2 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:27,717 Thank you very kindly. 3 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,552 Ladies and gentlemen, right now we'd like to introduce... 4 00:00:31,638 --> 00:00:36,308 the star of our show, the young man you've all been waiting for. 5 00:00:36,393 --> 00:00:40,563 So let's all get together and welcome him to the stage with a great big hand. 6 00:00:40,607 --> 00:00:42,774 How about it for Sam Cooke? 7 00:00:51,578 --> 00:00:55,163 Before we do anything, we'd like to say how are you doing out there? 8 00:00:57,168 --> 00:00:58,918 - Is everyone feeling all right? - Yeah! 9 00:00:59,004 --> 00:01:00,545 How are you doing? 10 00:01:01,465 --> 00:01:03,256 - You doing okay? - Yeah! 11 00:01:03,299 --> 00:01:05,716 - You two doing okay? - Yeah! 12 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,554 Well, I ask you one more time. How you doing? 13 00:01:11,307 --> 00:01:13,265 Oh, yeah 14 00:01:14,437 --> 00:01:16,312 I said oh, yeah 15 00:01:16,398 --> 00:01:18,398 Oh, yeah! 16 00:01:18,484 --> 00:01:19,942 Oh, yeah 17 00:01:19,984 --> 00:01:21,567 Oh, yeah! 18 00:01:29,411 --> 00:01:32,538 I believe we're gonna have a goodtime tonight 19 00:01:33,793 --> 00:01:37,503 It's good to have somebody you can twist the night away with 20 00:01:37,587 --> 00:01:39,670 Right now 21 00:01:39,757 --> 00:01:41,131 Oh, yes, it is 22 00:01:42,009 --> 00:01:45,386 I said it feels good when you got somebody 23 00:01:45,472 --> 00:01:48,056 To twist the night away with right now 24 00:01:48,141 --> 00:01:50,475 - Lord have mercy. - What you running from, son? 25 00:01:53,190 --> 00:01:54,773 We got a call. 26 00:02:00,822 --> 00:02:04,282 Don't fight the feelin' Don’t fight the feelin' 27 00:02:05,577 --> 00:02:09,079 Got to feel the feelin' now Got to feel the feelin' 28 00:02:10,167 --> 00:02:13,669 'Cause it make you groove right when you feel the feelin' 29 00:02:13,753 --> 00:02:17,005 Oh, make me want you now 30 00:02:17,049 --> 00:02:19,424 Got to feel the feelin' 31 00:02:19,511 --> 00:02:24,223 'Cause it make you groove right when you feel the feelin' 32 00:02:24,307 --> 00:02:28,894 Make me want ya when I got the feelin; baby 33 00:02:28,980 --> 00:02:31,189 So don't fight it 34 00:02:31,273 --> 00:02:33,190 No, don’t fight it 35 00:02:33,234 --> 00:02:35,860 Baby, just feel it 36 00:03:29,839 --> 00:03:31,881 I'm gonna bust you up. 37 00:03:31,925 --> 00:03:34,551 Beat your ass like I was your daddy. 38 00:04:16,225 --> 00:04:19,310 I said I'm beginning to feel alright now 39 00:04:25,319 --> 00:04:29,322 I feel can tell you about my baby right now 40 00:04:33,454 --> 00:04:36,497 I said I feel you're in the mood right now 41 00:04:45,217 --> 00:04:48,719 I said I feel you're in the mood 42 00:04:51,265 --> 00:04:53,682 Sometimes me and my baby we fuss and fight 43 00:04:53,768 --> 00:04:56,686 And my baby leave home 'cause things ain't right 44 00:04:56,770 --> 00:04:59,188 For those of you who think you came here today... 45 00:04:59,232 --> 00:05:01,983 to hear us tell you like these Negro leaders do... 46 00:05:02,027 --> 00:05:04,653 that your times will just get better... 47 00:05:04,738 --> 00:05:09,742 that we shall overcome someday... 48 00:05:09,827 --> 00:05:12,870 I say to you, you came to the wrong place. 49 00:05:12,954 --> 00:05:16,248 Because your times will never get better unless you make them better. 50 00:05:17,503 --> 00:05:20,379 Those of you who think you came here to hear us tell you... 51 00:05:20,424 --> 00:05:24,051 to turn the other cheek to the brutality of the white man... 52 00:05:24,135 --> 00:05:28,012 and this system of injustice that's in place right here in America... 53 00:05:28,057 --> 00:05:30,432 you think you're gonna come here and hear us tell you... 54 00:05:30,516 --> 00:05:34,518 to go out there and beg for a place at their lunch counter... 55 00:05:35,314 --> 00:05:38,525 again, I say you came to the wrong place. 56 00:05:38,569 --> 00:05:43,030 We don't teach you to turn the other cheek in the South. 57 00:05:43,073 --> 00:05:45,866 And we don't teach you to turn the other cheek in the North. 58 00:05:45,910 --> 00:05:49,746 The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches you to obey the law... 59 00:05:49,788 --> 00:05:52,581 to Cary yourselves in a respectable way... 60 00:05:52,666 --> 00:05:55,209 in a proud Afro-American way. 61 00:05:55,921 --> 00:05:58,464 But at the same time, we teach you... 62 00:05:58,549 --> 00:06:00,883 that anyone puts their hand on you... 63 00:06:03,013 --> 00:06:08,142 brother, you do your best to see they don't put their hand on anybody else... 64 00:06:08,226 --> 00:06:09,475 again. 65 00:06:13,942 --> 00:06:15,274 Time. 66 00:06:34,673 --> 00:06:36,631 Just like that, Daddy. 67 00:06:36,675 --> 00:06:38,758 Never jump in one place. Bad for the heart. 68 00:06:38,803 --> 00:06:40,386 Forwards, backwards, sideways. 69 00:06:40,472 --> 00:06:42,347 That's the most important thing. 70 00:06:53,486 --> 00:06:55,611 I'm called Bundini. 71 00:06:55,698 --> 00:06:59,241 Rhymes with Houdini. He was a Jew too. 72 00:06:59,327 --> 00:07:03,037 Some people call me Fast Black. Some call me Daddy Mac. 73 00:07:04,164 --> 00:07:06,873 Gave Sugar Ray Robinson my power for seven years. 74 00:07:06,959 --> 00:07:09,419 My voodoo. My magic. 75 00:07:09,504 --> 00:07:12,422 Now Shorty done sent me here to work for you. 76 00:07:12,508 --> 00:07:15,718 - Who's Shorty? - I call him Shorty. 77 00:07:15,803 --> 00:07:17,970 Call him Shorty 'cause he like 'em circumcised. 78 00:07:18,054 --> 00:07:22,849 Original people. Like Moses. And I was a babe in a basket too. 79 00:07:22,935 --> 00:07:26,103 Born on a doorstep with a note across my chest that read... 80 00:07:26,189 --> 00:07:29,234 "You do the best you can for him, world. " 81 00:07:29,319 --> 00:07:31,236 I wanna be your inspiration. 82 00:07:31,321 --> 00:07:33,988 Your motivator in your corner. 83 00:07:35,159 --> 00:07:37,451 Can I be in your corner, young man? 84 00:07:44,878 --> 00:07:46,295 Time! 85 00:07:49,717 --> 00:07:52,635 Got to tell you how I feel right now 86 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,554 This song gonna tell you howl feel 87 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:59,016 I know you been gone away for along time, but listen 88 00:07:59,059 --> 00:08:01,685 Baby, if you ever 89 00:08:02,938 --> 00:08:05,898 Change your mind 90 00:08:05,985 --> 00:08:08,194 Know that leaving 91 00:08:08,237 --> 00:08:11,071 Leaving me behind 92 00:08:12,742 --> 00:08:13,991 Bring it tome 93 00:08:14,703 --> 00:08:17,204 Bring that good lovin; baby 94 00:08:17,289 --> 00:08:19,414 Bring it on home to me 95 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:20,832 Yeah, yeah 96 00:08:20,917 --> 00:08:24,587 Listen, I got to be a man to tell you this, honey, look 97 00:08:24,673 --> 00:08:26,715 I'll give you jewelry 98 00:08:26,801 --> 00:08:28,843 I'll give you some of that money too 99 00:08:28,928 --> 00:08:31,512 But listen That ain't all 100 00:08:31,596 --> 00:08:34,305 That ain't all Sam will do for you 101 00:08:34,391 --> 00:08:37,642 All you got to do is bring it tome 102 00:08:38,438 --> 00:08:40,647 Bring that good lovin baby 103 00:08:40,731 --> 00:08:42,690 Be the invisible man as soon as he swings. 104 00:08:42,776 --> 00:08:44,484 Get personal with him. 105 00:08:44,570 --> 00:08:46,987 This is important Listen tome 106 00:08:47,073 --> 00:08:50,283 Don't you know that I'll always 107 00:08:50,367 --> 00:08:52,367 I'll always be your slave 108 00:08:53,746 --> 00:08:56,121 Till I'm buried 109 00:08:56,208 --> 00:08:58,584 Buried in my grave 110 00:08:58,627 --> 00:09:00,669 While I'm livin' 111 00:09:00,755 --> 00:09:03,966 Bring it tome Bring that good lovin; baby 112 00:09:04,761 --> 00:09:07,345 Bring it on home to me 113 00:09:07,429 --> 00:09:09,387 One more thing I gotta tell you 114 00:09:09,473 --> 00:09:11,181 Listen to me right now 115 00:09:11,267 --> 00:09:14,477 You know that I try 116 00:09:14,521 --> 00:09:17,606 To treat you right What did you do 117 00:09:17,690 --> 00:09:19,691 You stayed up 118 00:09:19,777 --> 00:09:21,986 You stayed up late at night 119 00:09:22,071 --> 00:09:24,029 I don't care who you was with 120 00:09:24,114 --> 00:09:25,989 Bring it tome 121 00:09:26,074 --> 00:09:28,658 Bring all that good lovin; baby 122 00:09:28,744 --> 00:09:31,829 Bring it on Everybody's with me 123 00:09:31,915 --> 00:09:33,331 Everybody's with me tonight 124 00:09:33,416 --> 00:09:36,751 Listen, let me hear you say yeah 125 00:09:43,470 --> 00:09:46,096 Yeah, oh, yeah 126 00:09:50,853 --> 00:09:53,979 Sonny Liston, you ain't no champ! You a chump! 127 00:09:54,065 --> 00:09:56,190 Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. 128 00:09:56,276 --> 00:09:59,278 Oh! Rumble, young man, rumble. 129 00:09:59,362 --> 00:10:02,113 Y'all wanna lose y' all money? Then you bet it on Sonny. 130 00:10:02,199 --> 00:10:05,033 He know I'm great. He will fall in eight. 131 00:10:05,119 --> 00:10:07,870 Come on, you big, ugly bear. I'll whup you right now. 132 00:10:09,582 --> 00:10:12,959 Two-ten and a half. Two-ten and a half! 133 00:10:13,044 --> 00:10:16,839 The challenger, Cassius Clay, two hundred and ten and a half pounds. 134 00:10:16,883 --> 00:10:19,509 - Man, you sure that's right? - That's what the weight is. 135 00:10:19,593 --> 00:10:22,177 Old, ugly bear, come on. Let's go. 136 00:10:22,263 --> 00:10:26,724 You got these folks fooled. I ain't scared of ya! I ain't scared of ya! 137 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,812 Two hundred and eighteen. Two hundred and eighteen. 138 00:10:30,898 --> 00:10:33,774 Sonny Liston, the champion of the world. 139 00:10:33,860 --> 00:10:36,153 Two hundred and eighteen pounds. 140 00:10:36,237 --> 00:10:38,279 - Pounds of what? - Pounds of ugly. 141 00:10:38,365 --> 00:10:40,866 That man's so ugly, when he sweat... 142 00:10:40,951 --> 00:10:44,745 the sweat run backwards off his forehand just to stay away from his face. 143 00:10:49,252 --> 00:10:51,961 Come on, you big, ugly bear! I'll turn you into a rug! 144 00:10:52,047 --> 00:10:54,507 Keep talkin'. I'm gonna fuck you up. 145 00:11:01,057 --> 00:11:02,473 If you whup me... 146 00:11:02,558 --> 00:11:06,477 I'll crawl out of the ring and take the first jet airplane out the country. 147 00:11:06,563 --> 00:11:09,689 - Is that a promise, Mr. Clay? - You'll eat his words first. 148 00:11:09,775 --> 00:11:13,613 - Cassius, you're a 7-1 underdog. - Liston says he talks with his fists. 149 00:11:13,655 --> 00:11:15,655 - What do you say? - You scared of him? 150 00:11:15,741 --> 00:11:17,991 I'm gonna give Sonny Liston talkin' lessons... 151 00:11:18,077 --> 00:11:20,536 boxin' lessons and fallin' down lessons. 152 00:11:21,330 --> 00:11:24,456 Cassius, are you a black Muslim? Pat Putnam says in the Miami Herald-- 153 00:11:24,542 --> 00:11:27,084 A man's religion is his own business. What kind of question is that? 154 00:11:27,129 --> 00:11:32,384 - Angelo, tell me-- - Malcolm X was in town, then he left. 155 00:11:32,468 --> 00:11:34,593 Was that so he wouldn't embarrass you? 156 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:36,554 - Yeah, Howard? - Liston doesn't like you. 157 00:11:36,639 --> 00:11:39,473 Really can't stand you. Says he wants to kill you. 158 00:11:39,517 --> 00:11:41,600 Howard Cosell, you ain't nothin' but an instigator. 159 00:11:41,686 --> 00:11:45,271 - Man, how you get that way? - Cassius, now you’re being truculent. 160 00:11:45,357 --> 00:11:46,815 If it's good, I'm that. 161 00:11:49,319 --> 00:11:52,946 You next. Soon as I'm done with Sonny Liston, I'm fightin' Howard Cosell. 162 00:11:53,032 --> 00:11:54,990 Y'all write that down right now. 163 00:12:10,135 --> 00:12:11,843 That's good? 164 00:12:12,889 --> 00:12:14,472 Wanna check that out? 165 00:12:22,856 --> 00:12:25,190 Hey, man, when you get back? 166 00:12:25,234 --> 00:12:28,028 I just got here. I'm front row, seat seven. 167 00:12:32,076 --> 00:12:34,743 I'll be sittin' with Mom and Dad. 168 00:12:37,583 --> 00:12:41,168 You should've stayed in the first place. Nobody gotta hide when they're with me. 169 00:12:41,252 --> 00:12:43,587 There's nothing wrong with being cool, my brother. 170 00:12:43,672 --> 00:12:44,587 He's right. 171 00:13:32,103 --> 00:13:34,729 - ...and challenger, Cassius Clay. - Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 172 00:13:34,771 --> 00:13:38,106 Brought to you by the City Service Oil Company... 173 00:13:38,192 --> 00:13:41,570 and its dealers in 37 states and Canada... 174 00:13:41,614 --> 00:13:45,032 known to millions of motorists for Big Gallon gasoline... 175 00:13:45,117 --> 00:13:48,869 and by new Wildroot, totally new Wildroot in a new tube... 176 00:13:48,955 --> 00:13:54,042 with a great formula that grooms hair to look neat and natural, never greasy. 177 00:13:54,126 --> 00:13:56,460 Another boxing milestone is at hand. 178 00:13:56,546 --> 00:14:00,466 In just a few minutes, Louisville's Cassius Marcellus Clay... 179 00:14:00,510 --> 00:14:02,635 will be facing the devastating punching power... 180 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,971 of the heavyweight champion, Charles "Sonny" Liston. 181 00:14:06,016 --> 00:14:10,185 ...for the heavyweight championship of the world. 182 00:14:12,648 --> 00:14:14,648 Introducing, on my right-- 183 00:14:15,610 --> 00:14:17,610 And now the time has come. 184 00:14:17,696 --> 00:14:22,283 Both challenger and champion are in the ring. 185 00:14:22,326 --> 00:14:25,786 The heavyweight championship of the world is on the line. 186 00:14:25,872 --> 00:14:29,666 I fit goes past the first round, there will be surprises already. 187 00:14:30,376 --> 00:14:33,836 Sonny Liston wrapped in that tery cloth towel of his... 188 00:14:33,922 --> 00:14:36,589 wrapped around his head swami fashion... 189 00:14:36,675 --> 00:14:39,510 Looking as malevolent and baleful as ever. 190 00:14:39,554 --> 00:14:42,931 But this man is a professional prizefighter. 191 00:14:43,016 --> 00:14:45,058 Make no mistake about it. 192 00:14:48,229 --> 00:14:50,187 I want a clean fight. 193 00:14:50,231 --> 00:14:52,648 When I say break, stop punching and step back. 194 00:14:52,693 --> 00:14:54,818 Do you have any questions, champ? 195 00:14:54,904 --> 00:14:56,739 Any questions, challenger? 196 00:14:56,824 --> 00:15:00,576 We're fine. Touch gloves, gentlemen. Good luck. 197 00:15:03,582 --> 00:15:06,375 Good evening, sports fans across the nation. 