What's My Name- Muhammad Ali (2019)

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A life story should be...

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It should be...
Everything should be in it.

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Why I joined Elijah Muhammad,
and what turned me too...

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What experiences
I had racially.

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I mean, see these things
I don't wanna just give away.

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People have offered me
a lot of money for books.

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Yeah, but you know,
everything that's written about you

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makes people wanna read
more about you.

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And they keep sayin', "Well,
wait'll we read his story by him."

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I was nervous.
That's a bad feeling.

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When you're in the dressing
room, and the man says,

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"Well, Champ,
you got five more minutes,"

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you get up and you warm up

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and then you look
into the monitor,

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you see all the people,
and you think about

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all the cities
in all the world watchin',

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how much is involved
and the investments

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you have gone if you lose.

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That's gonna destroy you
and everything you planned

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and everything's involved,
and the man's a good opponent.

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You walk into the ring,
you hear all these people rootin'

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and hollerin', and then you see
the cameras, the lights...

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I'm really frightened,
until the first two, three punches.

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...gonna be a great evening
for boxing fans all over the world.

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For the first time in
heavyweight championship history,

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we have two undefeated
fighters in there.

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Here is Muhammad Ali!

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His opponent, from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

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the heavyweight champion
of the world, Joe Frazier!

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Good evening,
Joe and Muhammad.

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Since this contest is
for the final determination

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of the heavyweight
championship of the world,

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we ask you to pay particular
attention to the rules

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of the New York State
Athletic Commission.

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Shake hands now, men.

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Return to your corners.

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♪ Hey, hey,
we're movin' on up ♪

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♪ Movin' on up ♪

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♪ Lord have mercy,
we're movin' on up ♪

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♪ Movin' on up ♪

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♪ Just keep on pushin' ♪

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♪ You're a winner ♪

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♪ Hey, we're movin' on up ♪

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♪ Movin' on up ♪

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♪ Oh, baby ♪

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♪ Everybody, hey, you know
we're movin' on up ♪

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♪ Ooh ♪

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I'm Cassius Marcellus
Clay the Sixth,

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and my great-great grandfather
was a Kentucky slave,

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and he was named
after some great Kentuckian.

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Cassius Marcellus Clay
is a great name in Kentucky.

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And, uh, really,
where he was from,

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where it was all originated,
I couldn't tell you,

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but since I've reached
a little fame in boxing,

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most people want to know where am I
from and where did I get that name,

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but really I haven't
really checked on it,

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so I see that I'm gonna
have to go lookin'...

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You'll have to look it up.

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See what it's all about,
now that I'm getting interviews.

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Ali was always a large baby,
and when he was 18 months old,

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he was very strong,
and had big, muscular arms.

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One day he was swinging
his arms, and he hit me

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in the mouth
and knocked a tooth out.

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Twelve years old,
I went to a home show

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where they displayed cars and
Fridgidaires and everything,

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and left my bicycle
outside and came out,

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it was a drizzling rain
that night.

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The bicycle was gone,

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I just got it for Christmas.

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I asked for the nearest
police officer.

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And they said in the basement
of the same building

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I had just came out.

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Fellow named Joe Martin
was training amateur boxers

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in a room about this size.

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He asked me to take out an
application and learn how to fight

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so I could beat the fella up
who stole my bicycle.

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I had a show
on television every week.

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Amateur boxing,
"Tomorrow's Champions."

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Wasn't but a short time,
I put him on that show,

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and that was his first boxing
match, was on television.

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And I had about
45 fights on that show.

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Every Saturday at 6:00.

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Three bouts,
and two-minute round bouts.

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One night when
I heard Rocky Marciano...

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The world heavyweight champion,
Rocky Marciano!

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He had beaten Walcott.

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And I heard the fella say,

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"And still
World Heavyweight Champion,

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Rocky Marciano!"

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Marciano!

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Rocky Marciano
wins by a knockout.

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So I rode off
in the rain on my bicycle.

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I could just hear
the man say it.

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"And still the heavyweight
champion of the whole world:

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Cassius Clay."

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And I said to myself,

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"The champion
of the whole world

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can whup every man in Russia,

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every man in America,

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every man in China,

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every man in Japan,
every man in Europe.

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Every man in America.

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The champion
of the whole world.

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That sounded big, then.

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♪ I'm going to Kansas City ♪

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♪ Kansas City here I come ♪

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♪ I'm going to Kansas City ♪

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♪ Kansas City here I come ♪

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Cassius Clay!

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♪ Gonna get me one ♪

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♪ Gonna be standing
on the corner ♪

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The winner,
by a TKO,

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Cassius Clay!

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♪ Gonna be standing
on the corner ♪

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♪ Twelfth Street and Vine ♪

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♪ With my Kansas City baby ♪

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♪ And a bottle
of Kansas City wine ♪

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Hudson wants to continue,

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but the referee awards
the victory to Cassius Clay.

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♪ They got crazy
little women there ♪

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♪ And I'm gonna get me one ♪

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I was convinced that
he would be Olympic champion,

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and, uh, he was
very scared of airplanes.

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He told me that
he wasn't going to Rome

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unless I could
get him on a boat.

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Well, I worry more about
airplanes than I do boxing.

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I mean, I never worry
about the fight.

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I worry about the flight.

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And, uh,
I said there's no way.

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You're gonna have to fly.

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Muhammad is this
training hard work,

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to force yourself to do it?

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You know, I mean,
the average person

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has gotta get up
and go to work every day.

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But you're lookin'
for things I wanna do for the future,

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then you could make your mind up,
too, that it's worth it.

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Wilbert McClure,
light middleweight, Toledo, Ohio.

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Eddie Crook, Detroit, Michigan.
165 pounds.

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Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Light heavyweight, Louisville, Kentucky.

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American Cassius Clay

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takes on Polish boxer
Ziggy Pietrzykowski

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for the Olympic light
heavyweight boxing championship.

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Cassius, were you worried
before any of the fights?

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Well, yes, truthfully,
I was worried before all of my fights

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because it's really
a big thing to win

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a world's amateur championship,

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and each fight is a big fight,

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so before every fight,
I was real nervous.

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This southpaw, Pietrzykowski,

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has proven
extremely challenging

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in all his other
bouts to date.

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No opponent has broken
through without being stung

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by his quick right jab
and staggering left cross.

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People really don't know
how tough this is.

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Just get up tomorrow and jump
around for three minutes

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and watch how tired
you can get.

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It's round two,
and Clay

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is outscoring his opponent.

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Pietrzykowski
lands a solid left.

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Cassius must be cautious
with this powerful leftie.

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And there's the end of the round.

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Champion is one
who can rally to the cause

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when you're under pressure

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and have just a little more
than the other guy.

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We start the third.

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Clay comes out looking lively
for the final round.

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First two rounds,
I was pretty slow gettin' started.

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In the third round,
he tired out.

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He couldn't hold
such a fast pace.

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So the third round,
he was mine.

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Clay taking control of the
fight here at the end of round three.

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And there's the final bell.

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Both men left it all in the ring
during these punishing three rounds

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of gold-medal boxing.

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And the winner by
unanimous decision is Clay!

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I won the Olympic
gold medal in Rome, Italy.

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I'm defeatin' America's
so-called threats and enemies.

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Olympic Champion. The Russian's
standing right here,

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and the Pole right here.

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And the flag is going...

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And I done whupped
the world for America.

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I said, "Man, I know I'm gonna
get my people freedom now."

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I'm the champion
of the whole world.

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Olympic champion.
I know I can eat downtown now.

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And I went downtown that day,

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had my big 'ol medal on
and went in the restaurants,

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And I said, "Hm,
a cup of coffee. A hot dog."

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Lady said,
"We don't serve Negroes."

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I was so mad, I said,
"I don't eat 'em either.

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Just give me a couple
of hot dogs and a hamburger."

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I said three days ago, I fought
for this country in Rome,

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I won the gold medal,
and I'm gonna eat.

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And she says, "Well, I'm not
the man. Now, he's gotta go."

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And I had to leave
that restaurant

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in my hometown,
where I went to church,

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and served in their
Christianity, and fought...

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Daddy fought in all the wars.

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Just won the gold medal,
and couldn't eat downtown.

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I said, "Something's wrong."

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Any of you boys
plan to turn pro?

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- Cassius?
- I was thinkin' about turning pro.

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For an example, right now, I'm the world's
amateur light heavyweight champion,

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and I'm broke.

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I'd seen him
quite a lot as a kid,

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so I got ahold of,
um, a black man,

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I guess is the word
I have to use now,

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um, who worked for me.

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Very bright young fellow,
and I said,

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"Do you know Cassius,
by any chance?"

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And he said, yes, he did,

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and I said, "Well,
I'd like you to arrange

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a meeting
between Cassius and me."

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♪...gonna move it slow ♪

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Any ideas now as to whom
you might sign with?

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Well, yes, it's best
to be with somebody you know

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and from your own town,
if possible.

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Nice, honest crowd,
nice clean people,

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and with the right backing,
I believe I have a nice chance

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to become the world's
heavyweight champion.

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♪ Now listen to the beat ♪

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He got 400 dollars a month.

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Enough so that he could eat,

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and then he got
50 percent of the gate.

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♪ 'Cause it's all right ♪

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♪ Whoa, it's all right ♪

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♪ Everybody clap your hands ♪

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Angelo Dundee
was comin' through Louisville

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with a fighter
named Willie Pastrano.

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So I called him up, I said,
"I'm the world's greatest fighter.

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I'm gonna be the world's
greatest champion.

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I'm now the Olympic champion.

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I'm the Golden Gloves champion,
the AAU champion,

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and I wanna talk to you.

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...hand over
the receiver,

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and I says, There's some sort
of a nut downstairs

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who wants to talk to us.
He sounds like a nice kid, though.

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He said,
"Aw, come on up."

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The conversation
went on for about three hours.

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And then, after I signed up,

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I went to Florida
and started training with him.

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When he walks into
the gymnasium in Miami Beach,

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you'll see it's
a happy air about it.

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This is his place
where he can train

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and relax and be himself.

245
00:14:34,583 --> 00:14:37,249
The Cubans gave him
the pet name "Boca Grande,"

246
00:14:37,332 --> 00:14:40,040
Big Mouth, because he imitates...
he's speaking Spanish,

247
00:14:40,124 --> 00:14:42,791
saying nothing for about ten
minutes with these fellas,

248
00:14:42,874 --> 00:14:44,583
and they get a kick out of it.

249
00:14:44,666 --> 00:14:47,833
But they dubbed him
"Big Mouth" before anyone.

250
00:14:49,708 --> 00:14:53,374
This is no usual fighter.
This kid just had that style.

251
00:14:53,457 --> 00:14:56,499
This quickness,
reflex action.

252
00:14:57,915 --> 00:15:00,833
He was hungry for,
uh, knowledge,

253
00:15:00,915 --> 00:15:03,457
for information.

254
00:15:03,541 --> 00:15:05,708
He kept asking questions
about road work

255
00:15:05,791 --> 00:15:09,332
and how many times
a day do you eat.

256
00:15:09,416 --> 00:15:13,124
I was very impressed the way
he worked. He worked hard.

257
00:15:15,124 --> 00:15:16,374
How many fights you had?

258
00:15:16,457 --> 00:15:19,416
Uh, about 180
amateur fights, lost three.

259
00:15:19,499 --> 00:15:21,124
That was my first three,
by the way.

260
00:15:21,207 --> 00:15:22,457
- Yeah.
- Um...

261
00:15:22,541 --> 00:15:24,374
Have you ever
been knocked out?

262
00:15:24,457 --> 00:15:25,957
Have you ever been
knocked out?

263
00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:27,749
Never dreamed
of being knocked out.

264
00:15:29,583 --> 00:15:30,957
Cassius Clay,

265
00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:32,583
an 18-year-old amateur
boxing champion

266
00:15:32,666 --> 00:15:35,833
with a charming smile,
took a physical examination

267
00:15:35,915 --> 00:15:37,999
for his first
professional fight.

268
00:15:40,957 --> 00:15:43,124
All Louisville
boxing fans turned out

269
00:15:43,207 --> 00:15:45,666
to see their young
Olympic gold medal winner.

270
00:15:45,749 --> 00:15:47,583
He did not disappoint anyone,

271
00:15:47,666 --> 00:15:49,791
easily winning
his professional debut

272
00:15:49,874 --> 00:15:52,249
with a flashing
unanimous decision.

273
00:15:52,332 --> 00:15:53,749
And the winner...

274
00:15:53,833 --> 00:15:55,499
Cassius Clay!

275
00:15:58,999 --> 00:16:00,624
If you ask
the average white person,

276
00:16:00,708 --> 00:16:02,416
who's the greatest
two fighters ever lived,

277
00:16:02,499 --> 00:16:04,833
he'll say Jack Dempsey
or Marciano.

278
00:16:04,915 --> 00:16:07,291
If you ask an Italian,
he'll say Benvenuti,

279
00:16:07,374 --> 00:16:08,915
which is nature.

280
00:16:08,999 --> 00:16:10,915
If you ask the average
black man on the streets,

281
00:16:10,999 --> 00:16:12,957
he'll say Jack Johnson.

282
00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,124
You may hate to admit it
because he's black,

283
00:16:15,207 --> 00:16:16,791
but he was one of the greatest.

284
00:16:16,874 --> 00:16:19,791
And after Jack Johnson,
every kid all over the world,

285
00:16:19,874 --> 00:16:21,666
every player knows
the name Joe Louis.

286
00:16:21,749 --> 00:16:24,583
The name Joe Louis
is boxing.

287
00:16:24,666 --> 00:16:26,517
I always wondered when
I went to church on Sundays,

288
00:16:26,541 --> 00:16:28,040
I always asked my mother,
I said,

289
00:16:28,124 --> 00:16:30,791
"Mother, how come
is everything white?"

290
00:16:30,874 --> 00:16:33,957
I said, "Why is Jesus white
with blond hair and blue eyes?

291
00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,374
Why is the Lord's Supper
all white men?

292
00:16:36,457 --> 00:16:38,040
Angels are white.

293
00:16:38,124 --> 00:16:40,583
I said, "Mother, when we die,
do we go to heaven?"

294
00:16:40,666 --> 00:16:42,541
She said, "Naturally
we go to heaven."

295
00:16:42,624 --> 00:16:44,559
I said, "Well, what happened
to all the black angels

296
00:16:44,583 --> 00:16:46,040
when they took the pictures?"

297
00:16:46,124 --> 00:16:48,874
At 188 pounds,
Clay is lightning fast.

298
00:16:48,957 --> 00:16:50,666
I said, "Oh, I know.

299
00:16:50,749 --> 00:16:52,291
If the white folks
was in heaven, too,

300
00:16:52,374 --> 00:16:54,833
then the black angels
were in the kitchen

301
00:16:54,915 --> 00:16:56,666
preparing the milk and honey."

302
00:16:58,082 --> 00:16:59,915
I always wondered why,
you know,

303
00:16:59,999 --> 00:17:01,915
Tarzan is the king
of the jungle in Africa.

304
00:17:01,999 --> 00:17:04,040
He was white.
Everything was white.

305
00:17:04,124 --> 00:17:06,207
And the angel food cake
was the white cake,

306
00:17:06,291 --> 00:17:08,058
and the devil's food cake
was the chocolate cake!

307
00:17:09,749 --> 00:17:12,457
Young Cassius Clay
takes another large step

308
00:17:12,541 --> 00:17:14,249
up the heavyweight ladder.

309
00:17:14,332 --> 00:17:16,541
And everything bad
was black.

310
00:17:16,624 --> 00:17:18,499
The little ugly duck
was the black duck,

311
00:17:18,583 --> 00:17:20,833
and the black cat
was the bad luck,

312
00:17:20,915 --> 00:17:23,541
and if I threaten you,
I'm gonna blackmail you...

313
00:17:25,249 --> 00:17:27,058
I said, "Mama, why don't
they call it whitemail?

314
00:17:27,082 --> 00:17:29,457
They lie, too."

315
00:17:36,708 --> 00:17:39,666
Gorgeous George,
a famous American wrestler,

316
00:17:39,749 --> 00:17:41,249
he was talkin' about,

317
00:17:41,332 --> 00:17:45,207
"I am the prettiest wrestler,
I am great.

318
00:17:45,291 --> 00:17:47,082
Look at my beautiful
blond hair."

319
00:17:47,165 --> 00:17:48,374
Real conceited and arrogant.

320
00:17:49,915 --> 00:17:51,708
He says, "George,
what if you lose?"

321
00:17:51,791 --> 00:17:54,040
"If I lose, I'm catchin'
the next jet out to Russia."

322
00:17:55,457 --> 00:17:57,165
I looked at him,
I said, "Boy,

323
00:17:57,249 --> 00:17:59,207
he needs a good whuppin'."

324
00:17:59,291 --> 00:18:01,624
When I saw all of
those people come to see

325
00:18:01,708 --> 00:18:04,457
Gorgeous George get beat,
and they all paid to get in.

