2 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,397 Thank you very kindly. 3 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:32,232 Ladies and gentlemen, right now we'd like to introduce... 4 00:00:32,318 --> 00:00:36,988 the star of our show, the young man you've all been waiting for. 5 00:00:37,073 --> 00:00:41,242 So let's all get together and welcome him to the stage with a great big hand. 6 00:00:41,286 --> 00:00:43,453 How about it for Sam Cooke? 7 00:00:52,256 --> 00:00:55,841 Before we do anything, we'd like to say how are you doing out there? 8 00:00:57,845 --> 00:00:59,595 - Is everyone feeling all right? - Yeah! 9 00:00:59,681 --> 00:01:01,222 How are you doing? 10 00:01:02,142 --> 00:01:03,933 - You doing okay? - Yeah! 11 00:01:03,976 --> 00:01:06,393 - You two doing okay? - Yeah! 12 00:01:06,437 --> 00:01:10,231 Well, I ask you one more time. How you doing? 13 00:01:11,984 --> 00:01:13,942 Oh, yeah 14 00:01:15,113 --> 00:01:16,988 I said oh, yeah 15 00:01:17,074 --> 00:01:19,074 Oh, yeah! 16 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:20,618 Oh, yeah 17 00:01:20,660 --> 00:01:22,243 Oh, yeah! 18 00:01:30,087 --> 00:01:33,213 I believe we're gonna have a goodtime tonight 19 00:01:34,467 --> 00:01:38,177 It's good to have somebody you can twist the night away with 20 00:01:38,261 --> 00:01:40,344 Right now 21 00:01:40,431 --> 00:01:41,805 Oh, yes, it is 22 00:01:42,683 --> 00:01:46,060 I said it feels good when you got somebody 23 00:01:46,146 --> 00:01:48,730 To twist the night away with right now 24 00:01:48,815 --> 00:01:51,149 - Lord have mercy. - What you running from, son? 25 00:01:53,863 --> 00:01:55,446 We got a call. 26 00:02:01,495 --> 00:02:04,955 Don't fight the feelin' Don’t fight the feelin' 27 00:02:06,250 --> 00:02:09,752 Got to feel the feelin' now Got to feel the feelin' 28 00:02:10,839 --> 00:02:14,341 'Cause it make you groove right when you feel the feelin' 29 00:02:14,425 --> 00:02:17,676 Oh, make me want you now 30 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,095 Got to feel the feelin' 31 00:02:20,182 --> 00:02:24,894 'Cause it make you groove right when you feel the feelin' 32 00:02:24,978 --> 00:02:29,564 Make me want ya when I got the feelin; baby 33 00:02:29,650 --> 00:02:31,859 So don't fight it 34 00:02:31,943 --> 00:02:33,860 No, don’t fight it 35 00:02:33,904 --> 00:02:36,530 Baby, just feel it 36 00:03:30,505 --> 00:03:32,547 I'm gonna bust you up. 37 00:03:32,591 --> 00:03:35,217 Beat your ass like I was your daddy. 38 00:04:16,888 --> 00:04:19,973 I said I'm beginning to feel alright now 39 00:04:25,981 --> 00:04:29,983 I feel can tell you about my baby right now 40 00:04:34,115 --> 00:04:37,158 I said I feel you're in the mood right now 41 00:04:45,877 --> 00:04:49,379 I said I feel you're in the mood 42 00:04:51,925 --> 00:04:54,342 Sometimes me and my baby we fuss and fight 43 00:04:54,428 --> 00:04:57,346 And my baby leave home 'cause things ain't right 44 00:04:57,430 --> 00:04:59,847 For those of you who think you came here today... 45 00:04:59,891 --> 00:05:02,642 to hear us tell you like these Negro leaders do... 46 00:05:02,686 --> 00:05:05,312 that your times will just get better... 47 00:05:05,397 --> 00:05:10,401 that we shall overcome someday... 48 00:05:10,486 --> 00:05:13,529 I say to you, you came to the wrong place. 49 00:05:13,613 --> 00:05:16,906 Because your times will never get better unless you make them better. 50 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,036 Those of you who think you came here to hear us tell you... 51 00:05:21,081 --> 00:05:24,708 to turn the other cheek to the brutality of the white man... 52 00:05:24,792 --> 00:05:28,669 and this system of injustice that's in place right here in America... 53 00:05:28,714 --> 00:05:31,089 you think you're gonna come here and hear us tell you... 54 00:05:31,173 --> 00:05:35,175 to go out there and beg for a place at their lunch counter... 55 00:05:35,971 --> 00:05:39,181 again, I say you came to the wrong place. 56 00:05:39,225 --> 00:05:43,686 We don't teach you to turn the other cheek in the South. 57 00:05:43,729 --> 00:05:46,522 And we don't teach you to turn the other cheek in the North. 58 00:05:46,566 --> 00:05:50,402 The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches you to obey the law... 59 00:05:50,444 --> 00:05:53,237 to Cary yourselves in a respectable way... 60 00:05:53,322 --> 00:05:55,864 in a proud Afro-American way. 61 00:05:56,576 --> 00:05:59,118 But at the same time, we teach you... 62 00:05:59,203 --> 00:06:01,537 that anyone puts their hand on you... 63 00:06:03,667 --> 00:06:08,796 brother, you do your best to see they don't put their hand on anybody else... 64 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:10,129 again. 65 00:06:14,595 --> 00:06:15,927 Time. 66 00:06:35,325 --> 00:06:37,283 Just like that, Daddy. 67 00:06:37,327 --> 00:06:39,410 Never jump in one place. Bad for the heart. 68 00:06:39,455 --> 00:06:41,038 Forwards, backwards, sideways. 69 00:06:41,124 --> 00:06:42,999 That's the most important thing. 70 00:06:54,136 --> 00:06:56,261 I'm called Bundini. 71 00:06:56,348 --> 00:06:59,891 Rhymes with Houdini. He was a Jew too. 72 00:06:59,977 --> 00:07:03,687 Some people call me Fast Black. Some call me Daddy Mac. 73 00:07:04,814 --> 00:07:07,523 Gave Sugar Ray Robinson my power for seven years. 74 00:07:07,609 --> 00:07:10,068 My voodoo. My magic. 75 00:07:10,153 --> 00:07:13,071 Now Shorty done sent me here to work for you. 76 00:07:13,157 --> 00:07:16,367 - Who's Shorty? - I call him Shorty. 77 00:07:16,452 --> 00:07:18,619 Call him Shorty 'cause he like 'em circumcised. 78 00:07:18,703 --> 00:07:23,498 Original people. Like Moses. And I was a babe in a basket too. 79 00:07:23,584 --> 00:07:26,752 Born on a doorstep with a note across my chest that read... 80 00:07:26,838 --> 00:07:29,881 "You do the best you can for him, world. " 81 00:07:29,966 --> 00:07:31,883 I wanna be your inspiration. 82 00:07:31,968 --> 00:07:34,635 Your motivator in your corner. 83 00:07:35,806 --> 00:07:38,098 Can I be in your corner, young man? 84 00:07:45,525 --> 00:07:46,941 Time! 85 00:07:50,363 --> 00:07:53,281 Got to tell you how I feel right now 86 00:07:53,366 --> 00:07:56,200 This song gonna tell you howl feel 87 00:07:56,285 --> 00:07:59,662 I know you been gone away for along time, but listen 88 00:07:59,705 --> 00:08:02,331 Baby, if you ever 89 00:08:03,584 --> 00:08:06,543 Change your mind 90 00:08:06,630 --> 00:08:08,839 Know that leaving 91 00:08:08,882 --> 00:08:11,716 Leaving me behind 92 00:08:13,386 --> 00:08:14,635 Bring it tome 93 00:08:15,347 --> 00:08:17,848 Bring that good lovin; baby 94 00:08:17,933 --> 00:08:20,058 Bring it on home to me 95 00:08:20,144 --> 00:08:21,476 Yeah, yeah 96 00:08:21,561 --> 00:08:25,230 Listen, I got to be a man to tell you this, honey, look 97 00:08:25,316 --> 00:08:27,358 I'll give you jewelry 98 00:08:27,444 --> 00:08:29,486 I'll give you some of that money too 99 00:08:29,571 --> 00:08:32,155 But listen That ain't all 100 00:08:32,239 --> 00:08:34,948 That ain't all Sam will do for you 101 00:08:35,034 --> 00:08:38,285 All you got to do is bring it tome 102 00:08:39,081 --> 00:08:41,290 Bring that good lovin baby 103 00:08:41,374 --> 00:08:43,332 Be the invisible man as soon as he swings. 104 00:08:43,418 --> 00:08:45,126 Get personal with him. 105 00:08:45,212 --> 00:08:47,629 This is important Listen tome 106 00:08:47,715 --> 00:08:50,925 Don't you know that I'll always 107 00:08:51,009 --> 00:08:53,009 I'll always be your slave 108 00:08:54,388 --> 00:08:56,763 Till I'm buried 109 00:08:56,850 --> 00:08:59,225 Buried in my grave 110 00:08:59,268 --> 00:09:01,310 While I'm livin' 111 00:09:01,396 --> 00:09:04,606 Bring it tome Bring that good lovin; baby 112 00:09:05,401 --> 00:09:07,985 Bring it on home to me 113 00:09:08,069 --> 00:09:10,027 One more thing I gotta tell you 114 00:09:10,113 --> 00:09:11,821 Listen to me right now 115 00:09:11,907 --> 00:09:15,117 You know that I try 116 00:09:15,161 --> 00:09:18,246 To treat you right What did you do 117 00:09:18,330 --> 00:09:20,330 You stayed up 118 00:09:20,416 --> 00:09:22,625 You stayed up late at night 119 00:09:22,710 --> 00:09:24,668 I don't care who you was with 120 00:09:24,753 --> 00:09:26,628 Bring it tome 121 00:09:26,713 --> 00:09:29,297 Bring all that good lovin; baby 122 00:09:29,383 --> 00:09:32,468 Bring it on Everybody's with me 123 00:09:32,554 --> 00:09:33,970 Everybody's with me tonight 124 00:09:34,055 --> 00:09:37,390 Listen, let me hear you say yeah 125 00:09:44,107 --> 00:09:46,733 Yeah, oh, yeah 126 00:09:51,490 --> 00:09:54,616 Sonny Liston, you ain't no champ! You a chump! 127 00:09:54,702 --> 00:09:56,827 Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. 128 00:09:56,913 --> 00:09:59,914 Oh! Rumble, young man, rumble. 129 00:09:59,998 --> 00:10:02,749 Y'all wanna lose y' all money? Then you bet it on Sonny. 130 00:10:02,835 --> 00:10:05,669 He know I'm great. He will fall in eight. 131 00:10:05,755 --> 00:10:08,506 Come on, you big, ugly bear. I'll whup you right now. 132 00:10:10,218 --> 00:10:13,595 Two-ten and a half. Two-ten and a half! 133 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:17,474 The challenger, Cassius Clay, two hundred and ten and a half pounds. 134 00:10:17,518 --> 00:10:20,144 - Man, you sure that's right? - That's what the weight is. 135 00:10:20,228 --> 00:10:22,812 Old, ugly bear, come on. Let's go. 136 00:10:22,898 --> 00:10:27,359 You got these folks fooled. I ain't scared of ya! I ain't scared of ya! 137 00:10:29,154 --> 00:10:31,446 Two hundred and eighteen. Two hundred and eighteen. 138 00:10:31,532 --> 00:10:34,408 Sonny Liston, the champion of the world. 139 00:10:34,494 --> 00:10:36,786 Two hundred and eighteen pounds. 140 00:10:36,870 --> 00:10:38,912 - Pounds of what? - Pounds of ugly. 141 00:10:38,998 --> 00:10:41,499 That man's so ugly, when he sweat... 142 00:10:41,584 --> 00:10:45,378 the sweat run backwards off his forehand just to stay away from his face. 143 00:10:49,885 --> 00:10:52,594 Come on, you big, ugly bear! I'll turn you into a rug! 144 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:55,139 Keep talkin'. I'm gonna fuck you up. 145 00:11:01,689 --> 00:11:03,105 If you whup me... 146 00:11:03,190 --> 00:11:07,109 I'll crawl out of the ring and take the first jet airplane out the country. 147 00:11:07,195 --> 00:11:10,321 - Is that a promise, Mr. Clay? - You'll eat his words first. 148 00:11:10,407 --> 00:11:14,243 - Cassius, you're a 7-1 underdog. - Liston says he talks with his fists. 149 00:11:14,285 --> 00:11:16,285 - What do you say? - You scared of him? 150 00:11:16,371 --> 00:11:18,621 I'm gonna give Sonny Liston talkin' lessons... 151 00:11:18,707 --> 00:11:21,166 boxin' lessons and fallin' down lessons. 152 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,086 Cassius, are you a black Muslim? Pat Putnam says in the Miami Herald-- 153 00:11:25,172 --> 00:11:27,714 A man's religion is his own business. What kind of question is that? 154 00:11:27,759 --> 00:11:33,013 - Angelo, tell me-- - Malcolm X was in town, then he left. 155 00:11:33,097 --> 00:11:35,222 Was that so he wouldn't embarrass you? 156 00:11:35,308 --> 00:11:37,183 - Yeah, Howard? - Liston doesn't like you. 157 00:11:37,268 --> 00:11:40,102 Really can't stand you. Says he wants to kill you. 158 00:11:40,146 --> 00:11:42,229 Howard Cosell, you ain't nothin' but an instigator. 159 00:11:42,315 --> 00:11:45,900 - Man, how you get that way? - Cassius, now you’re being truculent. 160 00:11:45,986 --> 00:11:47,444 If it's good, I'm that. 161 00:11:49,947 --> 00:11:53,574 You next. Soon as I'm done with Sonny Liston, I'm fightin' Howard Cosell. 162 00:11:53,660 --> 00:11:55,618 Y'all write that down right now. 163 00:12:10,761 --> 00:12:12,469 That's good? 164 00:12:13,515 --> 00:12:15,098 Wanna check that out? 165 00:12:23,482 --> 00:12:25,816 Hey, man, when you get back? 166 00:12:25,860 --> 00:12:28,653 I just got here. I'm front row, seat seven. 167 00:12:32,701 --> 00:12:35,368 I'll be sittin' with Mom and Dad. 168 00:12:38,208 --> 00:12:41,793 You should've stayed in the first place. Nobody gotta hide when they're with me. 169 00:12:41,877 --> 00:12:44,211 There's nothing wrong with being cool, my brother. 170 00:12:44,296 --> 00:12:45,211 He's right. 171 00:13:32,723 --> 00:13:35,349 - ...and challenger, Cassius Clay. - Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 172 00:13:35,391 --> 00:13:38,726 Brought to you by the City Service Oil Company... 173 00:13:38,812 --> 00:13:42,189 and its dealers in 37 states and Canada... 174 00:13:42,233 --> 00:13:45,651 known to millions of motorists for Big Gallon gasoline... 175 00:13:45,736 --> 00:13:49,488 and by new Wildroot, totally new Wildroot in a new tube... 176 00:13:49,574 --> 00:13:54,661 with a great formula that grooms hair to look neat and natural, never greasy. 177 00:13:54,745 --> 00:13:57,079 Another boxing milestone is at hand. 178 00:13:57,165 --> 00:14:01,084 In just a few minutes, Louisville's Cassius Marcellus Clay... 179 00:14:01,128 --> 00:14:03,253 will be facing the devastating punching power... 180 00:14:03,338 --> 00:14:06,589 of the heavyweight champion, Charles "Sonny" Liston. 181 00:14:06,634 --> 00:14:10,803 ...for the heavyweight championship of the world. 182 00:14:13,265 --> 00:14:15,265 Introducing, on my right-- 183 00:14:16,227 --> 00:14:18,227 And now the time has come. 184 00:14:18,313 --> 00:14:22,899 Both challenger and champion are in the ring. 185 00:14:22,942 --> 00:14:26,402 The heavyweight championship of the world is on the line. 186 00:14:26,488 --> 00:14:30,282 I fit goes past the first round, there will be surprises already. 187 00:14:30,992 --> 00:14:34,452 Sonny Liston wrapped in that tery cloth towel of his... 188 00:14:34,538 --> 00:14:37,205 wrapped around his head swami fashion... 189 00:14:37,291 --> 00:14:40,125 Looking as malevolent and baleful as ever. 190 00:14:40,169 --> 00:14:43,546 But this man is a professional prizefighter. 191 00:14:43,631 --> 00:14:45,673 Make no mistake about it. 192 00:14:48,844 --> 00:14:50,802 I want a clean fight. 193 00:14:50,846 --> 00:14:53,263 When I say break, stop punching and step back. 194 00:14:53,308 --> 00:14:55,433 Do you have any questions, champ? 195 00:14:55,519 --> 00:14:57,352 Any questions, challenger? 196 00:14:57,437 --> 00:15:01,189 We're fine. Touch gloves, gentlemen. Good luck. 197 00:15:04,195 --> 00:15:06,988 Good evening, sports fans across the nation. 