1 00:00:01,143 --> 00:00:03,176 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: MAJOR FUNDING FOR "MUHAMMAD ALI" 2 00:00:03,209 --> 00:00:05,376 WAS PROVIDED BY: DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN, 3 00:00:05,409 --> 00:00:07,609 {\an1}INVESTING IN PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS 4 00:00:07,643 --> 00:00:11,943 {\an1}THAT HELP US UNDERSTAND THE PAST AND PREPARE US FOR THE FUTURE; 5 00:00:11,976 --> 00:00:14,443 {\an1}BY THE ARTHUR VINING DAVIS FOUNDATIONS, 6 00:00:14,476 --> 00:00:16,876 {\an1}INVESTING IN OUR COMMON FUTURE; 7 00:00:16,909 --> 00:00:19,876 {\an1}BY THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY AND ITS MEMBERS 8 00:00:19,909 --> 00:00:21,709 {\an1}ALAN AND MARCIA DOCTER, 9 00:00:21,743 --> 00:00:24,843 {\an1}MR. AND MRS. PAUL TUDOR JONES, 10 00:00:24,876 --> 00:00:27,676 {\an1}THE FULLERTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND, 11 00:00:27,709 --> 00:00:29,676 {\an1}GILCHRIST AND AMY BERG; 12 00:00:29,709 --> 00:00:32,043 {\an1}THE BROOKE BROWN BARZUN FOUNDATION, 13 00:00:32,076 --> 00:00:34,076 {\an1}OWSLEY BROWN III FOUNDATION. 14 00:00:34,109 --> 00:00:37,209 {\an1}AND AUGUSTA BROWN HOLLAND FOUNDATION, 15 00:00:37,243 --> 00:00:38,943 {\an1}PERRY AND DONNA GOLKIN, 16 00:00:38,976 --> 00:00:41,476 {\an1}JOHN AND LESLIE McQUOWN, 17 00:00:41,509 --> 00:00:43,376 {\an1}JOHN AND CATHERINE DEBS, 18 00:00:43,409 --> 00:00:45,176 {\an1}FRED AND DONNA SEIGEL, 19 00:00:45,209 --> 00:00:47,243 {\an1}SUSAN AND JOHN WIELAND, 20 00:00:47,276 --> 00:00:50,276 {\an1}AND BY THESE ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS. 21 00:00:50,309 --> 00:00:51,943 {\an1}MAJOR FUNDING WAS ALSO PROVIDED 22 00:00:51,976 --> 00:00:54,609 {\an1}BY THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING 23 00:00:54,643 --> 00:00:56,043 {\an1}AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS 24 00:00:56,076 --> 00:00:57,809 {\an1}TO YOUR PBS STATION 25 00:00:57,843 --> 00:00:59,809 {\an1}FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU. THANK YOU. 26 00:01:02,443 --> 00:01:04,709 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI: YOU WANT SOME BREAKFAST? 27 00:01:04,743 --> 00:01:08,043 GIRL: I WANT SOME CORNFLAKES. 28 00:01:08,076 --> 00:01:10,409 {\an1}ALI: CAN I HAVE SOME OF YOUR CORNFLAKES? 29 00:01:10,443 --> 00:01:12,543 {\an1}OH, I DON'T WANT NONE. I WON'T TAKE NONE. 30 00:01:12,576 --> 00:01:14,443 {\an1}I WON'T TAKE NONE. 31 00:01:14,476 --> 00:01:16,743 {\an1}I WON'T EAT NONE IF YOU DON'T WANT ME TO. 32 00:01:16,776 --> 00:01:17,985 {\an1}OOH! LOOK AT THAT PRETTY HORSEY. 33 00:01:18,009 --> 00:01:19,909 WHERE? IS THAT A WHITE HORSE? 34 00:01:19,943 --> 00:01:22,243 {\an1}SEE? NO. STAND UP, LOOK OVER THERE. 