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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,155 Ladies and gentlemen, right now we'd like to introduce... 2 00:00:28,238 --> 00:00:32,910 the star of our show, the young man you've all been waiting for. 3 00:00:32,994 --> 00:00:37,166 So let's all get together and welcome him to the stage with a great big hand. 4 00:00:37,207 --> 00:00:39,377 How about it for Sam Cooke? 5 00:00:48,179 --> 00:00:51,767 Before we do anything, we? d like to say how are you doing out there? 6 00:00:53,769 --> 00:00:55,522 - Is everyone feeling all right? - Yeah! 7 00:00:55,605 --> 00:00:57,149 How are you doing? 8 00:00:58,066 --> 00:00:59,860 - You doing okay? - Yeah! 9 00:00:59,902 --> 00:01:02,322 - You two doing okay? - Yeah! 10 00:01:02,363 --> 00:01:06,160 Well, I ask you one more time. How you doing? 11 00:01:07,912 --> 00:01:09,873 Oh, yeah 12 00:01:11,041 --> 00:01:12,918 I said oh, yeah 13 00:01:13,001 --> 00:01:15,004 Oh, yeah! 14 00:01:15,087 --> 00:01:16,547 Oh, yeah 15 00:01:16,589 --> 00:01:18,174 Oh, yeah! 16 00:01:26,017 --> 00:01:29,146 I believe we're gonna have a goodtime tonight 17 00:01:30,398 --> 00:01:34,111 It's good to have somebody you can twist the night away with 18 00:01:34,194 --> 00:01:36,280 Right now 19 00:01:36,363 --> 00:01:37,740 Oh, yes, it is 20 00:01:38,616 --> 00:01:41,995 I said it feels good when you got somebody 21 00:01:42,079 --> 00:01:44,665 To twist the night away with right now 22 00:01:44,749 --> 00:01:47,085 - Lord have mercy. - What you running from, son? 23 00:01:49,797 --> 00:01:51,382 We got a call. 24 00:01:57,431 --> 00:02:00,894 Don't fight the feelin' Don? t fight the feelin' 25 00:02:02,187 --> 00:02:05,691 Got to feel the feelin' now Got to feel the feelin' 26 00:02:06,776 --> 00:02:10,280 'Cause it make you groove right when you feel the feelin' 27 00:02:10,364 --> 00:02:13,618 Oh, make me want you now 28 00:02:13,659 --> 00:02:16,037 Got to feel the feelin' 29 00:02:16,121 --> 00:02:20,835 'Cause it make you groove right when you feel the feelin' 30 00:02:20,918 --> 00:02:25,507 Make me want ya when I got the feelin; baby 31 00:02:25,591 --> 00:02:27,802 So don't fight it 32 00:02:27,885 --> 00:02:29,804 No, don? t fight it 33 00:02:29,846 --> 00:02:32,474 Baby, just feel it 34 00:03:26,457 --> 00:03:28,501 I'm gonna bust you up. 35 00:03:28,543 --> 00:03:31,171 Beat your ass like I was your daddy. 36 00:04:12,847 --> 00:04:15,935 I said I'm beginning to feel allright now 37 00:04:21,942 --> 00:04:25,947 I feel can tell you about my baby right now 38 00:04:30,077 --> 00:04:33,122 I said I feel you're in the mood right now 39 00:04:41,841 --> 00:04:45,346 I said I feel you're in the mood 40 00:04:47,891 --> 00:04:50,310 Some times me and my baby we fuss and fight 41 00:04:50,394 --> 00:04:53,314 And my baby leave home 'cause things ain't right 42 00:04:53,397 --> 00:04:55,817 For those of you who think you came here today... 43 00:04:55,859 --> 00:04:58,612 to hear us tell you like these Negro leaders do... 44 00:04:58,654 --> 00:05:01,282 that your times will just get better... 45 00:05:01,365 --> 00:05:06,372 that we shall overcome someday... 46 00:05:06,455 --> 00:05:09,500 I say to you, you came to the wrong place. 47 00:05:09,584 --> 00:05:12,880 Because your times will never get better unless you make them better. 48 00:05:14,131 --> 00:05:17,010 Those of you who think you came here to hear us tell you... 49 00:05:17,051 --> 00:05:20,681 to turn the other cheek to the brutality of the white man... 50 00:05:20,764 --> 00:05:24,644 and this system of injustice that's in place right here in America... 51 00:05:24,686 --> 00:05:27,064 you think you're gonna come here and hear us tell you... 52 00:05:27,147 --> 00:05:31,152 to go out there and beg for a place at their lunch counter... 53 00:05:31,945 --> 00:05:35,157 again, I say you came to the wrong place. 54 00:05:35,199 --> 00:05:39,662 We don't teach you to turn the other cheek in the South. 55 00:05:39,704 --> 00:05:42,499 And we don't teach you to turn the other cheek in the North. 56 00:05:42,541 --> 00:05:46,379 The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches you to obey the law... 57 00:05:46,421 --> 00:05:49,216 to Cary yourselves in a respectable way... 58 00:05:49,299 --> 00:05:51,844 in a proud Afro-American way. 59 00:05:52,553 --> 00:05:55,098 But at the same time, we teach you... 60 00:05:55,182 --> 00:05:57,518 that anyone puts their hand on you... 61 00:05:59,645 --> 00:06:04,777 brother, you do your best to see they don't put their hand on anybody else... 62 00:06:04,860 --> 00:06:06,112 again. 63 00:06:10,575 --> 00:06:11,910 Time. 64 00:06:31,309 --> 00:06:33,270 Just like that, Daddy. 65 00:06:33,312 --> 00:06:35,398 Never jump in one place. Bad for the heart. 66 00:06:35,439 --> 00:06:37,025 Forwards, backwards, sideways. 67 00:06:37,108 --> 00:06:38,985 That's the most important thing. 68 00:06:50,124 --> 00:06:52,252 I'm called Bundini. 69 00:06:52,335 --> 00:06:55,881 Rhymes with Houdini. He was a Jew too. 70 00:06:55,965 --> 00:06:59,677 Some people call me Fast Black. Some call me Daddy Mac. 71 00:07:00,804 --> 00:07:03,516 Gave Sugar Ray Robinson my power for seven years. 72 00:07:03,599 --> 00:07:06,060 My voodoo. My magic. 73 00:07:06,144 --> 00:07:09,064 Now Shorty done sent me here to work for you. 74 00:07:09,147 --> 00:07:12,360 - Who's Shorty? - I call him Shorty. 75 00:07:12,443 --> 00:07:14,613 Call him Shorty 'cause he like 'em circumcised. 76 00:07:14,696 --> 00:07:19,494 Original people. Like Moses. And I was a babe in a basket too. 77 00:07:19,577 --> 00:07:22,748 Born on a doorstep with a note across my chest that read... 78 00:07:22,831 --> 00:07:25,876 "You do the best you can for him, world." 79 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:27,879 I wanna be your inspiration. 80 00:07:27,962 --> 00:07:30,632 Your motivator in your corner. 81 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,095 Can I be in your corner, young man? 82 00:07:41,521 --> 00:07:42,939 Time! 83 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,280 Got to tell you how I feel right now 84 00:07:49,364 --> 00:07:52,200 This song gonna tell you howl feel 85 00:07:52,284 --> 00:07:55,663 I know you been gone away for along time, but listen 86 00:07:55,705 --> 00:07:58,333 Baby, if you ever 87 00:07:59,584 --> 00:08:02,546 Change your mind 88 00:08:02,630 --> 00:08:04,841 Know that leaving 89 00:08:04,883 --> 00:08:07,719 Leaving me behind 90 00:08:09,388 --> 00:08:10,640 Bring it tome 91 00:08:11,349 --> 00:08:13,852 Bring that good lovin; baby 92 00:08:13,935 --> 00:08:16,063 Bring it on home to me 93 00:08:16,146 --> 00:08:17,481 Yeah, yeah 94 00:08:17,565 --> 00:08:21,236 Listen, I got to be a man to tell you this, honey, look 95 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,364 I'll give you jewelry 96 00:08:23,447 --> 00:08:25,491 I'll give you some of that money too 97 00:08:25,575 --> 00:08:28,161 But listen That ain't all 98 00:08:28,245 --> 00:08:30,956 That ain't all Sam will do for you 99 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,294 All you got to do is bring it tome 100 00:08:35,086 --> 00:08:37,297 Bring that good lovin baby 101 00:08:37,381 --> 00:08:39,342 Be the invisible man as soon as he swings. 102 00:08:39,425 --> 00:08:41,136 Get personal with him. 103 00:08:41,219 --> 00:08:43,639 This is important Listen tome 104 00:08:43,722 --> 00:08:46,934 Don't you know that I'll always 105 00:08:47,018 --> 00:08:49,020 I'll always be your slave 106 00:08:50,397 --> 00:08:52,775 Till I'm buried 107 00:08:52,858 --> 00:08:55,236 Buried in my grave 108 00:08:55,278 --> 00:08:57,322 While I'm livin' 109 00:08:57,406 --> 00:09:00,618 Bring it tome Bring that good lovin; baby 110 00:09:01,410 --> 00:09:03,997 Bring it on home to me 111 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,041 One more thing I gotta tell you 112 00:09:06,125 --> 00:09:07,835 Listen to me right now 113 00:09:07,918 --> 00:09:11,131 You know that I try 114 00:09:11,172 --> 00:09:14,260 To treat you right What did you do 115 00:09:14,343 --> 00:09:16,345 You stayed up 116 00:09:16,429 --> 00:09:18,640 You stayed up late at night 117 00:09:18,723 --> 00:09:20,684 I don't care who you was with 118 00:09:20,768 --> 00:09:22,645 Bring it tome 119 00:09:22,728 --> 00:09:25,315 Bring all that good lovin; baby 120 00:09:25,398 --> 00:09:28,485 Bring it on Everybody's with me 121 00:09:28,569 --> 00:09:29,987 Everybody's with me tonight 122 00:09:30,071 --> 00:09:33,408 Listen, let me hear you say yeah 123 00:09:40,125 --> 00:09:42,753 Yeah, oh, yeah 124 00:09:47,509 --> 00:09:50,638 Sonny Liston, you ain't no champ! You a chump! 125 00:09:50,721 --> 00:09:52,849 Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. 126 00:09:52,932 --> 00:09:55,936 Oh! Rumble, young man, rumble. 127 00:09:56,019 --> 00:09:58,773 Y'all wanna lose y' all money? Then you bet it on Sonny. 128 00:09:58,856 --> 00:10:01,693 He know I'm great. He will fall in eight. 129 00:10:01,776 --> 00:10:04,530 Come on, you big, ugly bear. I'll whup you right now. 130 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,619 Two-ten and a half. Two-ten and a half! 131 00:10:09,703 --> 00:10:13,499 The challenger, Cassius Clay, two hundred and ten and a half pounds. 132 00:10:13,541 --> 00:10:16,169 - Man, you sure that's right? - That's what the weight is. 133 00:10:16,252 --> 00:10:18,839 Old, ugly bear, come on. Let's go. 134 00:10:18,922 --> 00:10:23,386 You got these folks fooled. I ain't scared of ya! I ain't scared of ya! 135 00:10:25,180 --> 00:10:27,475 Two hundred and eighteen. Two hundred and eighteen. 136 00:10:27,558 --> 00:10:30,437 Sonny Liston, the champion of the world. 137 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:32,814 Two hundred and eighteen pounds. 138 00:10:32,898 --> 00:10:34,942 - Pounds of what? - Pounds of ugly. 139 00:10:35,026 --> 00:10:37,529 That man's so ugly, when he sweat... 140 00:10:37,612 --> 00:10:41,408 the sweat run backwards off his forehand just to stay away from his face. 141 00:10:45,914 --> 00:10:48,626 Come on, you big, ugly bear! I'll turn you into a rug! 142 00:10:48,709 --> 00:10:51,170 Keep talkin'. I'm gonna fuck you up. 143 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:59,138 If you whup me... 144 00:10:59,222 --> 00:11:03,143 I'll crawl out of the ring and take the first jet airplane out the country. 145 00:11:03,227 --> 00:11:06,356 - Is that a promise, Mr. Clay? - You'll eat his words first. 146 00:11:06,439 --> 00:11:10,277 - Cassius, you're a 7-1 underdog. - Liston says he talks with his fists. 147 00:11:10,319 --> 00:11:12,321 - What do you say? - You scared of him? 148 00:11:12,405 --> 00:11:14,658 I'm gonna give Sonny Liston talkin' lessons... 149 00:11:14,741 --> 00:11:17,202 boxin' lessons and fallin' down lessons. 150 00:11:17,995 --> 00:11:21,124 Cassius, are you a black Muslim? Pat Putnam says in the Miami Herald... 151 00:11:21,207 --> 00:11:23,752 A man's religion is his own business. What kind of question is that? 152 00:11:23,794 --> 00:11:29,050 - Angelo, tell me... - Malcolm X was in town, then he left. 153 00:11:29,134 --> 00:11:31,261 Was that so he wouldn't embarrass you? 154 00:11:31,345 --> 00:11:33,222 - Yeah, Howard? - Liston doesn't like you. 155 00:11:33,305 --> 00:11:36,142 Really can't stand you. Says he wants to kill you. 156 00:11:36,184 --> 00:11:38,270 Howard Cosell, you ain't nothin' but an instigator. 157 00:11:38,353 --> 00:11:41,941 - Man, how you get that way? - Cassius, now you? re being truculent. 158 00:11:42,025 --> 00:11:43,485 If it's good, I'm that. 159 00:11:45,988 --> 00:11:49,617 You next. Soon as I'm done with Sonny Liston, I'm fightin' Howard Cosell. 160 00:11:49,701 --> 00:11:51,661 Y'all write that down right now. 161 00:12:06,805 --> 00:12:08,515 That's good? 162 00:12:09,558 --> 00:12:11,144 Wanna check that out? 163 00:12:19,529 --> 00:12:21,865 Hey, man, when you get back? 164 00:12:21,907 --> 00:12:24,702 I just got here. I'm front row, seat seven. 165 00:12:28,749 --> 00:12:31,419 I'll be sittin' with Mom and Dad. 166 00:12:34,255 --> 00:12:37,843 You should've stayed in the first place. Nobody gotta hide when they're with me. 167 00:12:37,927 --> 00:12:40,263 There's nothing wrong with being cool, my brother. 168 00:12:40,346 --> 00:12:41,264 He's right. 169 00:13:28,781 --> 00:13:31,409 - ...and challenger, Cassius Clay. - Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 170 00:13:31,451 --> 00:13:34,788 Brought to you by the City Service Oil Company... 171 00:13:34,872 --> 00:13:38,251 and its dealers in 37 states and Canada... 172 00:13:38,292 --> 00:13:41,713 known to millions of motorists for Big Gallon gasoline... 173 00:13:41,797 --> 00:13:45,551 and by new Wildroot, totally new Wildroot in a new tube... 174 00:13:45,635 --> 00:13:50,724 with a great formula that grooms hair to look neat and natural, never greasy. 175 00:13:50,808 --> 00:13:53,144 Another boxing milestone is at hand. 176 00:13:53,227 --> 00:13:57,149 In just a few minutes, Louisville's Cassius Marcellus Clay... 177 00:13:57,191 --> 00:13:59,318 will be facing the devastating punching power... 178 00:13:59,402 --> 00:14:02,656 of the heavyweight champion, Charles "Sonny" Liston. 179 00:14:02,697 --> 00:14:06,869 For the heavyweight championship of the world. 180 00:14:09,331 --> 00:14:11,333 Introducing, on my right... 181 00:14:12,293 --> 00:14:14,295 And now the time has come. 182 00:14:14,378 --> 00:14:18,967 Both challenger and champion are in the ring. 183 00:14:19,009 --> 00:14:22,472 The heavyweight championship of the world is on the line. 184 00:14:22,555 --> 00:14:26,351 I fit goes past the first round, there will be surprises already. 185 00:14:27,061 --> 00:14:30,523 Sonny Liston wrapped in that tery cloth towel of his... 186 00:14:30,607 --> 00:14:33,277 wrapped around his head swami fashion... 187 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,197 Looking as malevolent and baleful as ever. 188 00:14:36,239 --> 00:14:39,618 But this man is a professional prizefighter. 189 00:14:39,701 --> 00:14:41,745 Make no mistake about it. 190 00:14:44,916 --> 00:14:46,877 I want a clean fight. 191 00:14:46,918 --> 00:14:49,338 When I say break, stop punching and step back. 192 00:14:49,380 --> 00:14:51,507 Do you have any questions, champ? 193 00:14:51,591 --> 00:14:53,426 Any questions, challenger? 