198 00:15:07,030 --> 00:15:09,656 Liston in the white trunks with the black stripes. 199 00:15:09,741 --> 00:15:13,869 Clay, an inch and a half taller, in the white trunks with the red stripes-- 200 00:15:27,969 --> 00:15:30,762 And Cassius Clay is sidestepping. 201 00:15:45,404 --> 00:15:47,738 There it is, champ. Stay on your toes now. 202 00:15:55,624 --> 00:15:59,376 And we can see that the champion is the aggressor. 203 00:15:59,418 --> 00:16:02,002 There's a shot under the heart. 204 00:16:30,994 --> 00:16:34,412 Cassius Clay slips away. And now Clay pounds a left. 205 00:16:34,497 --> 00:16:37,498 Another left. A straight jab. 206 00:16:41,005 --> 00:16:43,798 It seems to have stunned him. And that's the bell. 207 00:16:43,882 --> 00:16:47,300 And they're fighting after the bell. And they're still fighting. 208 00:16:47,386 --> 00:16:49,970 This round is over. 209 00:16:50,056 --> 00:16:51,847 Break it up, ref. 210 00:16:51,934 --> 00:16:55,019 There is no love lost between the two contenders at this time. 211 00:16:55,102 --> 00:16:58,938 Cassius goes back to his corner. It's been an amazing round. 212 00:16:58,982 --> 00:17:00,481 You can beat this guy. 213 00:17:02,986 --> 00:17:05,487 I'm still here. 214 00:17:05,572 --> 00:17:08,949 And Sonny Liston is not taking the stool. 215 00:17:08,993 --> 00:17:12,036 He's anxious to get back into the challenger's face. 216 00:17:12,120 --> 00:17:15,038 Take it to the body. Kill the body, the head will follow. 217 00:17:46,114 --> 00:17:48,406 This is a totally different fight than Liston expected... 218 00:17:48,492 --> 00:17:50,325 and anyone in this arena will tell you. 219 00:17:50,411 --> 00:17:54,789 There's a long, looping left hand. Clay's eyes are wide open now. 220 00:18:05,509 --> 00:18:07,843 - Come on, Cass! Move! - Step back. 221 00:18:09,848 --> 00:18:12,724 - Come on, Cassius! - Come on, Chi-Chi! 222 00:18:15,771 --> 00:18:17,437 I'm not prognosticating anything... 223 00:18:17,523 --> 00:18:19,857 but merely his survival to this juncture-- 224 00:18:37,586 --> 00:18:39,544 Cass, hit him! 225 00:18:50,724 --> 00:18:51,639 Break. 226 00:18:53,144 --> 00:18:54,977 Let him go. 227 00:19:23,426 --> 00:19:27,095 Sonny Liston is hurt. He's bleeding from his eye. 228 00:19:30,058 --> 00:19:31,390 He's defying the experts early. 229 00:19:31,434 --> 00:19:36,312 We have to take a look at this man and say he is not in awe of the champion. 230 00:20:04,719 --> 00:20:08,179 He ain't nothin' to me. And he know it. 231 00:20:08,265 --> 00:20:09,681 This is it now. 232 00:20:15,647 --> 00:20:17,605 Let me have that, John. 233 00:20:22,655 --> 00:20:24,279 And now they're ready. 234 00:20:28,493 --> 00:20:31,035 You gonna knock the ugly off of him. 235 00:20:31,121 --> 00:20:33,371 That's gonna take a long time, but you can do it. 236 00:20:37,503 --> 00:20:39,795 There he is. Get him off. Do your job, ref. 237 00:20:40,548 --> 00:20:42,923 Shake him. Do your job, ref. 238 00:20:47,805 --> 00:20:49,972 There it is. 239 00:20:50,767 --> 00:20:52,350 Come on, ref. 240 00:20:56,231 --> 00:20:57,230 Break. 241 00:21:03,363 --> 00:21:05,780 - There he is. - Clay slips around and out. 242 00:21:08,828 --> 00:21:11,495 Up against the ropes. Right above me now. 243 00:21:15,627 --> 00:21:18,169 Too tight. Get in there. 244 00:21:30,350 --> 00:21:32,642 My eyes. There's something in my eyes. I can't see nothin'. 245 00:21:32,728 --> 00:21:33,810 Come on. 246 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:38,649 - What's going on? - Nothin'. 247 00:21:38,735 --> 00:21:42,278 The guy's punchin' on the breaks. Just take care of it. We're fine. 248 00:21:44,324 --> 00:21:46,699 I can't see nothin', man. Just go and cut 'em off, Angie. 249 00:21:46,743 --> 00:21:49,577 No, no. You can't fight with no gloves on. 250 00:21:50,413 --> 00:21:52,371 Just get up. Get up. Try and do it. Come on. 251 00:21:52,416 --> 00:21:54,875 I can't see, man. 252 00:21:54,919 --> 00:21:57,586 - Come on, Cass! - Dance! 253 00:22:04,262 --> 00:22:06,262 Liston crouching, hitting to the body. 254 00:22:06,346 --> 00:22:09,305 It's like he's blinking, like he doesn't see Liston. 255 00:22:09,392 --> 00:22:11,976 Ref, you gotta do your job. 256 00:22:21,697 --> 00:22:22,737 Hold it. 257 00:22:25,742 --> 00:22:28,117 Stay away from him, Clay. Stay away from him. 258 00:22:28,913 --> 00:22:31,288 The champion, you can see, is the aggressor. 259 00:22:37,755 --> 00:22:39,672 - Get him, Cass! - Come on, Cass! 260 00:22:40,758 --> 00:22:43,259 - Knock him up! - Clay looks all done. 261 00:22:43,344 --> 00:22:45,344 Hold on to him! 262 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,353 - Stop it. Stop. Break. - Knock him up. 263 00:22:55,732 --> 00:22:58,149 Get on him. Get on him, man. 264 00:23:15,336 --> 00:23:18,295 - You can see him now. - You go get him, man. 265 00:23:29,434 --> 00:23:31,935 Clay lands a left, but Liston ducked under it... 266 00:23:32,020 --> 00:23:34,270 and took it high on the forehead. 267 00:23:35,233 --> 00:23:37,442 It's Clay coming on. 268 00:23:42,365 --> 00:23:45,074 And Liston backs away. 269 00:24:30,749 --> 00:24:34,459 And all the predictions are going down the drain... 270 00:24:34,545 --> 00:24:36,462 as Liston is listless. 271 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,631 And there's the bell. 272 00:24:43,554 --> 00:24:45,471 We're coming up to round seven. 273 00:25:23,804 --> 00:25:26,138 Wait a minute! 274 00:25:26,224 --> 00:25:28,015 Liston's not coming out. 275 00:25:29,019 --> 00:25:32,312 The winner and new heavyweight champion of the world is Cassius Clay. 276 00:25:32,396 --> 00:25:36,440 Eat your words! Eat your words! 277 00:25:36,485 --> 00:25:40,279 Les, I'm going up into the ring. Get back. 278 00:25:41,490 --> 00:25:43,865 I'm the greatest thing ever happened to boxing. 279 00:25:43,951 --> 00:25:45,784 Cassius. Cassius. 280 00:25:45,828 --> 00:25:48,412 I shook up the world! 281 00:25:48,498 --> 00:25:51,749 It's a scene of absolute bedlam in the ring! 282 00:25:51,834 --> 00:25:56,087 I am the greatest. I'm a bad man. I shook up the world! 283 00:25:56,172 --> 00:25:57,880 Did he ever hurt you? 284 00:25:57,966 --> 00:26:00,967 I'm only 22 years old. I ain't got a mark on my face. 285 00:26:01,010 --> 00:26:02,968 - I must be the greatest. - And you're pretty. 286 00:26:03,013 --> 00:26:04,971 I must be the greatest. 287 00:26:05,015 --> 00:26:08,308 Wait. Hold on. Hold on one second. That's Sam Cooke back there. 288 00:26:08,351 --> 00:26:10,309 - Come on, Sam Cooke. - Let Sam Cooke in here. 289 00:26:10,353 --> 00:26:13,271 The greatest rock-and-roll singer, and I'm the world's greatest boxer. 290 00:26:13,357 --> 00:26:14,856 Hello, Sam. 291 00:26:23,785 --> 00:26:25,952 That mummy's gonna get him, baby. 292 00:26:26,787 --> 00:26:29,204 - That mummy ain't gonna get him. - Yeah, he is. 293 00:26:29,290 --> 00:26:33,543 He ain't scared of that mummy. That mummy too slow to catch anybody. 294 00:26:34,505 --> 00:26:37,131 - What's going on, Sam? - How you doing, Cassius? 295 00:26:37,215 --> 00:26:41,676 Don't believe that stuff on TV. Don't listen to him. 296 00:26:41,721 --> 00:26:43,846 - Hey, congratulations, Clay. - Hey, thank you, Jim. 297 00:26:43,930 --> 00:26:46,931 - Hell of a fight. - You next, man. You next. 298 00:26:47,017 --> 00:26:50,310 - Go ahead and get some food, brother. - Cassius Clay versus Jim Brown. 299 00:26:50,396 --> 00:26:51,812 Biggest fight in history. 300 00:26:51,898 --> 00:26:55,024 - The mummy only has one eye. - One eye and a limp. 301 00:26:55,067 --> 00:26:57,693 That mummy's 643 years old. 302 00:26:57,737 --> 00:26:59,695 He can't catch nobody. Look at him. 303 00:26:59,740 --> 00:27:02,950 You gotta fall down 'cause that's the only way the mummy could catch you. 304 00:27:14,463 --> 00:27:15,921 Way to go, champ! 305 00:27:18,593 --> 00:27:22,011 - Yeah, you the greatest. - Thank you, brother. Thank you. 306 00:27:22,095 --> 00:27:24,053 - I'll see your next fight. - You'll see the next one? 307 00:27:24,140 --> 00:27:26,974 - Oh, yeah. - Well, you better get there very early. 308 00:27:27,060 --> 00:27:30,061 You better get there very early 'cause that man's going down. 309 00:27:32,774 --> 00:27:35,400 If he talk a little jive, he's going down in five. 310 00:27:37,321 --> 00:27:40,280 He talk a little more, I might drop him in four. 311 00:27:41,408 --> 00:27:43,575 If you wanna have more fun, do it in round one. 312 00:27:43,660 --> 00:27:45,743 Oh, yeah. Hold on. I'm doing the rhymin'. 313 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,011 The people really look up to you. You plan on being a champ like Joe Louis? 314 00:28:03,098 --> 00:28:06,057 Well, yeah, I'm gonna be the people's champ. 315 00:28:06,142 --> 00:28:08,517 Not like Joe Louis. Well, you know, not exactly. 316 00:28:10,981 --> 00:28:13,106 My name is not Clay. 317 00:28:13,151 --> 00:28:15,735 Clay is the name of the people that owned my ancestors... 318 00:28:15,819 --> 00:28:18,820 and I no longer wanna be called by that slave name. 319 00:28:18,906 --> 00:28:21,156 - I am Cassius X. - Minister Malcolm. 320 00:28:21,242 --> 00:28:23,492 What about the divisions in the Nation of Islam? 321 00:28:23,577 --> 00:28:27,579 This is the champ's time. I'm here as a friend to support his victory... 322 00:28:27,665 --> 00:28:30,124 so I have nothing you want. 323 00:28:30,168 --> 00:28:32,168 I'm definitely gonna be the people's champion... 324 00:28:32,211 --> 00:28:34,670 but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. 325 00:28:34,755 --> 00:28:37,172 I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be. 326 00:28:48,354 --> 00:28:50,980 ...for no home is immune to termites... 327 00:28:51,022 --> 00:28:54,148 no matter how well it is built or maintained. 328 00:28:54,234 --> 00:28:56,192 - Hey, brother. - I was leaving. 329 00:28:56,279 --> 00:28:59,530 I saw your light on. What you doing up at this hour, champ? 330 00:28:59,615 --> 00:29:03,367 Oh, man, I'm watching this program on termites. 331 00:29:03,453 --> 00:29:07,706 And them little itsy-bitsy things is eatin' these people's whole house down. 332 00:29:07,790 --> 00:29:10,499 Oh, man, look. 333 00:29:13,630 --> 00:29:18,383 I've been invited to speak at Ibadan University in Nigeria. 334 00:29:18,427 --> 00:29:21,136 - You wanna go with me? - Hey, look, man. 335 00:29:21,222 --> 00:29:25,350 You can have six million termites in your house and don't even know it... 336 00:29:25,391 --> 00:29:28,350 till you going to get something to eat and you bust through the floor. 337 00:29:30,231 --> 00:29:33,983 - What'd you say? Where? - Africa. You been? 338 00:29:35,069 --> 00:29:35,984 Africa. 339 00:29:36,070 --> 00:29:38,404 All right, come on. Let's go. 340 00:29:43,994 --> 00:29:45,577 What is it? 341 00:29:50,085 --> 00:29:52,669 You ever thought you'd lose it? 342 00:29:52,754 --> 00:29:55,505 I mean, really lose it? 343 00:29:59,346 --> 00:30:03,098 When I was little, I tore out this picture of Emmett Till. 344 00:30:03,182 --> 00:30:05,099 They put the barbed wire around his neck... 345 00:30:05,184 --> 00:30:09,353 and strapped him to that 75-pound cotton gin fan. 346 00:30:09,439 --> 00:30:13,275 And they cut out one of his eyes 'cause he looked at some white lady. 347 00:30:15,112 --> 00:30:17,070 Man. 348 00:30:17,114 --> 00:30:20,199 I couldn't take my eyes to it, couldn't throw it away. 349 00:30:24,788 --> 00:30:27,706 When I heard about those... 350 00:30:27,791 --> 00:30:30,750 four little girls who got bombed in that Birmingham church... 351 00:30:33,965 --> 00:30:36,674 the prohibitions of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad prevented me... 352 00:30:36,758 --> 00:30:39,008 from speaking my thoughts in action. 353 00:30:41,013 --> 00:30:43,222 Because Birmingham was part of the civil rights struggle. 354 00:30:43,308 --> 00:30:47,519 You know, begging for our place at the white man's table. 355 00:30:47,604 --> 00:30:50,271 But dead children are dead children. 356 00:30:50,357 --> 00:30:54,902 So the anger I felt I had to contain. 357 00:30:56,821 --> 00:30:59,906 I locked it up so tight... 358 00:30:59,992 --> 00:31:01,909 my muscles seized. 359 00:31:03,079 --> 00:31:05,997 I lost control over the right side of my body. 360 00:31:06,082 --> 00:31:08,499 My leg gave out. 361 00:31:08,585 --> 00:31:11,294 Right arm gave out. "I'm having a stroke," I thought. 362 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,006 But I had to hold it in 'cause all I wanted-- 363 00:31:16,092 --> 00:31:20,553 Brother, all I wanted to do was find something and break it. 364 00:31:20,639 --> 00:31:23,807 Break a part-- Break any part of this system... 365 00:31:23,892 --> 00:31:28,103 because you are so provoked in your heart... 366 00:31:28,189 --> 00:31:30,314 and your spirit as a human being... 367 00:31:32,234 --> 00:31:34,192 at dead children. 368 00:31:35,863 --> 00:31:37,946 And I could do... 369 00:31:40,534 --> 00:31:42,284 nothing. 370 00:31:50,711 --> 00:31:54,463 Everyone knows I can't do nothing... 371 00:31:54,549 --> 00:31:55,965 anymore. 372 00:32:00,472 --> 00:32:04,015 So Elijah Muhammad has suspended me as a minister in the Nation of Islam. 373 00:32:12,527 --> 00:32:15,361 Man... 374 00:32:15,404 --> 00:32:16,945 you can fix that. 375 00:32:17,031 --> 00:32:19,907 I don't know. 376 00:32:19,951 --> 00:32:22,243 I'll try when we get back. 377 00:32:30,462 --> 00:32:32,504 You get some rest, champ. 378 00:32:32,590 --> 00:32:34,507 All right, brother. 379 00:33:09,795 --> 00:33:10,752 Sit. 380 00:33:23,143 --> 00:33:27,771 You know, only after long service and high merit... 381 00:33:27,814 --> 00:33:32,275 in the spiritual and physical rebirth of Afro-American people... 382 00:33:32,319 --> 00:33:34,569 is one granted an original name. 383 00:33:34,656 --> 00:33:37,407 But you are special. 384 00:33:37,490 --> 00:33:38,948 A world champion. 385 00:33:41,495 --> 00:33:44,121 So there is a gift I wish to give you. 386 00:33:44,165 --> 00:33:46,165 From this day forward... 387 00:33:46,208 --> 00:33:50,711 you will be known as Muhammad Ali. 388 00:33:54,884 --> 00:33:57,259 - What? - That's right. 