time!
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Muhammad Ali were born to do it.
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He'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've been fightin'
ever since we even met.
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We beat Uncle Sam. Three and a half years.
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Come out of the garage
and beat number two.
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First man ever did it. The 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 would want his autograph,
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and if films was around when
he was around, they'd be filming him.
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The only thing, 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 long table full of food.
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Had a house for his mother, one for him,
and he told 'em to take it and shove it.
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If he couldn't love his god,
what do you think he is... mister?
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Get it together!
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Get it together! Get it together!
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Ali trained
for the fight with Foreman
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at Deer Lake, Pennsylvania.
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He trained very hard for that fight...
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- One more.
- ...and had very good sparring partners.
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Larry Holmes
was one of his sparring partners.
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I was struck with
how well, uh, he handled...
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he'd actually handled Ali
in their sparring sessions.
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He'd dominated Ali. That wasn't uncommon.
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Ali very often would not show
his best stuff with his sparring partners,
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but in fact would work on his weaknesses.
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He'd go against the ropes,
and he'd let people pummel him.
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Heavy hitters who were sort of clumsy,
he'd let them bang away at him.
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It was as if he wanted to train 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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True significance
of why this fight's being fought in Africa
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is because they came up with $10 million.
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Five million dollars for George Foreman,
five million dollars for me.
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London, England, was trying to get it.
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A promoter said
America were trying to get it.
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But none of them could surpass
the $5 million mark.
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The dream is now becoming a reality.
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Don King went to George Foreman
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and got Foreman to sign
an option agreement
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saying that
if King could deliver $5 million,
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Foreman would fight Ali.
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Then King went to Ali
and made the same deal with him.
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So Don King now had both fighters,
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their signatures on a piece of paper.
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What he didn't have was $10 million.
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...a festival that will complement
this great sporting event,
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the greatest sporting event
in the history of the world.
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- Greatest of all time!
- Of all time, as the champ says.
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- The greatest event of all time!
- With some...
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Bigger than Evel Knievel
and the Kentucky Derby on the same day.
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The president of Zaire
was willing to put $10 million
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of his country's own very scarce,
274
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hard-earned currency on the line,
275
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not for any short-term economic reason
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but because he felt
that the fight would be good
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in terms of promoting Zaire
and also in terms of promoting himself.
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And as Ali said at the time,
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countries go to war
to get their names on the map,
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and wars cost
a lot more than $10 million.
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Some of the most dynamic
performers from Afro-America
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will be appearing down there
at the stadium in Kinshasa
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on the 20th, the 21st and the 22nd,
284
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along with the world,
and with its theatrical release.
285
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It will be James Brown,
who is soul brother number one,
286
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- one of our top, leading black artists.
- Is he coming?
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Yes,
James Brown will be there performing.
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We will have BB King, the Spinners...
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This is the first assembly
in the history of all America
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where all the top-notch blacks of America
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and the people of Africa
had something together,
292
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all on the world level.
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We're all meeting each other
and learning more about each other.
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It's the first assembly
among American black men
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and Africans like us
in the history of the world.
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And it's a big honor to be part of that.
Plus I gotta whup George!
297
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Got to whup George!
298
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We're gonna rumble in the jungle!
299
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Come on. Come on. Come on.
300
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Speak to 'em. Go ahead.
301
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Good boy. Get down.
302
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- Back. You're good.
- George?
303
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Is this fight against Ali will be
the toughest of your career, you think?
304
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Could be. Could be. I doubt it.
305
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This is Muhammad Ali,
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September 10, at New York City Airport
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en route to Zaire to reclaim
the heavyweight title of the world.
308
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Champ, what would you like to say
to the children of the world?
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I'd like to tell
the children of the world,
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mainly right here where they speak
and understand English in America,
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to live a clean life.
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Stay off of dope.
It's tearing the country up.
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Also, if they want to be like me,
I'm getting ready to whup George Foreman,
314
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and by the time they see this,
I will have beaten him.
315
00:18:14,510 --> 00:18:17,344
Tell them to quit eating so much candy.
316
00:18:17,430 --> 00:18:21,845
I have three rotten teeth. They're bad,
and I had to have one of 'em pulled.
317
00:18:21,934 --> 00:18:23,891
I can't chew my food like I should.
318
00:18:23,978 --> 00:18:28,848
Eat natural foods because
we must whup Mr. Tooth Decay.
319
00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:31,183
I got one right there and one right here.
320
00:18:31,277 --> 00:18:34,566
Yesterday Ali told us
that he's going to use part of his money
321
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for the building of a hospital.
322
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Do you intend yourself to use
part of your money for something?
323
00:18:40,411 --> 00:18:42,118
Have you got a project?
324
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He may think
he may have to be in the hospital.
325
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I want the man!
326
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Yeah, when I get to Africa,
327
00:18:49,879 --> 00:18:52,792
we gonna get it on
because we don't get along!
328
00:18:52,882 --> 00:18:54,919
I don't like him. He talks too much.
329
00:18:55,009 --> 00:18:56,090
Beg your pardon?
330
00:18:56,177 --> 00:18:59,136
You would continue boxing
even if you would lose over there?
331
00:18:59,221 --> 00:19:00,462
I beg your pardon?
332
00:19:00,556 --> 00:19:03,515
You don't think about losing?
333
00:19:04,935 --> 00:19:07,268
No. Thank you. Nice talking with you.
334
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Flying over the Sahara Desert
335
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on an African airline
with all African stewardesses,
336
00:19:14,987 --> 00:19:16,944
all African pilots.
337
00:19:17,031 --> 00:19:20,615
Boy, this is the first free feeling
I've had in a long time.
338
00:19:20,701 --> 00:19:24,786
Ain't this something, flying
in an airplane with all black pilots?
339
00:19:24,872 --> 00:19:26,864
- All black crew?
- Crazy!
340
00:19:26,957 --> 00:19:31,327
This is strange to the American Negro.
We never dreamed of this.
341
00:19:31,420 --> 00:19:33,161
And every time we watch television,
342
00:19:33,255 --> 00:19:36,544
they show us Tarzan
and the natives and the jungles.
343
00:19:36,634 --> 00:19:41,004
They never told us that the Africans
were more intelligent than we are.
344
00:19:41,097 --> 00:19:45,011
They speak English...
They speak English, French and African.
345
00:19:45,101 --> 00:19:47,058
We can't even speak English good.
346
00:20:02,410 --> 00:20:04,743
Ain't this beautiful? I'm free!
347
00:20:04,829 --> 00:20:07,071
Fantastic!
348
00:20:07,164 --> 00:20:08,245
I'm free.
349
00:20:08,332 --> 00:20:11,575
Now, I want everybody to repeat after me.
350
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If you don't know who you are
and where your place in life is,
351
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- just say to yourself, I am!
- I am!
352
00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:22,794
- Somebody!
- Somebody!
353
00:20:22,888 --> 00:20:25,005
- I am!
- I am!
354
00:20:25,099 --> 00:20:27,091
- Somebody!
- Somebody!
355
00:20:27,184 --> 00:20:30,097
- I may be poor.
- I may be poor.
356
00:20:30,187 --> 00:20:32,179
- But I am.
- But I am.
357
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Somebody.
358
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It was a great joy
to see that the championship
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was going to happen in Africa.
360
00:20:45,578 --> 00:20:47,444
People were so happy.
361
00:20:47,538 --> 00:20:51,031
At last, the world was paying attention
to our continent.
362
00:20:52,042 --> 00:20:55,035
Yes, we knew Muhammad Ali as a boxer,
363
00:20:55,129 --> 00:20:58,122
but more importantly
for his political stance.
364
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When we saw that America was at war
365
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in a third-world country, Vietnam...
366
00:21:06,015 --> 00:21:10,680
and that one of the children
of the United States said, "Me?
367
00:21:10,770 --> 00:21:13,513
You want me to go and fight
against the Viet Cong?
368
00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:17,600
Why should I fight against them?
They haven't done anything against me."
369
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And for us, it was extraordinary
370
00:21:21,906 --> 00:21:26,446
to see that in the America of that time,
someone could take such a position.
371
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He may have lost his title,
he may have lost millions of dollars,
372
00:21:30,873 --> 00:21:34,708
but that's where he gained
the esteem of millions of Africans.
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Ali! Ali! Ali!
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Ali! Ali! Ali! Ali! Ali!
375
00:21:43,385 --> 00:21:45,377
What is... What is your population?
376
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- Twenty-two million.
- Twenty-two million?
377
00:21:50,559 --> 00:21:54,269
- Twenty-two million.
- How many George Foreman fans here?
378
00:21:56,649 --> 00:21:58,857
We don't know, we don't know.
379
00:21:59,777 --> 00:22:03,817
- How many Muhammad Ali?
- There are so many we cannot count them.
380
00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:09,238
George Foreman?
We didn't know who he was.
381
00:22:09,328 --> 00:22:11,570
We had heard
that he was a world champion.
382
00:22:11,664 --> 00:22:13,656
We thought he was white.
383
00:22:13,749 --> 00:22:17,117
Then we realized he was black,
like Muhammad Ali.
384
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,584
But still, for us,
Foreman represented America.
385
00:22:22,716 --> 00:22:25,299
He arrived with a dog,
a German shepherd,
386
00:22:25,386 --> 00:22:27,594
which immediately offended Africans,
387
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,593
since the Belgians
had used shepherds as police dogs.
388
00:22:30,683 --> 00:22:33,391
Ali said that he's the hometown fighter
389
00:22:33,477 --> 00:22:35,309
and you're the out-of-towner here.
390
00:22:35,396 --> 00:22:40,187
Africa is the cradle of civilization.
Everybody's home is Africa.
391
00:23:28,824 --> 00:23:31,817
Okay, fine. So they're leaving tomorrow.
392
00:23:31,911 --> 00:23:35,120
Typhoid. How do you spell "typhoid"?
393
00:23:35,205 --> 00:23:36,787
Is that all that we're giving?
394
00:23:36,874 --> 00:23:39,561
Who do you want to be
your beneficiary in case of anything.
395
00:23:39,585 --> 00:23:40,951
And then sign it.
396
00:23:41,045 --> 00:23:45,289
You need an actual
airline ticket to get on this plane.
397
00:23:45,382 --> 00:23:48,090
Let me see some hands
of the 51 who don't have tickets.
398
00:23:48,177 --> 00:23:49,884
Who doesn't have an airline ticket?
399
00:23:49,970 --> 00:23:51,336
Hi!
400
00:23:53,140 --> 00:23:55,006
You know who we are, don't you?
401
00:23:56,435 --> 00:24:01,021
I'm Lola Love, and I'm one of the dancers
with the James Brown show... revue.
402
00:24:04,151 --> 00:24:08,065
"Zai-ere," or "Zare,"
or whatever you... you know.
403
00:24:08,155 --> 00:24:10,818
Yeah, man.
When are gonna get to Zee-air?
404
00:24:10,908 --> 00:24:12,490
- To who?
- Mobutu land.
405
00:24:12,576 --> 00:24:14,784
To Zee-air?
406
00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:17,829
We're gonna fly in zee-air
till we get to Zaire.
407
00:24:19,124 --> 00:24:20,410
That's right!
408
00:24:23,879 --> 00:24:25,996
♪ Sittin' in a railway station ♪
409
00:24:26,090 --> 00:24:28,582
♪ My suitcase in my hand ♪
410
00:24:28,676 --> 00:24:30,588
♪ Going back where I came from ♪
411
00:24:30,678 --> 00:24:33,091
♪ I've had more than I can stand ♪
412
00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:36,302
♪ Of watching men destroy my dreams ♪
413
00:24:36,392 --> 00:24:38,679
♪ They picked my brain till it was clean ♪
414
00:24:38,769 --> 00:24:40,852
♪ I was up, but they knocked me down ♪
415
00:24:40,938 --> 00:24:42,770
♪ Ain't gonna hang around ♪
416
00:24:42,856 --> 00:24:45,974
♪ I'm going home ♪
417
00:24:46,068 --> 00:24:47,650
♪ Yeah ♪
418
00:24:47,736 --> 00:24:49,318
- ♪ Uh-huh ♪
- ♪ I'm coming home ♪
419
00:24:49,405 --> 00:24:51,647
- ♪ Yes, I am ♪
- ♪ Coming home ♪
420
00:24:51,740 --> 00:24:53,777
♪ It's more than I can stand
Why don't ya ♪
421
00:24:53,867 --> 00:24:58,407
♪ Tell someone to meet me
I'm comin' home ♪
422
00:24:58,497 --> 00:25:00,159
♪ Yeah ♪
423
00:25:01,375 --> 00:25:03,412
- ♪ Tell someone to meet me ♪
- ♪ Why don't ya ♪
424
00:25:04,003 --> 00:25:06,040
- ♪ Home ♪
- ♪ Yes, sirree ♪
425
00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:08,338
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, let me tell ya ♪
426
00:25:09,133 --> 00:25:11,216
♪ Came to this old town ♪
427
00:25:11,301 --> 00:25:13,384
♪ Seeking fortune and some fame ♪
428
00:25:14,138 --> 00:25:16,471
♪ Never got the chance to prove myself ♪
429
00:25:16,557 --> 00:25:18,264
♪ Tryin' to play their games ♪
430
00:25:18,892 --> 00:25:21,430
♪ But usin' people just ain't my thing ♪
431
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,682
♪ I won't dangle from any string ♪
432
00:25:23,772 --> 00:25:26,389
♪ To please some fool
I don't care about, now ♪
433
00:25:26,483 --> 00:25:31,103
♪ Turn me inside out
I'm going home ♪
434
00:25:31,196 --> 00:25:33,563
♪ Yeah, it's mighty long ♪
435
00:25:33,657 --> 00:25:36,070
- ♪ I'm coming home ♪
- ♪ I got it, you know too ♪
436
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,618
- ♪ Coming home ♪
- ♪ Hey, I know what I'm gonna do ♪
437
00:25:38,704 --> 00:25:40,821
♪ Tell someone to meet me ♪
438
00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:43,410
♪ I'm comin' home ♪
439
00:25:44,168 --> 00:25:46,410
♪ Yes, I am
Hey, hey, hey ♪
440
00:25:46,503 --> 00:25:49,371
♪ Tell someone to meet me ♪
441
00:25:52,134 --> 00:25:53,796
♪ I got it, look here ♪
442
00:25:55,262 --> 00:25:59,176
The plane is not coming in at 6:00.
It's now coming between 10:00 and 11:00.
