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Yeah, I'm in Africa.
Yeah, Africa's my home.
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Damn America and what America thinks.
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I live in America, but Africa's
the home of the Black man.
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I was a slave 400 years ago
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and I'm going back home to fight
among my brothers! Yeah!
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'For these two African-Americans
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'to come home was
of great, great significance.
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'Because of Hollywood and TV
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'a lot of us
had been taught to hate Africa.'
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Once, if you called a Black person
African they'd be ready to fight.
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'When I get to Africa we'll get
it on because we don't get along!'
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I'm gonna eat him up!
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Too much speed for him!
Too fast! Too fast!
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I'm gonna retire the
heavyweight champion of the world!
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I'm gonna retire
the heavyweight champion!
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September 25th
the world'll be stunned!
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Tell 'em, Ali!
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If you think the world was surprised
when Nixon resigned
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wait till I kick Foreman's behind!
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'An 18-year-old amateur
champion with a charming smile
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'took a physical examination
for his first professional fight.'
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It won't be an easy fight
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but my plan of attack
on a fighter like Alex Miteff
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would be two fast left jabs,
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a rapid right cross
and a left hook.
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'But in the Belgian Congo,
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'freedom was followed
by rioting and an army mutiny.
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'For months,
the political pattern kept changing
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'until pro-Red
Premier Lumumba was seized
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'by the forces
of strongman Colonel Mobutu.'
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After watching Mike DeJohn
and Eddie Machen,
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I would rate myself number two.
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I'm out to break
Floyd Patterson's record
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and this being my 20th birthday,
today, January 17th,
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that leaves me exactly one year
to reach my goal.
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People do say I'm cocky,
some say I need a good whuppin',
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some say I talk too much,
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but anything that I say,
I'm willing to back up.
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The other night I predicted
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that I would knock out Banks
in four rounds and I did.
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I knocked out Don Warner
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and I just annihilated
George Logan in four rounds.
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'Close your mouth
and keep it closed.'
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- That's impossible.
- Keep it closed.
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I'm the greatest
and I'm knocking out all bums.
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And if you get too smart
I'll knock you out.
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'You'd take him on
before the fight?'
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Beat him like I'm his daddy.
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I saw Sonny Liston a few days ago.
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Ain't he ugly?
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I'm young, I'm handsome,
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I'm fast, I'm pretty
and can't possibly be beat.
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Cassius Clay
goes into the record book
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with Corbett, Tunney and Braddock,
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bringing off another great upset
in heavyweight history.
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It is befitting that I leave
the game just like I came in,
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beating a big bad monster
who knocks out everybody
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and no one can whup him.
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When little Cassius Clay
stopped Sonny Liston,
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the man who annihilated
Floyd Patterson twice.
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He was gonna kill me!
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But he hit harder than George.
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His reach is longer,
he's a better boxer
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and I'm better now than when you saw
that kid running from Sonny Liston.
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I'm experienced now, professional.
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Jaw's been broke, been knocked down
a couple of times, I'm bad!
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Been chopping trees,
I done something new.
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- I wrestled with an alligator.
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That's right,
I have wrestled with an alligator!
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I tussled with a whale. I handcuffed
lightning, thrown thunder in jail!
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That's bad!
Only last week I murdered a rock!
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Injured a stone!
Hospitalised a brick!
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- I'm so mean I make medicine sick!
- Bad dude!
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Bad, fast!
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Fast! Fast! Last night,
cut the light off in my bedroom,
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hit the switch and was in the bed
before the room was dark!
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- Incredible.
- Fast!
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You, George Foreman, all you chumps
are gonna bow when I whup him!
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All of you! I know you got him picked
but the man's in trouble!
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I'm gonna show you how great I am!
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I think Ali was scared.
I think he was scared even then.
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He knew he was gonna be very scared
as he got closer to the fight.
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You know the way George fights.
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George comes out...
"I made him the mummy!"
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'With his ego he could tell
himself he would dominate Foreman,
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'make a fool of him, that Foreman
would never lay a glove on him.'
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But in fact, in his sleep
or wherever his private moment came
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he knew that he had not done as well
against two fighters particularly,
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Joe Frazier and Ken Norton,
whom Foreman had demolished.
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Down goes Frazier!
Down goes Frazier!
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The heavyweight champion
is taking the mandatory eight count
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and Foreman is as poised as can be!
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Foreman is going about his job!
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'He had an overpowering
intensity when he punched.
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'Foreman won
by knocking Joe Frazier out
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'and knocked him down
something like seven times.
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'Then he destroyed Ken Norton
in two rounds.
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'The word "murderous" does not
quite apply, Foreman was awesome.'
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This chump has got everybody scared.
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Scared of what?
There's nothing to be scared of.
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Scared of what?
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How many fellas in here
picks George? Be truthful, be men.
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Tell the truth.
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- John, raise your hand.
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Got George?
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You got George. Tell the truth.
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You! You, fella. Yeah.
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No pick? I just wanna know.
You got George...
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The time may have come
to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali,
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because very honestly I don't think
he can beat George Foreman.
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Howard Cosell, you told everybody
I don't have a chance.
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Told 'em I don't have
nothing but a prayer.
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Well, chump, all I need is a prayer
because if that reaches the right man
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not only will George Foreman fall
but mountains will fall!
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Maybe he can pull off a miracle,
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but against George Foreman?
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So young, so strong, so fearless?
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Against George Foreman,
who does away with his opponents
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one after another
in less than three rounds?
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It's hard for me
to conjure with that.
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You always say "Muhammad, you're not
the same man you were 10 years ago."
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I asked your wife
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and she told me you're not the same
man you was two years ago!
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After this fight
I suspect Ali will retire.
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And through all of the years
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my own memories of him
will be as a fighter,
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and as the strange and curious
and gregarious and engaging
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and sometimes cruel,
and sometimes family man that he is.
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I'm gonna let everybody know
that that thing on your head
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is a phoney
and it comes from the tail of a pony.
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A stolen bicycle.
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He had a bicycle
and he went to Columbia Gym.
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There was something going on up there
and he left his bike parked outside.
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So when he came out
someone had stolen it
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and he went inside and he was crying
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and he told the policeman there,
his name was Joe Martin,
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that someone stole his bike.
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And Joe Martin, he also taught the
little boys how to box in the evening
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so he asked would he be interested
in learning how to box
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and he told him yes, because if he
ever found out who stole his bike
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he wanted to know how to fight
so he could beat them up.
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An overhand right
sends Sonny to the canvas!
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Referee Jersey Joe Walcott is trying
to get Ali to a neutral corner.
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Ali yelling at Liston to get up...
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- Anchor punch.
- Which fight?
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I call it the anchor punch.
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- The one Stepin Fetchit helped with?
- Yeah, man.
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People couldn't see it,
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it was so fast Sports Illustrated
got a slow-motion camera,
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they clocked the punch and the punch
flew at 4/100ths of a second.
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You can break a second
down to 100 pieces.
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When people win a ski race
they say one and 16/100ths,
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one and 32/100ths of a second,
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so you break a second into 100 pieces
so, you know...that's quick,
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they got a machine that goes,
like, fr-r-t, real quick, fr-r-t,
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and it counts real quick, real quick.
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And by the time that thing
hit four that's how quick,
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from the time the punch started
to where it landed
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was 4/100ths of a second,
an eye blink, like a camera flash.
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That's 4/100ths of a second.
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When I hit Sonny Liston
all those people blinked,
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so they didn't see it.
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- I swear!
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If you watch the film close,
keep your eyes real close...
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- Keep looking.
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I'm getting ready to hit him.
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You got to hold your eyes and wait
or you won't see it, man!
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Ali was a beautiful...specimen,
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a fighting machine.
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He was handsome,
he was articulate, he was funny,
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charismatic.
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And was whuppin' ass too.
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'Deposed champion
Cassius Clay, at court in Houston,
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'is found guilty of violating
Selective Service laws
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'by refusing to be inducted.
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'He is sentenced to five years
in prison and fined $10,000.'
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'The way he fused
politics and sports.
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'Very few Black athletes had ever
talked the way Muhammad Ali talked
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'without fear of something
happening to their careers.'
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'..as a Moslem minister
made him exempt...'
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'He was already very unpopular
with mainstream Americans
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'because he had joined
the Nation of Islam,
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'which was perceived as
a radical Black separatist group.'
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On top of that,
when he was called for induction
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he refused to take the step forward.
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He absolutely infuriated America.
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Muhammad Ali said,
"No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."
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The king is going home
to get his throne.
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From root to fruit,
that's where everything started at.
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This is God's act
and you're part of it.
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This is no Hollywood set,
this is real.
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Hollywood set up these scenes,
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have somebody in the movies
playing his life.
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We don't pick up a script.
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We get up in the morning,
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sometimes we feel good,
sometimes bad,
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but we go through it with feeling.
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'Muhammad Ali's a prophet, he gonna
be a fisherman for Elijah Muhammad.
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'This is only a stop, look and
listen sign he's doing, fighting.'
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We been fightin' ever since we met.
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We beat Uncle Sam, come out
of the garage and beat number two.
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First man ever did it. Rest of 'em
they put out of the country.
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'This is God's act,
we just actors in it.
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'If Jesus was here
everybody'd want his autograph
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'and they'd be filming him.
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'This is a sport,
that's why you walking, talk to him.'
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I think Muhammad is a prophet.
How you gonna beat God's son?
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Anybody who loves poor people
and little people gotta be a prophet.
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He was champion of the world,
had a table full of food.
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Had a house for his mother, one for
him and he told 'em to shove it.
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If he couldn't love his god,
what do you think he is...mister?
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'Ali trained for the Foreman
fight at Deer Lake, Pennsylvania.
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'He trained very hard
for that fight,
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'and had very good sparring partners.
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'Larry Holmes was one of them.
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'I was struck with how well
he actually handled Ali
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'in their sparring sessions.
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'He dominated Ali.
That wasn't uncommon.
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'Ali would often not show his best
stuff with sparring partners,
220
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'but would work on his weaknesses.
221
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'He'd go against the ropes
and let people pummel him,
222
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'very heavy hitters,
he'd let them bang away at him.
223
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'As if he was training his body to
receive these messages of punishment
224
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'and absorb them faster than other
fighters could absorb them.'
225
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'This is in Africa because
they came up with $10 million.'
226
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$5 million for George Foreman,
227
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$5 million for me.
228
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England was trying to get it.
A promoter said America was trying,
229
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but none could surpass
the $5 million mark.
230
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The dream is becoming a reality.
231
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'Don King
went to George Foreman
232
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'and got him to sign an agreement
233
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'saying that if King could deliver
$5 million, Foreman would fight Ali.
234
00:15:22,504 --> 00:15:26,184
'Then King went to Ali
and made the same deal,
235
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'so Don King now had both fighters,
236
00:15:28,984 --> 00:15:31,864
'their signatures
on a piece of paper.
237
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'What he didn't have
was $10 million.'
238
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..a festival to complement
this great sporting event,
239
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the greatest sporting event
in history.
240
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- Of all time!
- All time, as the champ says.
241
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Greatest event of all time!
242
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Bigger than Evel Knievel and
the Kentucky Derby on the same day.
243
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The president of Zaire was willing
to put $10 million
244
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of his country's own very scarce,
hard-earned currency on the line,
245
00:16:00,785 --> 00:16:03,745
not for any
short-term economic reason
246
00:16:03,785 --> 00:16:07,305
but because he felt
that the fight would be good
247
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in terms of promoting Zaire and also
in terms of promoting himself,
248
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and as Ali said at the time,
249
00:16:14,105 --> 00:16:17,425
countries go to war
to get their names on the map
250
00:16:17,465 --> 00:16:20,386
and wars cost
a lot more than $10 million.
251
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Some of the most dynamic
performers from Afro-America
252
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will appear at the stadium in
Kinshasa on the 20th, 21st and 22nd,
253
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with this theatrical release.
254
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It will be James Brown,
soul brother number one...
255
00:16:35,506 --> 00:16:39,266
- Is he playing?
- Yes, James Brown will be there.
256
00:16:39,306 --> 00:16:42,306
We will have BB King, The Spinners...
257
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This is the first assembly in history
where the top-notch Blacks of America
258
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and the people of Africa had
something together, all on a level,
259
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we're all meeting and learning more
about each other,
260
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the first assembly among American
Black men and Africans in history
261
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and it's a big honour.
262
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Plus I gotta whup George!
263
00:17:05,827 --> 00:17:07,867
'Got to whup George!'
264
00:17:07,907 --> 00:17:11,347
We're gonna rumble in the jungle!
265
00:17:11,387 --> 00:17:13,467
Come on, come on.
266
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Speak up, boy. Go ahead.
267
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- Good boy.
268
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Get down.
269
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- Quiet.
- George?
270
00:17:29,907 --> 00:17:33,707
Is this fight against Ali
the toughest of your career?
271
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Could be, could be. I doubt it.
272
00:17:42,268 --> 00:17:46,668
This is Muhammad Ali, September 10th
at New York City airport,
273
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en route to Zaire to reclaim
the heavyweight title of the world.
274
00:17:50,908 --> 00:17:54,588
Champ, what would you like to say
to the children of the world?
275
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I'd like to say, mainly where they
understand English in America,
276
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to...live a clean life,
stay off the dope.
277
00:18:04,908 --> 00:18:07,188
It's tearing the country up.
278
00:18:07,228 --> 00:18:11,748
Also, if they wanna be like me,
I'm going to whup George Foreman,
279
00:18:11,789 --> 00:18:14,869
and when they see this
I will have beaten him.
280
00:18:14,909 --> 00:18:17,669
Tell them to quit eating
so much candy,
281
00:18:17,709 --> 00:18:21,789
I have three rotten teeth
and I had to have one of 'em pulled,
282
00:18:21,829 --> 00:18:24,109
I can't chew my food like I should.
283
00:18:24,149 --> 00:18:28,789
Eat natural foods
because we must whup Mr Tooth Decay.
284
00:18:28,829 --> 00:18:31,429
I got one right there and one there.