194 00:14:53,510 --> 00:14:57,264 We're fine. Touch gloves, gentlemen. Good luck. 195 00:15:00,268 --> 00:15:03,063 Good evening, sports fans across the nation. 196 00:15:03,105 --> 00:15:05,733 Liston in the white trunks with the black stripes. 197 00:15:05,817 --> 00:15:09,947 Clay, an inch and a half taller, in the white trunks with the red stripes... 198 00:15:24,047 --> 00:15:26,843 And Cassius Clay is sidestepping. 199 00:15:41,485 --> 00:15:43,822 There it is, champ. Stay on your toes now. 200 00:15:51,706 --> 00:15:55,461 And we can see that the champion is the aggressor. 201 00:15:55,503 --> 00:15:58,089 There's a shot under the heart. 202 00:16:27,083 --> 00:16:30,504 Cassius Clay slips away. And now Clay pounds a left. 203 00:16:30,588 --> 00:16:33,591 Another left. A straight jab. 204 00:16:37,096 --> 00:16:39,891 It seems to have stunned him. And that's the bell. 205 00:16:39,974 --> 00:16:43,395 And they're fighting after the bell. And they're still fighting. 206 00:16:43,478 --> 00:16:46,065 This round is over. 207 00:16:46,148 --> 00:16:47,942 Break it up, ref. 208 00:16:48,026 --> 00:16:51,113 There is no love lost between the two contenders at this time. 209 00:16:51,196 --> 00:16:55,034 Cassius goes back to his corner. It's been an amazing round. 210 00:16:55,076 --> 00:16:56,578 You can beat this guy. 211 00:16:59,081 --> 00:17:01,584 I'm still here. 212 00:17:01,667 --> 00:17:05,047 And Sonny Liston is not taking the stool. 213 00:17:05,088 --> 00:17:08,134 He's anxious to get back into the challenger's face. 214 00:17:08,217 --> 00:17:11,137 Take it to the body. Kill the body, the head will follow. 215 00:17:42,217 --> 00:17:44,512 This is a totally different fight than Liston expected... 216 00:17:44,595 --> 00:17:46,431 and anyone in this arena will tell you. 217 00:17:46,514 --> 00:17:50,895 There's a long, looping left hand. Clay's eyes are wide open now. 218 00:18:01,616 --> 00:18:03,952 - Come on, Cass! Move! - Step back. 219 00:18:05,955 --> 00:18:08,833 - Come on, Cassius! - Come on, Chi-Chi! 220 00:18:11,879 --> 00:18:13,547 I'm not prognosticating anything... 221 00:18:13,631 --> 00:18:15,967 but merely his survival to this juncture... 222 00:18:33,697 --> 00:18:35,658 Cass, hit him! 223 00:18:46,838 --> 00:18:47,756 Break. 224 00:18:49,258 --> 00:18:51,094 Let him go. 225 00:19:19,545 --> 00:19:23,216 Sonny Liston is hurt. He's bleeding from his eye. 226 00:19:26,178 --> 00:19:27,513 He's defying the experts early. 227 00:19:27,555 --> 00:19:32,436 We have to take a look at this man and say he is not in awe of the champion. 228 00:20:00,846 --> 00:20:04,309 He ain't nothin' to me. And he know it. 229 00:20:04,392 --> 00:20:05,810 This is it now. 230 00:20:11,776 --> 00:20:13,737 Let me have that, John. 231 00:20:18,785 --> 00:20:20,412 And now they're ready. 232 00:20:24,625 --> 00:20:27,170 You gonna knock the ugly off of him. 233 00:20:27,253 --> 00:20:29,506 That's gonna take a long time, but you can do it. 234 00:20:33,636 --> 00:20:35,931 There he is. Get him off. Do your job, ref. 235 00:20:36,682 --> 00:20:39,060 Shake him. Do your job, ref. 236 00:20:43,941 --> 00:20:46,110 There it is. 237 00:20:46,903 --> 00:20:48,488 Come on, ref. 238 00:20:52,368 --> 00:20:53,369 Break. 239 00:20:59,501 --> 00:21:01,921 - There he is. - Clay slips around and out. 240 00:21:04,966 --> 00:21:07,636 Up against the ropes. Right above me now. 241 00:21:11,766 --> 00:21:14,311 Too tight. Get in there. 242 00:21:26,493 --> 00:21:28,787 My eyes. There's something in my eyes. I can't see nothin'. 243 00:21:28,871 --> 00:21:29,955 Come on. 244 00:21:33,543 --> 00:21:34,795 - What's going on? - Nothin'. 245 00:21:34,878 --> 00:21:38,424 The guy's punchin' on the breaks. Just take care of it. We're fine. 246 00:21:40,468 --> 00:21:42,846 I can't see nothin', man. Just go and cut 'em off, Angie. 247 00:21:42,888 --> 00:21:45,725 No, no. You can't fight with no gloves on. 248 00:21:46,559 --> 00:21:48,520 Just get up. Get up. Try and do it. Come on. 249 00:21:48,562 --> 00:21:51,023 I can't see, man. 250 00:21:51,065 --> 00:21:53,735 - Come on, Cass! - Dance! 251 00:22:00,410 --> 00:22:02,412 Liston crouching, hitting to the body. 252 00:22:02,495 --> 00:22:05,457 It's like he's blinking, like he doesn't see Liston. 253 00:22:05,541 --> 00:22:08,127 Ref, you gotta doy our job. 254 00:22:17,848 --> 00:22:18,891 Hold it. 255 00:22:21,894 --> 00:22:24,272 Stay away from him, Clay. Stay away from him. 256 00:22:25,065 --> 00:22:27,443 The champion, you can see, is the aggressor. 257 00:22:33,909 --> 00:22:35,828 - Get him, Cass! - Come on, Cass! 258 00:22:36,913 --> 00:22:39,416 - Knock him up! - Clay looks all done. 259 00:22:39,499 --> 00:22:41,502 Hold on to him! 260 00:22:45,715 --> 00:22:48,510 - Stop it. Stop. Break. - Knock him up. 261 00:22:51,889 --> 00:22:54,309 Get on him. Get on him, man. 262 00:23:11,497 --> 00:23:14,459 - You can see him now. - You go get him, man. 263 00:23:25,598 --> 00:23:28,101 Clay lands a left, but Liston ducked under it... 264 00:23:28,184 --> 00:23:30,437 and took it high on the forehead. 265 00:23:31,396 --> 00:23:33,607 It's Clay coming on. 266 00:23:38,530 --> 00:23:41,242 And Liston backs away. 267 00:24:26,923 --> 00:24:30,636 And all the predictions are going down the drain... 268 00:24:30,719 --> 00:24:32,638 as Liston is listless. 269 00:24:35,016 --> 00:24:36,810 And there's the bell. 270 00:24:39,730 --> 00:24:41,649 We're coming up to round seven. 271 00:25:19,988 --> 00:25:22,324 Wait a minute! 272 00:25:22,408 --> 00:25:24,202 Liston's not coming out. 273 00:25:25,203 --> 00:25:28,499 The winner and new heavyweight champion of the world is Cassius Clay. 274 00:25:28,582 --> 00:25:32,629 Eat your words! Eat your words! 275 00:25:32,670 --> 00:25:36,467 Les, I'm going up into the ring. Get back. 276 00:25:37,677 --> 00:25:40,055 I'm the greatest thing ever happened to boxing. 277 00:25:40,138 --> 00:25:41,974 Cassius. Cassius. 278 00:25:42,015 --> 00:25:44,602 I shook up the world! 279 00:25:44,685 --> 00:25:47,939 It's a scene of absolute bedlam in the ring! 280 00:25:48,023 --> 00:25:52,278 I am the greatest. I'm a bad man. I shook up the world! 281 00:25:52,361 --> 00:25:54,072 Did he ever hurt you? 282 00:25:54,155 --> 00:25:57,159 I'm only 22 years old. I ain't got a mark on my face. 283 00:25:57,201 --> 00:25:59,161 - I must be the greatest. - And you're pretty. 284 00:25:59,203 --> 00:26:01,164 I must be the greatest. 285 00:26:01,206 --> 00:26:04,501 Wait. Hold on. Hold on one second. That's Sam Cooke back there. 286 00:26:04,543 --> 00:26:06,504 - Come on, Sam Cooke. - Let Sam Cooke in here. 287 00:26:06,545 --> 00:26:09,466 The greatest rock-and-roll singer, and I'm the world's greatest boxer. 288 00:26:09,549 --> 00:26:11,051 Hello, Sam. 289 00:26:19,979 --> 00:26:22,148 That mummy's gonna get him, baby. 290 00:26:22,982 --> 00:26:25,402 - That mummy ain't gonna get him. - Yeah, he is. 291 00:26:25,485 --> 00:26:29,741 He ain't scared of that mummy. That mummy too slow to catch anybody. 292 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:33,328 - What's going on, Sam? - How you doing, Cassius? 293 00:26:33,412 --> 00:26:37,876 Don't believe that stuff on TV. Don't listen to him. 294 00:26:37,917 --> 00:26:40,045 - Hey, congratulations, Clay. - Hey, thank you, Jim. 295 00:26:40,128 --> 00:26:43,132 - Hell of a fight. - You next, man. You next. 296 00:26:43,215 --> 00:26:46,511 - Go ahead and get some food, brother. - Cassius Clay versus Jim Brown. 297 00:26:46,595 --> 00:26:48,013 Biggest fight in history. 298 00:26:48,096 --> 00:26:51,225 - The mummy only has one eye. - One eye and a limp. 299 00:26:51,267 --> 00:26:53,895 That mummy's 643 years old. 300 00:26:53,937 --> 00:26:55,898 He can't catch nobody. Look at him. 301 00:26:55,939 --> 00:26:59,152 You gotta fall down 'cause that's the only way the mummy could catch you. 302 00:27:10,666 --> 00:27:12,126 Way to go, champ! 303 00:27:14,796 --> 00:27:18,217 - Yeah, you the greatest. - Thank you, brother. Thank you. 304 00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:20,261 - I'll see your next fight. - You'll see the next one? 305 00:27:20,344 --> 00:27:23,181 - Oh, yeah. - Well, you better get there very early. 306 00:27:23,265 --> 00:27:26,268 You better get there very early 'cause that man's going down. 307 00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:31,608 If he talk a little jive, he's going down in five. 308 00:27:33,527 --> 00:27:36,489 He talk a little more, I might drop him in four. 309 00:27:37,616 --> 00:27:39,785 If you wanna have more fun, do it in round one. 310 00:27:39,868 --> 00:27:41,954 Oh, yeah. Hold on. I'm doing the rhymin'. 311 00:27:55,972 --> 00:27:59,226 The people really look up to you. You plan on being a champ like Joe Louis? 312 00:27:59,309 --> 00:28:02,271 Well, yeah, I'm gonna be the people's champ. 313 00:28:02,354 --> 00:28:04,732 Not like Joe Louis. Well, you know, not exactly. 314 00:28:07,194 --> 00:28:09,321 My name is not Clay. 315 00:28:09,363 --> 00:28:11,950 Clay is the name of the people that owned my ancestors... 316 00:28:12,033 --> 00:28:15,037 and I no longer wanna be called by that slave name. 317 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:17,373 - I am Cassius X. - Minister Malcolm. 318 00:28:17,456 --> 00:28:19,709 What about the divisions in the Nation of Islam? 319 00:28:19,793 --> 00:28:23,797 This is the champ's time. I'm here as a friend to support his victory... 320 00:28:23,881 --> 00:28:26,342 so I have nothing you want. 321 00:28:26,384 --> 00:28:28,386 I'm definitely gonna be the people's champion... 322 00:28:28,428 --> 00:28:30,889 but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. 323 00:28:30,973 --> 00:28:33,393 I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be. 324 00:28:44,573 --> 00:28:47,201 For no home is immune to termites... 325 00:28:47,243 --> 00:28:50,372 no matter how well it is built or maintained. 326 00:28:50,455 --> 00:28:52,416 - Hey, brother. - I was leaving. 327 00:28:52,499 --> 00:28:55,753 I saw your light on. What you doing up at this hour, champ? 328 00:28:55,837 --> 00:28:59,591 Oh, man, I'm watching this program on termites. 329 00:28:59,675 --> 00:29:03,930 And them little itsy-bitsy things is eatin' these people's whole house down. 330 00:29:04,014 --> 00:29:06,725 Oh, man, look. 331 00:29:09,854 --> 00:29:14,610 I've been invited to speak at Ibadan University in Nigeria. 332 00:29:14,652 --> 00:29:17,363 - You wanna go with me? - Hey, look, man. 333 00:29:17,447 --> 00:29:21,577 You can have six million termites in your house and don't even know it... 334 00:29:21,619 --> 00:29:24,580 till you going to get something to eat and you bust through the floor. 335 00:29:26,458 --> 00:29:30,212 - What'd you say? Where? - Africa. You been? 336 00:29:31,297 --> 00:29:32,215 Africa. 337 00:29:32,298 --> 00:29:34,634 All right, come on. Let's go. 338 00:29:40,225 --> 00:29:41,810 What is it? 339 00:29:46,316 --> 00:29:48,902 You ever thought you'd lose it? 340 00:29:48,985 --> 00:29:51,739 I mean, really lose it? 341 00:29:55,577 --> 00:29:59,332 When I was little, I tore out this picture of Emmett Till. 342 00:29:59,415 --> 00:30:01,334 They put the barbed wire around his neck... 343 00:30:01,417 --> 00:30:05,589 and strapped him to that 75-pound cotton gin fan. 344 00:30:05,673 --> 00:30:09,511 And they cut out one of his eyes 'cause he looked at some white lady. 345 00:30:11,346 --> 00:30:13,307 Man. 346 00:30:13,349 --> 00:30:16,436 I couldn't take my eyes to it, couldn't throw it away. 347 00:30:21,025 --> 00:30:23,945 When I heard about those... 348 00:30:24,029 --> 00:30:26,991 four little girls who got bombed in that Birmingham church... 349 00:30:30,203 --> 00:30:32,914 the prohibitions of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad prevented me... 350 00:30:32,998 --> 00:30:35,251 from speaking my thoughts in action. 351 00:30:37,253 --> 00:30:39,464 Because Birmingham was part of the civil rights struggle. 352 00:30:39,548 --> 00:30:43,761 You know, begging for our place at the white man's table. 353 00:30:43,845 --> 00:30:46,515 But dead children are dead children. 354 00:30:46,598 --> 00:30:51,145 So the anger I felt I had to contain. 355 00:30:53,064 --> 00:30:56,151 I locked it up so tight... 356 00:30:56,235 --> 00:30:58,154 my muscles seized. 357 00:30:59,322 --> 00:31:02,242 I lost control over the right side of my body. 358 00:31:02,326 --> 00:31:04,745 My leg gave out. 359 00:31:04,829 --> 00:31:07,540 Right arm gave out. "I'm having a stroke," I thought. 360 00:31:09,126 --> 00:31:12,254 But I had to hold it in 'cause all I wanted... 361 00:31:12,338 --> 00:31:16,802 Brother, all I wanted to do was find something and break it. 362 00:31:16,885 --> 00:31:20,056 Break a part... Break any part of this system... 363 00:31:20,139 --> 00:31:24,353 because you are so provoked in your heart... 364 00:31:24,436 --> 00:31:26,564 and your spirit as a human being... 365 00:31:28,483 --> 00:31:30,444 at dead children. 366 00:31:32,112 --> 00:31:34,198 And I could do... 367 00:31:36,785 --> 00:31:38,537 nothing. 368 00:31:46,964 --> 00:31:50,718 Everyone knows I can't do nothing... 369 00:31:50,802 --> 00:31:52,220 anymore. 370 00:31:56,726 --> 00:32:00,272 So Elijah Muhammad has suspended me as a minister in the Nation of Islam. 371 00:32:08,782 --> 00:32:11,619 Man... 372 00:32:11,661 --> 00:32:13,204 you can fix that. 373 00:32:13,288 --> 00:32:16,166 I don't know. 374 00:32:16,208 --> 00:32:18,503 I'll try when we get back. 375 00:32:26,721 --> 00:32:28,765 You get some rest, champ. 376 00:32:28,849 --> 00:32:30,768 All right, brother. 377 00:33:06,061 --> 00:33:07,021 Sit. 378 00:33:19,411 --> 00:33:24,041 You know, only after long service and high merit... 379 00:33:24,083 --> 00:33:28,547 in the spiritual and physical rebirth of Afro-American people... 380 00:33:28,589 --> 00:33:30,841 is one granted an original name. 381 00:33:30,925 --> 00:33:33,678 But you are special. 382 00:33:33,762 --> 00:33:35,222 A world champion. 383 00:33:37,767 --> 00:33:40,395 So there is a gift I wish to give you. 384 00:33:40,437 --> 00:33:42,439 From this day forward... 385 00:33:42,481 --> 00:33:46,986 you will be known as Muhammad Ali. 386 00:33:51,158 --> 00:33:53,536 - What? - That's right. 