326
00:18:04,541 --> 00:18:07,082
That's the thing...
they paid to get in!

327
00:18:07,165 --> 00:18:09,791
And I said,
"This is a good idea."

328
00:18:11,165 --> 00:18:12,583
And right away,
I start talking.

329
00:18:12,666 --> 00:18:13,999
I am the greatest.

330
00:18:14,082 --> 00:18:15,922
I won't return to the
United States for 90 days.

331
00:18:15,999 --> 00:18:17,416
I'm too fast.

332
00:18:17,499 --> 00:18:18,975
If you talk jive,
you'll fall in fire.

333
00:18:18,999 --> 00:18:20,583
If Doug Jones beats me,

334
00:18:20,666 --> 00:18:22,291
I'll crawl across
the ring on my knees,

335
00:18:22,374 --> 00:18:23,850
kiss his feet, tell him
he's the greatest,

336
00:18:23,874 --> 00:18:25,583
go to Idlewild Airport,

337
00:18:25,666 --> 00:18:27,749
and catch the next jet
out of the country.

338
00:18:27,833 --> 00:18:29,416
With me, it was
a little different.

339
00:18:29,499 --> 00:18:32,165
They said, "The nigga
talks too much."

340
00:18:34,708 --> 00:18:37,249
"He talks too damn much!

341
00:18:37,332 --> 00:18:39,082
Put your fist in his mouth!"

342
00:18:39,165 --> 00:18:40,583
I heard it ringside.

343
00:18:40,666 --> 00:18:42,416
"Knock that nigger out!

344
00:18:42,499 --> 00:18:44,249
That nigger needs
a good whuppin'!

345
00:18:44,332 --> 00:18:47,207
Winner by unanimous decision,

346
00:18:47,291 --> 00:18:48,957
Cassius Clay!

347
00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,332
Cassius Clay is
stomaching some of the people

348
00:18:51,416 --> 00:18:53,124
who are booing the decision.

349
00:18:53,207 --> 00:18:55,124
Debris is coming
into the ring now.

350
00:18:55,207 --> 00:18:58,332
Boo, yell, scream,
throw peanuts,

351
00:18:58,416 --> 00:19:01,874
but whatever you do,
pay to get in!

352
00:19:05,332 --> 00:19:07,666
You came in the ring
with a crown on your head.

353
00:19:07,749 --> 00:19:10,374
- Is that...?
- Because I am the king.

354
00:19:10,457 --> 00:19:13,583
I understand you have a queen of England,
but you don't have a king.

355
00:19:13,666 --> 00:19:16,249
Were you shocked
when you were booed

356
00:19:16,332 --> 00:19:18,165
into the ring
by the British public?

357
00:19:18,249 --> 00:19:20,791
No, I was not shocked.
I'm always booed.

358
00:19:20,874 --> 00:19:22,957
Everywhere I go, I'm booed.
I like to be booed.

359
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,624
That's why I fight hard.

360
00:19:27,416 --> 00:19:30,708
In 1963, when that
Henry Cooper hit me...

361
00:19:33,624 --> 00:19:35,165
He hit me with a left hook.

362
00:19:36,416 --> 00:19:37,666
That nick was so hard,

363
00:19:37,749 --> 00:19:40,040
it jarred my colored friends
in America.

364
00:19:41,833 --> 00:19:43,541
...knock on the bell.

365
00:19:43,624 --> 00:19:44,624
The bell has sounded,

366
00:19:44,708 --> 00:19:46,040
and he's up in about three,

367
00:19:46,124 --> 00:19:47,583
Clay, and he still

368
00:19:47,666 --> 00:19:49,541
doesn't know where he is.

369
00:19:49,624 --> 00:19:51,499
He's still half out,
Clay.

370
00:19:51,583 --> 00:19:53,457
They're working furiously
on him in the corner.

371
00:19:53,541 --> 00:19:55,249
Angelo Dundee, his trainer,

372
00:19:55,332 --> 00:19:57,708
he really is giving him
a talking-to.

373
00:19:57,791 --> 00:20:00,791
Cooper's left hook
finally scores,

374
00:20:00,874 --> 00:20:02,791
and Clay was down

375
00:20:02,874 --> 00:20:05,082
two seconds from the end
of the fourth round.

376
00:20:06,957 --> 00:20:08,499
And out they come
for round five,

377
00:20:08,583 --> 00:20:11,957
the round in which Clay
said he would beat Cooper.

378
00:20:14,291 --> 00:20:17,791
It's round five.

379
00:20:17,874 --> 00:20:19,767
And now he's stepping in,
and I think this is it.

380
00:20:19,791 --> 00:20:22,541
The cor... the towel has
come in from Cooper's corner,

381
00:20:22,624 --> 00:20:25,499
and Tommy Little's
looking at it,

382
00:20:25,583 --> 00:20:28,040
and he's had
to stop the fight.

383
00:20:29,583 --> 00:20:32,082
And Clay is getting
bombarded with programs

384
00:20:32,165 --> 00:20:34,040
from angry ringsiders.

385
00:20:34,124 --> 00:20:36,082
55,000 to witness,

386
00:20:36,165 --> 00:20:38,708
and this "Lord of the Lip"
come over here

387
00:20:38,791 --> 00:20:40,332
and call the exact
round again.

388
00:20:40,416 --> 00:20:42,999
We don't believe it.
The fifth round came.

389
00:20:43,082 --> 00:20:45,708
I said...

390
00:20:45,791 --> 00:20:47,999
I hit him. I said,
"Come on, sucker."

391
00:20:49,957 --> 00:20:50,957
Man said, "break it up."

392
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:52,416
I said there he is.

393
00:20:52,499 --> 00:20:55,082
There he is, and walked
on out of the joint.

394
00:20:58,583 --> 00:21:01,583
Come here, Sam.
I got the British Press here.

395
00:21:01,666 --> 00:21:04,541
This is Sam Cooke.
As you can see, like me, he's awful pretty.

396
00:21:04,624 --> 00:21:08,082
And we are here now workin' on the record

397
00:21:08,165 --> 00:21:09,749
called,
"The Gang's All Here."

398
00:21:09,833 --> 00:21:12,249
Would you like to give us
a preview of this disc?

399
00:21:12,332 --> 00:21:14,684
- Well, let's give 'em a sample.
- Come on, let's give 'em...

400
00:21:14,708 --> 00:21:16,767
We'll do a lot better if we
have the music here with us.

401
00:21:16,791 --> 00:21:18,874
All right, be we gonna
do it without the music.

402
00:21:18,957 --> 00:21:22,249
♪ Hey, hey,
the gang's all here ♪

403
00:21:22,332 --> 00:21:24,915
♪ Join in the fun ♪

404
00:21:24,999 --> 00:21:28,541
♪ Hey, hey,
the gang's all here ♪

405
00:21:28,624 --> 00:21:30,291
♪ We gonna swing as one ♪

406
00:21:30,374 --> 00:21:31,708
♪ Do it again now ♪

407
00:21:31,791 --> 00:21:35,291
♪ Hey, hey,
the gang's all here ♪

408
00:21:35,374 --> 00:21:37,124
♪ We gonna swing as one ♪

409
00:21:37,207 --> 00:21:41,124
- I'll see you guys later.
- All right, Sam. Yes, sir.

410
00:21:44,874 --> 00:21:47,124
♪ Are you ready? ♪

411
00:21:47,207 --> 00:21:48,457
♪ Yeah ♪

412
00:21:48,541 --> 00:21:50,249
♪ Am I the greatest? ♪

413
00:21:50,332 --> 00:21:52,457
Now I'm driving long,
beautiful Cadillacs,

414
00:21:52,541 --> 00:21:54,291
living in beautiful homes.

415
00:21:54,374 --> 00:21:56,332
I'm colorful, I talk a lot,
I'm just different.

416
00:21:56,416 --> 00:21:58,600
I'm something new on the scene,
and I'm not only a fighter,

417
00:21:58,624 --> 00:21:59,915
I'm a good showman.

418
00:21:59,999 --> 00:22:01,475
I just cut an album
for Columbia Records.

419
00:22:01,499 --> 00:22:03,332
I might retire
from the fight game

420
00:22:03,416 --> 00:22:05,499
and go into
the recording business.

421
00:22:05,583 --> 00:22:07,583
This thing will sell
about four million copies.

422
00:22:07,666 --> 00:22:09,165
It will outsell
"My Fair Lady"

423
00:22:09,249 --> 00:22:10,874
and "The First Family"
combined.

424
00:22:10,957 --> 00:22:12,517
Do you find it a lot easier

425
00:22:12,541 --> 00:22:14,141
punching holes in records
than opponents?

426
00:22:14,165 --> 00:22:15,642
You all right.
It's a lot easier,

427
00:22:15,666 --> 00:22:17,457
there's a lot more
dough in it.

428
00:22:17,541 --> 00:22:19,624
These records sell
for $3.98 apiece,

429
00:22:19,708 --> 00:22:23,291
and already,
it's done sold 175,000 in the last two days.

430
00:22:23,374 --> 00:22:25,749
Great fight, kid.
You were great.

431
00:22:25,833 --> 00:22:27,666
Let's talk about opponents.

432
00:22:27,749 --> 00:22:30,416
I won't fight nobody under
one million dollars guarantee.

433
00:22:30,499 --> 00:22:32,666
If it wasn't for me,
the game would be dead.

434
00:22:38,416 --> 00:22:40,666
Liston is
known in the fight game

435
00:22:40,749 --> 00:22:42,708
as a man who likes
to end fights early.

436
00:22:42,791 --> 00:22:44,499
Sonny Liston wins going away,

437
00:22:44,583 --> 00:22:46,666
knocking out Wayne Bethea
in the first round.

438
00:22:46,749 --> 00:22:49,999
In round one,
Liston is at top mast and is all business.

439
00:22:50,082 --> 00:22:51,559
A stunning left
sends Joiner

440
00:22:51,583 --> 00:22:53,791
crashing to the canvas
here in round six.

441
00:22:53,874 --> 00:22:56,541
This Sonny Liston
at his explosive best,

442
00:22:56,624 --> 00:22:58,541
throwing bombs
with both hands.

443
00:22:58,624 --> 00:22:59,975
A left, a breezy right,

444
00:22:59,999 --> 00:23:01,267
and a solid left
to the cheekbone

445
00:23:01,291 --> 00:23:03,124
drop the champion.

446
00:23:03,207 --> 00:23:04,541
The winner,

447
00:23:04,624 --> 00:23:06,708
the new world heavyweight
boxing champion,

448
00:23:06,791 --> 00:23:07,957
Sonny Liston!

449
00:23:09,957 --> 00:23:12,100
Do you really think
you can beat Sonny Liston?

450
00:23:12,124 --> 00:23:14,416
I don't think I can beat him,
I know I can beat him.

451
00:23:16,332 --> 00:23:18,207
As soon as
the contracts are signed,

452
00:23:18,291 --> 00:23:21,708
the principals
in the this all-time,

453
00:23:21,791 --> 00:23:23,749
all-great heavyweight bout

454
00:23:23,833 --> 00:23:26,541
that will soon be staged
and probably has the earmarks

455
00:23:26,624 --> 00:23:28,374
of shattering
every existing record...

456
00:23:28,457 --> 00:23:31,207
this is the fight that everyone
has been clamoring for,

457
00:23:31,291 --> 00:23:35,249
and as of this minute,
it is now official.

458
00:23:35,332 --> 00:23:38,374
Well, Cassius, you've
just signed that contract.

459
00:23:38,457 --> 00:23:41,082
Oh, yeah, I've just signed,
and my dream...

460
00:23:41,165 --> 00:23:43,874
my dream has came true,
and I'm ready to war.

461
00:23:43,957 --> 00:23:46,915
And I've been talkin',
talkin' and talkin', and predictin'.

462
00:23:46,999 --> 00:23:49,457
and Liston-Cassius Clay,
that's all I've been hearing.

463
00:23:49,541 --> 00:23:51,124
The Bear's
gonna knock you out,

464
00:23:51,207 --> 00:23:52,666
and now I'm ready to go.

465
00:23:52,749 --> 00:23:54,642
Sonny, I know you're eating,
and I hate to interrupt you,

466
00:23:54,666 --> 00:23:56,583
but would you like
to make a prediction

467
00:23:56,666 --> 00:23:57,999
on what's gonna happen
in February

468
00:23:58,082 --> 00:23:59,833
to your friend on the right?

469
00:23:59,915 --> 00:24:03,749
If they put
a mouthpiece in his mouth

470
00:24:03,833 --> 00:24:05,749
where he can't talk,
I'm gonna kill him.

471
00:24:05,833 --> 00:24:07,850
They ain't gon'...
I'm not gonna get knocked out!

472
00:24:10,999 --> 00:24:13,957
There ain't a heavyweight
in the world on two feet...

473
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:18,457
there's not a heavyweight
who can even keep up with me.

474
00:24:18,541 --> 00:24:19,957
I hit a man so fast,

475
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,165
slow motion cameras
can't detect the speed.

476
00:24:22,249 --> 00:24:23,999
Have you made
your reservations yet?

477
00:24:24,082 --> 00:24:25,666
I ain't
scared of nobody.

478
00:24:25,749 --> 00:24:28,249
It's gonna take
a good man to whup me.

479
00:24:28,332 --> 00:24:31,457
You can look at me,
I'm loaded with confidence. I can't be beat.

480
00:24:31,541 --> 00:24:33,165
I done had
108 amateur fights,

481
00:24:33,249 --> 00:24:36,416
22 professional fights,
and I'm pretty as a girl!

482
00:24:38,999 --> 00:24:43,124
I don't get hit!
I don't get hit I'm so pretty!

483
00:24:45,499 --> 00:24:47,249
And I'm tired of talking.

484
00:24:47,332 --> 00:24:49,374
There seems
to be a relative lack

485
00:24:49,457 --> 00:24:52,124
these days
of colorful individuals.

486
00:24:52,207 --> 00:24:55,291
It's a great pleasure when the
occasional rare ones do come along.

487
00:24:55,374 --> 00:24:57,350
Such a man is the gentleman
you're gonna meet right now:

488
00:24:57,374 --> 00:25:00,124
Number one contender for the
heavyweight crown, Mr. Cassius Clay.

489
00:25:00,207 --> 00:25:02,207
Here he is.

490
00:25:02,291 --> 00:25:04,040
Cassius,
when you beat Sonny,

491
00:25:04,124 --> 00:25:05,404
are you gonna
give him a rematch?

492
00:25:05,457 --> 00:25:06,874
After I beat Sonny Liston,

493
00:25:06,957 --> 00:25:08,725
you couldn't melt him
and pour him on me again.

494
00:25:10,249 --> 00:25:12,374
How about reciting one
of your poems, Cassius?

495
00:25:12,457 --> 00:25:15,957
If you like to lose your money,
be a fool and bet on Sonny.

496
00:25:19,457 --> 00:25:21,457
Do you plan to retire
after Liston beats you?

497
00:25:21,541 --> 00:25:22,666
Aw, no.

498
00:25:24,874 --> 00:25:26,332
I'm tired of hearing Liston.

499
00:25:26,416 --> 00:25:28,541
Everywhere I go, they're
talking about Liston.

500
00:25:28,624 --> 00:25:30,791
And he sent this
in the mail... a button.

501
00:25:30,874 --> 00:25:33,999
He's gonna button my lips,
and all of this.

502
00:25:34,082 --> 00:25:35,541
And I want him,
I can't wait for him,

503
00:25:35,624 --> 00:25:36,999
and he's gonna fall in eight.

504
00:25:37,082 --> 00:25:38,291
Yesterday he said,

505
00:25:38,374 --> 00:25:40,165
when Liston fights
Cassius the Great,

506
00:25:40,249 --> 00:25:43,374
everyone will compliment
him for falling in eight.

507
00:25:43,457 --> 00:25:45,040
Do you have anything
to say about that?

508
00:25:45,124 --> 00:25:46,404
The only thing
I can say,

509
00:25:46,457 --> 00:25:48,583
don't get
your tickets later.

510
00:25:48,666 --> 00:25:52,249
They waitin'...
only in the first round, they might miss it.

511
00:25:52,332 --> 00:25:54,957
Well, do you think
it'll end in two?

512
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,708
Well, you can bet your life,
it ain't going four.

513
00:25:57,791 --> 00:25:59,350
They shouldn't let him
in the ring with me.

514
00:26:00,791 --> 00:26:02,517
No, seriously. This is
gonna be the biggest upset

515
00:26:02,541 --> 00:26:04,708
in the century of all boxing.

516
00:26:04,791 --> 00:26:07,165
He's an old man,
he's 40 years old.

517
00:26:09,207 --> 00:26:12,374
That man don't belong in no ring
with no 21-year-old man like me.

518
00:26:12,457 --> 00:26:14,999
- Is Sonny 40?
- Goin' on 40.

519
00:26:15,082 --> 00:26:16,583
He's shaving.

520
00:26:18,457 --> 00:26:19,708
I ain't even shaved.