285
00:18:31,469 --> 00:18:36,309
Ali told us he's going to use part
of his money to build a hospital.
286
00:18:36,349 --> 00:18:41,509
Do you intend to use part of your
money for something, a project?
287
00:18:42,429 --> 00:18:45,949
He may think
he may have to be in the hospital.
288
00:18:45,989 --> 00:18:48,149
I want the man!
289
00:18:48,189 --> 00:18:52,670
When I get to Africa we gonna
get it on because we don't get along!
290
00:18:52,710 --> 00:18:55,150
I don't like him, he talks too much.
291
00:18:55,190 --> 00:18:58,430
- Beg your pardon?
- You would continue boxing
292
00:18:58,470 --> 00:19:01,150
- even if you lose?
- I beg your pardon?
293
00:19:01,190 --> 00:19:04,350
- You don't think about losing?
294
00:19:04,390 --> 00:19:07,510
No. But thank you.
Nice talking to you.
295
00:19:08,790 --> 00:19:11,430
Flying over the Sahara desert.
296
00:19:11,470 --> 00:19:16,910
An African airline with all African
stewardesses, all African pilots.
297
00:19:16,950 --> 00:19:20,470
This is the first free feeling
I had in a long time.
298
00:19:20,510 --> 00:19:24,990
Ain't this something, flying in
an airplane with Black pilots?
299
00:19:25,030 --> 00:19:29,231
All Black crew? This is strange
to the American Negro.
300
00:19:29,271 --> 00:19:31,351
We never dreamed of this!
301
00:19:31,391 --> 00:19:36,231
Every time we watch TV they show us
Tarzan and the natives and jungles,
302
00:19:36,271 --> 00:19:41,031
they never told us that Africans
were more intelligent than we are.
303
00:19:41,071 --> 00:19:44,911
They speak English,
French and African.
304
00:19:44,951 --> 00:19:47,271
We can't even speak English good.
305
00:20:02,031 --> 00:20:04,752
Ain't this beautiful? I'm free!
306
00:20:04,792 --> 00:20:06,472
Fantastic!
307
00:20:06,512 --> 00:20:08,112
I'm free.
308
00:20:08,152 --> 00:20:09,992
# Now, I want everybody
309
00:20:10,032 --> 00:20:11,912
# To repeat after me
310
00:20:13,232 --> 00:20:17,112
# If you don't know who you are
and where your place in life is
311
00:20:17,152 --> 00:20:19,672
# Just say to yourself, I am!
312
00:20:20,952 --> 00:20:22,952
# Somebody!
313
00:20:22,992 --> 00:20:24,912
# I am!
314
00:20:24,952 --> 00:20:26,592
# Somebody!
315
00:20:26,632 --> 00:20:28,672
# I may be poor
316
00:20:29,992 --> 00:20:31,552
# But I am somebody #
317
00:20:37,872 --> 00:20:40,112
'It was a great joy
318
00:20:40,152 --> 00:20:44,393
'to see that the championship
was going to happen in Africa.
319
00:20:44,473 --> 00:20:46,993
'People were so happy.
320
00:20:47,033 --> 00:20:51,193
'At last the world was
paying attention to our continent.
321
00:20:51,233 --> 00:20:54,553
'Yes, we knew Muhammad Ali
as a boxer,
322
00:20:54,593 --> 00:20:58,313
'but more importantly
for his political stance.
323
00:20:58,353 --> 00:21:04,233
'When we saw that America was at war
with a Third World country, Vietnam,
324
00:21:04,273 --> 00:21:09,193
'and that one of the children
of the United States said
325
00:21:09,233 --> 00:21:13,553
'"Me? You want me to go
and fight against the Viet Cong?"
326
00:21:13,593 --> 00:21:17,793
'"Why should I fight against them?
They haven't hurt me."
327
00:21:17,833 --> 00:21:23,394
'And for us, it was extraordinary to
see that in the America of that time
328
00:21:23,434 --> 00:21:26,514
'someone could take such a position.
329
00:21:26,594 --> 00:21:31,354
'He may have lost his title,
he may have lost millions of dollars
330
00:21:31,394 --> 00:21:35,154
'but he gained
the esteem of millions of Africans.'
331
00:21:35,194 --> 00:21:38,994
Ali! Ali! Ali!
332
00:21:42,594 --> 00:21:45,314
What is your population?
333
00:21:47,594 --> 00:21:50,514
- 22 million.
- 22 million?
334
00:21:50,554 --> 00:21:54,394
- 22 million.
- How many George Foreman fans here?
335
00:21:56,555 --> 00:21:59,675
- We don't know, we don't know.
336
00:21:59,715 --> 00:22:03,995
- How many Muhammad Ali?
- So many we cannot count them.
337
00:22:05,955 --> 00:22:11,755
'George Foreman?
We had heard he was a world champion.
338
00:22:11,795 --> 00:22:17,275
'We thought he was white, then
we realised he was black, like Ali.
339
00:22:17,315 --> 00:22:21,915
'But still, for us,
Foreman represented America.
340
00:22:21,955 --> 00:22:25,195
'He arrived with a dog,
a German shepherd,
341
00:22:25,235 --> 00:22:28,075
'which immediately offended Africans
342
00:22:28,115 --> 00:22:32,075
'since the Belgians
had used them as police dogs.'
343
00:22:32,115 --> 00:22:35,396
Ali said you're
the out-of-towner here.
344
00:22:35,436 --> 00:22:40,356
Africa is the cradle of civilisation,
everybody's home is Africa.
345
00:23:27,877 --> 00:23:31,997
OK, fine.
So, they're leaving tomorrow...
346
00:23:32,037 --> 00:23:36,957
Typhoid. How do you spell typhoid?
Is that all that we're giving?
347
00:23:36,997 --> 00:23:42,237
Who do you want to be
your beneficiary in case of anything?
348
00:23:42,277 --> 00:23:45,437
'You need
a ticket to get on the plane.'
349
00:23:45,477 --> 00:23:49,958
Let me see some hands of the 51
who don't have airline tickets.
350
00:23:49,998 --> 00:23:54,598
Hi! You know who we are, don't you?
351
00:23:55,718 --> 00:24:01,158
I'm Lola Love, I'm with the dancers
of the James Brown show, revue.
352
00:24:04,278 --> 00:24:08,238
Zai-ere, or Zare,
or whatever, you know?
353
00:24:08,278 --> 00:24:10,758
Yeah, when are gonna get to Zee-air?
354
00:24:10,798 --> 00:24:13,318
- Who?
- Mobutu land.
355
00:24:14,838 --> 00:24:18,478
We're gonna fly in zee-air
till we get to Zaire.
356
00:24:18,518 --> 00:24:20,598
That's right!
357
00:24:23,758 --> 00:24:26,159
# Sittin' in a railway station
358
00:24:26,199 --> 00:24:28,759
# My suitcase in my hand
359
00:24:28,799 --> 00:24:30,759
# Going back where I came from
360
00:24:30,799 --> 00:24:33,239
# I've had more than I can stand
361
00:24:33,279 --> 00:24:36,359
# Marchin' in beside my dreams
362
00:24:36,399 --> 00:24:38,799
# Pack my things
and live those dreams
363
00:24:38,839 --> 00:24:40,999
# I was up but then I've been down
364
00:24:41,039 --> 00:24:42,919
# Ain't gonna hang around
365
00:24:42,959 --> 00:24:47,279
# I'm coming home
366
00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:50,839
# Uh-huh, yes, I am
367
00:24:51,399 --> 00:24:53,919
# More than I can stand, my daughter
368
00:24:53,959 --> 00:24:55,639
# Tell someone to meet me
369
00:24:55,679 --> 00:25:00,159
# I'm comin' home
370
00:25:02,079 --> 00:25:05,760
# Why don't you, mercy me
371
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,440
# Ooh-hoo, let me tell ya
372
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,360
# Came to this old town
373
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,520
# Some fortune and some fame
374
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,600
# Never got the chance
to prove myself
375
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,960
# Tryin' to play every game
376
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,560
# Abusin' people just ain't my thing
377
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,840
# I won't dangle from any string
378
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:28,000
# Peace movement don't care about now
turning inside out
379
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:32,000
# I'm coming home, home, yeah
380
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,720
# It's mighty long
381
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,200
# I got it, you know too
382
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,760
# Hey, I know what I'm gonna do
383
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,961
# Tell someone to meet me
384
00:25:41,001 --> 00:25:44,241
# Oh, come on
385
00:25:44,281 --> 00:25:47,281
# Yes, I am, yeah!
386
00:25:47,321 --> 00:25:49,521
# Tell someone to meet me
387
00:25:51,961 --> 00:25:53,841
# I got it, look here! #
388
00:25:54,601 --> 00:25:58,441
The plane is not coming in at six,
it's now coming in between 10 and 11,
389
00:25:58,481 --> 00:26:02,521
so you don't have to have those
trucks up to the airport that early.
390
00:26:02,561 --> 00:26:06,321
- Where's James Brown...?
- James Brown is on his way.
391
00:26:06,361 --> 00:26:09,161
BB King... They ain't nowhere around!
392
00:26:18,362 --> 00:26:21,642
Six, fifth and fourth are done.
Elevators are working.
393
00:26:21,682 --> 00:26:24,202
There's no air conditioning at all?
394
00:26:24,242 --> 00:26:28,042
80%'s out. The circuits are in
but it doesn't work.
395
00:26:28,082 --> 00:26:31,682
What do you mean, 80%?
What floor is out?
396
00:26:31,722 --> 00:26:33,882
I have sixth, fifth and fourth.
397
00:26:33,922 --> 00:26:36,242
I understand, but what about...
398
00:26:36,282 --> 00:26:39,642
It's individual
air conditioning controls...
399
00:26:39,682 --> 00:26:42,602
What apartments
have air conditioning?
400
00:26:42,642 --> 00:26:45,922
How many beds
can we move people into tonight?
401
00:26:45,962 --> 00:26:48,442
- Four. Four rooms.
- Just eight people?
402
00:26:48,482 --> 00:26:49,962
Yeah.
403
00:26:51,362 --> 00:26:53,602
# Everything gonna be all right
404
00:26:53,642 --> 00:26:56,163
# Cos home's
where the heart's at, yeah
405
00:26:56,203 --> 00:26:58,043
# And it's a natural fact
406
00:26:58,083 --> 00:27:00,163
# What you sayin' tell me, won't you?
407
00:27:00,203 --> 00:27:02,083
# Yeah, hey hey
408
00:27:02,123 --> 00:27:03,803
# Gotta make a start today
409
00:27:04,683 --> 00:27:07,163
# Gotta do it in my way
410
00:27:07,203 --> 00:27:09,203
# Gonna see Momma again
411
00:27:09,243 --> 00:27:11,683
# Gonna see my old, old friend
412
00:27:11,723 --> 00:27:13,083
# Africa!
413
00:27:13,723 --> 00:27:15,243
# Africa!
414
00:27:16,283 --> 00:27:17,923
# Africa!
415
00:27:17,963 --> 00:27:20,603
# Ohh, Africa! #
416
00:27:21,683 --> 00:27:23,563
Hello, bubba!
417
00:27:24,483 --> 00:27:26,363
How you doin'?
418
00:27:29,883 --> 00:27:33,164
Ready to dance? I got ants
in my pants, I gotta dance.
419
00:27:36,684 --> 00:27:39,604
'The fight was held in Zaire,
the former Belgian Congo.
420
00:27:39,644 --> 00:27:42,564
'Kinshasa was the capital
on the banks of the Congo,
421
00:27:42,604 --> 00:27:45,444
'this was just before
the rainy season.'
422
00:27:45,484 --> 00:27:48,244
Up to the north
was the flickering of storms,
423
00:27:48,284 --> 00:27:51,564
and it was important to the promoters
424
00:27:51,604 --> 00:27:54,524
that this fight get in
before the storms occurred,
425
00:27:54,564 --> 00:27:58,124
because once the rainy season comes
you can't do anything.
426
00:27:58,164 --> 00:28:02,124
The Congo had such a wonderful name,
Conradian and all that.
427
00:28:02,164 --> 00:28:04,884
To call it Zaire
didn't have quite the majesty,
428
00:28:04,924 --> 00:28:06,884
but there it was, the Congo.
429
00:28:28,245 --> 00:28:30,685
'Mobutu was everywhere.
430
00:28:30,725 --> 00:28:33,165
'He was the equivalent of Stalin.'
431
00:28:33,205 --> 00:28:35,445
'You saw his picture everywhere.'
432
00:28:35,485 --> 00:28:39,365
Part of the vanity of dictators,
with the exception of Mussolini,
433
00:28:39,405 --> 00:28:42,245
who was half ugly
and half attractive,
434
00:28:42,285 --> 00:28:46,846
most dictators are unbelievably ugly
or plain - Franco, Hitler...
435
00:28:51,366 --> 00:28:55,966
'Mobutu looked the archetype,
the epitome of a closet sadist.
436
00:28:56,006 --> 00:28:59,766
'Sort of guy, if you meet him
in a bar, you think, "Oh, my God!
437
00:28:59,806 --> 00:29:03,486
'"Who are the poor women
who are associated with this fella?"
438
00:29:09,766 --> 00:29:14,086
'And since Mobutu was
an extraordinarily practical man,
439
00:29:14,126 --> 00:29:18,046
'down under the stadium,
which seated 100,000 people,
440
00:29:18,086 --> 00:29:21,246
'were detention pens
and rooms and chambers
441
00:29:21,286 --> 00:29:25,967
'where you could imprison as many
as a couple of thousand people.
442
00:29:26,007 --> 00:29:30,847
'Before the fight came, the criminal
rate in Zaire began to go up.'
443
00:29:30,887 --> 00:29:35,887
A few white foreigners
had been killed, driving their cars.
444
00:29:35,927 --> 00:29:41,087
And Mobutu decided that this would be
a disaster in terms of publicity,
445
00:29:41,127 --> 00:29:48,047
so on a given day he had a thousand
of the leading criminals in Kinshasa
446
00:29:48,087 --> 00:29:53,847
rounded up and put in this stadium,
down in the detention pens.