198 00:15:06,417 --> 00:15:09,043 Liston in the white trunks with the black stripes. 199 00:15:09,128 --> 00:15:13,256 Clay, an inch and a half taller, in the white trunks with the red stripes-- 200 00:15:27,357 --> 00:15:30,150 And Cassius Clay is sidestepping. 201 00:15:44,794 --> 00:15:47,128 There it is, champ. Stay on your toes now. 202 00:15:55,015 --> 00:15:58,767 And we can see that the champion is the aggressor. 203 00:15:58,809 --> 00:16:01,393 There's a shot under the heart. 204 00:16:30,388 --> 00:16:33,806 Cassius Clay slips away. And now Clay pounds a left. 205 00:16:33,891 --> 00:16:36,892 Another left. A straight jab. 206 00:16:40,399 --> 00:16:43,192 It seems to have stunned him. And that's the bell. 207 00:16:43,276 --> 00:16:46,694 And they're fighting after the bell. And they're still fighting. 208 00:16:46,780 --> 00:16:49,365 This round is over. 209 00:16:49,451 --> 00:16:51,242 Break it up, ref. 210 00:16:51,329 --> 00:16:54,414 There is no love lost between the two contenders at this time. 211 00:16:54,497 --> 00:16:58,333 Cassius goes back to his corner. It's been an amazing round. 212 00:16:58,377 --> 00:16:59,876 You can beat this guy. 213 00:17:02,381 --> 00:17:04,882 I'm still here. 214 00:17:04,967 --> 00:17:08,345 And Sonny Liston is not taking the stool. 215 00:17:08,389 --> 00:17:11,433 He's anxious to get back into the challenger's face. 216 00:17:11,517 --> 00:17:14,435 Take it to the body. Kill the body, the head will follow. 217 00:17:45,513 --> 00:17:47,805 This is a totally different fight than Liston expected... 218 00:17:47,891 --> 00:17:49,724 and anyone in this arena will tell you. 219 00:17:49,810 --> 00:17:54,188 There's a long, looping left hand. Clay's eyes are wide open now. 220 00:18:04,910 --> 00:18:07,244 - Come on, Cass! Move! - Step back. 221 00:18:09,249 --> 00:18:12,125 - Come on, Cassius! - Come on, Chi-Chi! 222 00:18:15,172 --> 00:18:16,838 I'm not prognosticating anything... 223 00:18:16,924 --> 00:18:19,258 but merely his survival to this juncture-- 224 00:18:36,988 --> 00:18:38,946 Cass, hit him! 225 00:18:50,128 --> 00:18:51,043 Break. 226 00:18:52,548 --> 00:18:54,381 Let him go. 227 00:19:22,832 --> 00:19:26,502 Sonny Liston is hurt. He's bleeding from his eye. 228 00:19:29,465 --> 00:19:30,797 He's defying the experts early. 229 00:19:30,841 --> 00:19:35,720 We have to take a look at this man and say he is not in awe of the champion. 230 00:20:04,128 --> 00:20:07,588 He ain't nothin' to me. And he know it. 231 00:20:07,674 --> 00:20:09,090 This is it now. 232 00:20:15,058 --> 00:20:17,016 Let me have that, John. 233 00:20:22,066 --> 00:20:23,690 And now they're ready. 234 00:20:27,904 --> 00:20:30,446 You gonna knock the ugly off of him. 235 00:20:30,532 --> 00:20:32,783 That's gonna take a long time, but you can do it. 236 00:20:36,915 --> 00:20:39,207 There he is. Get him off. Do your job, ref. 237 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,335 Shake him. Do your job, ref. 238 00:20:47,217 --> 00:20:49,384 There it is. 239 00:20:50,179 --> 00:20:51,763 Come on, ref. 240 00:20:55,645 --> 00:20:56,644 Break. 241 00:21:02,777 --> 00:21:05,194 - There he is. - Clay slips around and out. 242 00:21:08,242 --> 00:21:10,910 Up against the ropes. Right above me now. 243 00:21:15,042 --> 00:21:17,584 Too tight. Get in there. 244 00:21:29,766 --> 00:21:32,058 My eyes. There's something in my eyes. I can't see nothin'. 245 00:21:32,144 --> 00:21:33,226 Come on. 246 00:21:36,816 --> 00:21:38,065 - What's going on? - Nothin'. 247 00:21:38,151 --> 00:21:41,695 The guy's punchin' on the breaks. Just take care of it. We're fine. 248 00:21:43,741 --> 00:21:46,116 I can't see nothin', man. Just go and cut 'em off, Angie. 249 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,995 No, no. You can't fight with no gloves on. 250 00:21:49,831 --> 00:21:51,789 Just get up. Get up. Try and do it. Come on. 251 00:21:51,834 --> 00:21:54,293 I can't see, man. 252 00:21:54,337 --> 00:21:57,004 - Come on, Cass! - Dance! 253 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,681 Liston crouching, hitting to the body. 254 00:22:05,765 --> 00:22:08,724 It's like he's blinking, like he doesn't see Liston. 255 00:22:08,811 --> 00:22:11,395 Ref, you gotta do your job. 256 00:22:21,116 --> 00:22:22,156 Hold it. 257 00:22:25,163 --> 00:22:27,538 Stay away from him, Clay. Stay away from him. 258 00:22:28,334 --> 00:22:30,709 The champion, you can see, is the aggressor. 259 00:22:37,176 --> 00:22:39,093 - Get him, Cass! - Come on, Cass! 260 00:22:40,179 --> 00:22:42,681 - Knock him up! - Clay looks all done. 261 00:22:42,766 --> 00:22:44,766 Hold on to him! 262 00:22:48,982 --> 00:22:51,775 - Stop it. Stop. Break. - Knock him up. 263 00:22:55,154 --> 00:22:57,571 Get on him. Get on him, man. 264 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,719 - You can see him now. - You go get him, man. 265 00:23:28,859 --> 00:23:31,360 Clay lands a left, but Liston ducked under it... 266 00:23:31,445 --> 00:23:33,695 and took it high on the forehead. 267 00:23:34,658 --> 00:23:36,867 It's Clay coming on. 268 00:23:41,791 --> 00:23:44,500 And Liston backs away. 269 00:24:30,178 --> 00:24:33,888 And all the predictions are going down the drain... 270 00:24:33,974 --> 00:24:35,892 as Liston is listless. 271 00:24:38,270 --> 00:24:40,062 And there's the bell. 272 00:24:42,985 --> 00:24:44,902 We're coming up to round seven. 273 00:25:23,237 --> 00:25:25,572 Wait a minute! 274 00:25:25,658 --> 00:25:27,449 Liston's not coming out. 275 00:25:28,453 --> 00:25:31,747 The winner and new heavyweight champion of the world is Cassius Clay. 276 00:25:31,831 --> 00:25:35,875 Eat your words! Eat your words! 277 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,714 Les, I'm going up into the ring. Get back. 278 00:25:40,925 --> 00:25:43,300 I'm the greatest thing ever happened to boxing. 279 00:25:43,386 --> 00:25:45,219 Cassius. Cassius. 280 00:25:45,263 --> 00:25:47,847 I shook up the world! 281 00:25:47,933 --> 00:25:51,185 It's a scene of absolute bedlam in the ring! 282 00:25:51,270 --> 00:25:55,523 I am the greatest. I'm a bad man. I shook up the world! 283 00:25:55,608 --> 00:25:57,316 Did he ever hurt you? 284 00:25:57,402 --> 00:26:00,403 I'm only 22 years old. I ain't got a mark on my face. 285 00:26:00,446 --> 00:26:02,404 - I must be the greatest. - And you're pretty. 286 00:26:02,449 --> 00:26:04,407 I must be the greatest. 287 00:26:04,451 --> 00:26:07,745 Wait. Hold on. Hold on one second. That's Sam Cooke back there. 288 00:26:07,788 --> 00:26:09,747 - Come on, Sam Cooke. - Let Sam Cooke in here. 289 00:26:09,791 --> 00:26:12,709 The greatest rock-and-roll singer, and I'm the world's greatest boxer. 290 00:26:12,795 --> 00:26:14,294 Hello, Sam. 291 00:26:23,223 --> 00:26:25,390 That mummy's gonna get him, baby. 292 00:26:26,225 --> 00:26:28,643 - That mummy ain't gonna get him. - Yeah, he is. 293 00:26:28,729 --> 00:26:32,982 He ain't scared of that mummy. That mummy too slow to catch anybody. 294 00:26:33,944 --> 00:26:36,570 - What's going on, Sam? - How you doing, Cassius? 295 00:26:36,654 --> 00:26:41,115 Don't believe that stuff on TV. Don't listen to him. 296 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,285 - Hey, congratulations, Clay. - Hey, thank you, Jim. 297 00:26:43,369 --> 00:26:46,371 - Hell of a fight. - You next, man. You next. 298 00:26:46,457 --> 00:26:49,750 - Go ahead and get some food, brother. - Cassius Clay versus Jim Brown. 299 00:26:49,836 --> 00:26:51,252 Biggest fight in history. 300 00:26:51,338 --> 00:26:54,465 - The mummy only has one eye. - One eye and a limp. 301 00:26:54,508 --> 00:26:57,134 That mummy's 643 years old. 302 00:26:57,178 --> 00:26:59,136 He can't catch nobody. Look at him. 303 00:26:59,181 --> 00:27:02,391 You gotta fall down 'cause that's the only way the mummy could catch you. 304 00:27:13,905 --> 00:27:15,363 Way to go, champ! 305 00:27:18,035 --> 00:27:21,453 - Yeah, you the greatest. - Thank you, brother. Thank you. 306 00:27:21,537 --> 00:27:23,496 - I'll see your next fight. - You'll see the next one? 307 00:27:23,583 --> 00:27:26,417 - Oh, yeah. - Well, you better get there very early. 308 00:27:26,503 --> 00:27:29,504 You better get there very early 'cause that man's going down. 309 00:27:32,217 --> 00:27:34,843 If he talk a little jive, he's going down in five. 310 00:27:36,764 --> 00:27:39,724 He talk a little more, I might drop him in four. 311 00:27:40,852 --> 00:27:43,020 If you wanna have more fun, do it in round one. 312 00:27:43,105 --> 00:27:45,188 Oh, yeah. Hold on. I'm doing the rhymin'. 313 00:27:59,205 --> 00:28:02,457 The people really look up to you. You plan on being a champ like Joe Louis? 314 00:28:02,544 --> 00:28:05,503 Well, yeah, I'm gonna be the people's champ. 315 00:28:05,588 --> 00:28:07,963 Not like Joe Louis. Well, you know, not exactly. 316 00:28:10,427 --> 00:28:12,552 My name is not Clay. 317 00:28:12,597 --> 00:28:15,181 Clay is the name of the people that owned my ancestors... 318 00:28:15,265 --> 00:28:18,266 and I no longer wanna be called by that slave name. 319 00:28:18,353 --> 00:28:20,603 - I am Cassius X. - Minister Malcolm. 320 00:28:20,689 --> 00:28:22,940 What about the divisions in the Nation of Islam? 321 00:28:23,025 --> 00:28:27,027 This is the champ's time. I'm here as a friend to support his victory... 322 00:28:27,113 --> 00:28:29,572 so I have nothing you want. 323 00:28:29,616 --> 00:28:31,616 I'm definitely gonna be the people's champion... 324 00:28:31,659 --> 00:28:34,118 but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. 325 00:28:34,203 --> 00:28:36,620 I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be. 326 00:28:47,803 --> 00:28:50,429 ...for no home is immune to termites... 327 00:28:50,471 --> 00:28:53,597 no matter how well it is built or maintained. 328 00:28:53,683 --> 00:28:55,641 - Hey, brother. - I was leaving. 329 00:28:55,729 --> 00:28:58,980 I saw your light on. What you doing up at this hour, champ? 330 00:28:59,065 --> 00:29:02,817 Oh, man, I'm watching this program on termites. 331 00:29:02,903 --> 00:29:07,156 And them little itsy-bitsy things is eatin' these people's whole house down. 332 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,950 Oh, man, look. 333 00:29:13,081 --> 00:29:17,835 I've been invited to speak at Ibadan University in Nigeria. 334 00:29:17,879 --> 00:29:20,588 - You wanna go with me? - Hey, look, man. 335 00:29:20,674 --> 00:29:24,802 You can have six million termites in your house and don't even know it... 336 00:29:24,843 --> 00:29:27,802 till you going to get something to eat and you bust through the floor. 337 00:29:29,683 --> 00:29:33,436 - What'd you say? Where? - Africa. You been? 338 00:29:34,522 --> 00:29:35,437 Africa. 339 00:29:35,523 --> 00:29:37,857 All right, come on. Let's go. 340 00:29:43,447 --> 00:29:45,030 What is it? 341 00:29:49,538 --> 00:29:52,123 You ever thought you'd lose it? 342 00:29:52,209 --> 00:29:54,960 I mean, really lose it? 343 00:29:58,801 --> 00:30:02,553 When I was little, I tore out this picture of Emmett Till. 344 00:30:02,637 --> 00:30:04,554 They put the barbed wire around his neck... 345 00:30:04,639 --> 00:30:08,808 and strapped him to that 75-pound cotton gin fan. 346 00:30:08,894 --> 00:30:12,731 And they cut out one of his eyes 'cause he looked at some white lady. 347 00:30:14,568 --> 00:30:16,526 Man. 348 00:30:16,570 --> 00:30:19,655 I couldn't take my eyes to it, couldn't throw it away. 349 00:30:24,244 --> 00:30:27,162 When I heard about those... 350 00:30:27,247 --> 00:30:30,207 four little girls who got bombed in that Birmingham church... 351 00:30:33,422 --> 00:30:36,131 the prohibitions of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad prevented me... 352 00:30:36,215 --> 00:30:38,466 from speaking my thoughts in action. 353 00:30:40,471 --> 00:30:42,680 Because Birmingham was part of the civil rights struggle. 354 00:30:42,766 --> 00:30:46,977 You know, begging for our place at the white man's table. 355 00:30:47,062 --> 00:30:49,730 But dead children are dead children. 356 00:30:49,816 --> 00:30:54,361 So the anger I felt I had to contain. 357 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,365 I locked it up so tight... 358 00:30:59,451 --> 00:31:01,368 my muscles seized. 359 00:31:02,538 --> 00:31:05,456 I lost control over the right side of my body. 360 00:31:05,541 --> 00:31:07,959 My leg gave out. 361 00:31:08,045 --> 00:31:10,754 Right arm gave out. "I'm having a stroke," I thought. 362 00:31:12,340 --> 00:31:15,466 But I had to hold it in 'cause all I wanted-- 363 00:31:15,552 --> 00:31:20,013 Brother, all I wanted to do was find something and break it. 364 00:31:20,099 --> 00:31:23,268 Break a part-- Break any part of this system... 365 00:31:23,353 --> 00:31:27,565 because you are so provoked in your heart... 366 00:31:27,651 --> 00:31:29,776 and your spirit as a human being... 367 00:31:31,696 --> 00:31:33,654 at dead children. 368 00:31:35,325 --> 00:31:37,408 And I could do... 369 00:31:39,996 --> 00:31:41,746 nothing. 370 00:31:50,174 --> 00:31:53,926 Everyone knows I can't do nothing... 371 00:31:54,012 --> 00:31:55,428 anymore. 372 00:31:59,935 --> 00:32:03,479 So Elijah Muhammad has suspended me as a minister in the Nation of Islam. 373 00:32:11,992 --> 00:32:14,826 Man... 374 00:32:14,869 --> 00:32:16,410 you can fix that. 375 00:32:16,496 --> 00:32:19,372 I don't know. 376 00:32:19,416 --> 00:32:21,709 I'll try when we get back. 377 00:32:29,928 --> 00:32:31,970 You get some rest, champ. 378 00:32:32,056 --> 00:32:33,973 All right, brother. 379 00:33:09,264 --> 00:33:10,221 Sit. 380 00:33:22,613 --> 00:33:27,241 You know, only after long service and high merit... 381 00:33:27,284 --> 00:33:31,745 in the spiritual and physical rebirth of Afro-American people... 382 00:33:31,789 --> 00:33:34,039 is one granted an original name. 383 00:33:34,126 --> 00:33:36,879 But you are special. 384 00:33:36,962 --> 00:33:38,420 A world champion. 385 00:33:40,967 --> 00:33:43,593 So there is a gift I wish to give you. 386 00:33:43,637 --> 00:33:45,637 From this day forward... 387 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:50,183 you will be known as Muhammad Ali. 388 00:33:54,356 --> 00:33:56,732 - What? - That's right. 