35 00:01:22,276 --> 00:01:23,576 {\an1}STAND UP. YOU GOT TO STAND UP. 36 00:01:23,609 --> 00:01:24,976 {\an1}OVER THAT BUILDING. 37 00:01:25,009 --> 00:01:26,843 {\an1}SEE THE BIG ONE? THERE HE IS. 38 00:01:31,076 --> 00:01:33,876 {\an1}WHAT? WHAT'S WRONG? 39 00:01:33,909 --> 00:01:35,043 YOU ATE MY CORNFLAKES! 40 00:01:35,076 --> 00:01:37,509 {\an1}[CROWD CHANTING, "ALI!"] 41 00:01:42,343 --> 00:01:44,909 {\an1}WOMAN: MY EARLIEST MEMORIES THAT I CAN THINK OF AS A CHILD 42 00:01:44,943 --> 00:01:48,176 {\an1}WITH MY FATHER ARE WALKING THROUGH AIRPORTS AND BEING 43 00:01:48,209 --> 00:01:50,809 {\an1}IN CROWDS AND FEELING IN MY... THE VIBRATIONS 44 00:01:50,843 --> 00:01:54,809 {\an7}OF PEOPLE'S CLAPPING AND SHOUTS IN MY CHEST 45 00:01:54,843 --> 00:01:56,483 {\an8}AND JUST LOOKING AT MY DAD, YOU KNOW, LIKE 46 00:01:56,509 --> 00:01:58,976 {\an7}"WHO IS THIS PERSON?" 47 00:01:59,009 --> 00:02:01,943 {\an1}AND IT WAS ALL THE TIME, ANYWHERE WE WENT. 48 00:02:01,976 --> 00:02:03,376 {\an1}"YOU'RE THE GREATEST. WE LOVE YOU." 49 00:02:03,409 --> 00:02:04,943 AND THE CLAPPING AND, "MUHAMMAD." 50 00:02:04,976 --> 00:02:07,209 {\an1}ALI BOMAYE. ALI BOMAYE. 51 00:02:07,243 --> 00:02:08,709 {\an1}ALI BOMAYE. 52 00:02:08,743 --> 00:02:10,209 {\an1}HANA: I LOVED FEELING ALL THE ENERGY 53 00:02:10,243 --> 00:02:13,209 {\an1}AND THE LOVE THAT HE FELT. 54 00:02:13,243 --> 00:02:17,643 {\an1}MAN: WE NOW THINK OF MUHAMMAD ALI AS THIS VULNERABLE GUY 55 00:02:17,676 --> 00:02:19,476 {\an1}LIGHTING THE TORCH IN ATLANTA, 56 00:02:19,509 --> 00:02:22,009 AND EVERYBODY ON THE GLOBE LOVES HIM. 57 00:02:22,043 --> 00:02:24,143 {\an7}BLACK PEOPLE LIKE HIM, WHITE PEOPLE. 58 00:02:24,176 --> 00:02:28,043 {\an7}HE'S A UNIVERSAL HERO LIKE... BUT ALMOST IN A RELIGIOUS WAY, 59 00:02:28,076 --> 00:02:30,243 {\an8}LIKE THE BUDDHA, BUT WHEN HE WAS 60 00:02:30,276 --> 00:02:32,209 {\an1}IN THE MIDST OF HIS CAREER AND NOT JUST 61 00:02:32,243 --> 00:02:35,543 IN THE EARLY BIT, HE WAS INCREDIBLY DIVISIVE. 62 00:02:35,576 --> 00:02:38,309 {\an1}CASSIUS CLAY: BOO, YELL, SCREAM, THROW PEANUTS, 63 00:02:38,343 --> 00:02:42,276 {\an1}BUT WHATEVER YOU DO, PAY TO GET IN. 64 00:02:42,309 --> 00:02:44,376 {\an1}REMNICK: PEOPLE HATED HIM WHETHER IT WAS 65 00:02:44,409 --> 00:02:47,043 {\an1}ALONG RACIAL LINES, CLASS LINES, VIETNAM LINES, 66 00:02:47,076 --> 00:02:49,043 POLITICAL LINES, RELIGIOUS LINES, 67 00:02:49,076 --> 00:02:50,676 {\an1}OR THEY JUST COULDN'T STAND HIM 68 00:02:50,709 --> 00:02:52,152 {\an1}AND PEOPLE OF COURSE HAD THE OPPOSITE, 69 00:02:52,176 --> 00:02:55,809 AND THIS WAS "I LOVED HIM, LOVED HIM!" 70 00:02:55,843 --> 00:02:58,909 BUT YOU HAD AN OPINION ABOUT HIM. 71 00:02:58,943 --> 00:03:00,543 [BELL RINGS] 72 00:03:00,576 --> 00:03:02,009 WHAT'S MY NAME? WHAT'S MY NAME? 73 00:03:02,043 --> 00:03:03,576 {\an1}CLAY: I AIN'T SCARED OF NO BATTLE. 