447
00:29:53,887 --> 00:29:58,647
'And then the legend has it, and I
suspect the legend may even be true,
448
00:29:58,687 --> 00:30:02,328
'that he had 100
taken at random and killed them.
449
00:30:02,368 --> 00:30:05,128
'And the reason was
a particularly simple one
450
00:30:05,168 --> 00:30:07,248
'from Mobutu's point of view.'
451
00:30:07,288 --> 00:30:11,688
Career criminals have connections who
protect them when they're in trouble,
452
00:30:11,728 --> 00:30:15,368
and by making this kill
of 100 out of 1,000 arbitrarily,
453
00:30:15,408 --> 00:30:20,088
Mobutu was saying "Your connections
are worth nothing. I am Jehovah.
454
00:30:20,128 --> 00:30:24,768
'"I will blast you out of existence
if you fool around with me."'
455
00:30:32,368 --> 00:30:37,048
'He made his point, Kinshasa was
one of the safest cities in Africa,
456
00:30:37,088 --> 00:30:41,249
'in all the world, while the foreign
press was there for the fight.'
457
00:30:54,809 --> 00:30:59,369
'To me, the drum was the communicator
since the beginning of time,
458
00:30:59,409 --> 00:31:02,609
'I'm sure it was
the first message ever sent.
459
00:31:02,649 --> 00:31:05,809
'The beat today
and the beats centuries ago
460
00:31:05,849 --> 00:31:09,089
'are the only thing
that's kept us together.'
461
00:31:13,969 --> 00:31:18,650
We had this thing, when we hurt,
we sung for trial and tribulation,
462
00:31:18,690 --> 00:31:21,450
and for relief, we sung songs to God
463
00:31:21,490 --> 00:31:25,170
and this music that you hear today
is the same songs
464
00:31:25,210 --> 00:31:30,050
that have been made popular around
the world without any volition.
465
00:31:30,970 --> 00:31:32,410
Oh!
466
00:32:05,171 --> 00:32:07,531
'So anybody who knows anything
467
00:32:07,571 --> 00:32:11,371
'about the rhythm and the blues
as they're so-called,
468
00:32:11,411 --> 00:32:13,531
'should know about Africa.'
469
00:32:14,251 --> 00:32:16,811
# When I first met you, baby
470
00:32:22,091 --> 00:32:24,891
# Baby, you were just
471
00:32:24,931 --> 00:32:26,811
# Sweet sixteen
472
00:32:29,371 --> 00:32:31,972
# When I first met you, baby
473
00:32:35,012 --> 00:32:40,092
# Baby, you was just sweet sixteen
474
00:32:44,692 --> 00:32:47,892
# Just off your homeland, baby
475
00:32:50,812 --> 00:32:55,892
# Oh, the sweetest thing
I'd ever seen #
476
00:33:01,892 --> 00:33:06,092
The music I listen to, in most white
people's houses, I don't hear this,
477
00:33:06,132 --> 00:33:08,213
because your culture wouldn't...
478
00:33:08,253 --> 00:33:12,533
Your woman doesn't leave you
and slip away like our women,
479
00:33:12,573 --> 00:33:15,493
because you had money
to keep your woman.
480
00:33:15,533 --> 00:33:19,973
Your songs are like, "And the train
comes around that mountain,
481
00:33:20,013 --> 00:33:23,933
"In the Folsom Prison,
in the Folsom Prison".
482
00:33:23,973 --> 00:33:26,493
You know, "Y'all come, y'all come."
483
00:33:26,533 --> 00:33:30,373
Chinese got diddly music,
"Pleen ting tang tong ting."
484
00:33:30,413 --> 00:33:34,733
I don't want that and he understands.
Everybody's got their culture.
485
00:33:34,773 --> 00:33:39,853
So we're not saying we hate you
or we're never talking to you again
486
00:33:39,893 --> 00:33:42,493
and doing business, we don't do that.
487
00:33:42,533 --> 00:33:45,894
We're saying
that we want to be independent.
488
00:33:45,934 --> 00:33:47,654
# Baby, I wonder
489
00:33:47,694 --> 00:33:49,174
# Yes, I wonder
490
00:33:49,214 --> 00:33:51,054
# Baby, I wonder
491
00:33:55,414 --> 00:34:01,814
# Oh, I wonder what in the world
is gonna happen to me #
492
00:34:09,454 --> 00:34:13,014
'The great place
to visit in Kinshasa
493
00:34:13,054 --> 00:34:15,734
'was a compound
about 20 miles up the Congo.
494
00:34:15,774 --> 00:34:19,374
'A place called Enseli,
a presidential palace.
495
00:34:19,414 --> 00:34:23,735
'That was where we saw Foreman,
who seemed incredible.'
496
00:34:23,775 --> 00:34:27,495
I'd seen him fight before,
I saw him destroy Frazier
497
00:34:27,535 --> 00:34:31,695
and the thing I always remembered
was that the beaten fighter,
498
00:34:31,735 --> 00:34:34,655
even a man as powerful
and big as Frazier,
499
00:34:34,695 --> 00:34:37,615
and he was very much favoured
to win that,
500
00:34:37,655 --> 00:34:40,255
suddenly becomes the size of a pygmy.
501
00:34:40,295 --> 00:34:42,935
They just diminish in size,
502
00:34:42,975 --> 00:34:47,255
and Foreman suddenly became
this gigantic figure.
503
00:34:49,295 --> 00:34:53,135
'And he had a trainer, Dick Sadler,
tiny by comparison,
504
00:34:53,175 --> 00:34:58,055
'and Sadler would hang on to this
heavy bag while Foreman would hit it.
505
00:34:58,095 --> 00:35:01,496
'Sadler would have been
picked off his feet.'
506
00:35:03,056 --> 00:35:05,176
'Foreman hitting the bag
507
00:35:05,216 --> 00:35:09,936
'is one of the more prodigious sights
I've had in my life.
508
00:35:09,976 --> 00:35:14,416
'Of all the people I've seen hit
heavy bags, including Sonny Liston,
509
00:35:14,456 --> 00:35:16,856
'no one hit it the way Foreman did.'
510
00:35:16,896 --> 00:35:21,136
At the end of 15 minutes
of pounding the heavy bag,
511
00:35:21,176 --> 00:35:25,536
there'd be a hole,
not a hole but a huge dent,
512
00:35:25,576 --> 00:35:29,896
the size of half a small watermelon
in that tremendous bag,
513
00:35:29,936 --> 00:35:33,416
and Foreman used to use
the biggest heavy bag around.
514
00:35:33,456 --> 00:35:37,817
'What would be interesting is Ali,
who would train after Foreman,
515
00:35:37,857 --> 00:35:41,937
'would pass this large hall
where the training took place
516
00:35:41,977 --> 00:35:45,217
'and he never looked at Foreman
hitting the heavy bag.
517
00:35:45,257 --> 00:35:48,577
'He just walked right by
as if Foreman didn't exist.
518
00:35:48,617 --> 00:35:50,777
'If you were gonna fight the man
519
00:35:50,817 --> 00:35:54,497
'you didn't want to see him
hitting that heavy bag.'
520
00:35:54,537 --> 00:35:57,297
I'm a speed demon!
I'm a brain fighter!
521
00:35:57,337 --> 00:35:59,497
I'm scientific! I'm artistic!
522
00:35:59,537 --> 00:36:01,457
I plan my strategy!
523
00:36:02,377 --> 00:36:04,577
He's the bull, I'm the matador!
524
00:36:06,937 --> 00:36:08,937
He's scared to death.
525
00:36:09,257 --> 00:36:11,337
He's scared to death!
526
00:36:13,417 --> 00:36:16,418
He wish he could
get out of the whole thing!
527
00:36:16,458 --> 00:36:20,138
He wish he could get out of the whole
thing! The man is frightened!
528
00:36:20,178 --> 00:36:24,018
He's meetin' his master,
his teacher, his idol!
529
00:36:24,058 --> 00:36:26,378
- Time!
- Is that all?
530
00:36:28,418 --> 00:36:31,778
When I talk and work I'm in shape,
it's all I do.
531
00:36:32,898 --> 00:36:36,098
'Ali announced
he was gonna dance.
532
00:36:36,138 --> 00:36:38,258
'He spoke about it all the time.
533
00:36:38,298 --> 00:36:41,178
'Every interview
in that period he'd say
534
00:36:41,218 --> 00:36:45,338
'"How is Foreman going to get
near to me? I'm going to dance!
535
00:36:45,378 --> 00:36:50,098
'"I'm going to dance and dance! He'll
look foolish trying to find me.'
536
00:36:50,138 --> 00:36:52,659
"And as he gropes his way forward
537
00:36:52,699 --> 00:36:56,539
"in this storm of blindness
at the speed of my dancing
538
00:36:56,579 --> 00:36:58,659
"I will strike him with my jab!
539
00:36:58,699 --> 00:37:01,619
"Poo! Poo! Poo!"
he would go and so forth.
540
00:37:01,659 --> 00:37:05,379
We heard this over and over
and Foreman heard it too.
541
00:37:06,779 --> 00:37:10,699
'Foreman was working now on
what's called cutting off the ring.
542
00:37:10,779 --> 00:37:12,939
'This essentially just means
543
00:37:12,979 --> 00:37:17,139
'cornering your opponent
against the ropes or in a corner.
544
00:37:17,179 --> 00:37:21,579
'It's an art, a balletic art,
you have to have very good footwork.
545
00:37:21,619 --> 00:37:23,859
'Foreman's footwork,
he was a big man,
546
00:37:23,899 --> 00:37:27,059
'but his footwork was better
than anyone had expected.
547
00:37:27,099 --> 00:37:29,300
'He worked with very fast fighters,
548
00:37:29,340 --> 00:37:32,300
'smaller than himself,
who certainly could dance
549
00:37:32,340 --> 00:37:34,420
'and he worked on cornering them.
550
00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:37,780
'And the combination
of watching the heavy bag
551
00:37:37,820 --> 00:37:40,580
'and watching Foreman
cut off the ring
552
00:37:40,620 --> 00:37:43,820
'made most fight writers,
myself included,
553
00:37:43,860 --> 00:37:46,460
'pessimistic about Ali's chances.'
554
00:38:20,741 --> 00:38:24,901
The guy threw up his elbows
to protect himself from Foreman
555
00:38:24,941 --> 00:38:27,541
and Foreman walked into his elbow.
556
00:38:27,581 --> 00:38:29,581
That's how he got cut in the eye?
557
00:38:38,541 --> 00:38:39,661
What else can happen?
558
00:38:42,381 --> 00:38:45,142
I saw the man's cut
and this man cannot fight.
559
00:38:45,182 --> 00:38:48,342
This man cannot fight
for a world championship...
560
00:38:48,382 --> 00:38:51,982
- You're not a doctor.
- I don't give a damn. I know what...
561
00:38:52,022 --> 00:38:55,782
The Zaireans kicked us out
and they did not want us around,
562
00:38:55,822 --> 00:38:59,742
and they want the fight to go on,
that's all there is to it.
563
00:38:59,782 --> 00:39:02,702
He won't fight with that eye,
he's not dumb.
564
00:39:02,742 --> 00:39:04,462
He's not that dumb?
565
00:39:04,502 --> 00:39:07,062
That's all you want is a fight.
566
00:39:07,102 --> 00:39:08,942
Excuse me, gentlemen.
567
00:39:14,422 --> 00:39:19,422
I respectfully ask are the fighters
remaining here because they want to
568
00:39:19,462 --> 00:39:22,703
or has the government
requested they remain?
569
00:39:29,503 --> 00:39:33,583
Mr Sadler told me
to convey to the press
570
00:39:33,623 --> 00:39:35,583
that it is just an accident.
571
00:39:35,623 --> 00:39:39,423
They will be contacting
the promoters of the fight
572
00:39:39,463 --> 00:39:43,143
and it is possible
that we may have to delay the fight
573
00:39:43,183 --> 00:39:46,543
and he will let the press know
as soon as possible.
574
00:39:46,583 --> 00:39:49,063
Did they have to stitch Foreman?
575
00:39:49,103 --> 00:39:52,023
They had to stitch him.
Holy shit, man.
576
00:39:52,063 --> 00:39:54,023
So how long is the delay?
577
00:39:54,063 --> 00:39:58,424
It'll take a day to get
any intelligence, this just happened.
578
00:39:58,464 --> 00:40:00,544
Then we can make a decision.
579
00:40:00,584 --> 00:40:02,504
How does George feel?
580
00:40:02,544 --> 00:40:06,624
Like anybody, he's only human.
How would any individual feel?
581
00:40:06,664 --> 00:40:09,304
Does he want it postponed?
582
00:40:09,344 --> 00:40:11,224
Who? Why should he?
583
00:40:11,264 --> 00:40:15,824
- Should he go ahead with it?
- Why should he make any decision?
584
00:40:15,904 --> 00:40:18,504
Who knows what another man thinks?
585
00:40:18,544 --> 00:40:22,504
How could I truthfully tell you
what you would think?
586
00:40:22,544 --> 00:40:26,824
A man may have mixed emotions,
I couldn't speak for George,
587
00:40:26,864 --> 00:40:30,504
I can only speak for Dick Sadler,
not for somebody else.
588
00:40:30,584 --> 00:40:32,584
I'm not that intelligent,
589
00:40:32,624 --> 00:40:37,665
I don't have that knowledge, that
ability to speak another man's mind.
590
00:40:37,705 --> 00:40:39,705
He never discussed it to me,
591
00:40:39,745 --> 00:40:42,905
and a person's mind
change from time to time.
592
00:40:42,945 --> 00:40:46,185
- The decision is yours...
- It is mine to make
593
00:40:46,265 --> 00:40:50,785
and I haven't made any...
I don't have any decisions to make.
594
00:40:50,825 --> 00:40:53,905
Let's get this show
on the road.
595
00:40:53,945 --> 00:40:57,385
This meeting is called to order.
Here, here.