389 00:33:56,818 --> 00:33:58,735 You what? 390 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,950 Well, what's wrong with our name? My name? 391 00:34:04,994 --> 00:34:07,328 We-- We made you. 392 00:34:07,413 --> 00:34:08,871 Ain't nobody made me. 393 00:34:08,957 --> 00:34:11,082 No bow tie-wearin', Arab-talkin' nigger gonna change that. 394 00:34:11,166 --> 00:34:13,084 Ain't nobody in that ring but me. I made me. 395 00:34:13,169 --> 00:34:15,670 You don't know who you are. 396 00:34:15,756 --> 00:34:18,507 I know who I ain't. I ain't drinkin'. 397 00:34:18,593 --> 00:34:20,885 I ain't going back on my wife and for sure I ain't prayin'... 398 00:34:20,969 --> 00:34:23,137 to no blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus. 399 00:34:23,181 --> 00:34:27,142 Paintin' those blue-eyed, blond-haired Jesuses is what put food in you. 400 00:34:27,228 --> 00:34:29,895 - Steak and vegetables on the table. - It's dinner! 401 00:34:35,529 --> 00:34:37,446 Go ahead. 402 00:34:38,573 --> 00:34:39,905 Go ahead. 403 00:35:01,850 --> 00:35:03,099 Hello? 404 00:35:04,019 --> 00:35:06,562 Here you go, Daddy. 405 00:35:06,646 --> 00:35:08,187 Thank you, baby. 406 00:35:08,231 --> 00:35:10,691 - Yeah? - Brother Malcolm. 407 00:35:10,735 --> 00:35:14,779 The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has given the Muslim name of Muhammad Ali... 408 00:35:14,864 --> 00:35:17,615 to Cassius X. 409 00:35:17,701 --> 00:35:21,119 Herbert Muhammad has been put in charge of his training. 410 00:35:21,206 --> 00:35:23,456 He will not be traveling with you to Africa. 411 00:35:23,540 --> 00:35:26,166 He also asked me to inform you... 412 00:35:26,251 --> 00:35:29,253 that your suspension will be extended indefinitely. 413 00:35:39,893 --> 00:35:42,352 Brother Cassius won't be coming to Africa. 414 00:35:45,940 --> 00:35:47,899 Not with me. 415 00:35:51,865 --> 00:35:53,990 Don't put it off. 416 00:35:59,247 --> 00:36:01,164 We'll be fine. 417 00:36:06,298 --> 00:36:07,672 I will. 418 00:36:07,757 --> 00:36:10,925 I got a little doll for Atallah. 419 00:36:10,970 --> 00:36:12,052 Really? 420 00:36:12,138 --> 00:36:13,762 Yeah, it’s beautiful. 421 00:36:13,806 --> 00:36:16,640 I've got so much to show the girls when I get back. 422 00:36:16,683 --> 00:36:19,100 - I'm taking a lot of pictures. - Yeah? 423 00:36:19,144 --> 00:36:21,478 Yeah, I got some good stuff I want to show you. 424 00:36:21,564 --> 00:36:23,481 Are you eating? 425 00:36:24,485 --> 00:36:27,069 Well, you're not cooking, so-- 426 00:36:27,154 --> 00:36:29,780 - What's going on? Anything? - Nothing. 427 00:36:30,742 --> 00:36:32,867 He's on the phone, talking to his wife. 428 00:36:32,953 --> 00:36:36,122 She's having a hard time sleeping, the baby's kicking a lot... 429 00:36:36,206 --> 00:36:38,498 what are they gonna name the baby. 430 00:36:41,337 --> 00:36:45,382 I just wake up a couple of times in the night, but it’s okay. 431 00:36:57,980 --> 00:37:00,355 Would you like to take a seat? 432 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,359 Sure, thank you. 433 00:37:06,032 --> 00:37:08,241 What y'all done did with the real pilot? 434 00:37:08,326 --> 00:37:11,202 I am the pilot. He's the copilot. 435 00:37:11,244 --> 00:37:13,202 Here. Sit down, Mr. Clay. 436 00:37:13,247 --> 00:37:15,664 Oh, man. 437 00:37:15,708 --> 00:37:19,669 In Louisville, where I growed up, they barely let black folks drive buses. 438 00:38:59,493 --> 00:39:00,742 Muhammad! 439 00:39:04,207 --> 00:39:08,001 Hey, brother. What's going on, man? 440 00:39:12,175 --> 00:39:14,133 - What you doing here? - I was just going to the airport. 441 00:39:14,177 --> 00:39:16,803 We just got here now. So where you going? 442 00:39:16,845 --> 00:39:17,802 Liberia. 443 00:39:17,846 --> 00:39:21,306 Say hello to Maya Angelou right here and Ambassador Huang Hua. 444 00:39:21,351 --> 00:39:24,185 And that is Taher Kaid. He's the ambassador from Algeria. 445 00:39:24,271 --> 00:39:27,439 Oh, man. Where should I go? I wanna go all over this place. 446 00:39:27,524 --> 00:39:29,649 Go to Algeria. See Ben Bella. 447 00:39:29,735 --> 00:39:34,030 Then go to see Mecca and Medina. I just came from there. 448 00:39:34,114 --> 00:39:36,449 Made my seven circuits around the Kaaba. 449 00:39:36,535 --> 00:39:39,661 I prayed at sunrise. Two million people. Pilgrims from all over, man. 450 00:39:39,705 --> 00:39:42,873 Dressed the same. High and low, the same. 451 00:39:42,958 --> 00:39:46,794 Blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims, Arabs, Africans, Indonesians. 452 00:40:01,604 --> 00:40:04,522 Seeing brothers just like us, praying together, it was beautiful. 453 00:40:04,566 --> 00:40:06,608 I drank water from the well of Zem Zem. 454 00:40:06,694 --> 00:40:11,740 I prayed in the ancient city of Mena. I prayed on Mount Arafat. 455 00:40:11,824 --> 00:40:14,241 You shouldn't have quarreled with Elijah Muhammad. 456 00:40:15,578 --> 00:40:17,787 Walking in their footsteps. 457 00:40:17,873 --> 00:40:19,498 All of us together. 458 00:40:19,583 --> 00:40:22,417 You shouldn't have quarreled with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. 459 00:40:23,254 --> 00:40:24,878 What? 460 00:40:26,049 --> 00:40:29,468 You shouldn't have quarreled with Elijah Muhammad. 461 00:40:29,553 --> 00:40:32,054 Hey, Brother Muhammad, look here. 462 00:40:36,394 --> 00:40:38,311 Brother Muhammad! 463 00:41:00,546 --> 00:41:02,546 Listen, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. 464 00:41:16,648 --> 00:41:18,272 Into each life... 465 00:41:18,358 --> 00:41:20,400 a little rain must fall. 466 00:41:20,486 --> 00:41:23,363 And, you know, every day cannot be sunny. 467 00:41:23,447 --> 00:41:26,114 Every smile is not a smile of happiness. 468 00:41:26,158 --> 00:41:27,657 And every tear that is shed-- 469 00:41:27,702 --> 00:41:29,952 Sonji, Sonji, Sonji. 470 00:41:29,996 --> 00:41:33,748 - What you keep saying my name for? - 'Cause I love it, girl. 471 00:41:33,833 --> 00:41:36,208 -How long you been working with Herbert? -About a year. 472 00:41:36,295 --> 00:41:39,171 I sell Muhammad Speaks over the phone. 473 00:41:39,255 --> 00:41:43,050 - What kind of name is that? - My father named me after Sonja Henie. 474 00:41:44,178 --> 00:41:46,136 What's your father do? 475 00:41:46,181 --> 00:41:50,310 He was shot in a poker game when I was two, so he don't do nothing. 476 00:41:50,394 --> 00:41:52,811 And my mother died when I was eleven. 477 00:41:52,856 --> 00:41:55,732 - Who raised you? - My godparents. 478 00:41:55,818 --> 00:41:59,821 But I been off on my own for a long time. 479 00:42:00,948 --> 00:42:02,906 What you doing tomorrow? Go for a ride with me. 480 00:42:02,992 --> 00:42:05,451 - Oh, no, no. I gotta work. - I'm gonna square it with Herbert. 481 00:42:05,537 --> 00:42:08,413 - Herbert said you met the Beatles. - Oh, yeah, yeah. 482 00:42:08,498 --> 00:42:11,499 Only one of 'em is smart, though. The fella with the glasses. 483 00:42:11,543 --> 00:42:13,710 Oh, he is my favorite. 484 00:42:13,796 --> 00:42:16,422 Yeah, folks was screaming and fainting. 485 00:42:16,506 --> 00:42:18,924 I said, "Man, is this how they act when you get big?" 486 00:42:19,010 --> 00:42:21,636 - What did he say? - He said, "Champ... 487 00:42:21,721 --> 00:42:25,598 the more real you get, the more unreal it's gonna get." 488 00:42:26,518 --> 00:42:28,518 Wow. 489 00:42:33,984 --> 00:42:35,901 Your 490 00:42:37,155 --> 00:42:41,325 Precious love 491 00:42:41,411 --> 00:42:43,119 Love 492 00:42:43,204 --> 00:42:47,040 Means more tome 493 00:42:49,128 --> 00:42:53,297 More, more 494 00:42:53,381 --> 00:42:56,592 Than any love 495 00:42:56,678 --> 00:42:59,095 Can ever bring me 496 00:42:59,139 --> 00:43:02,057 Never came true 497 00:43:02,100 --> 00:43:04,684 Oh, and I 498 00:43:07,607 --> 00:43:09,607 I wanted you 499 00:43:09,690 --> 00:43:12,316 Let me tell ya I was so lonely 500 00:43:12,402 --> 00:43:16,322 So lonely, lonely So lonely and so blue 501 00:43:17,409 --> 00:43:19,785 Good God All mighty 502 00:43:19,829 --> 00:43:22,038 That's what love will do 503 00:43:22,123 --> 00:43:23,581 Do 504 00:43:28,504 --> 00:43:30,796 Let's go. 505 00:43:30,882 --> 00:43:32,381 Yeah. 506 00:43:32,467 --> 00:43:34,510 Where you live? 507 00:43:34,596 --> 00:43:36,513 I'm gonna take you there. 508 00:43:37,807 --> 00:43:41,142 And you know I got a man somewhere out there that I don't mind crawling to. 509 00:43:41,228 --> 00:43:44,563 Sometimes I wake up in the midnight hour, tears rolling down my face. 510 00:43:44,649 --> 00:43:46,566 And if I look around for my man and I can't find him... 511 00:43:46,649 --> 00:43:49,108 I follow the Lord, look a little higher. 512 00:43:49,152 --> 00:43:50,902 Kind of pray to the Lord. 513 00:43:50,988 --> 00:43:54,157 Because I always believed that the Lord could help me if nobody else could. 514 00:43:54,242 --> 00:43:56,159 But sometime I think he don't even hear me. 515 00:43:56,203 --> 00:43:58,662 So I have to fall a little lower on my knees, look a little higher. 516 00:43:58,706 --> 00:44:00,831 Kind of raise my voice a little higher. 517 00:44:00,917 --> 00:44:03,042 And this is what I say when I call on my man. 518 00:44:03,126 --> 00:44:06,587 I especially want you ladies to listen to me 'cause maybe you can try this. 519 00:44:06,673 --> 00:44:08,673 It might help you every once in a while. 520 00:44:08,759 --> 00:44:11,219 This is what you say when you call on your man. 521 00:44:11,304 --> 00:44:13,221 Get in tune to-- 522 00:44:19,897 --> 00:44:24,692 Darlin' 523 00:44:24,734 --> 00:44:28,236 Darlin; don't you know 524 00:44:28,322 --> 00:44:32,200 That I love you so much, yeah 525 00:44:33,829 --> 00:44:36,121 Fall down on my knees 526 00:44:36,207 --> 00:44:38,290 Beg my baby, please 527 00:44:38,376 --> 00:44:41,919 I got to tell the man that I love him, yes, I will 528 00:44:45,132 --> 00:44:47,090 For your precious love 529 00:44:47,176 --> 00:44:49,345 For your precious love 530 00:44:49,430 --> 00:44:51,847 There’s nothing There’s nothing, nothing 531 00:44:51,891 --> 00:44:55,184 In this whole wide world I wouldn’t do for you, darling 532 00:44:57,062 --> 00:45:00,063 I'll walk all night out in the rain 533 00:45:00,150 --> 00:45:03,777 Lord, I got to see my baby again 534 00:45:03,862 --> 00:45:06,446 I got to tell the man that I love him 535 00:45:06,532 --> 00:45:08,615 One more time, yeah 536 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:25,300 You ain't no Muslim, huh? 537 00:45:25,387 --> 00:45:29,223 Cover my hair, wear no makeup and wear those long dresses? 538 00:45:29,266 --> 00:45:30,807 Honey, please. 539 00:45:35,106 --> 00:45:36,605 Were you a virgin? 540 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,485 A virgin? How you gonna-- What you saying? 541 00:45:40,571 --> 00:45:44,950 Well, you were just so gone, off on a little good time. 542 00:45:44,993 --> 00:45:48,119 Well, no, I ain't no virgin. 543 00:45:48,205 --> 00:45:49,663 But I may as well be. 544 00:45:50,539 --> 00:45:52,956 I ain't joking. 545 00:45:53,001 --> 00:45:55,752 I always know when I know. 546 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,132 You see this face? 547 00:46:00,175 --> 00:46:02,258 You got a pretty face for a lady's face... 548 00:46:02,344 --> 00:46:04,762 but you ever seen anything as pretty as me? 549 00:46:04,807 --> 00:46:07,516 Who wouldn't want to be with me? 550 00:46:07,602 --> 00:46:09,727 What, you five foot three or something like that? 551 00:46:09,811 --> 00:46:12,353 That's too small for me, but I'm gonna make an exception. 552 00:46:12,439 --> 00:46:14,773 - Oh, well, thank you. - Because of your spirit. 553 00:46:14,817 --> 00:46:17,443 - My spirit? - Yeah, girl. You too much fun. 554 00:46:17,486 --> 00:46:20,113 - But you got to be a Muslim. - A Muslim? 555 00:46:20,157 --> 00:46:23,743 And how you do that? You jump over a broom and, shazam, you're a Muslim? 556 00:46:23,829 --> 00:46:26,663 I ain't never been with nobody like you. 557 00:46:26,747 --> 00:46:28,747 And, baby... 558 00:46:28,833 --> 00:46:32,168 baby, you ain't never gonna be with any other. 559 00:46:48,897 --> 00:46:50,855 - What? - That's right. 560 00:46:53,110 --> 00:46:55,235 I wanna marry her. 561 00:46:57,407 --> 00:46:58,866 True love. 562 00:46:58,909 --> 00:47:02,244 You don't marry that girl. She was a date. 563 00:47:02,328 --> 00:47:03,995 Have some fun. 564 00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:07,792 She's not your wife. You don't marry this girl. 565 00:47:07,878 --> 00:47:11,338 Here's some management papers. I need you to sign right there. 566 00:47:11,381 --> 00:47:13,089 My father would kill me. 567 00:47:14,426 --> 00:47:16,092 Watch what you're signing, Ali. 568 00:47:16,178 --> 00:47:18,096 This ain't got nothing to do with you. 569 00:47:18,182 --> 00:47:22,351 Anything's to do with me I say is to do with me, fat boy. I'm still a Christian. 570 00:47:23,019 --> 00:47:26,521 And get me a kosher cook. I want that lady over at Malcolm's temple. 571 00:47:26,565 --> 00:47:28,648 - Lana Shabazz. - And put my brother on payroll. 572 00:47:28,734 --> 00:47:31,276 Fifty G a year just for drivin' and jivin'. 573 00:47:31,362 --> 00:47:34,280 What do you say, Howard? Come on full-time as my photographer? 574 00:47:34,365 --> 00:47:38,160 I'm not gonna be on the payroll. I'm freelance. Emphasis on "free." 575 00:47:38,244 --> 00:47:40,911 Muhammad, she's not for you. 576 00:47:40,997 --> 00:47:43,039 When I met her, she worked in a cocktail lounge... 577 00:47:43,083 --> 00:47:45,208 with a bunny tail on her backside. 578 00:47:45,253 --> 00:47:48,172 What the hell was you doing in a bunny tail lounge anyway, Herbert? 579 00:47:48,256 --> 00:47:50,089 Sellin' Muhammad Peeks? 580 00:47:52,929 --> 00:47:56,682 - You been saving it up training, Ali. - Your ass. 581 00:47:56,766 --> 00:47:59,475 You should spread that stuff around a little bit before you settle down. 582 00:47:59,561 --> 00:48:02,562 No, man. Marriage is the cornerstone of Muslim life. 583 00:48:02,606 --> 00:48:06,734 - Yeah, well, Sonji Roi is not a Muslim. - Well, she's gonna be now. 584 00:48:06,777 --> 00:48:09,194 You just fix it up, Herbert. 585 00:48:26,549 --> 00:48:29,258 Yeah. Okay. 586 00:48:29,344 --> 00:48:32,221 So, why we meeting? 587 00:48:32,305 --> 00:48:35,432 I got Malcolm shoulder to shoulder with Martin Luther King. 588 00:48:35,477 --> 00:48:38,395 And we got Malcolm traveling all over the world, getting Ben Bella and Nasser. 589 00:48:41,942 --> 00:48:44,860 We were better off before with Malcolm inside the Nation. 