387 00:33:53,619 --> 00:33:55,539 You what? 388 00:33:58,042 --> 00:34:01,754 Well, what's wrong with our name? My name? 389 00:34:01,796 --> 00:34:04,132 We... We made you. 390 00:34:04,216 --> 00:34:05,676 Ain't nobody made me. 391 00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:07,887 No bow tie-wearin', Arab-talkin' nigger gonna change that. 392 00:34:07,970 --> 00:34:09,889 Ain't nobody in that ring but me. I made me. 393 00:34:09,973 --> 00:34:12,476 You don't know who you are. 394 00:34:12,559 --> 00:34:15,313 I know who I ain't. I ain't drinkin'. 395 00:34:15,396 --> 00:34:17,691 I ain't going back on my wife and for sure I ain't prayin'... 396 00:34:17,774 --> 00:34:19,943 to no blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus. 397 00:34:19,985 --> 00:34:23,948 Paintin' those blue-eyed, blond-haired Jesuses is what put food in you. 398 00:34:24,032 --> 00:34:26,702 - Steak and vegetables on the table. - It's dinner! 399 00:34:32,334 --> 00:34:34,253 Go ahead. 400 00:34:35,379 --> 00:34:36,714 Go ahead. 401 00:34:58,658 --> 00:34:59,909 Hello? 402 00:35:00,827 --> 00:35:03,372 Here you go, Daddy. 403 00:35:03,455 --> 00:35:04,999 Thank you, baby. 404 00:35:05,041 --> 00:35:07,502 - Yeah? - Brother Malcolm. 405 00:35:07,544 --> 00:35:11,590 The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has given the Muslim name of Muhammad Ali... 406 00:35:11,674 --> 00:35:14,427 to Cassius X. 407 00:35:14,511 --> 00:35:17,931 Herbert Muhammad has been put in charge of his training. 408 00:35:18,015 --> 00:35:20,268 He will not be traveling with you to Africa. 409 00:35:20,351 --> 00:35:22,979 He also asked me to inform you... 410 00:35:23,063 --> 00:35:26,066 that your suspension will be extended indefiinitely. 411 00:35:36,705 --> 00:35:39,166 Brother Cassius won't be coming to Africa. 412 00:35:42,754 --> 00:35:44,714 Not with me. 413 00:35:48,678 --> 00:35:50,805 Don't put it off. 414 00:35:56,062 --> 00:35:57,981 We'll be fine. 415 00:36:03,112 --> 00:36:04,489 I will. 416 00:36:04,572 --> 00:36:07,743 I got a little doll for Atallah. 417 00:36:07,784 --> 00:36:08,869 Really? 418 00:36:08,952 --> 00:36:10,579 Yeah, it? s beautiful. 419 00:36:10,621 --> 00:36:13,458 I've got so much to show the girls when I get back. 420 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:15,919 - I'm taking alot of pictures. - Yeah? 421 00:36:15,961 --> 00:36:18,297 Yeah, I got some good stuff I want to show you. 422 00:36:18,381 --> 00:36:20,300 Are you eating? 423 00:36:21,301 --> 00:36:23,888 Well, you're not cooking, so... 424 00:36:23,971 --> 00:36:26,599 - What's going on? Anything? - Nothing. 425 00:36:27,559 --> 00:36:29,686 He's on the phone, talking to his wife. 426 00:36:29,770 --> 00:36:32,940 She's having a hard time sleeping, the baby's kicking a lot... 427 00:36:33,024 --> 00:36:35,318 what are they gonna name the baby. 428 00:36:38,155 --> 00:36:42,202 I just wake up a couple of times in the night, but it? s okay. 429 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,178 Would you like to take a seat? 430 00:36:57,220 --> 00:36:59,181 Sure, thank you. 431 00:37:02,852 --> 00:37:05,063 What y'all done did with the real pilot? 432 00:37:05,147 --> 00:37:08,025 I am the pilot. He's the copilot. 433 00:37:08,067 --> 00:37:10,028 Here. Sit down, Mr. Clay. 434 00:37:10,069 --> 00:37:12,489 Oh, man. 435 00:37:12,531 --> 00:37:16,494 In Louisville, where I growed up, they barely let black folks drive buses. 436 00:38:56,325 --> 00:38:57,576 Muhammad! 437 00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:04,835 Hey, brother. What's going on, man? 438 00:39:09,007 --> 00:39:10,968 - What you doing here? - I was just going to the airport. 439 00:39:11,010 --> 00:39:13,638 We just got here now. So where you going? 440 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:14,639 Liberia. 441 00:39:14,681 --> 00:39:18,143 Say hello to Maya Angelou right here and Ambassador Huang Hua. 442 00:39:18,185 --> 00:39:21,022 And that is Taher Kaid. He's the ambassador from Algeria. 443 00:39:21,105 --> 00:39:24,276 Oh, man. Where should I go? I wanna go all over this place. 444 00:39:24,359 --> 00:39:26,487 Go to Algeria. See Ben Bella. 445 00:39:26,570 --> 00:39:30,867 Then go to see Mecca and Medina. I just came from there. 446 00:39:30,951 --> 00:39:33,287 Made my seven circuits around the Kaaba. 447 00:39:33,370 --> 00:39:36,499 I prayed at sunrise. Two million people. Pilgrims from all over, man. 448 00:39:36,541 --> 00:39:39,712 Dressed the same. High and low, the same. 449 00:39:39,795 --> 00:39:43,633 Blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims, Arabs, Africans, Indonesians. 450 00:39:58,443 --> 00:40:01,363 Seeing brothers just like us, praying together, it was beautiful. 451 00:40:01,405 --> 00:40:03,449 I drank water from the well of Zem Zem. 452 00:40:03,532 --> 00:40:08,580 I prayed in the ancient city of Mena. I prayed on Mount Arafat. 453 00:40:08,664 --> 00:40:11,083 You shouldn't have quarreled with Elijah Muhammad. 454 00:40:12,418 --> 00:40:14,629 Walking in their footsteps. 455 00:40:14,713 --> 00:40:16,340 All of us together. 456 00:40:16,423 --> 00:40:19,260 You shouldn't have quarreled with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. 457 00:40:20,094 --> 00:40:21,721 What? 458 00:40:22,890 --> 00:40:26,310 You shouldn't have quarreled with Elijah Muhammad. 459 00:40:26,394 --> 00:40:28,897 Hey, Brother Muhammad, look here. 460 00:40:33,236 --> 00:40:35,155 Brother Muhammad! 461 00:40:57,390 --> 00:40:59,393 Listen, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. 462 00:41:13,493 --> 00:41:15,120 Into each life... 463 00:41:15,204 --> 00:41:17,248 a little rain must fall. 464 00:41:17,331 --> 00:41:20,210 And, you know, every day cannot be sunny. 465 00:41:20,293 --> 00:41:22,963 Every smile is not a smile of happiness. 466 00:41:23,005 --> 00:41:24,507 And every tear that is shed... 467 00:41:24,549 --> 00:41:26,801 Sonji, Sonji, Sonji. 468 00:41:26,843 --> 00:41:30,598 - What you keep saying my name for? - 'Cause I love it, girl. 469 00:41:30,681 --> 00:41:33,059 - How long you been working with Herbert? - About a year. 470 00:41:33,143 --> 00:41:36,021 I sell Muhammad Speaks over the phone. 471 00:41:36,105 --> 00:41:39,901 - What kind of name is that? - My father named me after Sonja Henie. 472 00:41:41,027 --> 00:41:42,988 What's your father do? 473 00:41:43,030 --> 00:41:47,160 He was shot in a poker game when I was two, so he don't do nothing. 474 00:41:47,243 --> 00:41:49,663 And my mother died when I was eleven. 475 00:41:49,705 --> 00:41:52,583 - Who raised you? - My godparents. 476 00:41:52,667 --> 00:41:56,672 But I been off on my own for a long time. 477 00:41:57,798 --> 00:41:59,759 What you doing tomorrow? Go for a ride with me. 478 00:41:59,842 --> 00:42:02,303 - Oh, no, no. I gotta work. - I'm gonna square it with Herbert. 479 00:42:02,387 --> 00:42:05,265 - Herbert said you met the Beatles. - Oh, yeah, yeah. 480 00:42:05,349 --> 00:42:08,353 Only one of 'em is smart, though. The fella with the glasses. 481 00:42:08,394 --> 00:42:10,564 Oh, he is my favorite. 482 00:42:10,647 --> 00:42:13,275 Yeah, folks was screaming and fainting. 483 00:42:13,359 --> 00:42:15,778 I said, "Man, is this how they act when you get big?" 484 00:42:15,862 --> 00:42:18,490 - What did he say? - He said, "Champ... 485 00:42:18,573 --> 00:42:22,453 the more real you get, the more unreal it's gonna get." 486 00:42:23,371 --> 00:42:25,373 Wow. 487 00:42:30,839 --> 00:42:32,758 Your 488 00:42:34,009 --> 00:42:38,181 Precious love 489 00:42:38,264 --> 00:42:39,975 Love 490 00:42:40,058 --> 00:42:43,896 Means more tome 491 00:42:45,982 --> 00:42:50,154 More, more 492 00:42:50,237 --> 00:42:53,450 Than any love 493 00:42:53,533 --> 00:42:55,953 Can ever bring me 494 00:42:55,994 --> 00:42:58,915 Never came true 495 00:42:58,956 --> 00:43:01,543 Oh, and I 496 00:43:04,463 --> 00:43:06,466 I wanted you 497 00:43:06,549 --> 00:43:09,177 Let me tell ya I was so lonely 498 00:43:09,261 --> 00:43:13,182 So lonely, lonely So lonely and so blue 499 00:43:14,267 --> 00:43:16,645 Good God All mighty 500 00:43:16,687 --> 00:43:18,898 That's what love will do 501 00:43:18,981 --> 00:43:20,441 Do 502 00:43:25,364 --> 00:43:27,658 Let's go. 503 00:43:27,742 --> 00:43:29,244 Yeah. 504 00:43:29,327 --> 00:43:31,371 Where you live? 505 00:43:31,455 --> 00:43:33,374 I'm gonna take you there. 506 00:43:34,667 --> 00:43:38,004 And you know I got a man somewhere out there that I don't mind crawling to. 507 00:43:38,088 --> 00:43:41,425 Sometimes I wake up in the midnight hour, tears rolling down my face. 508 00:43:41,509 --> 00:43:43,428 And if I look around for my man and I can't find him... 509 00:43:43,511 --> 00:43:45,973 I follow the Lord, look a little higher. 510 00:43:46,014 --> 00:43:47,766 Kind of pray to the Lord. 511 00:43:47,850 --> 00:43:51,020 Because I always believed that the Lord could help me if nobody else could. 512 00:43:51,104 --> 00:43:53,023 But sometime I think he don't even hear me. 513 00:43:53,065 --> 00:43:55,526 So I have to fall a little lower on my knees, look a little higher. 514 00:43:55,568 --> 00:43:57,695 Kind of raise my voice a little higher. 515 00:43:57,779 --> 00:43:59,906 And this is what I say when I call on my man. 516 00:43:59,990 --> 00:44:03,452 I especially want you ladies to listen to me 'cause maybe you can try this. 517 00:44:03,536 --> 00:44:05,538 It might help you every once in a while. 518 00:44:05,622 --> 00:44:08,083 This is what you say when you call on your man. 519 00:44:08,166 --> 00:44:10,085 Get in tune to... 520 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:21,558 Darlin' 521 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,104 Darlin; don't you know 522 00:44:25,187 --> 00:44:29,067 That I love you so much, yeah 523 00:44:30,694 --> 00:44:32,989 Fall down on my knees 524 00:44:33,072 --> 00:44:35,158 Beg my baby, please 525 00:44:35,241 --> 00:44:38,787 I got to tell the man that I love him, yes, I will 526 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,213 For your precious love 527 00:44:46,297 --> 00:44:48,716 There? s nothing There? s nothing, nothing 528 00:44:48,758 --> 00:44:52,054 In this whole wide world I wouldn? t do for you, darling 529 00:44:53,931 --> 00:44:56,935 I'll walk all night out in the rain 530 00:44:57,018 --> 00:45:00,648 Lord, I got to see my baby again 531 00:45:00,731 --> 00:45:03,318 I got to tell the man that I love him 532 00:45:03,401 --> 00:45:05,487 One more time, yeah 533 00:45:20,672 --> 00:45:22,174 You ain't no Muslim, huh? 534 00:45:22,258 --> 00:45:26,096 Cover my hair, wear no makeup and wear those long dresses? 535 00:45:26,137 --> 00:45:27,681 Honey, please. 536 00:45:31,978 --> 00:45:33,480 Were you a virgin? 537 00:45:34,272 --> 00:45:37,359 A virgin? How you gonna... What you saying? 538 00:45:37,443 --> 00:45:41,823 Well, you were just so gone, off on a little good time. 539 00:45:41,865 --> 00:45:44,994 Well, no, I ain't no virgin. 540 00:45:45,077 --> 00:45:46,537 But I may as well be. 541 00:45:47,413 --> 00:45:49,833 I ain't joking. 542 00:45:49,875 --> 00:45:52,628 I always know when I know. 543 00:45:54,714 --> 00:45:57,009 You see this face? 544 00:45:57,050 --> 00:45:59,136 You got a pretty face for a lady's face... 545 00:45:59,220 --> 00:46:01,639 but you ever seen anything as pretty as me? 546 00:46:01,681 --> 00:46:04,393 Who wouldn't want to be with me? 547 00:46:04,476 --> 00:46:06,604 What, you five foot three or something like that? 548 00:46:06,687 --> 00:46:09,232 That's too small for me, but I'm gonna make an exception. 549 00:46:09,315 --> 00:46:11,652 - Oh, well, thank you. - Because of your spirit. 550 00:46:11,693 --> 00:46:14,322 - My spirit? - Yeah, girl. You too much fun. 551 00:46:14,363 --> 00:46:16,991 - But you got to be a Muslim. - A Muslim? 552 00:46:17,033 --> 00:46:20,621 And how you do that? You jump over a broom and, shazam, you're a Muslim? 553 00:46:20,704 --> 00:46:23,541 I ain't never been with nobody like you. 554 00:46:23,625 --> 00:46:25,627 And, baby... 555 00:46:25,711 --> 00:46:29,048 baby, you ain't never gonna be with any other. 556 00:46:45,777 --> 00:46:47,738 - What? - That's right. 557 00:46:49,990 --> 00:46:52,118 I wanna marry her. 558 00:46:54,287 --> 00:46:55,747 True love. 559 00:46:55,789 --> 00:46:59,127 You don't marry that girl. She was a date. 560 00:46:59,210 --> 00:47:00,879 Have some fun. 561 00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:04,675 She's not your wife. You don't marry this girl. 562 00:47:04,759 --> 00:47:08,221 Here's some management papers. I need you to sign right there. 563 00:47:08,263 --> 00:47:09,973 My father would kill me. 564 00:47:11,308 --> 00:47:12,977 Watch what you're signing, Ali. 565 00:47:13,060 --> 00:47:14,979 This ain't got nothing to do with you. 566 00:47:15,063 --> 00:47:19,235 Anything's to do with me I say is to do with me, fat boy. I'm still a Christian. 567 00:47:19,902 --> 00:47:23,406 And get me a kosher cook. I want that lady over at Malcolm's temple. 568 00:47:23,448 --> 00:47:25,534 - Lana Shabazz. - And put my brother on payroll. 569 00:47:25,617 --> 00:47:28,162 Fifty G a year just for drivin' and jivin'. 570 00:47:28,246 --> 00:47:31,166 What do you say, Howard? Come on full-time as my photographer? 571 00:47:31,249 --> 00:47:35,046 I'm not gonna be on the payroll. I'm freelance. Emphasis on "free." 572 00:47:35,129 --> 00:47:37,799 Muhammad, she's not for you. 573 00:47:37,883 --> 00:47:39,927 When I met her, she worked in a cocktail lounge... 574 00:47:39,968 --> 00:47:42,096 with a bunny tail on her backside. 575 00:47:42,138 --> 00:47:45,058 What the hell was you doing in a bunny tail lounge anyway, Herbert? 576 00:47:45,141 --> 00:47:46,977 Sellin' Muhammad Peeks? 577 00:47:49,814 --> 00:47:53,569 - You been saving it up training, Ali. - Your ass. 578 00:47:53,652 --> 00:47:56,364 You should spread that stuff around a little bit before you settle down. 579 00:47:56,447 --> 00:47:59,451 No, man. Marriage is the cornerstone of Muslim life. 580 00:47:59,492 --> 00:48:03,623 - Yeah, well, Sonji Roi is not a Muslim. - Well, she's gonna be now. 581 00:48:03,664 --> 00:48:06,084 You just fix it up, Herbert. 582 00:48:23,439 --> 00:48:26,150 Yeah. Okay. 583 00:48:26,234 --> 00:48:29,112 So, why we meeting? 584 00:48:29,196 --> 00:48:32,324 I got Malcolm shoulder to shoulder with Martin Luther King. 585 00:48:32,366 --> 00:48:35,286 And we got Malcolm traveling all over the world, getting Ben Bella and Nasser. 586 00:48:38,832 --> 00:48:41,753 We were better off before with Malcolm inside the Nation. 