596
00:40:57,425 --> 00:41:02,225
The delay won't have
any effect on the fight at all.
597
00:41:02,265 --> 00:41:05,705
There hasn't been...
there will not be a delay.
598
00:41:05,745 --> 00:41:07,865
The fight will be rescheduled
599
00:41:07,905 --> 00:41:12,146
but when it happens it'll be
actually intended for that time.
600
00:41:12,186 --> 00:41:15,426
Fate intended it for another time.
There is no delay.
601
00:41:15,466 --> 00:41:18,946
How does
Ali feel about it?
602
00:41:18,986 --> 00:41:22,586
If there ever has been
any disappointments in sports,
603
00:41:22,626 --> 00:41:26,346
setbacks or rainy days
that stopped a ball game, anything,
604
00:41:26,426 --> 00:41:28,626
this is the worst of all time.
605
00:41:28,666 --> 00:41:32,706
'Muhammad went through
a bad couple of hours
606
00:41:32,746 --> 00:41:37,106
'and wanted to move the whole fight
back to the United States,
607
00:41:37,186 --> 00:41:41,946
'then he said "Bring Joe Frazier
over and I'll fight him again
608
00:41:41,986 --> 00:41:45,186
'"and instead of each of us
getting $5 million,
609
00:41:45,226 --> 00:41:48,706
'"I'll take $3 million
and Joe can take $1 million."
610
00:41:48,746 --> 00:41:52,667
'Then he realised
nothing could be done about it
611
00:41:52,707 --> 00:41:57,747
'except stay in Zaire an extra
six weeks and make the best of it.'
612
00:41:57,787 --> 00:42:02,147
Now I gotta wait. He'll get his
whupping but I just have to wait.
613
00:42:02,187 --> 00:42:06,307
Boy, I was ready!
I was gonna upset the world again!
614
00:42:06,347 --> 00:42:10,987
The whole world was gonna
crawl and bow the next morning!
615
00:42:11,027 --> 00:42:15,187
I was gonna defeat that big
indestructible George Foreman,
616
00:42:15,227 --> 00:42:16,947
gonna rip him up!
617
00:42:17,067 --> 00:42:19,827
I'm gonna get him
for a sparring partner.
618
00:42:20,907 --> 00:42:24,307
My dream's all messed up
for six more weeks.
619
00:42:25,707 --> 00:42:28,628
The man's in trouble,
the man is scared.
620
00:42:28,668 --> 00:42:31,988
- He's in my country to start with!
621
00:42:35,148 --> 00:42:39,228
He's in my country.
You wanna see some of my country?
622
00:42:39,268 --> 00:42:41,348
Ali, boma ye!
623
00:42:41,388 --> 00:42:45,788
Ali, boma ye!
Ali, boma ye!
624
00:42:45,828 --> 00:42:50,308
Can you picture 100,000?
Can you picture 100,000?
625
00:42:50,348 --> 00:42:55,748
How you say it?
Ali, boma ye, Ali, boma ye!
626
00:42:55,788 --> 00:42:57,588
Ali, boma ye!
627
00:42:57,628 --> 00:43:01,188
When I hear them brothers
howling like that, whoo!
628
00:43:01,228 --> 00:43:03,108
I get my soul and spirit,
629
00:43:03,148 --> 00:43:07,229
100,000 African brothers
hollering "Ali, boma ye!"
630
00:43:07,309 --> 00:43:09,109
And I'm gonna... Ooh!
631
00:43:09,149 --> 00:43:13,269
I'm tired, can't take it no more,
let me get out of here.
632
00:43:13,309 --> 00:43:17,269
I wanna... I'm going to my room,
I'll talk to you later.
633
00:43:23,229 --> 00:43:24,869
I said I'm gone!
634
00:43:28,829 --> 00:43:30,669
# What you give me
635
00:43:32,109 --> 00:43:33,989
# When I miss you, baby!
636
00:43:35,429 --> 00:43:37,589
# Oh, man!
637
00:43:39,309 --> 00:43:41,189
# Baby, you understand?
638
00:43:43,470 --> 00:43:45,350
# I'll be good!
639
00:43:46,790 --> 00:43:48,590
# In a cold sweat
640
00:43:50,710 --> 00:43:51,750
# Ow!
641
00:43:54,750 --> 00:43:56,630
# Turn it back #
642
00:43:58,950 --> 00:44:02,310
'Black acts in America
have not learned
643
00:44:02,350 --> 00:44:06,590
'that once their record
is off the charts they're finished.'
644
00:44:06,630 --> 00:44:10,830
I heard a speech by Jesse Jackson,
saying we must recognise
645
00:44:10,870 --> 00:44:14,470
that we're only useful
as long as we're necessary.
646
00:44:14,510 --> 00:44:19,351
So they don't realise that your
strength comes from your community.
647
00:44:19,391 --> 00:44:22,231
And you have to deal
from your strength.
648
00:44:22,271 --> 00:44:25,591
In dealing from your strength
you got somebody
649
00:44:25,671 --> 00:44:28,591
so if somebody
wants to hurt James Brown,
650
00:44:28,631 --> 00:44:31,671
somebody gonna raise a voice
and say "why?"
651
00:44:31,711 --> 00:44:35,071
You got soldiers,
somebody that's concerned.
652
00:44:35,111 --> 00:44:39,871
But as an individual, no matter
how big you get, you still a nigger.
653
00:44:39,911 --> 00:44:44,191
You don't care how much money
you get. You are still a nigger.
654
00:44:44,271 --> 00:44:46,351
When you become unnecessary.
655
00:44:46,391 --> 00:44:47,831
# Listen
656
00:44:49,071 --> 00:44:51,191
# Extend your love
657
00:44:53,271 --> 00:44:55,151
# Can I get a drum?
658
00:44:56,512 --> 00:44:58,752
# Can I get a little taste? #
659
00:44:59,312 --> 00:45:02,952
Do unto others as you would have them
to do unto you.
660
00:45:02,992 --> 00:45:05,072
Would you ask somebody to lynch you
661
00:45:05,112 --> 00:45:10,112
and tell you where to go and how
to look, then refuse to pay you?
662
00:45:10,152 --> 00:45:13,072
Would you ask somebody
to take advantage of your woman
663
00:45:13,112 --> 00:45:15,192
and you can't even speak to his?
664
00:45:15,232 --> 00:45:19,232
Would you like to pay taxes for
something that you never received?
665
00:45:19,272 --> 00:45:22,672
Do unto others as you would have
somebody do unto you.
666
00:45:22,712 --> 00:45:26,072
And I don't have to use
the word "FM" backwards.
667
00:45:31,592 --> 00:45:34,993
We left Africa in shackles,
fetters and chains.
668
00:45:35,033 --> 00:45:38,713
We're coming back
in an aura of splendour and glory.
669
00:45:38,753 --> 00:45:43,913
The champions are here, champions of
the sports world and the music world,
670
00:45:43,993 --> 00:45:48,153
so put 'em together and we got
one champion that's so intermingled
671
00:45:48,193 --> 00:45:50,593
that we're fused into one entity.
672
00:45:50,633 --> 00:45:54,313
The brother said something there!
Yeah!
673
00:45:54,353 --> 00:45:56,273
Don King put this together.
674
00:45:56,313 --> 00:45:59,713
It was not a colour put it together,
you understand?
675
00:45:59,753 --> 00:46:01,833
I'd like to call him the Messiah.
676
00:46:01,873 --> 00:46:04,873
'This fight
came into existence
677
00:46:04,913 --> 00:46:08,753
'because of Don King's
desire to break out of the pack.
678
00:46:08,793 --> 00:46:14,274
'He was either going to become an
enormously prominent man, at least,
679
00:46:14,314 --> 00:46:17,594
'or go back to obscurity again
if it failed.'
680
00:46:17,634 --> 00:46:20,394
Oh, I'm so happy
to see you, my brothers.
681
00:46:20,434 --> 00:46:23,394
This is the Minister of Finance
of Zaire.
682
00:46:23,434 --> 00:46:27,194
Yes, I have met
the Minister of Finance. How are you?
683
00:46:27,234 --> 00:46:30,234
I appreciate your talent
and expertise.
684
00:46:30,274 --> 00:46:33,914
This is what it's all about.
I welcome you with love.
685
00:46:33,994 --> 00:46:38,314
We must deal with it as such,
but with love, not with hostility.
686
00:46:38,354 --> 00:46:40,714
You know, just but with love.
687
00:46:40,794 --> 00:46:42,594
Bravo, Mr King!
688
00:46:42,634 --> 00:46:44,314
My brother!
689
00:46:44,354 --> 00:46:47,875
'King had
this huge air of welcome.
690
00:46:47,915 --> 00:46:52,075
'Rarely has anyone ever been welcomed
the way King could do it.'
691
00:46:52,115 --> 00:46:53,995
'A joy came off him.'
692
00:46:54,035 --> 00:46:57,515
I knew his reputation,
how he'd been in jail,
693
00:46:57,555 --> 00:47:00,075
how he was thoroughly untrustworthy
694
00:47:00,115 --> 00:47:02,875
but nonetheless
he made you feel good.
695
00:47:02,915 --> 00:47:05,355
Don't leave! I need your strength!
696
00:47:05,395 --> 00:47:07,275
He was startling looking.
697
00:47:07,315 --> 00:47:11,715
Writers found different ways
to describe this uprush of hair.
698
00:47:11,755 --> 00:47:15,515
Some would say that he'd stuck
his thumb into an electric socket.
699
00:47:15,555 --> 00:47:18,075
Falling through an elevator shaft.
700
00:47:18,115 --> 00:47:20,395
'The fight was postponed.
701
00:47:20,435 --> 00:47:25,196
'Don King turned up and it seemed
maybe the fight wouldn't happen.'
702
00:47:25,236 --> 00:47:27,716
Nothing as big as this
ever runs smoothly,
703
00:47:27,756 --> 00:47:30,356
anything worthwhile
is worth fighting for.
704
00:47:30,396 --> 00:47:33,396
If you think
about what Shakespeare said,
705
00:47:33,436 --> 00:47:35,516
"the sweet uses of adversity,
706
00:47:35,556 --> 00:47:40,476
"ugly and venomous like a toad yet
wears a precious jewel in his head."
707
00:47:40,556 --> 00:47:44,756
"Ugly and venomous like a toad
yet wears a precious jewel."
708
00:47:44,796 --> 00:47:48,636
How many fight promoters have tried
even one line of Shakespeare?
709
00:47:48,676 --> 00:47:52,356
I can relate to the denial
they are confronted with,
710
00:47:52,396 --> 00:47:57,916
the rat-infested hovels, sub-standard
tenements, overcrowded tenements.
711
00:47:57,956 --> 00:48:02,156
I've been a part of it.
I know about roaches and rats.
712
00:48:02,196 --> 00:48:04,277
When he started talkin' to me
713
00:48:04,317 --> 00:48:06,757
I can understand him
and he can understand me.
714
00:48:06,797 --> 00:48:09,717
So, when I do this here
he can understand.
715
00:48:09,757 --> 00:48:11,637
Now he will believe in me
716
00:48:11,677 --> 00:48:14,757
because he feels
that I have shared with him
717
00:48:14,797 --> 00:48:18,717
the same anguish and anxiety,
the same pain that he has felt.
718
00:48:18,797 --> 00:48:20,477
It's a big difference.
719
00:48:20,517 --> 00:48:23,397
What would happen
if you took a small part
720
00:48:23,437 --> 00:48:26,957
of the vast sums of money
being made from the fight
721
00:48:26,997 --> 00:48:29,597
and put it into something that was...
722
00:48:29,637 --> 00:48:33,197
that would help a number of people
rather than a few?
723
00:48:33,237 --> 00:48:35,437
This is my dream and desire,
724
00:48:35,477 --> 00:48:41,118
and I feel that I would need...
white counterparts to do this here.
725
00:48:41,158 --> 00:48:46,238
I would say let me engender a large
amount of money, if it's possible,
726
00:48:46,278 --> 00:48:50,878
and then don't just let the money
sit there and wither away and die
727
00:48:50,918 --> 00:48:55,558
but put it into the sun so it could
germinate, blossom and grow.
728
00:48:55,598 --> 00:48:58,038
'He's a remarkable man.
729
00:48:58,078 --> 00:49:02,078
'Don King is one of
the brightest people I've ever met,
730
00:49:02,118 --> 00:49:06,078
'he's one of the most
charismatic people I've ever met,
731
00:49:06,118 --> 00:49:10,398
'he's one of the hardest working
people I've ever met.'
732
00:49:10,438 --> 00:49:13,518
He is also totally amoral
733
00:49:13,598 --> 00:49:19,999
and I can't think of a man who has
done more to demoralise fighters,
734
00:49:20,039 --> 00:49:25,679
exploit from fighters and ruin
fighters' careers than Don King.
735
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:27,839
But you have to give him his due
736
00:49:27,879 --> 00:49:32,639
for what he did to make Muhammad Ali
versus George Foreman in Zaire.
737
00:49:32,679 --> 00:49:35,839
And nobody does anything for nothing.
738
00:49:36,479 --> 00:49:38,159
You understand that?
739
00:49:38,199 --> 00:49:41,199
Fight or no fight,
what business are we in?
740
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,639
- Music!
- I was starting to wonder.
741
00:49:43,679 --> 00:49:45,519
I felt like
we've been in the fight business.
742
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:19,720
# My body
743
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:21,920
# My body
744
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,720
# Shake your body
745
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:29,040
# Shake your body
746
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,401
# Shake your body
747
00:50:32,761 --> 00:50:34,841
# We're gonna have a funky good time
748
00:50:35,281 --> 00:50:38,081
# We're gonna have a funky good time
749
00:50:39,721 --> 00:50:42,321
# We're gonna have a funky good time
750
00:50:43,321 --> 00:50:45,961
# We're gonna have a funky good time
751
00:50:47,121 --> 00:50:49,881
# We're gonna have a funky good time
752
00:50:50,881 --> 00:50:53,201
# We're gonna have a funky good time
753
00:50:53,241 --> 00:50:54,761
# Pick 'em up!
754
00:50:54,801 --> 00:50:59,681
# We're gonna take you high
755
00:51:09,682 --> 00:51:12,162
# We're gonna have a funky good time
756
00:51:12,802 --> 00:51:15,522
# We're gonna have a funky good time
757
00:51:17,042 --> 00:51:19,562
# We're gonna have a funky good time
758
00:51:20,722 --> 00:51:23,162
# We're gonna have a funky good time
759
00:51:23,202 --> 00:51:25,122
# Pick 'em up!
760
00:51:25,162 --> 00:51:29,842
# We're gonna take you high, yeah! #
761
00:51:40,082 --> 00:51:43,282
I'm gonna play me
some soul music, man.