590 00:48:46,823 --> 00:48:50,618 So we've decided we want you... 591 00:48:50,660 --> 00:48:54,120 to get Elijah Muhammad to take Malcolm back. 592 00:49:02,548 --> 00:49:04,590 That's a joke, Joe. 593 00:49:16,814 --> 00:49:19,983 When am I being reimbursed for my expenses? 594 00:49:20,069 --> 00:49:22,403 Dry-cleaning all these suits is not free. 595 00:49:24,282 --> 00:49:26,657 We gotta talk about this guy too. 596 00:49:30,372 --> 00:49:33,832 Get me receipts, I'll reimburse you for your dry cleaning. 597 00:49:43,510 --> 00:49:45,427 - What you drinking? - What I'm drinking? 598 00:49:45,512 --> 00:49:48,431 Come on, champ. This is water. You know I'm a natural man. 599 00:49:48,517 --> 00:49:49,933 You know. 600 00:49:50,019 --> 00:49:52,937 - What's going on? We're late. - I'm changing my damn clothes. 601 00:49:53,022 --> 00:49:56,482 You gave me that look, so I know you don't like what I had on. 602 00:49:57,902 --> 00:50:00,528 - What is this? - What you wanted, isn't it? 603 00:50:00,614 --> 00:50:02,824 - A water glass with vodka in it. - No, that was before. 604 00:50:02,908 --> 00:50:06,327 - Before what, sir? - Before you showed up. Get out of here. 605 00:50:07,748 --> 00:50:10,874 I'm fine running around here in these cute, short things for you. 606 00:50:10,959 --> 00:50:12,667 I am submissive to you. 607 00:50:12,753 --> 00:50:16,088 I ain't gonna be submissive to them Brother X's and Z's... 608 00:50:16,174 --> 00:50:18,049 about what they think. 609 00:50:18,093 --> 00:50:20,677 They ask me a bunch of questions all the time anyway. 610 00:50:20,761 --> 00:50:22,719 - What questions? - About you and us. 611 00:50:22,763 --> 00:50:25,515 - And I ain't telling them shit. - You tell it like it is, sugar. 612 00:50:29,438 --> 00:50:32,272 Took away my boy's name. What they give him back? 613 00:50:32,316 --> 00:50:33,648 Bad style. 614 00:50:36,363 --> 00:50:40,699 I think you drunk. Daddy Clay, you're something else. 615 00:50:40,783 --> 00:50:44,244 Now, that's a firecracker right there. We're gonna have to work with that. 616 00:50:44,330 --> 00:50:46,288 - A scale of one to ten. - That's right. 617 00:50:46,332 --> 00:50:48,500 I have one-- I had a ten-- Well, I didn't have a ten. 618 00:50:48,585 --> 00:50:51,252 I had a five-- five good twos. 619 00:50:52,799 --> 00:50:56,468 I don't drink. I don't smoke. I converted to Islam for you. 620 00:50:56,551 --> 00:50:59,427 Okay? l-- All except the dress. 621 00:52:40,211 --> 00:52:42,712 What you doing in my pockets, man? Get your hand out of my pocket! 622 00:52:42,796 --> 00:52:45,046 - Hold it, my brothers. - We got a thief in here! 623 00:52:45,090 --> 00:52:47,215 Just be cool. 624 00:52:47,301 --> 00:52:48,884 Be cool. 625 00:53:40,695 --> 00:53:42,570 Brother, you crazy? 626 00:53:42,656 --> 00:53:46,033 They killed Malcolm! They shot Malcolm! They shot Malcolm! 627 00:53:46,118 --> 00:53:48,035 They shot Malcolm! 628 00:53:49,874 --> 00:53:54,419 ...wash it seven times in the chest and body... 629 00:53:54,502 --> 00:53:57,086 and one in the lower right shin. 630 00:53:57,172 --> 00:54:00,757 Apparently, the unknown man... 631 00:54:00,844 --> 00:54:04,346 walked up to the speaker's platform... 632 00:54:04,430 --> 00:54:08,225 at the time Malcolm X was speaking... 633 00:54:09,688 --> 00:54:13,315 opened fire at him at very short range. 634 00:55:20,434 --> 00:55:23,645 The arena is surrounded by FBI. 635 00:55:23,730 --> 00:55:26,231 The stands are only half full. 636 00:55:26,273 --> 00:55:30,317 The promoter has taken out a million-dollar insurance policy... 637 00:55:30,403 --> 00:55:35,573 due to Cassius Clay's membership in the militant and radical black Muslims. 638 00:55:35,659 --> 00:55:39,745 And, oh, by the way, Sonny Liston is here too. 639 00:55:39,789 --> 00:55:42,416 Touch gloves and come out fighting. 640 00:56:13,994 --> 00:56:15,577 Come on, son. 641 00:56:15,663 --> 00:56:18,372 - Come on, Chi-Chi. - Put a whupping on him now. 642 00:56:24,297 --> 00:56:26,464 Ain't nothing changed. 643 00:56:26,549 --> 00:56:28,924 Whup on him now. Whup up on him. 644 00:56:31,513 --> 00:56:33,388 Way to go! 645 00:56:35,184 --> 00:56:38,144 - There it is! - Sock it to him, baby! 646 00:56:47,365 --> 00:56:48,781 Yes! 647 00:56:48,867 --> 00:56:51,493 Get up! Ain't nobody gonna believe this. 648 00:56:51,578 --> 00:56:53,661 Get up! 649 00:56:53,746 --> 00:56:54,912 Yes! 650 00:57:08,055 --> 00:57:10,013 Confused. We're confused. 651 00:57:11,641 --> 00:57:14,058 - Check his time. - Timekeeper's sounding it's over. 652 00:57:14,102 --> 00:57:16,061 Check his time! 653 00:57:18,191 --> 00:57:19,273 It is over! 654 00:57:31,664 --> 00:57:34,082 I think the champ was in a hurry. 655 00:57:42,761 --> 00:57:44,177 Are you okay? 656 00:57:46,265 --> 00:57:48,348 What's wrong? 657 00:57:48,433 --> 00:57:51,351 Why you all done up like that? 658 00:57:54,107 --> 00:57:56,608 I'm out there dying for you out of worry. 659 00:57:56,693 --> 00:57:58,192 - Worry? - Yes. 660 00:57:58,278 --> 00:58:00,695 And all you can think about is if I look dull enough? 661 00:58:01,490 --> 00:58:04,616 What if I straightened my hair and moved into some white suburb? 662 00:58:04,702 --> 00:58:06,744 How I am says something. 663 00:58:30,857 --> 00:58:33,232 You want me to go get her? 664 00:58:45,831 --> 00:58:46,997 Not now. 665 00:58:47,082 --> 00:58:49,000 - Not right now, fellas. - Not now. 666 00:58:54,675 --> 00:58:58,135 - What I got to do? - About Sonji? 667 00:58:58,179 --> 00:59:00,472 Have no contact with her for 90 days. 668 00:59:00,556 --> 00:59:02,806 Make a public statement of divorce at the mosque... 669 00:59:02,851 --> 00:59:05,060 and Islamic law will be satisfied. 670 00:59:05,145 --> 00:59:08,606 Satisfaction is not making it with the woman who send you to the moon? 671 00:59:08,691 --> 00:59:10,649 I'm the only normal person left around here. 672 00:59:10,735 --> 00:59:13,319 I'm a black Jew, I can't read and I'm half drunk. 673 00:59:15,491 --> 00:59:16,949 I need to talk to you. 674 00:59:18,368 --> 00:59:21,494 - No, you can stay, Brother Herbert. - Brother? He ain't your brother. 675 00:59:21,580 --> 00:59:24,790 Your brother's taking your wife back to Chicago. She's crying like a widow. 676 00:59:24,875 --> 00:59:27,543 - Well, I ain't dead. - Well, you may as well be. 677 00:59:27,629 --> 00:59:30,171 You don't remember your name or who you are. 678 01:00:43,757 --> 01:00:46,341 You gonna try for Germany? 679 01:00:46,425 --> 01:00:48,133 You gonna try to get stationed in Germany? 680 01:00:48,219 --> 01:00:52,972 - Everybody is trying to avoid Vietnam. - What you talkin' about, man? 681 01:00:53,058 --> 01:00:56,059 They changed your classification. It's in the paper. 682 01:00:56,145 --> 01:00:57,936 - What? - Champ. Eskridge. 683 01:00:57,980 --> 01:00:59,439 You're 1A. 684 01:01:02,487 --> 01:01:04,946 They tryin' to draft me in the army? You know about this? 685 01:01:04,988 --> 01:01:06,237 Okay, here we go. 686 01:01:07,366 --> 01:01:11,410 All right, all right. Hey, I got to go. 687 01:01:15,334 --> 01:01:17,334 They started runnin'. 688 01:01:19,506 --> 01:01:19,629 You know, so I went down there, I did everything I was supposed to do... 689 01:01:19,631 --> 01:01:22,173 You know, so I went down there, I did everything I was supposed to do... 690 01:01:22,258 --> 01:01:24,175 and I flunked their draft board test. 691 01:01:24,260 --> 01:01:28,346 Then without testing me again, to see if I'm any wiser or worser... 692 01:01:28,432 --> 01:01:30,849 they decide I can go in the army? 693 01:01:30,935 --> 01:01:33,185 - Cassius, in my opinion-- - My name ain't Cassius Clay. 694 01:01:33,270 --> 01:01:35,812 That is a slave name, and I am a free man. 695 01:01:35,898 --> 01:01:37,482 I am Muhammad Ali. 696 01:01:37,568 --> 01:01:42,822 You know, I apologize. I apologize to you on the air. 697 01:01:42,906 --> 01:01:45,115 Your name is Muhammad Ali. 698 01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,325 You have a right to be called whatever you want. 699 01:01:47,411 --> 01:01:49,369 I apologize to you. 700 01:01:49,413 --> 01:01:52,998 You sure make a lot of mistakes for a so-called educated man. 701 01:01:53,084 --> 01:01:55,502 - You really went to law school? - Yes, Muhammad. 702 01:01:55,546 --> 01:01:59,341 And to think I gave up a lucrative practice for the likes of you. 703 01:01:59,383 --> 01:02:01,383 I'm the best thing ever happened to you, Cosell. 704 01:02:01,469 --> 01:02:05,305 Without me, you'd be a tall white man with a microphone in his mouth. 705 01:02:05,391 --> 01:02:08,642 And without me, you'd be a mouth. 706 01:02:15,570 --> 01:02:17,487 We'll be right back. 707 01:02:18,905 --> 01:02:22,532 - You want some food for that thing? - How could you do such a thing? 708 01:02:22,618 --> 01:02:25,244 - 'Cause it's funny. - To someone you revere. 709 01:02:25,329 --> 01:02:28,247 - That thing almost bit my finger off. - Mr. Bundini... 710 01:02:28,291 --> 01:02:32,545 I'm glad you were here to witness this-- this assault. 711 01:02:35,298 --> 01:02:37,924 Have a little coffee with your sugar. 712 01:02:42,015 --> 01:02:43,933 They're coming after you... 713 01:02:44,017 --> 01:02:47,560 because they're scared of black militancy in the inner cities. 714 01:02:49,023 --> 01:02:53,444 I ain't no H. Rap Brown. I ain't no Stokely Carmichael. 715 01:02:53,486 --> 01:02:55,277 All they are is political. 716 01:02:55,363 --> 01:02:57,947 You're the heavyweight champion of the world. 717 01:03:13,759 --> 01:03:15,884 Here's the deal the government offered. You do six weeks in basic. 718 01:03:15,970 --> 01:03:18,471 You go to the reserves. You don't go to Vietnam. 719 01:03:18,556 --> 01:03:21,474 Now, the messenger would not object if you joined under those terms. 720 01:03:21,559 --> 01:03:23,350 I stay out of jail and keep boxing. 721 01:03:23,436 --> 01:03:25,728 If you accept the induction, life goes on. 722 01:03:36,494 --> 01:03:36,533 Marvin Decker Anderson, US Army. 723 01:03:36,536 --> 01:03:40,288 Marvin Decker Anderson, US Army. 724 01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,585 Juan Raymondo Benitez, US Army. 725 01:03:47,589 --> 01:03:50,840 Pryce Marshall Benson, US Marines. 726 01:03:55,347 --> 01:03:59,475 Cassius Marcellus Clay, US Army. 727 01:04:10,698 --> 01:04:12,489 Mr. Clay, I'm required to inform you... 728 01:04:12,574 --> 01:04:15,534 that refusal to accept a lawful induction order... 729 01:04:16,330 --> 01:04:18,539 constitutes a felony... 730 01:04:18,625 --> 01:04:22,335 under the Universal Military Training and Service Act... 731 01:04:22,377 --> 01:04:26,464 punishable by five years imprisonment... 732 01:04:26,550 --> 01:04:29,384 and a $10,000 fine. 733 01:04:29,470 --> 01:04:31,053 Do you understand? 734 01:04:31,638 --> 01:04:34,013 Yes, sir. 735 01:04:53,747 --> 01:04:56,498 Federal Bureau of Investigation. 736 01:04:56,584 --> 01:04:59,419 Mr. Clay, you're under arrest for refusing induction. 737 01:05:37,503 --> 01:05:39,546 Yeah. 738 01:05:39,632 --> 01:05:41,841 Yeah, this is me. 739 01:05:41,926 --> 01:05:45,637 No, you got to ask Chauncey Eskridge. That's my lawyer. He's in Chicago. 740 01:05:47,475 --> 01:05:49,392 No, I'm out on bail. 741 01:05:51,478 --> 01:05:54,855 No, man, I ain't never shot nothin' in my life. 742 01:05:54,940 --> 01:05:58,860 No ducks, no geese, no deer, no nothin'. 743 01:05:58,946 --> 01:06:02,573 Yeah, I know where Vietnam is. It's on TV. 744 01:06:04,118 --> 01:06:07,912 Southeast Asia? What, it's there too? 745 01:06:11,876 --> 01:06:14,043 What do I think about who? 746 01:06:14,128 --> 01:06:15,669 The Vietcong? 747 01:06:18,008 --> 01:06:21,176 Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong. 748 01:06:22,806 --> 01:06:26,099 Ain't no Vietcong ever called me nigger. 749 01:06:27,059 --> 01:06:29,102 Yeah, that's right. 750 01:06:34,068 --> 01:06:36,736 You know what you're doin', Ali? 751 01:06:38,032 --> 01:06:39,823 You know what you just said? 752 01:06:40,493 --> 01:06:42,535 Everyone, Europe to China, every home in America... 753 01:06:42,621 --> 01:06:44,663 everyone’s gonna know what the heavyweight champion of the world... 754 01:06:44,706 --> 01:06:46,831 said about the US war. 755 01:06:48,626 --> 01:06:51,627 So what? So what? I ain't got to be... 756 01:06:51,713 --> 01:06:53,672 what nobody else want me to be... 757 01:06:53,716 --> 01:06:56,383 and I ain't afraid to be what I wanna be... 758 01:06:56,469 --> 01:06:58,469 think how I wanna think. 759 01:07:17,410 --> 01:07:20,411 I got almost nowhere I can promote a fight for you. 760 01:07:20,497 --> 01:07:22,914 Plus I think they're gonna vacate you from the crown. 761 01:07:22,998 --> 01:07:25,248 - What? - Yeah, if you're convicted. 762 01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:30,130 Oh, so they're gonna take from me what no fighter in the world can. 763 01:07:30,214 --> 01:07:32,173 And New York may revoke your boxing license. 764 01:07:32,259 --> 01:07:35,218 You sure you wanna do this? 765 01:07:35,305 --> 01:07:38,390 The next three to four years are every heavyweight's prime. 766 01:07:38,475 --> 01:07:41,351 There are few of those years. 767 01:07:44,105 --> 01:07:47,231 - What about Terrell? - We'll know about that this afternoon. 768 01:07:47,276 --> 01:07:50,570 I gotta find us some venues fast. I'll call you later. 769 01:07:55,202 --> 01:08:00,749 You understand the issue is your license to fight Terrell in Illinois? 770 01:08:00,833 --> 01:08:02,416 Yes. 771 01:08:02,502 --> 01:08:04,752 Then are you prepared to apologize... 772 01:08:04,838 --> 01:08:07,547 about your unpatriotic remarks about the war? 773 01:08:16,976 --> 01:08:19,643 - You say you're the people's champion. - Yes, sir. 774 01:08:19,729 --> 01:08:22,230 Do you think you're acting like the people's champion? 775 01:08:22,316 --> 01:08:25,359 Yes, sir. I'm not gonna apologize to you. 776 01:08:25,443 --> 01:08:28,987 This is not a courtroom, and I do not have to answer your questions. 777 01:08:37,916 --> 01:08:40,792 - What about Terrell? - We'll fight in another state! 778 01:08:40,836 --> 01:08:43,254 - Are you gonna dodge the draft? - I ain't draft-dodgin'... 779 01:08:43,339 --> 01:08:45,799 I ain't burnin' no flag, and I ain't runnin' to Canada. 780 01:08:45,885 --> 01:08:48,844 I'm stayin' right here. You wanna send me to jail? 781 01:08:48,930 --> 01:08:51,222 Fine. You go right ahead. I've been in jail for 400 years. 