389 00:33:57,345 --> 00:33:59,262 You what? 390 00:34:01,767 --> 00:34:05,477 Well, what's wrong with our name? My name? 391 00:34:05,521 --> 00:34:07,855 We-- We made you. 392 00:34:07,940 --> 00:34:09,398 Ain't nobody made me. 393 00:34:09,484 --> 00:34:11,609 No bow tie-wearin', Arab-talkin' nigger gonna change that. 394 00:34:11,693 --> 00:34:13,610 Ain't nobody in that ring but me. I made me. 395 00:34:13,695 --> 00:34:16,196 You don't know who you are. 396 00:34:16,282 --> 00:34:19,033 I know who I ain't. I ain't drinkin'. 397 00:34:19,119 --> 00:34:21,411 I ain't going back on my wife and for sure I ain't prayin'... 398 00:34:21,495 --> 00:34:23,662 to no blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus. 399 00:34:23,706 --> 00:34:27,667 Paintin' those blue-eyed, blond-haired Jesuses is what put food in you. 400 00:34:27,753 --> 00:34:30,420 - Steak and vegetables on the table. - It's dinner! 401 00:34:36,053 --> 00:34:37,970 Go ahead. 402 00:34:39,097 --> 00:34:40,429 Go ahead. 403 00:35:02,373 --> 00:35:03,622 Hello? 404 00:35:04,542 --> 00:35:07,084 Here you go, Daddy. 405 00:35:07,168 --> 00:35:08,709 Thank you, baby. 406 00:35:08,753 --> 00:35:11,212 - Yeah? - Brother Malcolm. 407 00:35:11,256 --> 00:35:15,300 The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has given the Muslim name of Muhammad Ali... 408 00:35:15,385 --> 00:35:18,136 to Cassius X. 409 00:35:18,222 --> 00:35:21,640 Herbert Muhammad has been put in charge of his training. 410 00:35:21,727 --> 00:35:23,977 He will not be traveling with you to Africa. 411 00:35:24,061 --> 00:35:26,687 He also asked me to inform you... 412 00:35:26,772 --> 00:35:29,773 that your suspension will be extended indefinitely. 413 00:35:40,413 --> 00:35:42,872 Brother Cassius won't be coming to Africa. 414 00:35:46,460 --> 00:35:48,418 Not with me. 415 00:35:52,383 --> 00:35:54,508 Don't put it off. 416 00:35:59,765 --> 00:36:01,682 We'll be fine. 417 00:36:06,815 --> 00:36:08,189 I will. 418 00:36:08,274 --> 00:36:11,442 I got a little doll for Atallah. 419 00:36:11,487 --> 00:36:12,569 Really? 420 00:36:12,655 --> 00:36:14,279 Yeah, it’s beautiful. 421 00:36:14,323 --> 00:36:17,157 I've got so much to show the girls when I get back. 422 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,617 - I'm taking a lot of pictures. - Yeah? 423 00:36:19,661 --> 00:36:21,995 Yeah, I got some good stuff I want to show you. 424 00:36:22,081 --> 00:36:23,998 Are you eating? 425 00:36:25,001 --> 00:36:27,585 Well, you're not cooking, so-- 426 00:36:27,670 --> 00:36:30,296 - What's going on? Anything? - Nothing. 427 00:36:31,258 --> 00:36:33,383 He's on the phone, talking to his wife. 428 00:36:33,469 --> 00:36:36,637 She's having a hard time sleeping, the baby's kicking a lot... 429 00:36:36,721 --> 00:36:39,013 what are they gonna name the baby. 430 00:36:41,852 --> 00:36:45,896 I just wake up a couple of times in the night, but it’s okay. 431 00:36:58,494 --> 00:37:00,869 Would you like to take a seat? 432 00:37:00,914 --> 00:37:02,872 Sure, thank you. 433 00:37:06,545 --> 00:37:08,754 What y'all done did with the real pilot? 434 00:37:08,839 --> 00:37:11,715 I am the pilot. He's the copilot. 435 00:37:11,757 --> 00:37:13,715 Here. Sit down, Mr. Clay. 436 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,177 Oh, man. 437 00:37:16,221 --> 00:37:20,182 In Louisville, where I growed up, they barely let black folks drive buses. 438 00:38:59,997 --> 00:39:01,246 Muhammad! 439 00:39:04,711 --> 00:39:08,505 Hey, brother. What's going on, man? 440 00:39:12,678 --> 00:39:14,636 - What you doing here? - I was just going to the airport. 441 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,306 We just got here now. So where you going? 442 00:39:17,348 --> 00:39:18,305 Liberia. 443 00:39:18,349 --> 00:39:21,809 Say hello to Maya Angelou right here and Ambassador Huang Hua. 444 00:39:21,854 --> 00:39:24,688 And that is Taher Kaid. He's the ambassador from Algeria. 445 00:39:24,774 --> 00:39:27,942 Oh, man. Where should I go? I wanna go all over this place. 446 00:39:28,027 --> 00:39:30,152 Go to Algeria. See Ben Bella. 447 00:39:30,238 --> 00:39:34,532 Then go to see Mecca and Medina. I just came from there. 448 00:39:34,616 --> 00:39:36,950 Made my seven circuits around the Kaaba. 449 00:39:37,036 --> 00:39:40,162 I prayed at sunrise. Two million people. Pilgrims from all over, man. 450 00:39:40,206 --> 00:39:43,374 Dressed the same. High and low, the same. 451 00:39:43,459 --> 00:39:47,295 Blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims, Arabs, Africans, Indonesians. 452 00:40:02,104 --> 00:40:05,022 Seeing brothers just like us, praying together, it was beautiful. 453 00:40:05,066 --> 00:40:07,108 I drank water from the well of Zem Zem. 454 00:40:07,194 --> 00:40:12,239 I prayed in the ancient city of Mena. I prayed on Mount Arafat. 455 00:40:12,323 --> 00:40:14,740 You shouldn't have quarreled with Elijah Muhammad. 456 00:40:16,077 --> 00:40:18,286 Walking in their footsteps. 457 00:40:18,372 --> 00:40:19,996 All of us together. 458 00:40:20,081 --> 00:40:22,915 You shouldn't have quarreled with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. 459 00:40:23,752 --> 00:40:25,376 What? 460 00:40:26,547 --> 00:40:29,965 You shouldn't have quarreled with Elijah Muhammad. 461 00:40:30,050 --> 00:40:32,551 Hey, Brother Muhammad, look here. 462 00:40:36,891 --> 00:40:38,808 Brother Muhammad! 463 00:41:01,042 --> 00:41:03,042 Listen, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. 464 00:41:17,142 --> 00:41:18,766 Into each life... 465 00:41:18,852 --> 00:41:20,894 a little rain must fall. 466 00:41:20,980 --> 00:41:23,856 And, you know, every day cannot be sunny. 467 00:41:23,940 --> 00:41:26,607 Every smile is not a smile of happiness. 468 00:41:26,651 --> 00:41:28,150 And every tear that is shed-- 469 00:41:28,195 --> 00:41:30,445 Sonji, Sonji, Sonji. 470 00:41:30,489 --> 00:41:34,241 - What you keep saying my name for? - 'Cause I love it, girl. 471 00:41:34,326 --> 00:41:36,701 -How long you been working with Herbert? -About a year. 472 00:41:36,788 --> 00:41:39,664 I sell Muhammad Speaks over the phone. 473 00:41:39,748 --> 00:41:43,542 - What kind of name is that? - My father named me after Sonja Henie. 474 00:41:44,670 --> 00:41:46,628 What's your father do? 475 00:41:46,673 --> 00:41:50,801 He was shot in a poker game when I was two, so he don't do nothing. 476 00:41:50,885 --> 00:41:53,302 And my mother died when I was eleven. 477 00:41:53,347 --> 00:41:56,223 - Who raised you? - My godparents. 478 00:41:56,309 --> 00:42:00,311 But I been off on my own for a long time. 479 00:42:01,438 --> 00:42:03,396 What you doing tomorrow? Go for a ride with me. 480 00:42:03,482 --> 00:42:05,941 - Oh, no, no. I gotta work. - I'm gonna square it with Herbert. 481 00:42:06,027 --> 00:42:08,903 - Herbert said you met the Beatles. - Oh, yeah, yeah. 482 00:42:08,988 --> 00:42:11,989 Only one of 'em is smart, though. The fella with the glasses. 483 00:42:12,033 --> 00:42:14,200 Oh, he is my favorite. 484 00:42:14,286 --> 00:42:16,912 Yeah, folks was screaming and fainting. 485 00:42:16,996 --> 00:42:19,413 I said, "Man, is this how they act when you get big?" 486 00:42:19,499 --> 00:42:22,125 - What did he say? - He said, "Champ... 487 00:42:22,210 --> 00:42:26,087 the more real you get, the more unreal it's gonna get." 488 00:42:27,007 --> 00:42:29,007 Wow. 489 00:42:34,472 --> 00:42:36,389 Your 490 00:42:37,643 --> 00:42:41,812 Precious love 491 00:42:41,898 --> 00:42:43,606 Love 492 00:42:43,691 --> 00:42:47,527 Means more tome 493 00:42:49,615 --> 00:42:53,784 More, more 494 00:42:53,868 --> 00:42:57,078 Than any love 495 00:42:57,164 --> 00:42:59,581 Can ever bring me 496 00:42:59,625 --> 00:43:02,543 Never came true 497 00:43:02,586 --> 00:43:05,170 Oh, and I 498 00:43:08,093 --> 00:43:10,093 I wanted you 499 00:43:10,176 --> 00:43:12,802 Let me tell ya I was so lonely 500 00:43:12,888 --> 00:43:16,807 So lonely, lonely So lonely and so blue 501 00:43:17,894 --> 00:43:20,269 Good God All mighty 502 00:43:20,313 --> 00:43:22,522 That's what love will do 503 00:43:22,607 --> 00:43:24,065 Do 504 00:43:28,988 --> 00:43:31,280 Let's go. 505 00:43:31,366 --> 00:43:32,865 Yeah. 506 00:43:32,951 --> 00:43:34,993 Where you live? 507 00:43:35,079 --> 00:43:36,996 I'm gonna take you there. 508 00:43:38,290 --> 00:43:41,625 And you know I got a man somewhere out there that I don't mind crawling to. 509 00:43:41,711 --> 00:43:45,046 Sometimes I wake up in the midnight hour, tears rolling down my face. 510 00:43:45,132 --> 00:43:47,049 And if I look around for my man and I can't find him... 511 00:43:47,132 --> 00:43:49,591 I follow the Lord, look a little higher. 512 00:43:49,635 --> 00:43:51,385 Kind of pray to the Lord. 513 00:43:51,471 --> 00:43:54,639 Because I always believed that the Lord could help me if nobody else could. 514 00:43:54,724 --> 00:43:56,641 But sometime I think he don't even hear me. 515 00:43:56,685 --> 00:43:59,144 So I have to fall a little lower on my knees, look a little higher. 516 00:43:59,188 --> 00:44:01,313 Kind of raise my voice a little higher. 517 00:44:01,399 --> 00:44:03,524 And this is what I say when I call on my man. 518 00:44:03,608 --> 00:44:07,068 I especially want you ladies to listen to me 'cause maybe you can try this. 519 00:44:07,154 --> 00:44:09,154 It might help you every once in a while. 520 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:11,699 This is what you say when you call on your man. 521 00:44:11,784 --> 00:44:13,701 Get in tune to-- 522 00:44:20,377 --> 00:44:25,172 Darlin' 523 00:44:25,214 --> 00:44:28,716 Darlin; don't you know 524 00:44:28,802 --> 00:44:32,679 That I love you so much, yeah 525 00:44:34,308 --> 00:44:36,600 Fall down on my knees 526 00:44:36,686 --> 00:44:38,769 Beg my baby, please 527 00:44:38,855 --> 00:44:42,398 I got to tell the man that I love him, yes, I will 528 00:44:45,611 --> 00:44:47,569 For your precious love 529 00:44:47,655 --> 00:44:49,822 For your precious love 530 00:44:49,907 --> 00:44:52,324 There’s nothing There’s nothing, nothing 531 00:44:52,368 --> 00:44:55,661 In this whole wide world I wouldn’t do for you, darling 532 00:44:57,539 --> 00:45:00,540 I'll walk all night out in the rain 533 00:45:00,627 --> 00:45:04,254 Lord, I got to see my baby again 534 00:45:04,339 --> 00:45:06,923 I got to tell the man that I love him 535 00:45:07,008 --> 00:45:09,091 One more time, yeah 536 00:45:24,276 --> 00:45:25,775 You ain't no Muslim, huh? 537 00:45:25,862 --> 00:45:29,698 Cover my hair, wear no makeup and wear those long dresses? 538 00:45:29,741 --> 00:45:31,282 Honey, please. 539 00:45:35,580 --> 00:45:37,079 Were you a virgin? 540 00:45:37,874 --> 00:45:40,959 A virgin? How you gonna-- What you saying? 541 00:45:41,045 --> 00:45:45,423 Well, you were just so gone, off on a little good time. 542 00:45:45,466 --> 00:45:48,592 Well, no, I ain't no virgin. 543 00:45:48,678 --> 00:45:50,136 But I may as well be. 544 00:45:51,012 --> 00:45:53,429 I ain't joking. 545 00:45:53,474 --> 00:45:56,225 I always know when I know. 546 00:45:58,313 --> 00:46:00,605 You see this face? 547 00:46:00,648 --> 00:46:02,731 You got a pretty face for a lady's face... 548 00:46:02,817 --> 00:46:05,234 but you ever seen anything as pretty as me? 549 00:46:05,279 --> 00:46:07,988 Who wouldn't want to be with me? 550 00:46:08,074 --> 00:46:10,199 What, you five foot three or something like that? 551 00:46:10,283 --> 00:46:12,825 That's too small for me, but I'm gonna make an exception. 552 00:46:12,911 --> 00:46:15,245 - Oh, well, thank you. - Because of your spirit. 553 00:46:15,289 --> 00:46:17,915 - My spirit? - Yeah, girl. You too much fun. 554 00:46:17,958 --> 00:46:20,584 - But you got to be a Muslim. - A Muslim? 555 00:46:20,628 --> 00:46:24,213 And how you do that? You jump over a broom and, shazam, you're a Muslim? 556 00:46:24,299 --> 00:46:27,133 I ain't never been with nobody like you. 557 00:46:27,217 --> 00:46:29,217 And, baby... 558 00:46:29,303 --> 00:46:32,638 baby, you ain't never gonna be with any other. 559 00:46:49,366 --> 00:46:51,324 - What? - That's right. 560 00:46:53,579 --> 00:46:55,704 I wanna marry her. 561 00:46:57,876 --> 00:46:59,334 True love. 562 00:46:59,377 --> 00:47:02,712 You don't marry that girl. She was a date. 563 00:47:02,796 --> 00:47:04,462 Have some fun. 564 00:47:04,507 --> 00:47:08,259 She's not your wife. You don't marry this girl. 565 00:47:08,345 --> 00:47:11,805 Here's some management papers. I need you to sign right there. 566 00:47:11,848 --> 00:47:13,556 My father would kill me. 567 00:47:14,893 --> 00:47:16,559 Watch what you're signing, Ali. 568 00:47:16,645 --> 00:47:18,562 This ain't got nothing to do with you. 569 00:47:18,648 --> 00:47:22,817 Anything's to do with me I say is to do with me, fat boy. I'm still a Christian. 570 00:47:23,485 --> 00:47:26,987 And get me a kosher cook. I want that lady over at Malcolm's temple. 571 00:47:27,031 --> 00:47:29,114 - Lana Shabazz. - And put my brother on payroll. 572 00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,742 Fifty G a year just for drivin' and jivin'. 573 00:47:31,828 --> 00:47:34,746 What do you say, Howard? Come on full-time as my photographer? 574 00:47:34,831 --> 00:47:38,625 I'm not gonna be on the payroll. I'm freelance. Emphasis on "free." 575 00:47:38,709 --> 00:47:41,376 Muhammad, she's not for you. 576 00:47:41,462 --> 00:47:43,504 When I met her, she worked in a cocktail lounge... 577 00:47:43,548 --> 00:47:45,673 with a bunny tail on her backside. 578 00:47:45,718 --> 00:47:48,636 What the hell was you doing in a bunny tail lounge anyway, Herbert? 579 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:50,553 Sellin' Muhammad Peeks? 580 00:47:53,393 --> 00:47:57,145 - You been saving it up training, Ali. - Your ass. 581 00:47:57,229 --> 00:47:59,938 You should spread that stuff around a little bit before you settle down. 582 00:48:00,024 --> 00:48:03,025 No, man. Marriage is the cornerstone of Muslim life. 583 00:48:03,069 --> 00:48:07,197 - Yeah, well, Sonji Roi is not a Muslim. - Well, she's gonna be now. 584 00:48:07,240 --> 00:48:09,657 You just fix it up, Herbert. 585 00:48:27,011 --> 00:48:29,720 Yeah. Okay. 586 00:48:29,806 --> 00:48:32,682 So, why we meeting? 587 00:48:32,766 --> 00:48:35,892 I got Malcolm shoulder to shoulder with Martin Luther King. 588 00:48:35,937 --> 00:48:38,855 And we got Malcolm traveling all over the world, getting Ben Bella and Nasser. 589 00:48:42,402 --> 00:48:45,320 We were better off before with Malcolm inside the Nation. 