587 00:48:43,713 --> 00:48:47,510 So we've decided we want you... 588 00:48:47,552 --> 00:48:51,014 to get Elijah Muhammad to take Malcolm back. 589 00:48:59,441 --> 00:49:01,485 That's a joke, Joe. 590 00:49:13,709 --> 00:49:16,879 When am I being reimbursed for my expenses? 591 00:49:16,963 --> 00:49:19,299 Dry-cleaning all these suits is not free. 592 00:49:21,176 --> 00:49:23,554 We gotta talk about this guy too. 593 00:49:27,267 --> 00:49:30,730 Get me receipts, I'll reimburse you for your dry cleaning. 594 00:49:40,408 --> 00:49:42,327 - What you drinking? - What I'm drinking? 595 00:49:42,411 --> 00:49:45,331 Come on, champ. This is water. You know I'm a natural man. 596 00:49:45,414 --> 00:49:46,833 You know. 597 00:49:46,916 --> 00:49:49,836 - What's going on? We're late. - I'm changing my damn clothes. 598 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:53,382 You gave me that look, so I know you don't like what I had on. 599 00:49:54,801 --> 00:49:57,429 - What is this? - What you wanted, isn't it? 600 00:49:57,513 --> 00:49:59,724 - A water glass with vodka in it. - No, that was before. 601 00:49:59,807 --> 00:50:03,228 - Before what, sir? - Before you showed up. Get out of here. 602 00:50:04,646 --> 00:50:07,775 I'm fine running around here in these cute, short things for you. 603 00:50:07,859 --> 00:50:09,569 I am submissive to you. 604 00:50:09,652 --> 00:50:12,990 I ain't gonna be submissive to them Brother X's and Z's... 605 00:50:13,073 --> 00:50:14,951 about what they think. 606 00:50:14,992 --> 00:50:17,579 They ask me a bunch of questions all the time anyway. 607 00:50:17,662 --> 00:50:19,623 - What questions? - About you and us. 608 00:50:19,665 --> 00:50:22,418 - And I ain't telling them shit. - You tell it like it is, sugar. 609 00:50:26,340 --> 00:50:29,176 Took away my boy's name. What they give him back? 610 00:50:29,218 --> 00:50:30,553 Bad style. 611 00:50:33,265 --> 00:50:37,603 I think you drunk. Daddy Clay, you're something else. 612 00:50:37,687 --> 00:50:41,149 Now, that's a firecracker right there. We're gonna have to work with that. 613 00:50:41,233 --> 00:50:43,194 - A scale of one to ten. - That's right. 614 00:50:43,235 --> 00:50:45,405 I have one... I had a ten... Well, I didn't have a ten. 615 00:50:45,488 --> 00:50:48,158 I had a five... five good twos. 616 00:50:49,702 --> 00:50:53,373 I don't drink. I don't smoke. I converted to Islam for you. 617 00:50:53,456 --> 00:50:56,335 Okay? l... All except the dress. 618 00:52:37,125 --> 00:52:39,628 What you doing in my pockets, man? Get your hand out of my pocket! 619 00:52:39,712 --> 00:52:41,965 - Hold it, my brothers. - We got a thief in here! 620 00:52:42,006 --> 00:52:44,134 Just be cool. 621 00:52:44,217 --> 00:52:45,803 Be cool. 622 00:53:37,616 --> 00:53:39,494 Brother, you crazy? 623 00:53:39,577 --> 00:53:42,956 They killed Malcolm! They shot Malcolm! They shot Malcolm! 624 00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:44,959 They shot Malcolm! 625 00:53:46,794 --> 00:53:51,342 Wash it seven times in the chest and body... 626 00:53:51,425 --> 00:53:54,012 and one in the lower right shin. 627 00:53:54,095 --> 00:53:57,683 Apparently, the unknown man... 628 00:53:57,766 --> 00:54:01,270 walked up to the speaker's platform... 629 00:54:01,354 --> 00:54:05,150 at the time Malcolm X was speaking... 630 00:54:06,610 --> 00:54:10,240 opened fire at him at very short range. 631 00:55:17,364 --> 00:55:20,576 The arena is surrounded by FBI. 632 00:55:20,660 --> 00:55:23,163 The stands are only half full. 633 00:55:23,204 --> 00:55:27,251 The promoter has taken out a million-dollar insurance policy... 634 00:55:27,335 --> 00:55:32,508 due to Cassius Clay's membership in the militant and radical black Muslims. 635 00:55:32,591 --> 00:55:36,679 And, oh, by the way, Sonny Liston is here too. 636 00:55:36,721 --> 00:55:39,349 Touch gloves and come out fighting. 637 00:56:10,930 --> 00:56:12,515 Come on, son. 638 00:56:12,599 --> 00:56:15,310 - Come on, Chi-Chi. - Put a whupping on him now. 639 00:56:21,234 --> 00:56:23,403 Ain't nothing changed. 640 00:56:23,487 --> 00:56:25,865 Whup on him now. Whup up on him. 641 00:56:28,451 --> 00:56:30,329 Way to go! 642 00:56:32,123 --> 00:56:35,084 - There it is! - Sock it to him, baby! 643 00:56:44,304 --> 00:56:45,723 Yes! 644 00:56:45,806 --> 00:56:48,434 Get up! Ain't nobody gonna believe this. 645 00:56:48,518 --> 00:56:50,604 Get up! 646 00:56:50,687 --> 00:56:51,855 Yes! 647 00:57:04,996 --> 00:57:06,957 Confused. We're confused. 648 00:57:08,584 --> 00:57:11,004 - Check his time. - Timekeeper's sounding it's over. 649 00:57:11,045 --> 00:57:13,006 Check his time! 650 00:57:15,134 --> 00:57:16,218 It is over! 651 00:57:28,609 --> 00:57:31,028 I think the champ was in a hurry. 652 00:57:39,706 --> 00:57:41,124 Are you okay? 653 00:57:43,210 --> 00:57:45,296 What's wrong? 654 00:57:45,379 --> 00:57:48,299 Why you all done up like that? 655 00:57:51,053 --> 00:57:53,556 I'm out there dying for you out of worry. 656 00:57:53,639 --> 00:57:55,141 - Worry? - Yes. 657 00:57:55,225 --> 00:57:57,644 And all you can think about is if I look dull enough? 658 00:57:58,437 --> 00:58:01,566 What if I straightened my hair and moved into some white suburb? 659 00:58:01,649 --> 00:58:03,693 How I am says something. 660 00:58:27,806 --> 00:58:30,184 You want me to go get her? 661 00:58:42,783 --> 00:58:43,951 Not now. 662 00:58:44,035 --> 00:58:45,954 - Not right now, fellas. - Not now. 663 00:58:51,627 --> 00:58:55,090 - What I got to do? - About Sonji? 664 00:58:55,132 --> 00:58:57,426 Have no contact with her for 90 days. 665 00:58:57,510 --> 00:58:59,762 Make a public statement of divorce at the mosque... 666 00:58:59,804 --> 00:59:02,015 and Islamic law will be satisfied. 667 00:59:02,099 --> 00:59:05,561 Satisfaction is not making it with the woman who send you to the moon? 668 00:59:05,645 --> 00:59:07,605 I'm the only normal person left around here. 669 00:59:07,689 --> 00:59:10,275 I'm a black Jew, I can't read and I'm half drunk. 670 00:59:12,445 --> 00:59:13,905 I need to talk to you. 671 00:59:15,323 --> 00:59:18,452 - No, you can stay, Brother Herbert. - Brother? He ain't your brother. 672 00:59:18,535 --> 00:59:21,748 Your brother's taking your wife back to Chicago. She's crying like a widow. 673 00:59:21,831 --> 00:59:24,501 - Well, I ain't dead. - Well, you may as well be. 674 00:59:24,584 --> 00:59:27,129 You don't remember your name or who you are. 675 01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,306 You gonna try for Germany? 676 01:00:43,390 --> 01:00:45,100 You gonna try to get stationed in Germany? 677 01:00:45,184 --> 01:00:49,939 - Everybody is trying to avoid Vietnam. - What you talkin' about, man? 678 01:00:50,023 --> 01:00:53,027 They changed your classification. It's in the paper. 679 01:00:53,110 --> 01:00:54,904 - What? - Champ. Eskridge. 680 01:00:54,946 --> 01:00:56,406 You're 1 A. 681 01:00:59,451 --> 01:01:01,912 They tryin' to draft me in the army? You know about this? 682 01:01:01,954 --> 01:01:03,206 Okay, here we go. 683 01:01:04,332 --> 01:01:08,379 All right, all right. Hey, I got to go. 684 01:01:12,300 --> 01:01:14,303 They started runnin'. 685 01:01:16,472 --> 01:01:19,142 You know, so I went down there, I did everything I was supposed to do... 686 01:01:19,225 --> 01:01:21,144 and I flunked their draft board test. 687 01:01:21,228 --> 01:01:25,316 Then without testing me again, to see if I'm any wiser or worser... 688 01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:27,819 they decide I can go in the army? 689 01:01:27,903 --> 01:01:30,155 - Cassius, in my opinion... - My name ain't Cassius Clay. 690 01:01:30,239 --> 01:01:32,784 That is a slave name, and I am a free man. 691 01:01:32,867 --> 01:01:34,452 I am Muhammad Ali. 692 01:01:34,536 --> 01:01:39,792 You know, I apologize. I apologize to you on the air. 693 01:01:39,876 --> 01:01:42,087 Your name is Muhammad Ali. 694 01:01:42,170 --> 01:01:44,298 You have a right to be called whatever you want. 695 01:01:44,381 --> 01:01:46,342 I apologize to you. 696 01:01:46,384 --> 01:01:49,972 You sure make a lot of mistakes for a so-called educated man. 697 01:01:50,055 --> 01:01:52,475 - You really went to law school? - Yes, Muhammad. 698 01:01:52,516 --> 01:01:56,313 And to think I gave up a lucrative practice for the likes of you. 699 01:01:56,354 --> 01:01:58,357 I'm the best thing ever happened to you, Cosell. 700 01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:02,278 Without me, you'd be a tall white man with a microphone in his mouth. 701 01:02:02,362 --> 01:02:05,616 And without me, you'd be a mouth. 702 01:02:12,541 --> 01:02:14,460 We'll be right back. 703 01:02:15,878 --> 01:02:19,508 - You want some food for that thing? - How could you do such a thing? 704 01:02:19,591 --> 01:02:22,219 - 'Cause it's funny. - To someone you revere. 705 01:02:22,303 --> 01:02:25,223 - That thing almost bit my finger off. - Mr. Bundini... 706 01:02:25,265 --> 01:02:29,520 I'm glad you were here to witness this... this assault. 707 01:02:32,273 --> 01:02:34,902 Have a little coffee with your sugar. 708 01:02:38,990 --> 01:02:40,909 They're coming after you... 709 01:02:40,993 --> 01:02:44,539 because they're scared of black militancy in the inner cities. 710 01:02:45,999 --> 01:02:50,421 I ain't no H. Rap Brown. I ain't no Stokely Carmichael. 711 01:02:50,463 --> 01:02:52,256 All they are is political. 712 01:02:52,340 --> 01:02:54,926 You're the heavyweight champion of the world. 713 01:03:10,737 --> 01:03:12,865 Here's the deal the government offered. You do six weeks in basic. 714 01:03:12,948 --> 01:03:15,452 You go to the reserves. You don't go to Vietnam. 715 01:03:15,535 --> 01:03:18,455 Now, the messenger would not object if you joined under those terms. 716 01:03:18,539 --> 01:03:20,333 I stay out of jail and keep boxing. 717 01:03:20,416 --> 01:03:22,710 If you accept the induction, life goes on. 718 01:03:33,474 --> 01:03:37,270 Marvin Decker Anderson, US Army. 719 01:03:38,980 --> 01:03:42,568 Juan Raymondo Benitez, US Army. 720 01:03:44,571 --> 01:03:47,825 Pryce Marshall Benson, US Marines. 721 01:03:52,330 --> 01:03:56,460 Cassius Marcellus Clay, US Army. 722 01:04:07,682 --> 01:04:09,476 Mr. Clay, I'm required to inform you... 723 01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:12,522 that refusal to accept a lawful induction order... 724 01:04:13,314 --> 01:04:15,525 constitutes a felony... 725 01:04:15,609 --> 01:04:19,322 under the Universal Military Training and Service Act... 726 01:04:19,363 --> 01:04:23,452 punishable by five years imprisonment... 727 01:04:23,535 --> 01:04:26,372 and a $10,000 fine. 728 01:04:26,456 --> 01:04:28,041 Do you understand? 729 01:04:28,625 --> 01:04:31,003 Yes, sir. 730 01:04:50,735 --> 01:04:53,489 Federal Bureau of Investigation. 731 01:04:53,572 --> 01:04:56,409 Mr. Clay, you're under arrest for refusing induction. 732 01:05:34,497 --> 01:05:36,542 Yeah. 733 01:05:36,625 --> 01:05:38,836 Yeah, this is me. 734 01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:42,632 No, you got to ask Chauncey Eskridge. That's my lawyer. He's in Chicago. 735 01:05:44,468 --> 01:05:46,387 No, I'm out on bail. 736 01:05:48,473 --> 01:05:51,852 No, man, I ain't never shot nothin' in my life. 737 01:05:51,936 --> 01:05:55,857 No ducks, no geese, no deer, no nothin'. 738 01:05:55,940 --> 01:05:59,570 Yeah, I know where Vietnam is. It's on TV. 739 01:06:01,114 --> 01:06:04,910 Southeast Asia? What, it's there too? 740 01:06:08,873 --> 01:06:11,042 What do I think about who? 741 01:06:11,126 --> 01:06:12,669 The Vietcong? 742 01:06:15,006 --> 01:06:18,176 Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong. 743 01:06:19,803 --> 01:06:23,099 Ain't no Vietcong ever called me nigger. 744 01:06:24,058 --> 01:06:26,103 Yeah, that's right. 745 01:06:31,067 --> 01:06:33,737 You know what you're doin', Ali? 746 01:06:35,030 --> 01:06:36,824 You know what you just said? 747 01:06:37,492 --> 01:06:39,536 Everyone, Europe to China, every home in America... 748 01:06:39,619 --> 01:06:41,663 everyone? s gonna know what the heavyweight champion of the world... 749 01:06:41,705 --> 01:06:43,833 said about the US war. 750 01:06:45,627 --> 01:06:48,630 So what? So what? I ain't got to be... 751 01:06:48,714 --> 01:06:50,674 what nobody else want me to be... 752 01:06:50,716 --> 01:06:53,386 and I ain't afraid to be what I wanna be... 753 01:06:53,470 --> 01:06:55,472 think how I wanna think. 754 01:07:14,412 --> 01:07:17,416 I got almost nowhere I can promote a fight for you. 755 01:07:17,499 --> 01:07:19,919 Plus I think they're gonna vacate you from the crown. 756 01:07:20,002 --> 01:07:22,255 - What? - Yeah, if you're convicted. 757 01:07:23,924 --> 01:07:27,136 Oh, so they're gonna take from me what no fighter in the world can. 758 01:07:27,219 --> 01:07:29,180 And New York may revoke your boxing license. 759 01:07:29,264 --> 01:07:32,225 You sure you wanna do this? 760 01:07:32,309 --> 01:07:35,396 The next three to four years are every heavyweight's prime. 761 01:07:35,479 --> 01:07:38,358 There are few of those years. 762 01:07:41,111 --> 01:07:44,240 - What about Terrell? - We'll know about that this afternoon. 763 01:07:44,282 --> 01:07:47,578 I gotta find us some venues fast. I'll call you later. 764 01:07:52,208 --> 01:07:57,757 You understand the issue is your license to fight Terrell in Illinois? 765 01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:59,426 Yes. 766 01:07:59,509 --> 01:08:01,762 Then are you prepared to apologize... 767 01:08:01,845 --> 01:08:04,557 about your unpatriotic remarks about the war? 768 01:08:13,985 --> 01:08:16,655 - You say you're the people's champion. - Yes, sir. 769 01:08:16,739 --> 01:08:19,242 Do you think you're acting like the people's champion? 770 01:08:19,325 --> 01:08:22,370 Yes, sir. I'm not gonna apologize to you. 771 01:08:22,454 --> 01:08:26,000 This is not a courtroom, and I do not have to answer your questions. 772 01:08:34,928 --> 01:08:37,806 - What about Terrell? - We'll fight in another state! 773 01:08:37,848 --> 01:08:40,267 - Are you gonna dodge the draft? - I ain't draft-dodgin'... 774 01:08:40,351 --> 01:08:42,812 I ain't burnin' no flag, and I ain't runnin' to Canada. 775 01:08:42,896 --> 01:08:45,858 I'm stayin' right here. You wanna send me to jail? 776 01:08:45,941 --> 01:08:48,236 Fine. You go right ahead. I've been in jail for 400 years. 