782 01:08:51,306 --> 01:08:53,223 I can be there for four or five more. 783 01:08:53,309 --> 01:08:55,226 But I ain't going' no 10,000 miles... 784 01:08:55,311 --> 01:08:57,812 to help murder and kill other poor people. 785 01:08:57,898 --> 01:09:02,192 If I wanna die, I'll die right here right now, fightin' you, if I wanna die. 786 01:09:02,277 --> 01:09:06,197 You my enemy. Not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. 787 01:09:06,283 --> 01:09:08,325 You my opposer when I want freedom. 788 01:09:08,408 --> 01:09:12,118 You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. 789 01:09:12,205 --> 01:09:13,913 You want me to go somewhere and fight for you. 790 01:09:13,999 --> 01:09:15,999 You won't even stand up for me right here in America... 791 01:09:16,043 --> 01:09:18,001 for my rights and my religious beliefs. 792 01:09:18,044 --> 01:09:20,378 You won't even stand up for me right here at home. 793 01:09:22,884 --> 01:09:24,967 - Which guy you want to go first? - You, sir. 794 01:09:25,054 --> 01:09:28,014 Tell Clay he gettin' on after me. I'm the champ. 795 01:09:28,056 --> 01:09:30,932 - What? - I said you can get on after me. 796 01:09:31,018 --> 01:09:33,685 - No. What'd you call me? - I called you Clay. 797 01:09:33,772 --> 01:09:36,356 You will announce it from right here, from flat on your back. 798 01:09:36,399 --> 01:09:38,441 What's my name? What's my name? 799 01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:44,365 What's my name? Say my name! You gonna say my name! 800 01:09:44,408 --> 01:09:47,075 Your mama called you Clay! I'm gonna call you Clay! 801 01:09:47,161 --> 01:09:49,203 I want you all to tell all their aunts... 802 01:09:49,247 --> 01:09:51,247 and all their uncles and cousins and friends... 803 01:09:51,291 --> 01:09:53,792 get to your television set, get to your radio... 804 01:09:53,877 --> 01:09:56,419 'cause I never wanted to whup a man so bad! 805 01:10:10,521 --> 01:10:13,315 What's my name? What's my name? 806 01:11:09,004 --> 01:11:13,090 What's my name, motherfucker? What's my name? 807 01:11:16,011 --> 01:11:18,094 What's my name? 808 01:11:37,869 --> 01:11:40,161 The jury has found you guilty of refusing induction... 809 01:11:40,247 --> 01:11:43,541 into the United States Armed Forces. 810 01:11:43,626 --> 01:11:45,668 Does the defense have anything it wants to say? 811 01:11:45,754 --> 01:11:49,172 Yeah, I'd appreciate if the court would just give me my sentence right now... 812 01:11:49,217 --> 01:11:52,553 rather than waitin' and stallin'. 813 01:11:52,636 --> 01:11:54,177 Very well. 814 01:11:56,933 --> 01:12:00,393 I sentence you to the maximum sentence allowable: 815 01:12:00,437 --> 01:12:03,688 five years imprisonment and a fine of $10,000. 816 01:12:05,276 --> 01:12:07,359 Doubtless your lawyer will lodge an appeal... 817 01:12:07,403 --> 01:12:10,696 so while you're free on bond, I order that your passport be surrendered. 818 01:12:11,491 --> 01:12:16,203 I'll not have you benefiting yourself by fighting abroad. 819 01:12:16,247 --> 01:12:18,372 This court is adjourned. 820 01:12:57,960 --> 01:12:57,999 Hold on. Watch this. I've been working on this at home. 821 01:12:58,002 --> 01:13:01,587 Hold on. Watch this. I've been working on this at home. 822 01:13:01,629 --> 01:13:03,671 Just relax. 823 01:13:03,757 --> 01:13:07,135 See? 'Cause it's spooky and sometimes people get scared and run. 824 01:13:07,179 --> 01:13:09,429 Pay attention. This is very spooky. 825 01:13:12,101 --> 01:13:14,435 Go ahead. Blow on that for me. 826 01:13:20,526 --> 01:13:22,443 See, you don't need to fight no more. 827 01:13:26,243 --> 01:13:28,827 You don't remember me, do you? 828 01:13:30,705 --> 01:13:34,916 Yeah. I remember somethin'. What's your name? 829 01:13:35,002 --> 01:13:37,294 - You know my name. - I know your name. 830 01:13:37,378 --> 01:13:40,796 You came to my school right before you won the title. 831 01:13:40,841 --> 01:13:43,508 I interviewed you for my school paper. 832 01:13:43,594 --> 01:13:45,804 I was eleven. 833 01:13:46,890 --> 01:13:49,307 You had a long braid. 834 01:13:49,351 --> 01:13:51,351 Yeah. 835 01:13:51,437 --> 01:13:54,313 - You called me "Little Indian Girl." - Wow. 836 01:13:55,690 --> 01:13:57,816 - Man, that was you. - That was me. 837 01:13:59,070 --> 01:14:02,363 And I loved you then, just like all them kids did. 838 01:14:02,449 --> 01:14:04,700 I never stopped. I still do. 839 01:15:09,608 --> 01:15:11,942 Hey, did you see that Ellis-Quary fight? 840 01:15:12,027 --> 01:15:13,902 Yeah. 841 01:15:15,948 --> 01:15:19,117 We're gonna be in front of the US Court of Appeals next month. 842 01:15:19,203 --> 01:15:20,243 We're gonna lose. 843 01:15:20,287 --> 01:15:23,246 - We'll appeal to the Supreme Court. -Jimmy Ellis, the champ. 844 01:15:23,291 --> 01:15:26,001 Man, I've been whupping on that boy since I was 16. 845 01:15:26,085 --> 01:15:28,711 All that's gonna happen, they gonna give Ellis to Frazier... 846 01:15:28,797 --> 01:15:31,423 Frazier's gonna kill him, then what? 847 01:15:31,467 --> 01:15:34,552 Where's the gate? Then they got to let me fight. 848 01:15:35,971 --> 01:15:39,933 Jimmy Ellis. Fight that boy in a phone booth. 849 01:15:40,019 --> 01:15:44,021 Fight him in the middle of Times Square. You think that'd draw a crowd? 850 01:15:44,105 --> 01:15:47,648 Champ, draw a crowd or not draw a crowd... 851 01:15:47,735 --> 01:15:50,444 it's not gonna make a difference with your boxing licenses. 852 01:15:54,033 --> 01:15:56,785 The ACLU's handling your case against the New York Boxing Commission. 853 01:15:56,871 --> 01:15:59,622 They've discovered that New York's got actual ex-murderers... 854 01:15:59,666 --> 01:16:02,292 and ex-rapists currently licensed to fight. 855 01:16:02,375 --> 01:16:04,834 But revoke yours? 856 01:16:04,878 --> 01:16:08,129 They don't want you to fight. 857 01:16:08,216 --> 01:16:09,548 - Tijuana. - No. 858 01:16:09,633 --> 01:16:12,510 State Department refuses permission for the one-hour visa. 859 01:16:12,555 --> 01:16:15,307 No fight in Tijuana. Look-- 860 01:16:15,392 --> 01:16:18,769 Can't fight here. Can't fight outside the country. 861 01:16:18,853 --> 01:16:20,770 I know people in the restaurant business. 862 01:16:20,855 --> 01:16:23,356 They want to start a chain. Muhammad Ali Champ Burgers. 863 01:16:23,442 --> 01:16:25,776 Muhammad Malts, Fistful of Fries. 864 01:16:25,861 --> 01:16:27,694 All of that. 865 01:16:27,779 --> 01:16:29,821 Why do I wanna be in the restaurant business? 866 01:16:29,865 --> 01:16:31,156 'Cause you need the money. 867 01:16:31,242 --> 01:16:34,161 - How much all this gonna cost? - Too much. 868 01:16:35,999 --> 01:16:38,374 They do that to you too, you know. 869 01:16:38,458 --> 01:16:40,416 They bust you out. 870 01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:54,559 All right. 871 01:16:58,565 --> 01:17:01,066 Go get me some Champ Burgers. 872 01:17:11,456 --> 01:17:13,414 Did y'all see that? That man just hit me. 873 01:17:13,456 --> 01:17:16,999 Oh, you done messed up now, sucka. You done messed up-- 874 01:17:17,086 --> 01:17:19,378 I don't wanna do nothin' in front of your daughters, though. 875 01:17:19,422 --> 01:17:21,589 I can't beat you up in front of your daughters. 876 01:17:21,674 --> 01:17:25,468 - Hey, champ, good to see you. - All right, ladies. Take care now. 877 01:17:25,553 --> 01:17:27,595 All right now. All right now. 878 01:17:38,485 --> 01:17:42,113 You called me "Little Indian Girl" 'cause I wore my hair in a braid. 879 01:17:44,492 --> 01:17:46,450 And then I said, "Man, you scribble. 880 01:17:47,914 --> 01:17:49,538 You can't even write. 881 01:17:49,622 --> 01:17:52,081 Need to go back to school till you learn how to do it better." 882 01:17:52,125 --> 01:17:55,543 Now, why you just havin' a fresh mouth talkin' to me. 883 01:17:55,630 --> 01:17:57,588 So you think that's funny, huh? 884 01:17:57,673 --> 01:18:00,466 Telling me I can't write, that I scribble. 885 01:18:01,219 --> 01:18:03,386 Now you wanna try to make up with me. 886 01:18:03,472 --> 01:18:06,599 - This will make everything better. - Shut up. 887 01:18:25,371 --> 01:18:27,955 Mommy and Daddy moved to Mexico! 888 01:18:46,061 --> 01:18:48,019 Come on, baby. 889 01:18:49,107 --> 01:18:51,232 Oh, sweetie, come on. 890 01:19:04,915 --> 01:19:08,500 We will give you five minutes to leave this area. 891 01:19:11,966 --> 01:19:14,550 Who is the heavyweight champion of the world? 892 01:19:25,940 --> 01:19:27,940 What's happenin'? 893 01:19:42,875 --> 01:19:45,334 - Hey, man. - We lost on the appellate level... 894 01:19:45,419 --> 01:19:46,626 in New Orleans. 895 01:19:46,712 --> 01:19:49,546 - We're heading to the Supreme Court. - We already got turned down there. 896 01:19:49,591 --> 01:19:54,387 I'm petitioning on a conscientious objection basis. Religious belief. 897 01:19:54,471 --> 01:19:57,640 I believe that they'll hear that. 898 01:19:57,726 --> 01:20:00,727 Where the money gonna come from, Chauncey? 899 01:20:00,813 --> 01:20:04,482 Herbert say I'm runnin' on empty. Now, just put aside... 900 01:20:04,567 --> 01:20:06,317 "How did that happen?" 901 01:20:06,402 --> 01:20:11,239 License all revoked, passport gone, can't fight here, can't fight nowhere. 902 01:20:11,325 --> 01:20:13,408 Then what happen if I lose at the Supreme Court? 903 01:20:15,912 --> 01:20:18,205 Then you go to jail for five years. 904 01:21:33,918 --> 01:21:36,669 Oh, I saw Bundini when I was in Europe. 905 01:21:36,754 --> 01:21:41,215 - Yeah? How is he? - He's bad. He's in bad shape, man. 906 01:21:41,258 --> 01:21:44,176 You better get your belt back 907 01:21:48,350 --> 01:21:51,144 Look at this. 908 01:21:51,228 --> 01:21:53,687 Joe Frazier. He can't up no gate. 909 01:21:53,731 --> 01:21:56,774 Can't fill no arena. They got to let me fight. 910 01:21:56,860 --> 01:21:58,401 Fight. 911 01:22:01,781 --> 01:22:07,118 If that happens, promise me you’ll put some new people around you. 912 01:22:09,917 --> 01:22:11,792 What you talkin' about? 913 01:22:12,962 --> 01:22:15,212 Where Herbert and them when we need 'em? 914 01:22:15,257 --> 01:22:19,593 Gene Kilroy's dropping off groceries like charity. 915 01:22:21,804 --> 01:22:24,972 We borrow money from my folks. 916 01:22:25,058 --> 01:22:29,479 They're all over you when you got it, and then they just drop off you... 917 01:22:29,564 --> 01:22:31,230 when you don't. 918 01:22:43,704 --> 01:22:46,623 Norton, he's big and strong, but he ain't nothin'. 919 01:22:46,708 --> 01:22:49,918 Hold on a second, Joe. They're telling me we have a caller. 920 01:22:50,003 --> 01:22:53,338 - Go ahead, please. - Cosell, this is Muhammad Ali. 921 01:22:53,422 --> 01:22:54,672 It's Muhammad Ali. 922 01:22:54,758 --> 01:22:56,841 Everybody knows that I am the champ. 923 01:22:56,928 --> 01:23:00,305 The crown is a lie. I know it's a lie. Joe Frazier knows it's a lie. 924 01:23:00,390 --> 01:23:02,765 And it's time for everybody to stop lying and tell the truth. 925 01:23:02,809 --> 01:23:06,187 Let's tell it like it is. With your court and boxing problems... 926 01:23:06,272 --> 01:23:08,272 can you get a fight promoted? 927 01:23:08,358 --> 01:23:10,567 I would fight Joe Frazier for free in a phone booth... 928 01:23:10,651 --> 01:23:13,026 in the middle of Times Square if I wasn't broke. 929 01:23:13,112 --> 01:23:15,279 Did you say you were broke? How can you be broke? 930 01:23:15,365 --> 01:23:18,825 You made more money than all previous heavyweights champions combined. 931 01:23:18,869 --> 01:23:21,411 What about your management? Surely they have provided for you. 932 01:23:21,496 --> 01:23:24,623 All I'm trying to say is it's time for everybody to stop lyin'. 933 01:23:24,709 --> 01:23:26,417 Muhammad Ali is the champ. 934 01:23:26,503 --> 01:23:29,546 Get my son Herbert on the telephone. 935 01:23:29,630 --> 01:23:32,464 Muhammad, thank you for calling in. I'll relay that to Joe. 936 01:23:32,509 --> 01:23:36,678 And tell Joe I said he is very ugly. 937 01:23:38,098 --> 01:23:41,309 Muhammad says that he will fight you anywhere, anytime... 938 01:23:41,394 --> 01:23:46,148 and that the championship really is his until that battle ensues. 939 01:23:59,373 --> 01:24:02,792 Mr. Ali has sporting blood. 940 01:24:02,878 --> 01:24:05,963 Mr. Ali wants a place in this sports world. 941 01:24:06,047 --> 01:24:08,798 He loves it too much. 942 01:24:08,883 --> 01:24:13,344 I am therefore suspending Mr. Ali from the practice of Islam. 943 01:24:13,430 --> 01:24:17,599 He may no longer appear in temple, pray or teach... 944 01:24:17,685 --> 01:24:22,731 or have any conversation with any Muslim whatsoever. 945 01:24:26,404 --> 01:24:27,987 Why didn’t you call an ambulance or a doctor? 946 01:24:28,072 --> 01:24:30,698 Because he gave me your number when he checked in. 947 01:24:30,742 --> 01:24:32,951 Normally, he's up there making a lot of noise. 948 01:24:33,036 --> 01:24:35,495 But now he hasn't answered the door in three days. 949 01:24:38,961 --> 01:24:40,711 - What's that? - It's daylight. 950 01:24:42,254 --> 01:24:44,212 Get me that short dog. 951 01:24:46,718 --> 01:24:49,052 Give it to me. 952 01:24:51,765 --> 01:24:52,889 What's wrong with you? 953 01:24:52,933 --> 01:24:55,809 Ain't nothin' wrong with me. My head ain't bad. 954 01:24:55,895 --> 01:24:57,813 - Leave me alone. - Leave you alone. You called me! 955 01:24:57,898 --> 01:25:00,482 Yes, but that was a week ago. 956 01:25:00,566 --> 01:25:02,775 - Why are you shamin' yourself? - Let me go, man. 957 01:25:02,861 --> 01:25:04,611 Why you doin' that to yourself? 958 01:25:04,696 --> 01:25:07,405 - Why you shamin' yourself? - Ain't nobody shamed. 959 01:25:07,449 --> 01:25:09,742 Ain't nothin' wrong with me. 960 01:25:09,786 --> 01:25:11,619 I'm flyin'. 961 01:25:11,705 --> 01:25:13,788 The Sky Chief talk through me. I know the word. 962 01:25:13,874 --> 01:25:15,249 - You know low. - Yeah? 963 01:25:15,294 --> 01:25:17,544 I know low where the king is goin' back to his throne! 964 01:25:17,628 --> 01:25:20,421 - From the root to the fruit! - Them rhymes is old, Bundini. 965 01:25:20,465 --> 01:25:22,423 You need to get some new ones. 966 01:25:26,304 --> 01:25:30,140 God don't care about you. Don't care about me. 967 01:25:30,226 --> 01:25:33,436 In all of everything, we don't mean nothin'. He don't owe us. 968 01:25:33,521 --> 01:25:35,230 We be. 969 01:25:35,314 --> 01:25:38,607 And that's the onliest thing He did. 970 01:25:38,693 --> 01:25:41,778 But that's good. That's why we free. 971 01:25:41,822 --> 01:25:45,658 But free ain't easy. Free is real and real is a motherfucker. 