590 00:48:47,283 --> 00:48:51,077 So we've decided we want you... 591 00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:54,579 to get Elijah Muhammad to take Malcolm back. 592 00:49:03,007 --> 00:49:05,049 That's a joke, Joe. 593 00:49:17,272 --> 00:49:20,440 When am I being reimbursed for my expenses? 594 00:49:20,526 --> 00:49:22,860 Dry-cleaning all these suits is not free. 595 00:49:24,739 --> 00:49:27,114 We gotta talk about this guy too. 596 00:49:30,828 --> 00:49:34,288 Get me receipts, I'll reimburse you for your dry cleaning. 597 00:49:43,966 --> 00:49:45,883 - What you drinking? - What I'm drinking? 598 00:49:45,968 --> 00:49:48,886 Come on, champ. This is water. You know I'm a natural man. 599 00:49:48,972 --> 00:49:50,388 You know. 600 00:49:50,474 --> 00:49:53,392 - What's going on? We're late. - I'm changing my damn clothes. 601 00:49:53,477 --> 00:49:56,937 You gave me that look, so I know you don't like what I had on. 602 00:49:58,357 --> 00:50:00,983 - What is this? - What you wanted, isn't it? 603 00:50:01,069 --> 00:50:03,278 - A water glass with vodka in it. - No, that was before. 604 00:50:03,362 --> 00:50:06,780 - Before what, sir? - Before you showed up. Get out of here. 605 00:50:08,201 --> 00:50:11,327 I'm fine running around here in these cute, short things for you. 606 00:50:11,412 --> 00:50:13,120 I am submissive to you. 607 00:50:13,206 --> 00:50:16,541 I ain't gonna be submissive to them Brother X's and Z's... 608 00:50:16,627 --> 00:50:18,502 about what they think. 609 00:50:18,546 --> 00:50:21,130 They ask me a bunch of questions all the time anyway. 610 00:50:21,214 --> 00:50:23,172 - What questions? - About you and us. 611 00:50:23,216 --> 00:50:25,967 - And I ain't telling them shit. - You tell it like it is, sugar. 612 00:50:29,890 --> 00:50:32,724 Took away my boy's name. What they give him back? 613 00:50:32,768 --> 00:50:34,100 Bad style. 614 00:50:36,815 --> 00:50:41,151 I think you drunk. Daddy Clay, you're something else. 615 00:50:41,235 --> 00:50:44,695 Now, that's a firecracker right there. We're gonna have to work with that. 616 00:50:44,781 --> 00:50:46,739 - A scale of one to ten. - That's right. 617 00:50:46,783 --> 00:50:48,950 I have one-- I had a ten-- Well, I didn't have a ten. 618 00:50:49,035 --> 00:50:51,702 I had a five-- five good twos. 619 00:50:53,249 --> 00:50:56,918 I don't drink. I don't smoke. I converted to Islam for you. 620 00:50:57,001 --> 00:50:59,877 Okay? l-- All except the dress. 621 00:52:40,653 --> 00:52:43,154 What you doing in my pockets, man? Get your hand out of my pocket! 622 00:52:43,238 --> 00:52:45,488 - Hold it, my brothers. - We got a thief in here! 623 00:52:45,532 --> 00:52:47,657 Just be cool. 624 00:52:47,743 --> 00:52:49,326 Be cool. 625 00:53:41,133 --> 00:53:43,008 Brother, you crazy? 626 00:53:43,094 --> 00:53:46,471 They killed Malcolm! They shot Malcolm! They shot Malcolm! 627 00:53:46,555 --> 00:53:48,472 They shot Malcolm! 628 00:53:50,310 --> 00:53:54,855 ...wash it seven times in the chest and body... 629 00:53:54,938 --> 00:53:57,522 and one in the lower right shin. 630 00:53:57,608 --> 00:54:01,193 Apparently, the unknown man... 631 00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:04,782 walked up to the speaker's platform... 632 00:54:04,866 --> 00:54:08,660 at the time Malcolm X was speaking... 633 00:54:10,123 --> 00:54:13,750 opened fire at him at very short range. 634 00:55:20,864 --> 00:55:24,074 The arena is surrounded by FBI. 635 00:55:24,159 --> 00:55:26,660 The stands are only half full. 636 00:55:26,702 --> 00:55:30,746 The promoter has taken out a million-dollar insurance policy... 637 00:55:30,832 --> 00:55:36,002 due to Cassius Clay's membership in the militant and radical black Muslims. 638 00:55:36,088 --> 00:55:40,174 And, oh, by the way, Sonny Liston is here too. 639 00:55:40,218 --> 00:55:42,844 Touch gloves and come out fighting. 640 00:56:14,420 --> 00:56:16,003 Come on, son. 641 00:56:16,089 --> 00:56:18,798 - Come on, Chi-Chi. - Put a whupping on him now. 642 00:56:24,722 --> 00:56:26,889 Ain't nothing changed. 643 00:56:26,974 --> 00:56:29,349 Whup on him now. Whup up on him. 644 00:56:31,938 --> 00:56:33,813 Way to go! 645 00:56:35,609 --> 00:56:38,568 - There it is! - Sock it to him, baby! 646 00:56:47,788 --> 00:56:49,204 Yes! 647 00:56:49,290 --> 00:56:51,916 Get up! Ain't nobody gonna believe this. 648 00:56:52,001 --> 00:56:54,084 Get up! 649 00:56:54,169 --> 00:56:55,335 Yes! 650 00:57:08,477 --> 00:57:10,435 Confused. We're confused. 651 00:57:12,063 --> 00:57:14,480 - Check his time. - Timekeeper's sounding it's over. 652 00:57:14,524 --> 00:57:16,482 Check his time! 653 00:57:18,612 --> 00:57:19,694 It is over! 654 00:57:32,084 --> 00:57:34,501 I think the champ was in a hurry. 655 00:57:43,180 --> 00:57:44,596 Are you okay? 656 00:57:46,684 --> 00:57:48,767 What's wrong? 657 00:57:48,852 --> 00:57:51,770 Why you all done up like that? 658 00:57:54,525 --> 00:57:57,026 I'm out there dying for you out of worry. 659 00:57:57,111 --> 00:57:58,610 - Worry? - Yes. 660 00:57:58,696 --> 00:58:01,113 And all you can think about is if I look dull enough? 661 00:58:01,908 --> 00:58:05,034 What if I straightened my hair and moved into some white suburb? 662 00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:07,162 How I am says something. 663 00:58:31,272 --> 00:58:33,647 You want me to go get her? 664 00:58:46,246 --> 00:58:47,412 Not now. 665 00:58:47,497 --> 00:58:49,414 - Not right now, fellas. - Not now. 666 00:58:55,089 --> 00:58:58,549 - What I got to do? - About Sonji? 667 00:58:58,593 --> 00:59:00,885 Have no contact with her for 90 days. 668 00:59:00,969 --> 00:59:03,219 Make a public statement of divorce at the mosque... 669 00:59:03,264 --> 00:59:05,473 and Islamic law will be satisfied. 670 00:59:05,558 --> 00:59:09,018 Satisfaction is not making it with the woman who send you to the moon? 671 00:59:09,103 --> 00:59:11,061 I'm the only normal person left around here. 672 00:59:11,147 --> 00:59:13,731 I'm a black Jew, I can't read and I'm half drunk. 673 00:59:15,903 --> 00:59:17,361 I need to talk to you. 674 00:59:18,780 --> 00:59:21,906 - No, you can stay, Brother Herbert. - Brother? He ain't your brother. 675 00:59:21,992 --> 00:59:25,202 Your brother's taking your wife back to Chicago. She's crying like a widow. 676 00:59:25,287 --> 00:59:27,954 - Well, I ain't dead. - Well, you may as well be. 677 00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:30,582 You don't remember your name or who you are. 678 01:00:44,162 --> 01:00:46,746 You gonna try for Germany? 679 01:00:46,830 --> 01:00:48,538 You gonna try to get stationed in Germany? 680 01:00:48,624 --> 01:00:53,377 - Everybody is trying to avoid Vietnam. - What you talkin' about, man? 681 01:00:53,463 --> 01:00:56,464 They changed your classification. It's in the paper. 682 01:00:56,550 --> 01:00:58,341 - What? - Champ. Eskridge. 683 01:00:58,385 --> 01:00:59,843 You're 1A. 684 01:01:02,891 --> 01:01:05,350 They tryin' to draft me in the army? You know about this? 685 01:01:05,392 --> 01:01:06,641 Okay, here we go. 686 01:01:07,770 --> 01:01:11,814 All right, all right. Hey, I got to go. 687 01:01:15,737 --> 01:01:17,737 They started runnin'. 688 01:01:19,908 --> 01:01:20,031 You know, so I went down there, I did everything I was supposed to do... 689 01:01:20,033 --> 01:01:22,575 You know, so I went down there, I did everything I was supposed to do... 690 01:01:22,660 --> 01:01:24,577 and I flunked their draft board test. 691 01:01:24,662 --> 01:01:28,748 Then without testing me again, to see if I'm any wiser or worser... 692 01:01:28,834 --> 01:01:31,251 they decide I can go in the army? 693 01:01:31,337 --> 01:01:33,587 - Cassius, in my opinion-- - My name ain't Cassius Clay. 694 01:01:33,672 --> 01:01:36,214 That is a slave name, and I am a free man. 695 01:01:36,300 --> 01:01:37,883 I am Muhammad Ali. 696 01:01:37,969 --> 01:01:43,223 You know, I apologize. I apologize to you on the air. 697 01:01:43,307 --> 01:01:45,516 Your name is Muhammad Ali. 698 01:01:45,601 --> 01:01:47,726 You have a right to be called whatever you want. 699 01:01:47,812 --> 01:01:49,770 I apologize to you. 700 01:01:49,814 --> 01:01:53,399 You sure make a lot of mistakes for a so-called educated man. 701 01:01:53,485 --> 01:01:55,902 - You really went to law school? - Yes, Muhammad. 702 01:01:55,946 --> 01:01:59,740 And to think I gave up a lucrative practice for the likes of you. 703 01:01:59,782 --> 01:02:01,782 I'm the best thing ever happened to you, Cosell. 704 01:02:01,868 --> 01:02:05,704 Without me, you'd be a tall white man with a microphone in his mouth. 705 01:02:05,790 --> 01:02:09,041 And without me, you'd be a mouth. 706 01:02:15,968 --> 01:02:17,885 We'll be right back. 707 01:02:19,303 --> 01:02:22,930 - You want some food for that thing? - How could you do such a thing? 708 01:02:23,016 --> 01:02:25,642 - 'Cause it's funny. - To someone you revere. 709 01:02:25,727 --> 01:02:28,645 - That thing almost bit my finger off. - Mr. Bundini... 710 01:02:28,689 --> 01:02:32,942 I'm glad you were here to witness this-- this assault. 711 01:02:35,695 --> 01:02:38,321 Have a little coffee with your sugar. 712 01:02:42,412 --> 01:02:44,329 They're coming after you... 713 01:02:44,413 --> 01:02:47,956 because they're scared of black militancy in the inner cities. 714 01:02:49,419 --> 01:02:53,839 I ain't no H. Rap Brown. I ain't no Stokely Carmichael. 715 01:02:53,881 --> 01:02:55,672 All they are is political. 716 01:02:55,758 --> 01:02:58,342 You're the heavyweight champion of the world. 717 01:03:14,153 --> 01:03:16,278 Here's the deal the government offered. You do six weeks in basic. 718 01:03:16,364 --> 01:03:18,865 You go to the reserves. You don't go to Vietnam. 719 01:03:18,950 --> 01:03:21,868 Now, the messenger would not object if you joined under those terms. 720 01:03:21,953 --> 01:03:23,744 I stay out of jail and keep boxing. 721 01:03:23,830 --> 01:03:26,122 If you accept the induction, life goes on. 722 01:03:36,886 --> 01:03:36,925 Marvin Decker Anderson, US Army. 723 01:03:36,928 --> 01:03:40,680 Marvin Decker Anderson, US Army. 724 01:03:42,392 --> 01:03:45,977 Juan Raymondo Benitez, US Army. 725 01:03:47,980 --> 01:03:51,231 Pryce Marshall Benson, US Marines. 726 01:03:55,738 --> 01:03:59,866 Cassius Marcellus Clay, US Army. 727 01:04:11,088 --> 01:04:12,879 Mr. Clay, I'm required to inform you... 728 01:04:12,964 --> 01:04:15,923 that refusal to accept a lawful induction order... 729 01:04:16,719 --> 01:04:18,928 constitutes a felony... 730 01:04:19,014 --> 01:04:22,724 under the Universal Military Training and Service Act... 731 01:04:22,766 --> 01:04:26,852 punishable by five years imprisonment... 732 01:04:26,938 --> 01:04:29,772 and a $10,000 fine. 733 01:04:29,858 --> 01:04:31,441 Do you understand? 734 01:04:32,026 --> 01:04:34,401 Yes, sir. 735 01:04:54,134 --> 01:04:56,885 Federal Bureau of Investigation. 736 01:04:56,971 --> 01:04:59,805 Mr. Clay, you're under arrest for refusing induction. 737 01:05:37,887 --> 01:05:39,929 Yeah. 738 01:05:40,015 --> 01:05:42,224 Yeah, this is me. 739 01:05:42,309 --> 01:05:46,019 No, you got to ask Chauncey Eskridge. That's my lawyer. He's in Chicago. 740 01:05:47,857 --> 01:05:49,774 No, I'm out on bail. 741 01:05:51,860 --> 01:05:55,237 No, man, I ain't never shot nothin' in my life. 742 01:05:55,322 --> 01:05:59,241 No ducks, no geese, no deer, no nothin'. 743 01:05:59,327 --> 01:06:02,954 Yeah, I know where Vietnam is. It's on TV. 744 01:06:04,499 --> 01:06:08,293 Southeast Asia? What, it's there too? 745 01:06:12,257 --> 01:06:14,424 What do I think about who? 746 01:06:14,509 --> 01:06:16,050 The Vietcong? 747 01:06:18,388 --> 01:06:21,556 Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong. 748 01:06:23,186 --> 01:06:26,479 Ain't no Vietcong ever called me nigger. 749 01:06:27,439 --> 01:06:29,481 Yeah, that's right. 750 01:06:34,447 --> 01:06:37,114 You know what you're doin', Ali? 751 01:06:38,410 --> 01:06:40,201 You know what you just said? 752 01:06:40,871 --> 01:06:42,913 Everyone, Europe to China, every home in America... 753 01:06:42,999 --> 01:06:45,041 everyone’s gonna know what the heavyweight champion of the world... 754 01:06:45,084 --> 01:06:47,209 said about the US war. 755 01:06:49,004 --> 01:06:52,005 So what? So what? I ain't got to be... 756 01:06:52,091 --> 01:06:54,049 what nobody else want me to be... 757 01:06:54,093 --> 01:06:56,760 and I ain't afraid to be what I wanna be... 758 01:06:56,846 --> 01:06:58,846 think how I wanna think. 759 01:07:17,785 --> 01:07:20,786 I got almost nowhere I can promote a fight for you. 760 01:07:20,872 --> 01:07:23,289 Plus I think they're gonna vacate you from the crown. 761 01:07:23,373 --> 01:07:25,623 - What? - Yeah, if you're convicted. 762 01:07:27,295 --> 01:07:30,505 Oh, so they're gonna take from me what no fighter in the world can. 763 01:07:30,589 --> 01:07:32,547 And New York may revoke your boxing license. 764 01:07:32,633 --> 01:07:35,592 You sure you wanna do this? 765 01:07:35,679 --> 01:07:38,764 The next three to four years are every heavyweight's prime. 766 01:07:38,849 --> 01:07:41,725 There are few of those years. 767 01:07:44,479 --> 01:07:47,605 - What about Terrell? - We'll know about that this afternoon. 768 01:07:47,650 --> 01:07:50,943 I gotta find us some venues fast. I'll call you later. 769 01:07:55,575 --> 01:08:01,121 You understand the issue is your license to fight Terrell in Illinois? 770 01:08:01,205 --> 01:08:02,788 Yes. 771 01:08:02,874 --> 01:08:05,124 Then are you prepared to apologize... 772 01:08:05,210 --> 01:08:07,919 about your unpatriotic remarks about the war? 773 01:08:17,347 --> 01:08:20,014 - You say you're the people's champion. - Yes, sir. 774 01:08:20,100 --> 01:08:22,601 Do you think you're acting like the people's champion? 775 01:08:22,687 --> 01:08:25,730 Yes, sir. I'm not gonna apologize to you. 776 01:08:25,814 --> 01:08:29,357 This is not a courtroom, and I do not have to answer your questions. 777 01:08:38,286 --> 01:08:41,162 - What about Terrell? - We'll fight in another state! 778 01:08:41,206 --> 01:08:43,623 - Are you gonna dodge the draft? - I ain't draft-dodgin'... 779 01:08:43,708 --> 01:08:46,167 I ain't burnin' no flag, and I ain't runnin' to Canada. 780 01:08:46,253 --> 01:08:49,212 I'm stayin' right here. You wanna send me to jail? 781 01:08:49,298 --> 01:08:51,590 Fine. You go right ahead. I've been in jail for 400 years. 782 01:08:51,674 --> 01:08:53,591 I can be there for four or five more. 783 01:08:53,677 --> 01:08:55,594 But I ain't going' no 10,000 miles... 