762
00:51:44,762 --> 00:51:48,323
The Spinners...to James Brown.
763
00:51:48,403 --> 00:51:50,923
- # Make me high
- # Get me high
764
00:51:51,203 --> 00:51:53,123
- # Make me high
- # Get me high
765
00:51:53,163 --> 00:51:56,563
- # A natural high
- # Groovy high... #
766
00:51:56,603 --> 00:51:59,443
Ali! Ali!
767
00:51:59,483 --> 00:52:01,883
# Downright high
768
00:52:01,923 --> 00:52:04,283
- # Everybody high
- # Legal high
769
00:52:04,323 --> 00:52:06,163
# Need to get high
770
00:52:06,203 --> 00:52:09,003
- # Down high... #
- I'm ready.
771
00:52:09,043 --> 00:52:11,123
- # Bad!
- # Bad!
772
00:52:11,683 --> 00:52:12,963
- # Bad!
- # Bad!
773
00:52:13,443 --> 00:52:14,843
- # Bad!
- # Bad!
774
00:52:15,243 --> 00:52:17,123
- # Bad!
- # Bad!
775
00:52:17,203 --> 00:52:18,923
- # Bad!
- # Bad!
776
00:52:19,283 --> 00:52:20,323
- # Bad!
- # Bad!
777
00:52:20,803 --> 00:52:22,243
- # Bad!
- # Bad!
778
00:52:22,683 --> 00:52:24,364
- # Bad!
- # Bad! #
779
00:53:12,325 --> 00:53:14,285
Sucker, you ain't nothin'!
780
00:53:14,325 --> 00:53:16,005
You're too ugly!
781
00:53:16,045 --> 00:53:18,885
You don't represent
us coloured folks.
782
00:53:18,925 --> 00:53:21,525
These Africans make all of us ugly.
783
00:53:22,605 --> 00:53:24,245
Sucker, look at you!
784
00:53:26,245 --> 00:53:28,365
You out, sucker.
785
00:53:31,565 --> 00:53:33,765
Ali, boma ye!
786
00:53:33,805 --> 00:53:35,965
Ali, boma ye!
787
00:53:36,005 --> 00:53:38,126
Ali, boma ye!
788
00:53:38,366 --> 00:53:40,566
Ali, boma ye!
789
00:53:40,606 --> 00:53:42,366
That mean kill him!
790
00:53:42,406 --> 00:53:46,286
When I walk
down the street kids follow me
791
00:53:46,326 --> 00:53:49,126
screaming "George Foreman, bumba yu"
792
00:53:49,166 --> 00:53:51,046
er, "boma ye", yeah.
793
00:53:51,086 --> 00:53:54,486
And that hasn't...
I don't think that's so nice.
794
00:53:54,526 --> 00:53:58,686
I'd like, if they have anything
to say about me they could say
795
00:53:58,726 --> 00:54:03,526
"George Foreman loves Africa"
or "George Foreman loves being here"
796
00:54:03,566 --> 00:54:07,086
not "George Foreman, kill him,"
I don't like that.
797
00:54:07,126 --> 00:54:09,446
Boma ye!
Boma ye!
798
00:54:10,606 --> 00:54:13,846
George Foreman.
Boma ye! Boma ye!
799
00:54:18,367 --> 00:54:21,287
- There he is!
- Boma ye!
800
00:54:21,327 --> 00:54:23,367
Sucker, you wasn't nothing!
801
00:54:23,407 --> 00:54:25,567
Even they understand English.
802
00:54:25,607 --> 00:54:29,407
'We were all for Muhammad Ali.
803
00:54:29,447 --> 00:54:32,167
'Foreman? We didn't know him.
804
00:54:34,687 --> 00:54:37,487
'Foreman said "Why?
805
00:54:37,527 --> 00:54:40,447
'"I'm black,
blacker than Muhammad Ali.
806
00:54:40,487 --> 00:54:42,567
'"Why all this bias?"
807
00:54:43,807 --> 00:54:46,887
'Yes, Muhammad Ali, he was lighter,
808
00:54:46,927 --> 00:54:50,407
'but he was a real person,
he was genuine.
809
00:54:50,447 --> 00:54:54,328
'Muhammad Ali could have been
even lighter-skinned
810
00:54:54,368 --> 00:54:57,568
'but for us
he was defending the good cause,
811
00:54:57,608 --> 00:55:00,368
'for Africans and the whole world.'
812
00:55:00,408 --> 00:55:02,248
Watch this, seven punches.
813
00:55:03,448 --> 00:55:05,848
I'm gonna fight for the prestige,
814
00:55:05,888 --> 00:55:08,928
not for me
but to uplift my little brothers
815
00:55:08,968 --> 00:55:12,808
who are sleeping
on concrete floors today in America.
816
00:55:12,848 --> 00:55:16,208
Black people living on welfare,
who can't eat,
817
00:55:16,248 --> 00:55:21,448
Black people who don't know no
knowledge of themselves or no future.
818
00:55:21,488 --> 00:55:26,088
I wanna win my title and walk down
the alleys with the wine-heads,
819
00:55:26,128 --> 00:55:29,488
walk with the dope addicts,
the prostitutes.
820
00:55:29,528 --> 00:55:33,849
I could help people, show 'em films,
take this documentary,
821
00:55:33,889 --> 00:55:37,449
and help uplift my people
in Louisville, Kentucky;
822
00:55:37,489 --> 00:55:40,649
Indianapolis, Indiana;
Cincinnati, Ohio;
823
00:55:40,689 --> 00:55:44,089
go through Tennessee, Florida
and Mississippi
824
00:55:44,129 --> 00:55:48,609
and show Black Africans who didn't
know this was their country,
825
00:55:48,649 --> 00:55:52,329
"You look like your brothers
in Alabama, in Georgia.
826
00:55:52,369 --> 00:55:54,769
"They never knew you was over here."
827
00:55:54,809 --> 00:55:57,649
God is blessing me
and it was an accident
828
00:55:57,689 --> 00:55:59,769
to help get to all these people
829
00:55:59,809 --> 00:56:04,489
and show them films I haven't seen!
I'm well and I haven't seem them!
830
00:56:04,529 --> 00:56:09,370
Now I can get all these films, you
governments can let me take pictures
831
00:56:09,410 --> 00:56:12,730
and I can take
all this back to America!
832
00:56:12,810 --> 00:56:17,370
But - it's good to be a winner,
all I've got to do is whup Foreman.
833
00:56:17,410 --> 00:56:21,090
I realise how unfortunate
and uncomfortable it is
834
00:56:21,130 --> 00:56:23,690
for you guys to have travelled so far
835
00:56:23,730 --> 00:56:25,730
and expecting so much
836
00:56:25,770 --> 00:56:27,810
and getting so little.
837
00:56:27,850 --> 00:56:30,450
'George Foreman
was a phenomenon.
838
00:56:30,490 --> 00:56:32,970
'He was almost like a physical guru.
839
00:56:33,010 --> 00:56:36,690
'He almost never spoke
but it was always arresting.
840
00:56:36,730 --> 00:56:41,810
'You never quite knew what he meant,
it might be deep or non-responsive.
841
00:56:41,850 --> 00:56:45,691
'He was Negritude.
He was this huge Black force.'
842
00:56:45,731 --> 00:56:49,811
Because of this I had expected
Muhammad Ali to be here today.
843
00:56:49,851 --> 00:56:54,571
I was gonna hit him in his mouth
to give you some entertainment.
844
00:56:54,611 --> 00:56:58,691
Now when I go in the ring,
you see what kind of mind I got now?
845
00:56:59,771 --> 00:57:01,891
Oh! Oh!
846
00:57:01,931 --> 00:57:04,011
I just got to pound him.
847
00:57:04,051 --> 00:57:05,931
I'm not gonna even realise...
848
00:57:05,971 --> 00:57:09,371
I might look at his face
and say, "How'd I do that?"
849
00:57:09,411 --> 00:57:14,251
Allah, God, I'm his tool. God got
in me on purpose for my people.
850
00:57:14,291 --> 00:57:17,531
God has made this man
look like a little kid.
851
00:57:17,571 --> 00:57:22,212
His so-called right hand ain't
nothing now, I don't even feel 'em!
852
00:57:22,252 --> 00:57:26,452
I walk right in and take my shots
because I have God in my mind.
853
00:57:26,492 --> 00:57:31,332
I'm thinking of my people being free
and I can help with just one fight.
854
00:57:31,372 --> 00:57:35,452
He looks little in comparison
to what I'm getting from it!
855
00:57:35,492 --> 00:57:38,092
But if I think about just me...
856
00:57:38,132 --> 00:57:41,652
George Foreman knocked out
Joe Frazier like he was God.
857
00:57:41,692 --> 00:57:43,772
He knocked out Ken Norton.
858
00:57:43,812 --> 00:57:46,732
And the white press,
the power structure
859
00:57:46,772 --> 00:57:49,092
rank me to get tired in five or six,
860
00:57:49,132 --> 00:57:53,212
then I go in like Norton
and the rest of them and get scared.
861
00:57:53,252 --> 00:57:54,772
But my God controls the universe.
862
00:58:05,213 --> 00:58:09,293
'I was interested
in people called "féticheurs".
863
00:58:09,373 --> 00:58:12,053
'They are witches, soothsayers,
864
00:58:12,093 --> 00:58:14,893
'and in Western Africa
almost everybody has one.
865
00:58:14,933 --> 00:58:17,613
'They go to a witch doctor
the way we would go to a dentist.'
866
00:58:20,333 --> 00:58:23,973
Muhammad Ali had been
to Mobutu's féticheur.
867
00:58:26,253 --> 00:58:28,133
And...
868
00:58:29,053 --> 00:58:31,293
He had said that...
869
00:58:31,333 --> 00:58:35,373
The féticheur had said
that a woman with trembling hands
870
00:58:35,413 --> 00:58:37,854
would somehow get to Foreman.
871
00:58:37,894 --> 00:58:39,774
A succubus.
872
00:58:39,814 --> 00:58:42,454
'And that impressed me enormously.'
873
00:59:46,935 --> 00:59:52,496
'The heavyweight
championship produces an excitement
874
00:59:52,536 --> 00:59:55,696
'that's unlike
almost any other spectacle.
875
00:59:55,736 --> 00:59:58,416
'It's almost physically unendurable
876
00:59:58,456 --> 01:00:01,936
'to wait for that bell
to ring for the first round.
877
01:00:02,016 --> 01:00:05,776
'In 1974 in Zaire, the fight started
at four in the morning,
878
01:00:05,816 --> 01:00:09,096
'in order that it could be shown
on TV in America
879
01:00:09,136 --> 01:00:11,416
'at a reasonable hour like 10.'
880
01:00:11,456 --> 01:00:14,096
Boma ye! Boma ye!
881
01:00:14,136 --> 01:00:18,656
'Before the fight,
I saw a scene that was incomparable.
882
01:00:18,696 --> 01:00:21,616
'Ali's dressing room
was like a morgue.'
883
01:00:21,656 --> 01:00:23,736
It was like The Last Supper.
884
01:00:24,736 --> 01:00:27,456
And at a certain point Ali said,
885
01:00:27,496 --> 01:00:30,457
"Why is everyone...
886
01:00:31,897 --> 01:00:33,777
"so unhappy?
887
01:00:33,817 --> 01:00:36,377
"What is the matter with all of you?"
888
01:00:36,417 --> 01:00:41,897
The sense was that we were watching
a man who was going out to be...
889
01:00:41,937 --> 01:00:44,137
going out to the gallows.
890
01:00:44,177 --> 01:00:48,817
They all believed he was gonna get
defeated and they were terrified.
891
01:00:48,857 --> 01:00:51,217
They thought that with his pride
892
01:00:51,257 --> 01:00:54,377
he would take one of the world's
worst beatings ever
893
01:00:54,417 --> 01:00:56,217
and he wouldn't give up.
894
01:00:56,257 --> 01:01:00,097
And he was gonna be destroyed.
Killed or maimed, they knew not what.
895
01:01:00,137 --> 01:01:02,457
But they were deeply frightened,
896
01:01:02,497 --> 01:01:07,418
as if they were taking whatever fear
Ali might have had and absorbing it.
897
01:01:07,458 --> 01:01:09,978
After a while he looked at Bundini
898
01:01:10,018 --> 01:01:12,898
and said,
"We're gonna dance tonight."
899
01:01:12,938 --> 01:01:16,298
They said, "You're gonna dance!"
900
01:01:16,338 --> 01:01:19,898
Muhammad Ali was so funny
repeating this.
901
01:01:19,938 --> 01:01:22,938
"What am I gonna do?!"
They said, "Dance!"
902
01:01:22,978 --> 01:01:26,938
He said, "Yes!
And that man's gonna be bewildered!
903
01:01:26,978 --> 01:01:29,218
"I'm gonna dance and dance!"
904
01:01:29,258 --> 01:01:33,418
And they said, "You're gonna dance!"
I swear they were all crying.
905
01:01:33,458 --> 01:01:36,498
And he built them up to a degree
906
01:01:36,538 --> 01:01:38,698
so that for him
they became half-happy.
907
01:01:41,458 --> 01:01:43,739
Here comes the
Ali people out of the dressing room
908
01:01:43,779 --> 01:01:46,819
and all of the questions
will be answered.