443
00:25:59,266 --> 00:26:02,384
So you don't have to have those trucks
out to the airport that early.
444
00:26:02,478 --> 00:26:04,344
They told me
James Brown's gonna be here.
445
00:26:04,438 --> 00:26:06,725
- James Brown is on his way.
- BB King's gonna be here.
446
00:26:06,815 --> 00:26:09,023
And I showed up,
and they ain't nowhere around.
447
00:26:18,285 --> 00:26:21,619
Sixth, fifth and fourth are done.
Elevators are working.
448
00:26:21,705 --> 00:26:24,197
Can we... But there's no
air conditioning up there at all?
449
00:26:24,291 --> 00:26:26,032
80% of it's out.
450
00:26:26,126 --> 00:26:29,119
It's all in, but it doesn't work.
The breakers are out.
451
00:26:29,213 --> 00:26:31,796
What do you mean, 80% of it?
On what floors though?
452
00:26:31,882 --> 00:26:33,714
I have sixth, fifth and fourth.
453
00:26:33,801 --> 00:26:36,509
I understand that, but what about, um...
454
00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:39,491
It's individual air conditioning controls,
and they have circuit breakers...
455
00:26:39,515 --> 00:26:42,508
So what apartments
have air conditioning working?
456
00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:45,389
How many beds
can we move people into tonight?
457
00:26:45,479 --> 00:26:48,267
- Uh, four. Four rooms.
- Just eight people?
458
00:26:48,357 --> 00:26:49,473
Yeah.
459
00:26:49,566 --> 00:26:51,273
♪ And I'm goin' home ♪
460
00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:53,477
♪ 'Cause everything's gonna be all right ♪
461
00:26:53,570 --> 00:26:56,233
♪ 'Cause home's
Where the heart's at, yeah ♪
462
00:26:56,323 --> 00:26:57,905
♪ And it's a natural fact ♪
463
00:26:57,991 --> 00:27:00,028
♪ What you sayin', tell me, won't you? ♪
464
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,202
- ♪ Home ♪
- ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
465
00:27:02,287 --> 00:27:04,700
♪ I gotta make a start today ♪
466
00:27:04,790 --> 00:27:07,032
♪ Gotta do it in my way ♪
467
00:27:07,126 --> 00:27:09,083
♪ Gonna see Mama again ♪
468
00:27:09,711 --> 00:27:11,623
♪ Gonna see my old, old friend ♪
469
00:27:11,713 --> 00:27:13,045
♪ Africa ♪
470
00:27:14,174 --> 00:27:15,290
♪ Africa ♪
471
00:27:16,468 --> 00:27:17,925
♪ Africa ♪
472
00:27:18,595 --> 00:27:20,427
♪ Oh, Africa ♪
473
00:27:21,765 --> 00:27:23,427
Hello, Bubba!
474
00:27:30,274 --> 00:27:31,981
You ready to dance?
475
00:27:32,067 --> 00:27:34,309
I got ants in my pants. I gotta dance.
476
00:27:35,279 --> 00:27:39,740
Of course, the fight was held
in Zaire, the former Belgian Congo.
477
00:27:39,825 --> 00:27:42,818
Kinshasa was the capital,
on the banks of the Congo.
478
00:27:42,911 --> 00:27:45,574
It was just before the rainy season
when this fight took place.
479
00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:48,623
Off to the north
you could see the flickering of storms,
480
00:27:48,709 --> 00:27:52,168
uh, coming closer and closer,
and it was important to the promoters
481
00:27:52,254 --> 00:27:54,496
that this fight get in
before the storms occurred,
482
00:27:54,590 --> 00:27:57,082
because once the rainy season comes,
you can't do anything.
483
00:27:57,176 --> 00:28:00,340
I always thought the Congo
had such a wonderful name...
484
00:28:00,429 --> 00:28:02,091
Conradian and all that.
485
00:28:02,181 --> 00:28:04,341
Somehow to call it Zaire
didn't have quite the majesty.
486
00:28:04,391 --> 00:28:06,132
But there it was, the Congo.
487
00:28:28,957 --> 00:28:30,493
Mobutu was everywhere.
488
00:28:30,584 --> 00:28:33,201
He was the equivalent in Africa
of Joseph Stalin.
489
00:28:33,295 --> 00:28:35,332
You saw his picture everywhere.
490
00:28:35,422 --> 00:28:38,540
And of course, part of the vanity
of dictators, they almost always...
491
00:28:38,634 --> 00:28:42,127
With the possible exception of Mussolini,
who was half ugly and half attractive,
492
00:28:42,221 --> 00:28:44,929
most dictators
are unbelievably ugly or plain.
493
00:28:45,015 --> 00:28:46,756
Franco, Hitler.
494
00:28:51,271 --> 00:28:56,483
Mobutu looked the archetype.
He was the epitome of a closet sadist.
495
00:28:56,568 --> 00:28:59,686
Sort of guy, if you meet him in a bar,
you think, "Oh, my God.
496
00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:02,523
Who are the poor women
who are associated with this fella?"
497
00:29:10,499 --> 00:29:14,038
And since Mobutu was an extraordinarily
practical man for his country,
498
00:29:14,127 --> 00:29:18,087
down under the stadium,
which seated 100,000 people,
499
00:29:18,173 --> 00:29:21,632
were detention pens
and rooms and chambers
500
00:29:21,718 --> 00:29:25,883
where you could imprison as many
as a couple thousand people at once.
501
00:29:25,973 --> 00:29:28,260
Before the fight came,
502
00:29:28,350 --> 00:29:31,093
the criminal rate in Zaire began to go up,
503
00:29:31,186 --> 00:29:35,897
and a few white foreigners
had been killed driving their cars.
504
00:29:35,983 --> 00:29:40,978
And Mobutu decided that this was going
to be a disaster in terms of publicity,
505
00:29:41,071 --> 00:29:44,985
so on a given day, he had a thousand
506
00:29:45,075 --> 00:29:48,284
of the leading criminals in Kinshasa
507
00:29:48,370 --> 00:29:52,080
rounded up and put in this stadium,
508
00:29:52,165 --> 00:29:54,532
down in the detention pens.
509
00:29:54,626 --> 00:29:56,413
And then, the legend has it,
510
00:29:56,503 --> 00:29:58,790
and I suspect
the legend may even be true,
511
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,749
that he had a hundred of them
taken at random and killed them.
512
00:30:02,843 --> 00:30:07,133
And the reason was a particularly
simple one from Mobutu's point of view:
513
00:30:07,222 --> 00:30:09,589
Criminals who make a life out of it
have connections
514
00:30:09,683 --> 00:30:11,470
that protect them when they're in trouble,
515
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:16,100
and by making this kill of a hundred
out of a thousand arbitrarily,
516
00:30:16,189 --> 00:30:19,057
what Mobutu was saying is,
"Your connections are worth nothing.
517
00:30:19,151 --> 00:30:20,608
I am Jehovah.
518
00:30:20,694 --> 00:30:24,654
I am going to blast you out of existence
if you fool around with me."
519
00:30:32,289 --> 00:30:35,453
And he made his point.
Kinshasa was one of the safest cities
520
00:30:35,542 --> 00:30:38,330
not only in all of Africa
but probably in all of the world
521
00:30:38,420 --> 00:30:40,662
while the foreign press was there
for the fight.
522
00:30:55,145 --> 00:30:57,307
To me,
the drum has been the communicator
523
00:30:57,397 --> 00:30:59,354
since the beginning of time.
524
00:30:59,441 --> 00:31:02,058
I'm sure it was the first message
ever sent.
525
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,734
When I think of the beat today
and I think of the beats centuries ago,
526
00:31:06,823 --> 00:31:09,110
it's the only thing that kept us together.
527
00:31:14,373 --> 00:31:18,413
We had this thing, when we hurt,
we sung for trial and tribulation,
528
00:31:18,502 --> 00:31:21,336
we sung for relief, we sung songs of God,
529
00:31:21,421 --> 00:31:23,879
and this music that you hear today
530
00:31:23,965 --> 00:31:27,174
is the same songs that have been
made popular throughout the world
531
00:31:27,260 --> 00:31:29,627
without anybody's intentions or volition.
532
00:31:31,056 --> 00:31:32,056
Oh!
533
00:32:06,216 --> 00:32:09,129
So I would say that
anybody who knows anything
534
00:32:09,219 --> 00:32:11,677
about the rhythm and the blues,
as they're so-called today,
535
00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:13,345
should know about Africa.
536
00:32:14,182 --> 00:32:16,424
♪ When I first met you, baby ♪
537
00:32:22,232 --> 00:32:24,440
♪ Baby, you were just ♪
538
00:32:25,152 --> 00:32:26,609
♪ Sweet 16 ♪
539
00:32:29,823 --> 00:32:31,860
♪ When I first met you, baby ♪
540
00:32:35,745 --> 00:32:39,989
♪ Baby, you was just sweet 16 ♪
541
00:32:45,338 --> 00:32:47,796
♪ Just left your home then, baby ♪
542
00:32:50,969 --> 00:32:55,805
♪ Oh, the sweetest thing I'd ever seen ♪
543
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,136
The music I'm listening to now,
544
00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:04,768
if I went to your house
or most white people's places,
545
00:33:04,858 --> 00:33:07,646
I don't hear this kind of music,
because your culture wouldn't...
546
00:33:07,736 --> 00:33:09,102
Your woman didn't leave you.
547
00:33:09,196 --> 00:33:12,155
Your woman didn't go out,
slip off on you like our women,
548
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,106
because you didn't have no money.
549
00:33:14,201 --> 00:33:16,944
You had money to keep your woman.
Your songs are like...
550
00:33:17,037 --> 00:33:20,155
♪ When that train comes
Around that mountain ♪
551
00:33:20,248 --> 00:33:23,286
♪ In that Folsom Prison
In that Folsom Prison ♪
552
00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:25,368
And, you know...
♪ Y'all come, y'all come ♪
553
00:33:25,462 --> 00:33:28,205
Whatever it is, that's a different cul...
Chinese like their music.
554
00:33:28,298 --> 00:33:30,506
♪ Pling, ting, tang, tong, ting, tong ♪
555
00:33:30,592 --> 00:33:33,084
I don't want to hear that,
and he understands that.
556
00:33:33,178 --> 00:33:34,760
Everybody's got their culture.
557
00:33:34,846 --> 00:33:38,385
So we're not saying that we hate you
or we want to be more divided
558
00:33:38,475 --> 00:33:42,094
and we're never talking to you again
or doing business... We don't do that.
559
00:33:42,187 --> 00:33:45,806
But what we're saying
is that we want to be independent now.
560
00:33:46,608 --> 00:33:49,066
♪ Baby, I wonder
Yes, I wonder ♪
561
00:33:49,152 --> 00:33:50,768
♪ Baby, I wonder ♪
562
00:33:55,283 --> 00:33:58,401
♪ Oh, I wonder what in the world ♪
563
00:33:58,495 --> 00:34:01,988
♪ Is gonna happen to me ♪
564
00:34:08,922 --> 00:34:09,922
Oh!
565
00:34:10,799 --> 00:34:13,758
The great place
to visit in Kinshasa was a compound
566
00:34:13,843 --> 00:34:16,051
about 20 miles up the Congo River,
567
00:34:16,137 --> 00:34:19,255
a place called Nsele,
which was a presidential palace.
568
00:34:19,933 --> 00:34:23,927
That was where we saw Foreman,
who seemed incredible.
569
00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:27,388
I'd seen him fight before.
I saw him destroy Frazier.
570
00:34:27,482 --> 00:34:30,725
I'd never seen destruction like that,
and the thing I always remembered was that
571
00:34:30,819 --> 00:34:34,984
the beaten fighter, even a man
as powerful and big as Frazier...
572
00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:37,110
and he was very much favored
to win that...
573
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,238
suddenly becomes
about the size of a Pygmy.
574
00:34:40,328 --> 00:34:42,991
They just diminish in size.
575
00:34:43,081 --> 00:34:47,166
And Foreman suddenly became
this gigantic figure.
576
00:34:49,254 --> 00:34:52,713
And he had a trainer, Dick Sadler,
tiny by comparison to Foreman,
577
00:34:52,799 --> 00:34:54,836
and Sadler would hang on to the heavy bag.
578
00:34:54,926 --> 00:34:57,964
But Foreman would hit this... this bag...
579
00:34:58,805 --> 00:35:01,047
Sadler would just literally
be picked off his feet.
580
00:35:03,018 --> 00:35:05,260
Foreman hitting the heavy bag
581
00:35:05,353 --> 00:35:10,439
is one of the more prodigious sights
I've had in my life.
582
00:35:10,525 --> 00:35:13,233
It seems to me that of all the people
I've seen hitting heavy bags,
583
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,779
including Sonny Liston,
no one ever hit it the way Foreman did.
584
00:35:16,865 --> 00:35:21,906
At the end of 15 minutes
of pounding the heavy bag,
585
00:35:21,995 --> 00:35:25,989
there'd be a hole in the heavy bag...
not a hole, but a huge dent
586
00:35:26,082 --> 00:35:30,918
the size of half a small watermelon
in that tremendous heavy bag,
587
00:35:31,004 --> 00:35:33,872
and Foreman used to use
the biggest heavy bag around.
588
00:35:33,965 --> 00:35:37,049
What would be interesting is Ali,
who would train after Foreman,
589
00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:41,630
would often pass by this large hall
where the training took place,
590
00:35:41,723 --> 00:35:44,807
and he never looked at Foreman
hitting the heavy bag.
591
00:35:44,893 --> 00:35:48,011
He just walked right by
as if Foreman did not exist.
592
00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:51,208
And it was significant because
if you were gonna fight the man,
593
00:35:51,232 --> 00:35:53,645
you did not want to see him
hitting that heavy bag.
594
00:35:53,735 --> 00:35:56,978
I'm a speed demon! I'm a brain fighter!
595
00:35:57,072 --> 00:36:00,736
I'm scientific! I'm artistic!
I plan my strategy!
596
00:36:02,661 --> 00:36:04,618
He's the bull! I'm the matador!
597
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,531
He's scared to death.
598
00:36:09,793 --> 00:36:11,375
He's scared to death!
599
00:36:13,963 --> 00:36:16,250
He wish he could get out
of the whole thing!
600
00:36:16,341 --> 00:36:19,084
He wish he could get out of
the whole thing when I look at him.
601
00:36:19,177 --> 00:36:20,634
The man is frightened!
602
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:24,384
He's meetin' his master,
his teacher, his idol!
603
00:36:24,474 --> 00:36:26,431
- Time!