74 00:03:03,609 --> 00:03:05,343 IT'S GONNA TAKE A GOOD MAN TO WHOOP ME. 75 00:03:05,376 --> 00:03:06,552 {\an1}YOU CAN LOOK AT ME. I'M LOADED WITH CONFIDENCE. 76 00:03:06,576 --> 00:03:07,776 I CAN'T BE BEAT. 77 00:03:07,809 --> 00:03:09,209 {\an1}I HAD 180 AMATEUR FIGHTS, 78 00:03:09,243 --> 00:03:10,243 {\an1}22 PROFESSIONAL FIGHTS, 79 00:03:10,276 --> 00:03:11,876 {\an1}AND I'M PRETTY AS A GIRL. 80 00:03:11,909 --> 00:03:13,609 {\an1}LOOK HOW PRETTY I AM. 81 00:03:13,643 --> 00:03:15,509 [LAUGHTER] 82 00:03:15,543 --> 00:03:17,876 {\an1}MY LONG, TRIM LEGS AND MY BEAUTIFUL ARMS 83 00:03:17,909 --> 00:03:19,476 {\an1}AND MY PRETTY NOSE AND MOUTH. 84 00:03:19,509 --> 00:03:21,776 {\an1}I KNOW I'M PRETTY, MAN. I KNOW I'M PRETTY. 85 00:03:21,809 --> 00:03:23,743 YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME I'M PRETTY. 86 00:03:23,776 --> 00:03:25,243 {\an1}I'M COCKY. I'M PROUD. 87 00:03:25,276 --> 00:03:27,309 NEVER TALK ABOUT WHO'S GONNA STOP BE. 88 00:03:27,343 --> 00:03:28,809 {\an1}THERE AIN'T NOBODY GONNA STOP ME. 89 00:03:28,843 --> 00:03:30,609 {\an1}I SAY WHAT A WANT TO SAY. 90 00:03:30,643 --> 00:03:31,885 {\an1}THERE AIN'T NO MORE BIG NIGGAS TALKING LIKE THIS. 91 00:03:31,909 --> 00:03:33,443 [LAUGHTER] 92 00:03:33,476 --> 00:03:35,109 {\an1}MAN: HE WAS A PIONEER, 93 00:03:35,143 --> 00:03:36,909 {\an1}HE WAS A REVOLUTIONARY, 94 00:03:36,943 --> 00:03:39,343 {\an1}HE WAS A GROUNDBREAKER, 95 00:03:39,376 --> 00:03:43,243 {\an7}A GUY KNOWN SIMPLY AS THE GREATEST. 96 00:03:43,276 --> 00:03:45,543 {\an7}I AM THE GREATEST. 97 00:03:45,576 --> 00:03:47,043 I'VE WRASSLED WITH ALLIGATORS. 98 00:03:47,076 --> 00:03:48,976 {\an1}I'VE TUSSLED WITH A WHALE. 99 00:03:49,009 --> 00:03:52,109 {\an1}I DONE HANDCUFFED LIGHTNING AND PUT THUNDER IN JAIL. 100 00:03:52,143 --> 00:03:53,543 {\an1}WELL, YOU KNOW I'M BAD. 101 00:03:53,576 --> 00:03:56,209 {\an1}BACK OFF OF ME, MAN. BACK OFF OF ME, MAN. 102 00:03:56,243 --> 00:03:59,576 {\an1}ALI: I CAN DROWN A DRINK OF WATER AND KILL A DEAD TREE. 103 00:03:59,609 --> 00:04:01,609 {\an1}THIS WILL BE NO CONTEST. 104 00:04:01,643 --> 00:04:03,709 {\an7}WAIT TILL YOU SEE MUHAMMAD ALI. 105 00:04:03,743 --> 00:04:05,176 {\an7}[BEYONCÉ'S "FREEDOM" PLAYING] 106 00:04:05,209 --> 00:04:07,176 {\an1}MAN: TO HAVE THAT CHUTZPAH 107 00:04:07,209 --> 00:04:08,909 {\an7}AND TO BE A BLACK MAN IN AMERICA, 108 00:04:08,943 --> 00:04:11,443 {\an7}IT WAS JUST... IT WAS... IT WAS OUTLANDISH. 