909
01:01:46,859 --> 01:01:49,419
The awesome power of George Foreman
910
01:01:49,459 --> 01:01:53,099
against the varied boxing skills
of Muhammad Ali.
911
01:01:53,139 --> 01:01:55,659
It's age against youth.
912
01:01:55,699 --> 01:01:57,899
The experience of Muhammad Ali
913
01:01:57,939 --> 01:02:01,859
against the youth and brute force
and blinding speed.
914
01:02:01,899 --> 01:02:04,619
You can hear the band strike up
in the background
915
01:02:04,659 --> 01:02:06,739
as Ali moves to the ring.
916
01:02:06,779 --> 01:02:10,859
This is what Muhammad Ali lives for,
this is the man's life.
917
01:02:10,899 --> 01:02:13,139
This may be an historic event,
918
01:02:13,179 --> 01:02:17,379
Muhammad Ali coming into
the boxing ring for the last time.
919
01:02:17,419 --> 01:02:19,419
Should Muhammad Ali retire,
920
01:02:19,459 --> 01:02:23,220
this will be, what you're seeing now,
a very historic event.
921
01:02:23,260 --> 01:02:27,500
Here comes the heavyweight champion
of the world, George Foreman,
922
01:02:27,540 --> 01:02:29,620
jogging out!
923
01:02:29,660 --> 01:02:32,780
George Foreman
decked out in his red robes,
924
01:02:32,860 --> 01:02:34,940
coming in with his people.
925
01:02:34,980 --> 01:02:38,460
'No one in the press
ever saw Mobutu
926
01:02:38,500 --> 01:02:40,860
'and he didn't come to the fight.
927
01:02:40,900 --> 01:02:43,860
'He watched the fight
on closed circuit.
928
01:02:43,900 --> 01:02:45,940
'It was the only one in Zaire.
929
01:02:45,980 --> 01:02:49,020
'He was terribly afraid
of assassination.
930
01:02:49,060 --> 01:02:52,420
'This stadium
was a true arena for gladiators.
931
01:02:52,460 --> 01:02:57,941
'The floor you could not see beneath
the floor was covered with blood.
932
01:02:57,981 --> 01:03:02,581
'That blood had been washed away
but the effect was still there.'
933
01:03:02,621 --> 01:03:06,181
There was talk
about the possibility of rain,
934
01:03:06,221 --> 01:03:09,861
I don't think the weather could be
any more beautiful than it is.
935
01:03:09,901 --> 01:03:12,581
Ali is getting the people to chant!
936
01:03:12,621 --> 01:03:15,701
"Ali, boma ye,"
that means "Ali, kill him."
937
01:03:15,741 --> 01:03:20,941
'The atmosphere before
the bell rang for that first round
938
01:03:20,981 --> 01:03:24,341
'was as intense
as any I ever recall.'
939
01:03:24,381 --> 01:03:29,501
As they stare, Muhammad
Ali talking to George Foreman.
940
01:03:29,541 --> 01:03:31,661
Really staring at each other.
941
01:03:31,701 --> 01:03:35,342
Foreman looking serious,
Ali definitely talking.
942
01:03:35,382 --> 01:03:39,142
Look at the stare on Foreman.
Look at Ali give him the word.
943
01:03:39,182 --> 01:03:42,982
The stage is set, we're just about
ready to begin round one.
944
01:03:43,022 --> 01:03:45,182
The championship is at stake
945
01:03:45,222 --> 01:03:48,582
and $5 million will be paid
to both fighters.
946
01:03:48,622 --> 01:03:52,662
Ali ready, Foreman ready,
we're waiting for the bell.
947
01:03:54,222 --> 01:03:57,182
Here we go,
Ali quickly across the ring.
948
01:03:57,222 --> 01:04:01,302
Round one, Ali bouncing around,
shifting left to right.
949
01:04:01,342 --> 01:04:04,702
George moves slow,
Ali gets the first punch in,
950
01:04:04,742 --> 01:04:08,942
a light right-hand taken
on the forehead by the champion.
951
01:04:08,982 --> 01:04:11,462
Foreman moving slow, stalking.
952
01:04:11,502 --> 01:04:14,783
Ali looks like he's ready to go here.
953
01:04:14,823 --> 01:04:18,023
He's not staying away,
he's going after his man.
954
01:04:18,063 --> 01:04:22,743
Foreman cautious in the first round,
looking to drop that left hook.
955
01:04:27,223 --> 01:04:30,303
Foreman's locked his man
to the far corner.
956
01:04:30,343 --> 01:04:34,303
There's that left upper-cut
into the body of Muhammad Ali.
957
01:04:34,343 --> 01:04:37,823
Ali tries to hang on
to the head of George Foreman.
958
01:04:37,863 --> 01:04:41,143
Foreman dances...
Ali with a right-hand lead!
959
01:04:41,183 --> 01:04:44,823
Has Foreman slightly confused
with that right-hand lead,
960
01:04:44,863 --> 01:04:47,703
which I haven't seen
too many times before.
961
01:04:47,743 --> 01:04:52,024
A right-hand lead, where you throw
your right without countering,
962
01:04:52,064 --> 01:04:54,784
you throw it first, like a jab.
963
01:04:54,824 --> 01:04:59,104
That has to travel that extra
distance across the shoulders.
964
01:04:59,144 --> 01:05:03,944
'Professionals rarely use this
because it's so dangerous to throw
965
01:05:03,984 --> 01:05:06,344
'since you are open to a left hook.
966
01:05:06,384 --> 01:05:09,304
'Since fighters work in milliseconds
967
01:05:09,344 --> 01:05:13,104
'they can see a right coming
much faster than a jab.'
968
01:05:13,144 --> 01:05:16,424
Nobody had thrown a right-hand lead
at Foreman in two years,
969
01:05:16,464 --> 01:05:19,624
and none of his sparring partners,
for $50 a day,
970
01:05:19,664 --> 01:05:23,304
was going to start
throwing right-hand leads at him
971
01:05:23,344 --> 01:05:26,905
because it's a great insult
to a top professional.
972
01:05:26,945 --> 01:05:30,905
'It suggests he's slow enough
that you can hit him with it.'
973
01:05:30,945 --> 01:05:35,865
'Instead Ali figured out Foreman's
not expecting a right-hand lead.
974
01:05:35,905 --> 01:05:39,585
'"I'm gonna hit him with a right hand
and knock him out."
975
01:05:39,625 --> 01:05:44,545
'Ali threw 12 right hand leads, he
hadn't told anybody he was going to.'
976
01:05:44,585 --> 01:05:48,505
He may have debated whether to
up until the last moment.
977
01:05:48,545 --> 01:05:52,025
But he didn't knock Foreman down
or knock him out.
978
01:05:52,065 --> 01:05:54,105
Instead, Foreman went crazy.
979
01:05:54,145 --> 01:05:57,985
That punch
did no damage. That one did!
980
01:05:58,025 --> 01:06:01,225
Two wild right hands
taken on the head of Ali!
981
01:06:01,265 --> 01:06:04,626
A real strong right hand
just underneath the heart.
982
01:06:04,666 --> 01:06:07,426
Ali is taking some punishment now!
983
01:06:07,466 --> 01:06:09,746
Eight seconds left in the round.
984
01:06:09,786 --> 01:06:11,866
Bell rang.
985
01:06:12,506 --> 01:06:14,826
Ali went back to the corner...
986
01:06:14,866 --> 01:06:19,226
Finally the nightmare
he'd been awaiting in the ring
987
01:06:19,266 --> 01:06:21,506
had finally come to visit him.
988
01:06:21,546 --> 01:06:25,266
'He was in the ring
with a man he could not dominate,
989
01:06:25,306 --> 01:06:29,066
'who was stronger than him,
who was not afraid of him,
990
01:06:29,106 --> 01:06:33,186
'who'd try to knock him out,
and who punched harder than Ali,
991
01:06:33,226 --> 01:06:37,226
'and this man was determined
and unstoppable.
992
01:06:37,266 --> 01:06:39,986
'Ali had a look on his face
that I'll never forget.
993
01:06:40,026 --> 01:06:43,067
'It was the only time
I ever saw fear in Ali's eyes.'
994
01:06:43,107 --> 01:06:46,427
Ali looked as if
he looked into himself and said,
995
01:06:46,507 --> 01:06:48,707
"All right, this is the moment.
996
01:06:48,747 --> 01:06:51,507
"This is what
you've been waiting for.
997
01:06:51,547 --> 01:06:54,387
"This is...that hour.
998
01:06:55,347 --> 01:06:58,467
"Do you have the guts?"
And he kind of nodded,
999
01:06:58,507 --> 01:07:01,467
like, "Really got
to get it together, boy.
1000
01:07:01,507 --> 01:07:05,707
"You are gonna get it together...
you WILL get it together."
1001
01:07:05,747 --> 01:07:10,427
He nodded some more, as if he were
looking into the eyes of his maker,
1002
01:07:10,467 --> 01:07:14,507
and then turned to the crowd
and went "Ali, boma ye!"
1003
01:07:14,547 --> 01:07:18,587
and 100,000 people
all yelled back "Ali, boma ye!"
1004
01:07:18,627 --> 01:07:23,668
And this huge reverberation
of the crowd came back into the ring.
1005
01:07:23,708 --> 01:07:26,948
'Ali picked it up as if
"these are my people,
1006
01:07:26,988 --> 01:07:29,028
'"this is what I'm here for.
1007
01:07:29,068 --> 01:07:33,388
'"The time has come, I'm gonna find
a way to master this man."'
1008
01:07:33,428 --> 01:07:36,028
Ali tries
to tie him up.
1009
01:07:36,068 --> 01:07:38,748
No real damage done in that exchange.
1010
01:07:38,788 --> 01:07:43,628
'Foreman, like everyone,
had assumed that Ali would dance,
1011
01:07:43,668 --> 01:07:48,908
'and so Ali now went to the ropes
and went into the Rope-a-Dope.
1012
01:07:49,828 --> 01:07:53,868
'And a lot of people thought
that moment the fight was over.
1013
01:07:53,908 --> 01:07:58,429
'Especially on TV, it looked like
Foreman was killing a very weak Ali.'
1014
01:07:58,469 --> 01:08:00,349
You don't go to the ropes.
1015
01:08:00,389 --> 01:08:03,509
And there he was, leaning way back.
1016
01:08:03,549 --> 01:08:06,629
'I wrote about it, like a man
leaning out of his window
1017
01:08:06,669 --> 01:08:09,629
'trying to see
if there's something on his roof.'
1018
01:08:09,669 --> 01:08:11,549
And, you know, taking it.
1019
01:08:11,589 --> 01:08:13,829
Here were these great broadsides
1020
01:08:13,869 --> 01:08:17,469
and it looked like
he was being set up for the kill.
1021
01:08:17,509 --> 01:08:20,069
It happened so quickly
and so abruptly,
1022
01:08:20,109 --> 01:08:24,789
that I said, I shouted to Norman,
"The fix is in."
1023
01:08:24,829 --> 01:08:27,469
'He's supposed to go down
in the first or second.
1024
01:08:27,509 --> 01:08:30,069
'Ropes is halfway house
to the floor.'
1025
01:08:30,109 --> 01:08:32,829
'It just looked as though
he had to cave in.'
1026
01:08:32,869 --> 01:08:37,990
..some awkward but
very powerful hooks with both hands.
1027
01:08:38,030 --> 01:08:41,990
'They became so basic that
they were like two kids fighting.'
1028
01:08:43,590 --> 01:08:46,910
'For that round and the next round
and the next round
1029
01:08:46,990 --> 01:08:50,710
'Ali lay against the ropes,
and he kept talking to Foreman.
1030
01:08:50,750 --> 01:08:52,430
'It was extraordinary.
1031
01:08:52,470 --> 01:08:55,230
'You had to be close to see it.'
1032
01:08:55,270 --> 01:08:59,030
'And Foreman was throwing
these prodigious punches
1033
01:08:59,070 --> 01:09:01,950
'and Ali swung
like a man in the rigging.'
1034
01:09:01,990 --> 01:09:04,790
He'd go all the way back,
he'd slide out like that.
1035
01:09:04,830 --> 01:09:08,350
Occasionally, he'd get hit and he'd
say "George, you disappoint me.
1036
01:09:08,390 --> 01:09:12,671
"You don't hit as hard
as I thought you would, George,
1037
01:09:12,711 --> 01:09:15,231
"you're not breaking popcorn!"
1038
01:09:15,271 --> 01:09:17,591
'And Foreman's insane with rage,
1039
01:09:17,631 --> 01:09:20,471
'wanging at him and wanging at him,
1040
01:09:20,511 --> 01:09:23,071
'powerful, powerful, powerful.
1041
01:09:23,111 --> 01:09:26,991
'And middle of the fifth round
Foreman had punched himself out.
1042
01:09:27,031 --> 01:09:29,071
'It had taken three rounds.'
1043
01:09:29,151 --> 01:09:33,671
Ali picks it up,
40 seconds left in round five.
1044
01:09:38,031 --> 01:09:42,671
First good combination by Ali
lands on the head of Foreman.
1045
01:09:42,711 --> 01:09:45,231
Foreman with that right hook.
1046
01:09:45,271 --> 01:09:47,271
Ali scores a hook!
1047
01:09:47,311 --> 01:09:50,392
Quick jab with the right
backs up Foreman!
1048
01:09:50,432 --> 01:09:52,392
Backs him up in his tracks!
1049
01:09:52,432 --> 01:09:55,992
Foreman tries the hook!
Ali goes to the right!
1050
01:09:56,032 --> 01:09:58,352
Foreman gets knocked to the left!
1051
01:09:59,512 --> 01:10:01,552
Foreman hit again!
1052
01:10:01,592 --> 01:10:05,632
Foreman has been hit
three or four times!
1053
01:10:05,672 --> 01:10:08,112
Ali came off the ropes
and hit him a right
1054
01:10:08,152 --> 01:10:12,352
and you can see the sweat pour off
like a fountain off Foreman's face
1055
01:10:12,392 --> 01:10:16,632
and you suddenly realised
there was design in this madness.