- Is that all?
604
00:36:29,145 --> 00:36:32,058
When I talk and work, I'm in shape.
It's all I do.
605
00:36:33,692 --> 00:36:36,025
Ali had announced
he was gonna dance.
606
00:36:36,111 --> 00:36:38,103
He spoke about it all the time.
607
00:36:38,196 --> 00:36:41,234
You couldn't do an interview with Ali
during that period where he would say,
608
00:36:41,324 --> 00:36:43,782
"How is Foreman
going to get near to me?
609
00:36:43,868 --> 00:36:46,906
I'm going to dance.
I'm going to dance and dance.
610
00:36:46,996 --> 00:36:50,034
That man will look foolish
trying to find me.
611
00:36:50,125 --> 00:36:52,742
And as he gropes his way forward
612
00:36:52,836 --> 00:36:56,955
in this storm of blindness
that's the speed of my dancing,
613
00:36:57,048 --> 00:36:58,835
I will strike him with my jab.
614
00:36:58,925 --> 00:37:01,508
Poo! Poo! Poo!"
he would go, and so forth.
615
00:37:01,594 --> 00:37:05,258
We heard this over and over and over,
and Foreman heard it too.
616
00:37:07,225 --> 00:37:11,094
Foreman was working now
on what's called cutting off the ring.
617
00:37:11,187 --> 00:37:13,179
Now, cutting off the ring
essentially just means
618
00:37:13,273 --> 00:37:16,732
cornering your opponent
against the ropes or in a corner.
619
00:37:17,694 --> 00:37:20,812
And it's an art. It's a balletic art.
620
00:37:20,905 --> 00:37:23,397
You have to have very good footwork.
Foreman's footwork...
621
00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:26,984
He was a big, powerful man, but his
footwork was better than anyone expected.
622
00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:30,321
He worked with very fast fighters,
smaller than himself,
623
00:37:30,415 --> 00:37:32,998
who certainly could dance,
and he worked on cornering them.
624
00:37:33,084 --> 00:37:35,952
And he was very good. And we'd watch this.
625
00:37:36,045 --> 00:37:38,378
And the combination
of hitting the heavy bag
626
00:37:38,465 --> 00:37:40,957
and watching Foreman cut off the ring
627
00:37:41,050 --> 00:37:43,337
made most of the fight writers,
myself included,
628
00:37:43,428 --> 00:37:45,636
terribly pessimistic about Ali's chances.
629
00:37:54,647 --> 00:37:56,229
Yeah, Lord. Now you're working.
630
00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:24,550
The guy threw up his elbows
to protect himself from Foreman,
631
00:38:24,636 --> 00:38:26,502
and Foreman walked into his elbow.
632
00:38:27,555 --> 00:38:30,548
And he got cut...
That's how he got cut in the eye?
633
00:38:38,525 --> 00:38:40,892
What else can happen
that hasn't happened yet?
634
00:38:42,362 --> 00:38:45,696
I saw the man's cut,
and this man cannot fight.
635
00:38:45,782 --> 00:38:48,115
This man cannot fight
for the world championship.
636
00:38:48,201 --> 00:38:50,864
- You are not a doctor.
- I don't give a damn.
637
00:38:50,954 --> 00:38:52,866
Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
638
00:38:52,956 --> 00:38:56,449
The Zaireans kicked us out,
and they did not want us around.
639
00:38:56,543 --> 00:38:59,627
And they want the fight to go on.
That's all there is to it.
640
00:38:59,712 --> 00:39:02,045
- That's the problem.
- He won't fight with that eye.
641
00:39:02,131 --> 00:39:04,373
- He's not that dumb.
- He's not that dumb.
642
00:39:04,467 --> 00:39:07,005
That's all you want is a fight.
That's all you want.
643
00:39:07,095 --> 00:39:10,054
Excuse me, gentlemen.
That's all you want is a fight. I know.
644
00:39:14,394 --> 00:39:18,058
I respectfully ask,
are the fighters remaining here
645
00:39:18,147 --> 00:39:20,013
because they want to remain here,
646
00:39:20,108 --> 00:39:22,646
or has the government
requested they remain?
647
00:39:29,492 --> 00:39:32,826
Uh, Mr. Sadler told me
to convey to the press
648
00:39:32,912 --> 00:39:35,370
that it's nothing but an accident.
649
00:39:35,456 --> 00:39:36,788
It's not serious.
650
00:39:36,875 --> 00:39:39,993
They will be getting in touch
with the promoters of the fight,
651
00:39:40,086 --> 00:39:43,170
and it's possible
that we may have to delay the fight,
652
00:39:43,256 --> 00:39:46,465
and he will let the press know
as soon as possible.
653
00:39:46,551 --> 00:39:49,168
Did they have to stitch Foreman?
654
00:39:49,262 --> 00:39:50,878
They had to stitch him.
655
00:39:50,972 --> 00:39:53,965
Holy shit, man.
So how long is the delay, man?
656
00:39:54,058 --> 00:39:56,391
It'll take another day or two
to give any intelligence.
657
00:39:56,477 --> 00:39:58,343
This just happened yesterday.
658
00:39:58,438 --> 00:40:00,475
Then after, we can make a decision.
659
00:40:00,565 --> 00:40:02,147
How does George feel about it?
660
00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:06,352
Well, like anybody else. He's only human.
How would any individual feel?
661
00:40:06,446 --> 00:40:09,439
Does he want to go ahead,
or does he want it postponed?
662
00:40:09,532 --> 00:40:11,524
Who? Why should he?
663
00:40:11,618 --> 00:40:15,783
- Why should he go ahead with it, or...
- Why should he make any decision?
664
00:40:15,872 --> 00:40:17,955
Who would know what another man thinks?
665
00:40:18,041 --> 00:40:20,909
How could I truthfully tell you
what you would think
666
00:40:21,002 --> 00:40:22,834
or what I would think, or how...
667
00:40:22,921 --> 00:40:26,915
A man may have mixed emotions,
I don't know. I couldn't speak for George.
668
00:40:27,008 --> 00:40:30,172
I can only speak for Dick Sadler,
not for somebody else.
669
00:40:30,261 --> 00:40:32,298
It would be hard.
I'm not that intelligent.
670
00:40:32,388 --> 00:40:37,304
I don't have that knowledge, that ability
to speak what's in another man's mind.
671
00:40:37,393 --> 00:40:40,306
He never discussed it to me,
what his thoughts are.
672
00:40:40,396 --> 00:40:42,854
And a person's mind change
from time to time.
673
00:40:42,941 --> 00:40:45,854
- But the decision is yours to make?
- The decision is mine to make.
674
00:40:45,944 --> 00:40:48,652
And right now I haven't made any...
675
00:40:48,738 --> 00:40:50,730
I don't have any decisions to make.
676
00:40:51,658 --> 00:40:53,866
Okay, let's get the show on the road.
677
00:40:53,952 --> 00:40:57,320
This meeting is now called to order.
Hear, hear.
678
00:40:58,206 --> 00:41:02,120
The delay won't have any, uh...
any effect on the fight at all.
679
00:41:03,586 --> 00:41:06,294
There hasn't been...
There will not be a delay.
680
00:41:06,381 --> 00:41:08,498
The fight will be rescheduled,
681
00:41:08,591 --> 00:41:11,550
but when it happens,
it'll be actually intended for that time.
682
00:41:11,636 --> 00:41:14,925
Fate intended it for another time.
There is no delay.
683
00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:18,887
How does Ali feel about it?
684
00:41:18,977 --> 00:41:22,971
And if there ever has been
any disappointments in sports,
685
00:41:23,064 --> 00:41:26,228
any setbacks or rainy days
that stopped a ball game,
686
00:41:26,317 --> 00:41:28,559
anything, this is the worst of all time.
687
00:41:28,653 --> 00:41:32,738
Initially, Muhammad went through
a pretty bad couple of hours,
688
00:41:32,824 --> 00:41:37,194
and he first wanted to move
the whole fight back to the United States,
689
00:41:37,286 --> 00:41:39,528
and when he was told that wouldn't work,
he said,
690
00:41:39,622 --> 00:41:42,865
"Well, then let's bring Joe Frazier
over here, and I'll fight him again,
691
00:41:42,959 --> 00:41:45,372
and instead of each of us
getting $5 million,
692
00:41:45,461 --> 00:41:48,704
I'll take 3 million
and Joe can take 1 million."
693
00:41:48,798 --> 00:41:50,915
But after a while he calmed down,
694
00:41:51,009 --> 00:41:53,752
and he realized that there was nothing
that could be done about it
695
00:41:53,845 --> 00:41:57,589
except stay in Zaire an extra six weeks
and make the best of it.
696
00:41:58,558 --> 00:42:02,302
Now I gotta wait. He's gonna get
his whuppin', but I just have to wait.
697
00:42:03,479 --> 00:42:07,268
Boy, I was ready!
I was gonna upset the world again!
698
00:42:07,358 --> 00:42:10,726
The whole world was gonna crawl
and bow the next morning!
699
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,239
I was gonna defeat that big,
indestructible George Foreman!
700
00:42:15,324 --> 00:42:17,190
Gonna rip him up!
701
00:42:17,285 --> 00:42:19,527
I was gonna get him
for a sparring partner.
702
00:42:21,414 --> 00:42:23,997
My dream's all messed up
for six more weeks.
703
00:42:25,752 --> 00:42:28,586
The man's in trouble! The man is scared!
704
00:42:28,671 --> 00:42:31,835
He's in my country to start with!
705
00:42:35,344 --> 00:42:39,509
He's in my country. You wanna see?
Want me to show you this is my country?
706
00:42:39,599 --> 00:42:41,682
Ali, bomaye!
707
00:42:41,768 --> 00:42:45,978
Ali, bomaye! Ali, bomaye!
708
00:42:46,064 --> 00:42:50,274
Can you picture 100,000?
Can you picture 100,000?
709
00:42:50,359 --> 00:42:53,477
How you say it? Ali, bomaye!
710
00:42:53,571 --> 00:42:57,941
Ali, bomaye! Ali, bomaye!
711
00:42:58,034 --> 00:43:00,572
Boy, when I hear them brothers
hollerin' like that...
712
00:43:00,661 --> 00:43:03,153
Whoo! I'm gonna get my soul
and my spirit,
713
00:43:03,247 --> 00:43:07,207
100,000 African brothers
hollering "Ali, bomaye!"
714
00:43:07,293 --> 00:43:09,080
And I'm gonna... Ooh!
715
00:43:09,170 --> 00:43:12,004
I'm tired. I can't take it no more.
Let me get out of here.
716
00:43:12,090 --> 00:43:14,582
I gotta get out of here.
I wanna... We gonna...
717
00:43:14,675 --> 00:43:17,418
I'm going up to my room.
I'll talk to y'all later.
718
00:43:24,644 --> 00:43:26,135
I said I'm gone!
719
00:43:29,065 --> 00:43:30,522
♪ When you kiss me ♪
720
00:43:32,276 --> 00:43:33,983
♪ When you miss me, baby ♪
721
00:43:35,863 --> 00:43:37,399
♪ Hold my hand ♪
722
00:43:39,408 --> 00:43:40,990
♪ Make me understand ♪
723
00:43:43,788 --> 00:43:44,995
♪ I break out ♪
724
00:43:46,916 --> 00:43:48,623
♪ In a cold sweat ♪
725
00:43:51,129 --> 00:43:52,290
♪ Whoo ♪
726
00:43:55,091 --> 00:43:56,377
♪ Turn it back ♪
727
00:43:57,468 --> 00:43:58,675
♪ Yeah ♪
728
00:44:00,263 --> 00:44:02,346
The black acts in America
have not learned
729
00:44:02,431 --> 00:44:05,344
that once their records
is off the charts, they're finished.
730
00:44:05,434 --> 00:44:07,426
I mean, they haven't...
they haven't learned that.
731
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,012
It's so true.
I heard a speech by Jesse Jackson,
732
00:44:10,106 --> 00:44:14,066
saying we must recognize that we're
only useful as long as we're necessary.
733
00:44:14,152 --> 00:44:15,609
As long as you're necessary.
734
00:44:15,695 --> 00:44:17,615
When we're not necessary,
we're no longer useful,
735
00:44:17,697 --> 00:44:20,360
So they don't realize that your strength
comes from your community.
736
00:44:20,449 --> 00:44:22,261
And you have to deal from your strength.
737
00:44:22,285 --> 00:44:25,449
You have to, because in dealing
from your strength, you've got somebody.
738
00:44:25,538 --> 00:44:28,155
So if somebody grabs James Brown
or want to hurt James Brown,
739
00:44:28,249 --> 00:44:31,458
somebody gonna raise their voice and say,
"Why are you bothering my brother?"
740
00:44:31,544 --> 00:44:35,037
Because he's got some soldiers around,
somebody that's concerned, that cares.
741
00:44:35,131 --> 00:44:38,374
But when you're dealing as an individual,
no matter how big you get,
742
00:44:38,467 --> 00:44:40,147
as a black individual, you still a nigger.
743
00:44:40,219 --> 00:44:42,489
You don't care how much money you get.
You are still a nigger.
744
00:44:42,513 --> 00:44:46,302
When you start that by yourself, you are
all alone when you become unnecessary.
745
00:44:46,434 --> 00:44:47,766
♪ Listen ♪
746
00:44:49,437 --> 00:44:51,053
♪ Extend your love ♪
747
00:44:53,441 --> 00:44:54,932
Can I get the drummer some?
748
00:44:56,944 --> 00:44:59,231
Can I get the drummer a little taste?
749
00:44:59,322 --> 00:45:02,906
Do unto others
as you would have them to do unto you.
750
00:45:02,992 --> 00:45:05,735
Would you have somebody
burn you up and lynch you
751
00:45:05,828 --> 00:45:10,698
and tell you where to go and how to look,
and then refuse to pay you?
752
00:45:10,791 --> 00:45:13,534
Would you have somebody
take advantage of your woman, Jack,
753
00:45:13,628 --> 00:45:15,540
and you can't even speak to his?
754
00:45:15,630 --> 00:45:18,714
Would you like to pay taxes for something
that you never received?
755
00:45:19,300 --> 00:45:23,294
Do unto others as you would have
somebody do unto you.
756
00:45:23,387 --> 00:45:26,050
And I don't have to use
the word "FM" backwards.
757
00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:31,510
♪ Yeah ♪
758
00:45:31,604 --> 00:45:34,938
We left Africa in shackles
and fetters and chains.