521
00:26:21,332 --> 00:26:25,332
Float like a butterfly,
sting like a bee!

522
00:26:25,416 --> 00:26:28,624
Rumble, young man, rumble.

523
00:26:28,708 --> 00:26:30,708
Where's he at?!

524
00:26:30,791 --> 00:26:32,583
218 pounds.

525
00:26:32,666 --> 00:26:37,999
You tell Joe Louis and Sonny Liston
that I'm here with Sugar Ray!

526
00:26:38,082 --> 00:26:41,291
Joe Lewis is flat-footed,
and Sonny Liston is flat-footed.

527
00:26:41,374 --> 00:26:43,749
Sugar Ray and I
are two pretty damsels.

528
00:26:43,833 --> 00:26:45,165
We can't be beat!

529
00:26:54,374 --> 00:26:57,082
Liston, almost
the first time he hits him,

530
00:26:57,165 --> 00:27:00,332
could be one, perhaps two.
I'll take one.

531
00:27:01,957 --> 00:27:03,874
Liston, obviously,
to win the fight,

532
00:27:03,957 --> 00:27:07,499
but I have a feeling it's going
to go as far as eight rounds.

533
00:27:09,207 --> 00:27:11,016
Clay will give Liston
a good run for his money.

534
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,600
- Clay will win?
- No, he won't win,

535
00:27:12,624 --> 00:27:14,791
but he'll give
Liston a good run.

536
00:27:14,874 --> 00:27:19,124
Not quite sure that anything
human can hurt Sonny Liston.

537
00:27:19,207 --> 00:27:20,749
Liston
in the fourth round

538
00:27:20,833 --> 00:27:23,499
because I really think
Liston is gonna really...

539
00:27:23,583 --> 00:27:26,499
show that man his
mouthpiece ain't valuable.

540
00:27:27,957 --> 00:27:29,267
Fights are
always won with fists

541
00:27:29,291 --> 00:27:30,791
and not with mouth talk.

542
00:27:30,874 --> 00:27:33,583
I pick Liston to win
by the 5th round.

543
00:27:33,666 --> 00:27:36,457
I'm just ready to fight,
and I'm glad it'll be here

544
00:27:36,541 --> 00:27:40,207
while these big-mouthed people
here in Miami talkin' about

545
00:27:40,291 --> 00:27:42,165
I talk too much and Liston's
gonna whup me...

546
00:27:42,249 --> 00:27:44,082
well, I want all of them
to be there.

547
00:27:44,165 --> 00:27:45,791
And I'm gonna shut up
all of ya's mouths.

548
00:27:47,583 --> 00:27:51,666
The challenger
from Louisville, Kentucky,

549
00:27:51,749 --> 00:27:53,957
Cassius Clay!

550
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,457
Clay!

551
00:27:56,541 --> 00:28:00,457
And his opponent,
from Denver, Colorado,

552
00:28:00,541 --> 00:28:04,374
the heavyweight champion
of the world,

553
00:28:04,457 --> 00:28:09,040
Charles "Sonny" Liston!
Liston!

554
00:28:09,124 --> 00:28:12,499
In the event of a knockdown, the man
that is down must take an eight count.

555
00:28:12,583 --> 00:28:15,666
Man standing up will go to a neutral
corner while I start counting.

556
00:28:15,749 --> 00:28:18,082
And do not resume boxing
until I tell you to do so.

557
00:28:18,165 --> 00:28:20,291
Now I want a clean bout,
when I order you to break,

558
00:28:20,374 --> 00:28:23,666
stop punching and step back.
Good luck! Shake hands.

559
00:28:25,749 --> 00:28:27,708
The night before,
it's hard to sleep.

560
00:28:27,791 --> 00:28:29,624
You watch television,
walk around,

561
00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:32,082
think about everything
involved... it's rough.

562
00:28:32,165 --> 00:28:34,874
And not from fright,
but just nervous.

563
00:28:34,957 --> 00:28:38,749
All this, plus some hard
left hooker comin' at ya, too.

564
00:28:38,833 --> 00:28:42,082
Cassius Clay
on the move, as we see,

565
00:28:42,165 --> 00:28:45,957
carrying his left hand
dangerously low.

566
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,999
Awkwardly fast,

567
00:28:48,082 --> 00:28:50,708
it might keep the champion
a bit off-balance.

568
00:28:54,915 --> 00:28:56,666
Very slippery!

569
00:28:59,374 --> 00:29:02,374
The challenger is jabbing
all over... body, head...

570
00:29:02,457 --> 00:29:05,332
and right hand!
The best punch of the fight so far.

571
00:29:15,833 --> 00:29:18,416
Well, Steve,
I think that was the greatest round

572
00:29:18,499 --> 00:29:20,332
of any fight
we've seen in a long time.

573
00:29:20,416 --> 00:29:23,874
I think Clay completely outclassed
Sonny Liston in this round.

574
00:29:23,957 --> 00:29:25,809
I hope that Clay
don't get too much confidence.

575
00:29:25,833 --> 00:29:28,332
If he do, then he gonna
get knocked out.

576
00:29:31,207 --> 00:29:34,915
Another jarring right
hand that time... another one!

577
00:29:34,999 --> 00:29:37,416
Sonny wobbles!
Sonny wobbles!

578
00:29:37,499 --> 00:29:39,249
Cassius has him hurt!

579
00:29:39,332 --> 00:29:45,165
Sonny is...
Sonny... is talking to...

580
00:29:47,957 --> 00:29:51,499
Sonny has a big mouse
below his left eye.

581
00:29:51,583 --> 00:29:53,833
He has a cut below the eye,

582
00:29:53,915 --> 00:29:56,833
and he's getting hit with
all the punches in the book.

583
00:29:59,708 --> 00:30:01,624
Something's
wrong with Clay now.

584
00:30:01,708 --> 00:30:04,207
Something's wrong with
Clay's eyes or something.

585
00:30:04,291 --> 00:30:07,457
I see that, Joe.
His eyes... his eyes are bothering him.

586
00:30:07,541 --> 00:30:10,291
Ladies and gentlemen,
we don't know exactly what happened.

587
00:30:10,374 --> 00:30:12,957
They're yelling
from Cassius Clay's corner,

588
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:14,749
something got
in his right eye.

589
00:30:14,833 --> 00:30:18,124
However,
he's blinking badly.

590
00:30:18,207 --> 00:30:21,999
Sonny's gonna try
to pour it on.

591
00:30:22,082 --> 00:30:25,332
Still having some problems
with his... with his eyes.

592
00:30:25,416 --> 00:30:29,291
He's blinking, and he's
bouncing away continually.

593
00:30:29,374 --> 00:30:33,874
Liston still aiming toward
the body with the big punches.

594
00:30:35,749 --> 00:30:37,332
Cassius Clay, Joe,

595
00:30:37,416 --> 00:30:40,624
was continually complaining
about his eyes.

596
00:30:40,708 --> 00:30:43,541
He seems okay. Dundee
seems to nod toward him.

597
00:30:43,624 --> 00:30:45,791
We're getting ready
for number six.

598
00:30:45,874 --> 00:30:48,374
- Did you think it was going this long?
- I sure did.

599
00:30:48,457 --> 00:30:50,291
I think the whole country
think it would.

600
00:30:50,374 --> 00:30:51,374
Round six.

601
00:30:51,457 --> 00:30:52,915
We know that Sonny,

602
00:30:52,999 --> 00:30:55,374
flat-footed stance
most of the time...

603
00:30:55,457 --> 00:30:58,583
Easy target!

604
00:30:58,666 --> 00:30:59,999
Easy!

605
00:31:00,082 --> 00:31:01,999
Very tricky left jab.

606
00:31:03,708 --> 00:31:05,249
Clay with a variety
of punches.

607
00:31:05,332 --> 00:31:07,040
It's all in combination.

608
00:31:07,124 --> 00:31:09,583
That's his strong point.

609
00:31:09,666 --> 00:31:12,249
The crowd now cheering
the challenger.

610
00:31:12,332 --> 00:31:13,999
There you see them,
Joe Polino

611
00:31:14,082 --> 00:31:15,999
trying to keep
that that tough pose.

612
00:31:16,082 --> 00:31:18,141
I think he don't see
too well out both his eyes,

613
00:31:18,165 --> 00:31:19,833
'cause they're
pretty well puffed out.

614
00:31:19,915 --> 00:31:22,791
And I think Clay got all
the company he needs now.

615
00:31:31,499 --> 00:31:32,999
They might be stopping it!

616
00:31:33,082 --> 00:31:35,666
That might be all,
ladies and gentlemen!

617
00:31:39,541 --> 00:31:41,874
It's recorded as
a seventh-round knockout,

618
00:31:41,957 --> 00:31:44,374
and thank you, Barney,
you did a good job.

619
00:31:44,457 --> 00:31:47,791
Man is floating on the world,

620
00:31:47,874 --> 00:31:50,040
on the ocean of activity,

621
00:31:50,124 --> 00:31:53,708
not knowin' where he's goin',
not knowin' what he's doin',

622
00:31:53,791 --> 00:31:56,416
and what seems to be
important to man

623
00:31:56,499 --> 00:31:58,915
is the moment
that he calls the present.

624
00:32:03,249 --> 00:32:05,332
The past is
just a dream to him,

625
00:32:05,416 --> 00:32:07,207
the future's in the mist,

626
00:32:07,291 --> 00:32:10,666
and the only thing that's
clear to man is the present.

627
00:32:10,749 --> 00:32:12,749
- I am the king of the world!
- Hold it, hold it!

628
00:32:12,833 --> 00:32:14,749
- I'm pretty!
- You're not that pretty.

629
00:32:14,833 --> 00:32:17,791
I'm a bad man!
I shook up the world!

630
00:32:17,874 --> 00:32:19,915
I shook up the world!

631
00:32:19,999 --> 00:32:21,207
I shook up the world!

632
00:32:25,416 --> 00:32:27,332
- I am the greatest!
- All right, Cash.

633
00:32:27,416 --> 00:32:30,124
What you gonna
say now, huh?

634
00:32:30,207 --> 00:32:31,749
He pulls his head back.

635
00:32:31,833 --> 00:32:34,791
He holds his hands too low.
Well, I'm still pretty.

636
00:32:34,874 --> 00:32:36,708
The Bear couldn't hurt me.

637
00:32:36,791 --> 00:32:38,957
The Bear couldn't even get
a good lick, I'm so pretty.

638
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,499
Oh, I'm so great!

639
00:32:40,583 --> 00:32:42,624
Oh, I'm so pretty!

640
00:32:42,708 --> 00:32:44,624
I shook up the world.

641
00:32:44,708 --> 00:32:46,791
- Now I'm through talkin'.
- Come on, now.

642
00:32:46,874 --> 00:32:50,249
I'm through talkin'.
You write... You write the results.

643
00:32:56,082 --> 00:32:58,332
Malcolm X,
what do you think

644
00:32:58,416 --> 00:33:00,457
of Cassius's victory
in Miami?

645
00:33:00,541 --> 00:33:01,559
I think it was
a great victory.

646
00:33:01,583 --> 00:33:02,833
He proved he was
the best man.

647
00:33:02,915 --> 00:33:04,499
Where were you
during the fight?

648
00:33:04,583 --> 00:33:06,749
I was in the auditorium,
watching the fight.

649
00:33:06,833 --> 00:33:09,666
- Right at ringside?
- Right at ringside. I was in seat 7.

650
00:33:09,749 --> 00:33:11,207
♪ Shake ♪

651
00:33:12,749 --> 00:33:14,541
♪ Shake ♪

652
00:33:15,666 --> 00:33:17,207
♪ Shake ♪

653
00:33:18,624 --> 00:33:20,082
♪ Shake... ♪

654
00:33:20,165 --> 00:33:22,624
I was with him
during the nine days

655
00:33:22,708 --> 00:33:24,348
when he was training
for the Liston fight,

656
00:33:24,416 --> 00:33:26,165
and he seemed very sincere.

657
00:33:26,249 --> 00:33:27,666
Whether he has understanding

658
00:33:27,749 --> 00:33:30,999
to equal his sincerity
is another thing.

659
00:33:31,082 --> 00:33:35,040
♪ Come on, loosen up
them shoulders ♪

660
00:33:35,124 --> 00:33:36,499
♪ Shake ♪

661
00:33:36,583 --> 00:33:39,374
♪ Oh, mama, shake ♪

662
00:33:39,457 --> 00:33:41,082
♪ That's the way to do it ♪

663
00:33:41,165 --> 00:33:42,708
♪ Shake ♪

664
00:33:42,791 --> 00:33:44,040
♪ Oh, you're lookin'
good now ♪

665
00:33:44,124 --> 00:33:46,999
♪ Shake, yeah ♪

666
00:33:47,082 --> 00:33:50,165
♪ Now shake,
that's what you wanna... ♪

667
00:33:50,249 --> 00:33:53,082
Do you think that
Cassius's being a Black Muslim

668
00:33:53,165 --> 00:33:55,332
has had anything to do
with this victory?

669
00:33:55,416 --> 00:33:57,332
I haven't heard him say
he was a Black Muslim.

670
00:33:57,416 --> 00:34:01,249
I have heard him say that he
believes in the religion of Islam,

671
00:34:01,332 --> 00:34:03,040
which makes him a Muslim.

672
00:34:03,124 --> 00:34:05,416
And it did have a great deal
to do with his victory

673
00:34:05,499 --> 00:34:07,666
because he's a clean-living
young man,

674
00:34:07,749 --> 00:34:11,999
and this is the main thing that the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad does teach

675
00:34:12,082 --> 00:34:14,291
in spreading the religion
of Islam throughout the...

676
00:34:14,374 --> 00:34:16,207
among our people
in this country.

677
00:34:17,833 --> 00:34:20,165
The leader
of the Black Muslim sect

678
00:34:20,249 --> 00:34:23,249
has termed Cassius Clay's victory over
Sonny Liston a religious victory.

679
00:34:23,332 --> 00:34:25,040
At the group's convention
in Chicago,

680
00:34:25,124 --> 00:34:27,874
Elijah Muhammad came closer
than anyone so far

681
00:34:27,957 --> 00:34:30,374
in proclaiming Clay a member
of the Black Muslims.

682
00:34:30,457 --> 00:34:32,999
Clay has hinted that he is
at least on the fringe;

683
00:34:33,082 --> 00:34:35,291
Elijah Muhammad
all but pushed him across.

684
00:34:35,374 --> 00:34:39,416
The enemy wanted him
to come out all blasted.

685
00:34:41,791 --> 00:34:44,374
They had said that he would...
ha ha!

686
00:34:44,457 --> 00:34:47,874
Liston would "tear up
that pretty face of yours."

687
00:34:50,874 --> 00:34:54,082
But Allah and myself said,
"No, no."

688
00:34:55,791 --> 00:34:59,249
How long has Cassius been a Black Muslim?

689
00:34:59,332 --> 00:35:01,249
- Do you know that?
- Well, I don't know.

690
00:35:01,332 --> 00:35:04,624
Cassius is probably more
capable of speaking for himself

691
00:35:04,708 --> 00:35:06,999
than any other man
in this country.

692
00:35:07,082 --> 00:35:09,749
Cassius Clay is a name no more,

693
00:35:09,833 --> 00:35:11,165
- is that right?
- Yes, sir.

694
00:35:11,249 --> 00:35:12,583
It's Muhammad Ali.

695
00:35:12,666 --> 00:35:14,666
"Muhammad" means
"worthy of all praises,"

696
00:35:14,749 --> 00:35:15,957
and "Ali" means "most high"

697
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,624
in the Asian-African language.

698
00:35:17,708 --> 00:35:19,040
How long have you
had the name?

699
00:35:19,124 --> 00:35:21,082
Well, for about, mmm...

700
00:35:21,165 --> 00:35:22,374
two weeks now.

701
00:35:22,457 --> 00:35:24,207
Has anybody special
gave you the name?

702
00:35:24,291 --> 00:35:25,475
Yes, sir, my leader and teacher,

703
00:35:25,499 --> 00:35:27,374
the Most Honorable
Elijah Muhammad.

704
00:35:32,124 --> 00:35:34,791
Here come Cassius,
the exact contrast

705
00:35:34,874 --> 00:35:37,999
of everything that was
representative of the Negro image.

706
00:35:38,082 --> 00:35:39,999
He said he was the greatest,

707
00:35:40,082 --> 00:35:41,791
all of the odds
were against him,

708
00:35:41,874 --> 00:35:44,124
he won, he became victorious,
he became the champ.

709
00:35:44,207 --> 00:35:47,999
They knew that as soon as...
if people began to identify with Cassius

710
00:35:48,082 --> 00:35:50,457
and the type of image
he was creating,

711
00:35:50,541 --> 00:35:52,016
they were going to have trouble
out of these Negroes,

712
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:53,624
because they'd have Negroes

713
00:35:53,708 --> 00:35:55,915
walking around the streets
saying, "I'm the greatest."