109 00:04:11,476 --> 00:04:13,176 {\an1}ALI: MUHAMMAD MEANS WORTHY OF ALL PRAISES, 110 00:04:13,209 --> 00:04:15,309 {\an1}AND ALI MEANS MOST HIGH. 111 00:04:15,343 --> 00:04:18,176 {\an1}I JUST DON'T THINK I SHOULD GO 10,000 MILES FROM HERE 112 00:04:18,209 --> 00:04:20,709 {\an1}AND SHOOT SOME BLACK PEOPLE THAT NEVER CALLED ME NIGGER. 113 00:04:20,743 --> 00:04:22,276 {\an1}I JUST CAN'T SHOOT HIM. 114 00:04:22,309 --> 00:04:23,485 I WAS ALWAYS WONDERED WHY MISS AMERICA 115 00:04:23,509 --> 00:04:24,509 WAS ALWAYS WHITE, 116 00:04:24,543 --> 00:04:25,776 SANTA CLAUSE IS WHITE. 117 00:04:25,809 --> 00:04:27,676 WHITE SWAN SOAP, KING WHITE SOAP, 118 00:04:27,709 --> 00:04:29,376 WHITE CLOUD TISSUE PAPER, 119 00:04:29,409 --> 00:04:31,109 AND EVERYTHING BAD WAS BLACK. 120 00:04:31,143 --> 00:04:32,943 {\an8}BLACK CAT WAS THE BAD LUCK, 121 00:04:32,976 --> 00:04:35,776 {\an8}AND IF I THREATEN YOU, I'M GONNA BLACKMAIL YOU. 122 00:04:35,809 --> 00:04:37,643 {\an7}[AUDIENCE LAUGHING] 123 00:04:37,676 --> 00:04:39,185 {\an8}I SAID, "MAMA, WHY DON'T THEY CALL IT WHITEMAIL? 124 00:04:39,209 --> 00:04:40,676 {\an8}THEY LIE, TOO." 125 00:04:40,709 --> 00:04:42,243 {\an8}LARRY HOLMES: I LOVED BEING AROUND HIM. 126 00:04:42,276 --> 00:04:45,343 {\an8}I LOVED BEING AROUND MUHAMMAD ALI. 127 00:04:45,376 --> 00:04:48,309 YOU GONNA FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY AND STING LIKE A BEE. 128 00:04:48,343 --> 00:04:49,909 BOTH: AHH! 129 00:04:49,943 --> 00:04:51,843 {\an1}RUMBLE, YOUNG MAN, RUMBLE. 130 00:04:51,876 --> 00:04:53,309 AHH! 131 00:04:53,343 --> 00:04:54,783 ALI: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM COMES HIGH. 132 00:04:54,809 --> 00:04:57,209 I HAVE PAID, BUT I AM FREE. 133 00:04:57,243 --> 00:04:58,809 {\an1}BEYONCÉ: ♪ FREEDOM, FREEDOM ♪ 134 00:04:58,843 --> 00:05:00,043 ♪ I CAN'T MOVE ♪ 135 00:05:00,076 --> 00:05:01,843 {\an1}♪ FREEDOM, CUT ME LOOSE ♪ 136 00:05:01,876 --> 00:05:04,543 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: THE WINNER AND STILL 137 00:05:04,576 --> 00:05:07,009 {\an1}HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD... 138 00:05:07,043 --> 00:05:10,976 {\an1}ALI: I AM THE GREATEST FIGHTER OF ALL TIME. 139 00:05:11,009 --> 00:05:13,809 OF ALL TIME. 140 00:05:13,843 --> 00:05:15,343 BEYONCÉ: ♪ HEY ♪ 141 00:05:15,376 --> 00:05:17,176 {\an1}♪ I'MMA KEEP RUNNIN' ♪ 142 00:05:17,209 --> 00:05:20,076 {\an1}♪ 'CAUSE A WINNER DON'T QUIT ON THEMSELVES ♪ 143 00:05:23,376 --> 00:05:25,943 {\an1}[PUNCHES HITTING HEAVY BAG] 144 00:05:25,976 --> 00:05:28,509 {\an1}NARRATOR: HE CALLED HIMSELF "THE GREATEST" 145 00:05:28,543 --> 00:05:31,943 {\an1}AND THEN PROVED IT TO THE ENTIRE WORLD. 146 00:05:31,976 --> 00:05:35,709 {\an1}HE WAS A MASTER AT WHAT IS CALLED THE "SWEET SCIENCE," 147 00:05:35,743 --> 00:05:40,343 {\an1}THE BRUTAL AND SOMETIMES BEAUTIFUL ART OF BOXING. 