784 01:08:55,679 --> 01:08:58,180 to help murder and kill other poor people. 785 01:08:58,266 --> 01:09:02,560 If I wanna die, I'll die right here right now, fightin' you, if I wanna die. 786 01:09:02,645 --> 01:09:06,564 You my enemy. Not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. 787 01:09:06,650 --> 01:09:08,692 You my opposer when I want freedom. 788 01:09:08,775 --> 01:09:12,485 You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. 789 01:09:12,572 --> 01:09:14,280 You want me to go somewhere and fight for you. 790 01:09:14,366 --> 01:09:16,366 You won't even stand up for me right here in America... 791 01:09:16,410 --> 01:09:18,368 for my rights and my religious beliefs. 792 01:09:18,411 --> 01:09:20,745 You won't even stand up for me right here at home. 793 01:09:23,250 --> 01:09:25,333 - Which guy you want to go first? - You, sir. 794 01:09:25,420 --> 01:09:28,379 Tell Clay he gettin' on after me. I'm the champ. 795 01:09:28,421 --> 01:09:31,297 - What? - I said you can get on after me. 796 01:09:31,383 --> 01:09:34,050 - No. What'd you call me? - I called you Clay. 797 01:09:34,137 --> 01:09:36,721 You will announce it from right here, from flat on your back. 798 01:09:36,764 --> 01:09:38,806 What's my name? What's my name? 799 01:09:40,685 --> 01:09:44,729 What's my name? Say my name! You gonna say my name! 800 01:09:44,772 --> 01:09:47,439 Your mama called you Clay! I'm gonna call you Clay! 801 01:09:47,525 --> 01:09:49,567 I want you all to tell all their aunts... 802 01:09:49,611 --> 01:09:51,611 and all their uncles and cousins and friends... 803 01:09:51,655 --> 01:09:54,156 get to your television set, get to your radio... 804 01:09:54,241 --> 01:09:56,783 'cause I never wanted to whup a man so bad! 805 01:10:10,884 --> 01:10:13,677 What's my name? What's my name? 806 01:11:09,362 --> 01:11:13,448 What's my name, motherfucker? What's my name? 807 01:11:16,368 --> 01:11:18,451 What's my name? 808 01:11:38,225 --> 01:11:40,517 The jury has found you guilty of refusing induction... 809 01:11:40,603 --> 01:11:43,896 into the United States Armed Forces. 810 01:11:43,981 --> 01:11:46,023 Does the defense have anything it wants to say? 811 01:11:46,109 --> 01:11:49,527 Yeah, I'd appreciate if the court would just give me my sentence right now... 812 01:11:49,572 --> 01:11:52,907 rather than waitin' and stallin'. 813 01:11:52,990 --> 01:11:54,531 Very well. 814 01:11:57,287 --> 01:12:00,747 I sentence you to the maximum sentence allowable: 815 01:12:00,791 --> 01:12:04,042 five years imprisonment and a fine of $10,000. 816 01:12:05,630 --> 01:12:07,713 Doubtless your lawyer will lodge an appeal... 817 01:12:07,757 --> 01:12:11,050 so while you're free on bond, I order that your passport be surrendered. 818 01:12:11,844 --> 01:12:16,556 I'll not have you benefiting yourself by fighting abroad. 819 01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:18,725 This court is adjourned. 820 01:12:58,310 --> 01:12:58,349 Hold on. Watch this. I've been working on this at home. 821 01:12:58,352 --> 01:13:01,937 Hold on. Watch this. I've been working on this at home. 822 01:13:01,979 --> 01:13:04,021 Just relax. 823 01:13:04,107 --> 01:13:07,484 See? 'Cause it's spooky and sometimes people get scared and run. 824 01:13:07,528 --> 01:13:09,778 Pay attention. This is very spooky. 825 01:13:12,449 --> 01:13:14,783 Go ahead. Blow on that for me. 826 01:13:20,874 --> 01:13:22,791 See, you don't need to fight no more. 827 01:13:26,590 --> 01:13:29,174 You don't remember me, do you? 828 01:13:31,052 --> 01:13:35,263 Yeah. I remember somethin'. What's your name? 829 01:13:35,349 --> 01:13:37,641 - You know my name. - I know your name. 830 01:13:37,725 --> 01:13:41,143 You came to my school right before you won the title. 831 01:13:41,188 --> 01:13:43,855 I interviewed you for my school paper. 832 01:13:43,941 --> 01:13:46,150 I was eleven. 833 01:13:47,236 --> 01:13:49,653 You had a long braid. 834 01:13:49,697 --> 01:13:51,697 Yeah. 835 01:13:51,783 --> 01:13:54,659 - You called me "Little Indian Girl." - Wow. 836 01:13:56,036 --> 01:13:58,161 - Man, that was you. - That was me. 837 01:13:59,415 --> 01:14:02,708 And I loved you then, just like all them kids did. 838 01:14:02,794 --> 01:14:05,044 I never stopped. I still do. 839 01:15:09,948 --> 01:15:12,282 Hey, did you see that Ellis-Quary fight? 840 01:15:12,367 --> 01:15:14,242 Yeah. 841 01:15:16,288 --> 01:15:19,456 We're gonna be in front of the US Court of Appeals next month. 842 01:15:19,542 --> 01:15:20,582 We're gonna lose. 843 01:15:20,626 --> 01:15:23,585 - We'll appeal to the Supreme Court. -Jimmy Ellis, the champ. 844 01:15:23,630 --> 01:15:26,339 Man, I've been whupping on that boy since I was 16. 845 01:15:26,423 --> 01:15:29,049 All that's gonna happen, they gonna give Ellis to Frazier... 846 01:15:29,135 --> 01:15:31,761 Frazier's gonna kill him, then what? 847 01:15:31,805 --> 01:15:34,890 Where's the gate? Then they got to let me fight. 848 01:15:36,309 --> 01:15:40,270 Jimmy Ellis. Fight that boy in a phone booth. 849 01:15:40,356 --> 01:15:44,358 Fight him in the middle of Times Square. You think that'd draw a crowd? 850 01:15:44,442 --> 01:15:47,985 Champ, draw a crowd or not draw a crowd... 851 01:15:48,072 --> 01:15:50,781 it's not gonna make a difference with your boxing licenses. 852 01:15:54,370 --> 01:15:57,121 The ACLU's handling your case against the New York Boxing Commission. 853 01:15:57,207 --> 01:15:59,958 They've discovered that New York's got actual ex-murderers... 854 01:16:00,002 --> 01:16:02,628 and ex-rapists currently licensed to fight. 855 01:16:02,711 --> 01:16:05,170 But revoke yours? 856 01:16:05,214 --> 01:16:08,465 They don't want you to fight. 857 01:16:08,552 --> 01:16:09,884 - Tijuana. - No. 858 01:16:09,969 --> 01:16:12,845 State Department refuses permission for the one-hour visa. 859 01:16:12,890 --> 01:16:15,641 No fight in Tijuana. Look-- 860 01:16:15,726 --> 01:16:19,103 Can't fight here. Can't fight outside the country. 861 01:16:19,187 --> 01:16:21,104 I know people in the restaurant business. 862 01:16:21,189 --> 01:16:23,690 They want to start a chain. Muhammad Ali Champ Burgers. 863 01:16:23,776 --> 01:16:26,110 Muhammad Malts, Fistful of Fries. 864 01:16:26,195 --> 01:16:28,028 All of that. 865 01:16:28,113 --> 01:16:30,155 Why do I wanna be in the restaurant business? 866 01:16:30,199 --> 01:16:31,490 'Cause you need the money. 867 01:16:31,576 --> 01:16:34,494 - How much all this gonna cost? - Too much. 868 01:16:36,332 --> 01:16:38,707 They do that to you too, you know. 869 01:16:38,791 --> 01:16:40,749 They bust you out. 870 01:16:53,892 --> 01:16:54,891 All right. 871 01:16:58,896 --> 01:17:01,397 Go get me some Champ Burgers. 872 01:17:11,786 --> 01:17:13,744 Did y'all see that? That man just hit me. 873 01:17:13,786 --> 01:17:17,329 Oh, you done messed up now, sucka. You done messed up-- 874 01:17:17,416 --> 01:17:19,708 I don't wanna do nothin' in front of your daughters, though. 875 01:17:19,752 --> 01:17:21,919 I can't beat you up in front of your daughters. 876 01:17:22,004 --> 01:17:25,798 - Hey, champ, good to see you. - All right, ladies. Take care now. 877 01:17:25,883 --> 01:17:27,925 All right now. All right now. 878 01:17:38,814 --> 01:17:42,441 You called me "Little Indian Girl" 'cause I wore my hair in a braid. 879 01:17:44,820 --> 01:17:46,778 And then I said, "Man, you scribble. 880 01:17:48,241 --> 01:17:49,865 You can't even write. 881 01:17:49,949 --> 01:17:52,408 Need to go back to school till you learn how to do it better." 882 01:17:52,452 --> 01:17:55,870 Now, why you just havin' a fresh mouth talkin' to me. 883 01:17:55,957 --> 01:17:57,915 So you think that's funny, huh? 884 01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:00,793 Telling me I can't write, that I scribble. 885 01:18:01,546 --> 01:18:03,713 Now you wanna try to make up with me. 886 01:18:03,799 --> 01:18:06,925 - This will make everything better. - Shut up. 887 01:18:25,695 --> 01:18:28,279 Mommy and Daddy moved to Mexico! 888 01:18:46,384 --> 01:18:48,342 Come on, baby. 889 01:18:49,430 --> 01:18:51,555 Oh, sweetie, come on. 890 01:19:05,237 --> 01:19:08,822 We will give you five minutes to leave this area. 891 01:19:12,287 --> 01:19:14,871 Who is the heavyweight champion of the world? 892 01:19:26,260 --> 01:19:28,260 What's happenin'? 893 01:19:43,194 --> 01:19:45,653 - Hey, man. - We lost on the appellate level... 894 01:19:45,738 --> 01:19:46,945 in New Orleans. 895 01:19:47,031 --> 01:19:49,865 - We're heading to the Supreme Court. - We already got turned down there. 896 01:19:49,910 --> 01:19:54,705 I'm petitioning on a conscientious objection basis. Religious belief. 897 01:19:54,789 --> 01:19:57,957 I believe that they'll hear that. 898 01:19:58,043 --> 01:20:01,044 Where the money gonna come from, Chauncey? 899 01:20:01,130 --> 01:20:04,799 Herbert say I'm runnin' on empty. Now, just put aside... 900 01:20:04,884 --> 01:20:06,634 "How did that happen?" 901 01:20:06,719 --> 01:20:11,556 License all revoked, passport gone, can't fight here, can't fight nowhere. 902 01:20:11,642 --> 01:20:13,725 Then what happen if I lose at the Supreme Court? 903 01:20:16,229 --> 01:20:18,521 Then you go to jail for five years. 904 01:21:34,228 --> 01:21:36,979 Oh, I saw Bundini when I was in Europe. 905 01:21:37,064 --> 01:21:41,525 - Yeah? How is he? - He's bad. He's in bad shape, man. 906 01:21:41,568 --> 01:21:44,486 You better get your belt back 907 01:21:48,660 --> 01:21:51,453 Look at this. 908 01:21:51,537 --> 01:21:53,996 Joe Frazier. He can't up no gate. 909 01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:57,083 Can't fill no arena. They got to let me fight. 910 01:21:57,169 --> 01:21:58,710 Fight. 911 01:22:02,090 --> 01:22:07,427 If that happens, promise me you’ll put some new people around you. 912 01:22:10,224 --> 01:22:12,099 What you talkin' about? 913 01:22:13,269 --> 01:22:15,519 Where Herbert and them when we need 'em? 914 01:22:15,564 --> 01:22:19,900 Gene Kilroy's dropping off groceries like charity. 915 01:22:22,111 --> 01:22:25,279 We borrow money from my folks. 916 01:22:25,365 --> 01:22:29,785 They're all over you when you got it, and then they just drop off you... 917 01:22:29,870 --> 01:22:31,536 when you don't. 918 01:22:44,010 --> 01:22:46,928 Norton, he's big and strong, but he ain't nothin'. 919 01:22:47,013 --> 01:22:50,223 Hold on a second, Joe. They're telling me we have a caller. 920 01:22:50,308 --> 01:22:53,643 - Go ahead, please. - Cosell, this is Muhammad Ali. 921 01:22:53,727 --> 01:22:54,976 It's Muhammad Ali. 922 01:22:55,062 --> 01:22:57,145 Everybody knows that I am the champ. 923 01:22:57,232 --> 01:23:00,609 The crown is a lie. I know it's a lie. Joe Frazier knows it's a lie. 924 01:23:00,694 --> 01:23:03,069 And it's time for everybody to stop lying and tell the truth. 925 01:23:03,113 --> 01:23:06,490 Let's tell it like it is. With your court and boxing problems... 926 01:23:06,575 --> 01:23:08,575 can you get a fight promoted? 927 01:23:08,661 --> 01:23:10,870 I would fight Joe Frazier for free in a phone booth... 928 01:23:10,954 --> 01:23:13,329 in the middle of Times Square if I wasn't broke. 929 01:23:13,415 --> 01:23:15,582 Did you say you were broke? How can you be broke? 930 01:23:15,668 --> 01:23:19,128 You made more money than all previous heavyweights champions combined. 931 01:23:19,172 --> 01:23:21,714 What about your management? Surely they have provided for you. 932 01:23:21,799 --> 01:23:24,925 All I'm trying to say is it's time for everybody to stop lyin'. 933 01:23:25,011 --> 01:23:26,719 Muhammad Ali is the champ. 934 01:23:26,805 --> 01:23:29,848 Get my son Herbert on the telephone. 935 01:23:29,932 --> 01:23:32,766 Muhammad, thank you for calling in. I'll relay that to Joe. 936 01:23:32,811 --> 01:23:36,980 And tell Joe I said he is very ugly. 937 01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:41,610 Muhammad says that he will fight you anywhere, anytime... 938 01:23:41,695 --> 01:23:46,448 and that the championship really is his until that battle ensues. 939 01:23:59,673 --> 01:24:03,091 Mr. Ali has sporting blood. 940 01:24:03,177 --> 01:24:06,262 Mr. Ali wants a place in this sports world. 941 01:24:06,346 --> 01:24:09,097 He loves it too much. 942 01:24:09,182 --> 01:24:13,643 I am therefore suspending Mr. Ali from the practice of Islam. 943 01:24:13,729 --> 01:24:17,898 He may no longer appear in temple, pray or teach... 944 01:24:17,984 --> 01:24:23,029 or have any conversation with any Muslim whatsoever. 945 01:24:26,701 --> 01:24:28,284 Why didn’t you call an ambulance or a doctor? 946 01:24:28,369 --> 01:24:30,995 Because he gave me your number when he checked in. 947 01:24:31,039 --> 01:24:33,248 Normally, he's up there making a lot of noise. 948 01:24:33,333 --> 01:24:35,792 But now he hasn't answered the door in three days. 949 01:24:39,257 --> 01:24:41,007 - What's that? - It's daylight. 950 01:24:42,550 --> 01:24:44,508 Get me that short dog. 951 01:24:47,014 --> 01:24:49,348 Give it to me. 952 01:24:52,061 --> 01:24:53,185 What's wrong with you? 953 01:24:53,229 --> 01:24:56,105 Ain't nothin' wrong with me. My head ain't bad. 954 01:24:56,191 --> 01:24:58,108 - Leave me alone. - Leave you alone. You called me! 955 01:24:58,193 --> 01:25:00,777 Yes, but that was a week ago. 956 01:25:00,861 --> 01:25:03,070 - Why are you shamin' yourself? - Let me go, man. 957 01:25:03,156 --> 01:25:04,906 Why you doin' that to yourself? 958 01:25:04,991 --> 01:25:07,700 - Why you shamin' yourself? - Ain't nobody shamed. 959 01:25:07,744 --> 01:25:10,036 Ain't nothin' wrong with me. 960 01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:11,913 I'm flyin'. 961 01:25:11,999 --> 01:25:14,082 The Sky Chief talk through me. I know the word. 962 01:25:14,168 --> 01:25:15,542 - You know low. - Yeah? 963 01:25:15,587 --> 01:25:17,837 I know low where the king is goin' back to his throne! 964 01:25:17,921 --> 01:25:20,714 - From the root to the fruit! - Them rhymes is old, Bundini. 965 01:25:20,758 --> 01:25:22,716 You need to get some new ones. 966 01:25:26,597 --> 01:25:30,433 God don't care about you. Don't care about me. 967 01:25:30,519 --> 01:25:33,729 In all of everything, we don't mean nothin'. He don't owe us. 968 01:25:33,814 --> 01:25:35,522 We be. 969 01:25:35,606 --> 01:25:38,899 And that's the onliest thing He did. 970 01:25:38,985 --> 01:25:42,070 But that's good. That's why we free. 971 01:25:42,114 --> 01:25:45,950 But free ain't easy. Free is real and real is a motherfucker. 