759
00:45:35,024 --> 00:45:38,017
We're coming back in an aura
of splendor and scintillating glory.
760
00:45:38,110 --> 00:45:41,774
The champions are here. So we try to
get the champions of the sports world,
761
00:45:41,864 --> 00:45:43,355
champions of the music world.
762
00:45:43,449 --> 00:45:46,442
We put 'em together, and we got
one champion that's so intermingled
763
00:45:46,535 --> 00:45:49,073
and intertwined
that we're fused into one entity.
764
00:45:50,665 --> 00:45:54,284
The brother said something there!
Yeah, the brother said something there.
765
00:45:54,377 --> 00:45:56,790
Don King put this together.
766
00:45:56,879 --> 00:45:59,667
It was not a color put it together.
You understand?
767
00:45:59,757 --> 00:46:01,794
I'd like to call him the messiah.
768
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,379
This fight came into existence
because of Don King's desire
769
00:46:06,472 --> 00:46:08,759
to be famous, to break out of the pack.
770
00:46:08,849 --> 00:46:12,559
It was the world to him. He was either
going to become enormously prominent,
771
00:46:12,645 --> 00:46:14,432
at the least, in American life,
772
00:46:14,522 --> 00:46:17,560
or he was going to go back
to obscurity again if it failed.
773
00:46:18,276 --> 00:46:21,769
Oh, I'm so happy to see you, my brother.
Oh, good.
774
00:46:21,862 --> 00:46:24,275
- This is the minister of finance.
- We met before.
775
00:46:24,365 --> 00:46:27,403
Yes, I have met the minister of finance.
How are you?
776
00:46:27,493 --> 00:46:29,951
I recognize and appreciate
your talent and your expertise.
777
00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:33,747
This is what it's all about. I welcome you
with love. That's all I'm saying.
778
00:46:33,833 --> 00:46:36,541
We must deal with it as such,
but with love, you know?
779
00:46:36,627 --> 00:46:38,619
Not with hostility and alienation.
780
00:46:38,713 --> 00:46:40,921
You know? But with love.
781
00:46:41,007 --> 00:46:44,250
Bravo, Mr. King! Bravo!
782
00:46:44,343 --> 00:46:48,508
King had this huge air of welcome.
783
00:46:48,597 --> 00:46:52,307
Rarely has anyone ever been welcomed
the way King could do it for you.
784
00:46:52,393 --> 00:46:53,975
There was a joy that came off him.
785
00:46:54,061 --> 00:46:57,475
I knew his reputation, all about him,
how he'd been in jail,
786
00:46:57,565 --> 00:47:01,058
how he was thoroughly untrustworthy
and so forth, but nonetheless,
787
00:47:01,152 --> 00:47:03,018
what it was is, he made you feel good.
788
00:47:03,112 --> 00:47:05,320
Don't leave me. I need you.
I need your strength.
789
00:47:05,406 --> 00:47:06,897
He was a startling-looking man.
790
00:47:06,991 --> 00:47:09,358
All the writers used to find
different ways of describing
791
00:47:09,452 --> 00:47:12,069
this great up-brush of hair.
792
00:47:12,163 --> 00:47:15,497
Some people would say that he'd stuck
his thumb into an electric socket.
793
00:47:15,583 --> 00:47:18,041
Falling through an empty elevator shaft.
794
00:47:18,127 --> 00:47:20,647
The fight, of course,
was postponed, and Don King turned up,
795
00:47:20,671 --> 00:47:22,232
and everybody wanted to know
what was going on.
796
00:47:22,256 --> 00:47:25,044
It looked as though maybe
the fight wasn't going to happen, and...
797
00:47:25,134 --> 00:47:27,547
Nothing that's as big as this
ever runs smoothly anyway.
798
00:47:27,636 --> 00:47:30,299
Anything worthwhile is worth fighting for.
799
00:47:30,389 --> 00:47:33,348
So we have a situation here
where we have been struck with adversity.
800
00:47:33,434 --> 00:47:36,302
If you think about what Shakespeare said:
"The sweet uses of adversity,
801
00:47:36,395 --> 00:47:39,354
ugly and venomous like the toad,
yet wears a precious jewel in his head."
802
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,353
- "Venomous like a..."
- "Ugly and venomous like a toad,
803
00:47:42,443 --> 00:47:44,730
yet wears a precious jewel in his head."
804
00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:47,174
How many fight promoters
have even tried one line of Shakespeare?
805
00:47:47,198 --> 00:47:48,609
He had a whole raft of them.
806
00:47:48,699 --> 00:47:52,067
I can relate to the denial
that they have to be confronted with.
807
00:47:52,161 --> 00:47:54,949
I can relate to the rat-infested hovels,
808
00:47:55,039 --> 00:47:57,622
the substandard tenements,
the overcrowded tenements.
809
00:47:57,708 --> 00:48:00,166
I can relate to these things
because I've been a part of them.
810
00:48:00,252 --> 00:48:03,666
I know about roaches, about rats,
so when he started talkin' to me about it,
811
00:48:03,756 --> 00:48:06,089
I can understand him
and he can understand me.
812
00:48:06,175 --> 00:48:07,962
You understand? So it's a big difference.
813
00:48:08,052 --> 00:48:10,813
So when I do the thing he can understand,
so now he will believe in me
814
00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:14,757
because he feels that he has...
I have shared with him
815
00:48:14,850 --> 00:48:18,890
the same anguish and anxiety,
the same pain that he has felt.
816
00:48:18,979 --> 00:48:20,015
Big difference.
817
00:48:20,106 --> 00:48:22,501
What would happen if you took
an enormous... not an enormous,
818
00:48:22,525 --> 00:48:27,566
but a small part of the vast sums of money
that'll be made out of the fight
819
00:48:27,655 --> 00:48:29,863
and put it into something that was...
820
00:48:29,949 --> 00:48:33,113
that would help a number of people
rather than a few?
821
00:48:33,202 --> 00:48:35,444
This is what my dream and desire is,
822
00:48:35,538 --> 00:48:37,575
and I feel that I would need...
823
00:48:38,624 --> 00:48:41,412
white counterparts to do this here.
824
00:48:41,502 --> 00:48:43,664
I would say, let me engender
825
00:48:43,754 --> 00:48:46,462
a large amount of money, if it's possible,
826
00:48:46,549 --> 00:48:48,882
and then don't let this money
just be sitting there
827
00:48:48,968 --> 00:48:51,927
so that it would wither away
and just die, but put it into the sun,
828
00:48:52,012 --> 00:48:55,551
so it could be exposed,
so it could germinate, blossom and grow.
829
00:48:55,641 --> 00:48:57,883
He's really quite a remarkable man.
830
00:48:57,977 --> 00:49:02,517
Don King is one of the brightest people
I've ever met,
831
00:49:02,606 --> 00:49:05,895
he's one of the most charismatic people
I've ever met,
832
00:49:05,985 --> 00:49:10,901
he's one of the hardest working people
I've ever met.
833
00:49:10,990 --> 00:49:13,528
He is also totally amoral,
834
00:49:13,617 --> 00:49:16,985
and I can't think of a man
who has done more
835
00:49:17,079 --> 00:49:20,117
to demoralize fighters,
836
00:49:20,207 --> 00:49:22,073
exploit from fighters,
837
00:49:22,168 --> 00:49:25,878
and ruin fighters' careers than Don King.
838
00:49:25,963 --> 00:49:29,206
But you have to give him his due
for what he did
839
00:49:29,300 --> 00:49:32,634
to make Muhammad Ali
versus George Foreman in Zaire.
840
00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:35,963
And nobody does anything for nothing.
841
00:49:37,099 --> 00:49:38,135
You understand that?
842
00:49:38,225 --> 00:49:41,013
Fight or no fight,
what business are we in?
843
00:49:41,103 --> 00:49:43,891
- We're in the music business.
- I was starting to wonder, man.
844
00:49:43,981 --> 00:49:46,815
Because I feel like
we're in the fight business these days.
845
00:49:46,901 --> 00:49:48,984
♪ Ah, do it to death ♪
846
00:50:18,057 --> 00:50:25,057
- ♪ My body ♪
- ♪ Your body ♪
847
00:50:31,070 --> 00:50:32,732
♪ My body ♪
848
00:50:32,821 --> 00:50:35,234
♪ We're gonna have a funky good time ♪
849
00:50:36,158 --> 00:50:38,650
♪ We're gonna have a funky good time ♪
850
00:50:39,787 --> 00:50:42,279
♪ We're gonna have a funky good time ♪
851
00:50:43,582 --> 00:50:45,915
♪ We're gonna have a funky good time ♪
852
00:50:47,294 --> 00:50:49,752
♪ We're gonna have a funky good time ♪
853
00:50:50,923 --> 00:50:54,462
- ♪ We're gonna have a funky good time ♪
- ♪ Pick 'em up! ♪
854
00:50:54,552 --> 00:50:59,968
♪ We gotta take you higher ♪
855
00:51:00,057 --> 00:51:01,093
♪ Whoo ♪
856
00:51:09,733 --> 00:51:11,975
♪ We're gonna have a funky good time ♪
857
00:51:13,529 --> 00:51:16,146
♪ We're gonna have a funky good time ♪
858
00:51:17,408 --> 00:51:19,650
♪ We're gonna have a funky good time ♪
859
00:51:20,953 --> 00:51:24,537
- ♪ We're gonna have a funky good time ♪
- ♪ Pick 'em up! ♪
860
00:51:24,623 --> 00:51:29,835
♪ We gotta take you higher ♪
861
00:51:41,098 --> 00:51:44,887
- I'm gonna play me some soul music, man.
- Right. Come on.
862
00:51:44,977 --> 00:51:48,266
The Spinners... to James Brown.
863
00:51:49,607 --> 00:51:53,146
- ♪ Make me high ♪
- ♪ Make me high ♪
864
00:51:53,235 --> 00:51:54,817
- ♪ A natural high ♪
- ♪ Pick 'em up ♪
865
00:51:54,903 --> 00:51:57,566
- ♪ A ghetto high ♪
- Ali, bomaye!
866
00:51:58,741 --> 00:52:00,448
- ♪ An African high ♪
- ♪ Pick 'em up ♪
867
00:52:00,534 --> 00:52:01,970
- ♪ Downright high ♪
- ♪ Pick 'em up ♪
868
00:52:01,994 --> 00:52:04,281
- ♪ Everybody high ♪
- ♪ Pick 'em up ♪
869
00:52:04,371 --> 00:52:07,284
- ♪ Need to get high, down high ♪
- ♪ Pick 'em up ♪
870
00:52:07,374 --> 00:52:08,990
I think I'm ready. I am ready.
871
00:52:09,877 --> 00:52:16,877
- ♪ Bad! ♪
- ♪ Bad! ♪
872
00:53:12,731 --> 00:53:14,222
Sucker, you ain't nothin'.
873
00:53:15,234 --> 00:53:17,692
You're too ugly to represent
us colored folks.
874
00:53:18,779 --> 00:53:21,146
These Africans make all of us ugly.
875
00:53:22,783 --> 00:53:24,194
Sucker, look at you.
876
00:53:26,495 --> 00:53:28,703
You out, sucker.
877
00:53:29,957 --> 00:53:31,744
Bomaye. Bomaye.
878
00:53:31,834 --> 00:53:36,249
- Ali, bomaye!
- Ali, bomaye!
879
00:53:36,338 --> 00:53:38,546
Ali, bomaye!
880
00:53:38,632 --> 00:53:41,500
- Ali, bomaye!
- That mean "kill him."
881
00:53:43,053 --> 00:53:46,296
When I'm walking
down the street, the kids follow me,
882
00:53:46,390 --> 00:53:48,677
screaming,
"George Foreman, bumba yu"...
883
00:53:48,767 --> 00:53:50,884
Uh, bomaye, yeah.
884
00:53:50,978 --> 00:53:55,313
And, uh, that hasn't...
I don't think that's so nice to me.
885
00:53:55,399 --> 00:53:57,812
You know, I'd like, if they have any, uh,
886
00:53:57,901 --> 00:54:00,143
anything to say about me,
they can say, you know,
887
00:54:00,237 --> 00:54:02,149
"George Foreman loves Africa"
888
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:04,447
or "George Foreman loves being here."
889
00:54:04,533 --> 00:54:07,116
Not "George Foreman, kill him."
I don't like that.
890
00:54:07,745 --> 00:54:09,452
- Bomaye!
- Bomaye!
891
00:54:10,831 --> 00:54:13,164
- George Foreman.
- Bomaye! Bomaye!
892
00:54:17,588 --> 00:54:20,752
- That sucker. There he is.
- Bomaye. Bomaye.
893
00:54:20,841 --> 00:54:22,833
You ain't no champ, sucker.
You wasn't nothing!
894
00:54:22,926 --> 00:54:25,384
Even they understand English.
895
00:54:26,889 --> 00:54:29,427
We were all for Muhammad Ali.
896
00:54:29,516 --> 00:54:31,553
Foreman? We didn't know him.
897
00:54:34,897 --> 00:54:37,640
Foreman said, "Why?
898
00:54:37,733 --> 00:54:40,726
I'm black, blacker than Muhammad Ali.
899
00:54:40,819 --> 00:54:42,526
Why all this bias?"
900
00:54:44,031 --> 00:54:46,899
Yes, Muhammad Ali, he was lighter,
901
00:54:46,992 --> 00:54:49,109
but he was a real person.
902
00:54:49,203 --> 00:54:51,160
He was genuine.
903
00:54:51,246 --> 00:54:54,455
Muhammad Ali could have been
even lighter-skinned than he was,
904
00:54:54,541 --> 00:54:58,080
but for us,
he was defending the good cause,
905
00:54:58,170 --> 00:55:00,412
for Africans and the whole world.
906
00:55:00,506 --> 00:55:02,213
Watch this. Seven punches.
907
00:55:03,509 --> 00:55:06,798
I'm gonna fight for the prestige,
908
00:55:06,887 --> 00:55:10,005
not for me
but to uplift my little brothers
909
00:55:10,098 --> 00:55:13,091
who are sleeping
on concrete floors today in America.
910
00:55:13,185 --> 00:55:16,769
Black people who are living on welfare,
black people who can't eat,
911
00:55:16,855 --> 00:55:19,518
black people who don't know
no knowledge of themselves,
912
00:55:19,608 --> 00:55:21,565
black people who don't have no future.
913
00:55:21,652 --> 00:55:23,894
I want to win my title
and walk down the alleys,
914
00:55:23,987 --> 00:55:26,229
sit on the garbage can
with the wine-heads.