148 00:05:40,376 --> 00:05:43,343 {\an1}HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION AT JUST 22 YEARS OLD, 149 00:05:43,376 --> 00:05:47,076 {\an1}HE WROTE HIS OWN RULES IN THE RING AND IN HIS LIFE, 150 00:05:47,109 --> 00:05:50,843 {\an1}INFURIATING HIS CRITICS, BAFFLING HIS OPPONENTS, 151 00:05:50,876 --> 00:05:54,676 {\an1}AND RIVETING MILLIONS OF FANS. 152 00:05:54,709 --> 00:05:56,843 AT THE HEIGHT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 153 00:05:56,876 --> 00:05:59,276 {\an1}HE JOINED A SEPARATIST RELIGIOUS SECT 154 00:05:59,309 --> 00:06:01,343 {\an1}WHOSE LEADER WOULD, FOR A TIME, 155 00:06:01,376 --> 00:06:05,976 {\an1}DOMINATE BOTH HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND HIS BOXING CAREER. 156 00:06:06,009 --> 00:06:08,943 {\an1}HE SPOKE HIS MIND AND STOOD ON PRINCIPLE 157 00:06:08,976 --> 00:06:12,543 {\an1}EVEN WHEN IT COST HIM HIS LIVELIHOOD. 158 00:06:12,576 --> 00:06:17,376 {\an1}HE REDEFINED BLACK MANHOOD, YET BELITTLED HIS GREATEST RIVAL 159 00:06:17,409 --> 00:06:20,109 {\an1}USING THE RACIST LANGUAGE OF THE JIM CROW SOUTH 160 00:06:20,143 --> 00:06:23,476 {\an1}IN WHICH HE HAD BEEN RAISED. 161 00:06:23,509 --> 00:06:26,243 {\an1}BANISHED FOR HIS BELIEFS, HE RETURNED TO BOXING 162 00:06:26,276 --> 00:06:30,343 {\an1}AN UNDERDOG, RECLAIMED HIS TITLE TWICE, 163 00:06:30,376 --> 00:06:33,376 {\an1}AND BECAME THE MOST FAMOUS MAN ON EARTH. 164 00:06:34,809 --> 00:06:37,576 {\an1}HE CRAVED ADULATION HIS WHOLE LIFE, 165 00:06:37,609 --> 00:06:39,809 SEEKING CROWDS ON STREET CORNERS, 166 00:06:39,843 --> 00:06:43,609 IN HOTEL LOBBIES, ON AIRPORT TARMACS, 167 00:06:43,643 --> 00:06:45,643 {\an1}EVERYWHERE HE WENT, 168 00:06:45,676 --> 00:06:48,543 AND REVELED IN THE UNINHIBITED JOY 169 00:06:48,576 --> 00:06:52,243 {\an1}HE BROUGHT EACH ADORING FAN. 170 00:06:52,276 --> 00:06:56,343 {\an1}HE EARNED A MASSIVE FORTUNE, SPENT IT FREELY, 171 00:06:56,376 --> 00:06:59,776 {\an1}AND GAVE GENEROUSLY TO FAMILY, FRIENDS, 172 00:06:59,809 --> 00:07:03,709 {\an1}EVEN STRANGERS... ANYONE IN NEED. 173 00:07:03,743 --> 00:07:06,176 {\an1}"SERVICE TO OTHERS," HE OFTEN SAID, 174 00:07:06,209 --> 00:07:11,376 {\an1}"IS THE RENT YOU PAY FOR YOUR ROOM HERE ON EARTH." 175 00:07:11,409 --> 00:07:14,009 {\an1}EVEN AFTER HIS BODY BEGAN TO BETRAY HIM 176 00:07:14,043 --> 00:07:18,876 {\an1}AND HIS BRAIN HAD ABSORBED TOO MANY BLOWS, HE FOUGHT ON, 177 00:07:18,909 --> 00:07:21,509 {\an1}UNABLE TO GO WITHOUT THE ATTENTION AND DRAMA 178 00:07:21,543 --> 00:07:23,876 {\an1}THAT ACCOMPANIED EACH BOUT. 179 00:07:25,209 --> 00:07:30,176 {\an1}LATER, SLOWED AND SILENCED BY A CRUEL AND CRIPPLING DISEASE, 180 00:07:30,209 --> 00:07:33,843 {\an1}HE FOUND REFUGE IN HIS FAITH, BECOMING A SYMBOL 181 00:07:33,876 --> 00:07:38,143 OF PEACE AND HOPE ON EVERY CONTINENT. 