714
00:36:02,874 --> 00:36:04,957
They are Black Muslims,

715
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,624
a national religious cult

716
00:36:06,708 --> 00:36:08,749
that says it will take over
the United States

717
00:36:08,833 --> 00:36:10,583
and eventually the world.

718
00:36:10,666 --> 00:36:14,666
And the FBI says the movement
is a potential threat

719
00:36:14,749 --> 00:36:18,082
to the internal security
of the United States.

720
00:36:19,915 --> 00:36:21,165
A prominent Muslim

721
00:36:21,249 --> 00:36:23,708
is heavyweight champion
Cassius Clay,

722
00:36:23,791 --> 00:36:25,583
or Muhammad Ali.

723
00:36:28,249 --> 00:36:30,082
Just one man like me

724
00:36:30,165 --> 00:36:32,499
been so attacked
for just his name,

725
00:36:32,583 --> 00:36:34,499
with everybody I see
on TV shows

726
00:36:34,583 --> 00:36:36,165
have changed their names,

727
00:36:36,249 --> 00:36:38,583
then me bein' more crucified
than them,

728
00:36:38,666 --> 00:36:40,624
and I haven't done
nothin' illegal.

729
00:36:40,708 --> 00:36:43,124
This is what cause your riots
and make people hostile.

730
00:36:43,207 --> 00:36:46,249
News stories out of
New York about people are gonna

731
00:36:46,332 --> 00:36:48,791
come up here, heavily armed,
looking for you.

732
00:36:48,874 --> 00:36:50,666
No, that's just rumors,

733
00:36:50,749 --> 00:36:52,708
tryin' to scare me.

734
00:36:52,791 --> 00:36:56,291
Scared of what?
I walk through hell every day.

735
00:36:56,374 --> 00:36:58,457
No guards... don't need 'em.

736
00:36:58,541 --> 00:37:00,708
Pickin' on a clean,
righteous man like me

737
00:37:00,791 --> 00:37:02,457
and hollering about...

738
00:37:02,541 --> 00:37:04,642
What they come to tell me
they're coming to get me for?

739
00:37:04,666 --> 00:37:08,583
Why don't you go on the highway
and stop 'em! Hmm?

740
00:37:08,666 --> 00:37:11,666
South Florida's Muslim leaders

741
00:37:11,749 --> 00:37:15,332
are responsible directly to
Muslim headquarters in Chicago,

742
00:37:15,416 --> 00:37:17,541
where the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad

743
00:37:17,624 --> 00:37:21,165
runs the organization
with an iron fist.

744
00:37:21,249 --> 00:37:23,082
Cassius,
what brings you to Chicago?

745
00:37:23,165 --> 00:37:25,005
To have dinner
with my leader and teacher,

746
00:37:25,082 --> 00:37:26,915
the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

747
00:37:26,999 --> 00:37:28,891
- You're going to see him in Chicago here?
- Yes, sir.

748
00:37:28,915 --> 00:37:30,600
Where you gonna
have dinner with him, Cassius?

749
00:37:30,624 --> 00:37:31,749
Hmm, I don't know yet.

750
00:37:31,874 --> 00:37:33,708
Why are you seeing him?

751
00:37:33,791 --> 00:37:35,541
Hmm, tryin' to learn somethin'.

752
00:37:35,624 --> 00:37:38,374
You planning on fighting this
year before the year is out?

753
00:37:38,457 --> 00:37:41,416
Well, I don't know. I might retire.
I'm considering retirin'.

754
00:37:41,499 --> 00:37:43,499
- I'm really tired of fightin'.
- At your age?

755
00:37:43,583 --> 00:37:45,541
Yeah, I'm tired.
I don't have to fight no more.

756
00:37:45,624 --> 00:37:47,708
You think you might retire
without another fight?

757
00:37:47,791 --> 00:37:49,249
That's right.
I don't like boxing.

758
00:37:49,332 --> 00:37:51,416
Boxing means nothin' to me.

759
00:37:51,499 --> 00:37:53,291
What do you like?

760
00:37:53,374 --> 00:37:55,499
Hmm, uh, well,

761
00:37:55,583 --> 00:37:58,291
I like, just... I like what all,
uh, Negroes like,

762
00:37:58,374 --> 00:38:00,499
and what they're fighting for
is freedom.

763
00:38:00,583 --> 00:38:03,291
And I understand
that the Civil Rights bill

764
00:38:03,374 --> 00:38:06,082
is gettin' ready to die.
All that kind of stuff.

765
00:38:06,165 --> 00:38:08,416
Then they so shook up
about where I go to eat dinner.

766
00:38:08,499 --> 00:38:10,499
It's a shame in the eyes
of the intelligent world

767
00:38:10,583 --> 00:38:13,082
to even ask me
them kind of questions,

768
00:38:13,165 --> 00:38:14,708
where am I goin' to dinner.

769
00:38:14,791 --> 00:38:16,165
If you quit fighting,

770
00:38:16,249 --> 00:38:19,291
will you go full time
into civil rights work?

771
00:38:19,374 --> 00:38:22,708
No, I don't know if I call it
civil rights.

772
00:38:22,791 --> 00:38:26,332
Well, what will you do for an
occupation if you stop fighting?

773
00:38:26,416 --> 00:38:29,040
I don't know what I'll do.
God's got me here for somethin',

774
00:38:29,124 --> 00:38:31,957
I can feel it.

775
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,249
I was born for everything
that I'm doing now.

776
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,708
No fear of nothin'
is in my heart.

777
00:38:42,791 --> 00:38:46,541
Not even airplanes...
I used to be scared of them.

778
00:38:49,915 --> 00:38:52,249
You've been invited
to a number of countries too,

779
00:38:52,332 --> 00:38:53,684
- haven't you, Cassius?
- Yes, sir.

780
00:38:53,708 --> 00:38:55,082
Countries such as, uh...

781
00:38:55,165 --> 00:38:56,957
Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya...

782
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,749
- Pakistan?
- Pakistan, Malaya,

783
00:38:58,833 --> 00:39:01,332
- When do you plan to go?
- In a couple of months

784
00:39:01,416 --> 00:39:03,249
I'd like to start
my world tour,

785
00:39:03,332 --> 00:39:05,372
and I expect to be gone
for as long as a whole year.

786
00:39:11,791 --> 00:39:13,957
Why are we called Negroes?

787
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:15,583
"Nation of birth."

788
00:39:15,666 --> 00:39:18,666
"nation of birth."

789
00:39:18,749 --> 00:39:23,082
So if our nationality is Negro,
then where is Negroland?

790
00:39:23,165 --> 00:39:26,499
I said, "That's God's truth.
This is what I been lookin' for."

791
00:39:26,583 --> 00:39:30,165
And the so-called Negro,
it's a fact he's from Asia and Africa.

792
00:39:30,249 --> 00:39:31,791
And they have a language.

793
00:39:31,874 --> 00:39:33,749
Now, it's a fact
this is not our homeland.

794
00:39:33,833 --> 00:39:35,457
We was brought here as slaves.

795
00:39:35,541 --> 00:39:37,457
Now, why we don't know
one word of our language?

796
00:39:37,541 --> 00:39:39,082
What happened to our language?

797
00:39:39,165 --> 00:39:40,999
He said we've been
completely stripped

798
00:39:41,082 --> 00:39:43,749
and cut off from all knowledge
of self by the slave master.

799
00:39:43,833 --> 00:39:46,082
I said, "That's the truth,
that's the truth."

800
00:39:46,165 --> 00:39:48,207
He said, "We been taught
to hate our own selves.

801
00:39:48,291 --> 00:39:52,207
We call each other niggers,
boos, shines, jigaboos, spooks.

802
00:39:52,291 --> 00:39:53,541
We hate each other.

803
00:39:53,624 --> 00:39:55,583
All his people
are gonna intermarry

804
00:39:55,666 --> 00:39:57,040
and get out of our race

805
00:39:57,124 --> 00:39:58,708
and mix our blood with others.

806
00:39:58,791 --> 00:40:00,874
We're the only people
who wants to get away

807
00:40:00,957 --> 00:40:03,207
and identity himself
with someone else.

808
00:40:03,291 --> 00:40:05,249
That's what God
taught Elijah Muhammad.

809
00:40:05,332 --> 00:40:07,915
And Elijah Muhammad
teaches us

810
00:40:07,999 --> 00:40:10,874
that it's just truth
that God taught him,

811
00:40:10,957 --> 00:40:15,374
and if God taught him,
and we believe he's from God...

812
00:40:15,457 --> 00:40:18,541
- Then it must be true.
- Then we believe it. Yeah.

813
00:40:25,332 --> 00:40:27,999
Most of my knowledge comes from travelin',

814
00:40:28,082 --> 00:40:30,207
talkin' to people...

815
00:40:30,291 --> 00:40:33,124
we don't realize how much gold
and how much wisdom

816
00:40:33,207 --> 00:40:35,833
is in places
where you don't think it is.

817
00:40:46,874 --> 00:40:49,225
If it wasn't
for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad,

818
00:40:49,249 --> 00:40:51,749
I never would have heard
about this

819
00:40:51,833 --> 00:40:53,749
or even thought about
going to these countries,

820
00:40:53,833 --> 00:40:56,082
and this is
a golden Muslim mosque

821
00:40:56,165 --> 00:40:59,708
that was presented to me by the
Islamic Council of all Egypt!

822
00:41:03,749 --> 00:41:06,332
And I want one more thing to say,
I haven't explained to you yet,

823
00:41:06,416 --> 00:41:08,416
and this mosque,
I'm very honored,

824
00:41:08,499 --> 00:41:09,725
and I hope that
he will receive it,

825
00:41:09,749 --> 00:41:11,499
this is a gift,
our leader and teacher,

826
00:41:11,583 --> 00:41:13,457
for wakin' all of us up,

827
00:41:13,541 --> 00:41:15,583
because we were in
a bad state of conditions

828
00:41:15,666 --> 00:41:17,165
before we heard him.

829
00:41:21,165 --> 00:41:24,374
Why did you fall out with Elijah Muhammad?

830
00:41:24,457 --> 00:41:28,791
Well, some internal
disagreements and differences

831
00:41:28,874 --> 00:41:31,124
that I would rather not go into,

832
00:41:31,207 --> 00:41:34,874
but I think that it will
come out in public before long.

833
00:41:39,082 --> 00:41:44,624
Harlem has come to this fond farewell...

834
00:41:44,708 --> 00:41:47,374
to one of its brightest hopes,

835
00:41:47,457 --> 00:41:51,583
extinguished now
and gone from us forever.

836
00:41:51,666 --> 00:41:53,541
Malcolm...

837
00:41:53,624 --> 00:41:58,416
was our living black manhood.

838
00:42:00,165 --> 00:42:05,082
This was his meaning
to his people...

839
00:42:05,165 --> 00:42:09,124
and in honoring him,

840
00:42:09,207 --> 00:42:13,291
we honor the best in ourselves.

841
00:42:22,915 --> 00:42:25,666
The heavyweight champion of the world,

842
00:42:25,749 --> 00:42:28,207
Muhammad Ali!

843
00:42:30,791 --> 00:42:33,915
Muhammad Ali,
better known as Cassius Clay.

844
00:42:33,999 --> 00:42:36,874
...round one, here we go.

845
00:42:38,999 --> 00:42:41,666
I had a
cracked rib that night.

846
00:42:41,749 --> 00:42:45,874
James Ellis hit me
last two days in training.

847
00:42:45,957 --> 00:42:49,791
But I overcame it
with a shot of Novocain

848
00:42:49,874 --> 00:42:51,791
the night of the fight.

849
00:42:53,624 --> 00:42:55,040
But that whole rib
was painin' me,

850
00:42:55,124 --> 00:42:56,749
I was hoping
I didn't get hit there,

851
00:42:56,833 --> 00:42:58,791
'cause I'd've fell out
right there.

852
00:43:03,957 --> 00:43:06,583
Look, man!
That's a hit!

853
00:43:06,666 --> 00:43:09,457
Ha! Somethin' to think about,
ain't it?

854
00:43:09,541 --> 00:43:11,416
Sonny Liston.

855
00:43:11,499 --> 00:43:14,541
I know I can hear
the winos and the hobos

856
00:43:14,624 --> 00:43:18,082
and the little people who bet the nickels
and the dollars in the poolroom now.

857
00:43:18,165 --> 00:43:20,082
"He's a bad man, ain't he?

858
00:43:20,165 --> 00:43:22,999
He hit that man so hard!

859
00:43:23,082 --> 00:43:25,165
Don't never bet
against him no more.

860
00:43:25,249 --> 00:43:26,874
I don't know what
he's gonna do.

861
00:43:26,957 --> 00:43:28,541
He told us
to get there early."

862
00:43:28,624 --> 00:43:30,374
I know a lot of people
missed the fight.

863
00:43:31,499 --> 00:43:32,874
Walking around, you know,

864
00:43:32,957 --> 00:43:34,475
we have people that like
to come to the fights late,

865
00:43:34,499 --> 00:43:35,809
showin' off their pretty suits,
you know,

866
00:43:35,833 --> 00:43:37,249
all the players, you know.

867
00:43:37,332 --> 00:43:39,165
They missed the fight.

868
00:43:40,874 --> 00:43:42,833
Ohhhh, shoot.

869
00:43:48,833 --> 00:43:50,583
Second fight
with Sonny Liston,

870
00:43:50,666 --> 00:43:52,207
I hit him so fast

871
00:43:52,291 --> 00:43:54,708
slow-motion cameras
couldn't detect the speed.

872
00:43:56,082 --> 00:43:57,457
People said it was a fix

873
00:43:57,541 --> 00:43:58,957
because they couldn't
see the punch.

874
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:00,249
Well, "Sports Illustrated"

875
00:44:00,332 --> 00:44:01,624
clocked my fastest punch

876
00:44:01,708 --> 00:44:02,999
at 4/100 of a second.

877
00:44:03,082 --> 00:44:04,517
- How hard was it?
- Let me tell you...

878
00:44:06,749 --> 00:44:09,624
4/100 of a second.

879
00:44:09,708 --> 00:44:11,957
Which is
exactly an eye blink.

880
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,684
- Eye blink, OK.
- And then the people who missed that punch

881
00:44:13,708 --> 00:44:16,332
blinked at that moment.

882
00:44:16,416 --> 00:44:18,749
I'm gonna hit you six times
before you count two.

883
00:44:18,833 --> 00:44:20,249
Okay.

884
00:44:20,332 --> 00:44:21,624
- Go.
- One, two!

885
00:44:21,708 --> 00:44:24,291
You wanna see it again?

886
00:44:26,749 --> 00:44:28,624
Boxing is a stepping stone

887
00:44:28,708 --> 00:44:31,165
just to introduce me
to the audience.

888
00:44:31,249 --> 00:44:32,915
If I was still in Louisville,
Kentucky,

889
00:44:32,999 --> 00:44:35,040
and never was a boxer,
I might get killed next week

890
00:44:35,124 --> 00:44:38,499
in some type of freedom struggle
and you'd never read the news.

891
00:44:38,583 --> 00:44:41,749
But now if I even...

892
00:44:41,833 --> 00:44:44,040
say the wrong thing,
it makes news.

893
00:44:50,874 --> 00:44:52,933
I have today ordered to Vietnam

894
00:44:52,957 --> 00:44:54,999
to increase our active
fighting forces

895
00:44:55,082 --> 00:44:57,666
by raising
the monthly draft call

896
00:44:57,749 --> 00:45:02,124
from 75,000 to... 125,000 men...

897
00:45:02,207 --> 00:45:03,957
almost immediately.

898
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,249
♪..red, white and blue ♪

899
00:45:06,332 --> 00:45:08,499
The boys in Vietnam
we're throwin' away,

900
00:45:08,583 --> 00:45:10,082
you may save their lives.

901
00:45:10,165 --> 00:45:11,874
They are dyin' today

902
00:45:11,957 --> 00:45:14,624
to free somebody
they don't know.

903
00:45:14,708 --> 00:45:17,416
See, the greatest sports title
mean nothin'

904
00:45:17,499 --> 00:45:19,791
if you cannot be free!

905
00:45:20,791 --> 00:45:22,541
♪ It ain't me ♪

906
00:45:22,624 --> 00:45:24,291
♪ It ain't me... ♪

907
00:45:24,374 --> 00:45:26,416
My only interest in fighting him

908
00:45:26,499 --> 00:45:28,499
is merely to take
the championship away

909
00:45:28,583 --> 00:45:30,583
and to put it back
to where it belongs:

910
00:45:30,666 --> 00:45:32,708
all America,
not just the Black Muslims.

911
00:45:34,416 --> 00:45:36,040
People like Patterson,

912
00:45:36,124 --> 00:45:38,332
they don't take no parts
in freedom movement

913
00:45:38,416 --> 00:45:41,541
or Black Power, takin' stands
or givin' up nothin'

914
00:45:41,624 --> 00:45:43,874
or buckin' the system
that is against their people,

915
00:45:43,957 --> 00:45:47,040
so they just...
some people slow and some are quick.