972 01:25:48,204 --> 01:25:50,955 It eats raw meat. 973 01:25:51,041 --> 01:25:53,583 It walk in its own shoes. 974 01:25:53,667 --> 01:25:56,126 It don't ever waiver. 975 01:25:56,212 --> 01:25:57,670 Yeah. 976 01:26:03,636 --> 01:26:06,512 I-- I sold your belt. 977 01:26:07,891 --> 01:26:10,850 I sold your belt to a barber for $500 on Lenox Avenue. 978 01:26:10,935 --> 01:26:14,437 That's how low I did you. I couldn't help it. I got a crazy mind. 979 01:26:16,734 --> 01:26:18,859 That belt say you the heavyweight boxing champion of the world... 980 01:26:18,945 --> 01:26:21,863 and I took that $500... 981 01:26:21,947 --> 01:26:24,364 and I put it in my arm. 982 01:26:26,202 --> 01:26:28,244 That's what I called to tell you. 983 01:26:35,504 --> 01:26:38,797 I heard about the Nation stuff, the courtroom. 984 01:26:40,717 --> 01:26:42,675 What you gonna do? 985 01:26:53,689 --> 01:26:55,522 Take me back. 986 01:27:03,949 --> 01:27:07,117 I could go down there and get the belt. I can go get the belt. 987 01:27:46,954 --> 01:27:48,912 Hey, champ. 988 01:28:22,491 --> 01:28:28,412 $1,000 to the man that bring me Howard Cosell's toupee dead or alive! 989 01:28:28,456 --> 01:28:31,082 Don't bother me. I'm a world-famous sportscaster... 990 01:28:31,126 --> 01:28:33,418 and you're an ex-champion with diminished skills. 991 01:28:33,503 --> 01:28:35,253 I can't be seen with you. 992 01:28:38,633 --> 01:28:41,426 - How's it goin', champ? - Pretty good, man. 993 01:28:47,184 --> 01:28:50,519 Muhammad, I'd do anything for you. You know that. 994 01:28:50,605 --> 01:28:56,068 But I've got bosses who only give a damn about Nielsen ratings. 995 01:28:56,151 --> 01:28:58,777 I guarantee... 996 01:28:58,863 --> 01:29:02,657 it will be a historical and a momentous night. 997 01:29:08,707 --> 01:29:12,125 If they came to me tomorrow and say, "We want you to fight Joe Frazier. 998 01:29:12,168 --> 01:29:15,169 Madison Square Garden. Millions and millions of dollars. 999 01:29:15,213 --> 01:29:17,797 Here's your license back." I will tell them... 1000 01:29:17,883 --> 01:29:19,633 "I will never fight again." 1001 01:29:19,718 --> 01:29:23,178 Frankly, Muhammad, I'm surprised, because unless you-- 1002 01:29:23,222 --> 01:29:25,681 or until you fight Frazier-- 1003 01:29:25,767 --> 01:29:29,728 Cosell, are you losin' your hearing along with your hair? 1004 01:29:29,811 --> 01:29:32,854 Don't put no question to it, man. I done told you, I'm through fightin'. 1005 01:29:32,940 --> 01:29:35,315 I got a much bigger contender, a much heavier opponent. 1006 01:29:35,401 --> 01:29:37,318 I'm fightin' the entire US government. 1007 01:29:38,571 --> 01:29:41,072 Do you think you're going to jail? 1008 01:29:41,157 --> 01:29:43,824 I don't know. I don't know. 1009 01:29:43,869 --> 01:29:49,498 Joe Frazier told me on this show that he could knock you out. 1010 01:29:49,541 --> 01:29:51,833 See, there you go agitatin'. 1011 01:29:51,877 --> 01:29:55,754 You should've asked Smokin' Joe what have he been smokin'? 1012 01:29:55,839 --> 01:29:59,591 That boy even dream he whupped me, he better wake up and apologize. 1013 01:29:59,677 --> 01:30:01,719 If I was to get in the ring with Joe... 1014 01:30:01,805 --> 01:30:03,722 here's what you might see. 1015 01:30:03,805 --> 01:30:08,517 Ali comes out to meet Frazier, but Frazier starts to retreat. 1016 01:30:08,561 --> 01:30:12,814 If Joe goes back an inch farther, he'll wind up in a ringside seat. 1017 01:30:12,898 --> 01:30:16,024 Ali swings with his left, Ali swings with his right. 1018 01:30:16,111 --> 01:30:18,278 Just look at the kid carry the fight. 1019 01:30:18,363 --> 01:30:20,947 Frazier keeps backin', but there's not enough room. 1020 01:30:21,033 --> 01:30:24,493 It's only a matter of time before Ali lowers the boom. 1021 01:30:24,577 --> 01:30:27,370 Ali swings with his right. What a beautiful swing. 1022 01:30:27,456 --> 01:30:30,374 But the punch lifts Frazier clean out of the ring. 1023 01:30:30,417 --> 01:30:33,210 Frazier's still risin', and the referee wears a frown... 1024 01:30:33,295 --> 01:30:36,672 'cause he can't start countin' till Frazier comes down. 1025 01:30:36,758 --> 01:30:40,093 Frazier's disappeared from view. The crowd is getting frantic. 1026 01:30:40,177 --> 01:30:44,138 But our radar stations picked him up. He's somewhere over the Atlantic. 1027 01:30:44,223 --> 01:30:46,473 Now, who would've thought when they came to the fight... 1028 01:30:46,559 --> 01:30:50,520 they was gonna witness the launchin' of a black satellite. 1029 01:30:50,605 --> 01:30:53,106 But don't wait for that fight. 1030 01:30:53,192 --> 01:30:55,359 It ain't never gonna happen. 1031 01:30:55,444 --> 01:30:57,527 Only thing you could do... 1032 01:30:57,612 --> 01:31:01,114 is wonder and imagine. 1033 01:31:01,700 --> 01:31:07,538 This has been another sports exclusive from ABC. 1034 01:31:07,623 --> 01:31:09,623 - Two. Go two. - Over to Jim McKay... 1035 01:31:09,709 --> 01:31:11,959 in Bern, Switzerland. 1036 01:31:12,045 --> 01:31:14,254 - How you gonna go from me to Jim McKay? - Listen, uh-- 1037 01:31:15,464 --> 01:31:19,133 - Did your wife leave you yet? - No, she hasn't left me yet. 1038 01:31:19,218 --> 01:31:21,552 She's going to, 'cause I told your wife when I seen her... 1039 01:31:21,638 --> 01:31:24,889 I said, "Listen, why you doin' this to yourself?" 1040 01:31:34,025 --> 01:31:37,610 Oh, man, Joe. Who dresses you? 1041 01:31:37,696 --> 01:31:40,572 You look like the heavyweight champion of pimps. 1042 01:31:40,658 --> 01:31:42,700 Hey, shut up and get in. 1043 01:31:43,995 --> 01:31:45,536 That jacket’s a mess, man. 1044 01:31:49,835 --> 01:31:52,336 What you in Philly for? Philly's my town. 1045 01:31:52,420 --> 01:31:55,421 Well, I just wanted to get a little closer to you, honey. 1046 01:31:55,507 --> 01:31:56,506 Man, fuck you. 1047 01:31:58,844 --> 01:32:02,304 There'll be two undefeated heavyweight champions, and they ain't fightin'. 1048 01:32:02,347 --> 01:32:05,056 - What about your license? - I can fight in Atlanta. 1049 01:32:05,142 --> 01:32:07,809 There ain't no state boxing commission in Georgia. 1050 01:32:07,854 --> 01:32:11,147 It's all set. I do a prelim in Atlanta against Jerry Quary... 1051 01:32:11,189 --> 01:32:13,815 but we got to get this steamroller movin' right now. 1052 01:32:13,859 --> 01:32:15,483 So what do I have to do? 1053 01:32:15,528 --> 01:32:18,946 All you got to do is announce that after I whup Jerry Quary... 1054 01:32:19,031 --> 01:32:21,532 you gonna give me a title shot. 1055 01:32:21,618 --> 01:32:24,244 Come on, man. Say it! Say it! 1056 01:32:33,005 --> 01:32:36,507 What I got and all I got, I got with these right here. 1057 01:32:36,591 --> 01:32:38,841 Hell, man, I already got the title. 1058 01:32:38,928 --> 01:32:43,473 So I ain't got nothin' to win, but I got eveythin' to lose. 1059 01:32:45,058 --> 01:32:47,433 Yeah, but you know you ain't the real champ yet. 1060 01:32:56,571 --> 01:32:58,696 You beat Quary... 1061 01:32:58,740 --> 01:33:01,866 I'm gonna get you in the ring. I'm gonna kick your ass. 1062 01:33:12,796 --> 01:33:15,171 By the way... 1063 01:33:15,258 --> 01:33:19,636 you need any money or anything to tide you by? 1064 01:33:21,054 --> 01:33:22,971 No, I'm fine. 1065 01:33:37,907 --> 01:33:40,366 Time! 1066 01:33:47,916 --> 01:33:50,542 What you want? 1067 01:33:53,089 --> 01:33:55,047 Take me back, boss. 1068 01:33:56,800 --> 01:33:58,717 I'm clean. 1069 01:33:58,803 --> 01:34:03,181 This is a resurrection. This is God's act. 1070 01:34:03,266 --> 01:34:06,434 And the prophet is goin' home. 1071 01:34:06,519 --> 01:34:08,853 Take me with you, boss. 1072 01:34:09,899 --> 01:34:11,982 I'll do anything. 1073 01:34:22,495 --> 01:34:26,372 Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see. 1074 01:34:29,378 --> 01:34:33,214 Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. 1075 01:34:33,297 --> 01:34:35,714 Rumble, young man, rumble. 1076 01:34:54,111 --> 01:34:54,275 God ain't watching'! Ain't nobody but us! 1077 01:34:54,278 --> 01:34:57,821 God ain't watching'! Ain't nobody but us! 1078 01:35:04,957 --> 01:35:07,791 There it is! Stay in his face! 1079 01:35:11,671 --> 01:35:13,504 Go, Muhammad! 1080 01:35:25,020 --> 01:35:26,352 There it is! 1081 01:35:32,569 --> 01:35:34,152 Now for the right. Boom! 1082 01:35:40,536 --> 01:35:42,494 Prophet is goin' home to the throne. 1083 01:35:59,306 --> 01:36:01,515 That's how you do it, Ali. 1084 01:36:01,598 --> 01:36:03,848 That's how you do it. 1085 01:36:10,942 --> 01:36:13,526 You okay? You're a goddamn Superman. 1086 01:36:13,612 --> 01:36:15,862 Ain't no kryptonite in this ring tonight. 1087 01:37:00,244 --> 01:37:02,453 - We want Joe Frazier! - We want him! 1088 01:37:02,539 --> 01:37:07,084 - We want Joe Frazier! - And you deserve it. You deserve it. 1089 01:37:10,798 --> 01:37:13,841 This prophet is comin' home, goin' from the darkness to the light. 1090 01:37:16,636 --> 01:37:18,886 Soak it in this for about 20 minutes. 1091 01:37:21,016 --> 01:37:23,850 We don't need their management. 1092 01:37:24,812 --> 01:37:28,189 Hey, Herbert, we did good. Doin' good tonight. 1093 01:37:39,870 --> 01:37:41,620 All praise to Allah. 1094 01:37:45,167 --> 01:37:47,709 The messenger has lifted your suspension. 1095 01:37:47,795 --> 01:37:49,712 Congratulations. 1096 01:37:49,796 --> 01:37:51,796 So you’re sayin' I can be a Muslim again. 1097 01:37:51,881 --> 01:37:53,464 - Yes. - I ain't never stopped. 1098 01:37:53,550 --> 01:37:55,508 Just like I ain't never stopped bein' the champ. 1099 01:37:57,722 --> 01:37:59,388 I begged my father to reinstate you. 1100 01:37:59,473 --> 01:38:02,266 When? When you do that, Herbert? 1101 01:38:02,352 --> 01:38:04,769 After I promoted this Quary fight or after I won it? 1102 01:38:05,731 --> 01:38:07,773 - We can get Frazier. - Man, I done already got Frazier. 1103 01:38:07,856 --> 01:38:10,315 We can get $5 million for Frazier. 1104 01:38:10,401 --> 01:38:13,527 We talkin' management, talkin' money or talkin' religion? 1105 01:38:13,572 --> 01:38:16,573 When I got leery and talked up why I'm broke... 1106 01:38:16,658 --> 01:38:18,199 then come the suspension. 1107 01:38:18,285 --> 01:38:21,828 Now you explain that one to me, my brother. 1108 01:38:21,914 --> 01:38:24,081 That was my father. 1109 01:38:26,626 --> 01:38:28,584 Your father. 1110 01:38:28,629 --> 01:38:32,757 I love your father, Herbert. I swear, man. I love the Nation. 1111 01:38:32,842 --> 01:38:35,301 But it don't own me. 1112 01:38:44,437 --> 01:38:47,188 You go on out there and you make that Frazier deal. 1113 01:38:52,445 --> 01:38:54,362 My brother. Yeah, your brother Herbert. 1114 01:38:54,448 --> 01:38:56,323 Go on somewhere, make that deal. 1115 01:39:06,919 --> 01:39:10,212 And he accepts me. I’m Jewish, but yet he's Muslim... 1116 01:39:10,297 --> 01:39:11,755 and we still get along. 1117 01:39:11,841 --> 01:39:15,343 He understands me. He understands me and he still allows me to hang with him. 1118 01:39:15,429 --> 01:39:18,889 He knows I like pork and white women, but still allows me to be here with him. 1119 01:39:18,973 --> 01:39:20,931 Now, I can give up pork... 1120 01:39:20,975 --> 01:39:23,768 but them white women, goddamn it! 1121 01:39:23,854 --> 01:39:25,896 How you deal with it, boy? 1122 01:39:39,787 --> 01:39:43,080 Hello? Muhammad, it's for you. 1123 01:39:47,545 --> 01:39:49,754 Thank you, Lana. 1124 01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:52,966 - Yeah? - Muhammad? Howard Cosell. 1125 01:39:53,010 --> 01:39:56,637 - You TKO'd them. - Hey, what you talkin' about, Howard? 1126 01:39:56,721 --> 01:39:58,721 - With Quary? - No. 1127 01:39:58,807 --> 01:40:00,724 The Supreme Court ruled today... 1128 01:40:00,809 --> 01:40:04,144 in the case of The United States vs. Cassius Clay... 1129 01:40:04,188 --> 01:40:07,982 aka Muhammad Ali. 1130 01:40:08,067 --> 01:40:12,028 You won an eight-to-zero unanimous decision. 1131 01:40:12,072 --> 01:40:14,906 You're free. 1132 01:40:14,990 --> 01:40:16,948 Congratulations. 1133 01:40:33,343 --> 01:40:34,801 I'm free. 1134 01:40:40,726 --> 01:40:42,643 The Supreme Court just set me free. 1135 01:40:47,526 --> 01:40:49,985 What are you talkin' about? 1136 01:40:51,320 --> 01:40:52,819 Eight-to-oh, unanimous decision. 1137 01:40:52,906 --> 01:40:55,615 The Supreme Court just overturned my conviction. 1138 01:40:57,410 --> 01:41:00,119 - Yes! - All right. All right. 1139 01:41:00,205 --> 01:41:01,663 - Did we get 'em, Ali? - We got 'em, man. 1140 01:41:03,584 --> 01:41:05,709 Hey, man. 1141 01:41:07,087 --> 01:41:10,505 - Did we do it? - We did it, man. 1142 01:41:10,591 --> 01:41:14,051 They wanna be on your side now because the truth has shown itself to the power. 1143 01:41:14,137 --> 01:41:16,971 Now the power's comin' to the truth. That's what it is. 1144 01:41:17,056 --> 01:41:19,473 And the truth tastes good when there's a belly full of lies. 1145 01:41:19,559 --> 01:41:22,685 - What you talkin' about? - It don't matter. It don't matter. 1146 01:41:31,488 --> 01:41:34,197 Ladies and gentlemen, 15 rounds of boxing... 1147 01:41:34,282 --> 01:41:38,994 for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world. 1148 01:41:39,080 --> 01:41:43,958 In this corner, the contender and former heavyweight champion of the world... 1149 01:41:44,042 --> 01:41:48,211 weighing in at 213 pounds... 1150 01:41:48,298 --> 01:41:52,134 with a record of 31 and 0 with 25 knockouts... 1151 01:41:52,218 --> 01:41:54,885 Muhammad Ali! 1152 01:42:00,309 --> 01:42:05,021 His opponent, weighing in at 2051/2 pounds... 1153 01:42:05,107 --> 01:42:09,235 with a record of 26 and 0 with 23 knockouts... 1154 01:42:09,319 --> 01:42:12,862 the current heavyweight champion of the world... 1155 01:42:12,949 --> 01:42:17,202 Smokin? Joe Frazier! 1156 01:42:19,246 --> 01:42:22,664 I want a good, clean fight. Protect yourself at all times. 1157 01:42:22,750 --> 01:42:25,960 Gentlemen, touch gloves. Good luck to both of you. 1158 01:43:04,795 --> 01:43:05,961 Come on! 1159 01:43:06,046 --> 01:43:08,046 Stick him! Come on! 1160 01:43:50,676 --> 01:43:52,759 That's okay, champ. Don't stop fightin'. 1161 01:43:54,848 --> 01:43:56,139 What's comin'? 