1056
01:10:16,672 --> 01:10:20,072
So I turned to Norman,
he was somewhat puzzled,
1057
01:10:20,112 --> 01:10:22,792
but I said,
"The succubus has got him!",
1058
01:10:22,832 --> 01:10:25,833
referring to this woman
with the trembling hands
1059
01:10:25,873 --> 01:10:29,793
that the witch doctors had said
would touch Foreman and destroy him.
1060
01:10:31,673 --> 01:10:36,433
..Ali's tactics,
to let the man punch himself out.
1061
01:10:36,473 --> 01:10:38,833
30 seconds left in round eight.
1062
01:10:41,913 --> 01:10:43,793
Very even fight.
1063
01:10:43,833 --> 01:10:46,113
Ali a sneaky right hand.
1064
01:10:46,873 --> 01:10:48,833
Another sneaky right hand.
1065
01:10:48,873 --> 01:10:51,393
Works over the shoulder of Foreman.
1066
01:10:51,433 --> 01:10:53,273
There's the combination!
1067
01:10:55,713 --> 01:10:58,153
Two...three...
1068
01:10:58,233 --> 01:11:00,873
Four...five...
1069
01:11:00,913 --> 01:11:04,434
Foreman gets up to the knee at eight!
1070
01:11:05,314 --> 01:11:07,954
That's it! The fight is stopped!
1071
01:11:08,034 --> 01:11:11,474
Muhammad Ali with
a dramatic eighth round knockout!
1072
01:11:11,514 --> 01:11:15,314
He knocks out...George Foreman!
1073
01:11:15,354 --> 01:11:18,314
He's done it! Muhammad Ali
has done it! Muhammad Ali has...
1074
01:11:21,354 --> 01:11:22,874
Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali...
1075
01:11:22,914 --> 01:11:27,314
'Muhammad Ali,
he was like a sleeping elephant.
1076
01:11:27,354 --> 01:11:31,594
'You can do whatever you want
around a sleeping elephant,
1077
01:11:31,634 --> 01:11:37,314
'but when he wakes up...
he tramples everything.'
1078
01:11:40,475 --> 01:11:43,555
Muhammad Ali, boma ye.
1079
01:11:43,595 --> 01:11:48,435
Boma ye. Muhammad Ali,
boma ye George Foreman.
1080
01:11:48,475 --> 01:11:50,475
He did it.
1081
01:11:50,515 --> 01:11:53,995
'He's champion again,
we couldn't believe it.
1082
01:11:54,035 --> 01:11:57,435
'It was such a classic performance
and so beautiful
1083
01:11:57,475 --> 01:12:01,155
'that at the moment
Ali hit the knockout punch,
1084
01:12:01,195 --> 01:12:04,915
'Foreman began to go,
Ali followed him around,
1085
01:12:04,955 --> 01:12:08,115
'Ali had his right cocked
for one more punch
1086
01:12:08,155 --> 01:12:09,755
'but he never threw it,
1087
01:12:09,795 --> 01:12:14,715
'as though he didn't want to ruin the
aesthetic of this man going down.'
1088
01:12:15,755 --> 01:12:19,036
One has mixed emotions
when you see the end of a fight.
1089
01:12:19,076 --> 01:12:22,236
'I always feel sympathy
for the man losing it,
1090
01:12:22,276 --> 01:12:26,356
'particularly when you see
a titanic, formidable figure
1091
01:12:26,436 --> 01:12:28,356
'suddenly on the ground.'
1092
01:12:28,396 --> 01:12:31,076
'Now,
when we see George on TV,
1093
01:12:31,116 --> 01:12:33,796
'and know that after that knockout
1094
01:12:33,836 --> 01:12:37,676
'he went through two years
of the deepest depression,
1095
01:12:37,716 --> 01:12:40,116
'he almost didn't come out of it.
1096
01:12:40,156 --> 01:12:42,996
'To see the man who's come out of it,
1097
01:12:43,076 --> 01:12:46,396
'the way he reconstructed
his personality,
1098
01:12:46,436 --> 01:12:51,796
'it's hard to find anyone in America
more affable than George Foreman.
1099
01:12:51,876 --> 01:12:55,917
'Foreman has become
a fabulous person in American life.'
1100
01:12:55,957 --> 01:12:58,037
Just as the fight finished,
1101
01:12:58,077 --> 01:13:02,237
the monsoons, the African rains,
came, and they came so hard
1102
01:13:02,277 --> 01:13:06,437
that the waters were about
three feet deep in the dressing rooms
1103
01:13:06,477 --> 01:13:10,037
where we'd just been an hour ago,
I'd never seen such a downpour.
1104
01:13:10,077 --> 01:13:13,197
And we rode back
through the African night
1105
01:13:13,237 --> 01:13:15,677
from the boxing ring into Kinshasa
1106
01:13:15,717 --> 01:13:20,037
and there were crowds on the roads
standing in the pouring rain
1107
01:13:20,077 --> 01:13:24,397
leaping up and down because
news had got around that Ali had won.
1108
01:13:24,437 --> 01:13:28,677
'He stayed up all night
from what I heard,
1109
01:13:28,717 --> 01:13:33,438
'and in the morning he spoke to
African groups who'd come to see him,
1110
01:13:33,478 --> 01:13:36,518
'and they more than revered him,
he was a god.
1111
01:13:36,558 --> 01:13:40,438
'And he spoke to them
very simply and beautifully,
1112
01:13:40,478 --> 01:13:44,358
'and he said,
"Afro-Americans, in America,
1113
01:13:44,398 --> 01:13:46,438
'"we're not as good as you are.
1114
01:13:46,478 --> 01:13:48,918
'"Some of us are richer than you are,
1115
01:13:48,958 --> 01:13:52,878
'"but you have a dignity
in your poverty that we don't have.
1116
01:13:52,918 --> 01:13:54,798
'"We are spoiled in America,
1117
01:13:54,838 --> 01:13:58,998
'"we have lost what you still have
in Africa and you must keep that."
1118
01:13:59,038 --> 01:14:03,198
'And I thought, on top of everything
else he's a political leader
1119
01:14:03,238 --> 01:14:05,518
'and he's gonna be
a great political leader.'
1120
01:14:08,278 --> 01:14:10,759
I have a lot of things to do
in the Black neighbourhoods,
1121
01:14:10,799 --> 01:14:14,879
we have a lot of problems
we have to solve among ourselves.
1122
01:14:14,919 --> 01:14:17,359
Prostitution, dope, gang fights.
1123
01:14:17,399 --> 01:14:21,399
Knowledge of self. Black people
have no knowledge of themselves.
1124
01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:24,159
We have been made
just like white people mentally.
1125
01:14:24,199 --> 01:14:26,959
White people have made us
so much like them
1126
01:14:26,999 --> 01:14:29,759
it's hard to teach them
about themselves,
1127
01:14:29,839 --> 01:14:34,239
it's hard to teach them to unite
and marry and be with their own.
1128
01:14:34,279 --> 01:14:36,879
Black people
are now like white people,
1129
01:14:36,919 --> 01:14:39,159
we have to re-brainwash 'em now,
1130
01:14:39,199 --> 01:14:43,559
teach them about themselves
and their history and language,
1131
01:14:43,599 --> 01:14:45,759
to do something for themselves
1132
01:14:45,799 --> 01:14:50,240
and quit begging white people
for things they should do themselves.
1133
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:53,720
I never heard Ali say
he would never fight again.
1134
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:56,560
If he had said it,
and usually he told the truth,
1135
01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:58,640
I wouldn't have believed it.
1136
01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:02,480
He was born to fight,
born for the ring and loved it,
1137
01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:04,440
he truly loved fighting.
1138
01:15:04,480 --> 01:15:09,560
And...as happens with people who love
a thing too much, it destroys them.
1139
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:13,120
It was Oscar Wilde that said
you destroy the thing you love.
1140
01:15:13,160 --> 01:15:17,000
It's the other way round,
what you love destroys you.
1141
01:15:22,440 --> 01:15:25,361
'He came back,
he had 22 fights.
1142
01:15:25,401 --> 01:15:28,321
'Some were most honourable,
some very difficult.
1143
01:15:28,361 --> 01:15:30,881
'Some were comedies and farces.
1144
01:15:30,921 --> 01:15:35,601
'He hurt himself in those 22 fights
after the fight in Africa.'
1145
01:15:39,121 --> 01:15:43,321
'There is a tendency
to look at Muhammad and say
1146
01:15:43,361 --> 01:15:45,361
'he's wounded, he's ill.
1147
01:15:45,401 --> 01:15:49,961
'There are no intellectual deficits,
it's a motor skills problem
1148
01:15:50,001 --> 01:15:53,001
'and he doesn't try
to hide his condition.
1149
01:15:53,081 --> 01:15:55,721
'He goes out and lets
the whole world see it.
1150
01:15:55,761 --> 01:15:58,241
'He doesn't feel sorry for himself
1151
01:15:58,281 --> 01:16:03,042
'and there's really no reason for
anybody else to feel sorry for him.
1152
01:16:03,082 --> 01:16:05,442
'He loves being Muhammad Ali,
1153
01:16:05,482 --> 01:16:09,082
'he truly believes
that he's doing God's work
1154
01:16:09,122 --> 01:16:12,722
'and he's as happy with each day
as anybody I know.'
1155
01:16:13,762 --> 01:16:17,762
'Today's young generation,
they don't know anything.'
1156
01:16:18,722 --> 01:16:22,802
Something happened last year,
they know nothing about it.
1157
01:16:22,842 --> 01:16:27,362
So there are these great great
stories, great historic events,
1158
01:16:27,402 --> 01:16:30,402
and I'm not talking
about 1850s stuff,
1159
01:16:30,442 --> 01:16:34,522
they don't know who Malcolm X is,
they don't know who JFK is,
1160
01:16:34,562 --> 01:16:38,323
Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson,
you can go down the line.
1161
01:16:38,363 --> 01:16:40,243
And it's scary.
1162
01:16:40,283 --> 01:16:45,043
'They're missing a lot if they don't
know the legacy of Muhammad Ali,
1163
01:16:45,083 --> 01:16:48,003
'because no matter
what era you live in,
1164
01:16:48,043 --> 01:16:50,243
'you see very few true heroes.'
1165
01:16:54,963 --> 01:16:57,123
Ali, boma ye!
1166
01:16:57,163 --> 01:17:02,043
Ali, boma ye! Ali, boma ye!
Ali, boma ye!
1167
01:17:03,803 --> 01:17:06,163
Back up, sucker, back up.
1168
01:17:07,083 --> 01:17:09,523
Come get me, sucker, I'm dancin'!
1169
01:17:09,563 --> 01:17:11,723
I'm dancin'! Follow me, chump!
1170
01:17:11,763 --> 01:17:13,883
I'm not there, I'm here!
1171
01:17:15,764 --> 01:17:18,044
Sucker, you ain't got nothing!
1172
01:17:26,644 --> 01:17:29,284
# In every heart
1173
01:17:29,324 --> 01:17:32,684
# There is a drum that beats
1174
01:17:32,724 --> 01:17:34,764
# Steady and strong
1175
01:17:34,804 --> 01:17:38,444
# It does not know defeat
1176
01:17:38,484 --> 01:17:41,084
# I feel its power
1177
01:17:41,124 --> 01:17:46,964
# And know for certain
the true belief
1178
01:17:49,924 --> 01:17:52,764
# In every soul
1179
01:17:52,804 --> 01:17:55,605
# There is a memory
1180
01:17:55,645 --> 01:17:58,525
# Of standing tall
1181
01:17:58,565 --> 01:18:01,725
# The proudest we could be
1182
01:18:01,765 --> 01:18:04,525
# I cannot fall
1183
01:18:04,565 --> 01:18:06,845
# For I recall
1184
01:18:06,885 --> 01:18:10,405
# We were born in majesty
1185
01:18:12,965 --> 01:18:19,605
# And when the long night
has been fought and won
1186
01:18:19,645 --> 01:18:23,925
# We'll stand in the sun
1187
01:18:23,965 --> 01:18:26,645
# And we will raise our hands
1188
01:18:26,685 --> 01:18:29,365
# We will touch the sky
1189
01:18:29,405 --> 01:18:35,526
# Together we will dance
in robes of gold
1190
01:18:35,566 --> 01:18:41,566
# And we will leave
the world remembering
1191
01:18:41,606 --> 01:18:46,926
# When we were kings
1192
01:18:47,166 --> 01:18:51,526
# When we were kings
1193
01:18:53,686 --> 01:18:55,846
# Now is the time
1194
01:18:55,886 --> 01:18:59,406
# Here is the mountaintop
1195
01:18:59,446 --> 01:19:04,966
# When one man climbs
the rest are lifted up
1196
01:19:05,046 --> 01:19:07,847
# When memories stay
1197
01:19:07,887 --> 01:19:10,767
# We're closer, yeah
1198
01:19:10,807 --> 01:19:15,847
# To our higher destiny
1199
01:19:16,887 --> 01:19:23,327
# And when we reach up
to claim the throne
1200
01:19:23,367 --> 01:19:27,087
# Every man will know
1201
01:19:27,127 --> 01:19:29,847
# We will raise our hands
1202
01:19:29,887 --> 01:19:32,807
# We will touch the sky
1203
01:19:32,847 --> 01:19:38,607
# Together we will dance
in robes of gold
1204
01:19:38,647 --> 01:19:45,008
# And we will leave
the world remembering
1205
01:19:45,048 --> 01:19:50,608
# When we were kings
1206
01:19:50,888 --> 01:19:55,048
# When we were kings
1207
01:19:55,088 --> 01:19:57,288
# Ooh
1208
01:19:57,328 --> 01:19:59,888
# When we were kings
1209
01:20:00,968 --> 01:20:02,968
# Yeah
1210
01:20:03,008 --> 01:20:04,448
# When we were kings
1211
01:20:04,488 --> 01:20:06,728
# Float like a butterfly
1212
01:20:06,768 --> 01:20:10,928
# Sting like a bee
1213
01:20:11,288 --> 01:20:13,368
# Float like a butterfly
1214
01:20:15,128 --> 01:20:17,248
# I remember... #
1215
01:20:20,648 --> 01:20:24,809
Years after the fight in Zaire,
perhaps ten years after,
1216
01:20:24,849 --> 01:20:29,689
I'd run into Ali on occasion after
that, but I remember this meeting.