915
00:55:26,323 --> 00:55:29,532
I want to walk down the street with
the dope addicts, talk to the prostitutes.
916
00:55:29,618 --> 00:55:31,484
So I can help a lot of people.
917
00:55:31,578 --> 00:55:34,195
I can show 'em films,
I can take this documentary,
918
00:55:34,289 --> 00:55:37,373
I can take movies and help uplift
my people in Louisville, Kentucky;
919
00:55:37,459 --> 00:55:40,748
Indianapolis, Indiana; Cincinnati, Ohio.
920
00:55:40,838 --> 00:55:43,876
I can go throughout Tennessee
and Florida and Mississippi
921
00:55:43,966 --> 00:55:47,801
and show black Africans in them countries
who didn't know this was their country,
922
00:55:47,886 --> 00:55:50,845
"You look like people in Mississippi,
in Alabama, in Georgia.
923
00:55:50,931 --> 00:55:53,799
They're your brothers,
but they never knew you was over here,
924
00:55:53,892 --> 00:55:55,554
and you don't know much about them."
925
00:55:55,644 --> 00:55:58,182
God is blessing me,
as an accident through boxing,
926
00:55:58,272 --> 00:56:01,731
to help get to all these people
and show them films I haven't seen!
927
00:56:01,817 --> 00:56:04,935
I know they haven't seen 'em.
I'm worldly, and I haven't seem 'em!
928
00:56:05,028 --> 00:56:08,942
Now I can get all these films.
You governments can let me take pictures.
929
00:56:09,032 --> 00:56:13,151
You can let me do things,
and I can take all this back to America!
930
00:56:13,245 --> 00:56:17,410
But... it's good to be a winner.
All I've got to do is whup George Foreman.
931
00:56:17,499 --> 00:56:20,958
And I realize how unfortunate
and how uncomfortable it is
932
00:56:21,044 --> 00:56:23,878
for some of you guys
to have traveled so far
933
00:56:23,964 --> 00:56:27,833
and expecting so much
and getting so little.
934
00:56:27,926 --> 00:56:30,839
George Foreman was a phenomenon.
935
00:56:30,929 --> 00:56:33,012
He was almost like a physical guru.
936
00:56:33,098 --> 00:56:36,216
He almost never said anything,
but when he did, it was arresting.
937
00:56:36,310 --> 00:56:38,643
You never quite knew
what he was talking about.
938
00:56:38,729 --> 00:56:41,597
It might be deep.
It might be non-responsive.
939
00:56:41,690 --> 00:56:46,230
He was negritude.
He was this huge black force.
940
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:49,939
And because of this, I had expected
Muhammad Ali to be here today.
941
00:56:50,032 --> 00:56:52,524
I was gonna immediately jump
and hit him in his mouth
942
00:56:52,618 --> 00:56:54,610
to give you some form of entertainment.
943
00:56:55,203 --> 00:56:59,197
Now when I go in the ring,
you see what kind of mind I got now?
944
00:57:00,083 --> 00:57:01,824
Oh! Oh!
945
00:57:02,711 --> 00:57:05,328
I just got to pound now.
I mean, I've got to pound it.
946
00:57:05,422 --> 00:57:07,379
I'm not gonna even realize until after.
947
00:57:07,466 --> 00:57:09,583
I might look at his face, say,
"How did I do that?"
948
00:57:09,676 --> 00:57:11,463
Allah, God. I'm his tool.
949
00:57:11,553 --> 00:57:14,546
God got in me on purpose.
This is for my people.
950
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:18,259
This man look slow. God has made
this man look like a little kid.
951
00:57:18,352 --> 00:57:21,470
A so-called right hand ain't nothing now.
I don't even feel 'em.
952
00:57:21,563 --> 00:57:24,852
I ain't got no fear of it.
I walk right in. I'm gonna take my shots.
953
00:57:24,942 --> 00:57:28,777
Because I got God in my mind.
I'm thinking of my people being free.
954
00:57:28,862 --> 00:57:31,149
And I can help with just one fight.
955
00:57:31,239 --> 00:57:35,449
Now he look little in comparison to what
I'm getting from it. He ain't nothin' now.
956
00:57:35,535 --> 00:57:38,494
But if I think about me, just me, and...
957
00:57:38,580 --> 00:57:42,073
George Foreman knocked out
Joe Frazier like he was God.
958
00:57:42,167 --> 00:57:44,250
George Foreman knocked out Ken Norton.
959
00:57:44,336 --> 00:57:49,297
And the white press, the power structure,
rank me to get tired in five or six.
960
00:57:49,383 --> 00:57:52,296
Then I go in like Norton
and the rest of 'em and get scared.
961
00:57:52,386 --> 00:57:56,096
But I'm not looking at the world and what
they say. My God controls the universe.
962
00:58:05,565 --> 00:58:08,399
I was very interested
in people called féticheurs.
963
00:58:08,485 --> 00:58:10,351
They are witches,
964
00:58:10,445 --> 00:58:12,778
soothsayers,
965
00:58:12,864 --> 00:58:15,698
and in Western Africa,
almost everybody has one.
966
00:58:15,784 --> 00:58:18,993
Like a witch doctor, and you go
the way we would go to a dentist.
967
00:58:19,079 --> 00:58:23,744
Muhammad Ali had been
to Mobutu's féticheur.
968
00:58:26,420 --> 00:58:27,752
And, uh...
969
00:58:29,506 --> 00:58:31,714
he had said that...
970
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:35,464
the féticheur had said
that a woman with trembling hands
971
00:58:35,554 --> 00:58:37,261
would somehow get to Foreman.
972
00:58:38,682 --> 00:58:39,889
A succubus.
973
00:58:41,018 --> 00:58:42,975
And that impressed me enormously.
974
00:59:24,478 --> 00:59:26,435
That's the way I confuse that sucker!
975
00:59:47,626 --> 00:59:50,619
The heavyweight championship does produce
976
00:59:50,712 --> 00:59:52,544
an excitement in the onlookers
977
00:59:52,631 --> 00:59:55,419
that's unlike almost any other spectacle.
978
00:59:55,509 --> 00:59:57,876
It's almost physically unendurable
979
00:59:57,969 --> 01:00:01,258
to wait for that bell to ring
for the first round.
980
01:00:01,348 --> 01:00:03,761
In 1974 in Zaire,
981
01:00:03,850 --> 01:00:05,933
the fight started at 4:00 in the morning,
982
01:00:06,019 --> 01:00:08,602
in order that it could be shown
on television in America
983
01:00:08,688 --> 01:00:10,725
at a reasonable hour like 10:00.
984
01:00:14,736 --> 01:00:18,901
Before the fight,
I saw a scene that was incomparable.
985
01:00:18,990 --> 01:00:21,653
Ali's dressing room was like a morgue.
986
01:00:21,743 --> 01:00:23,655
It was like The Last Supper.
987
01:00:24,830 --> 01:00:27,322
And at a certain point, Ali said...
988
01:00:28,750 --> 01:00:30,833
"Why is everyone...
989
01:00:32,129 --> 01:00:34,166
so unhappy?
990
01:00:34,256 --> 01:00:36,418
What is the matter with all of you?"
991
01:00:36,508 --> 01:00:39,467
The sense was,
was that we were watching a man
992
01:00:39,553 --> 01:00:41,340
who was going out to be...
993
01:00:42,597 --> 01:00:44,179
going out to the gallows.
994
01:00:44,266 --> 01:00:46,929
Because they all believed
that he was gonna get defeated,
995
01:00:47,018 --> 01:00:48,725
and they were terrified.
996
01:00:48,812 --> 01:00:51,725
They thought that, with his pride,
997
01:00:51,815 --> 01:00:54,478
he would take one of the world's
worst beatings ever,
998
01:00:54,568 --> 01:00:58,061
and he wouldn't give up, and he was
gonna be destroyed in that ring.
999
01:00:58,155 --> 01:01:02,149
Killed or maimed, or they knew not what.
But they were deeply frightened now.
1000
01:01:02,242 --> 01:01:04,734
It was as if they were taking
whatever fear Ali might have had
1001
01:01:04,828 --> 01:01:07,491
before this enormous confrontation,
and they were absorbing it.
1002
01:01:07,581 --> 01:01:09,994
So after a while,
he looked at Bundini and said,
1003
01:01:10,083 --> 01:01:12,951
"We're gonna dance tonight, aren't we?
We're gonna dance."
1004
01:01:13,044 --> 01:01:16,378
When they said, "You're gonna dance,"
he said, "I'm gonna dance."
1005
01:01:16,464 --> 01:01:19,957
Muhammad Ali was so funny, gracious,
repeating this.
1006
01:01:20,051 --> 01:01:23,169
"What am I gonna do?"
And they said, "You're gonna dance!"
1007
01:01:23,263 --> 01:01:25,630
He said, "Yes! I'm gonna dance and dance!
1008
01:01:25,724 --> 01:01:29,388
And that man's gonna be bewildered!
I'm gonna dance and dance!"
1009
01:01:29,477 --> 01:01:33,312
And they said, "You're gonna dance!"
And I swear they were all crying.
1010
01:01:33,398 --> 01:01:37,938
And he built them up to a degree
1011
01:01:38,028 --> 01:01:40,145
so that for him
they became half-happy.
1012
01:01:40,780 --> 01:01:43,944
And here comes
the Ali people out of the dressing room,
1013
01:01:44,034 --> 01:01:46,276
and all of the questions will be answered.
1014
01:01:46,369 --> 01:01:49,453
This is an awesome power of George Foreman
1015
01:01:49,539 --> 01:01:52,907
against the venerated boxing skills
of Muhammad Ali.
1016
01:01:53,001 --> 01:01:55,709
It's age against youth.
1017
01:01:56,546 --> 01:01:59,289
The experience of Muhammad Ali
against the youth
1018
01:01:59,382 --> 01:02:02,045
and brute force and blinding speed.
1019
01:02:02,135 --> 01:02:04,923
You can hear the band beginning to
strike up in the background
1020
01:02:05,013 --> 01:02:06,845
as Ali moves to the ring.
1021
01:02:06,932 --> 01:02:11,267
This is what Muhammad Ali lives for.
This is the man's life.
1022
01:02:11,353 --> 01:02:13,686
This may be an historic event,
1023
01:02:13,772 --> 01:02:17,607
Muhammad Ali coming
into the boxing ring for the last time.
1024
01:02:17,692 --> 01:02:20,480
Should Muhammad Ali retire, this will be,
1025
01:02:20,570 --> 01:02:23,278
what you're seeing now,
a very historic event.
1026
01:02:23,365 --> 01:02:27,655
Now here comes the heavyweight champion
of the world, George Foreman,
1027
01:02:27,744 --> 01:02:29,701
jogging out.
1028
01:02:29,788 --> 01:02:32,997
George Foreman,
decked out in his red robe,
1029
01:02:33,083 --> 01:02:34,949
coming in with his people.
1030
01:02:37,295 --> 01:02:39,662
No one in the press ever saw Mobutu,
1031
01:02:39,756 --> 01:02:41,497
and he didn't come to the fight.
1032
01:02:41,591 --> 01:02:43,583
He watched the fight on closed-circuit.
1033
01:02:43,677 --> 01:02:46,715
It was the only closed-circuit in Zaire,
and it was in his palace.
1034
01:02:46,805 --> 01:02:49,138
He was terribly afraid of assassination,
I think.
1035
01:02:49,224 --> 01:02:52,717
Now, this stadium
was a true arena for gladiators.
1036
01:02:52,811 --> 01:02:55,849
Its floor, the floor you could not see
beneath the floor,
1037
01:02:55,939 --> 01:02:57,646
was covered with blood.
1038
01:02:57,732 --> 01:02:59,268
That blood had been washed away,
1039
01:02:59,359 --> 01:03:02,318
but the effect of the blood
was still there as part of the atmosphere.
1040
01:03:02,404 --> 01:03:06,114
There was a lot of talk
about the possibility of rain.
1041
01:03:06,199 --> 01:03:09,943
I don't think the weather could be
any more beautiful than it is tonight.
1042
01:03:10,036 --> 01:03:13,325
And Ali is getting the people to chant,
"Ali, bomaye."
1043
01:03:13,415 --> 01:03:15,782
That means "Ali, kill him."
1044
01:03:16,793 --> 01:03:21,128
The atmosphere before
the bell rang, before that first round,
1045
01:03:21,214 --> 01:03:24,423
was as intense as any I ever recall.
1046
01:03:24,509 --> 01:03:26,501
Look at this now, as they stare.
1047
01:03:26,594 --> 01:03:29,712
Muhammad Ali beginning to talk
to George Foreman.
1048
01:03:29,806 --> 01:03:31,843
They're really putting the stare
on each other.
1049
01:03:31,933 --> 01:03:35,176
George Foreman has that serious look.
Ali definitely talking to him.
1050
01:03:35,270 --> 01:03:39,105
Look at the stare on George Foreman.
Look at Ali give him the word.
1051
01:03:39,190 --> 01:03:43,150
So the stage is set.
We're just about ready to begin round one.
1052
01:03:43,236 --> 01:03:45,603
This time, the championship is at stake,
1053
01:03:45,697 --> 01:03:48,656
and $5 million will be paid
to both fighters.
1054
01:03:48,742 --> 01:03:50,608
Ali ready, Foreman ready.
1055
01:03:50,702 --> 01:03:52,864
We're waiting for the opening bell.
1056
01:03:54,748 --> 01:03:57,161
Here we go. Ali quickly across the ring.
1057
01:03:58,501 --> 01:04:01,665
Round one. Ali bouncing around,
shifting left to right.
1058
01:04:01,755 --> 01:04:04,498
George moves slow.
Ali gets the first punch in.
1059
01:04:04,591 --> 01:04:08,756
A light right hand taken on the forehead
by George Foreman, the champion.
1060
01:04:08,845 --> 01:04:11,553
Foreman moving slow,
trying to stalk his man.
1061
01:04:12,140 --> 01:04:14,974
Ali looks like he's ready to go here.
1062
01:04:15,060 --> 01:04:17,473
He's not staying away.
He's going after his man.
1063
01:04:17,562 --> 01:04:20,680
Foreman a bit cautious in the first round,
1064
01:04:20,774 --> 01:04:22,766
looking to drop that left hook.
1065
01:04:28,114 --> 01:04:30,606
Foreman's locked his man
to the far corner.
1066
01:04:30,700 --> 01:04:34,410
There's that left uppercut
and jab to the body of Muhammad Ali.