972 01:25:47,912 --> 01:25:50,663 It eats raw meat. 973 01:25:50,749 --> 01:25:53,293 It walk in its own shoes. 974 01:25:53,377 --> 01:25:55,836 It don't ever waiver. 975 01:25:55,922 --> 01:25:57,380 Yeah. 976 01:26:03,346 --> 01:26:06,222 I-- I sold your belt. 977 01:26:07,601 --> 01:26:10,560 I sold your belt to a barber for $500 on Lenox Avenue. 978 01:26:10,645 --> 01:26:14,148 That's how low I did you. I couldn't help it. I got a crazy mind. 979 01:26:16,445 --> 01:26:18,570 That belt say you the heavyweight boxing champion of the world... 980 01:26:18,656 --> 01:26:21,574 and I took that $500... 981 01:26:21,658 --> 01:26:24,075 and I put it in my arm. 982 01:26:25,913 --> 01:26:27,955 That's what I called to tell you. 983 01:26:35,216 --> 01:26:38,510 I heard about the Nation stuff, the courtroom. 984 01:26:40,430 --> 01:26:42,388 What you gonna do? 985 01:26:53,403 --> 01:26:55,236 Take me back. 986 01:27:03,663 --> 01:27:06,831 I could go down there and get the belt. I can go get the belt. 987 01:27:46,672 --> 01:27:48,630 Hey, champ. 988 01:28:22,212 --> 01:28:28,133 $1,000 to the man that bring me Howard Cosell's toupee dead or alive! 989 01:28:28,177 --> 01:28:30,803 Don't bother me. I'm a world-famous sportscaster... 990 01:28:30,847 --> 01:28:33,139 and you're an ex-champion with diminished skills. 991 01:28:33,224 --> 01:28:34,974 I can't be seen with you. 992 01:28:38,354 --> 01:28:41,148 - How's it goin', champ? - Pretty good, man. 993 01:28:46,906 --> 01:28:50,241 Muhammad, I'd do anything for you. You know that. 994 01:28:50,327 --> 01:28:55,791 But I've got bosses who only give a damn about Nielsen ratings. 995 01:28:55,874 --> 01:28:58,500 I guarantee... 996 01:28:58,586 --> 01:29:02,381 it will be a historical and a momentous night. 997 01:29:08,431 --> 01:29:11,849 If they came to me tomorrow and say, "We want you to fight Joe Frazier. 998 01:29:11,892 --> 01:29:14,893 Madison Square Garden. Millions and millions of dollars. 999 01:29:14,937 --> 01:29:17,521 Here's your license back." I will tell them... 1000 01:29:17,607 --> 01:29:19,358 "I will never fight again." 1001 01:29:19,443 --> 01:29:22,903 Frankly, Muhammad, I'm surprised, because unless you-- 1002 01:29:22,947 --> 01:29:25,406 or until you fight Frazier-- 1003 01:29:25,492 --> 01:29:29,453 Cosell, are you losin' your hearing along with your hair? 1004 01:29:29,536 --> 01:29:32,579 Don't put no question to it, man. I done told you, I'm through fightin'. 1005 01:29:32,665 --> 01:29:35,040 I got a much bigger contender, a much heavier opponent. 1006 01:29:35,126 --> 01:29:37,045 I'm fightin' the entire US government. 1007 01:29:38,298 --> 01:29:40,799 Do you think you're going to jail? 1008 01:29:40,884 --> 01:29:43,551 I don't know. I don't know. 1009 01:29:43,596 --> 01:29:49,225 Joe Frazier told me on this show that he could knock you out. 1010 01:29:49,268 --> 01:29:51,560 See, there you go agitatin'. 1011 01:29:51,604 --> 01:29:55,482 You should've asked Smokin' Joe what have he been smokin'? 1012 01:29:55,567 --> 01:29:59,319 That boy even dream he whupped me, he better wake up and apologize. 1013 01:29:59,405 --> 01:30:01,447 If I was to get in the ring with Joe... 1014 01:30:01,533 --> 01:30:03,450 here's what you might see. 1015 01:30:03,533 --> 01:30:08,245 Ali comes out to meet Frazier, but Frazier starts to retreat. 1016 01:30:08,289 --> 01:30:12,542 If Joe goes back an inch farther, he'll wind up in a ringside seat. 1017 01:30:12,626 --> 01:30:15,753 Ali swings with his left, Ali swings with his right. 1018 01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:18,007 Just look at the kid carry the fight. 1019 01:30:18,092 --> 01:30:20,676 Frazier keeps backin', but there's not enough room. 1020 01:30:20,762 --> 01:30:24,223 It's only a matter of time before Ali lowers the boom. 1021 01:30:24,307 --> 01:30:27,100 Ali swings with his right. What a beautiful swing. 1022 01:30:27,186 --> 01:30:30,104 But the punch lifts Frazier clean out of the ring. 1023 01:30:30,147 --> 01:30:32,941 Frazier's still risin', and the referee wears a frown... 1024 01:30:33,026 --> 01:30:36,403 'cause he can't start countin' till Frazier comes down. 1025 01:30:36,489 --> 01:30:39,824 Frazier's disappeared from view. The crowd is getting frantic. 1026 01:30:39,908 --> 01:30:43,869 But our radar stations picked him up. He's somewhere over the Atlantic. 1027 01:30:43,954 --> 01:30:46,204 Now, who would've thought when they came to the fight... 1028 01:30:46,290 --> 01:30:50,251 they was gonna witness the launchin' of a black satellite. 1029 01:30:50,336 --> 01:30:52,838 But don't wait for that fight. 1030 01:30:52,924 --> 01:30:55,091 It ain't never gonna happen. 1031 01:30:55,176 --> 01:30:57,259 Only thing you could do... 1032 01:30:57,344 --> 01:31:00,846 is wonder and imagine. 1033 01:31:01,432 --> 01:31:07,271 This has been another sports exclusive from ABC. 1034 01:31:07,356 --> 01:31:09,356 - Two. Go two. - Over to Jim McKay... 1035 01:31:09,442 --> 01:31:11,693 in Bern, Switzerland. 1036 01:31:11,779 --> 01:31:13,988 - How you gonna go from me to Jim McKay? - Listen, uh-- 1037 01:31:15,198 --> 01:31:18,867 - Did your wife leave you yet? - No, she hasn't left me yet. 1038 01:31:18,952 --> 01:31:21,286 She's going to, 'cause I told your wife when I seen her... 1039 01:31:21,372 --> 01:31:24,623 I said, "Listen, why you doin' this to yourself?" 1040 01:31:33,760 --> 01:31:37,345 Oh, man, Joe. Who dresses you? 1041 01:31:37,431 --> 01:31:40,307 You look like the heavyweight champion of pimps. 1042 01:31:40,393 --> 01:31:42,435 Hey, shut up and get in. 1043 01:31:43,730 --> 01:31:45,271 That jacket’s a mess, man. 1044 01:31:49,571 --> 01:31:52,073 What you in Philly for? Philly's my town. 1045 01:31:52,157 --> 01:31:55,158 Well, I just wanted to get a little closer to you, honey. 1046 01:31:55,244 --> 01:31:56,243 Man, fuck you. 1047 01:31:58,581 --> 01:32:02,041 There'll be two undefeated heavyweight champions, and they ain't fightin'. 1048 01:32:02,084 --> 01:32:04,793 - What about your license? - I can fight in Atlanta. 1049 01:32:04,879 --> 01:32:07,547 There ain't no state boxing commission in Georgia. 1050 01:32:07,592 --> 01:32:10,885 It's all set. I do a prelim in Atlanta against Jerry Quary... 1051 01:32:10,927 --> 01:32:13,553 but we got to get this steamroller movin' right now. 1052 01:32:13,597 --> 01:32:15,221 So what do I have to do? 1053 01:32:15,266 --> 01:32:18,684 All you got to do is announce that after I whup Jerry Quary... 1054 01:32:18,769 --> 01:32:21,270 you gonna give me a title shot. 1055 01:32:21,356 --> 01:32:23,982 Come on, man. Say it! Say it! 1056 01:32:32,744 --> 01:32:36,247 What I got and all I got, I got with these right here. 1057 01:32:36,331 --> 01:32:38,581 Hell, man, I already got the title. 1058 01:32:38,668 --> 01:32:43,214 So I ain't got nothin' to win, but I got eveythin' to lose. 1059 01:32:44,799 --> 01:32:47,174 Yeah, but you know you ain't the real champ yet. 1060 01:32:56,312 --> 01:32:58,437 You beat Quary... 1061 01:32:58,481 --> 01:33:01,607 I'm gonna get you in the ring. I'm gonna kick your ass. 1062 01:33:12,538 --> 01:33:14,913 By the way... 1063 01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:19,378 you need any money or anything to tide you by? 1064 01:33:20,797 --> 01:33:22,715 No, I'm fine. 1065 01:33:37,651 --> 01:33:40,111 Time! 1066 01:33:47,661 --> 01:33:50,287 What you want? 1067 01:33:52,834 --> 01:33:54,792 Take me back, boss. 1068 01:33:56,545 --> 01:33:58,463 I'm clean. 1069 01:33:58,549 --> 01:34:02,927 This is a resurrection. This is God's act. 1070 01:34:03,012 --> 01:34:06,181 And the prophet is goin' home. 1071 01:34:06,266 --> 01:34:08,600 Take me with you, boss. 1072 01:34:09,646 --> 01:34:11,729 I'll do anything. 1073 01:34:22,243 --> 01:34:26,120 Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see. 1074 01:34:29,126 --> 01:34:32,962 Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. 1075 01:34:33,045 --> 01:34:35,463 Rumble, young man, rumble. 1076 01:34:53,862 --> 01:34:54,026 God ain't watching'! Ain't nobody but us! 1077 01:34:54,029 --> 01:34:57,572 God ain't watching'! Ain't nobody but us! 1078 01:35:04,708 --> 01:35:07,542 There it is! Stay in his face! 1079 01:35:11,422 --> 01:35:13,256 Go, Muhammad! 1080 01:35:24,772 --> 01:35:26,104 There it is! 1081 01:35:32,322 --> 01:35:33,905 Now for the right. Boom! 1082 01:35:40,290 --> 01:35:42,248 Prophet is goin' home to the throne. 1083 01:35:59,061 --> 01:36:01,270 That's how you do it, Ali. 1084 01:36:01,353 --> 01:36:03,603 That's how you do it. 1085 01:36:10,698 --> 01:36:13,282 You okay? You're a goddamn Superman. 1086 01:36:13,368 --> 01:36:15,618 Ain't no kryptonite in this ring tonight. 1087 01:37:00,003 --> 01:37:02,212 - We want Joe Frazier! - We want him! 1088 01:37:02,298 --> 01:37:06,845 - We want Joe Frazier! - And you deserve it. You deserve it. 1089 01:37:10,559 --> 01:37:13,602 This prophet is comin' home, goin' from the darkness to the light. 1090 01:37:16,397 --> 01:37:18,647 Soak it in this for about 20 minutes. 1091 01:37:20,777 --> 01:37:23,612 We don't need their management. 1092 01:37:24,574 --> 01:37:27,951 Hey, Herbert, we did good. Doin' good tonight. 1093 01:37:39,632 --> 01:37:41,382 All praise to Allah. 1094 01:37:44,930 --> 01:37:47,472 The messenger has lifted your suspension. 1095 01:37:47,558 --> 01:37:49,475 Congratulations. 1096 01:37:49,559 --> 01:37:51,560 So you’re sayin' I can be a Muslim again. 1097 01:37:51,645 --> 01:37:53,228 - Yes. - I ain't never stopped. 1098 01:37:53,314 --> 01:37:55,272 Just like I ain't never stopped bein' the champ. 1099 01:37:57,486 --> 01:37:59,152 I begged my father to reinstate you. 1100 01:37:59,237 --> 01:38:02,031 When? When you do that, Herbert? 1101 01:38:02,117 --> 01:38:04,534 After I promoted this Quary fight or after I won it? 1102 01:38:05,496 --> 01:38:07,538 - We can get Frazier. - Man, I done already got Frazier. 1103 01:38:07,621 --> 01:38:10,080 We can get $5 million for Frazier. 1104 01:38:10,166 --> 01:38:13,292 We talkin' management, talkin' money or talkin' religion? 1105 01:38:13,337 --> 01:38:16,338 When I got leery and talked up why I'm broke... 1106 01:38:16,423 --> 01:38:17,964 then come the suspension. 1107 01:38:18,050 --> 01:38:21,594 Now you explain that one to me, my brother. 1108 01:38:21,680 --> 01:38:23,847 That was my father. 1109 01:38:26,392 --> 01:38:28,350 Your father. 1110 01:38:28,395 --> 01:38:32,523 I love your father, Herbert. I swear, man. I love the Nation. 1111 01:38:32,608 --> 01:38:35,068 But it don't own me. 1112 01:38:44,205 --> 01:38:46,956 You go on out there and you make that Frazier deal. 1113 01:38:52,213 --> 01:38:54,130 My brother. Yeah, your brother Herbert. 1114 01:38:54,216 --> 01:38:56,091 Go on somewhere, make that deal. 1115 01:39:06,688 --> 01:39:09,981 And he accepts me. I’m Jewish, but yet he's Muslim... 1116 01:39:10,066 --> 01:39:11,524 and we still get along. 1117 01:39:11,610 --> 01:39:15,112 He understands me. He understands me and he still allows me to hang with him. 1118 01:39:15,199 --> 01:39:18,659 He knows I like pork and white women, but still allows me to be here with him. 1119 01:39:18,743 --> 01:39:20,702 Now, I can give up pork... 1120 01:39:20,746 --> 01:39:23,539 but them white women, goddamn it! 1121 01:39:23,625 --> 01:39:25,667 How you deal with it, boy? 1122 01:39:39,559 --> 01:39:42,852 Hello? Muhammad, it's for you. 1123 01:39:47,317 --> 01:39:49,526 Thank you, Lana. 1124 01:39:49,612 --> 01:39:52,739 - Yeah? - Muhammad? Howard Cosell. 1125 01:39:52,783 --> 01:39:56,410 - You TKO'd them. - Hey, what you talkin' about, Howard? 1126 01:39:56,494 --> 01:39:58,494 - With Quary? - No. 1127 01:39:58,580 --> 01:40:00,497 The Supreme Court ruled today... 1128 01:40:00,582 --> 01:40:03,917 in the case of The United States vs. Cassius Clay... 1129 01:40:03,961 --> 01:40:07,756 aka Muhammad Ali. 1130 01:40:07,841 --> 01:40:11,803 You won an eight-to-zero unanimous decision. 1131 01:40:11,847 --> 01:40:14,681 You're free. 1132 01:40:14,765 --> 01:40:16,723 Congratulations. 1133 01:40:33,119 --> 01:40:34,577 I'm free. 1134 01:40:40,502 --> 01:40:42,419 The Supreme Court just set me free. 1135 01:40:47,302 --> 01:40:49,763 What are you talkin' about? 1136 01:40:51,098 --> 01:40:52,597 Eight-to-oh, unanimous decision. 1137 01:40:52,684 --> 01:40:55,393 The Supreme Court just overturned my conviction. 1138 01:40:57,188 --> 01:40:59,897 - Yes! - All right. All right. 1139 01:40:59,983 --> 01:41:01,441 - Did we get 'em, Ali? - We got 'em, man. 1140 01:41:03,362 --> 01:41:05,487 Hey, man. 1141 01:41:06,865 --> 01:41:10,284 - Did we do it? - We did it, man. 1142 01:41:10,370 --> 01:41:13,830 They wanna be on your side now because the truth has shown itself to the power. 1143 01:41:13,916 --> 01:41:16,750 Now the power's comin' to the truth. That's what it is. 1144 01:41:16,835 --> 01:41:19,252 And the truth tastes good when there's a belly full of lies. 1145 01:41:19,338 --> 01:41:22,464 - What you talkin' about? - It don't matter. It don't matter. 1146 01:41:31,268 --> 01:41:33,978 Ladies and gentlemen, 15 rounds of boxing... 1147 01:41:34,063 --> 01:41:38,775 for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world. 1148 01:41:38,861 --> 01:41:43,739 In this corner, the contender and former heavyweight champion of the world... 1149 01:41:43,823 --> 01:41:47,993 weighing in at 213 pounds... 1150 01:41:48,080 --> 01:41:51,916 with a record of 31 and 0 with 25 knockouts... 1151 01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:54,667 Muhammad Ali! 1152 01:42:00,091 --> 01:42:04,804 His opponent, weighing in at 2051/2 pounds... 1153 01:42:04,890 --> 01:42:09,018 with a record of 26 and 0 with 23 knockouts... 1154 01:42:09,102 --> 01:42:12,645 the current heavyweight champion of the world... 1155 01:42:12,732 --> 01:42:16,985 Smokin? Joe Frazier! 1156 01:42:19,030 --> 01:42:22,449 I want a good, clean fight. Protect yourself at all times. 1157 01:42:22,535 --> 01:42:25,745 Gentlemen, touch gloves. Good luck to both of you. 1158 01:43:04,583 --> 01:43:05,749 Come on! 1159 01:43:05,834 --> 01:43:07,834 Stick him! Come on! 1160 01:43:50,467 --> 01:43:52,550 That's okay, champ. Don't stop fightin'. 1161 01:43:54,639 --> 01:43:55,931 What's comin'? 