1162 01:43:56,224 --> 01:43:59,559 Lean back, man. Move back. Work, legs. 1163 01:44:12,116 --> 01:44:13,323 Ain't nobody hurt. 1164 01:44:13,409 --> 01:44:15,868 That's all right. Ain't no-- 1165 01:44:33,805 --> 01:44:35,179 Keep puttin' out. Come on. 1166 01:44:46,986 --> 01:44:49,779 - Move, Ali! - Back, back, back! 1167 01:45:23,107 --> 01:45:25,024 Muhammad, you said you were gonna win the fight. 1168 01:45:25,109 --> 01:45:27,109 How do you account for the beating you've taken? 1169 01:45:27,194 --> 01:45:29,903 - Did he hurt you? -Joe said you don't wanna fight again. 1170 01:45:29,989 --> 01:45:32,531 Oh, how wrong he is. 1171 01:45:32,618 --> 01:45:34,159 - Why would it be different? - Muhammad, wait! 1172 01:45:39,249 --> 01:45:42,542 - But I wanna ask him something! - We all wanna ask him something. 1173 01:45:42,628 --> 01:45:45,212 - Sons of bitches! Get outta here! - When are you gonna get a hairpiece? 1174 01:45:45,297 --> 01:45:47,297 Don't worry about it. You lost all of yours. 1175 01:45:47,383 --> 01:45:49,341 You cue ball head motherfucker. Get outta here! 1176 01:45:49,385 --> 01:45:51,760 -Just one more question. - Let me talk to him. 1177 01:45:51,846 --> 01:45:54,096 We're close to the start of round one. 1178 01:45:54,181 --> 01:45:56,014 Now that Smokin? Joe done run outta tomato cans... 1179 01:45:56,100 --> 01:45:59,685 I got Yank to commit to a rematch with you in about six months. 1180 01:45:59,729 --> 01:46:01,938 Frazier said he'd be happy with three mil. 1181 01:46:02,022 --> 01:46:06,442 I'll fly to Jamaica, get Yank to sign right after Joe beats this big stiff. 1182 01:46:07,905 --> 01:46:10,447 I think he hurt Joe Frazier. 1183 01:46:10,533 --> 01:46:13,200 I think Joe is hurt. 1184 01:46:13,242 --> 01:46:16,827 Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! 1185 01:46:16,914 --> 01:46:18,705 - Down goes Frazier! - Get up, Joe. 1186 01:46:18,749 --> 01:46:22,334 The heavy weight champion is taking the mandatory eightcount... 1187 01:46:22,419 --> 01:46:25,378 and Foreman Is poised as can be. 1188 01:46:27,300 --> 01:46:29,759 Foreman is all over Frazier. 1189 01:46:29,843 --> 01:46:32,177 And Frazier is down again! 1190 01:46:32,263 --> 01:46:34,805 He maybe-- No, he's rising. 1191 01:46:36,726 --> 01:46:38,058 It's over! It is over! 1192 01:46:38,102 --> 01:46:41,437 It'd be easy to get a fight with Frazier now. 1193 01:46:41,523 --> 01:46:45,776 Only thing he's champion of is gettin' knocked down. 1194 01:46:45,862 --> 01:46:49,823 George Foreman is the heavyweight champion of the world. 1195 01:46:51,617 --> 01:46:55,578 The Rumble in the Jungle. That is the name that I've given it. 1196 01:46:55,663 --> 01:47:00,208 Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. 1197 01:47:00,293 --> 01:47:02,293 - Don, Zaire? - Yeah, Don. 1198 01:47:02,379 --> 01:47:04,754 I mean, why not Antarctica, somethin' like that? 1199 01:47:04,838 --> 01:47:06,921 What's wrong with New York City? 1200 01:47:08,801 --> 01:47:10,843 Because you miss the significance. 1201 01:47:10,929 --> 01:47:15,140 See, I dream of overcoming 400 years of racial depression... 1202 01:47:15,225 --> 01:47:19,436 to the dawn of a new day of liberation, financial and otherwise. 1203 01:47:19,522 --> 01:47:22,648 It will raise up the spirits of our inner cities. 1204 01:47:22,732 --> 01:47:25,233 It will rise up and fill with hope, the souls... 1205 01:47:25,318 --> 01:47:27,902 the unrequited needs of the black proletariat. 1206 01:47:27,988 --> 01:47:30,822 That is, the discouraged, dispirited, denigrated denizens... 1207 01:47:30,909 --> 01:47:33,910 of the demimonde that is called the ghetto. 1208 01:47:33,995 --> 01:47:36,788 Man, Don, you crazy. 1209 01:47:36,831 --> 01:47:40,792 You must've studied the whole "D" section of the dictionary. 1210 01:48:05,403 --> 01:48:07,320 Good morning, sister. 1211 01:48:09,782 --> 01:48:11,448 Hi, brother. 1212 01:48:13,453 --> 01:48:15,328 How you doin', champ? 1213 01:48:42,526 --> 01:48:44,609 Why they saying that? What they sayin'? 1214 01:48:48,949 --> 01:48:51,032 What that mean? I don't understand. 1215 01:48:51,118 --> 01:48:52,659 - It means-- - What? 1216 01:48:52,743 --> 01:48:56,161 It mean, "Ali, kill him. Ali, kill him." 1217 01:49:42,756 --> 01:49:45,507 The champ is here! 1218 01:49:45,593 --> 01:49:49,387 Ladies and gentlemen, the heavyweight champion of the world has arrived! 1219 01:49:50,972 --> 01:49:53,014 The champ is here! 1220 01:49:58,480 --> 01:50:00,230 Hey, man. 1221 01:50:00,316 --> 01:50:02,441 He's quite younger than you. How you feeling about that? 1222 01:50:02,527 --> 01:50:05,194 He's quite younger than me? Well, we quite younger than you. 1223 01:50:05,278 --> 01:50:09,739 What you talkin' about? Thirty-two years old. Best shape of my life. 1224 01:51:07,177 --> 01:51:09,803 Hey, stop! All right, back up. 1225 01:51:16,603 --> 01:51:19,854 Did you see Muhammad Ali? 1226 01:55:40,048 --> 01:55:43,591 - Here's your water. - Oh, thank you, hon. 1227 01:55:43,678 --> 01:55:47,096 Bottled water. Frozen steaks. 1228 01:55:47,180 --> 01:55:49,806 Brought all that stuffin like Africa's ain't got no steaks. 1229 01:55:49,892 --> 01:55:53,811 - You could pick up parasites. - Mobutu eats it. 1230 01:55:53,854 --> 01:55:56,438 Mobutu's takin' care of Mobutu. 1231 01:55:56,524 --> 01:55:59,150 He steals all the wealth and sends it to Switzerland. 1232 01:56:00,529 --> 01:56:02,904 What that got to do with any of why we here? 1233 01:56:02,988 --> 01:56:08,367 We are here 'cause Don King got Mobutu to put up $10 million. 1234 01:56:08,453 --> 01:56:12,247 Don King don't care about Africa. He's worse than Herbert. 1235 01:56:12,957 --> 01:56:15,332 Here come Herbert. 1236 01:56:15,419 --> 01:56:18,128 And Don King fit right in too. 1237 01:56:18,214 --> 01:56:20,506 Now he's a dashiki-wearin' rip-off. 1238 01:56:20,590 --> 01:56:22,590 Don King delivered the first-ever... 1239 01:56:22,676 --> 01:56:24,926 black-promoted championship fight in Africa. 1240 01:56:25,012 --> 01:56:28,931 Don King talks black, lives white and thinks green. 1241 01:56:29,017 --> 01:56:31,351 And you're defending him and Brother Herbert? 1242 01:56:31,394 --> 01:56:34,353 'Cause clean-cut Muslims in a parade on the South Side of Chicago... 1243 01:56:34,397 --> 01:56:37,482 ain't gonna get this done! 1244 01:56:38,358 --> 01:56:41,234 I got to put honkies with connections and bad-ass niggas to it. 1245 01:56:41,320 --> 01:56:43,237 And now they matched you up against George Foreman. 1246 01:56:43,323 --> 01:56:46,282 Do you think they give a damn if you get killed? 1247 01:56:52,625 --> 01:56:54,667 So that's what you think? 1248 01:57:03,928 --> 01:57:06,929 I just wanna know why my Muslim husband... 1249 01:57:07,014 --> 01:57:10,057 is allowing himself to get strung up on a cross. 1250 01:57:10,143 --> 01:57:12,143 Just tell me why. 1251 01:57:20,487 --> 01:57:22,153 Mayum's sick. 1252 01:57:27,578 --> 01:57:30,496 Maybe I ought to go back to Chicago and look after her? 1253 01:57:33,417 --> 01:57:34,875 Sure. 1254 01:57:41,676 --> 01:57:44,302 Well, then I guess I'll be back before the fight. 1255 01:57:45,847 --> 01:57:48,222 If that’s all right, my husband. 1256 01:58:14,336 --> 01:58:16,294 This fight is no contest! 1257 01:58:16,380 --> 01:58:18,338 He is entirely too slow to fight me. 1258 01:58:18,423 --> 01:58:20,924 I say that George Foreman is a mummy. 1259 01:58:21,009 --> 01:58:23,885 He's too slow. You know I name all my fighters. 1260 01:58:23,971 --> 01:58:26,138 I'm gonna call George Foreman "The Mummy." 1261 01:58:26,180 --> 01:58:28,430 He fight like a mummy. 1262 01:58:32,271 --> 01:58:35,105 And when I see George throwin' punches, this is what I hear: 1263 01:58:35,190 --> 01:58:37,565 Here come the left. 1264 01:58:37,652 --> 01:58:39,902 Here come the right. 1265 01:58:39,988 --> 01:58:42,655 But the mummy can't hit what the mummy can't see... 1266 01:58:42,741 --> 01:58:44,616 'cause I'm too fast for him. 1267 01:58:46,202 --> 01:58:48,995 I'm too fast. 1268 01:58:49,080 --> 01:58:53,041 I'm too fast. I'm too fast. I move too good for him. 1269 01:58:53,126 --> 01:58:56,127 I'll hit George Foreman so many times, he'll think he's surrounded. 1270 01:58:57,381 --> 01:59:00,799 He gonna say, "Call the police! It's five of 'em in here!" 1271 01:59:02,469 --> 01:59:04,678 I'm bad, man. I'm bad! 1272 01:59:04,721 --> 01:59:08,598 Muhammad, I'm sorry. I have to ask. 1273 01:59:09,269 --> 01:59:11,311 Are you really fast enough anymore... 1274 01:59:11,395 --> 01:59:13,645 to beat George Foreman? 1275 01:59:13,690 --> 01:59:18,527 If he gets you against the ropes, he can knock you out with either hand. 1276 01:59:18,571 --> 01:59:23,199 Many people believe you’re not the man you used to be ten years ago. 1277 01:59:26,245 --> 01:59:27,953 See, now, Howard... 1278 01:59:28,039 --> 01:59:31,374 I didn't even want to talk about this, man. 1279 01:59:32,877 --> 01:59:36,671 Especially not out here in front of all these people. 1280 01:59:36,715 --> 01:59:39,382 But I talked to your wife... 1281 01:59:39,466 --> 01:59:43,719 and she said you not the man you used to be two years ago! 1282 02:00:06,203 --> 02:00:08,161 Champ. 1283 02:00:12,252 --> 02:00:15,170 - Champ, George had an accident. - He-- He had what? 1284 02:00:15,254 --> 02:00:18,047 - What are you talking about? - He got cut right above his right eye. 1285 02:00:18,132 --> 02:00:20,633 His sparring partner's elbow split it open. 1286 02:00:20,719 --> 02:00:23,220 - Can he fight? - Not for six weeks. 1287 02:00:25,182 --> 02:00:27,265 This is not a humorous situation, my champ. 1288 02:00:27,351 --> 02:00:30,978 This postponement could be long, especially if George leaves. 1289 02:00:31,064 --> 02:00:33,273 You tying to pull something here, Don? 1290 02:00:33,356 --> 02:00:36,023 If George leaves, he ain't comin' back. George don't like it here. 1291 02:00:37,111 --> 02:00:40,738 How right you are, my suspicious and short Italian brother. 1292 02:00:40,781 --> 02:00:43,532 Look here, man, my fiduciary responsibility... 1293 02:00:43,618 --> 02:00:46,035 to this first all-black promotion... 1294 02:00:46,121 --> 02:00:49,623 is analogous to a garden in the African sun-- it must grow, it must bloom. 1295 02:00:49,706 --> 02:00:54,126 Cannot flower in the gloom and shade of postponement to the Astrodome... 1296 02:00:54,170 --> 02:00:56,963 or any dome out of Zaire where it be deprivileged of light and bled of water. 1297 02:00:57,007 --> 02:01:00,676 'Cause what gonna be bleedin' out of there is money-- a hemorrhage of cash. 1298 02:01:00,761 --> 02:01:02,678 I'm talkin' about blood on the floor. 1299 02:01:02,763 --> 02:01:06,265 Double hotel costs, airplane, travel costs, food and beverage. 1300 02:01:06,351 --> 02:01:10,228 - So what do you want us to do? - Muhammad Ali. The people's champion. 1301 02:01:10,312 --> 02:01:11,561 My black brother. 1302 02:01:11,647 --> 02:01:14,440 I need you. I need your strength. 1303 02:01:14,525 --> 02:01:17,776 I need you to find a way to get George to stay. 1304 02:01:17,820 --> 02:01:20,237 Be Moses in reverse. 1305 02:01:20,323 --> 02:01:24,409 Do not let my people go. Keep them the fuck right here in Egypt. 1306 02:01:24,495 --> 02:01:26,745 - If you’ll pardon my Swahili. - Lingala. 1307 02:01:26,829 --> 02:01:29,121 - Say what? - They speak Lingala. 1308 02:01:30,208 --> 02:01:33,585 Ali wants his title, and he wants it in Zaire. 1309 02:01:37,550 --> 02:01:40,259 Okay, all right, okay. Let's take it back. 1310 02:01:40,345 --> 02:01:43,513 George go, George go. Hell, I can get you Joe Frazier. 1311 02:01:43,597 --> 02:01:46,682 Ali-Frazier 3. That's the fight everybody want to see. 1312 02:01:46,767 --> 02:01:50,686 - We don't want Frazier, we want George. - Hell, I don't control George Foreman. 1313 02:02:33,734 --> 02:02:37,903 There's been an accidental injury to George Foreman in training. 1314 02:02:37,946 --> 02:02:39,737 The truth is... 1315 02:02:39,823 --> 02:02:41,573 George knocked his self out. 1316 02:02:42,618 --> 02:02:44,076 That's right. 1317 02:02:44,120 --> 02:02:47,205 He did three rounds, realized he was gonna lose to Muhammad Ali... 1318 02:02:47,248 --> 02:02:48,706 and knocked his self out. 1319 02:02:49,709 --> 02:02:52,460 I predict that when the fight is set, he might not show. 1320 02:02:52,546 --> 02:02:53,670 Oh, you bad. 1321 02:02:53,755 --> 02:02:56,714 - That's right, I'm a bad man. - Ain't no doubt about that. 1322 02:02:56,799 --> 02:02:59,091 Yeah, but you tell George the same thing. 1323 02:02:59,177 --> 02:03:01,094 I heard you. I been watching you. 1324 02:03:01,179 --> 02:03:05,181 I know he's your man, I know you got him picked, but the man is in trouble. 1325 02:03:05,267 --> 02:03:08,310 The whole world was gonna know, but now he ain't gonna show. 1326 02:03:09,105 --> 02:03:12,273 In order to ensure that George is ready, we are thinking of postponing... 1327 02:03:12,317 --> 02:03:15,276 from September 24 to October 30. 1328 02:03:15,360 --> 02:03:17,318 What about the concert? 1329 02:03:17,404 --> 02:03:21,865 The concert will go on as planned. Those dates are September 20, 21 -- 1330 02:03:21,951 --> 02:03:26,245 I want all the helicopters guarded, all the private planes, private boats. 1331 02:03:26,289 --> 02:03:28,247 I'm serious. I want the airports-- 1332 02:03:28,292 --> 02:03:30,501 I want President Mobutu and all his paratroopers-- 1333 02:03:30,584 --> 02:03:33,335 All you Zaireans, y'all be on guard too. 1334 02:03:33,421 --> 02:03:37,048 Any strange boats creeping away, they might be taking him out. 1335 02:03:37,134 --> 02:03:38,508 Bus stations. 1336 02:03:38,594 --> 02:03:40,093 And bus stations! 1337 02:03:40,136 --> 02:03:42,094 Right. Watch the bus stations. 1338 02:03:42,139 --> 02:03:45,599 The elephant caravans-- They might be tying to take him out on an elephant. 1339 02:03:45,685 --> 02:03:48,102 - What'd you say? - Hell, I ain't talking to you. 1340 02:03:48,146 --> 02:03:49,770 Hey. Hey, man. 1341 02:03:50,856 --> 02:03:53,023 Don’t you never talk to Angelo like that. 1342 02:03:53,109 --> 02:03:56,778 Don’t you never talk to Angie like that again. 1343 02:03:56,821 --> 02:03:58,654 Something wrong with you, man? 1344 02:04:00,283 --> 02:04:03,701 Think you callin' some shots here? You ain't callin' nothin'. 1345 02:04:05,706 --> 02:04:08,081 They all know. 1346 02:04:08,166 --> 02:04:11,125 All them ladies out there, they know I'm ready. 1347 02:04:11,169 --> 02:04:14,379 I see fear in the eyes of his followers. 1348 02:04:14,465 --> 02:04:18,092 This was supposed to be the fight that Muhammad Ali was ended. 