1067
01:04:34,496 --> 01:04:37,830
Ali tries to hang on
to the head of George Foreman.
1068
01:04:37,916 --> 01:04:41,330
Foreman dances now.
Ali with a right-hand lead again!
1069
01:04:41,419 --> 01:04:45,288
Has Foreman slightly confused
with that right-hand lead,
1070
01:04:45,382 --> 01:04:47,840
which I haven't seen
too many times before.
1071
01:04:47,926 --> 01:04:52,170
A right-hand lead, which means that
you throw your right without countering...
1072
01:04:52,263 --> 01:04:56,303
You throw it first, like a jab,
but you throw it like... there...
1073
01:04:56,393 --> 01:04:59,181
that has to travel that extra distance
across the shoulders.
1074
01:04:59,270 --> 01:05:01,933
Professionals will very rarely use
a right-hand lead
1075
01:05:02,023 --> 01:05:04,106
'cause it's a terribly dangerous punch
to throw,
1076
01:05:04,192 --> 01:05:06,434
since you are open to a counter
with a left hook.
1077
01:05:06,528 --> 01:05:10,488
And fighters, since they work
in milliseconds,
1078
01:05:10,573 --> 01:05:13,190
can see a right coming
much faster than a jab.
1079
01:05:13,284 --> 01:05:16,027
Nobody had thrown a right-hand lead
at Foreman in two years,
1080
01:05:16,121 --> 01:05:18,579
and in training camp
none of his sparring partners,
1081
01:05:18,665 --> 01:05:22,249
for $50 a day, was gonna start
throwing right-hand leads at him
1082
01:05:22,335 --> 01:05:24,748
because it's a great insult
to a top professional
1083
01:05:24,838 --> 01:05:27,000
when you throw a right-hand lead at him.
1084
01:05:27,090 --> 01:05:29,423
It suggests he's slow enough
that you can hit him with it.
1085
01:05:29,509 --> 01:05:31,000
And instead Ali figured out
1086
01:05:31,094 --> 01:05:33,882
the one punch Foreman's not prepared for
is a right-hand lead.
1087
01:05:33,972 --> 01:05:36,305
"He's expecting me to dance.
I'm not gonna dance.
1088
01:05:36,391 --> 01:05:39,930
I'm gonna hit him with a right hand,
knock him out in the first round."
1089
01:05:40,019 --> 01:05:42,227
Ali threw 12 right-hand leads.
1090
01:05:42,313 --> 01:05:44,600
I don't think he had told anyone
he was gonna do it.
1091
01:05:44,691 --> 01:05:48,355
He may have debated about whether he was
going to do it up till the last moment.
1092
01:05:48,445 --> 01:05:51,859
The only thing is, he didn't knock
Foreman down and didn't knock him out.
1093
01:05:51,948 --> 01:05:53,814
Instead, Foreman went crazy.
1094
01:05:53,908 --> 01:05:56,275
That punch
did no damage. That one did!
1095
01:05:56,369 --> 01:06:00,659
Two wild right hands taken
on the side of the head of Muhammad Ali!
1096
01:06:01,916 --> 01:06:04,704
There's a real strong right hand
just underneath the heart.
1097
01:06:04,794 --> 01:06:07,332
And Muhammad Ali
is taking some punishment now.
1098
01:06:07,422 --> 01:06:09,835
About eight seconds left in the round.
1099
01:06:09,924 --> 01:06:11,165
Bell rang.
1100
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:14,422
Ali went back to the corner.
1101
01:06:15,722 --> 01:06:19,306
Finally, the nightmare
he'd been awaiting in the ring
1102
01:06:19,392 --> 01:06:21,509
had finally come to visit him.
1103
01:06:21,603 --> 01:06:25,062
He was in the ring
with a man he could not dominate,
1104
01:06:25,148 --> 01:06:28,858
who was stronger than him,
who was not afraid of him,
1105
01:06:28,943 --> 01:06:30,980
who was gonna try to knock him out,
1106
01:06:31,070 --> 01:06:33,187
and who punched harder
than Ali could punch,
1107
01:06:33,281 --> 01:06:37,321
and this man was determined
and unstoppable.
1108
01:06:37,410 --> 01:06:39,902
And Ali had a look on his face
that I'll never forget.
1109
01:06:39,996 --> 01:06:42,784
It's the only time
I ever saw fear in Ali's eyes.
1110
01:06:44,292 --> 01:06:46,784
Ali looked as if
he looked into himself and said,
1111
01:06:46,878 --> 01:06:50,542
"All right, this is the moment.
This is what you've been waiting for.
1112
01:06:50,632 --> 01:06:54,091
This is... that hour.
1113
01:06:55,595 --> 01:06:58,554
And do you have the guts?"
And he kind of nodded to himself, like,
1114
01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:01,383
"Got to get it together, boy.
You really got to get it together.
1115
01:07:01,476 --> 01:07:03,638
And you are gonna get it together.
1116
01:07:03,728 --> 01:07:05,811
You will get it together."
1117
01:07:05,897 --> 01:07:07,604
He nodded some more,
1118
01:07:07,690 --> 01:07:10,478
as if he were looking
into the eyes of his maker,
1119
01:07:10,568 --> 01:07:12,651
and then turned to the crowd,
and he went,
1120
01:07:12,737 --> 01:07:14,854
"Ali, bomaye!"
1121
01:07:14,948 --> 01:07:18,817
And a hundred thousand people
all yelled back "Ali, bomaye!"
1122
01:07:18,910 --> 01:07:23,780
And this huge reverberation of the crowd
came back into the ring,
1123
01:07:23,873 --> 01:07:26,991
and Ali picked it up almost as if,
"These are my people.
1124
01:07:27,085 --> 01:07:29,327
This is what I'm here for.
1125
01:07:29,420 --> 01:07:33,380
All right. The time has come.
I'm gonna find a way to master this man."
1126
01:07:33,466 --> 01:07:35,549
Ali tries to tie him up.
1127
01:07:37,387 --> 01:07:39,754
No real damage done in that exchange.
1128
01:07:39,847 --> 01:07:43,557
Foreman, like everyone else,
had assumed that Ali would dance,
1129
01:07:43,643 --> 01:07:47,637
and so Ali now went to the ropes
1130
01:07:47,730 --> 01:07:50,188
and went into the rope-a-dope.
1131
01:07:50,275 --> 01:07:54,064
And a lot of people thought
at that moment the fight was over.
1132
01:07:54,153 --> 01:07:56,065
Especially on television,
where they saw it,
1133
01:07:56,155 --> 01:07:58,592
because it looked like Foreman
was now killing a very weak Ali.
1134
01:07:58,616 --> 01:08:00,983
You don't go to the ropes.
1135
01:08:01,077 --> 01:08:03,615
And there he was, leaning way back.
1136
01:08:03,705 --> 01:08:06,197
I wrote about it as if...
I think the phrase I used was,
1137
01:08:06,291 --> 01:08:08,157
"It was like a man leaning out a window
1138
01:08:08,251 --> 01:08:09,812
trying to see
if there's something on his roof."
1139
01:08:09,836 --> 01:08:12,874
And, you know...
But you couldn't really see.
1140
01:08:12,964 --> 01:08:15,081
Here were these great broadsides
going at him,
1141
01:08:15,174 --> 01:08:18,417
and it looked as though
he was being set up for the kill.
1142
01:08:18,511 --> 01:08:21,174
It happened so quickly and so abruptly
1143
01:08:21,264 --> 01:08:24,132
that I said, I shouted to Norman,
"The fix is in."
1144
01:08:24,976 --> 01:08:27,559
That somehow he's supposed to go down
in the first or the second.
1145
01:08:27,645 --> 01:08:30,058
Ropes is halfway house to the floor.
1146
01:08:30,148 --> 01:08:32,060
It just looked as though
he had to cave in.
1147
01:08:32,150 --> 01:08:36,144
...awkward
but very powerful hooks with both hands.
1148
01:08:36,237 --> 01:08:38,069
Left hooks in what would really be...
1149
01:08:38,156 --> 01:08:40,193
They became so basic at that point
1150
01:08:40,283 --> 01:08:42,149
that they were like two kids
having a fight.
1151
01:08:42,952 --> 01:08:46,036
And for that round and for the next round
and for the next round,
1152
01:08:46,122 --> 01:08:49,035
Ali lay against the ropes
in the rope-a-dope,
1153
01:08:49,125 --> 01:08:52,539
and he kept talking to Foreman,
and it was extraordinary.
1154
01:08:52,629 --> 01:08:55,337
You had to be close to see it,
'cause it was intimate.
1155
01:08:55,423 --> 01:08:57,881
And Foreman was throwing
these prodigious punches
1156
01:08:57,967 --> 01:09:02,052
that the sparring partners had thrown,
and Ali swung like a man in the rigging.
1157
01:09:02,138 --> 01:09:04,881
He'd go all the way back, slide out,
come in and out like that.
1158
01:09:04,974 --> 01:09:08,467
Occasionally he'd get hit, and he'd say,
"George, you disappoint me.
1159
01:09:08,561 --> 01:09:10,678
You don't hit as hard
as I thought you would.
1160
01:09:10,772 --> 01:09:12,855
George, you're not hitting hard enough.
1161
01:09:12,940 --> 01:09:15,380
You're not breaking popcorn, George.
You're just not hitting."
1162
01:09:15,443 --> 01:09:17,685
And Foreman's insane with rage
1163
01:09:17,779 --> 01:09:21,068
and wanging at him and wanging at him
and wanging at him.
1164
01:09:21,157 --> 01:09:23,365
Powerful, powerful, powerful.
1165
01:09:23,451 --> 01:09:25,989
And middle of the fifth round,
Foreman was worn out.
1166
01:09:26,079 --> 01:09:29,368
He had punched himself out.
It had taken three rounds.
1167
01:09:29,457 --> 01:09:33,747
Ali picks it up a bit.
About 40 seconds left in round five.
1168
01:09:38,633 --> 01:09:40,966
Good, crisp combination by Ali
1169
01:09:41,052 --> 01:09:43,715
lands on the head of Foreman.
1170
01:09:43,805 --> 01:09:45,922
Foreman with that right hook.
1171
01:09:46,015 --> 01:09:50,760
Ali scores a hook!
Quick jab with the right backs up Foreman!
1172
01:09:50,853 --> 01:09:53,812
Backs him up in his tracks!
Foreman's stunned here!
1173
01:09:53,898 --> 01:09:56,515
Foreman tries the hook!
Ali goes to the right!
1174
01:09:56,609 --> 01:09:58,316
Foreman gets knocked to the left!
1175
01:10:00,363 --> 01:10:03,731
Foreman hit again!
Foreman has been hit three or four times!
1176
01:10:05,326 --> 01:10:08,364
Suddenly Muhammad Ali came off the ropes,
and he hit him a right,
1177
01:10:08,454 --> 01:10:10,491
and you could see the sweat just pour off,
1178
01:10:10,581 --> 01:10:13,198
just like a fountain,
come off Foreman's face,
1179
01:10:13,292 --> 01:10:16,751
and you suddenly realized
there was design in this madness.
1180
01:10:16,838 --> 01:10:20,127
I then turned to Norman, I remember,
and he must've been somewhat puzzled,
1181
01:10:20,216 --> 01:10:22,299
but I said, "The succubus has got him,"
1182
01:10:22,385 --> 01:10:25,093
referring back to this woman
with the trembling hands
1183
01:10:25,179 --> 01:10:26,966
that I'd been told by the witch doctors
1184
01:10:27,056 --> 01:10:29,048
was going to touch Foreman
and destroy him.
1185
01:10:32,145 --> 01:10:34,137
This could be the tactics of Ali,
1186
01:10:34,230 --> 01:10:36,563
to let the man punch himself out.
1187
01:10:36,649 --> 01:10:38,982
Thirty seconds left in round eight.
1188
01:10:42,321 --> 01:10:45,485
A very even fight.
Ali, a sneaky right hand.
1189
01:10:47,034 --> 01:10:49,026
Another sneaky right hand.
1190
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,077
This time he works
over the shoulder of Foreman.
1191
01:10:51,164 --> 01:10:53,030
This is the combination!
1192
01:10:56,461 --> 01:10:58,327
Two, three,
1193
01:10:58,421 --> 01:11:01,880
four, five, six!
1194
01:11:01,966 --> 01:11:04,583
Foreman gets up to the knee at eight!
1195
01:11:05,428 --> 01:11:07,340
That's it! The fight is stopped!
1196
01:11:07,430 --> 01:11:11,595
Muhammad Ali,
a dramatic eighth-round knockout!
1197
01:11:11,684 --> 01:11:13,346
He knocks out...
1198
01:11:14,103 --> 01:11:15,639
George Foreman!
1199
01:11:15,730 --> 01:11:17,062
He's done it!
1200
01:11:17,148 --> 01:11:20,516
Muhammad Ali has done it!
Muhammad Ali has done it!
1201
01:11:20,610 --> 01:11:23,478
Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali.
1202
01:11:23,571 --> 01:11:27,315
Muhammad Ali,
he was like a sleeping elephant.
1203
01:11:27,408 --> 01:11:30,822
You can do whatever you want
around a sleeping elephant.
1204
01:11:30,912 --> 01:11:32,403
Whatever you want.
1205
01:11:33,206 --> 01:11:35,448
But when he wakes up,
1206
01:11:35,541 --> 01:11:37,783
he tramples everything.
1207
01:11:40,630 --> 01:11:43,839
Muhammad Ali, bomaye.
1208
01:11:43,925 --> 01:11:47,919
Bomaye. Muhammad Ali bomaye
George Foreman.
1209
01:11:48,638 --> 01:11:49,845
He did it.
1210
01:11:50,681 --> 01:11:53,515
He's champion again.
We couldn't believe it.
1211
01:11:55,102 --> 01:11:57,515
It was such a classic performance,
and so beautiful,
1212
01:11:57,605 --> 01:12:01,189
that at the moment
Ali hit the knockout punch...
1213
01:12:02,652 --> 01:12:05,565
Foreman began to go,
Ali followed him around.
1214
01:12:05,655 --> 01:12:09,114
Ali had his right cocked for
one more punch, but he never threw it.
1215
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:12,489
He didn't want to ruin the aesthetic
of this man going down
1216
01:12:12,578 --> 01:12:14,570
with a clumsy punch on the way down.
1217
01:12:15,915 --> 01:12:18,310
I think one has mixed emotions
when you see the end of a fight.