1162 01:43:56,016 --> 01:43:59,351 Lean back, man. Move back. Work, legs. 1163 01:44:11,908 --> 01:44:13,115 Ain't nobody hurt. 1164 01:44:13,201 --> 01:44:15,661 That's all right. Ain't no-- 1165 01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:34,974 Keep puttin' out. Come on. 1166 01:44:46,781 --> 01:44:49,574 - Move, Ali! - Back, back, back! 1167 01:45:22,905 --> 01:45:24,822 Muhammad, you said you were gonna win the fight. 1168 01:45:24,907 --> 01:45:26,907 How do you account for the beating you've taken? 1169 01:45:26,992 --> 01:45:29,702 - Did he hurt you? -Joe said you don't wanna fight again. 1170 01:45:29,788 --> 01:45:32,330 Oh, how wrong he is. 1171 01:45:32,417 --> 01:45:33,958 - Why would it be different? - Muhammad, wait! 1172 01:45:39,048 --> 01:45:42,341 - But I wanna ask him something! - We all wanna ask him something. 1173 01:45:42,427 --> 01:45:45,011 - Sons of bitches! Get outta here! - When are you gonna get a hairpiece? 1174 01:45:45,096 --> 01:45:47,096 Don't worry about it. You lost all of yours. 1175 01:45:47,182 --> 01:45:49,141 You cue ball head motherfucker. Get outta here! 1176 01:45:49,185 --> 01:45:51,560 -Just one more question. - Let me talk to him. 1177 01:45:51,646 --> 01:45:53,896 We're close to the start of round one. 1178 01:45:53,981 --> 01:45:55,814 Now that Smokin? Joe done run outta tomato cans... 1179 01:45:55,900 --> 01:45:59,485 I got Yank to commit to a rematch with you in about six months. 1180 01:45:59,529 --> 01:46:01,738 Frazier said he'd be happy with three mil. 1181 01:46:01,822 --> 01:46:06,244 I'll fly to Jamaica, get Yank to sign right after Joe beats this big stiff. 1182 01:46:07,707 --> 01:46:10,249 I think he hurt Joe Frazier. 1183 01:46:10,335 --> 01:46:13,002 I think Joe is hurt. 1184 01:46:13,044 --> 01:46:16,629 Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! 1185 01:46:16,716 --> 01:46:18,507 - Down goes Frazier! - Get up, Joe. 1186 01:46:18,551 --> 01:46:22,136 The heavy weight champion is taking the mandatory eightcount... 1187 01:46:22,221 --> 01:46:25,181 and Foreman Is poised as can be. 1188 01:46:27,103 --> 01:46:29,562 Foreman is all over Frazier. 1189 01:46:29,646 --> 01:46:31,980 And Frazier is down again! 1190 01:46:32,066 --> 01:46:34,608 He maybe-- No, he's rising. 1191 01:46:36,529 --> 01:46:37,861 It's over! It is over! 1192 01:46:37,905 --> 01:46:41,240 It'd be easy to get a fight with Frazier now. 1193 01:46:41,326 --> 01:46:45,580 Only thing he's champion of is gettin' knocked down. 1194 01:46:45,666 --> 01:46:49,628 George Foreman is the heavyweight champion of the world. 1195 01:46:51,422 --> 01:46:55,383 The Rumble in the Jungle. That is the name that I've given it. 1196 01:46:55,468 --> 01:47:00,013 Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. 1197 01:47:00,098 --> 01:47:02,099 - Don, Zaire? - Yeah, Don. 1198 01:47:02,185 --> 01:47:04,560 I mean, why not Antarctica, somethin' like that? 1199 01:47:04,644 --> 01:47:06,727 What's wrong with New York City? 1200 01:47:08,607 --> 01:47:10,649 Because you miss the significance. 1201 01:47:10,735 --> 01:47:14,946 See, I dream of overcoming 400 years of racial depression... 1202 01:47:15,031 --> 01:47:19,242 to the dawn of a new day of liberation, financial and otherwise. 1203 01:47:19,328 --> 01:47:22,455 It will raise up the spirits of our inner cities. 1204 01:47:22,539 --> 01:47:25,040 It will rise up and fill with hope, the souls... 1205 01:47:25,125 --> 01:47:27,709 the unrequited needs of the black proletariat. 1206 01:47:27,795 --> 01:47:30,629 That is, the discouraged, dispirited, denigrated denizens... 1207 01:47:30,716 --> 01:47:33,718 of the demimonde that is called the ghetto. 1208 01:47:33,803 --> 01:47:36,596 Man, Don, you crazy. 1209 01:47:36,639 --> 01:47:40,601 You must've studied the whole "D" section of the dictionary. 1210 01:48:05,213 --> 01:48:07,130 Good morning, sister. 1211 01:48:09,592 --> 01:48:11,258 Hi, brother. 1212 01:48:13,263 --> 01:48:15,138 How you doin', champ? 1213 01:48:42,339 --> 01:48:44,422 Why they saying that? What they sayin'? 1214 01:48:48,762 --> 01:48:50,845 What that mean? I don't understand. 1215 01:48:50,931 --> 01:48:52,472 - It means-- - What? 1216 01:48:52,556 --> 01:48:55,975 It mean, "Ali, kill him. Ali, kill him." 1217 01:49:42,573 --> 01:49:45,324 The champ is here! 1218 01:49:45,410 --> 01:49:49,205 Ladies and gentlemen, the heavyweight champion of the world has arrived! 1219 01:49:50,791 --> 01:49:52,833 The champ is here! 1220 01:49:58,299 --> 01:50:00,049 Hey, man. 1221 01:50:00,135 --> 01:50:02,260 He's quite younger than you. How you feeling about that? 1222 01:50:02,346 --> 01:50:05,013 He's quite younger than me? Well, we quite younger than you. 1223 01:50:05,097 --> 01:50:09,559 What you talkin' about? Thirty-two years old. Best shape of my life. 1224 01:51:07,001 --> 01:51:09,627 Hey, stop! All right, back up. 1225 01:51:16,428 --> 01:51:19,679 Did you see Muhammad Ali? 1226 01:55:39,892 --> 01:55:43,435 - Here's your water. - Oh, thank you, hon. 1227 01:55:43,522 --> 01:55:46,942 Bottled water. Frozen steaks. 1228 01:55:47,026 --> 01:55:49,652 Brought all that stuffin like Africa's ain't got no steaks. 1229 01:55:49,738 --> 01:55:53,657 - You could pick up parasites. - Mobutu eats it. 1230 01:55:53,700 --> 01:55:56,284 Mobutu's takin' care of Mobutu. 1231 01:55:56,370 --> 01:55:58,996 He steals all the wealth and sends it to Switzerland. 1232 01:56:00,375 --> 01:56:02,750 What that got to do with any of why we here? 1233 01:56:02,834 --> 01:56:08,214 We are here 'cause Don King got Mobutu to put up $10 million. 1234 01:56:08,300 --> 01:56:12,094 Don King don't care about Africa. He's worse than Herbert. 1235 01:56:12,804 --> 01:56:15,179 Here come Herbert. 1236 01:56:15,266 --> 01:56:17,975 And Don King fit right in too. 1237 01:56:18,061 --> 01:56:20,353 Now he's a dashiki-wearin' rip-off. 1238 01:56:20,437 --> 01:56:22,438 Don King delivered the first-ever... 1239 01:56:22,524 --> 01:56:24,774 black-promoted championship fight in Africa. 1240 01:56:24,860 --> 01:56:28,779 Don King talks black, lives white and thinks green. 1241 01:56:28,865 --> 01:56:31,200 And you're defending him and Brother Herbert? 1242 01:56:31,243 --> 01:56:34,202 'Cause clean-cut Muslims in a parade on the South Side of Chicago... 1243 01:56:34,246 --> 01:56:37,331 ain't gonna get this done! 1244 01:56:38,207 --> 01:56:41,084 I got to put honkies with connections and bad-ass niggas to it. 1245 01:56:41,170 --> 01:56:43,087 And now they matched you up against George Foreman. 1246 01:56:43,173 --> 01:56:46,132 Do you think they give a damn if you get killed? 1247 01:56:52,475 --> 01:56:54,517 So that's what you think? 1248 01:57:03,779 --> 01:57:06,780 I just wanna know why my Muslim husband... 1249 01:57:06,865 --> 01:57:09,908 is allowing himself to get strung up on a cross. 1250 01:57:09,994 --> 01:57:11,994 Just tell me why. 1251 01:57:20,340 --> 01:57:22,006 Mayum's sick. 1252 01:57:27,431 --> 01:57:30,349 Maybe I ought to go back to Chicago and look after her? 1253 01:57:33,270 --> 01:57:34,728 Sure. 1254 01:57:41,530 --> 01:57:44,156 Well, then I guess I'll be back before the fight. 1255 01:57:45,701 --> 01:57:48,076 If that’s all right, my husband. 1256 01:58:14,193 --> 01:58:16,151 This fight is no contest! 1257 01:58:16,237 --> 01:58:18,195 He is entirely too slow to fight me. 1258 01:58:18,280 --> 01:58:20,781 I say that George Foreman is a mummy. 1259 01:58:20,866 --> 01:58:23,742 He's too slow. You know I name all my fighters. 1260 01:58:23,828 --> 01:58:25,995 I'm gonna call George Foreman "The Mummy." 1261 01:58:26,037 --> 01:58:28,287 He fight like a mummy. 1262 01:58:32,128 --> 01:58:34,963 And when I see George throwin' punches, this is what I hear: 1263 01:58:35,048 --> 01:58:37,423 Here come the left. 1264 01:58:37,510 --> 01:58:39,760 Here come the right. 1265 01:58:39,846 --> 01:58:42,513 But the mummy can't hit what the mummy can't see... 1266 01:58:42,599 --> 01:58:44,475 'cause I'm too fast for him. 1267 01:58:46,061 --> 01:58:48,854 I'm too fast. 1268 01:58:48,939 --> 01:58:52,901 I'm too fast. I'm too fast. I move too good for him. 1269 01:58:52,986 --> 01:58:55,987 I'll hit George Foreman so many times, he'll think he's surrounded. 1270 01:58:57,241 --> 01:59:00,659 He gonna say, "Call the police! It's five of 'em in here!" 1271 01:59:02,329 --> 01:59:04,538 I'm bad, man. I'm bad! 1272 01:59:04,581 --> 01:59:08,458 Muhammad, I'm sorry. I have to ask. 1273 01:59:09,129 --> 01:59:11,172 Are you really fast enough anymore... 1274 01:59:11,256 --> 01:59:13,506 to beat George Foreman? 1275 01:59:13,551 --> 01:59:18,388 If he gets you against the ropes, he can knock you out with either hand. 1276 01:59:18,432 --> 01:59:23,060 Many people believe you’re not the man you used to be ten years ago. 1277 01:59:26,106 --> 01:59:27,814 See, now, Howard... 1278 01:59:27,900 --> 01:59:31,237 I didn't even want to talk about this, man. 1279 01:59:32,740 --> 01:59:36,534 Especially not out here in front of all these people. 1280 01:59:36,578 --> 01:59:39,245 But I talked to your wife... 1281 01:59:39,329 --> 01:59:43,582 and she said you not the man you used to be two years ago! 1282 02:00:06,067 --> 02:00:08,026 Champ. 1283 02:00:12,117 --> 02:00:15,036 - Champ, George had an accident. - He-- He had what? 1284 02:00:15,120 --> 02:00:17,913 - What are you talking about? - He got cut right above his right eye. 1285 02:00:17,998 --> 02:00:20,499 His sparring partner's elbow split it open. 1286 02:00:20,585 --> 02:00:23,086 - Can he fight? - Not for six weeks. 1287 02:00:25,049 --> 02:00:27,132 This is not a humorous situation, my champ. 1288 02:00:27,218 --> 02:00:30,845 This postponement could be long, especially if George leaves. 1289 02:00:30,931 --> 02:00:33,140 You tying to pull something here, Don? 1290 02:00:33,223 --> 02:00:35,890 If George leaves, he ain't comin' back. George don't like it here. 1291 02:00:36,978 --> 02:00:40,605 How right you are, my suspicious and short Italian brother. 1292 02:00:40,648 --> 02:00:43,399 Look here, man, my fiduciary responsibility... 1293 02:00:43,486 --> 02:00:45,903 to this first all-black promotion... 1294 02:00:45,989 --> 02:00:49,491 is analogous to a garden in the African sun-- it must grow, it must bloom. 1295 02:00:49,574 --> 02:00:53,994 Cannot flower in the gloom and shade of postponement to the Astrodome... 1296 02:00:54,038 --> 02:00:56,831 or any dome out of Zaire where it be deprivileged of light and bled of water. 1297 02:00:56,875 --> 02:01:00,545 'Cause what gonna be bleedin' out of there is money-- a hemorrhage of cash. 1298 02:01:00,630 --> 02:01:02,548 I'm talkin' about blood on the floor. 1299 02:01:02,633 --> 02:01:06,135 Double hotel costs, airplane, travel costs, food and beverage. 1300 02:01:06,221 --> 02:01:10,098 - So what do you want us to do? - Muhammad Ali. The people's champion. 1301 02:01:10,182 --> 02:01:11,431 My black brother. 1302 02:01:11,517 --> 02:01:14,310 I need you. I need your strength. 1303 02:01:14,395 --> 02:01:17,646 I need you to find a way to get George to stay. 1304 02:01:17,690 --> 02:01:20,107 Be Moses in reverse. 1305 02:01:20,193 --> 02:01:24,280 Do not let my people go. Keep them the fuck right here in Egypt. 1306 02:01:24,366 --> 02:01:26,616 - If you’ll pardon my Swahili. - Lingala. 1307 02:01:26,700 --> 02:01:28,992 - Say what? - They speak Lingala. 1308 02:01:30,079 --> 02:01:33,456 Ali wants his title, and he wants it in Zaire. 1309 02:01:37,421 --> 02:01:40,131 Okay, all right, okay. Let's take it back. 1310 02:01:40,217 --> 02:01:43,385 George go, George go. Hell, I can get you Joe Frazier. 1311 02:01:43,469 --> 02:01:46,555 Ali-Frazier 3. That's the fight everybody want to see. 1312 02:01:46,640 --> 02:01:50,559 - We don't want Frazier, we want George. - Hell, I don't control George Foreman. 1313 02:02:33,610 --> 02:02:37,780 There's been an accidental injury to George Foreman in training. 1314 02:02:37,823 --> 02:02:39,614 The truth is... 1315 02:02:39,700 --> 02:02:41,450 George knocked his self out. 1316 02:02:42,495 --> 02:02:43,953 That's right. 1317 02:02:43,997 --> 02:02:47,082 He did three rounds, realized he was gonna lose to Muhammad Ali... 1318 02:02:47,125 --> 02:02:48,583 and knocked his self out. 1319 02:02:49,586 --> 02:02:52,337 I predict that when the fight is set, he might not show. 1320 02:02:52,423 --> 02:02:53,547 Oh, you bad. 1321 02:02:53,632 --> 02:02:56,592 - That's right, I'm a bad man. - Ain't no doubt about that. 1322 02:02:56,677 --> 02:02:58,969 Yeah, but you tell George the same thing. 1323 02:02:59,055 --> 02:03:00,972 I heard you. I been watching you. 1324 02:03:01,057 --> 02:03:05,059 I know he's your man, I know you got him picked, but the man is in trouble. 1325 02:03:05,145 --> 02:03:08,188 The whole world was gonna know, but now he ain't gonna show. 1326 02:03:08,983 --> 02:03:12,151 In order to ensure that George is ready, we are thinking of postponing... 1327 02:03:12,195 --> 02:03:15,156 from September 24 to October 30. 1328 02:03:15,240 --> 02:03:17,198 What about the concert? 1329 02:03:17,284 --> 02:03:21,745 The concert will go on as planned. Those dates are September 20, 21 -- 1330 02:03:21,831 --> 02:03:26,125 I want all the helicopters guarded, all the private planes, private boats. 1331 02:03:26,169 --> 02:03:28,127 I'm serious. I want the airports-- 1332 02:03:28,172 --> 02:03:30,381 I want President Mobutu and all his paratroopers-- 1333 02:03:30,464 --> 02:03:33,216 All you Zaireans, y'all be on guard too. 1334 02:03:33,302 --> 02:03:36,929 Any strange boats creeping away, they might be taking him out. 1335 02:03:37,015 --> 02:03:38,389 Bus stations. 1336 02:03:38,475 --> 02:03:39,974 And bus stations! 1337 02:03:40,017 --> 02:03:41,975 Right. Watch the bus stations. 1338 02:03:42,020 --> 02:03:45,480 The elephant caravans-- They might be tying to take him out on an elephant. 1339 02:03:45,566 --> 02:03:47,983 - What'd you say? - Hell, I ain't talking to you. 1340 02:03:48,027 --> 02:03:49,651 Hey. Hey, man. 1341 02:03:50,738 --> 02:03:52,905 Don’t you never talk to Angelo like that. 1342 02:03:52,991 --> 02:03:56,660 Don’t you never talk to Angie like that again. 1343 02:03:56,703 --> 02:03:58,537 Something wrong with you, man? 1344 02:04:00,166 --> 02:04:03,584 Think you callin' some shots here? You ain't callin' nothin'. 1345 02:04:05,589 --> 02:04:07,964 They all know. 1346 02:04:08,049 --> 02:04:11,009 All them ladies out there, they know I'm ready. 1347 02:04:11,053 --> 02:04:14,263 I see fear in the eyes of his followers. 1348 02:04:14,349 --> 02:04:17,976 This was supposed to be the fight that Muhammad Ali was ended. 