777 01:08:48,319 --> 01:08:50,238 I can be there for four or five more. 778 01:08:50,321 --> 01:08:52,241 But I ain't going' no 10,000 miles... 779 01:08:52,324 --> 01:08:54,827 to help murder and kill other poor people. 780 01:08:54,910 --> 01:08:59,207 If I wanna die, I'll die right here right now, fightin' you, if I wanna die. 781 01:08:59,291 --> 01:09:03,212 You my enemy. Not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. 782 01:09:03,296 --> 01:09:05,340 You my opposer when I want freedom. 783 01:09:05,423 --> 01:09:09,136 You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. 784 01:09:09,220 --> 01:09:10,930 You want me to go somewhere and fight for you. 785 01:09:11,014 --> 01:09:13,016 You won't even stand up for me right here in America... 786 01:09:13,058 --> 01:09:15,018 for my rights and my religious beliefs. 787 01:09:15,060 --> 01:09:17,396 You won't even stand up for me right here at home. 788 01:09:19,899 --> 01:09:21,985 - Which guy you want to go first? - You, sir. 789 01:09:22,069 --> 01:09:25,031 Tell Clay he gettin' on after me. I'm the champ. 790 01:09:25,073 --> 01:09:27,951 - What? - I said you can get on after me. 791 01:09:28,034 --> 01:09:30,704 - No. What'd you call me? - I called you Clay. 792 01:09:30,788 --> 01:09:33,374 You will announce it from right here, from flat on your back. 793 01:09:33,416 --> 01:09:35,460 What's my name? What's my name? 794 01:09:37,338 --> 01:09:41,384 What's my name? Say my name! You gonna say my name! 795 01:09:41,426 --> 01:09:44,096 Your mama called you Clay! I'm gonna call you Clay! 796 01:09:44,179 --> 01:09:46,224 I want you all to tell all their aunts... 797 01:09:46,265 --> 01:09:48,268 and all their uncles and cousins and friends... 798 01:09:48,309 --> 01:09:50,812 get to your television set, get to your radio... 799 01:09:50,896 --> 01:09:53,441 'cause I never wanted to whup a man so bad! 800 01:10:07,541 --> 01:10:10,336 What's my name? What's my name? 801 01:11:06,030 --> 01:11:10,118 What's my name, motherfucker? What's my name? 802 01:11:13,039 --> 01:11:15,124 What's my name? 803 01:11:34,899 --> 01:11:37,193 The jury has found you guilty of refusing induction... 804 01:11:37,277 --> 01:11:40,572 into the United States Armed Forces. 805 01:11:40,656 --> 01:11:42,700 Does the defense have anything it wants to say? 806 01:11:42,783 --> 01:11:46,204 Yeah, I'd appreciate if the court would just give me my sentence right now... 807 01:11:46,246 --> 01:11:49,583 rather than waitin' and stallin'. 808 01:11:49,667 --> 01:11:51,210 Very well. 809 01:11:53,964 --> 01:11:57,426 I sentence you to the maximum sentence allowable: 810 01:11:57,468 --> 01:12:00,722 Five years imprisonment and a fine of $10,000. 811 01:12:02,307 --> 01:12:04,393 Doubtless your lawyer will lodge an appeal... 812 01:12:04,435 --> 01:12:07,731 so while you're free on bond, I order that your passport be surrendered. 813 01:12:08,523 --> 01:12:13,238 I'll not have you benefiting yourself by fighting abroad. 814 01:12:13,279 --> 01:12:15,407 This court is adjourned. 815 01:12:54,997 --> 01:12:58,627 Hold on. Watch this. I've been working on this at home. 816 01:12:58,668 --> 01:13:00,713 Just relax. 817 01:13:00,796 --> 01:13:04,175 See? 'Cause it's spooky and sometimes people get scared and run. 818 01:13:04,217 --> 01:13:06,470 Pay attention. This is very spooky. 819 01:13:09,140 --> 01:13:11,476 Go ahead. Blow on that for me. 820 01:13:17,567 --> 01:13:19,486 See, you don't need to fight no more. 821 01:13:23,282 --> 01:13:25,868 You don't remember me, do you? 822 01:13:27,746 --> 01:13:31,959 Yeah. I remember somethin'. What's your name? 823 01:13:32,043 --> 01:13:34,337 - You know my name. - I know your name. 824 01:13:34,421 --> 01:13:37,842 You came to my school right before you won the title. 825 01:13:37,883 --> 01:13:40,553 I interviewed you for my school paper. 826 01:13:40,637 --> 01:13:42,848 I was eleven. 827 01:13:43,932 --> 01:13:46,352 You had a long braid. 828 01:13:46,394 --> 01:13:48,396 Yeah. 829 01:13:48,480 --> 01:13:51,358 - You called me "Little Indian Girl." - Wow. 830 01:13:52,735 --> 01:13:54,862 - Man, that was you. - That was me. 831 01:13:56,114 --> 01:13:59,410 And I loved you then, just like all them kids did. 832 01:13:59,493 --> 01:14:01,746 I never stopped. I still do. 833 01:15:06,659 --> 01:15:08,995 Hey, did you see that Ellis-Quary fight? 834 01:15:09,079 --> 01:15:10,956 Yeah. 835 01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:16,171 We're gonna be in front of the US Court of Appeals next month. 836 01:15:16,254 --> 01:15:17,297 We're gonna lose. 837 01:15:17,339 --> 01:15:20,301 - We'll appeal to the Supreme Court. - Jimmy Ellis, the champ. 838 01:15:20,343 --> 01:15:23,054 Man, I've been whupping on that boy since I was 16. 839 01:15:23,138 --> 01:15:25,766 All that's gonna happen, they gonna give Ellis to Frazier... 840 01:15:25,849 --> 01:15:28,478 Frazier's gonna kill him, then what? 841 01:15:28,519 --> 01:15:31,606 Where's the gate? Then they got to let me fight. 842 01:15:33,025 --> 01:15:36,988 Jimmy Ellis. Fight that boy in a phone booth. 843 01:15:37,071 --> 01:15:41,076 Fight him in the middle of Times Square. You think that'd draw a crowd? 844 01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:44,706 Champ, draw a crowd or not draw a crowd... 845 01:15:44,789 --> 01:15:47,501 it's not gonna make a difference with your boxing licenses. 846 01:15:51,089 --> 01:15:53,842 The ACLU's handling your case against the New York Boxing Commission. 847 01:15:53,925 --> 01:15:56,679 They've discovered that New York's got actual ex-murderers... 848 01:15:56,721 --> 01:15:59,349 and ex-rapists currently licensed to fight. 849 01:15:59,432 --> 01:16:01,894 But revoke yours? 850 01:16:01,935 --> 01:16:05,189 They don't want you to fight. 851 01:16:05,273 --> 01:16:06,608 - Tijuana. - No. 852 01:16:06,691 --> 01:16:09,570 State Department refuses permission for the one-hour visa. 853 01:16:09,611 --> 01:16:12,365 No fight in Tijuana. Look... 854 01:16:12,448 --> 01:16:15,827 Can't fight here. Can't fight outside the country. 855 01:16:15,911 --> 01:16:17,830 I know people in the restaurant business. 856 01:16:17,913 --> 01:16:20,416 They want to start a chain. Muhammad Ali Champ Burgers. 857 01:16:20,500 --> 01:16:22,836 Muhammad Malts, Fistful of Fries. 858 01:16:22,919 --> 01:16:24,755 All of that. 859 01:16:24,838 --> 01:16:26,883 Why do I wanna be in the restaurant business? 860 01:16:26,924 --> 01:16:28,218 'Cause you need the money. 861 01:16:28,301 --> 01:16:31,221 - How much all this gonna cost? - Too much. 862 01:16:33,057 --> 01:16:35,435 They do that to you too, you know. 863 01:16:35,518 --> 01:16:37,479 They bust you out. 864 01:16:50,620 --> 01:16:51,621 All right. 865 01:16:55,626 --> 01:16:58,129 Go get me some Champ Burgers. 866 01:17:08,517 --> 01:17:10,478 Did y'all see that? That man just hit me. 867 01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:14,066 Oh, you done messed up now, sucka. You done messed up... 868 01:17:14,149 --> 01:17:16,444 I don't wanna do nothin' in front of your daughters, though. 869 01:17:16,485 --> 01:17:18,655 I can't beat you up in front of your daughters. 870 01:17:18,738 --> 01:17:22,534 - Hey, champ, good to see you. - All right, ladies. Take care now. 871 01:17:22,618 --> 01:17:24,662 All right now. All right now. 872 01:17:35,550 --> 01:17:39,180 You called me "Little Indian Girl" 'cause I wore my hair in a braid. 873 01:17:41,558 --> 01:17:43,518 And then I said, "Man, you scribble. 874 01:17:44,979 --> 01:17:46,606 You can't even write. 875 01:17:46,689 --> 01:17:49,150 Need to go back to school till you learn how to do it better." 876 01:17:49,192 --> 01:17:52,613 Now, why you just havin' a fresh mouth talkin' to me. 877 01:17:52,696 --> 01:17:54,657 So you think that's funny, huh? 878 01:17:54,741 --> 01:17:57,536 Telling me I can't write, that I scribble. 879 01:17:58,287 --> 01:18:00,456 Now you wanna try to make up with me. 880 01:18:00,539 --> 01:18:03,668 - This will make everything better. - Shut up. 881 01:18:22,441 --> 01:18:25,028 Mommy and Daddy moved to Mexico! 882 01:18:43,133 --> 01:18:45,094 Come on, baby. 883 01:18:46,179 --> 01:18:48,306 Oh, sweetie, come on. 884 01:19:01,990 --> 01:19:05,578 We will give you five minutes to leave this area. 885 01:19:09,040 --> 01:19:11,627 Who is the heavyweight champion of the world? 886 01:19:23,016 --> 01:19:25,018 What's happenin'? 887 01:19:39,953 --> 01:19:42,415 - Hey, man. - We lost on the appellate level... 888 01:19:42,498 --> 01:19:43,708 in New Orleans. 889 01:19:43,791 --> 01:19:46,628 - We're heading to the Supreme Court. - We already got turned down there. 890 01:19:46,670 --> 01:19:51,467 I'm petitioning on a conscientious objection basis. Religious belief. 891 01:19:51,551 --> 01:19:54,721 I believe that they'll hear that. 892 01:19:54,805 --> 01:19:57,809 Where the money gonna come from, Chauncey? 893 01:19:57,892 --> 01:20:01,563 Herbert say I'm runnin' on empty. Now, just put aside... 894 01:20:01,647 --> 01:20:03,399 "How did that happen?" 895 01:20:03,482 --> 01:20:08,321 License all revoked, passport gone, can't fight here, can't fight nowhere. 896 01:20:08,405 --> 01:20:10,491 Then what happen if I lose at the Supreme Court? 897 01:20:12,994 --> 01:20:15,288 Then you go to jail for five years. 898 01:21:31,006 --> 01:21:33,760 Oh, I saw Bundini when I was in Europe. 899 01:21:33,843 --> 01:21:38,307 - Yeah? How is he? - He's bad. He's in bad shape, man. 900 01:21:38,349 --> 01:21:41,269 You better get your belt back 901 01:21:45,441 --> 01:21:48,236 Look at this. 902 01:21:48,319 --> 01:21:50,781 Joe Frazier. He can't up no gate. 903 01:21:50,822 --> 01:21:53,868 Can't fill no arena. They got to let me fight. 904 01:21:53,951 --> 01:21:55,495 Fight. 905 01:21:58,874 --> 01:22:04,214 If that happens, promise me you? ll put some new people around you. 906 01:22:07,009 --> 01:22:08,886 What you talkin' about? 907 01:22:10,054 --> 01:22:12,307 Where Herbert and them when we need 'em? 908 01:22:12,349 --> 01:22:16,688 Gene Kilroy's dropping off groceries like charity. 909 01:22:18,899 --> 01:22:22,069 We borrow money from my folks. 910 01:22:22,153 --> 01:22:26,575 They're all over you when you got it, and then they just drop off you... 911 01:22:26,658 --> 01:22:28,327 when you don't. 912 01:22:40,801 --> 01:22:43,721 Norton, he's big and strong, but he ain't nothin'. 913 01:22:43,804 --> 01:22:47,017 Hold on a second, Joe. They're telling me we have a caller. 914 01:22:47,100 --> 01:22:50,437 - Go ahead, please. - Cosell, this is Muhammad Ali. 915 01:22:50,521 --> 01:22:51,772 It's Muhammad Ali. 916 01:22:51,856 --> 01:22:53,942 Everybody knows that I am the champ. 917 01:22:54,025 --> 01:22:57,404 The crown is a lie. I know it's a lie. Joe Frazier knows it's a lie. 918 01:22:57,488 --> 01:22:59,866 And it's time for everybody to stop lying and tell the truth. 919 01:22:59,907 --> 01:23:03,287 Let's tell it like it is. With your court and boxingproblems... 920 01:23:03,370 --> 01:23:05,372 can you get a fight promoted? 921 01:23:05,456 --> 01:23:07,667 I would fight Joe Frazier for free in a phone booth... 922 01:23:07,750 --> 01:23:10,128 in the middle of Times Square if I wasn't broke. 923 01:23:10,212 --> 01:23:12,381 Did you say you were broke? How can you be broke? 924 01:23:12,464 --> 01:23:15,927 You made more money than all previous heavyweights champions combined. 925 01:23:15,969 --> 01:23:18,514 What about your management? Surely they have provided for you. 926 01:23:18,597 --> 01:23:21,726 All I'm trying to say is it's time for everybody to stop lyin'. 927 01:23:21,809 --> 01:23:23,520 Muhammad Ali is the champ. 928 01:23:23,603 --> 01:23:26,649 Get my son Herbert on the telephone. 929 01:23:26,732 --> 01:23:29,569 Muhammad, thank you for calling in. I'll relay that to Joe. 930 01:23:29,611 --> 01:23:33,782 And tell Joe I said he is very ugly. 931 01:23:35,201 --> 01:23:38,413 Muhammad says that he will fight you anywhere, anytime... 932 01:23:38,496 --> 01:23:43,252 and that the championship really is his until that battle ensues. 933 01:23:56,477 --> 01:23:59,898 Mr. Ali has sporting blood. 934 01:23:59,981 --> 01:24:03,068 Mr. Ali wants a place in this sports world. 935 01:24:03,152 --> 01:24:05,905 He loves it too much. 936 01:24:05,989 --> 01:24:10,452 I am therefore suspending Mr. Ali from the practice of Islam. 937 01:24:10,536 --> 01:24:14,708 He may no longer appear in temple, pray or teach... 938 01:24:14,791 --> 01:24:19,839 or have any conversation with any Muslim whatsoever. 939 01:24:23,510 --> 01:24:25,095 Why didn? t you call an ambulance or a doctor? 940 01:24:25,179 --> 01:24:27,807 Because he gave me your number when he checked in. 941 01:24:27,849 --> 01:24:30,060 Normally, he's up there making a lot of noise. 942 01:24:30,143 --> 01:24:32,605 But now he hasn't answered the door in three days. 943 01:24:36,067 --> 01:24:37,819 - What's that? - It's daylight. 944 01:24:39,363 --> 01:24:41,324 Get me that short dog. 945 01:24:43,827 --> 01:24:46,163 Give it to me. 946 01:24:48,875 --> 01:24:50,001 What's wrong with you? 947 01:24:50,043 --> 01:24:52,921 Ain't nothin' wrong with me. My head ain't bad. 948 01:24:53,005 --> 01:24:54,924 - Leave me alone. - Leave you alone. You called me! 949 01:24:55,007 --> 01:24:57,594 Yes, but that was a week ago. 950 01:24:57,677 --> 01:24:59,888 - Why are you shamin' yourself? - Let me go, man. 951 01:24:59,972 --> 01:25:01,724 Why you doin' that to yourself? 952 01:25:01,807 --> 01:25:04,519 - Why you shamin' yourself? - Ain't nobody shamed. 953 01:25:04,561 --> 01:25:06,855 Ain't nothin' wrong with me. 954 01:25:06,897 --> 01:25:08,732 I'm flyin'. 955 01:25:08,816 --> 01:25:10,902 The Sky Chief talk through me. I know the word. 956 01:25:10,985 --> 01:25:12,362 - You know low. - Yeah? 957 01:25:12,404 --> 01:25:14,656 I know low where the king is goin' back to his throne! 958 01:25:14,740 --> 01:25:17,535 - From the root to the fruit! - Them rhymes is old, Bundini. 959 01:25:17,577 --> 01:25:19,537 You need to get some new ones. 960 01:25:23,417 --> 01:25:27,255 God don't care about you. Don't care about me. 961 01:25:27,339 --> 01:25:30,551 In all of everything, we don't mean nothin'. He don't owe us. 962 01:25:30,634 --> 01:25:32,345 We be. 963 01:25:32,428 --> 01:25:35,724 And that's the onliest thing He did. 964 01:25:35,807 --> 01:25:38,894 But that's good. That's why we free. 965 01:25:38,936 --> 01:25:42,774 But free ain't easy. Free is real and real is a motherfucker. 