1218
01:12:18,334 --> 01:12:21,202
I always feel enormous sympathy
for the man that's losing it.
1219
01:12:21,295 --> 01:12:22,752
You just can't help but to,
1220
01:12:22,839 --> 01:12:26,128
particularly when you see
really a titanic, formidable figure
1221
01:12:26,217 --> 01:12:28,209
just suddenly on the ground.
1222
01:12:28,302 --> 01:12:30,669
And now,
when we see George on television...
1223
01:12:32,056 --> 01:12:35,220
and know that after that knockout,
1224
01:12:35,309 --> 01:12:38,268
he went through two years
of the deepest depression,
1225
01:12:38,354 --> 01:12:40,346
he almost didn't come out of it.
1226
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:43,523
To see the man who's come out of it,
to see the way in which
1227
01:12:43,609 --> 01:12:47,102
he reconstructed his personality,
1228
01:12:47,196 --> 01:12:50,189
until it'll be hard-put to find
anyone in American life
1229
01:12:50,283 --> 01:12:51,945
who's more affable than George Foreman.
1230
01:12:52,034 --> 01:12:55,072
Foreman has become
a fabulous person in American life.
1231
01:12:56,122 --> 01:13:00,332
Just as the fight finished,
the monsoons, the African rains, came,
1232
01:13:00,418 --> 01:13:03,001
and in fact they came so hard
that the waters
1233
01:13:03,087 --> 01:13:06,000
were about three feet deep
in the dressing rooms,
1234
01:13:06,090 --> 01:13:08,707
where we'd just been,
you know, an hour ago.
1235
01:13:08,801 --> 01:13:10,758
You've never seen such a downpour.
1236
01:13:10,845 --> 01:13:15,715
And we rode back through the African night
from the boxing ring into Kinshasa,
1237
01:13:15,808 --> 01:13:17,925
and there were crowds along the road
1238
01:13:18,019 --> 01:13:20,853
standing in the rain,
in this pouring rain, leaping up and down,
1239
01:13:20,938 --> 01:13:24,522
because of course the news had gone around
that Muhammad Ali had won this fight.
1240
01:13:25,651 --> 01:13:28,689
He stayed up all night,
from what I heard,
1241
01:13:28,779 --> 01:13:30,771
and in the morning
he spoke to African groups
1242
01:13:30,865 --> 01:13:33,357
who'd come as delegations to see him.
1243
01:13:33,451 --> 01:13:36,660
And they more than revered him.
He was a god.
1244
01:13:37,622 --> 01:13:40,535
And he spoke to them very simply
that day, and beautifully,
1245
01:13:40,625 --> 01:13:44,744
and he said,
"Afro-Americans, in America,
1246
01:13:44,837 --> 01:13:46,954
we're not as good as you are.
1247
01:13:47,048 --> 01:13:49,586
Some of us are richer than you are,
1248
01:13:49,675 --> 01:13:52,884
but you have a dignity in your poverty
that we don't have.
1249
01:13:52,970 --> 01:13:54,882
We are spoiled in America.
1250
01:13:54,972 --> 01:13:59,012
We have lost what you still have
in Africa, and you must keep that."
1251
01:13:59,101 --> 01:14:01,514
And he spoke very gently. And I thought,
1252
01:14:01,604 --> 01:14:04,688
"My Lord, on top of everything else,
this man is a political leader,
1253
01:14:04,774 --> 01:14:06,936
and he's gonna be
a great political leader."
1254
01:14:07,026 --> 01:14:09,860
I have a lot of things to do
in the black neighborhoods.
1255
01:14:09,946 --> 01:14:14,031
We have a lot of problems
that we have to solve among ourselves.
1256
01:14:14,116 --> 01:14:17,860
Prostitution problems,
dope problems, gang-fight problems.
1257
01:14:17,954 --> 01:14:21,538
Knowledge of self. The black people
don't have no knowledge of themselves.
1258
01:14:21,624 --> 01:14:24,287
We have been made
just like white people mentally.
1259
01:14:24,377 --> 01:14:27,290
And white people have made us
so much like them
1260
01:14:27,380 --> 01:14:30,498
until it's hard to teach them
anything about themselves.
1261
01:14:30,591 --> 01:14:33,459
It's hard to teach them to unite
and marry and be with their own
1262
01:14:33,552 --> 01:14:37,011
because they're now like white people...
black people are now like white people.
1263
01:14:37,098 --> 01:14:39,806
But they're so brainwashed
that we have to re-brainwash 'em now
1264
01:14:39,892 --> 01:14:42,120
and teach 'em more about themselves
and their own history,
1265
01:14:42,144 --> 01:14:45,353
their own names, their own language,
to respect and protect their own women,
1266
01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:46,805
do something for themselves
1267
01:14:46,899 --> 01:14:50,392
and quit always begging white people
for things they should do for themselves.
1268
01:14:50,486 --> 01:14:53,820
I never heard Ali say
that he was never gonna fight again.
1269
01:14:53,906 --> 01:14:55,818
Uh...
1270
01:14:55,908 --> 01:14:58,992
if he had said it, and usually he told
the truth, I wouldn't have believed it.
1271
01:14:59,078 --> 01:15:02,697
He was born to fight,
born for the ring, and loved it.
1272
01:15:02,790 --> 01:15:05,624
He truly loved fighting. And, uh...
1273
01:15:06,919 --> 01:15:10,629
as happens with people who love
a thing too much, it destroys them.
1274
01:15:10,715 --> 01:15:14,004
I think it was Oscar Wilde that said,
"You destroy the thing that you love."
1275
01:15:14,093 --> 01:15:17,131
It's the other way around.
What you love destroys you.
1276
01:15:23,394 --> 01:15:26,011
He came back. He had 22 fights.
1277
01:15:26,105 --> 01:15:28,597
Some of them were most honorable.
Some were very difficult.
1278
01:15:28,691 --> 01:15:31,229
Some of them were comedies and farces.
1279
01:15:31,318 --> 01:15:35,733
He hurt himself in those 22 fights
after the fight in Africa.
1280
01:15:40,453 --> 01:15:43,366
There's a tendency
to look at Muhammad and say,
1281
01:15:43,456 --> 01:15:45,664
"He's wounded. He's ill."
1282
01:15:45,750 --> 01:15:50,415
There are no intellectual deficits.
It's a motor-skills problem.
1283
01:15:50,504 --> 01:15:53,087
And he doesn't try to hide his condition.
1284
01:15:53,174 --> 01:15:55,666
He goes out
and lets the whole world see it.
1285
01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:58,844
He doesn't feel sorry for himself,
1286
01:15:58,929 --> 01:16:03,048
and there's really no reason
for anybody else to feel sorry for him.
1287
01:16:03,142 --> 01:16:05,634
He loves being Muhammad Ali.
1288
01:16:05,728 --> 01:16:09,347
He truly believes
that he's doing God's work,
1289
01:16:09,440 --> 01:16:12,308
and he's as happy with each day
as anybody I know.
1290
01:16:14,153 --> 01:16:17,897
Today's young generation,
they don't know anything.
1291
01:16:19,492 --> 01:16:22,906
Something happened last year,
they know nothing about it.
1292
01:16:22,995 --> 01:16:27,239
So there are these great, great stories,
great historic events,
1293
01:16:27,333 --> 01:16:31,623
and I'm not talking about 1850s stuff.
1294
01:16:31,712 --> 01:16:34,705
They don't know who Malcolm X is.
They don't know who JFK is.
1295
01:16:34,799 --> 01:16:37,633
Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson,
you can go down the line.
1296
01:16:37,718 --> 01:16:39,801
And-And it's scary.
1297
01:16:40,471 --> 01:16:42,554
These kids today
will be missing a whole lot
1298
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:44,882
if they don't know about
the legacy of Muhammad Ali,
1299
01:16:44,975 --> 01:16:47,592
because no matter what era you live in,
1300
01:16:47,686 --> 01:16:50,394
you see very few true heroes.
1301
01:16:55,277 --> 01:16:58,941
Ali, bomaye! Ali, bomaye!
1302
01:16:59,031 --> 01:17:02,775
Ali, bomaye! Ali, bomaye!
1303
01:17:04,245 --> 01:17:06,202
Back up, sucker. Back up.
1304
01:17:07,456 --> 01:17:09,618
Come get me, sucker. I'm dancin'!
1305
01:17:09,708 --> 01:17:11,916
I'm dancin'! Follow me, chump!
1306
01:17:12,002 --> 01:17:13,994
No, I'm not there, I'm here. Whoop!
1307
01:17:16,090 --> 01:17:17,797
Sucker, you ain't got nothing!
1308
01:17:27,226 --> 01:17:30,014
♪ In every heart ♪
1309
01:17:30,104 --> 01:17:32,812
♪ There is a drum that beats ♪
1310
01:17:32,898 --> 01:17:35,732
♪ Steady and strong ♪
1311
01:17:35,818 --> 01:17:38,686
♪ It does not know defeat ♪
1312
01:17:38,779 --> 01:17:41,522
♪ I feel its power ♪
1313
01:17:41,615 --> 01:17:44,358
♪ And know for certain ♪
1314
01:17:44,451 --> 01:17:47,194
♪ The true belief ♪
1315
01:17:50,166 --> 01:17:53,079
♪ In every soul ♪
1316
01:17:53,169 --> 01:17:55,957
♪ There is a memory ♪
1317
01:17:56,046 --> 01:17:58,754
♪ Of standing tall ♪
1318
01:17:58,841 --> 01:18:01,879
♪ The proudest we could be ♪
1319
01:18:01,969 --> 01:18:04,632
♪ I cannot fall ♪
1320
01:18:04,722 --> 01:18:07,260
♪ For I recall ♪
1321
01:18:07,349 --> 01:18:11,309
♪ We were born in majesty ♪
1322
01:18:13,522 --> 01:18:16,265
♪ And when the long night ♪
1323
01:18:16,358 --> 01:18:20,227
♪ Has been fought and won ♪
1324
01:18:20,321 --> 01:18:24,531
♪ We'll stand in the sun ♪
1325
01:18:24,617 --> 01:18:27,360
♪ And we will raise our hands ♪
1326
01:18:27,453 --> 01:18:30,287
♪ And we will touch the sky ♪
1327
01:18:30,372 --> 01:18:32,705
♪ Together we will dance ♪
1328
01:18:32,791 --> 01:18:36,080
♪ In robes of gold ♪
1329
01:18:36,170 --> 01:18:39,459
♪ And we will leave the world ♪
1330
01:18:39,548 --> 01:18:42,006
♪ Remembering ♪
1331
01:18:42,092 --> 01:18:46,928
♪ When we were kings ♪
1332
01:18:47,890 --> 01:18:51,725
♪ When we were kings ♪
1333
01:18:53,938 --> 01:18:56,646
♪ Now is the time ♪
1334
01:18:56,732 --> 01:18:59,566
♪ Here is the mountaintop ♪
1335
01:18:59,652 --> 01:19:02,486
♪ When one man climbs ♪
1336
01:19:02,571 --> 01:19:05,484
♪ The rest are lifted up ♪
1337
01:19:05,574 --> 01:19:08,191
♪ With every step ♪
1338
01:19:08,285 --> 01:19:10,948
♪ We're closer yet ♪
1339
01:19:11,038 --> 01:19:15,829
♪ To a higher destiny ♪
1340
01:19:17,211 --> 01:19:20,670
♪ And when we reach up ♪
1341
01:19:20,756 --> 01:19:24,045
♪ To claim the throne ♪
1342
01:19:24,134 --> 01:19:27,127
♪ Every man will know ♪
1343
01:19:27,221 --> 01:19:30,180
- ♪ We will raise our hands ♪
- ♪ We will raise our hands ♪
1344
01:19:30,266 --> 01:19:33,850
- ♪ And we'll touch the sky ♪
- ♪ And we will touch the sky ♪
1345
01:19:33,936 --> 01:19:36,223
♪ Together we will dance ♪
1346
01:19:36,313 --> 01:19:39,556
- ♪ In robes of gold ♪
- ♪ In robes of gold ♪
1347
01:19:39,650 --> 01:19:42,768
♪ And we will leave the world ♪
1348
01:19:42,861 --> 01:19:45,695
♪ Remembering ♪
1349
01:19:45,781 --> 01:19:52,781
♪ When we were kings ♪
1350
01:19:55,165 --> 01:19:57,578
♪ Ooh ♪
1351
01:19:57,668 --> 01:20:01,252
♪ When we were kings ♪
1352
01:20:01,338 --> 01:20:03,079
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
1353
01:20:03,173 --> 01:20:06,382
- ♪ When we were kings ♪
- ♪ Float like a butterfly ♪
1354
01:20:07,386 --> 01:20:11,596
- ♪ Sting like a bee ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪
1355
01:20:11,682 --> 01:20:13,674
♪ Float like a butterfly ♪
1356
01:20:15,686 --> 01:20:17,518
♪ I remember ♪
1357
01:20:18,397 --> 01:20:20,309
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
1358
01:20:20,899 --> 01:20:25,269
Years after the fight in Zaire,
perhaps ten years after...
1359
01:20:25,362 --> 01:20:27,695
and I'd run into Ali
on occasion after that,
1360
01:20:27,781 --> 01:20:29,898
but I remember this meeting particularly.
1361
01:20:29,992 --> 01:20:33,702
'Cause Esquire was giving a party
for various people
1362
01:20:33,787 --> 01:20:37,371
who had distinguished themselves in
Esquire that year in one way or another.
1363
01:20:37,458 --> 01:20:39,950
Ali, for whatever he'd done.
1364
01:20:40,044 --> 01:20:43,663
I was there probably 'cause I had
a good story in Esquire that year.
1365
01:20:43,756 --> 01:20:47,045
Other people were there,
maybe 25 of us, honored guests.
1366
01:20:47,134 --> 01:20:51,424
I was there with my wife, and we saw Ali,
and we were talking with him,
1367
01:20:51,513 --> 01:20:53,800
and he couldn't have been nicer,
more complimentary.
1368
01:20:53,891 --> 01:20:56,884
I remember I was 62 at the time,
'cause he said, "How old are you now?"
1369
01:20:56,977 --> 01:20:59,060
I said "62." He said "Oh."
1370
01:20:59,146 --> 01:21:02,139
It was the same as when
we were running, jogging that night.
1371
01:21:02,232 --> 01:21:04,975
He said, "Oh, I hope I'm as young
as you are when I'm 62.
1372
01:21:05,069 --> 01:21:07,652
You are looking wonderful."
He went on and on like that.