1349 02:04:18,061 --> 02:04:22,773 Supposed to be Muhammad was gonna fall. Supposed to be my destruction. 1350 02:04:22,858 --> 02:04:25,359 Well, they miscalculated. They misjudged. 1351 02:04:25,443 --> 02:04:27,067 They got it wrong. 1352 02:04:50,098 --> 02:04:51,848 Hold on a second. 1353 02:04:53,101 --> 02:04:54,225 What's your name? 1354 02:04:55,729 --> 02:04:56,895 Veronica Porche. 1355 02:04:56,939 --> 02:04:58,897 Porche. Like the sports car. 1356 02:04:58,941 --> 02:05:01,900 - Yes. - With just a little something extra. 1357 02:05:01,943 --> 02:05:03,442 Hey, you with Don? 1358 02:05:04,529 --> 02:05:08,324 Don brought me here, but I'm not with anybody, no. 1359 02:05:08,410 --> 02:05:10,785 - Where you come from? - LA. 1360 02:05:10,870 --> 02:05:13,204 - LA? - But my people are from Louisiana. 1361 02:05:13,290 --> 02:05:14,622 Louisiana. 1362 02:05:14,708 --> 02:05:16,666 What, you Creole? 1363 02:05:16,752 --> 02:05:21,797 We're Creole, so I'm African, French and Spanish. 1364 02:05:21,882 --> 02:05:23,925 My mother's grandfather was Jewish. 1365 02:05:24,636 --> 02:05:27,930 Well, they mixed all that stuff up in there real nice. 1366 02:05:27,973 --> 02:05:30,849 I'm the only witch doctor here. Bundini Brown. 1367 02:05:30,935 --> 02:05:33,144 Bundini Brown is an authentic witch doctor. 1368 02:05:33,230 --> 02:05:36,148 - You tell 'em. - The only one in the United States. 1369 02:05:37,775 --> 02:05:41,152 I'm real glad you said what you did. 1370 02:05:41,196 --> 02:05:44,490 You made sure the fight stays here. 1371 02:05:47,662 --> 02:05:50,747 You know all them reporters and writers in there... 1372 02:05:52,042 --> 02:05:54,501 they say George is gonna kill me. 1373 02:05:55,586 --> 02:05:56,960 What you think? 1374 02:06:01,011 --> 02:06:03,011 Mr. Ali? Mr. Ali? 1375 02:06:03,096 --> 02:06:05,179 - We want thank you. - Hey, fella. 1376 02:06:05,265 --> 02:06:07,140 Y'all wanna thank me? 1377 02:06:08,352 --> 02:06:10,519 Y'all gonna thank me? What I did? 1378 02:06:13,524 --> 02:06:16,025 They thanking me for something. 1379 02:06:16,111 --> 02:06:20,365 Hey, you ever been down to Hong Kong? Thailand? Taiwan? 1380 02:06:20,450 --> 02:06:23,368 - No. - No? I can't go there. 1381 02:06:24,037 --> 02:06:27,497 - Hi, Ruthie. How are you? - Hi, champ. 1382 02:06:30,167 --> 02:06:32,125 What's going on? I'm great. How you feeling? 1383 02:06:32,211 --> 02:06:34,545 When I go to sleep, this closes up. 1384 02:06:35,632 --> 02:06:39,051 That's what happens. When I go to sleep, all this rests together. 1385 02:06:39,137 --> 02:06:41,429 During the day, I got to think. 1386 02:06:41,515 --> 02:06:44,892 Get me out of this county. All the women so pretty. 1387 02:06:44,977 --> 02:06:50,231 All of em, they got hair come all the way down to the back of their knees. 1388 02:06:50,315 --> 02:06:53,900 All of em-- All of em about Veronica's complexion. 1389 02:06:53,986 --> 02:06:56,361 Every single one of em. Bad, man. 1390 02:06:58,034 --> 02:07:00,284 But ain't nothing like the sisters. 1391 02:07:01,455 --> 02:07:04,248 Ain't nothing like the sisters. 1392 02:07:08,086 --> 02:07:11,379 Come on. Why don't we go take a ride or something? 1393 02:07:11,423 --> 02:07:13,006 Wanna come with me? 1394 02:07:22,854 --> 02:07:26,397 Ruth, tell us the truth. Is this your kind of guy? 1395 02:07:27,107 --> 02:07:28,773 More cushion for the pushin'. 1396 02:07:32,071 --> 02:07:33,278 What'd he say? 1397 02:07:34,616 --> 02:07:36,616 So why you so glad we still here? 1398 02:07:40,373 --> 02:07:43,792 Making the fight stay here in Africa-- 1399 02:07:45,462 --> 02:07:49,131 Anybody can fight in Vegas. 1400 02:07:55,015 --> 02:07:57,474 Well, that's one job. I got two. 1401 02:07:57,518 --> 02:07:59,476 Got to whup George. 1402 02:08:07,653 --> 02:08:09,778 Islamic faith help you do that? 1403 02:08:11,073 --> 02:08:14,826 Listen, girl, as a Muslim I am failed in the eyes of God. 1404 02:08:14,870 --> 02:08:19,164 I should've discovered Islam at 50, 'cause I'm weak on women. 1405 02:08:20,417 --> 02:08:22,584 First they take my eyes. 1406 02:08:22,670 --> 02:08:25,129 My heart follow. 1407 02:08:25,173 --> 02:08:27,341 Making me the lovingest husband in the world... 1408 02:08:27,425 --> 02:08:30,344 and the most terriblest husband at the same time. 1409 02:08:32,975 --> 02:08:34,683 Look at you. 1410 02:08:34,727 --> 02:08:37,102 Green eyes. 1411 02:08:37,186 --> 02:08:38,977 Cocoa skin. 1412 02:08:40,065 --> 02:08:42,357 Okay, rest of me, let's go. 1413 02:08:50,327 --> 02:08:51,409 Rumble, Ali. 1414 02:09:35,210 --> 02:09:37,544 - Mrs. Ali. - Hello, Muhammad, Mr. Cosell. 1415 02:09:37,588 --> 02:09:40,422 - Hey, when you get in? - Today. 1416 02:09:40,508 --> 02:09:43,926 And I learned we now have this suite at the intercontinental Hotel. 1417 02:09:45,431 --> 02:09:47,806 Muhammad, may I have a word with you, please? 1418 02:09:47,891 --> 02:09:49,307 Yeah. 1419 02:09:58,237 --> 02:09:59,486 What's goin' on? 1420 02:09:59,571 --> 02:10:01,988 What do you mean, what's goin' on? 1421 02:10:02,075 --> 02:10:04,535 Do you have to throw it in my face? 1422 02:10:04,620 --> 02:10:08,205 Do I have to read about it? Do people have to call me on the phone to tell me? 1423 02:10:08,289 --> 02:10:10,206 I didn't mean for that to come out. 1424 02:10:10,292 --> 02:10:14,044 And I live with the casual ones. I live with 'em. 1425 02:10:14,129 --> 02:10:16,963 So why do you disrespect me like this? 1426 02:10:17,049 --> 02:10:20,676 I respect you. I will always respect you. 1427 02:10:30,481 --> 02:10:32,105 Do you love her? 1428 02:10:37,656 --> 02:10:39,114 I don't know. 1429 02:10:45,874 --> 02:10:48,458 So what is supposed to happen now? 1430 02:10:50,295 --> 02:10:52,212 I fight George. 1431 02:10:53,799 --> 02:10:56,466 I didn't come all this far to lose. 1432 02:10:59,137 --> 02:11:00,554 Neither did l. 1433 02:11:26,837 --> 02:11:28,253 Belinda. 1434 02:11:32,719 --> 02:11:34,135 What, Bingham? 1435 02:15:09,461 --> 02:15:10,711 There it is. 1436 02:15:24,689 --> 02:15:27,064 Hey, Zack, where's George? 1437 02:15:27,150 --> 02:15:28,608 What's he pulling? 1438 02:15:28,650 --> 02:15:30,525 Where's George? Where'd he go? 1439 02:15:31,612 --> 02:15:34,863 I just wanna make sure you're gonna control the evening. 1440 02:15:35,617 --> 02:15:38,535 George is jerking us off, making us wait. 1441 02:17:16,939 --> 02:17:20,649 It's all over for you, man. You don't have a chance. 1442 02:17:21,778 --> 02:17:23,778 You don't have no chance. 1443 02:17:23,863 --> 02:17:25,906 The rumble in the jungle! 1444 02:17:25,992 --> 02:17:28,075 You don't have no chance, man. 1445 02:17:28,161 --> 02:17:29,243 Okay, let's go. 1446 02:17:29,997 --> 02:17:32,665 You guys know the rules. I want a good, clean fight. 1447 02:17:32,749 --> 02:17:35,291 Ali, be quiet and listen to the instructions. 1448 02:17:35,377 --> 02:17:37,377 You been hearing about me ever since you was a boy. 1449 02:17:37,463 --> 02:17:39,880 Ali, be quiet. Listen to the instructions. 1450 02:17:39,966 --> 02:17:42,216 - Now you got to face me. - No hitting low. 1451 02:17:42,301 --> 02:17:44,718 - When I tell you to break-- - You got to face me now. 1452 02:17:44,804 --> 02:17:46,762 Be quiet, or I'll disqualify you. 1453 02:17:46,849 --> 02:17:49,808 When I tell you to break, I want a clean break. Understand? 1454 02:17:49,852 --> 02:17:53,438 - You shoulda never came to Africa. - All right, shake hands. 1455 02:17:53,522 --> 02:17:55,480 Take your corners. 1456 02:17:55,525 --> 02:17:57,608 Okay. All right. No problem. 1457 02:18:41,410 --> 02:18:42,868 Break! 1458 02:18:52,548 --> 02:18:54,674 All right, break. Step back. 1459 02:19:26,252 --> 02:19:29,170 Take it to him! That's what we came to do, Daddy! 1460 02:19:41,060 --> 02:19:43,019 The heavyweight championship fight... 1461 02:19:43,105 --> 02:19:45,731 - That's all you got? - live via satellite... 1462 02:19:45,775 --> 02:19:47,733 direct from Zaire, Africa. 1463 02:19:50,238 --> 02:19:53,156 - There we go. - That's it, Daddy. 1464 02:19:53,242 --> 02:19:55,951 You just keep dancing around him, okay? 1465 02:19:56,786 --> 02:19:58,410 Just keep moving. 1466 02:20:06,130 --> 02:20:07,963 Legs hurting. 1467 02:20:09,051 --> 02:20:10,509 Air heavy... 1468 02:20:10,594 --> 02:20:12,594 like I'm in water. 1469 02:20:33,536 --> 02:20:35,536 Get away from the rope! 1470 02:20:37,124 --> 02:20:40,126 Get off the rope! Get off there! Move it! 1471 02:20:42,505 --> 02:20:45,214 Get off there! Get off there! 1472 02:20:53,725 --> 02:20:55,642 Get off the rope! 1473 02:20:59,733 --> 02:21:00,982 Get off them ropes! 1474 02:21:01,860 --> 02:21:05,821 Come on now, Ali, get off the ropes! 1475 02:21:05,865 --> 02:21:07,323 Come on, baby! 1476 02:21:08,408 --> 02:21:10,242 Come on, Ali! 1477 02:21:12,080 --> 02:21:15,039 That's it? That's all you got? That's it? 1478 02:21:20,757 --> 02:21:23,174 Move him out to the center! 1479 02:21:23,219 --> 02:21:24,843 There he goes! 1480 02:21:26,846 --> 02:21:30,181 Get away from the ropes! Get off the ropes! 1481 02:22:03,846 --> 02:22:06,430 Been here before. 1482 02:22:06,516 --> 02:22:08,516 Little greenroom. 1483 02:22:08,602 --> 02:22:11,144 Open that door. Gonna get out this place. 1484 02:22:11,229 --> 02:22:13,814 Come on, man, get up and get out. 1485 02:22:29,083 --> 02:22:31,918 They said you could punch, George. 1486 02:22:31,962 --> 02:22:34,671 You ain't hittin'. You hittin' like a sissy, George. 1487 02:22:36,301 --> 02:22:38,552 You can't lay up on the ropes like that. 1488 02:22:39,595 --> 02:22:43,973 You're letting him beat on you. You can't do that, champ. Come on, now. 1489 02:22:44,017 --> 02:22:47,769 -You wanna explain that to me? -Jab, then go to the middle of the ring. 1490 02:22:47,813 --> 02:22:51,191 - You had your fight going, then-- - You gotta dance, baby. 1491 02:22:51,276 --> 02:22:54,653 Shut up! Just be quiet! You let me take care of this! 1492 02:22:54,697 --> 02:22:57,948 Got to dance. You can't come out there like that. 1493 02:22:57,991 --> 02:22:59,949 - You can't back up. - You got to respect the man. 1494 02:22:59,993 --> 02:23:03,912 What is with the ropes? Something going on you wanna talk to me about? 1495 02:23:03,998 --> 02:23:06,957 Tell me what's going on with you. What are you doing? 1496 02:23:07,043 --> 02:23:10,838 Put the jab on him. You got to let him go and dance. 1497 02:23:10,882 --> 02:23:14,425 Don't let him get in your corner. He's tying to cut the ring off you. 1498 02:23:14,509 --> 02:23:18,345 He's tying to cut you off the ring. You can't let that happen. 1499 02:23:19,515 --> 02:23:21,765 Just take care of it! 1500 02:23:24,479 --> 02:23:27,690 And there's the bell. The fighters meet in mid-ring. 1501 02:23:37,703 --> 02:23:39,202 Get off the ropes! 1502 02:23:39,246 --> 02:23:41,121 Stay off the ropes! 1503 02:23:42,833 --> 02:23:46,169 Foreman again pushing him against the ropes. 1504 02:23:46,213 --> 02:23:50,674 And Ali laying back, fighting those blows against the sides of his body. 1505 02:23:50,717 --> 02:23:53,343 Get back in the middle of the ring, Ali! 1506 02:23:54,388 --> 02:23:56,680 Muhammad, get off the ropes! 1507 02:24:28,760 --> 02:24:32,387 You're punching like a sissy, George. Punching like a sissy. 1508 02:24:44,569 --> 02:24:46,736 What the hell's going on? Come on. 1509 02:24:58,795 --> 02:25:02,423 George, get him back. What the hell's going on? Come on. 1510 02:25:14,520 --> 02:25:17,271 You got to get off the ropes! 1511 02:25:17,315 --> 02:25:18,899 Get off the ropes! 1512 02:25:18,983 --> 02:25:21,901 Eight rounds to go. Running out of gas, big fella? 1513 02:25:23,071 --> 02:25:24,487 Let him go. 1514 02:25:37,462 --> 02:25:41,382 Can't let you get that second wind which you don't even know is there for you. 1515 02:25:41,468 --> 02:25:44,636 You want the title? Want to wear the heavyweight crown? 1516 02:25:44,680 --> 02:25:47,848 Nose broke, jaw smashed, face busted in. 1517 02:25:47,933 --> 02:25:49,850 You ready for that? Is that you? 1518 02:25:49,936 --> 02:25:53,354 'Cause you facing a man who will die before he lets you win. 1519 02:26:05,703 --> 02:26:08,621 Ali, don't let him beat on you on the inside. 1520 02:26:09,749 --> 02:26:11,707 Don't let him beat on you on the inside. 1521 02:26:20,386 --> 02:26:21,718 Come on, Ali. 1522 02:26:23,724 --> 02:26:25,933 Let's go, Ali. 1523 02:26:26,018 --> 02:26:29,228 Let's go, baby! Stay off the ropes! 1524 02:26:29,272 --> 02:26:30,604 Get off the ropes! 1525 02:26:30,689 --> 02:26:32,981 There it is. Keep 'em in his face. 1526 02:26:34,611 --> 02:26:35,610 Break! 1527 02:26:35,696 --> 02:26:37,821 Oh, you missed him, George! 1528 02:26:37,907 --> 02:26:40,032 You gotta go to work on him, Ali! 1529 02:26:48,583 --> 02:26:51,542 I thought you could punch, George. They said you could punch. 1530 02:26:51,587 --> 02:26:53,046 Come on, Ali! 1531 02:26:54,258 --> 02:26:57,009 Get away from the rope! Get off the rope! 1532 02:26:57,095 --> 02:26:58,511 He got him! 1533 02:27:05,020 --> 02:27:06,937 Move him around! Take him! 1534 02:27:08,148 --> 02:27:09,606 Come on, Ali! 1535 02:27:16,658 --> 02:27:19,868 Get off the ropes! Get off the ropes! 1536 02:27:21,039 --> 02:27:22,413 Get off the ropes! 1537 02:28:07,508 --> 02:28:10,467 George Foreman is hit by a combination of punches... 1538 02:28:10,511 --> 02:28:12,010 and down he goes! 1539 02:28:12,054 --> 02:28:13,804 George Foreman is down! 1540 02:28:13,848 --> 02:28:16,933 He's fallen like a tree in the forest! 1541 02:28:17,019 --> 02:28:20,354 He is felled by a combination of blows from Muhammad Ali! 1542 02:28:38,500 --> 02:28:41,710 Okay, this fight's over! This fight's over! 1543 02:28:54,101 --> 02:28:56,685 I told you! I told you! 1544 02:29:06,616 --> 02:29:10,159 Referee Zack Clayton is counting. Seven, eight! 1545 02:29:10,245 --> 02:29:12,203 And he's on his knee. It is over! 1546 02:29:12,287 --> 02:29:14,329 It is over! It is over! 1547 02:29:14,415 --> 02:29:15,873 It is over! 1548 02:29:15,917 --> 02:29:19,961 George Foreman has been knocked out by Muhammad Ali! 1549 02:29:20,047 --> 02:29:22,550 Muhammad Ali has done the impossible! 1550 02:29:22,593 --> 02:29:25,010 He has regained the heavyweight crown... 1551 02:29:25,096 --> 02:29:29,557 that was taken unjustly from him in 1967. 1552 02:29:32,436 --> 02:29:35,062 What a moment of history in this arena... 1553 02:29:35,148 --> 02:29:37,607 in Zaire, Africa! 1554 02:29:47,580 --> 02:29:50,081 A tremendous, tremendous moment.