966 01:25:45,027 --> 01:25:47,780 It eats raw meat. 967 01:25:47,864 --> 01:25:50,409 It walk in its own shoes. 968 01:25:50,492 --> 01:25:52,953 It don't ever waiver. 969 01:25:53,037 --> 01:25:54,497 Yeah. 970 01:26:00,463 --> 01:26:03,341 I... I sold your belt. 971 01:26:04,718 --> 01:26:07,680 I sold your belt to a barber for $500 on Lenox Avenue. 972 01:26:07,763 --> 01:26:11,268 That's how low I did you. I couldn't help it. I got a crazy mind. 973 01:26:13,562 --> 01:26:15,690 That belt say you the heavyweight boxing champion of the world... 974 01:26:15,773 --> 01:26:18,693 and I took that $500... 975 01:26:18,777 --> 01:26:21,196 and I put it in my arm. 976 01:26:23,032 --> 01:26:25,076 That's what I called to tell you. 977 01:26:32,335 --> 01:26:35,631 I heard about the Nation stuff, the courtroom. 978 01:26:37,550 --> 01:26:39,511 What you gonna do? 979 01:26:50,524 --> 01:26:52,360 Take me back. 980 01:27:00,787 --> 01:27:03,957 I could go down there and get the belt. I can go get the belt. 981 01:27:43,798 --> 01:27:45,759 Hey, champ. 982 01:28:19,342 --> 01:28:25,266 $1,000 to the man that bring me Howard Cosell's toupee dead or alive! 983 01:28:25,307 --> 01:28:27,936 Don't bother me. I'm a world-famous sportscaster... 984 01:28:27,977 --> 01:28:30,272 and you're an ex-champion with diminished skills. 985 01:28:30,355 --> 01:28:32,107 I can't be seen with you. 986 01:28:35,486 --> 01:28:38,282 - How's it goin', champ? - Pretty good, man. 987 01:28:44,039 --> 01:28:47,376 Muhammad, I'd do anything for you. You know that. 988 01:28:47,460 --> 01:28:52,925 But I've got bosses who only give a damn about Nielsen ratings. 989 01:28:53,008 --> 01:28:55,636 I guarantee... 990 01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:59,516 it will be a historical and a momentous night. 991 01:29:05,565 --> 01:29:08,986 If they came to me tomorrow and say, "We want you to fight Joe Frazier. 992 01:29:09,028 --> 01:29:12,031 Madison Square Garden. Millions and millions of dollars. 993 01:29:12,073 --> 01:29:14,660 Here's your license back." I will tell them... 994 01:29:14,743 --> 01:29:16,495 "I will never fight again." 995 01:29:16,579 --> 01:29:20,041 Frankly, Muhammad, I'm surprised, because unless you... 996 01:29:20,083 --> 01:29:22,544 or until you fight Frazier... 997 01:29:22,628 --> 01:29:26,591 Cosell, are you losin' your hearing along with your hair? 998 01:29:26,674 --> 01:29:29,720 Don't put no question to it, man. I done told you, I'm through fightin'. 999 01:29:29,803 --> 01:29:32,181 I got a much bigger contender, a much heavier opponent. 1000 01:29:32,265 --> 01:29:34,184 I'm fightin' the entire US government. 1001 01:29:35,435 --> 01:29:37,938 Do you think you're going to jail? 1002 01:29:38,022 --> 01:29:40,692 I don't know. I don't know. 1003 01:29:40,733 --> 01:29:46,365 Joe Frazier told me on this show that he could knock you out. 1004 01:29:46,407 --> 01:29:48,701 See, there you go agitatin'. 1005 01:29:48,743 --> 01:29:52,623 You should've asked Smokin' Joe what have he been smokin'? 1006 01:29:52,706 --> 01:29:56,461 That boy even dream he whupped me, he better wake up and apologize. 1007 01:29:56,544 --> 01:29:58,589 If I was to get in the ring with Joe... 1008 01:29:58,672 --> 01:30:00,591 here's what you might see. 1009 01:30:00,675 --> 01:30:05,389 Ali comes out to meet Frazier, but Frazier starts to retreat. 1010 01:30:05,430 --> 01:30:09,686 If Joe goes back an inch farther, he'll wind up in a ringside seat. 1011 01:30:09,769 --> 01:30:12,898 Ali swings with his left, Ali swings with his right. 1012 01:30:12,981 --> 01:30:15,151 Just look at the kid carry the fight. 1013 01:30:15,234 --> 01:30:17,821 Frazier keeps backin', but there's not enough room. 1014 01:30:17,904 --> 01:30:21,367 It's only a matter of time before Ali lowers the boom. 1015 01:30:21,450 --> 01:30:24,245 Ali swings with his right. What a beautiful swing. 1016 01:30:24,329 --> 01:30:27,249 But the punch lifts Frazier clean out of the ring. 1017 01:30:27,291 --> 01:30:30,086 Frazier's still risin', and the referee wears a frown... 1018 01:30:30,169 --> 01:30:33,548 'cause he can't start countin' till Frazier comes down. 1019 01:30:33,632 --> 01:30:36,969 Frazier's disappeared from view. The crowd is getting frantic. 1020 01:30:37,053 --> 01:30:41,016 But our radar stations picked him up. He's somewhere over the Atlantic. 1021 01:30:41,099 --> 01:30:43,352 Now, who would've thought when they came to the fight... 1022 01:30:43,435 --> 01:30:47,399 they was gonna witness the launchin' of a black satellite. 1023 01:30:47,482 --> 01:30:49,985 But don't wait for that fight. 1024 01:30:50,069 --> 01:30:52,238 It ain't never gonna happen. 1025 01:30:52,321 --> 01:30:54,407 Only thing you could do... 1026 01:30:54,491 --> 01:30:57,995 is wonder and imagine. 1027 01:30:58,579 --> 01:31:04,420 This has been another sports exclusive from ABC. 1028 01:31:04,503 --> 01:31:06,505 - Two. Go two. - Over to Jim McKay... 1029 01:31:06,589 --> 01:31:08,842 in Bern, Switzerland. 1030 01:31:08,925 --> 01:31:11,136 - How you gonna go from me to Jim McKay? - Listen, uh... 1031 01:31:12,346 --> 01:31:16,017 - Did your wife leave you yet? - No, she hasn't left me yet. 1032 01:31:16,101 --> 01:31:18,437 She's going to, 'cause I told your wife when I seen her... 1033 01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:21,774 I said, "Listen, why you doin' this to yourself?" 1034 01:31:30,910 --> 01:31:34,498 Oh, man, Joe. Who dresses you? 1035 01:31:34,582 --> 01:31:37,460 You look like the heavyweight champion of pimps. 1036 01:31:37,544 --> 01:31:39,588 Hey, shut up and get in. 1037 01:31:40,881 --> 01:31:42,425 That jacket? s a mess, man. 1038 01:31:46,722 --> 01:31:49,225 What you in Philly for? Philly's my town. 1039 01:31:49,308 --> 01:31:52,312 Well, I just wanted to get a little closer to you, honey. 1040 01:31:52,395 --> 01:31:53,396 Man, fuck you. 1041 01:31:55,733 --> 01:31:59,195 There'll be two undefeated heavyweight champions, and they ain't fightin'. 1042 01:31:59,237 --> 01:32:01,949 - What about your license? - I can fight in Atlanta. 1043 01:32:02,032 --> 01:32:04,702 There ain't no state boxing commission in Georgia. 1044 01:32:04,744 --> 01:32:08,039 It's all set. I do a prelim in Atlanta against Jerry Quary... 1045 01:32:08,081 --> 01:32:10,709 but we got to get this steamroller movin' right now. 1046 01:32:10,751 --> 01:32:12,378 So what do I have to do? 1047 01:32:12,420 --> 01:32:15,841 All you got to do is announce that after I whup Jerry Quary... 1048 01:32:15,924 --> 01:32:18,427 you gonna give me a title shot. 1049 01:32:18,511 --> 01:32:21,139 Come on, man. Say it! Say it! 1050 01:32:29,900 --> 01:32:33,404 What I got and all I got, I got with these right here. 1051 01:32:33,487 --> 01:32:35,740 Hell, man, I already got the title. 1052 01:32:35,824 --> 01:32:40,371 So I ain't got nothin' to win, but I got eveythin' to lose. 1053 01:32:41,956 --> 01:32:44,334 Yeah, but you know you ain't the real champ yet. 1054 01:32:53,470 --> 01:32:55,598 You beat Quary... 1055 01:32:55,640 --> 01:32:58,768 I'm gonna get you in the ring. I'm gonna kick your ass. 1056 01:33:09,698 --> 01:33:12,076 By the way... 1057 01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:16,540 you need any money or anything to tide you by? 1058 01:33:17,959 --> 01:33:19,878 No, I'm fine. 1059 01:33:34,813 --> 01:33:37,274 Time! 1060 01:33:44,825 --> 01:33:47,453 What you want? 1061 01:33:49,998 --> 01:33:51,959 Take me back, boss. 1062 01:33:53,711 --> 01:33:55,630 I'm clean. 1063 01:33:55,713 --> 01:34:00,094 This is a resurrection. This is God's act. 1064 01:34:00,177 --> 01:34:03,348 And the prophet is goin' home. 1065 01:34:03,431 --> 01:34:05,767 Take me with you, boss. 1066 01:34:06,810 --> 01:34:08,896 I'll do anything. 1067 01:34:19,409 --> 01:34:23,289 Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see. 1068 01:34:26,293 --> 01:34:30,131 Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. 1069 01:34:30,214 --> 01:34:32,634 Rumble, young man, rumble. 1070 01:34:51,031 --> 01:34:54,744 God ain't watching'! Ain't nobody but us! 1071 01:35:01,878 --> 01:35:04,715 There it is! Stay in his face! 1072 01:35:08,595 --> 01:35:10,430 Go, Muhammad! 1073 01:35:21,944 --> 01:35:23,279 There it is! 1074 01:35:29,495 --> 01:35:31,081 Now for the right. Boom! 1075 01:35:37,463 --> 01:35:39,424 Prophet is goin' home to the throne. 1076 01:35:56,237 --> 01:35:58,448 That's how you do it, Ali. 1077 01:35:58,531 --> 01:36:00,784 That's how you do it. 1078 01:36:07,876 --> 01:36:10,462 You okay? You're a goddamn Superman. 1079 01:36:10,546 --> 01:36:12,799 Ain't no kryptonite in this ring tonight. 1080 01:36:57,186 --> 01:36:59,397 - We want Joe Frazier! - We want him! 1081 01:36:59,481 --> 01:37:04,028 - We want Joe Frazier! - And you deserve it. You deserve it. 1082 01:37:07,741 --> 01:37:10,786 This prophet is comin' home, goin' from the darkness to the light. 1083 01:37:13,582 --> 01:37:15,834 Soak it in this for about 20 minutes. 1084 01:37:17,962 --> 01:37:20,799 We don't need their management. 1085 01:37:21,758 --> 01:37:25,137 Hey, Herbert, we did good. Doin' good tonight. 1086 01:37:36,818 --> 01:37:38,571 All praise to Allah. 1087 01:37:42,117 --> 01:37:44,661 The messenger has lifted your suspension. 1088 01:37:44,745 --> 01:37:46,664 Congratulations. 1089 01:37:46,747 --> 01:37:48,750 So you? re sayin' I can be a Muslim again. 1090 01:37:48,833 --> 01:37:50,419 - Yes. - I ain't never stopped. 1091 01:37:50,502 --> 01:37:52,463 Just like I ain't never stopped bein' the champ. 1092 01:37:54,674 --> 01:37:56,342 I begged my father to reinstate you. 1093 01:37:56,426 --> 01:37:59,221 When? When you do that, Herbert? 1094 01:37:59,304 --> 01:38:01,724 After I promoted this Quary fight or after I won it? 1095 01:38:02,684 --> 01:38:04,728 - We can get Frazier. - Man, I done already got Frazier. 1096 01:38:04,811 --> 01:38:07,273 We can get $5 million for Frazier. 1097 01:38:07,356 --> 01:38:10,485 We talkin' management, talkin' money or talkin' religion? 1098 01:38:10,527 --> 01:38:13,530 When I got leery and talked up why I'm broke... 1099 01:38:13,614 --> 01:38:15,157 then come the suspension. 1100 01:38:15,241 --> 01:38:18,787 Now you explain that one to me, my brother. 1101 01:38:18,870 --> 01:38:21,039 That was my father. 1102 01:38:23,584 --> 01:38:25,545 Your father. 1103 01:38:25,587 --> 01:38:29,717 I love your father, Herbert. I swear, man. I love the Nation. 1104 01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:32,262 But it don't own me. 1105 01:38:41,398 --> 01:38:44,151 You go on out there and you make that Frazier deal. 1106 01:38:49,408 --> 01:38:51,327 My brother. Yeah, your brother Herbert. 1107 01:38:51,410 --> 01:38:53,287 Go on somewhere, make that deal. 1108 01:39:03,884 --> 01:39:07,180 And he accepts me. I? m Jewish, but yet he's Muslim... 1109 01:39:07,263 --> 01:39:08,723 and we still get along. 1110 01:39:08,807 --> 01:39:12,311 He understands me. He understands me and he still allows me to hang with him. 1111 01:39:12,394 --> 01:39:15,857 He knows I like pork and white women, but still allows me to be here with him. 1112 01:39:15,940 --> 01:39:17,901 Now, I can give up pork... 1113 01:39:17,943 --> 01:39:20,738 but them white women, goddamn it! 1114 01:39:20,821 --> 01:39:22,865 How you deal with it, boy? 1115 01:39:36,758 --> 01:39:40,053 Hello? Muhammad, it's for you. 1116 01:39:44,517 --> 01:39:46,728 Thank you, Lana. 1117 01:39:46,812 --> 01:39:49,940 - Yeah? - Muhammad? Howard Cosell. 1118 01:39:49,982 --> 01:39:53,612 - You TKO'd them. - Hey, what you talkin' about, Howard? 1119 01:39:53,695 --> 01:39:55,697 - With Quary? - No. 1120 01:39:55,781 --> 01:39:57,700 The Supreme Court ruled today... 1121 01:39:57,783 --> 01:40:01,121 in the case of The United States vs. Cassius Clay... 1122 01:40:01,163 --> 01:40:04,959 aka Muhammad Ali. 1123 01:40:05,042 --> 01:40:09,006 You won an eight-to-zero unanimous decision. 1124 01:40:09,047 --> 01:40:11,884 You're free. 1125 01:40:11,967 --> 01:40:13,928 Congratulations. 1126 01:40:30,323 --> 01:40:31,784 I'm free. 1127 01:40:37,707 --> 01:40:39,626 The Supreme Court just set me free. 1128 01:40:44,507 --> 01:40:46,969 What are you talkin' about? 1129 01:40:48,304 --> 01:40:49,806 Eight-to-oh, unanimous decision. 1130 01:40:49,889 --> 01:40:52,601 The Supreme Court just overturned my conviction. 1131 01:40:54,395 --> 01:40:57,106 - Yes! - All right. All right. 1132 01:40:57,190 --> 01:40:58,650 - Did we get 'em, Ali? - We got 'em, man. 1133 01:41:00,569 --> 01:41:02,697 Hey, man. 1134 01:41:04,073 --> 01:41:07,494 - Did we do it? - We did it, man. 1135 01:41:07,578 --> 01:41:11,040 They wanna be on your side now because the truth has shown itself to the power. 1136 01:41:11,124 --> 01:41:13,960 Now the power's comin' to the truth. That's what it is. 1137 01:41:14,044 --> 01:41:16,463 And the truth tastes good when there's a belly full of lies. 1138 01:41:16,547 --> 01:41:19,676 - What you talkin' about? - It don't matter. It don't matter. 1139 01:41:28,478 --> 01:41:31,190 Ladies and gentlemen, 15 rounds of boxing... 1140 01:41:31,273 --> 01:41:35,987 for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world. 1141 01:41:36,071 --> 01:41:40,952 In this corner, the contender and former heavyweight champion of the world... 1142 01:41:41,035 --> 01:41:45,207 weighing in at 213 pounds... 1143 01:41:45,291 --> 01:41:49,129 with a record of31 and 0 with 25 knockouts... 1144 01:41:49,212 --> 01:41:51,882 Muhammad Ali! 1145 01:41:57,305 --> 01:42:02,019 His opponent, weighing in at 2051/2 pounds... 1146 01:42:02,103 --> 01:42:06,233 with a record of26 and 0 with 23 knockouts... 1147 01:42:06,316 --> 01:42:09,862 the current heavyweight champion of the world... 1148 01:42:09,946 --> 01:42:14,201 Smokin? Joe Frazier! 1149 01:42:16,245 --> 01:42:19,666 I want a good, clean fight. Protect your self at all times. 1150 01:42:19,750 --> 01:42:22,962 Gentlemen, touch gloves. Good luck to both of you. 1151 01:43:01,801 --> 01:43:02,969 Come on! 1152 01:43:03,053 --> 01:43:05,055 Stick him! Come on! 1153 01:43:47,691 --> 01:43:49,777 That's okay, champ. Don't stop fightin'. 1154 01:43:51,863 --> 01:43:53,156 What's comin'? 