1373
01:21:07,738 --> 01:21:11,857
And I got so pleased and so vain
that, you know, I'm like a dog.
1374
01:21:11,950 --> 01:21:14,067
What did I have to do?
I had to go urinate.
1375
01:21:14,161 --> 01:21:17,404
And I did. I went away,
and the moment I was gone,
1376
01:21:17,498 --> 01:21:20,411
he turned to my wife,
who's much younger than I am,
1377
01:21:20,501 --> 01:21:23,164
and he looked at her,
looked at her hard, and he said,
1378
01:21:23,253 --> 01:21:25,586
"You still with that old man?"
1379
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:30,338
And for me that's always been...
That's Ali.
1380
01:21:31,887 --> 01:21:34,630
You love him even when
you turn your back on him.
1381
01:21:36,266 --> 01:21:40,180
I heard him once talking to the Harvard
senior class commencement.
1382
01:21:41,980 --> 01:21:45,815
He gave this extraordinary speech.
You know, he was dyslexic.
1383
01:21:45,901 --> 01:21:49,144
And he would look at a paper with me,
and he'd say,
1384
01:21:49,238 --> 01:21:51,855
"Hey, George, what's this word?"
I'd say, "Appendicitis."
1385
01:21:51,949 --> 01:21:54,692
He'd say, "How do you get a word
like 'appendicitis'? It's so long.
1386
01:21:54,785 --> 01:21:56,401
It's so long."
1387
01:21:56,495 --> 01:22:00,079
Here he was, teaching...
uh, delivering a lecture,
1388
01:22:00,165 --> 01:22:04,034
senior class day for these thousand,
2,000 Harvard graduates...
1389
01:22:05,254 --> 01:22:08,088
and, um, he had these little cards
in front of him.
1390
01:22:08,173 --> 01:22:11,382
He gave this wonderful speech about,
he hadn't had opportunity, but they had,
1391
01:22:11,468 --> 01:22:14,211
and they should use that language,
that learning that they had
1392
01:22:14,304 --> 01:22:18,048
to go out and do their best to change
the world and make it a better place.
1393
01:22:18,142 --> 01:22:20,725
It was moving and it was funny
at the same time,
1394
01:22:20,811 --> 01:22:23,519
and a great roar of appreciation
at the end of it, and then...
1395
01:22:23,605 --> 01:22:25,892
someone shouted out, "Give us a poem!"
1396
01:22:26,900 --> 01:22:29,267
And everybody quieted down.
1397
01:22:29,361 --> 01:22:32,945
The shortest poem in the English language,
according to Bartlett's Quotations, is...
1398
01:22:33,031 --> 01:22:35,193
it's called
"On the Antiquity of Microbes."
1399
01:22:35,284 --> 01:22:38,573
And the poem is, "Adam had 'em."
1400
01:22:38,662 --> 01:22:40,028
It's pretty short.
1401
01:22:40,122 --> 01:22:42,990
But Muhammad Ali's poem was,
1402
01:22:43,083 --> 01:22:45,541
"Me, we."
1403
01:22:47,004 --> 01:22:49,337
Two words. I wrote Bartlett's Quotations,
and I said,
1404
01:22:49,423 --> 01:22:52,757
"Look here. That's shorter than
'Adam had 'em.' You want to put it in?"
1405
01:22:52,843 --> 01:22:56,427
And it stands for something more
than the poem itself.
1406
01:22:56,513 --> 01:23:00,006
"Me, we." What a fighter he was.
And what a man.
1407
01:23:00,100 --> 01:23:03,593
I want to win my title
and walk down the alleys.
1408
01:23:03,687 --> 01:23:06,100
- ♪ Refugee cat ♪
- ♪ Blocks on fire ♪
1409
01:23:06,190 --> 01:23:07,950
- ♪ Ali, bomaye ♪
- ♪ Flames gettin' higher ♪
1410
01:23:08,025 --> 01:23:12,486
- ♪ Yes, yes, called rumble in the jungle ♪
- ♪ Robbin' blue collar ♪
1411
01:23:12,571 --> 01:23:14,813
♪ Killin' for a dollar ♪
1412
01:23:14,907 --> 01:23:17,024
♪ We need a ghetto messiah ♪
1413
01:23:17,117 --> 01:23:18,198
♪ Come on ♪
1414
01:23:18,285 --> 01:23:20,868
♪ Root to the fruit
More bass than Bootsy Collins ♪
1415
01:23:20,954 --> 01:23:23,947
♪ You versus me
That's like Ali versus Foreman ♪
1416
01:23:24,041 --> 01:23:26,328
♪ God's act, stand back and watch ♪
1417
01:23:26,418 --> 01:23:29,752
♪ Devil's time-out can't be timed
With no Swatch watch ♪
1418
01:23:29,838 --> 01:23:32,000
♪ Who I am, the black Abraham ♪
1419
01:23:32,090 --> 01:23:34,753
♪ Zunga zunga zang
Yellow man, Vietnam ♪
1420
01:23:34,843 --> 01:23:37,256
♪ Add an extra bar
As I spar with literature ♪
1421
01:23:37,346 --> 01:23:40,009
♪ Taking kingdoms from czars
Winning more wars than the Moors ♪
1422
01:23:40,098 --> 01:23:42,869
♪ Hey, what's the deal, star?
I seen the devil spar with Allah ♪
1423
01:23:42,893 --> 01:23:45,556
♪ Mathematics was the key
To set my whole race free ♪
1424
01:23:45,646 --> 01:23:48,309
♪ You might debate we
A refugee, no harm hurt me ♪
1425
01:23:48,398 --> 01:23:51,311
♪ Dying, thirsty from the struggle
To my own hustle bubble ♪
1426
01:23:51,401 --> 01:23:53,893
♪ On the low, woe is me
To show the Free Bob right ♪
1427
01:23:53,987 --> 01:23:56,821
♪ The righteous Asiatic thinker
While Satan rob light ♪
1428
01:23:56,907 --> 01:23:59,524
♪ Civilized like the Mali
Burgundy, wildly rocking ♪
1429
01:23:59,618 --> 01:24:02,702
♪ Seen the fifth when Ali clocked him
John Forte will keep you locked in ♪
1430
01:24:02,788 --> 01:24:05,246
♪ People all around
You got to recognize and witness ♪
1431
01:24:05,332 --> 01:24:07,932
♪ This mister who swift enough
To knock you out with mic fitness ♪
1432
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:09,800
♪ Hands blistered
From holding the mics tight ♪
1433
01:24:09,836 --> 01:24:10,997
♪ Some say it's fight night ♪
1434
01:24:11,088 --> 01:24:13,751
♪ Well, throw the R after the F
'Cause I'm-a take away your breath ♪
1435
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:16,332
♪ The bell rings
And now it's just a daily operation ♪
1436
01:24:16,426 --> 01:24:17,792
♪ Yo, you soft like lubrication ♪
1437
01:24:17,886 --> 01:24:20,128
- ♪ You can't see this occupation ♪
- ♪ The winner ♪
1438
01:24:20,222 --> 01:24:21,929
♪ Yeah you know
We're here from Q-borough ♪
1439
01:24:22,015 --> 01:24:24,803
♪ L-Boogs and Clef the trainers
Prazwell promotes the thorough ♪
1440
01:24:24,893 --> 01:24:27,886
♪ We used to bite the bullets
With the pigskin cases ♪
1441
01:24:27,980 --> 01:24:30,472
♪ Now we perfect slang
Like a gang of street masons ♪
1442
01:24:30,566 --> 01:24:33,400
♪ Scribe checks make connects
True pyramid architects ♪
1443
01:24:33,485 --> 01:24:35,477
♪ Replace the last name with the X ♪
1444
01:24:35,571 --> 01:24:38,814
♪ The man's got a God complex
But take the text, change the picture ♪
1445
01:24:38,907 --> 01:24:41,524
♪ Watch Muhammad play the messenger
Like holy Muslim scripture ♪
1446
01:24:41,618 --> 01:24:44,326
♪ Take orders from only God
Only war when it's jihad ♪
1447
01:24:44,413 --> 01:24:47,076
♪ See, Ali appears in Zaire
To reconnect 400 years ♪
1448
01:24:47,165 --> 01:24:49,908
♪ So we the people, dark but equal
Give love to such things ♪
1449
01:24:50,002 --> 01:24:52,915
♪ To the man who made the fam
Remember when we were kings ♪
1450
01:24:53,005 --> 01:24:55,668
- ♪ Blocks on fire ♪
- ♪ Blocks on fire tonight ♪
1451
01:24:55,757 --> 01:24:57,965
♪ Flames getting higher ♪
1452
01:24:58,552 --> 01:25:01,260
- ♪ Robbin' blue collar ♪
- ♪ Hey, yo, we rob them blue collars ♪
1453
01:25:01,346 --> 01:25:03,929
- ♪ Killin' for a dollar ♪
- ♪ Stick 'em up ♪
1454
01:25:04,016 --> 01:25:06,850
- ♪ See youths get tired ♪
- ♪ Sucker, you ain't nothin' ♪
1455
01:25:06,935 --> 01:25:09,497
- ♪ Dealin' with them liars ♪
- ♪ We dealin' with them many liars ♪
1456
01:25:09,521 --> 01:25:11,888
♪ From Brooklyn to Zaire ♪
1457
01:25:11,982 --> 01:25:15,316
- ♪ We need a ghetto messiah ♪
- ♪ Come on ♪
1458
01:25:16,028 --> 01:25:21,319
♪ Send me an angel
In the morning, baby ♪
1459
01:25:21,408 --> 01:25:26,870
♪ Send me an angel
In the morning, darling ♪
1460
01:25:26,955 --> 01:25:32,371
♪ Send me Muhammad
In the morning, baby ♪
1461
01:25:32,461 --> 01:25:37,047
♪ Send me an angel
In the morning, darling ♪
1462
01:25:37,132 --> 01:25:39,340
♪ Once the pen hits the pad, it's danger ♪
1463
01:25:39,426 --> 01:25:40,883
♪ To this I'll be no stranger ♪
1464
01:25:40,969 --> 01:25:43,131
♪ Step inside the ring
And I'll derange you ♪
1465
01:25:43,221 --> 01:25:45,634
♪ I'm hearing no comments
Everyone looks despondent ♪
1466
01:25:45,724 --> 01:25:48,341
♪ Dejected, rejected
Similar to Liston catching licks ♪
1467
01:25:48,435 --> 01:25:50,893
♪ Beat it, Sonny, my man
Is still the greatest in history ♪
1468
01:25:50,979 --> 01:25:53,767
♪ To hell with Frazier
Yapping about that negative shit ♪
1469
01:25:53,857 --> 01:25:57,146
♪ Now, listen, you can try
And escape if you want to ♪
1470
01:25:57,235 --> 01:25:59,852
♪ But ask yourself
Who the hell you gonna run to? ♪
1471
01:25:59,946 --> 01:26:02,780
♪ Like Sade Adu
You got a punch that I can sleep to ♪
1472
01:26:02,866 --> 01:26:05,279
♪ Fugees, Tribe, Busta Rhymes
Forever coming through ♪
1473
01:26:05,369 --> 01:26:07,907
♪ You sing "Amazing Grace"
Over two-dollarplates ♪
1474
01:26:07,996 --> 01:26:10,739
♪ One roll, snake-eyes
Like Jake the Snake ♪
1475
01:26:10,832 --> 01:26:13,540
♪ Many lies, put up for stakes
Wash our sins at the Great Lakes ♪
1476
01:26:13,627 --> 01:26:16,540
♪ You and I cannot see eye to eye
So therefore we can't relate ♪
1477
01:26:16,630 --> 01:26:19,043
♪ I'm here
When I make myself crystal clear ♪
1478
01:26:19,132 --> 01:26:22,091
♪ You fled to Cape Fear
When I laced you up in Zaire ♪
1479
01:26:22,177 --> 01:26:24,669
♪ Tussle with a lasso
In the royal rumble ♪
1480
01:26:24,763 --> 01:26:27,380
♪ Separate boys from men
In the concrete jungle ♪
1481
01:26:27,474 --> 01:26:29,807
♪ I remember when Cassius Clay
Flipped the script ♪
1482
01:26:29,893 --> 01:26:31,384
♪ Taking trips to Zimbabwe ♪
1483
01:26:31,478 --> 01:26:34,141
♪ Africans started calling the God
Ali, bomaye! ♪
1484
01:26:34,231 --> 01:26:37,724
♪ So bright, it be the God stricken
God nutrition, lightly stricken ♪
1485
01:26:37,818 --> 01:26:39,855
♪ Blows that feel
Like you was poison bitten ♪
1486
01:26:39,945 --> 01:26:42,312
♪ Ha! Yo, I'm 'bout to blister
You and your sister ♪
1487
01:26:42,406 --> 01:26:45,365
♪ Predicting every ass-whipping
Before my fights, my nigga ♪
1488
01:26:45,450 --> 01:26:48,443
♪ This be your last warning
Once you walk right past the doorman ♪
1489
01:26:48,537 --> 01:26:51,496
♪ Ali and Foreman gon' lock ass
Until the morning ♪
1490
01:26:51,581 --> 01:26:54,324
♪ Mobs of finances
Provided by Joseph Mobutu ♪
1491
01:26:54,418 --> 01:26:57,161
♪ Special guests of honor
Like the Archbishop Desmond Tutu ♪
1492
01:26:57,254 --> 01:26:58,916
♪ We watched the Rumble in the Jungle ♪
1493
01:26:59,005 --> 01:27:02,123
♪ See who be the targeted uncle
To be the first to fall and fumble ♪
1494
01:27:02,217 --> 01:27:04,755
♪ 'Nuff blows they getting thrown
Like solid milestones ♪
1495
01:27:04,845 --> 01:27:07,758
♪ Internally shaking up niggas
Imbalance your chromosomes ♪
1496
01:27:07,848 --> 01:27:09,510
♪ With the force of a thousand warriors ♪
1497
01:27:09,599 --> 01:27:12,342
♪ When I bust your ass
Identify me as the lord victorious ♪
1498
01:27:12,436 --> 01:27:14,894
- ♪ Blocks on fire ♪
- ♪ You're a star ♪
1499
01:27:14,980 --> 01:27:17,643
- ♪ Flames getting higher ♪
- ♪ You're a star ♪
1500
01:27:17,733 --> 01:27:20,521
- ♪ Robbing blue collar ♪
- ♪ We robbin' blue collars ♪
1501
01:27:20,610 --> 01:27:22,476
♪ Killing for a dollar ♪