1217
01:20:29,729 --> 01:20:33,009
Esquire was giving a party
for various people
1218
01:20:33,049 --> 01:20:37,089
who had distinguished themselves
in Esquire that year.
1219
01:20:37,129 --> 01:20:39,209
Ali, for whatever he'd done,
1220
01:20:39,249 --> 01:20:43,449
I was there probably because I had
a good story in Esquire that year,
1221
01:20:43,489 --> 01:20:46,249
maybe 25 of us, honoured guests,
1222
01:20:46,289 --> 01:20:48,929
I was there with my wife
and we saw Ali
1223
01:20:48,969 --> 01:20:50,969
and we were talking with him
1224
01:20:51,009 --> 01:20:53,489
and he couldn't have been nicer.
1225
01:20:53,529 --> 01:20:56,809
I remember I was 62 then,
cos he said, "How old are you now?"
1226
01:20:56,849 --> 01:21:01,850
I said "62," he said "Oh," same as
when we were jogging that night,
1227
01:21:01,890 --> 01:21:06,850
"Oh, I hope I'm as young as you are
when I'm 62," he went on like that.
1228
01:21:06,890 --> 01:21:11,050
I got so pleased and so vain that,
you know, I'm like a dog.
1229
01:21:11,090 --> 01:21:14,890
What did I have to do?
I had to go urinate, and I did.
1230
01:21:14,930 --> 01:21:18,450
I went away and once I was gone
he turned to my wife,
1231
01:21:18,490 --> 01:21:22,690
who's much younger than I am,
and he looked at her hard and said,
1232
01:21:22,730 --> 01:21:25,370
"You still with that old man?"
1233
01:21:27,410 --> 01:21:30,530
And for me that's always been...
That's Ali.
1234
01:21:31,410 --> 01:21:34,970
You love him even when
you turn your back on him.
1235
01:21:35,010 --> 01:21:40,131
I heard him once talking to the
Harvard senior class commencement.
1236
01:21:41,531 --> 01:21:45,891
He gave this extraordinary speech,
you know he was dyslexic,
1237
01:21:45,931 --> 01:21:48,331
and he would look
at a paper and say,
1238
01:21:48,371 --> 01:21:51,811
"What does this word mean?"
I'd say, "Appendicitis."
1239
01:21:51,851 --> 01:21:56,331
He'd say, "How d'you get a word
like appendicitis? It's so long."
1240
01:21:56,371 --> 01:21:58,731
Here he was delivering a lecture,
1241
01:21:58,771 --> 01:22:04,131
senior class day with these
1,000, 2,000 Harvard graduates,
1242
01:22:04,171 --> 01:22:07,731
and...he had these little cards
in front of him.
1243
01:22:07,771 --> 01:22:12,731
He gave this wonderful speech
about he hadn't had the opportunity
1244
01:22:12,771 --> 01:22:17,532
but they had and they should use that
to make the world a better place.
1245
01:22:17,572 --> 01:22:22,292
It was moving and funny, and a great
roar of appreciation at the end.
1246
01:22:22,332 --> 01:22:25,332
Then someone shouted out,
"Give us a poem!"
1247
01:22:25,372 --> 01:22:28,172
And everybody quieted down.
1248
01:22:28,212 --> 01:22:33,332
Now, the shortest poem according
to Bartlett's Quotations is called
1249
01:22:33,372 --> 01:22:35,532
"On the Antiquity of Microbes"
1250
01:22:35,572 --> 01:22:38,012
and the poem is "Adam had 'em."
1251
01:22:38,052 --> 01:22:39,772
Pretty short.
1252
01:22:39,812 --> 01:22:42,172
But Muhammad Ali's poem was
1253
01:22:42,212 --> 01:22:45,452
"Me, we."
1254
01:22:46,252 --> 01:22:47,892
Two words.
1255
01:22:47,932 --> 01:22:52,573
I wrote Bartlett's Quotations
and I said, "Look, that's shorter."
1256
01:22:52,613 --> 01:22:56,213
It stands for something more
than the poem itself.
1257
01:22:56,253 --> 01:22:58,693
"Me, we." What a fighter he was.
And what a man.
1258
01:23:03,413 --> 01:23:07,493
# Refugee cat... Ali, boma ye
1259
01:23:07,533 --> 01:23:10,813
# Yes, yes... Rumble in the jungle
1260
01:23:16,773 --> 01:23:18,173
# Come on!
1261
01:23:18,213 --> 01:23:20,613
# Root to the fruit
more bass than Bootsy Collins
1262
01:23:20,693 --> 01:23:23,413
# You versus me
that's like Ali versus Foreman
1263
01:23:23,453 --> 01:23:26,333
# God's act, stand back and watch
1264
01:23:26,373 --> 01:23:29,334
# Devil's time-out
can't be timed with no Swatch watch
1265
01:23:29,374 --> 01:23:31,734
# Who I am, the Black Abraham
1266
01:23:31,774 --> 01:23:34,574
# Zunga zunga zang
yellow man, Vietnam
1267
01:23:34,614 --> 01:23:36,974
# Add an extra bar
as I spar with literature
1268
01:23:37,014 --> 01:23:38,374
# Taking kingdoms from Tsars
1269
01:23:38,414 --> 01:23:40,014
# Winning more wars than the Moors
1270
01:23:40,054 --> 01:23:42,654
# Hey, what's the deal?
I seen the Devil spar with Allah
1271
01:23:42,694 --> 01:23:45,374
# Mathematics was the key
to set my whole race free
1272
01:23:45,414 --> 01:23:48,134
# You might debate we,
a refugee no harm hurt me
1273
01:23:48,174 --> 01:23:50,974
# Dying, thirsty from the struggle
to my own hustle bubble
1274
01:23:51,054 --> 01:23:53,694
# On the low, woe is me
to show the Free Bob right
1275
01:23:53,734 --> 01:23:55,134
# The righteous Asiatic thinker
1276
01:23:55,174 --> 01:23:56,614
# While Satan rob light
1277
01:23:56,654 --> 01:23:58,094
# Civilised like the Molly
1278
01:23:58,134 --> 01:23:59,494
# Burgundy, wildly rocking
1279
01:23:59,534 --> 01:24:01,054
# Seen the fifth when Ali clocked him
1280
01:24:01,094 --> 01:24:02,534
# John Forte will keep you locked in
1281
01:24:02,574 --> 01:24:05,054
# People all around
you got to recognise and witness
1282
01:24:05,094 --> 01:24:07,895
# The Mister who swift enough
to knock you out with mic fitness
1283
01:24:07,935 --> 01:24:09,215
# Hands blistered
from holding the mic tight
1284
01:24:09,255 --> 01:24:10,495
# Some say it's fight night
1285
01:24:10,535 --> 01:24:13,615
# Well, throw the R after the F
cos I'm gonna take away your breath
1286
01:24:13,655 --> 01:24:16,295
# The bell rings
and it's just a daily operation
1287
01:24:16,335 --> 01:24:19,135
# Yo, you saw my lubrication
you can see this occupation
1288
01:24:19,175 --> 01:24:21,655
# (The winner)
You know we're here from Q-borough
1289
01:24:21,695 --> 01:24:24,775
# L-Booie and Clef the trainers
Prazwell promote the throw
1290
01:24:24,815 --> 01:24:27,575
# We used to bite the bullets
with the pigskin cases
1291
01:24:27,615 --> 01:24:30,375
# Now we perfect slang
like a gang of street masons
1292
01:24:30,415 --> 01:24:32,935
# Scribe check make connects
true pyramid architects
1293
01:24:32,975 --> 01:24:35,335
# Replace the last name with the X
1294
01:24:35,375 --> 01:24:37,175
# The man's got a God complex
1295
01:24:37,215 --> 01:24:38,535
# But take the text
change the picture
1296
01:24:38,575 --> 01:24:41,255
# Watch Muhammad play the messenger
like holy Moslem scripture
1297
01:24:41,295 --> 01:24:44,176
# Take orders from only God
only one when it's jihad
1298
01:24:44,216 --> 01:24:46,976
# See Ali appears in Zaire
to reconnect 400 years
1299
01:24:47,016 --> 01:24:48,456
# But we're the people
dark but equal
1300
01:24:48,496 --> 01:24:49,856
# Give love to such things
1301
01:24:49,896 --> 01:24:52,576
# For the man who made the fam'
remember when we were kings
1302
01:24:52,616 --> 01:24:54,856
# Block's on fire
1303
01:24:54,896 --> 01:24:57,336
# Flames getting higher
1304
01:24:57,376 --> 01:25:00,216
# Robbin' blue collar
1305
01:25:00,256 --> 01:25:03,056
# Killin' for a dollar
1306
01:25:03,096 --> 01:25:05,776
# Youths get tired
1307
01:25:05,816 --> 01:25:08,576
# We're dealin' with them liars
1308
01:25:08,616 --> 01:25:11,496
# From Brooklyn to Zaire
1309
01:25:11,536 --> 01:25:14,496
# We need a ghetto messiah
1310
01:25:15,576 --> 01:25:20,376
# Send me an angel
in the morning, baby
1311
01:25:20,657 --> 01:25:26,057
# Send me an angel
in the morning, darling
1312
01:25:26,097 --> 01:25:31,497
# Send me Muhammad
in the morning, baby
1313
01:25:31,737 --> 01:25:37,177
# Send me an angel
in the morning, darling
1314
01:25:37,217 --> 01:25:39,297
# Once the pen hits the pad
it's danger
1315
01:25:39,337 --> 01:25:40,577
# To this I'll be no stranger
1316
01:25:40,617 --> 01:25:42,537
# Step inside the ring
and I'll derange you
1317
01:25:42,577 --> 01:25:45,337
# I'm hearing no comments
everyone looks despondent
1318
01:25:45,377 --> 01:25:48,097
# Dejected, rejected
similar to Liston catching licks
1319
01:25:48,137 --> 01:25:50,657
# Beat it, Sonny, my man
is still the greatest in history
1320
01:25:50,697 --> 01:25:53,337
# To hell with Frazier,
yapping about that negative shit
1321
01:25:53,377 --> 01:25:56,497
# Now, listen, you can try
and escape if you want to
1322
01:25:56,537 --> 01:25:59,498
# But ask yourself
who the hell you gonna run to?
1323
01:25:59,538 --> 01:26:02,338
# Like Sade Abu
you got a punch that I can sleep to
1324
01:26:02,378 --> 01:26:04,898
# Fugees, Tribe, Busta Rhymes
forever coming through
1325
01:26:04,938 --> 01:26:07,538
# You sing Amazing Grace
over two dollar plates
1326
01:26:07,578 --> 01:26:10,418
# One roll, snake-eyes,
like Jake the Snake
1327
01:26:10,458 --> 01:26:13,378
# Many lies, put up for stakes,
wash our sins at the Great Lakes
1328
01:26:13,418 --> 01:26:16,138
# You and I cannot see eye-to-eye
so therefore we can't relate
1329
01:26:16,178 --> 01:26:18,738
# I'm here
when I make myself crystal clear
1330
01:26:18,778 --> 01:26:21,538
# You fled to Cape Fear
when I aced you up in Zaire
1331
01:26:21,578 --> 01:26:24,218
# Tussle with a lasso
in the Royal Rumble
1332
01:26:24,258 --> 01:26:27,218
# Separate boys from men
in the concrete jungle
1333
01:26:27,258 --> 01:26:29,378
# I remember when Cassius Clay
flipped the script
1334
01:26:29,418 --> 01:26:30,938
# Taking trips to Zimbabwe
1335
01:26:30,978 --> 01:26:33,978
# Africans started calling the God
Ali, boma ye!
1336
01:26:34,018 --> 01:26:37,579
# It be the God stricken,
God nutrition, lightly stricken
1337
01:26:37,619 --> 01:26:39,659
# Blow that make you feel
like you was poison bitten
1338
01:26:39,699 --> 01:26:42,099
# Ha! Yo, I'm 'bout to blister
you and your sister
1339
01:26:42,139 --> 01:26:44,979
# Predicting every ass whipping
before my fights, my nigga
1340
01:26:45,019 --> 01:26:48,259
# This be your last warning
once you walk past the doorman
1341
01:26:48,339 --> 01:26:51,139
# Ali and Foreman gonna lock ass
until the morning
1342
01:26:51,179 --> 01:26:53,819
# Marvellous finances
provided by Joseph Mobutu
1343
01:26:53,859 --> 01:26:57,019
# Special guests of honour
like the Archbishop Desmond Tutu
1344
01:26:57,059 --> 01:26:58,899
# We watched the Rumble In The Jungle
1345
01:26:58,939 --> 01:27:01,659
# To see who be the targeted uncle
to be the first to fall and fumble
1346
01:27:01,699 --> 01:27:04,379
# Nuff blows they getting thrown
like solid milestones
1347
01:27:04,419 --> 01:27:07,419
# Internally shaking up niggas
imbalance your chromosomes
1348
01:27:07,459 --> 01:27:09,259
# With the force
of a thousand warriors
1349
01:27:09,299 --> 01:27:12,259
# When I bust your ass
identify me as the lord victorious
1350
01:27:12,299 --> 01:27:14,380
# Blocks on fire
1351
01:27:14,420 --> 01:27:17,380
# Flames getting higher
1352
01:27:17,420 --> 01:27:20,100
# Robbing blue collar
1353
01:27:20,140 --> 01:27:22,420
# Killing for a dollar
1354
01:27:22,460 --> 01:27:25,500
# Youths get tired
1355
01:27:25,580 --> 01:27:28,500
# We're dealing with them liars
1356
01:27:28,540 --> 01:27:31,060
# From Brooklyn to Zaire
1357
01:27:31,100 --> 01:27:33,580
# We need a ghetto Messiah #
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