1155 01:43:53,239 --> 01:43:56,577 Lean back, man. Move back. Work, legs. 1156 01:44:09,134 --> 01:44:10,344 Ain't nobody hurt. 1157 01:44:10,427 --> 01:44:12,889 That's all right. Ain't no... 1158 01:44:30,827 --> 01:44:32,204 Keep puttin' out. Come on. 1159 01:44:44,010 --> 01:44:46,805 - Move, Ali! - Back, back, back! 1160 01:45:20,138 --> 01:45:22,057 Muhammad, you said you were gonna win the fight. 1161 01:45:22,140 --> 01:45:24,143 How do you account for the beating you've taken? 1162 01:45:24,226 --> 01:45:26,938 - Did he hurt you? - Joe said you don't wanna fight again. 1163 01:45:27,021 --> 01:45:29,566 Oh, how wrong he is. 1164 01:45:29,650 --> 01:45:31,193 - Why would it be different? - Muhammad, wait! 1165 01:45:36,283 --> 01:45:39,578 - But I wanna ask him something! - We all wanna ask him something. 1166 01:45:39,662 --> 01:45:42,248 - Sons of bitches! Get outta here! - When are you gonna get a hairpiece? 1167 01:45:42,332 --> 01:45:44,334 Don't worry about it. You lost all of yours. 1168 01:45:44,418 --> 01:45:46,379 You cue ball head motherfucker. Get outta here! 1169 01:45:46,420 --> 01:45:48,798 - Just one more question. - Let me talk to him. 1170 01:45:48,882 --> 01:45:51,134 We're close to the start of round one. 1171 01:45:51,218 --> 01:45:53,053 Now that Smokin? Joe done run outta tomato cans... 1172 01:45:53,137 --> 01:45:56,725 I got Yank to commit to a rematch with you in about six months. 1173 01:45:56,766 --> 01:45:58,977 Frazier said he'd be happy with three mil. 1174 01:45:59,061 --> 01:46:03,483 I'll fly to Jamaica, get Yank to sign right after Joe beats this big stiff. 1175 01:46:04,943 --> 01:46:07,488 I think he hurt Joe Frazier. 1176 01:46:07,571 --> 01:46:10,241 I think Joe is hurt. 1177 01:46:10,283 --> 01:46:13,871 Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! 1178 01:46:13,954 --> 01:46:15,748 - Down goes Frazier! - Get up, Joe. 1179 01:46:15,790 --> 01:46:19,377 The heavy weight champion is taking the mandatory eightcount... 1180 01:46:19,461 --> 01:46:22,423 and Foreman i spoised as can be. 1181 01:46:24,342 --> 01:46:26,803 Foreman is all over Frazier. 1182 01:46:26,887 --> 01:46:29,223 And Frazier is down again! 1183 01:46:29,306 --> 01:46:31,851 He maybe... No, he's rising. 1184 01:46:33,770 --> 01:46:35,105 It's over! It is over! 1185 01:46:35,147 --> 01:46:38,484 It'd be easy to get a fight with Frazier now. 1186 01:46:38,568 --> 01:46:42,823 Only thing he's champion of is gettin' knocked down. 1187 01:46:42,906 --> 01:46:46,870 George Foreman is the heavyweight champion of the world. 1188 01:46:48,663 --> 01:46:52,627 The Rumble in the Jungle. That is the name that I've given it. 1189 01:46:52,710 --> 01:46:57,257 Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. 1190 01:46:57,341 --> 01:46:59,343 - Don, Zaire? - Yeah, Don. 1191 01:46:59,427 --> 01:47:01,805 I mean, why not Antarctica, somethin' like that? 1192 01:47:01,888 --> 01:47:03,974 What's wrong with New York City? 1193 01:47:05,851 --> 01:47:07,895 Because you miss the significance. 1194 01:47:07,979 --> 01:47:12,192 See, I dream of overcoming 400 years of racial depression... 1195 01:47:12,276 --> 01:47:16,489 to the dawn of a new day of liberation, financial and otherwise. 1196 01:47:16,573 --> 01:47:19,702 It will raise up the spirits of our inner cities. 1197 01:47:19,785 --> 01:47:22,288 It will rise up and fill with hope, the souls... 1198 01:47:22,371 --> 01:47:24,958 the unrequited needs of the black proletariat. 1199 01:47:25,041 --> 01:47:27,878 That is, the discouraged, dispirited, denigrated denizens... 1200 01:47:27,962 --> 01:47:30,965 of the demimonde that is called the ghetto. 1201 01:47:31,049 --> 01:47:33,844 Man, Don, you crazy. 1202 01:47:33,886 --> 01:47:37,849 You must've studied the whole "D" section of the dictionary. 1203 01:48:02,462 --> 01:48:04,381 Good morning, sister. 1204 01:48:06,843 --> 01:48:08,512 Hi, brother. 1205 01:48:10,514 --> 01:48:12,391 How you doin', champ? 1206 01:48:39,591 --> 01:48:41,677 Why they saying that? What they sayin'? 1207 01:48:46,016 --> 01:48:48,102 What that mean? I don't understand. 1208 01:48:48,185 --> 01:48:49,729 - It means... - What? 1209 01:48:49,812 --> 01:48:53,233 It mean, "Ali, kill him. Ali, kill him." 1210 01:49:39,832 --> 01:49:42,585 The champ is here! 1211 01:49:42,669 --> 01:49:46,465 Ladies and gentlemen, the heavyweight champion of the world has arrived! 1212 01:49:48,051 --> 01:49:50,095 The champ is here! 1213 01:49:55,560 --> 01:49:57,312 Hey, man. 1214 01:49:57,395 --> 01:49:59,523 He's quite younger than you. How you feeling about that? 1215 01:49:59,606 --> 01:50:02,276 He's quite younger than me? Well, we quite younger than you. 1216 01:50:02,360 --> 01:50:06,824 What you talkin' about? Thirty-two years old. Best shape of my life. 1217 01:51:04,269 --> 01:51:06,897 Hey, stop! All right, back up. 1218 01:51:13,697 --> 01:51:16,951 Did you see Muhammad Ali? 1219 01:55:37,188 --> 01:55:40,734 - Here's your water. - Oh, thank you, hon. 1220 01:55:40,817 --> 01:55:44,238 Bottled water. Frozen steaks. 1221 01:55:44,322 --> 01:55:46,950 Brought all that stuffin like Africa's ain't got no steaks. 1222 01:55:47,033 --> 01:55:50,955 - You could pick up parasites. - Mobutu eats it. 1223 01:55:50,997 --> 01:55:53,583 Mobutu's takin' care of Mobutu. 1224 01:55:53,667 --> 01:55:56,295 He steals all the wealth and sends it to Switzerland. 1225 01:55:57,671 --> 01:56:00,049 What that got to do with any of why we here? 1226 01:56:00,133 --> 01:56:05,514 We are here 'cause Don King got Mobutu to put up $10 million. 1227 01:56:05,598 --> 01:56:09,394 Don King don't care about Africa. He's worse than Herbert. 1228 01:56:10,103 --> 01:56:12,481 Here come Herbert. 1229 01:56:12,565 --> 01:56:15,276 And Don King fit right in too. 1230 01:56:15,360 --> 01:56:17,654 Now he's a dashiki-wearin' rip-off. 1231 01:56:17,738 --> 01:56:19,740 Don King delivered the first-ever... 1232 01:56:19,824 --> 01:56:22,076 black-promoted championship fight in Africa. 1233 01:56:22,160 --> 01:56:26,081 Don King talks black, lives white and thinks green. 1234 01:56:26,165 --> 01:56:28,501 And you're defending him and Brother Herbert? 1235 01:56:28,543 --> 01:56:31,505 'Cause clean-cut Muslims in a parade on the South Side of Chicago... 1236 01:56:31,546 --> 01:56:34,634 ain't gonna get this done! 1237 01:56:35,510 --> 01:56:38,388 I got to put honkies with connections and bad-ass niggas to it. 1238 01:56:38,472 --> 01:56:40,391 And now they matched you up against George Foreman. 1239 01:56:40,474 --> 01:56:43,436 Do you think they give a damn if you get killed? 1240 01:56:49,777 --> 01:56:51,821 So that's what you think? 1241 01:57:01,083 --> 01:57:04,086 I just wanna know why my Muslim husband... 1242 01:57:04,170 --> 01:57:07,215 is allowing himself to get strung up on a cross. 1243 01:57:07,299 --> 01:57:09,301 Just tell me why. 1244 01:57:17,645 --> 01:57:19,314 Mayum's sick. 1245 01:57:24,737 --> 01:57:27,657 Maybe I ought to go back to Chicago and look after her? 1246 01:57:30,577 --> 01:57:32,037 Sure. 1247 01:57:38,838 --> 01:57:41,466 Well, then I guess I'll be back before the fight. 1248 01:57:43,009 --> 01:57:45,387 If that? s all right, my husband. 1249 01:58:11,503 --> 01:58:13,463 This fight is no contest! 1250 01:58:13,547 --> 01:58:15,508 He is entirely too slow to fight me. 1251 01:58:15,591 --> 01:58:18,094 I say that George Foreman is a mummy. 1252 01:58:18,178 --> 01:58:21,056 He's too slow. You know I name all my fighters. 1253 01:58:21,139 --> 01:58:23,309 I'm gonna call George Foreman "The Mummy." 1254 01:58:23,351 --> 01:58:25,603 He fight like a mummy. 1255 01:58:29,441 --> 01:58:32,278 And when I see George throwin' punches, this is what I hear: 1256 01:58:32,362 --> 01:58:34,740 Here come the left. 1257 01:58:34,823 --> 01:58:37,076 Here come the right. 1258 01:58:37,159 --> 01:58:39,829 But the mummy can't hit what the mummy can't see... 1259 01:58:39,913 --> 01:58:41,790 'cause I'm too fast for him. 1260 01:58:43,375 --> 01:58:46,170 I'm too fast. 1261 01:58:46,254 --> 01:58:50,217 I'm too fast. I'm too fast. I move too good for him. 1262 01:58:50,300 --> 01:58:53,304 I'll hit George Foreman so many times, he'll think he's surrounded. 1263 01:58:54,556 --> 01:58:57,976 He gonna say, "Call the police! It's five of 'em in here!" 1264 01:58:59,645 --> 01:59:01,856 I'm bad, man. I'm bad! 1265 01:59:01,898 --> 01:59:05,778 Muhammad, I'm sorry. I have to ask. 1266 01:59:06,445 --> 01:59:08,489 Are you really fast enough anymore... 1267 01:59:08,573 --> 01:59:10,826 to beat George Foreman? 1268 01:59:10,867 --> 01:59:15,707 If he gets you against the ropes, he can knock you out with either hand. 1269 01:59:15,748 --> 01:59:20,379 Many people believe you? re not the man you used to be ten years ago. 1270 01:59:23,424 --> 01:59:25,135 See, now, Howard... 1271 01:59:25,218 --> 01:59:28,556 I didn't even want to talk about this, man. 1272 01:59:30,058 --> 01:59:33,854 Especially not out here in front of all these people. 1273 01:59:33,896 --> 01:59:36,566 But I talked to your wife... 1274 01:59:36,649 --> 01:59:40,904 and she said you not the man you used to be two years ago! 1275 02:00:03,390 --> 02:00:05,351 Champ. 1276 02:00:09,439 --> 02:00:12,360 - Champ, George had an accident. - He... He had what? 1277 02:00:12,443 --> 02:00:15,238 - What are you talking about? - He got cut right above his right eye. 1278 02:00:15,322 --> 02:00:17,825 His sparring partner's elbow split it open. 1279 02:00:17,908 --> 02:00:20,411 - Can he fight? - Not for six weeks. 1280 02:00:22,372 --> 02:00:24,458 This is not a humorous situation, my champ. 1281 02:00:24,541 --> 02:00:28,171 This postponement could be long, especially if George leaves. 1282 02:00:28,254 --> 02:00:30,465 You tying to pull something here, Don? 1283 02:00:30,549 --> 02:00:33,219 If George leaves, he ain't comin' back. George don't like it here. 1284 02:00:34,303 --> 02:00:37,933 How right you are, my suspicious and short Italian brother. 1285 02:00:37,974 --> 02:00:40,728 Look here, man, my fiduciary responsibility... 1286 02:00:40,811 --> 02:00:43,231 to this first all-black promotion... 1287 02:00:43,314 --> 02:00:46,819 is analogous to a garden in the African sun... it must grow, it must bloom. 1288 02:00:46,902 --> 02:00:51,324 Cannot flower in the gloom and shade of postponement to the Astrodome... 1289 02:00:51,366 --> 02:00:54,161 or any dome out of Zaire where it be deprivileged of light and bled of water. 1290 02:00:54,203 --> 02:00:57,874 'Cause what gonna be bleedin' out of there is money... a hemorrhage of cash. 1291 02:00:57,957 --> 02:00:59,876 I'm talkin' about blood on the floor. 1292 02:00:59,960 --> 02:01:03,464 Double hotel costs, airplane, travel costs, food and beverage. 1293 02:01:03,547 --> 02:01:07,427 - So what do you want us to do? - Muhammad Ali. The people's champion. 1294 02:01:07,511 --> 02:01:08,762 My black brother. 1295 02:01:08,846 --> 02:01:11,641 I need you. I need your strength. 1296 02:01:11,724 --> 02:01:14,978 I need you to find a way to get George to stay. 1297 02:01:15,020 --> 02:01:17,440 Be Moses in reverse. 1298 02:01:17,523 --> 02:01:21,611 Do not let my people go. Keep them the fuck right here in Egypt. 1299 02:01:21,695 --> 02:01:23,948 - If you? ll pardon my Swahili. - Lingala. 1300 02:01:24,031 --> 02:01:26,325 - Say what? - They speak Lingala. 1301 02:01:27,410 --> 02:01:30,789 Ali wants his title, and he wants it in Zaire. 1302 02:01:34,752 --> 02:01:37,464 Okay, all right, okay. Let's take it back. 1303 02:01:37,548 --> 02:01:40,718 George go, George go. Hell, I can get you Joe Frazier. 1304 02:01:40,802 --> 02:01:43,889 Ali-Frazier 3. That's the fight everybody want to see. 1305 02:01:43,972 --> 02:01:47,894 - We don't want Frazier, we want George. - Hell, I don't control George Foreman. 1306 02:02:30,947 --> 02:02:35,118 There's been an accidental injury to George Foreman in training. 1307 02:02:35,160 --> 02:02:36,954 The truth is... 1308 02:02:37,037 --> 02:02:38,790 George knocked his self out. 1309 02:02:39,832 --> 02:02:41,293 That's right. 1310 02:02:41,334 --> 02:02:44,421 He did three rounds, realized he was gonna lose to Muhammad Ali... 1311 02:02:44,463 --> 02:02:45,923 and knocked his self out. 1312 02:02:46,925 --> 02:02:49,678 I predict that when the fight is set, he might not show. 1313 02:02:49,761 --> 02:02:50,888 Oh, you bad. 1314 02:02:50,971 --> 02:02:53,933 - That's right, I'm a bad man. - Ain't no doubt about that. 1315 02:02:54,017 --> 02:02:56,311 Yeah, but you tell George the same thing. 1316 02:02:56,394 --> 02:02:58,313 I heard you. I been watching you. 1317 02:02:58,397 --> 02:03:02,402 I know he's your man, I know you got him picked, but the man is in trouble. 1318 02:03:02,485 --> 02:03:05,531 The whole world was gonna know, but now he ain't gonna show. 1319 02:03:06,323 --> 02:03:09,494 In order to ensure that George is ready, we are thinking of postponing... 1320 02:03:09,536 --> 02:03:12,498 from September 24 to October 30. 1321 02:03:12,581 --> 02:03:14,542 What about the concert? 1322 02:03:14,625 --> 02:03:19,089 The concert will go on as planned. Those dates are September 20, 21... 1323 02:03:19,172 --> 02:03:23,469 I want all the helicopters guarded, all the private planes, private boats. 1324 02:03:23,511 --> 02:03:25,472 I'm serious. I want the airports... 1325 02:03:25,514 --> 02:03:27,725 I want President Mobutu and all his paratroopers... 1326 02:03:27,808 --> 02:03:30,561 All you Zaireans, y'all be on guard too. 1327 02:03:30,645 --> 02:03:34,274 Any strange boats creeping away, they might be taking him out. 1328 02:03:34,358 --> 02:03:35,734 Bus stations. 1329 02:03:35,818 --> 02:03:37,320 And bus stations! 1330 02:03:37,361 --> 02:03:39,322 Right. Watch the bus stations. 1331 02:03:39,364 --> 02:03:42,827 The elephant caravans... They might be tying to take him out on an elephant. 1332 02:03:42,910 --> 02:03:45,330 - What'd you say? - Hell, I ain't talking to you. 1333 02:03:45,371 --> 02:03:46,998 Hey. Hey, man. 1334 02:03:48,083 --> 02:03:50,252 Don? t you never talk to Angelo like that. 1335 02:03:50,336 --> 02:03:54,007 Don? t you never talk to Angie like that again. 1336 02:03:54,049 --> 02:03:55,884 Something wrong with you, man? 1337 02:03:57,511 --> 02:04:00,932 Think you callin' some shots here? You ain't callin' nothin'. 1338 02:04:02,935 --> 02:04:05,313 They all know. 1339 02:04:05,396 --> 02:04:08,358 All them ladies out there, they know I'm ready. 1340 02:04:08,400 --> 02:04:11,612 I see fear in the eyes of his followers. 1341 02:04:11,695 --> 02:04:15,325 This was supposed to be the fight that Muhammad Ali was ended. 