916
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:50,583
I'm very happy that Mr. Clay

917
00:45:50,666 --> 00:45:52,499
took the time out
to come up to my camp.

918
00:45:52,583 --> 00:45:54,583
As far as they way
he's carrying on is concerned,

919
00:45:54,666 --> 00:45:58,082
I think that it's sort of...
it will help my fight.

920
00:45:58,165 --> 00:46:00,499
If your trainers had fought me,
you'd apologize!

921
00:46:01,874 --> 00:46:05,249
From Louisville, Kentucky...

922
00:46:05,332 --> 00:46:08,708
the heavyweight champion
of the world,

923
00:46:08,791 --> 00:46:11,583
Muhammad Ali!

924
00:46:11,666 --> 00:46:15,124
This will be a mismatch.
First, I'm gonna punish him.

925
00:46:15,207 --> 00:46:17,833
I want to take him
and give him a good whuppin'.

926
00:46:17,915 --> 00:46:20,583
I don't think he deserves
a quick knockout.

927
00:46:20,666 --> 00:46:22,749
Before he fights me,

928
00:46:22,833 --> 00:46:25,416
he'd rather be caught in the middle
of Vietnam with a beanshooter.

929
00:46:25,499 --> 00:46:29,957
The winner,
and still heavyweight champion of the world,

930
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,249
Muhammad Ali!

931
00:46:32,332 --> 00:46:34,624
The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad teaches us here.

932
00:46:34,708 --> 00:46:37,999
He says we believe that we who
declare ourselves

933
00:46:38,082 --> 00:46:40,124
to be righteous Muslims

934
00:46:40,207 --> 00:46:42,124
should not participate in wars

935
00:46:42,207 --> 00:46:44,457
which take the lives
of human beings.

936
00:46:44,541 --> 00:46:46,791
We do not believe
that this nation

937
00:46:46,874 --> 00:46:49,624
should force us
to take part in such wars

938
00:46:49,708 --> 00:46:52,124
by we have nothing to gain
from it

939
00:46:52,207 --> 00:46:56,416
unless America agrees to give
us the necessary territory

940
00:46:56,499 --> 00:46:59,374
wherein we may have
somethin' to fight for.

941
00:47:03,624 --> 00:47:06,541
This country was set up on the basic concept

942
00:47:06,624 --> 00:47:09,207
of religious freedom
or freedom of expression.

943
00:47:09,291 --> 00:47:12,332
I don't believe that he should
be persecuted or ridiculed

944
00:47:12,416 --> 00:47:13,957
because of his beliefs.

945
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,457
The man is a Muslim,

946
00:47:16,541 --> 00:47:18,541
and this is his belief,
he doesn't believe in war,

947
00:47:18,624 --> 00:47:21,165
and I think
he should be deferred.

948
00:47:21,249 --> 00:47:23,141
He is a great champion,
they should respect his beliefs.

949
00:47:23,165 --> 00:47:24,833
That's why I'm here right now.

950
00:47:24,915 --> 00:47:26,583
The tragedy to me is that

951
00:47:26,666 --> 00:47:28,583
Cassius has made
millions of dollars

952
00:47:28,666 --> 00:47:30,583
off of the American public,

953
00:47:30,666 --> 00:47:33,708
and now he's not willing
to show his appreciation

954
00:47:33,791 --> 00:47:35,666
to a country that's giving him,

955
00:47:35,749 --> 00:47:38,165
in my view,
a fantastic opportunity.

956
00:47:38,249 --> 00:47:41,082
Why me, a man
who pays the salary

957
00:47:41,165 --> 00:47:44,207
of at least 50,000 men
in Vietnam,

958
00:47:44,291 --> 00:47:46,249
a man who can pay in two fights

959
00:47:46,332 --> 00:47:48,332
for three bomber planes...

960
00:47:48,416 --> 00:47:50,541
I'm fightin' for the government
every day!

961
00:47:50,624 --> 00:47:53,332
You were faced with
the same problem in World War II.

962
00:47:53,416 --> 00:47:54,708
No, not quite.

963
00:47:54,791 --> 00:47:57,165
I was only waitin' for 'em
to send for me,

964
00:47:57,249 --> 00:47:58,569
and when they sent
for me, I went.

965
00:47:58,624 --> 00:48:00,040
So it wasn't
the same problem,

966
00:48:00,124 --> 00:48:02,040
it was just that I was
champion at the time

967
00:48:02,124 --> 00:48:04,040
that World War II started,

968
00:48:04,124 --> 00:48:06,040
so when my time came up,
I had to go.

969
00:48:06,124 --> 00:48:08,040
Do you think there's anything wrong

970
00:48:08,124 --> 00:48:10,082
in someone like Cassius Clay
refusing induction?

971
00:48:10,165 --> 00:48:11,957
- Yes, sir, I certainly do.
- Why?

972
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:14,666
Because he's no better
than the rest of us.

973
00:48:19,583 --> 00:48:22,874
I'd like to say something right here.

974
00:48:22,957 --> 00:48:24,374
Cassius Clay, yes...

975
00:48:24,457 --> 00:48:26,040
Why you wanna say
"Cassius Clay"

976
00:48:26,124 --> 00:48:28,666
when Howard Cosell and everybody
is calling me Muhammad Ali?

977
00:48:28,749 --> 00:48:30,999
Why you gotta be the one,
of all people who's colored

978
00:48:31,082 --> 00:48:32,999
to keep saying "Cassius Clay"?

979
00:48:33,082 --> 00:48:37,624
Uh, Howard Cosell is not the
one's gonna fight you. I am.

980
00:48:37,708 --> 00:48:40,583
- Now, if you...
- You make it really hard on yourself now.

981
00:48:40,666 --> 00:48:43,040
Why don't you keep the thing
in the sport angle?

982
00:48:43,124 --> 00:48:44,915
Why don't you call me
my name, man?

983
00:48:44,999 --> 00:48:46,583
Well, what's your name?

984
00:48:46,666 --> 00:48:48,999
You told me your name was
Cassius Clay a few years ago.

985
00:48:49,082 --> 00:48:50,722
I never told you
my name was Cassius Clay.

986
00:48:50,749 --> 00:48:52,749
- Well...
- My name is Muhammad Ali,

987
00:48:52,833 --> 00:48:56,541
and you will announce it right there in
the center of that ring after the fight

988
00:48:56,624 --> 00:48:57,999
if you don't do it now.

989
00:48:58,082 --> 00:48:59,957
For the benefit
of this broadcast,

990
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,624
him, all right? Uh...

991
00:49:02,708 --> 00:49:05,374
You actin' just like
a old Uncle Tom.

992
00:49:05,457 --> 00:49:08,082
Another Floyd Patterson.
I'm gonna punish you.

993
00:49:08,165 --> 00:49:09,975
Let me tell you something,
man. You ain't got no...

994
00:49:09,999 --> 00:49:12,416
- Back off of me!
- Don't call me no Uncle Tom.

995
00:49:12,499 --> 00:49:14,124
That's what you are,
a Uncle Tom.

996
00:49:14,207 --> 00:49:15,624
Why you gonna call me
Uncle Tom?

997
00:49:15,708 --> 00:49:18,082
You heard me.
Just back off of me!

998
00:49:18,165 --> 00:49:20,082
- And so, ladies and gentlemen...
- Uncle Tom!

999
00:49:20,165 --> 00:49:23,833
as the two contestants
prepare for battle right now...

1000
00:49:23,915 --> 00:49:25,541
Back off me, man!

1001
00:49:25,624 --> 00:49:26,957
Back off me, man!

1002
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:30,541
...another interview
has been recorded for posterity

1003
00:49:30,624 --> 00:49:33,791
as the two gentlemen continue
to promote the fight.

1004
00:49:33,874 --> 00:49:35,082
Uncle Tom!

1005
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,165
Perfect.
That's it.

1006
00:49:39,249 --> 00:49:42,249
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

1007
00:49:42,332 --> 00:49:44,124
Come on! Come on!

1008
00:49:44,207 --> 00:49:45,791
Keep shooting.

1009
00:49:48,332 --> 00:49:49,767
A lot of people have asked about

1010
00:49:49,791 --> 00:49:52,124
that interview we did together
with Terrell,

1011
00:49:52,207 --> 00:49:54,541
coast-to-coast,
a week or so ago,

1012
00:49:54,624 --> 00:49:57,082
where you and Terrell
almost came to blows.

1013
00:49:57,165 --> 00:50:00,666
And many people have said it was a
publicity stunt, that you staged it.

1014
00:50:00,749 --> 00:50:02,350
They have a right to believe so,
Howard,

1015
00:50:02,374 --> 00:50:04,915
because many things
in the past that I have done

1016
00:50:04,999 --> 00:50:07,040
was publicity stunts,
that's all.

1017
00:50:07,124 --> 00:50:08,833
But this time,
it was serious.

1018
00:50:08,915 --> 00:50:10,332
Do you hate him?

1019
00:50:10,416 --> 00:50:11,624
No, I don't really hate him,

1020
00:50:11,708 --> 00:50:13,749
but I don't really hate no one,

1021
00:50:13,833 --> 00:50:15,749
but I don't like him
for his actions

1022
00:50:15,833 --> 00:50:17,207
and the way he was actin'

1023
00:50:17,291 --> 00:50:19,082
and insistin' on
calling me Cassius Clay,

1024
00:50:19,165 --> 00:50:20,999
knowing that my name now
is Muhammad Ali

1025
00:50:21,082 --> 00:50:22,499
and I'm a Muslim,

1026
00:50:22,583 --> 00:50:24,343
and whenever this is
discussed, it's serious,

1027
00:50:24,416 --> 00:50:26,833
I don't play with
the religion or the name.

1028
00:50:26,915 --> 00:50:28,666
So he really made me angry.

1029
00:50:28,749 --> 00:50:30,499
That was not play.
That was real.

1030
00:50:30,583 --> 00:50:32,332
Shake hands now

1031
00:50:32,416 --> 00:50:34,249
and come out fighting.

1032
00:50:36,749 --> 00:50:38,457
He knows that's not my name,

1033
00:50:38,541 --> 00:50:39,624
and I don't like it,

1034
00:50:39,708 --> 00:50:40,999
so I'm gonna have to whup him.

1035
00:50:41,082 --> 00:50:42,915
To describe it,
it's beatin' him,

1036
00:50:42,999 --> 00:50:44,165
makin' him look bad

1037
00:50:44,249 --> 00:50:45,583
or makin' him look silly,

1038
00:50:45,666 --> 00:50:47,416
showin' him
that he has no class,

1039
00:50:47,499 --> 00:50:49,457
talkin' to him,
askin' him questions,

1040
00:50:49,541 --> 00:50:51,499
like "What's my name?"
while I whip him,

1041
00:50:51,583 --> 00:50:53,374
whip him until he say
"Muhammad Ali"

1042
00:50:53,457 --> 00:50:55,708
and just ridicule him
and shame him

1043
00:50:55,791 --> 00:50:58,791
in front of the world.

1044
00:50:58,874 --> 00:51:02,708
Now the bell for round eight.

1045
00:51:09,291 --> 00:51:11,249
Clay is talking to Terrell.

1046
00:51:11,332 --> 00:51:13,791
He's asking
what his name is.

1047
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:18,708
He said he'd humiliate him.

1048
00:51:20,791 --> 00:51:22,874
I hardly think it's necessary.

1049
00:51:22,957 --> 00:51:24,332
Don't you agree, Joe?

1050
00:51:24,416 --> 00:51:26,583
I don't... I think...

1051
00:51:26,666 --> 00:51:30,999
Clay can do what he want to do
in that ring.

1052
00:51:37,416 --> 00:51:39,416
What's my name?!

1053
00:51:41,249 --> 00:51:43,457
You saw what just happened in the ring.

1054
00:51:43,541 --> 00:51:44,874
It spoke for itself.

1055
00:51:44,957 --> 00:51:47,541
That was the big
three-word question

1056
00:51:47,624 --> 00:51:50,416
that was answered last Saturday
on television

1057
00:51:50,499 --> 00:51:52,624
in advance by Ernie Terrell.

1058
00:51:52,708 --> 00:51:54,915
He said his name
is Cassius Clay.

1059
00:51:56,249 --> 00:51:58,583
Do you still hate this man?

1060
00:51:58,666 --> 00:52:02,499
Uh,
I don't hate the man as a fighter.

1061
00:52:02,583 --> 00:52:05,541
I still dislike what
he represent and what he said.

1062
00:52:05,624 --> 00:52:08,624
It's unnecessary,
it's not in pro sports,

1063
00:52:08,708 --> 00:52:09,999
and he shouldn't
bring it in.

1064
00:52:10,082 --> 00:52:13,207
I respect all fighters
for ability,

1065
00:52:13,291 --> 00:52:14,791
but not for nonsense.

1066
00:52:14,874 --> 00:52:16,154
I think this proves
to the public

1067
00:52:16,207 --> 00:52:17,749
and all of the doubters
out there

1068
00:52:17,833 --> 00:52:19,874
that Ernie Terrell
has no class whatsoever

1069
00:52:19,957 --> 00:52:22,499
and you cannot compare him
even in my, uh...

1070
00:52:22,583 --> 00:52:24,708
I don't think you have
to say that, really.

1071
00:52:24,791 --> 00:52:26,583
The man fought
a courageous fight.

1072
00:52:26,666 --> 00:52:28,291
You would say everything
if I'd lost.

1073
00:52:28,374 --> 00:52:29,624
Especially you.

1074
00:52:29,708 --> 00:52:31,165
And I won,
let me have my say.

1075
00:52:31,249 --> 00:52:33,457
Terrell, I proved
that he wasn't nothin'.

1076
00:52:33,541 --> 00:52:35,624
- All right.
- It's a joke calling him a champion.

1077
00:52:35,708 --> 00:52:38,583
And he better pronounce my name
right from now on.

1078
00:52:38,666 --> 00:52:42,708
"Humility"
is hardly the name of Muhammad Ali.

1079
00:52:42,791 --> 00:52:46,124
Muhammad Ali is his name,
by his choice.

1080
00:52:48,708 --> 00:52:52,541
Hell, no, we won't go!
Hell, no, we won't go!

1081
00:52:52,624 --> 00:52:56,708
Hell, no, we won't go!
Hell, no, we won't go!

1082
00:52:56,791 --> 00:52:59,291
Hell, no, we won't go!

1083
00:53:06,291 --> 00:53:07,874
Ladies and gentlemen,

1084
00:53:07,957 --> 00:53:09,457
Mr. Muhammad Ali

1085
00:53:09,541 --> 00:53:11,040
has just refused
to be inducted

1086
00:53:11,124 --> 00:53:13,332
into the United States
armed forces.

1087
00:53:13,416 --> 00:53:15,124
Notification of his refusal

1088
00:53:15,207 --> 00:53:17,583
is being made to
the United States Attorney,

1089
00:53:17,666 --> 00:53:19,874
the state director
of the Selective Service system,

1090
00:53:19,957 --> 00:53:21,666
and the local
Selective Service board

1091
00:53:21,749 --> 00:53:24,124
for whatever action's
deemed to be appropriate.

1092
00:53:24,207 --> 00:53:28,416
I will bring Mr. Ali in
for his comments.

1093
00:53:28,499 --> 00:53:31,040
I wrote a little poem
on that thing about Vietnam.

1094
00:53:31,124 --> 00:53:35,791
- Heard my little Vietnam poem?
- No, I haven't, no.

1095
00:53:35,874 --> 00:53:39,457
"Clean out my cell
and take me to jail,

1096
00:53:39,541 --> 00:53:43,374
better there fed
than in Vietnam dead."

1097
00:54:00,457 --> 00:54:01,874
I don't need the WBA.

1098
00:54:01,957 --> 00:54:03,583
I have world recognition,

1099
00:54:03,666 --> 00:54:06,666
not only in this country
but all over the world,

1100
00:54:06,749 --> 00:54:08,915
and the WBA is nobody to me.

1101
00:54:08,999 --> 00:54:11,999
They made themselves
look like fools

1102
00:54:12,082 --> 00:54:14,499
by taking the title,
and it's up to them

1103
00:54:14,583 --> 00:54:16,499
to give it back.

1104
00:54:19,624 --> 00:54:22,165
Anybody who's doin' the right thing,

1105
00:54:22,249 --> 00:54:23,666
they catch a lot of hell.

1106
00:54:23,749 --> 00:54:26,082
You cannot please God
and the devil too,

1107
00:54:26,165 --> 00:54:27,957
so I'm pleasing God.

1108
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,791
I'm rejected here and rejected there,
not wanted here,

1109
00:54:30,874 --> 00:54:33,999
and I have a good feelin'
spiritually because I'm right.

1110
00:54:34,082 --> 00:54:36,583
If I wasn't right,
then they would accept me.

1111
00:54:41,624 --> 00:54:44,666
Nine top Negro
athletes meet with Cassius Clay

1112
00:54:44,749 --> 00:54:47,416
to discuss
his anti-draft stand.