1349 02:04:18,177 --> 02:04:22,889 Supposed to be Muhammad was gonna fall. Supposed to be my destruction. 1350 02:04:22,974 --> 02:04:25,475 Well, they miscalculated. They misjudged. 1351 02:04:25,559 --> 02:04:27,183 They got it wrong. 1352 02:04:50,211 --> 02:04:51,961 Hold on a second. 1353 02:04:53,214 --> 02:04:54,338 What's your name? 1354 02:04:55,842 --> 02:04:57,008 Veronica Porche. 1355 02:04:57,052 --> 02:04:59,010 Porche. Like the sports car. 1356 02:04:59,054 --> 02:05:02,013 - Yes. - With just a little something extra. 1357 02:05:02,056 --> 02:05:03,555 Hey, you with Don? 1358 02:05:04,642 --> 02:05:08,436 Don brought me here, but I'm not with anybody, no. 1359 02:05:08,522 --> 02:05:10,897 - Where you come from? - LA. 1360 02:05:10,982 --> 02:05:13,316 - LA? - But my people are from Louisiana. 1361 02:05:13,402 --> 02:05:14,734 Louisiana. 1362 02:05:14,820 --> 02:05:16,778 What, you Creole? 1363 02:05:16,864 --> 02:05:21,909 We're Creole, so I'm African, French and Spanish. 1364 02:05:21,994 --> 02:05:24,036 My mother's grandfather was Jewish. 1365 02:05:24,747 --> 02:05:28,040 Well, they mixed all that stuff up in there real nice. 1366 02:05:28,083 --> 02:05:30,959 I'm the only witch doctor here. Bundini Brown. 1367 02:05:31,045 --> 02:05:33,254 Bundini Brown is an authentic witch doctor. 1368 02:05:33,340 --> 02:05:36,258 - You tell 'em. - The only one in the United States. 1369 02:05:37,885 --> 02:05:41,262 I'm real glad you said what you did. 1370 02:05:41,306 --> 02:05:44,599 You made sure the fight stays here. 1371 02:05:47,771 --> 02:05:50,856 You know all them reporters and writers in there... 1372 02:05:52,151 --> 02:05:54,610 they say George is gonna kill me. 1373 02:05:55,695 --> 02:05:57,069 What you think? 1374 02:06:01,119 --> 02:06:03,119 Mr. Ali? Mr. Ali? 1375 02:06:03,204 --> 02:06:05,287 - We want thank you. - Hey, fella. 1376 02:06:05,373 --> 02:06:07,248 Y'all wanna thank me? 1377 02:06:08,460 --> 02:06:10,627 Y'all gonna thank me? What I did? 1378 02:06:13,631 --> 02:06:16,132 They thanking me for something. 1379 02:06:16,218 --> 02:06:20,471 Hey, you ever been down to Hong Kong? Thailand? Taiwan? 1380 02:06:20,556 --> 02:06:23,474 - No. - No? I can't go there. 1381 02:06:24,143 --> 02:06:27,603 - Hi, Ruthie. How are you? - Hi, champ. 1382 02:06:30,273 --> 02:06:32,231 What's going on? I'm great. How you feeling? 1383 02:06:32,317 --> 02:06:34,651 When I go to sleep, this closes up. 1384 02:06:35,738 --> 02:06:39,156 That's what happens. When I go to sleep, all this rests together. 1385 02:06:39,242 --> 02:06:41,534 During the day, I got to think. 1386 02:06:41,620 --> 02:06:44,997 Get me out of this county. All the women so pretty. 1387 02:06:45,082 --> 02:06:50,336 All of em, they got hair come all the way down to the back of their knees. 1388 02:06:50,420 --> 02:06:54,005 All of em-- All of em about Veronica's complexion. 1389 02:06:54,091 --> 02:06:56,466 Every single one of em. Bad, man. 1390 02:06:58,137 --> 02:07:00,387 But ain't nothing like the sisters. 1391 02:07:01,558 --> 02:07:04,351 Ain't nothing like the sisters. 1392 02:07:08,189 --> 02:07:11,482 Come on. Why don't we go take a ride or something? 1393 02:07:11,526 --> 02:07:13,109 Wanna come with me? 1394 02:07:22,956 --> 02:07:26,499 Ruth, tell us the truth. Is this your kind of guy? 1395 02:07:27,209 --> 02:07:28,875 More cushion for the pushin'. 1396 02:07:32,173 --> 02:07:33,380 What'd he say? 1397 02:07:34,717 --> 02:07:36,717 So why you so glad we still here? 1398 02:07:40,474 --> 02:07:43,892 Making the fight stay here in Africa-- 1399 02:07:45,562 --> 02:07:49,231 Anybody can fight in Vegas. 1400 02:07:55,114 --> 02:07:57,573 Well, that's one job. I got two. 1401 02:07:57,617 --> 02:07:59,575 Got to whup George. 1402 02:08:07,752 --> 02:08:09,877 Islamic faith help you do that? 1403 02:08:11,172 --> 02:08:14,924 Listen, girl, as a Muslim I am failed in the eyes of God. 1404 02:08:14,968 --> 02:08:19,262 I should've discovered Islam at 50, 'cause I'm weak on women. 1405 02:08:20,515 --> 02:08:22,682 First they take my eyes. 1406 02:08:22,768 --> 02:08:25,227 My heart follow. 1407 02:08:25,271 --> 02:08:27,438 Making me the lovingest husband in the world... 1408 02:08:27,522 --> 02:08:30,440 and the most terriblest husband at the same time. 1409 02:08:33,071 --> 02:08:34,779 Look at you. 1410 02:08:34,823 --> 02:08:37,198 Green eyes. 1411 02:08:37,282 --> 02:08:39,073 Cocoa skin. 1412 02:08:40,161 --> 02:08:42,453 Okay, rest of me, let's go. 1413 02:08:50,422 --> 02:08:51,504 Rumble, Ali. 1414 02:09:35,302 --> 02:09:37,636 - Mrs. Ali. - Hello, Muhammad, Mr. Cosell. 1415 02:09:37,680 --> 02:09:40,514 - Hey, when you get in? - Today. 1416 02:09:40,600 --> 02:09:44,018 And I learned we now have this suite at the intercontinental Hotel. 1417 02:09:45,522 --> 02:09:47,897 Muhammad, may I have a word with you, please? 1418 02:09:47,982 --> 02:09:49,398 Yeah. 1419 02:09:58,327 --> 02:09:59,576 What's goin' on? 1420 02:09:59,661 --> 02:10:02,078 What do you mean, what's goin' on? 1421 02:10:02,165 --> 02:10:04,624 Do you have to throw it in my face? 1422 02:10:04,709 --> 02:10:08,294 Do I have to read about it? Do people have to call me on the phone to tell me? 1423 02:10:08,378 --> 02:10:10,295 I didn't mean for that to come out. 1424 02:10:10,381 --> 02:10:14,133 And I live with the casual ones. I live with 'em. 1425 02:10:14,218 --> 02:10:17,052 So why do you disrespect me like this? 1426 02:10:17,138 --> 02:10:20,765 I respect you. I will always respect you. 1427 02:10:30,569 --> 02:10:32,193 Do you love her? 1428 02:10:37,744 --> 02:10:39,202 I don't know. 1429 02:10:45,960 --> 02:10:48,544 So what is supposed to happen now? 1430 02:10:50,381 --> 02:10:52,298 I fight George. 1431 02:10:53,885 --> 02:10:56,552 I didn't come all this far to lose. 1432 02:10:59,223 --> 02:11:00,639 Neither did l. 1433 02:11:26,920 --> 02:11:28,336 Belinda. 1434 02:11:32,802 --> 02:11:34,218 What, Bingham? 1435 02:15:09,528 --> 02:15:10,777 There it is. 1436 02:15:24,754 --> 02:15:27,129 Hey, Zack, where's George? 1437 02:15:27,215 --> 02:15:28,673 What's he pulling? 1438 02:15:28,715 --> 02:15:30,590 Where's George? Where'd he go? 1439 02:15:31,677 --> 02:15:34,928 I just wanna make sure you're gonna control the evening. 1440 02:15:35,682 --> 02:15:38,600 George is jerking us off, making us wait. 1441 02:17:16,996 --> 02:17:20,706 It's all over for you, man. You don't have a chance. 1442 02:17:21,835 --> 02:17:23,835 You don't have no chance. 1443 02:17:23,920 --> 02:17:25,962 The rumble in the jungle! 1444 02:17:26,048 --> 02:17:28,131 You don't have no chance, man. 1445 02:17:28,217 --> 02:17:29,299 Okay, let's go. 1446 02:17:30,053 --> 02:17:32,720 You guys know the rules. I want a good, clean fight. 1447 02:17:32,804 --> 02:17:35,346 Ali, be quiet and listen to the instructions. 1448 02:17:35,432 --> 02:17:37,432 You been hearing about me ever since you was a boy. 1449 02:17:37,518 --> 02:17:39,935 Ali, be quiet. Listen to the instructions. 1450 02:17:40,021 --> 02:17:42,271 - Now you got to face me. - No hitting low. 1451 02:17:42,356 --> 02:17:44,773 - When I tell you to break-- - You got to face me now. 1452 02:17:44,859 --> 02:17:46,817 Be quiet, or I'll disqualify you. 1453 02:17:46,904 --> 02:17:49,863 When I tell you to break, I want a clean break. Understand? 1454 02:17:49,907 --> 02:17:53,492 - You shoulda never came to Africa. - All right, shake hands. 1455 02:17:53,576 --> 02:17:55,534 Take your corners. 1456 02:17:55,579 --> 02:17:57,662 Okay. All right. No problem. 1457 02:18:41,461 --> 02:18:42,919 Break! 1458 02:18:52,598 --> 02:18:54,723 All right, break. Step back. 1459 02:19:26,299 --> 02:19:29,217 Take it to him! That's what we came to do, Daddy! 1460 02:19:41,106 --> 02:19:43,064 The heavyweight championship fight... 1461 02:19:43,150 --> 02:19:45,776 - That's all you got? - live via satellite... 1462 02:19:45,820 --> 02:19:47,778 direct from Zaire, Africa. 1463 02:19:50,283 --> 02:19:53,201 - There we go. - That's it, Daddy. 1464 02:19:53,287 --> 02:19:55,996 You just keep dancing around him, okay? 1465 02:19:56,831 --> 02:19:58,455 Just keep moving. 1466 02:20:06,174 --> 02:20:08,007 Legs hurting. 1467 02:20:09,095 --> 02:20:10,553 Air heavy... 1468 02:20:10,638 --> 02:20:12,638 like I'm in water. 1469 02:20:33,578 --> 02:20:35,578 Get away from the rope! 1470 02:20:37,166 --> 02:20:40,167 Get off the rope! Get off there! Move it! 1471 02:20:42,546 --> 02:20:45,255 Get off there! Get off there! 1472 02:20:53,766 --> 02:20:55,683 Get off the rope! 1473 02:20:59,773 --> 02:21:01,022 Get off them ropes! 1474 02:21:01,900 --> 02:21:05,861 Come on now, Ali, get off the ropes! 1475 02:21:05,905 --> 02:21:07,363 Come on, baby! 1476 02:21:08,448 --> 02:21:10,281 Come on, Ali! 1477 02:21:12,119 --> 02:21:15,078 That's it? That's all you got? That's it? 1478 02:21:20,795 --> 02:21:23,212 Move him out to the center! 1479 02:21:23,257 --> 02:21:24,881 There he goes! 1480 02:21:26,884 --> 02:21:30,219 Get away from the ropes! Get off the ropes! 1481 02:22:03,881 --> 02:22:06,465 Been here before. 1482 02:22:06,551 --> 02:22:08,551 Little greenroom. 1483 02:22:08,637 --> 02:22:11,179 Open that door. Gonna get out this place. 1484 02:22:11,264 --> 02:22:13,848 Come on, man, get up and get out. 1485 02:22:29,117 --> 02:22:31,951 They said you could punch, George. 1486 02:22:31,995 --> 02:22:34,704 You ain't hittin'. You hittin' like a sissy, George. 1487 02:22:36,334 --> 02:22:38,584 You can't lay up on the ropes like that. 1488 02:22:39,627 --> 02:22:44,005 You're letting him beat on you. You can't do that, champ. Come on, now. 1489 02:22:44,049 --> 02:22:47,801 -You wanna explain that to me? -Jab, then go to the middle of the ring. 1490 02:22:47,845 --> 02:22:51,222 - You had your fight going, then-- - You gotta dance, baby. 1491 02:22:51,307 --> 02:22:54,684 Shut up! Just be quiet! You let me take care of this! 1492 02:22:54,728 --> 02:22:57,979 Got to dance. You can't come out there like that. 1493 02:22:58,022 --> 02:22:59,980 - You can't back up. - You got to respect the man. 1494 02:23:00,024 --> 02:23:03,943 What is with the ropes? Something going on you wanna talk to me about? 1495 02:23:04,029 --> 02:23:06,988 Tell me what's going on with you. What are you doing? 1496 02:23:07,074 --> 02:23:10,868 Put the jab on him. You got to let him go and dance. 1497 02:23:10,912 --> 02:23:14,455 Don't let him get in your corner. He's tying to cut the ring off you. 1498 02:23:14,539 --> 02:23:18,375 He's tying to cut you off the ring. You can't let that happen. 1499 02:23:19,545 --> 02:23:21,795 Just take care of it! 1500 02:23:24,508 --> 02:23:27,718 And there's the bell. The fighters meet in mid-ring. 1501 02:23:37,731 --> 02:23:39,230 Get off the ropes! 1502 02:23:39,274 --> 02:23:41,149 Stay off the ropes! 1503 02:23:42,861 --> 02:23:46,196 Foreman again pushing him against the ropes. 1504 02:23:46,240 --> 02:23:50,701 And Ali laying back, fighting those blows against the sides of his body. 1505 02:23:50,744 --> 02:23:53,370 Get back in the middle of the ring, Ali! 1506 02:23:54,415 --> 02:23:56,707 Muhammad, get off the ropes! 1507 02:24:28,784 --> 02:24:32,411 You're punching like a sissy, George. Punching like a sissy. 1508 02:24:44,592 --> 02:24:46,759 What the hell's going on? Come on. 1509 02:24:58,817 --> 02:25:02,444 George, get him back. What the hell's going on? Come on. 1510 02:25:14,541 --> 02:25:17,292 You got to get off the ropes! 1511 02:25:17,336 --> 02:25:18,919 Get off the ropes! 1512 02:25:19,003 --> 02:25:21,921 Eight rounds to go. Running out of gas, big fella? 1513 02:25:23,091 --> 02:25:24,507 Let him go. 1514 02:25:37,481 --> 02:25:41,400 Can't let you get that second wind which you don't even know is there for you. 1515 02:25:41,486 --> 02:25:44,654 You want the title? Want to wear the heavyweight crown? 1516 02:25:44,698 --> 02:25:47,866 Nose broke, jaw smashed, face busted in. 1517 02:25:47,951 --> 02:25:49,868 You ready for that? Is that you? 1518 02:25:49,954 --> 02:25:53,372 'Cause you facing a man who will die before he lets you win. 1519 02:26:05,720 --> 02:26:08,638 Ali, don't let him beat on you on the inside. 1520 02:26:09,766 --> 02:26:11,724 Don't let him beat on you on the inside. 1521 02:26:20,402 --> 02:26:21,734 Come on, Ali. 1522 02:26:23,739 --> 02:26:25,948 Let's go, Ali. 1523 02:26:26,033 --> 02:26:29,243 Let's go, baby! Stay off the ropes! 1524 02:26:29,287 --> 02:26:30,619 Get off the ropes! 1525 02:26:30,704 --> 02:26:32,996 There it is. Keep 'em in his face. 1526 02:26:34,625 --> 02:26:35,624 Break! 1527 02:26:35,710 --> 02:26:37,835 Oh, you missed him, George! 1528 02:26:37,921 --> 02:26:40,046 You gotta go to work on him, Ali! 1529 02:26:48,597 --> 02:26:51,556 I thought you could punch, George. They said you could punch. 1530 02:26:51,601 --> 02:26:53,059 Come on, Ali! 1531 02:26:54,271 --> 02:26:57,022 Get away from the rope! Get off the rope! 1532 02:26:57,108 --> 02:26:58,524 He got him! 1533 02:27:05,033 --> 02:27:06,950 Move him around! Take him! 1534 02:27:08,160 --> 02:27:09,618 Come on, Ali! 1535 02:27:16,669 --> 02:27:19,879 Get off the ropes! Get off the ropes! 1536 02:27:21,050 --> 02:27:22,424 Get off the ropes! 1537 02:28:07,515 --> 02:28:10,474 George Foreman is hit by a combination of punches... 1538 02:28:10,518 --> 02:28:12,017 and down he goes! 1539 02:28:12,061 --> 02:28:13,811 George Foreman is down! 1540 02:28:13,855 --> 02:28:16,940 He's fallen like a tree in the forest! 1541 02:28:17,026 --> 02:28:20,361 He is felled by a combination of blows from Muhammad Ali! 1542 02:28:38,505 --> 02:28:41,715 Okay, this fight's over! This fight's over! 1543 02:28:54,105 --> 02:28:56,689 I told you! I told you! 1544 02:29:06,619 --> 02:29:10,162 Referee Zack Clayton is counting. Seven, eight! 1545 02:29:10,248 --> 02:29:12,206 And he's on his knee. It is over! 1546 02:29:12,290 --> 02:29:14,332 It is over! It is over! 1547 02:29:14,418 --> 02:29:15,876 It is over! 1548 02:29:15,920 --> 02:29:19,964 George Foreman has been knocked out by Muhammad Ali! 1549 02:29:20,050 --> 02:29:22,551 Muhammad Ali has done the impossible! 1550 02:29:22,594 --> 02:29:25,011 He has regained the heavyweight crown... 1551 02:29:25,097 --> 02:29:29,558 that was taken unjustly from him in 1967. 1552 02:29:32,437 --> 02:29:35,063 What a moment of history in this arena... 1553 02:29:35,149 --> 02:29:37,608 in Zaire, Africa! 1554 02:29:47,580 --> 02:29:50,081 A tremendous, tremendous moment.