1342 02:04:15,408 --> 02:04:20,122 Supposed to be Muhammad was gonna fall. Supposed to be my destruction. 1343 02:04:20,206 --> 02:04:22,709 Well, they miscalculated. They misjudged. 1344 02:04:22,792 --> 02:04:24,419 They got it wrong. 1345 02:04:47,448 --> 02:04:49,200 Hold on a second. 1346 02:04:50,451 --> 02:04:51,578 What's your name? 1347 02:04:53,080 --> 02:04:54,248 Veronica Porche. 1348 02:04:54,289 --> 02:04:56,250 Porche. Like the sports car. 1349 02:04:56,292 --> 02:04:59,254 - Yes. - With just a little something extra. 1350 02:04:59,296 --> 02:05:00,797 Hey, you with Don? 1351 02:05:01,882 --> 02:05:05,678 Don brought me here, but I'm not with anybody, no. 1352 02:05:05,762 --> 02:05:08,140 - Where you come from? - LA. 1353 02:05:08,223 --> 02:05:10,559 - LA? - But my people are from Louisiana. 1354 02:05:10,643 --> 02:05:11,978 Louisiana. 1355 02:05:12,061 --> 02:05:14,022 What, you Creole? 1356 02:05:14,105 --> 02:05:19,153 We're Creole, so I'm African, French and Spanish. 1357 02:05:19,237 --> 02:05:21,281 My mother's grandfather was Jewish. 1358 02:05:21,990 --> 02:05:25,286 Well, they mixed all that stuff up in there real nice. 1359 02:05:25,328 --> 02:05:28,206 I'm the only witch doctor here. Bundini Brown. 1360 02:05:28,289 --> 02:05:30,501 Bundini Brown is an authentic witch doctor. 1361 02:05:30,584 --> 02:05:33,504 - You tell 'em. - The only one in the United States. 1362 02:05:35,131 --> 02:05:38,510 I'm real glad you said what you did. 1363 02:05:38,552 --> 02:05:41,848 You made sure the fight stays here. 1364 02:05:45,018 --> 02:05:48,106 You know all them reporters and writers in there... 1365 02:05:49,399 --> 02:05:51,860 they say George is gonna kill me. 1366 02:05:52,945 --> 02:05:54,321 What you think? 1367 02:05:58,368 --> 02:06:00,371 Mr. Ali? Mr. Ali? 1368 02:06:00,454 --> 02:06:02,540 - We want thank you. - Hey, fella. 1369 02:06:02,623 --> 02:06:04,501 Y'all wanna thank me? 1370 02:06:05,710 --> 02:06:07,880 Y'all gonna thank me? What I did? 1371 02:06:10,884 --> 02:06:13,387 They thanking me for something. 1372 02:06:13,470 --> 02:06:17,725 Hey, you ever been down to Hong Kong? Thailand? Taiwan? 1373 02:06:17,809 --> 02:06:20,729 - No. - No? I can't go there. 1374 02:06:21,396 --> 02:06:24,859 - Hi, Ruthie. How are you? - Hi, champ. 1375 02:06:27,529 --> 02:06:29,490 What's going on? I'm great. How you feeling? 1376 02:06:29,573 --> 02:06:31,909 When I go to sleep, this closes up. 1377 02:06:32,994 --> 02:06:36,415 That's what happens. When I go to sleep, all this rests together. 1378 02:06:36,498 --> 02:06:38,793 During the day, I got to think. 1379 02:06:38,876 --> 02:06:42,255 Get me out of this county. All the women so pretty. 1380 02:06:42,339 --> 02:06:47,595 All of? em, they got hair come all the way down to the back of their knees. 1381 02:06:47,679 --> 02:06:51,266 All of? em... All of? em about Veronica's complexion. 1382 02:06:51,350 --> 02:06:53,728 Every single one of? em. Bad, man. 1383 02:06:55,397 --> 02:06:57,649 But ain't nothing like the sisters. 1384 02:06:58,817 --> 02:07:01,613 Ain't nothing like the sisters. 1385 02:07:05,451 --> 02:07:08,746 Come on. Why don't we go take a ride or something? 1386 02:07:08,788 --> 02:07:10,373 Wanna come with me? 1387 02:07:20,219 --> 02:07:23,765 Ruth, tell us the truth. Is this your kind of guy? 1388 02:07:24,474 --> 02:07:26,143 More cushion for the pushin'. 1389 02:07:29,438 --> 02:07:30,648 What'd he say? 1390 02:07:31,983 --> 02:07:33,986 So why you so glad we still here? 1391 02:07:37,740 --> 02:07:41,161 Making the fight stay here in Africa... 1392 02:07:42,830 --> 02:07:46,501 Anybody can fight in Vegas. 1393 02:07:52,383 --> 02:07:54,845 Well, that's one job. I got two. 1394 02:07:54,886 --> 02:07:56,847 Got to whup George. 1395 02:08:05,024 --> 02:08:07,151 Islamic faith help you do that? 1396 02:08:08,445 --> 02:08:12,199 Listen, girl, as a Muslim I am failed in the eyes of God. 1397 02:08:12,241 --> 02:08:16,538 I should've discovered Islam at 50, 'cause I'm weak on women. 1398 02:08:17,789 --> 02:08:19,959 First they take my eyes. 1399 02:08:20,042 --> 02:08:22,504 My heart follow. 1400 02:08:22,545 --> 02:08:24,715 Making me the lovingest husband in the world... 1401 02:08:24,798 --> 02:08:27,718 and the most terriblest husband at the same time. 1402 02:08:30,347 --> 02:08:32,057 Look at you. 1403 02:08:32,099 --> 02:08:34,477 Green eyes. 1404 02:08:34,560 --> 02:08:36,354 Cocoa skin. 1405 02:08:37,439 --> 02:08:39,733 Okay, rest of me, let's go. 1406 02:08:47,701 --> 02:08:48,786 Rumble, Ali. 1407 02:09:32,590 --> 02:09:34,926 - Mrs. Ali. - Hello, Muhammad, Mr. Cosell. 1408 02:09:34,968 --> 02:09:37,805 - Hey, when you get in? - Today. 1409 02:09:37,888 --> 02:09:41,309 And I learned we now have this suite at the intercontinental Hotel. 1410 02:09:42,811 --> 02:09:45,189 Muhammad, may I have a word with you, please? 1411 02:09:45,272 --> 02:09:46,690 Yeah. 1412 02:09:55,618 --> 02:09:56,870 What's goin' on? 1413 02:09:56,953 --> 02:09:59,373 What do you mean, what's goin' on? 1414 02:09:59,456 --> 02:10:01,917 Do you have to throw it in my face? 1415 02:10:02,001 --> 02:10:05,589 Do I have to read about it? Do people have to call me on the phone to tell me? 1416 02:10:05,672 --> 02:10:07,591 I didn't mean for that to come out. 1417 02:10:07,675 --> 02:10:11,429 And I live with the casual ones. I live with 'em. 1418 02:10:11,513 --> 02:10:14,349 So why do you disrespect me like this? 1419 02:10:14,433 --> 02:10:18,062 I respect you. I will always respect you. 1420 02:10:27,866 --> 02:10:29,493 Do you love her? 1421 02:10:35,042 --> 02:10:36,502 I don't know. 1422 02:10:43,260 --> 02:10:45,846 So what is supposed to happen now? 1423 02:10:47,682 --> 02:10:49,601 I fight George. 1424 02:10:51,186 --> 02:10:53,856 I didn't come all this far to lose. 1425 02:10:56,526 --> 02:10:57,945 Neither did l. 1426 02:11:24,227 --> 02:11:25,645 Belinda. 1427 02:11:30,109 --> 02:11:31,528 What, Bingham? 1428 02:15:06,876 --> 02:15:08,127 There it is. 1429 02:15:22,103 --> 02:15:24,481 Hey, Zack, where's George? 1430 02:15:24,564 --> 02:15:26,024 What's he pulling? 1431 02:15:26,066 --> 02:15:27,943 Where's George? Where'd he go? 1432 02:15:29,028 --> 02:15:32,282 I just wanna make sure you're gonna control the evening. 1433 02:15:33,033 --> 02:15:35,953 George is jerking us off, making us wait. 1434 02:17:14,366 --> 02:17:18,079 It's all over for you, man. You don't have a chance. 1435 02:17:19,205 --> 02:17:21,207 You don't have no chance. 1436 02:17:21,291 --> 02:17:23,335 The rumble in the jungle! 1437 02:17:23,418 --> 02:17:25,504 You don't have no chance, man. 1438 02:17:25,588 --> 02:17:26,672 Okay, let's go. 1439 02:17:27,423 --> 02:17:30,093 You guys know the rules. I want a good, clean fight. 1440 02:17:30,177 --> 02:17:32,722 Ali, be quiet and listen to the instructions. 1441 02:17:32,805 --> 02:17:34,807 You been hearing about me ever since you was a boy. 1442 02:17:34,891 --> 02:17:37,311 Ali, be quiet. Listen to the instructions. 1443 02:17:37,394 --> 02:17:39,647 - Now you got to face me. - No hitting low. 1444 02:17:39,730 --> 02:17:42,150 - When I tell you to break... - You got to face me now. 1445 02:17:42,233 --> 02:17:44,194 Be quiet, or I'll disqualify you. 1446 02:17:44,277 --> 02:17:47,239 When I tell you to break, I want a clean break. Understand? 1447 02:17:47,281 --> 02:17:50,869 - You shoulda never came to Africa. - All right, shake hands. 1448 02:17:50,952 --> 02:17:52,913 Take your corners. 1449 02:17:52,955 --> 02:17:55,041 Okay. All right. No problem. 1450 02:18:38,844 --> 02:18:40,305 Break! 1451 02:18:49,983 --> 02:18:52,111 All right, break. Step back. 1452 02:19:23,691 --> 02:19:26,612 Take it to him! That's what we came to do, Daddy! 1453 02:19:38,501 --> 02:19:40,462 The heavyweight championship fight... 1454 02:19:40,545 --> 02:19:43,174 - That's all you got? - Ive via satellite... 1455 02:19:43,215 --> 02:19:45,176 direct from Zaire, Africa. 1456 02:19:47,679 --> 02:19:50,599 - There we go. - That's it, Daddy. 1457 02:19:50,683 --> 02:19:53,394 You just keep dancing around him, okay? 1458 02:19:54,229 --> 02:19:55,856 Just keep moving. 1459 02:20:03,574 --> 02:20:05,409 Legs hurting. 1460 02:20:06,494 --> 02:20:07,954 Air heavy... 1461 02:20:08,037 --> 02:20:10,040 ike I'm in water. 1462 02:20:30,982 --> 02:20:32,985 Get away from the rope! 1463 02:20:34,570 --> 02:20:37,574 Get off the rope! Get off there! Move it! 1464 02:20:39,952 --> 02:20:42,663 Get off there! Get off there! 1465 02:20:51,174 --> 02:20:53,093 Get off the rope! 1466 02:20:57,181 --> 02:20:58,433 Get off them ropes! 1467 02:20:59,309 --> 02:21:03,272 Come on now, Ali, get off the ropes! 1468 02:21:03,314 --> 02:21:04,774 Come on, baby! 1469 02:21:05,859 --> 02:21:07,694 Come on, Ali! 1470 02:21:09,530 --> 02:21:12,492 That's it? That's all you got? That's it? 1471 02:21:18,207 --> 02:21:20,627 Move him out to the center! 1472 02:21:20,668 --> 02:21:22,295 There he goes! 1473 02:21:24,298 --> 02:21:27,635 Get away from the ropes! Get off the ropes! 1474 02:22:01,302 --> 02:22:03,888 Been here before. 1475 02:22:03,972 --> 02:22:05,974 Little greenroom. 1476 02:22:06,057 --> 02:22:08,602 Open that door. Gonna get out this place. 1477 02:22:08,686 --> 02:22:11,272 Come on, man, get up and get out. 1478 02:22:26,541 --> 02:22:29,378 They said you could punch, George. 1479 02:22:29,420 --> 02:22:32,131 You ain't hittin'. You hittin' like a sissy, George. 1480 02:22:33,758 --> 02:22:36,011 You can't lay up on the ropes like that. 1481 02:22:37,054 --> 02:22:41,434 You're letting him beat on you. You can't do that, champ. Come on, now. 1482 02:22:41,476 --> 02:22:45,231 - You wanna explain that to me? - Jab, then go to the middle of the ring. 1483 02:22:45,272 --> 02:22:48,652 - You had your fight going, then... - You gotta dance, baby. 1484 02:22:48,735 --> 02:22:52,114 Shut up! Just be quiet! You let me take care of this! 1485 02:22:52,156 --> 02:22:55,410 Got to dance. You can't come out there like that. 1486 02:22:55,452 --> 02:22:57,412 - You can't back up. - You got to respect the man. 1487 02:22:57,454 --> 02:23:01,375 What is with the ropes? Something going on you wanna talk to me about? 1488 02:23:01,459 --> 02:23:04,421 Tell me what's going on with you. What are you doing? 1489 02:23:04,504 --> 02:23:08,301 Put the jab on him. You got to let him go and dance. 1490 02:23:08,342 --> 02:23:11,888 Don't let him get in your corner. He's tying to cut the ring off you. 1491 02:23:11,972 --> 02:23:15,810 He's tying to cut you off the ring. You can't let that happen. 1492 02:23:16,978 --> 02:23:19,231 Just take care of it! 1493 02:23:21,942 --> 02:23:25,155 And there's the bell. The fighters meet in mid-ring. 1494 02:23:35,167 --> 02:23:36,669 Get off the ropes! 1495 02:23:36,711 --> 02:23:38,588 Stay off the ropes! 1496 02:23:40,298 --> 02:23:43,636 Foreman again pushing him against the ropes. 1497 02:23:43,677 --> 02:23:48,141 And Ali laying back, fighting those blows against the sides of his body. 1498 02:23:48,183 --> 02:23:50,811 Get back in the middle of the ring, Ali! 1499 02:23:51,854 --> 02:23:54,149 Muhammad, get off the ropes! 1500 02:24:26,230 --> 02:24:29,859 You're punching like a sissy, George. Punching like a sissy. 1501 02:24:42,041 --> 02:24:44,210 What the hell's going on? Come on. 1502 02:24:56,267 --> 02:24:59,896 George, get him back. What the hell's going on? Come on. 1503 02:25:11,994 --> 02:25:14,748 You got to get off the ropes! 1504 02:25:14,789 --> 02:25:16,375 Get off the ropes! 1505 02:25:16,458 --> 02:25:19,378 Eight rounds to go. Running out of gas, big fella? 1506 02:25:20,547 --> 02:25:21,965 Let him go. 1507 02:25:34,939 --> 02:25:38,861 Can't let you get that second wind which you don't even know is there for you. 1508 02:25:38,944 --> 02:25:42,115 You want the title? Want to wear the heavyweight crown? 1509 02:25:42,156 --> 02:25:45,327 Nose broke, jaw smashed, face busted in. 1510 02:25:45,410 --> 02:25:47,329 You ready for that? Is that you? 1511 02:25:47,413 --> 02:25:50,834 'Cause you facing a man who will die before he lets you win. 1512 02:26:03,182 --> 02:26:06,103 Ali, don't let him beat on you on the inside. 1513 02:26:07,229 --> 02:26:09,190 Don't let him beat on you on the inside. 1514 02:26:17,867 --> 02:26:19,202 Come on, Ali. 1515 02:26:21,204 --> 02:26:23,415 Let's go, Ali. 1516 02:26:23,499 --> 02:26:26,711 Let's go, baby! Stay off the ropes! 1517 02:26:26,753 --> 02:26:28,088 Get off the ropes! 1518 02:26:28,171 --> 02:26:30,466 There it is. Keep 'em in his face. 1519 02:26:32,093 --> 02:26:33,094 Break! 1520 02:26:33,177 --> 02:26:35,305 Oh, you missed him, George! 1521 02:26:35,389 --> 02:26:37,516 You gotta go to work on him, Ali! 1522 02:26:46,068 --> 02:26:49,030 I thought you could punch, George. They said you could punch. 1523 02:26:49,072 --> 02:26:50,532 Come on, Ali! 1524 02:26:51,742 --> 02:26:54,495 Get away from the rope! Get off the rope! 1525 02:26:54,579 --> 02:26:55,997 He got him! 1526 02:27:02,505 --> 02:27:04,424 Move him around! Take him! 1527 02:27:05,634 --> 02:27:07,094 Come on, Ali! 1528 02:27:14,144 --> 02:27:17,357 Get off the ropes! Get off the ropes! 1529 02:27:18,525 --> 02:27:19,902 Get off the ropes! 1530 02:28:04,999 --> 02:28:07,961 George Foreman is hit by a combination of punches... 1531 02:28:08,002 --> 02:28:09,504 and down he goes! 1532 02:28:09,546 --> 02:28:11,298 George Foreman is down! 1533 02:28:11,340 --> 02:28:14,427 He's fallen like a tree in the forest! 1534 02:28:14,510 --> 02:28:17,848 He is felled by a combination of blows from Muhammad Ali! 1535 02:28:35,995 --> 02:28:39,207 Okay, this fight's over! This fight's over! 1536 02:28:51,598 --> 02:28:54,184 I told you! I told you! 1537 02:29:04,113 --> 02:29:07,659 Referee Zack Clayton is counting. Seven, eight! 1538 02:29:07,742 --> 02:29:09,703 And he's on his knee. It is over! 1539 02:29:09,787 --> 02:29:11,831 It is over! It is over! 1540 02:29:11,914 --> 02:29:13,374 It is over! 1541 02:29:13,416 --> 02:29:17,463 George Foreman has been knocked out by Muhammad Ali! 1542 02:29:17,546 --> 02:29:20,049 Muhammad Ali has done the impossible! 1543 02:29:20,091 --> 02:29:22,511 He has regained the heavyweight crown... 1544 02:29:22,594 --> 02:29:27,058 that was taken unjustly from him in 1967. 1545 02:29:29,936 --> 02:29:32,565 What a moment of history in this arena... 1546 02:29:32,648 --> 02:29:35,109 in Zaire, Africa! 1547 02:29:45,080 --> 02:29:47,583 A tremendous, tremendous moment. 123883