1113
00:54:47,499 --> 00:54:49,416
They include Bill Russell,
Lew Alcindor,

1114
00:54:49,499 --> 00:54:52,416
and former pro footballer
Jimmy Brown.

1115
00:54:52,499 --> 00:54:54,499
Says Brown after the meeting,

1116
00:54:54,583 --> 00:54:56,791
"The champ is sincere
in his religious beliefs.

1117
00:54:56,874 --> 00:55:00,082
He believes in his religion,
and his stand is based wholly on that."

1118
00:55:00,165 --> 00:55:02,791
Clay's induction refusal
cost him his title

1119
00:55:02,874 --> 00:55:05,999
and he faces a possible
five-year prison sentence.

1120
00:55:06,082 --> 00:55:08,457
He claims exemption
as a minister

1121
00:55:08,541 --> 00:55:10,624
of the Black Muslim faith.

1122
00:55:16,957 --> 00:55:19,499
What did you discuss back in the hotel room?

1123
00:55:19,583 --> 00:55:23,249
Nothin'. Just friends,
just like Khrushchev and Kennedy

1124
00:55:23,332 --> 00:55:26,624
and everybody when
all of the politicians

1125
00:55:26,708 --> 00:55:28,957
of all of the white races
come together,

1126
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:31,791
although they believe
differently, think different,

1127
00:55:31,874 --> 00:55:34,708
whites can come together
and discuss the common cause,

1128
00:55:34,791 --> 00:55:37,666
but whenever a few of us come together,
the world is shook up.

1129
00:55:37,749 --> 00:55:40,332
And I say whatever went
back there is our business.

1130
00:55:40,416 --> 00:55:41,957
Reverend King,
do you agree?

1131
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:43,499
Oh, yes, yes.

1132
00:55:43,583 --> 00:55:45,791
We had a very good discussion

1133
00:55:45,874 --> 00:55:47,999
on many matters,

1134
00:55:48,082 --> 00:55:51,499
and of course, these are not
things that we discuss here,

1135
00:55:51,583 --> 00:55:55,999
but we do have common problems
and common concerns.

1136
00:55:56,082 --> 00:55:59,999
And above all,
as Muhammad Ali has just said,

1137
00:56:00,082 --> 00:56:04,624
we are all victims of the
same system of oppression.

1138
00:56:04,708 --> 00:56:08,708
And even though we may have
different religious beliefs,

1139
00:56:08,791 --> 00:56:12,624
this does not at all
bring about a difference

1140
00:56:12,708 --> 00:56:15,249
- in terms of our concerns.
- Still brothers.

1141
00:56:15,332 --> 00:56:18,374
One more question.
Do you share the same concern

1142
00:56:18,457 --> 00:56:20,874
that Muhammad has
for his draft status?

1143
00:56:20,957 --> 00:56:22,583
Oh, I certainly do.

1144
00:56:22,666 --> 00:56:26,040
My views on the draft
are very clear: I'm against it.

1145
00:56:26,124 --> 00:56:30,332
And I think the sooner our
country does away with the draft,

1146
00:56:30,416 --> 00:56:33,249
the better it will be
for everybody.

1147
00:56:33,332 --> 00:56:38,082
I'm very disturbed about the
militaristic posture of our nation,

1148
00:56:38,165 --> 00:56:42,915
and I think until we have a
radical reordering of priorities

1149
00:56:42,999 --> 00:56:46,583
in our country,
we are going more and more

1150
00:56:46,666 --> 00:56:51,457
to the depths and,
I should say, to the doom.

1151
00:57:00,416 --> 00:57:03,957
I have some very sad news for all of you,

1152
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:08,583
and I think sad news
for all of our fellow citizens

1153
00:57:08,666 --> 00:57:12,833
and people who love peace
all over the world,

1154
00:57:12,915 --> 00:57:15,957
and that is that
Martin Luther King

1155
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,583
was shot and was killed tonight
in Memphis.

1156
00:57:29,124 --> 00:57:31,624
We came in chains,

1157
00:57:31,708 --> 00:57:33,791
we came in misery,

1158
00:57:33,874 --> 00:57:36,082
now all our sufferin'
and pain's

1159
00:57:36,165 --> 00:57:37,749
a part of history.

1160
00:57:37,833 --> 00:57:40,957
We came in chains,
you must remember that,

1161
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:43,332
for that and that alone
explains

1162
00:57:43,416 --> 00:57:45,124
exactly where we're at.

1163
00:57:45,207 --> 00:57:46,999
We came in chains,

1164
00:57:47,082 --> 00:57:48,999
we came as livin' loot,

1165
00:57:49,082 --> 00:57:51,999
so you could boast
slave-gotten gains.

1166
00:57:52,082 --> 00:57:54,833
We've groaned
beneath your boot,

1167
00:57:54,915 --> 00:57:56,457
we came in chains,

1168
00:57:56,541 --> 00:57:58,791
and how our blood was spilled

1169
00:57:58,874 --> 00:58:00,666
together with our sweat,

1170
00:58:00,749 --> 00:58:03,416
it stains this nation
we helped build.

1171
00:58:03,499 --> 00:58:06,708
We came in chains,
we didn't volunteer,

1172
00:58:06,791 --> 00:58:08,624
and yet today the fact remains

1173
00:58:08,708 --> 00:58:10,791
we're still held captive here.

1174
00:58:10,874 --> 00:58:13,874
We came in chains,
now I say "Cut us loose."

1175
00:58:13,957 --> 00:58:17,666
Though that may go against your grain,
still there's no excuse.

1176
00:58:17,749 --> 00:58:21,416
We came in chains,
now who down there's gonna bear the cost?

1177
00:58:21,499 --> 00:58:24,999
Till every one of us regains
the freedom we have lost.

1178
00:58:25,082 --> 00:58:29,416
We came in chains,
and now your choice must be

1179
00:58:29,499 --> 00:58:31,708
to either blow out
all my brains

1180
00:58:31,791 --> 00:58:33,666
or else you'll set me free."

1181
00:58:55,624 --> 00:58:59,666
...new heavyweight champion...

1182
00:58:59,749 --> 00:59:02,541
That decision
speaks for itself.

1183
00:59:02,624 --> 00:59:05,332
Jimmy, I won the tournament,
we're in good shape.

1184
00:59:05,416 --> 00:59:07,207
You've got
back-to-back champions,

1185
00:59:07,291 --> 00:59:10,207
you were Muhammad Ali's
trainer and manager,

1186
00:59:10,291 --> 00:59:12,291
what if Muhammad
comes back?

1187
00:59:12,374 --> 00:59:14,124
Whom would you
represent?

1188
00:59:14,207 --> 00:59:15,915
I'll cross that bridge
when I come to it.

1189
00:59:15,999 --> 00:59:17,975
It'll be a pretty bridge.
I ain't worried about it right now.

1190
00:59:17,999 --> 00:59:21,040
I'm happy I got this guy.
He's the champion right now. Period.

1191
00:59:21,124 --> 00:59:22,624
I would like to hear this
from you,

1192
00:59:22,708 --> 00:59:25,374
and I want the world
and the cameras to hear it.

1193
00:59:25,457 --> 00:59:27,791
Who's the heavyweight champion
of the world?

1194
00:59:27,874 --> 00:59:30,541
One more time.

1195
00:59:30,624 --> 00:59:32,207
Who's the champ of the world?

1196
00:59:34,957 --> 00:59:38,207
...for the heavyweight
championship of the world.

1197
00:59:38,291 --> 00:59:40,624
Oh! A tremendous left hook!

1198
00:59:40,708 --> 00:59:43,165
He cannot be saved by the bell!

1199
00:59:43,249 --> 00:59:46,124
This fight may be over.

1200
00:59:46,207 --> 00:59:47,999
This fight
may be over.

1201
00:59:48,082 --> 00:59:51,207
This fight is over,
Angelo Dundee!

1202
00:59:51,291 --> 00:59:53,541
Over!

1203
00:59:53,624 --> 00:59:56,915
It is over, a knockout
in the fourth...

1204
00:59:56,999 --> 01:00:00,708
Muhammad Ali! Muhammad Ali!

1205
01:00:00,791 --> 01:00:03,249
- Who's the greatest?
- Muhammad Ali!

1206
01:00:03,332 --> 01:00:05,541
- Who's the greatest?
- Muhammad Ali!

1207
01:00:05,624 --> 01:00:08,833
Why is this group picketing here tonight?

1208
01:00:08,915 --> 01:00:11,291
Because they recognize the fraud

1209
01:00:11,374 --> 01:00:13,666
which the white
power structure,

1210
01:00:13,749 --> 01:00:16,583
the white vultures, as I've called them,
on the boxing world,

1211
01:00:16,666 --> 01:00:18,040
is trying to perpetrate.

1212
01:00:18,124 --> 01:00:20,165
Muhammad Ali
has not lost his title.

1213
01:00:22,165 --> 01:00:24,416
I consider myself

1214
01:00:24,499 --> 01:00:26,332
the heavyweight champion
of the world

1215
01:00:26,416 --> 01:00:28,457
until the champ
get back in action again.

1216
01:00:28,541 --> 01:00:31,291
And when you say "the champ
gets back in action again,

1217
01:00:31,374 --> 01:00:32,933
I assume you're talking
about Muhammad Ali?

1218
01:00:32,957 --> 01:00:34,666
That's right, and I would
like to face him.

1219
01:00:34,749 --> 01:00:36,499
And how do you think
that would come out?

1220
01:00:36,583 --> 01:00:38,207
Well, I think
I'll take him.

1221
01:00:40,082 --> 01:00:42,082
♪ Hold on ♪

1222
01:00:42,165 --> 01:00:44,416
♪ I'm comin' ♪

1223
01:00:44,499 --> 01:00:46,457
♪ Hold on ♪

1224
01:00:46,541 --> 01:00:48,457
♪ I'm comin'... ♪

1225
01:00:51,499 --> 01:00:54,124
What was the feeling
when you heard about the ruling?

1226
01:00:54,207 --> 01:00:56,541
- Was it one of relief?
- Well, yes,

1227
01:00:56,624 --> 01:00:57,999
a feelin' of freedom,

1228
01:00:58,082 --> 01:01:00,541
a chance to perform
the trade that I know best,

1229
01:01:00,624 --> 01:01:03,541
the way I've been earning my
living just about all my life.

1230
01:01:03,624 --> 01:01:06,457
And it was cut off,
I was glad to know

1231
01:01:06,541 --> 01:01:10,499
that I have the freedom
to go back to workin'

1232
01:01:10,583 --> 01:01:12,791
so I can take care
of my family.

1233
01:01:15,666 --> 01:01:18,749
♪ Hold on,
I'm comin'... ♪

1234
01:01:18,833 --> 01:01:20,499
You're going to try and come back.

1235
01:01:20,583 --> 01:01:22,833
You admit that you are not
in the shape you should be in.

1236
01:01:22,915 --> 01:01:25,082
Quarry figures
the time is right to take you.

1237
01:01:25,165 --> 01:01:27,005
That's natural.
I've been off three years,

1238
01:01:27,082 --> 01:01:29,332
and I've only had six weeks'
notice for this fight,

1239
01:01:29,416 --> 01:01:32,249
which is usually something
considered impossible

1240
01:01:32,332 --> 01:01:33,874
for a heavyweight to do.

1241
01:01:33,957 --> 01:01:35,237
Is it your present belief

1242
01:01:35,291 --> 01:01:36,999
that you can ever again be
as a fighter

1243
01:01:37,082 --> 01:01:39,291
what once you were,
the same skills,

1244
01:01:39,374 --> 01:01:41,666
the same swiftness,
the same destructiveness?

1245
01:01:41,749 --> 01:01:43,499
I don't think no human
can be the same

1246
01:01:43,583 --> 01:01:45,708
after three years
of anything.

1247
01:01:45,791 --> 01:01:47,165
We naturally get older.

1248
01:01:47,249 --> 01:01:48,957
I have six gray hairs
in my head now,

1249
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:50,833
where a few years ago
I had just one.

1250
01:01:50,915 --> 01:01:53,624
So naturally we never can be
like we used to be.

1251
01:01:56,207 --> 01:02:00,040
He's got this possible
prison sentence hanging over him.

1252
01:02:00,124 --> 01:02:02,040
Doesn't that affect him
at all in his training?

1253
01:02:02,124 --> 01:02:03,457
Nothing bothers this guy.

1254
01:02:03,541 --> 01:02:05,666
Nothing bothers him,
what's gonna be is gonna be.

1255
01:02:05,749 --> 01:02:08,874
I think his attitude
is like mine: Que sera sera.

1256
01:02:08,957 --> 01:02:10,541
What's gonna happen
with the government

1257
01:02:10,624 --> 01:02:12,433
and this court trial
that's hanging over his head,

1258
01:02:12,457 --> 01:02:14,082
that'll come later.

1259
01:02:14,165 --> 01:02:16,332
This is still in the court of appeals.

1260
01:02:16,416 --> 01:02:18,957
Until we cross these bridges
and be successful,

1261
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:23,499
then there's a possibility that I might
have to do the five years in prison.

1262
01:02:25,457 --> 01:02:28,207
Return of the champion,

1263
01:02:28,291 --> 01:02:30,957
Muhammad Ali!

1264
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:33,684
Do you think you're gonna be the
heavyweight champion of the world again?

1265
01:02:33,708 --> 01:02:35,374
Many consider me
still champion

1266
01:02:35,457 --> 01:02:36,915
because I'm undefeated,

1267
01:02:36,999 --> 01:02:39,124
but Frazier has built up
enough interest

1268
01:02:39,207 --> 01:02:41,517
where people believe that he owns
half of the title or all of it.

1269
01:02:41,541 --> 01:02:43,915
So I would say that
I'm the retired champion

1270
01:02:43,999 --> 01:02:45,999
making a comeback
to fight the present champ.

1271
01:02:46,082 --> 01:02:48,082
Referee Tony Perez

1272
01:02:48,165 --> 01:02:50,124
has signaled the fight is over,

1273
01:02:50,207 --> 01:02:52,583
apparently because
of an eye cut.

1274
01:02:52,666 --> 01:02:55,915
Muhammad Ali,
or Cassius Clay, whichever you want,

1275
01:02:55,999 --> 01:02:57,666
he is still plenty fast

1276
01:02:57,749 --> 01:03:01,416
and his left jab
is still a dynamite punch.

1277
01:03:06,874 --> 01:03:10,332
Doctor, is there any
doubt about their condition?

1278
01:03:10,416 --> 01:03:14,583
- They're both in great shape.
- Why you no go the army? You chicken?

1279
01:03:14,666 --> 01:03:17,466
- Both fighters are in exceptional shape.
- Say that one more time.

1280
01:03:17,499 --> 01:03:20,416
- Say that one more time!
- Vocally as well as physically.

1281
01:03:20,499 --> 01:03:22,957
- Yes, absolutely.
- Why you don't go the army?

1282
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:25,416
Why you not go the army?

1283
01:03:25,499 --> 01:03:28,749
I will tell you Monday night
in the first clinch we get in.

1284
01:03:28,833 --> 01:03:29,957
Ah, chicken.
You big chicken.

1285
01:03:31,291 --> 01:03:33,124
Good deal. Keep talkin'!

1286
01:03:33,207 --> 01:03:35,583
- Chicken!
- He never shoulda started talkin'.

1287
01:03:35,666 --> 01:03:37,708
- Not with Muhammad Ali.
- Clay. Clay.

1288
01:03:38,833 --> 01:03:39,833
You Clay?

1289
01:03:39,874 --> 01:03:41,624
I said Muhammad Ali.

1290
01:03:41,708 --> 01:03:42,708
Clay?

1291
01:03:42,791 --> 01:03:45,541
You will call it
when the fight comes off.

1292
01:03:45,624 --> 01:03:47,457
- Clay? Clay?
- Wait till the fight comes.

1293
01:03:47,541 --> 01:03:49,708
Please tell everybody
to get to your theaters!

1294
01:03:49,791 --> 01:03:52,791
I've never had a man that
I wanted to whup so bad.

1295
01:03:52,874 --> 01:03:56,374
Monday night,
Madison Square Garden will be sold out.

1296
01:03:56,457 --> 01:03:58,791
Theaters throughout the world
will be sold out.

1297
01:03:58,874 --> 01:04:00,999
He will have to fight,
and he's puttin' hisself

1298
01:04:01,082 --> 01:04:02,999
on a big spot,
because a man

1299
01:04:03,082 --> 01:04:04,915
who talks this much and lose,

1300
01:04:04,999 --> 01:04:07,999
it sets him back a long ways...
I've never lost.

1301
01:04:08,082 --> 01:04:09,915
1:30 left in the fight.

1302
01:04:12,957 --> 01:04:14,874
Oh! That left!

1303
01:04:14,957 --> 01:04:17,207
What a...
It came from nowhere!

1304
01:04:17,291 --> 01:04:19,499
Ali came through with a left.

1305
01:04:19,583 --> 01:04:20,999
The crowd screaming.

1306
01:04:21,082 --> 01:04:22,957
The first knockdown
of the fight.

1307
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:24,374
He took the mandatory eight.

1308
01:04:24,457 --> 01:04:27,791
And now Ali is behaving
like the old Ali.

1309
01:04:27,874 --> 01:04:29,541
One more knockdown
in this round,

1310
01:04:29,624 --> 01:04:32,165
the fight is
automatically over.

1311
01:04:32,249 --> 01:04:34,332
Bonavena is running.

1312
01:04:34,416 --> 01:04:35,666
If he goes down again...

1313
01:04:35,749 --> 01:04:36,749
It's over!

1314
01:04:36,791 --> 01:04:38,291
Ali is the knockout winner!

1315
01:04:38,374 --> 01:04:41,416
I'm going up to ring center.

1316
01:04:41,499 --> 01:04:43,207
Joe Frazier's
on the telephone.

1317
01:04:43,291 --> 01:04:44,749
What's he sayin', Muhammad?

1318
01:04:44,833 --> 01:04:47,040
Howard Cosell
is agitatin', as usual.

1319
01:04:47,124 --> 01:04:50,040
I think you done proved yourself
as a professional fighter.

1320
01:04:50,124 --> 01:04:51,666
I done proved myself,

1321
01:04:51,749 --> 01:04:53,541
so I'll get my couple days rest,

1322
01:04:53,624 --> 01:04:55,874
and since we can't get along,

1323
01:04:55,957 --> 01:04:58,040
we just gonna have to get it on.

1324
01:05:06,124 --> 01:05:08,666
I fought Jerry Quarry,
gave him a chance.

1325
01:05:08,749 --> 01:05:10,874
After Jerry Quarry,
few weeks later

1326
01:05:10,957 --> 01:05:12,666
I fought the rough
Oscar Bonavena,

1327
01:05:12,749 --> 01:05:14,457
the man who almost whupped
Joe Frazier.

1328
01:05:14,541 --> 01:05:18,207
Joe Frazier fought his last
fight with Bobby Foster,

1329
01:05:18,291 --> 01:05:19,915
Detroit, Michigan.

1330
01:05:19,999 --> 01:05:21,749
They drew about 4500 people,

1331
01:05:21,833 --> 01:05:24,165
place held about 11,000.

1332
01:05:24,249 --> 01:05:26,374
I do more than that in training.

1333
01:05:28,457 --> 01:05:30,416
- Welcome back.
- Take this picture.

1334
01:05:30,499 --> 01:05:32,583
This is the hotel manager.

1335
01:05:32,666 --> 01:05:34,999
- Hi.
- Tom Lehr.

1336
01:05:35,082 --> 01:05:37,207
He feeds me kosher food
every day.

1337
01:05:37,291 --> 01:05:39,165
Yes, and it's good, too.

1338
01:05:41,332 --> 01:05:43,249
- How ya doin'?
- They sure are.

1339
01:05:43,332 --> 01:05:44,957
- How ya feel?
- Awright.

1340
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:46,749
Who are you for,
Joe Frazier or me?

1341
01:05:46,833 --> 01:05:49,033
They told me Joe Frazier's
new champ. What do you think?

1342
01:05:49,082 --> 01:05:51,666
- Who are you?
- Who am I?!

1343
01:05:53,999 --> 01:05:55,874
Know how you whip Joe Frazier?

1344
01:05:55,957 --> 01:05:57,915
Know how you beat
a man like Joe Frazier?

1345
01:05:57,999 --> 01:06:00,207
Just keep your distance on him.

1346
01:06:00,291 --> 01:06:02,374
Keep movin'.

1347
01:06:02,457 --> 01:06:05,749
Keep Joe Frazier on the end
of your left jab, see.

1348
01:06:05,833 --> 01:06:08,124
Just a step ahead of him, see.

1349
01:06:08,207 --> 01:06:11,291
He's easy to hit,
and every once in a while put it on him.

1350
01:06:12,291 --> 01:06:13,541
He's like a robot.

1351
01:06:13,624 --> 01:06:15,499
You wind him up,
you wind up the little doll,

1352
01:06:15,583 --> 01:06:17,416
and let him go,
he just keep comin'.

1353
01:06:17,499 --> 01:06:20,416
And everybody hit him,
and he just keep comin'.

1354
01:06:20,499 --> 01:06:22,624
They tell me he's
gotta get in close.

1355
01:06:22,708 --> 01:06:25,291
Tie him up and walk with him.

1356
01:06:25,374 --> 01:06:26,874
He big, so...

1357
01:06:29,541 --> 01:06:31,541
Then back to the stick.

1358
01:06:31,624 --> 01:06:33,708
Let me show you somethin'.
Keep stickin' Joe, see?

1359
01:06:33,791 --> 01:06:36,082
Stick Joe. Then every
once in a while,

1360
01:06:36,165 --> 01:06:38,833
put one of them
combinations on him

1361
01:06:38,915 --> 01:06:40,541
and you follow him.

1362
01:06:40,624 --> 01:06:42,957
And the only way he will win
is taggin' me,

1363
01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:44,749
he's in trouble.

1364
01:06:44,833 --> 01:06:47,165
Because I've never
really been out

1365
01:06:47,249 --> 01:06:48,624
or really hit hard.

1366
01:06:48,708 --> 01:06:50,708
I want 'me to build him up
real big,

1367
01:06:50,791 --> 01:06:53,332
make him just a terror
and a giant.

1368
01:06:53,416 --> 01:06:56,999
And right after the fight, I'm gonna break
my neck gettin' to the newspaper stand

1369
01:06:57,082 --> 01:06:59,207
to see what's the excuse is
the next mornin'.

1370
01:06:59,291 --> 01:07:01,100
I'm just waitin' to see
what the excuse is gonna be

1371
01:07:01,124 --> 01:07:02,749
when I whup Joe Frazier.

1372
01:07:11,583 --> 01:07:13,583
Will you train any differently

1373
01:07:13,666 --> 01:07:16,583
for this fight with Clay,
or is he just another opponent?

1374
01:07:16,666 --> 01:07:18,416
I just think
he's another man.

1375
01:07:18,499 --> 01:07:20,583
People probably look at him
different, ya know,

1376
01:07:20,666 --> 01:07:23,499
I just look at him another...
I call him guy, ya know,

1377
01:07:23,583 --> 01:07:25,207
another guy,
you know what I mean?

1378
01:07:25,291 --> 01:07:28,541
For the last 27 guys
I've been fightin',

1379
01:07:28,624 --> 01:07:30,082
they been bigger than me,

1380
01:07:30,165 --> 01:07:32,332
I mean, I'm a small man.

1381
01:07:32,416 --> 01:07:35,499
So I, ya know,
go out there and go to work.

1382
01:07:35,583 --> 01:07:38,165
I'm the champ,
no doubt about that.

1383
01:07:38,249 --> 01:07:42,374
And Ali usually
go around hollerin'

1384
01:07:42,457 --> 01:07:45,708
he's the champ, you know,
and he called me a dumb fighter,

1385
01:07:45,791 --> 01:07:48,999
but I tell him nobody never took
my championship away from me.

1386
01:07:49,082 --> 01:07:51,583
You gonna see
a new guy out there, real new.

1387
01:07:51,666 --> 01:07:54,666
And one thing that Clay,
they takin' the title away from him,

1388
01:07:54,749 --> 01:07:56,600
we fought for the title
and we earned the title.

1389
01:07:56,624 --> 01:07:58,957
Now they give him a license,
so we ready to fight him,

1390
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:01,124
we're gonna give him
another shot at the title.

1391
01:08:01,207 --> 01:08:03,583
I think he deserve it,
and we're gonna give him a shot at it.

1392
01:08:03,666 --> 01:08:05,058
Why do you insist
on calling him Clay?

1393
01:08:05,082 --> 01:08:06,874
Because that's his name.
I know him as Clay.

1394
01:08:06,957 --> 01:08:09,457
He called me Yancey Durham,
or Yank.

1395
01:08:09,541 --> 01:08:11,999
Call me anything
he want to call me,

1396
01:08:12,082 --> 01:08:13,791
so I call him
what I want to call him.

1397
01:08:13,874 --> 01:08:15,457
His name is Cassius Clay to me.

1398
01:08:15,541 --> 01:08:17,433
Whether he resent that or not,
that's what I call him.

1399
01:08:17,457 --> 01:08:19,833
Always called him that,
always will call him Cassius Clay.

1400
01:08:21,833 --> 01:08:24,082
He's meetin' Muhammad Ali,

1401
01:08:24,165 --> 01:08:26,082
the original champion.

1402
01:08:26,165 --> 01:08:28,583
I just defeated Sonny Liston

1403
01:08:28,666 --> 01:08:30,915
at the time he just got out
of the Olympics.

1404
01:08:30,999 --> 01:08:32,666
Joe Frazier's a street fighter,

1405
01:08:32,749 --> 01:08:35,624
he walks in, he slugs,
he fights wild, he's no skill.

1406
01:08:35,708 --> 01:08:38,541
All of his opponents beat him for
the first two or three rounds.

1407
01:08:38,624 --> 01:08:40,749
But wait until
I get Joe Frazier.

1408
01:08:42,749 --> 01:08:44,957
He called you
a good street fighter.

1409
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:46,291
Does that make you mad?

1410
01:08:46,374 --> 01:08:47,833
Don't make me mad at all.

1411
01:08:47,915 --> 01:08:50,291
I feel like I'm just
as much fighter as him.

1412
01:08:50,374 --> 01:08:52,124
How do you rate him
as an opponent?

1413
01:08:52,207 --> 01:08:53,624
I think
he's a good fighter,

1414
01:08:53,708 --> 01:08:55,624
You make any forecasts
about the fight?

1415
01:08:55,708 --> 01:08:57,082
What you mean, forecasts?

1416
01:08:57,165 --> 01:08:59,291
- You gonna win?
- Sure.

1417
01:08:59,374 --> 01:09:02,833
If Joe Frazier whups Muhammad Ali,

1418
01:09:02,915 --> 01:09:05,749
he'll be the greatest fighter
that ever lived.

1419
01:09:05,833 --> 01:09:09,332
Believe me, this will be
no contest

1420
01:09:09,416 --> 01:09:11,457
to prove I'm still the best.

1421
01:09:14,624 --> 01:09:18,457
This is the greatest fight
in 240 years.

1422
01:09:18,541 --> 01:09:21,791
March 8th in the Garden,
that's right.

1423
01:09:21,874 --> 01:09:23,791
Commissioner,
may we precede Ali?

1424
01:09:23,874 --> 01:09:25,666
What do you say you're
gonna do to Frazier?

1425
01:09:25,749 --> 01:09:27,791
I'll predict that
when I meet Joe Frazier,

1426
01:09:27,874 --> 01:09:30,165
this will be like
a good amateur

1427
01:09:30,249 --> 01:09:32,416
fightin' a real professional.

1428
01:09:32,499 --> 01:09:34,915
This will be like a kid
out of the Olympics

1429
01:09:34,999 --> 01:09:38,624
meetin' the fastest heavyweight
champion that ever lived.

1430
01:09:38,708 --> 01:09:41,583
He's goin' way back
in the time of, let's say,

1431
01:09:41,666 --> 01:09:43,207
twenty years ago.

1432
01:09:43,291 --> 01:09:45,666
This is the day, man.
You understand?

1433
01:09:45,749 --> 01:09:49,332
You're not fightin' Quarry,
you're not fightin' Oscar Bonavena,

1434
01:09:49,416 --> 01:09:50,749
you're not fightin'
Sonny Liston,

1435
01:09:50,833 --> 01:09:52,416
you're fightin' Joe Frazier!

1436
01:09:52,499 --> 01:09:54,350
- That's not the point.
- That's the point!

1437
01:09:54,374 --> 01:09:55,666
Joe, what's
your prediction?

1438
01:09:55,749 --> 01:09:57,559
My prediction, the fight
won't go the distance.

1439
01:09:57,583 --> 01:09:59,124
- I'll stop him.
- Stop me?

1440
01:09:59,207 --> 01:10:01,374
- You!
- Wait till I get you in the ring!

1441
01:10:01,457 --> 01:10:03,999
Get your hands off me!

1442
01:10:08,583 --> 01:10:10,249
♪ One, two, three, four! ♪

1443
01:10:11,915 --> 01:10:14,124
♪ Get up, get on up ♪

1444
01:10:14,207 --> 01:10:16,291
♪ Get up,
get on up ♪

1445
01:10:16,374 --> 01:10:18,332
♪ Get on the scene,
get on up ♪

1446
01:10:18,416 --> 01:10:20,666
♪ Like a sex machine,
get on up ♪

1447
01:10:20,749 --> 01:10:22,833
♪ Get up,
get on up ♪

1448
01:10:22,915 --> 01:10:24,874
♪ Get up, get on up ♪

1449
01:10:24,957 --> 01:10:26,541
♪ Be on the scene,
get on up ♪

1450
01:10:26,624 --> 01:10:28,957
♪ Like a sex machine,
get on up ♪

1451
01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:31,249
This thing
is bigger than boxing.

1452
01:10:31,332 --> 01:10:33,249
People are watchin' this fight

1453
01:10:33,332 --> 01:10:35,541
in countries
that don't watch fights.

1454
01:10:35,624 --> 01:10:37,708
People, women,
people of all races,

1455
01:10:37,791 --> 01:10:40,541
they don't come to fights,
there's never been an event

1456
01:10:40,624 --> 01:10:43,749
in the history
of the planet Earth this big.

1457
01:10:43,833 --> 01:10:45,957
And if you wanna challenge me,
call anybody.

1458
01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:48,291
We're all watched,
in all countries,

1459
01:10:48,374 --> 01:10:51,291
even back to Arabia in
the holy city of Mecca.

1460
01:10:51,374 --> 01:10:54,207
All back in Egypt,
all back in Syria,

1461
01:10:54,291 --> 01:10:57,416
Pakistan, all back
in Estonia, Russia,

1462
01:10:57,499 --> 01:10:59,416
Red China, Vietnam,

1463
01:10:59,499 --> 01:11:01,165
people actually waitin'
for the outcome

1464
01:11:01,249 --> 01:11:03,291
who don't follow nothin'
from America.

1465
01:11:03,374 --> 01:11:04,833
This is the biggest event

1466
01:11:04,915 --> 01:11:08,416
in the history of
the whole planet Earth.

1467
01:11:08,499 --> 01:11:10,499
- Ya understand?
- I understand.

1468
01:11:10,583 --> 01:11:13,499
Not because of Joe Frazier.

1469
01:11:22,165 --> 01:11:23,833
Muhammad Ali

1470
01:11:23,915 --> 01:11:25,583
in the red trunks.

1471
01:11:25,666 --> 01:11:27,416
Joe Frazier
in the green trunks.

1472
01:11:27,499 --> 01:11:28,833
They appear very light.

1473
01:11:28,915 --> 01:11:31,082
A packed house at
Madison Square Garden.

1474
01:11:31,165 --> 01:11:33,291
Muhammad Ali opening up fast.

1475
01:11:33,374 --> 01:11:35,957
He may try to blitz him
here in round one.

1476
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:38,666
Frazier is more vulnerable
in the first round,

1477
01:11:38,749 --> 01:11:40,624
and Muhammad Ali knows that.

1478
01:11:46,082 --> 01:11:48,183
That is one of the most exciting first rounds

1479
01:11:48,207 --> 01:11:50,040
I think we've seen
in a long time.

1480
01:11:50,124 --> 01:11:52,040
Gettin' in that ring with Joe Frazier

1481
01:11:52,124 --> 01:11:54,874
in front of all them people,
bangin' on you, could kill you.

1482
01:11:54,957 --> 01:11:57,332
I'm really frightened
and I feel funny

1483
01:11:57,416 --> 01:11:59,207
and I feel surprised
and shocked.

1484
01:11:59,291 --> 01:12:01,165
Until the first
two or three punches.

1485
01:12:01,249 --> 01:12:02,624
And after he hits me,
I get mad.

1486
01:12:12,457 --> 01:12:16,291
Fifteen seconds
to go in the round.

1487
01:12:17,749 --> 01:12:19,541
That was the best punch
of the fight.

1488
01:12:19,624 --> 01:12:22,040
If I had fought Frazier

1489
01:12:22,124 --> 01:12:24,244
say, three years ago when I
supposed to be at my best,

1490
01:12:24,291 --> 01:12:25,999
I think I wouldn't have done
as good,

1491
01:12:26,082 --> 01:12:27,833
because I'm stronger now.

1492
01:12:27,915 --> 01:12:29,874
Joe Frazier
just spit some blood,

1493
01:12:29,957 --> 01:12:31,583
he is bleeding
inside the mouth.

1494
01:12:31,666 --> 01:12:33,165
Round three.

1495
01:12:33,249 --> 01:12:34,308
Round three!

1496
01:12:34,332 --> 01:12:35,915
Come on, Joe!

1497
01:12:35,999 --> 01:12:37,725
The Muhammad Ali that we remember

1498
01:12:37,749 --> 01:12:40,416
three-and-a-half years ago
was a dancer.

1499
01:12:40,499 --> 01:12:42,249
He's not dancing tonight.

1500
01:12:42,332 --> 01:12:44,624
He may be trying
to slug with Joe.

1501
01:12:47,749 --> 01:12:49,165
That's still a good...

1502
01:12:52,749 --> 01:12:55,999
Ali stepped into that punch
instead of moving.

1503
01:12:56,082 --> 01:12:58,666
After I saw he could
take everything that I had

1504
01:12:58,749 --> 01:13:00,374
and I saw his power,

1505
01:13:00,457 --> 01:13:02,017
if you'll notice,
after the fourth round

1506
01:13:02,082 --> 01:13:03,874
I got mostly flat-footed.

1507
01:13:03,957 --> 01:13:06,082
Took my time,
to preserve energy.

1508
01:13:06,165 --> 01:13:07,791
And I needed it, too.

1509
01:13:09,249 --> 01:13:11,624
Good one-two, and a jab.

1510
01:13:14,541 --> 01:13:16,708
Frazier taunting Ali.

1511
01:13:16,791 --> 01:13:17,915
He's just smiling at him.

1512
01:13:17,999 --> 01:13:20,207
Frazier's just laughing at him.

1513
01:13:20,291 --> 01:13:22,207
Talking to him.

1514
01:13:22,291 --> 01:13:25,583
That's the way Muhammad Ali
used to taunt his opponents.

1515
01:13:27,457 --> 01:13:29,082
Round seven is over.

1516
01:13:29,165 --> 01:13:30,749
A terrific round.

1517
01:13:30,833 --> 01:13:32,499
Ali seems a little
disgusted with himself,

1518
01:13:32,583 --> 01:13:33,708
but he's pretty tired.

1519
01:13:33,791 --> 01:13:36,708
Ali! Ali! Ali!

1520
01:13:38,583 --> 01:13:40,749
The crowd is chanting "Ali,"

1521
01:13:40,874 --> 01:13:43,666
and Joe says
come on out and fight.

1522
01:13:43,749 --> 01:13:46,124
I let the critics and the
newspaper writers get to me.

1523
01:13:46,207 --> 01:13:48,291
They were saying
if I got caught in the corner,

1524
01:13:48,374 --> 01:13:50,207
the fight would be over.

1525
01:13:50,291 --> 01:13:52,541
And I deliberately stayed in
the corner for three rounds

1526
01:13:52,624 --> 01:13:54,791
and let him take shots
at my arms and my body,

1527
01:13:54,874 --> 01:13:56,416
and I was just
touching his head

1528
01:13:56,499 --> 01:13:57,559
and talking to him
and playing with him,

1529
01:13:57,583 --> 01:13:59,874
and I lost those rounds.

1530
01:14:01,666 --> 01:14:03,666
Ali covering up on the ropes.

1531
01:14:04,833 --> 01:14:06,957
That was a wicked punch.

1532
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:08,624
So was that!

1533
01:14:08,708 --> 01:14:11,082
Actually,
what do you think of this?

1534
01:14:11,165 --> 01:14:13,416
I think he's trying to psych Joe out,

1535
01:14:13,499 --> 01:14:15,583
but I think
Joe was hurting him.

1536
01:14:15,666 --> 01:14:17,249
I think so too.

1537
01:14:17,332 --> 01:14:19,416
I think he's taken
quite a whipping.

1538
01:14:19,499 --> 01:14:20,833
And the crowd has changed.

1539
01:14:20,915 --> 01:14:22,374
Before they were yelling
"Ali, Ali!"

1540
01:14:22,457 --> 01:14:24,374
Now they're yelling
"Joe! Joe!"

1541
01:14:24,457 --> 01:14:26,541
Round eleven.

1542
01:14:34,541 --> 01:14:36,541
No knockdown.

1543
01:14:36,624 --> 01:14:39,124
No, nope. No knockdown.

1544
01:14:39,207 --> 01:14:41,791
Muhammad Ali slipped down
that time.

1545
01:14:46,374 --> 01:14:48,040
That one hurt.

1546
01:14:48,124 --> 01:14:50,207
And Ali looks staggered!

1547
01:14:50,291 --> 01:14:52,457
Muhammad Ali was rocked!

1548
01:14:52,541 --> 01:14:54,541
He's holding on desperately!

1549
01:14:59,249 --> 01:15:01,541
Thirty seconds
to go in the round.

1550
01:15:01,624 --> 01:15:03,749
Thirty seconds.

1551
01:15:03,874 --> 01:15:06,666
Muhammad Ali
is in real trouble.

1552
01:15:17,915 --> 01:15:19,999
Muhammad Ali
walked into the ropes!

1553
01:15:20,082 --> 01:15:21,791
He almost went down.

1554
01:15:26,583 --> 01:15:28,416
Ten seconds...

1555
01:15:32,624 --> 01:15:34,749
The round is over.

1556
01:15:34,833 --> 01:15:36,915
The round is over.
The round is over.

1557
01:15:36,999 --> 01:15:39,124
What a round.

1558
01:15:39,207 --> 01:15:41,749
Muhammad Ali
was really out that time.

1559
01:15:47,499 --> 01:15:49,082
See, in a boxing match,

1560
01:15:49,165 --> 01:15:51,749
there's a lot of thinkin'
and timin',

1561
01:15:51,833 --> 01:15:53,874
and you have to pace yourself,
like a horse race.

1562
01:15:53,957 --> 01:15:57,207
They'll start off kinda slow,
and they'll take their time,

1563
01:15:57,291 --> 01:15:58,874
and probably
the winner of the race

1564
01:15:58,957 --> 01:16:01,040
is number nine
in the whole bunch.

1565
01:16:01,124 --> 01:16:04,124
Round twelve.

1566
01:16:04,207 --> 01:16:05,915
Who thought
it would go this far?

1567
01:16:05,999 --> 01:16:09,249
Muhammad Ali
gamely trying to fight back.

1568
01:16:09,332 --> 01:16:11,124
But he is clinching.

1569
01:16:11,207 --> 01:16:12,957
Frazier let him get away

1570
01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:15,082
after that big eleventh round.

1571
01:16:15,165 --> 01:16:16,874
You don't remember the actual punch,

1572
01:16:16,957 --> 01:16:19,708
and the pain from it,
it's just numb.

1573
01:16:19,791 --> 01:16:22,541
Muhammad Ali is
missing a lot of those punches.

1574
01:16:22,624 --> 01:16:24,457
Frazier laughed at him again.

1575
01:16:27,791 --> 01:16:29,624
That's the end
of the 12th round.

1576
01:16:29,708 --> 01:16:33,249
That was a tremendous round.
Ali made a great comeback.

1577
01:16:33,332 --> 01:16:35,499
Yes, but Frazier
had him on the ropes.

1578
01:16:37,249 --> 01:16:40,874
Round thirteen
of a fifteen-rounder.

1579
01:16:44,332 --> 01:16:46,874
They're fighting
like lightweights now.

1580
01:16:46,957 --> 01:16:49,207
There's a spot of blood
on the shoulder of Ali,

1581
01:16:49,291 --> 01:16:52,291
I guess it's from Frazier,
but I don't see where.

1582
01:16:52,374 --> 01:16:55,332
And Ali seems
to be coming back.

1583
01:16:55,416 --> 01:16:57,999
It's almost over, this round.

1584
01:17:03,541 --> 01:17:05,040
There's the bell
The round is over.

1585
01:17:05,124 --> 01:17:06,957
Round 13 is over,
and what a round.

1586
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:09,708
That Joe Frazier's
gotta be some kind of a man.

1587
01:17:12,541 --> 01:17:15,457
Frazier's right eye looks as
though it might be closing.

1588
01:17:15,541 --> 01:17:18,791
He's got swelling
around both eyes.

1589
01:17:20,332 --> 01:17:21,957
Ali came through very well
in this round,

1590
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:24,624
scoring repeatedly
and seeming to get stronger.

1591
01:17:24,708 --> 01:17:28,541
These boys are in
magnificent physical shape.

1592
01:17:28,624 --> 01:17:30,583
This is the final round
of the fight,

1593
01:17:30,666 --> 01:17:32,541
and what a fight it's been.

1594
01:17:32,624 --> 01:17:35,416
The 15th and final round.

1595
01:17:35,499 --> 01:17:37,600
Referee Arthur
Mercante has them touch gloves,

1596
01:17:37,624 --> 01:17:39,791
something they've been
doing all night.

1597
01:17:39,874 --> 01:17:43,749
Now Muhammad Ali's
got a little pop in his jabs.

1598
01:17:43,833 --> 01:17:46,666
I have to give it to him,
I ain't takin' nothin' from him.

1599
01:17:46,749 --> 01:17:49,249
He's really good as far
as sluggin' is concerned.

1600
01:17:49,332 --> 01:17:52,749
He's not skillful,
but he's real strong and he keeps comin'.

1601
01:17:52,833 --> 01:17:54,833
He takes five or ten punches
to land one,

1602
01:17:54,915 --> 01:17:57,082
but when he hits you,
you're shook.

1603
01:18:10,583 --> 01:18:13,082
Punches that knock you out,
you really don't see 'em.

1604
01:18:13,165 --> 01:18:16,999
In the eleventh round, I didn't hardly
see that punch, that was a hard one.

1605
01:18:17,082 --> 01:18:18,957
But the fifteenth round,
I saw it comin',

1606
01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:21,708
and suddenly I leaned back
and leaned right into the hook.

1607
01:18:21,791 --> 01:18:23,416
The power of it
knocked me down,

1608
01:18:23,499 --> 01:18:25,833
but it wasn't enough
to hurt me internally.

1609
01:18:31,082 --> 01:18:33,874
Frazier largely goes for the body.

1610
01:18:33,957 --> 01:18:36,374
But Muhammad Ali
covering up.

1611
01:18:36,457 --> 01:18:40,749
The crowd, needless to say,
is in a bedlam.

1612
01:18:40,833 --> 01:18:43,833
Oh! What was that?

1613
01:18:43,915 --> 01:18:45,541
If Joe had followed that up,

1614
01:18:45,624 --> 01:18:47,457
he would have been...

1615
01:18:52,791 --> 01:18:56,291
Muhammad Ali has never taken
such a battering.

1616
01:18:56,374 --> 01:18:59,457
Muhammad Ali
gamely fights back.

1617
01:19:03,291 --> 01:19:06,624
Frazier is tired,
and his eyes are closing.

1618
01:19:09,957 --> 01:19:11,749
I got hit more in this fight

1619
01:19:11,833 --> 01:19:14,291
than my last six fights
put together.

1620
01:19:14,374 --> 01:19:16,915
I think the punches I actually landed,
the round's won.

1621
01:19:16,999 --> 01:19:19,249
I believe I had the edge,
but it was close.

1622
01:19:19,332 --> 01:19:22,749
Referee Arthur Mercante

1623
01:19:22,833 --> 01:19:27,749
scores it 8, 6, 1-even
for Frazier.

1624
01:19:27,833 --> 01:19:31,082
One vote for Joe Frazier.

1625
01:19:31,165 --> 01:19:34,999
Artie Aidala,
9 to 6 for Frazier.

1626
01:19:35,082 --> 01:19:37,708
Frazier is the winner!

1627
01:19:37,791 --> 01:19:42,249
Bill Recht,
11 rounds for Frazier,

1628
01:19:42,332 --> 01:19:45,416
4 for Ali.

1629
01:19:45,499 --> 01:19:49,291
The winner
by unanimous decision

1630
01:19:49,374 --> 01:19:53,915
and still the heavyweight
champion of the world,

1631
01:19:53,999 --> 01:19:56,124
Joe Frazier!

1632
01:19:56,207 --> 01:19:57,541
Joe Frazier!

1633
01:19:57,624 --> 01:19:59,749
For the first time
in his career,

1634
01:19:59,833 --> 01:20:01,874
Muhammad Ali was beaten.

1635
01:20:05,207 --> 01:20:08,165
You think your
religion influenced this decision?

1636
01:20:08,249 --> 01:20:11,374
Oh, yeah, naturally.
One judge made 11 for him.

1637
01:20:11,457 --> 01:20:14,207
Shoot, man, if I took
that whuppin' Joe Frazier took,

1638
01:20:14,291 --> 01:20:17,040
I'd have been probably
ready to quit.

1639
01:20:17,124 --> 01:20:21,291
Joe Frazier took a terrible whuppin',
beatin', a batterin'.

1640
01:20:21,374 --> 01:20:23,291
I didn't take no batterin'.

1641
01:20:23,374 --> 01:20:25,457
I took a couple hard left hooks
that stunned me,

1642
01:20:25,541 --> 01:20:27,833
but I didn't take no
lotta jabs and uppercuts

1643
01:20:27,915 --> 01:20:29,374
and hooks and crosses,

1644
01:20:29,457 --> 01:20:30,684
and I didn't take
no big whuppin'.

1645
01:20:30,708 --> 01:20:33,332
Frazier took a terrible beatin'.

1646
01:20:33,416 --> 01:20:35,457
Which still lets me know
how good I am,

1647
01:20:35,541 --> 01:20:37,124
even after the layoff.

1648
01:20:38,957 --> 01:20:42,791
So my confidence is really
stronger than before the fight,

1649
01:20:42,874 --> 01:20:44,834
because I figured he would be
tougher than he was.

1650
01:20:44,915 --> 01:20:46,999
I was thinkin' probably,
"Man, whew!"

1651
01:20:47,082 --> 01:20:49,416
He'd be rougher than that.

1652
01:20:49,499 --> 01:20:52,666
He was easy to hit and...
everything.

1653
01:20:52,749 --> 01:20:53,999
Next time won't be no match.

1654
01:20:54,082 --> 01:20:55,999
Next time
there won't be no show.

1655
01:20:56,082 --> 01:20:58,249
I'll be on my toes,
I'll be movin' more,

1656
01:20:58,332 --> 01:21:00,874
I won't play three rounds,
I'll keep my guard up,

1657
01:21:00,957 --> 01:21:02,915
I'll be more serious next time,

1658
01:21:02,999 --> 01:21:04,082
I know him now...

1659
01:21:04,165 --> 01:21:06,332
next time
it'll be a easy fight.

1660
01:21:23,749 --> 01:21:27,207
♪ When the night has come ♪

1661
01:21:29,624 --> 01:21:32,040
♪ And the land is dark ♪

1662
01:21:32,124 --> 01:21:37,833
♪ And the moon
is the only light we'll see ♪

1663
01:21:40,624 --> 01:21:44,040
♪ No, I won't be afraid ♪

1664
01:21:44,124 --> 01:21:48,708
♪ No,
I won't be afraid ♪

1665
01:21:48,791 --> 01:21:52,915
♪ Just as long as you stand ♪

1666
01:21:52,999 --> 01:21:55,499
♪ Stand by me ♪

1667
01:21:55,583 --> 01:21:57,833
♪ And darlin', darlin' ♪

1668
01:21:57,915 --> 01:22:00,708
♪ Stand by me ♪

1669
01:22:00,791 --> 01:22:05,416
♪ Oh, stand by me ♪

1670
01:22:05,499 --> 01:22:08,416
♪ Oh, stand ♪

1671
01:22:08,499 --> 01:22:13,749
♪ Stand by me,
stand by me ♪

1672
01:22:13,833 --> 01:22:17,249
♪ If the sky
that we look upon ♪

1673
01:22:19,332 --> 01:22:22,082
♪ Should tumble and fall ♪

1674
01:22:22,165 --> 01:22:24,583
♪ Or the mountains ♪

1675
01:22:24,666 --> 01:22:27,915
♪ Should crumble to the sea ♪

1676
01:22:30,165 --> 01:22:34,082
♪ No, I won't be afraid ♪

1677
01:22:34,165 --> 01:22:38,583
♪ No, I won't be afraid ♪

1678
01:22:38,666 --> 01:22:42,749
♪ Just as long as you stand ♪

1679
01:22:42,874 --> 01:22:45,249
♪ Stand by me ♪

1680
01:22:45,332 --> 01:22:47,624
♪ And darlin', darlin' ♪

1681
01:22:47,708 --> 01:22:50,666
♪ Stand by me ♪

1682
01:22:50,749 --> 01:22:55,124
♪ Oh, stand by me ♪

1683
01:22:55,207 --> 01:22:58,207
♪ Oh, stand now ♪

1684
01:22:58,291 --> 01:23:02,708
♪ Stand by me,
stand by me ♪

1685
01:23:02,791 --> 01:23:05,082
♪ And darlin', darlin' ♪

1686
01:23:05,165 --> 01:23:08,124
♪ Stand by me ♪

1687
01:23:08,207 --> 01:23:12,666
♪ Oh, stand by me ♪

1688
01:23:12,749 --> 01:23:15,874
♪ Oh, stand now ♪

1689
01:23:15,957 --> 01:23:19,416
♪ Stand by me,
stand by me ♪