182 00:07:38,176 --> 00:07:41,809 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI WAS, THE NOVELIST NORMAN MAILER WROTE, 183 00:07:41,843 --> 00:07:45,809 "THE VERY SPIRIT OF THE 20th CENTURY." 184 00:07:45,843 --> 00:07:48,209 {\an1}ALI: I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE ONE BLACK ONE 185 00:07:48,243 --> 00:07:51,009 WHO GOT BIG ON YOUR WHITE TELEVISIONS, 186 00:07:51,043 --> 00:07:53,509 {\an1}ON YOUR WHITE NEWSPAPERS, ON YOUR SATELLITES, 187 00:07:53,543 --> 00:07:56,376 {\an1}MILLION-DOLLAR CHECKS, AND STILL LOOK YOU IN YOUR FACE 188 00:07:56,409 --> 00:08:00,309 {\an1}AND TELL YOU THE TRUTH AND 100% STAY WITH AND REPRESENT 189 00:08:00,343 --> 00:08:02,976 {\an1}MY PEOPLE AND NOT LEAVE THEM AND SELL THEM OUT 190 00:08:03,009 --> 00:08:04,476 BECAUSE I'M RICH AND STAY WITH THEM. 191 00:08:04,509 --> 00:08:06,143 {\an1}THAT WAS MY PURPOSE. 192 00:08:06,176 --> 00:08:07,876 {\an1}I'M HERE, AND I'M SHOWING THE WORLD THAT 193 00:08:07,909 --> 00:08:11,143 {\an1}YOU CAN BE HERE AND STILL FREE AND STAY YOURSELF 194 00:08:11,176 --> 00:08:13,043 {\an1}AND GET RESPECT FROM THE WORLD. 195 00:08:13,076 --> 00:08:19,243 [BELL RINGS] 196 00:08:19,276 --> 00:08:22,576 {\an1}[THE DIXIELAND JUG BLOWERS' "BOODLE-AM-SHAKE" PLAYING] 197 00:08:22,609 --> 00:08:30,609 ♪ 198 00:08:34,743 --> 00:08:38,609 {\an1}NARRATOR: MUHAMMAD ALI WAS BORN CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY JR. 199 00:08:38,643 --> 00:08:44,309 {\an1}AT LOUISVILLE CITY HOSPITAL ON JANUARY 17, 1942. 200 00:08:44,343 --> 00:08:46,909 {\an1}ODESSA CLAY: HE WEIGHED ABOUT 6 POUNDS, 1 OUNCE, 201 00:08:46,943 --> 00:08:50,443 {\an1}SO I WOULDN'T CALL THAT A VERY LARGE BABY. 202 00:08:50,476 --> 00:08:53,909 {\an1}HE LEARNED TO TALK BEFORE HE WAS ONE YEARS OLD, 203 00:08:53,943 --> 00:08:58,043 {\an7}AND HE'S ALWAYS BEEN A GREAT TALKER. 204 00:08:58,076 --> 00:09:00,543 {\an1}NARRATOR: HIS PARENTS, ODESSA GRADY CLAY 205 00:09:00,576 --> 00:09:04,843 {\an1}AND CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY SR., HAD MARRIED IN 1941 206 00:09:04,876 --> 00:09:08,776 {\an1}AND BOUGHT A TINY HOUSE AT 3302 GRAND AVENUE 207 00:09:08,809 --> 00:09:12,176 {\an1}IN LOUISVILLE'S WEST END, A BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD 208 00:09:12,209 --> 00:09:16,109 {\an1}THAT WAS HOME TO WORKING- AND MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILIES. 209 00:09:16,143 --> 00:09:18,643 {\an1}WOMAN: THE WEST END HAD EVERYTHING. 210 00:09:18,676 --> 00:09:22,009 WE HAD OUR BANKS, WE HAD OUR ENTREPRENEURS, 211 00:09:22,043 --> 00:09:23,609 {\an1}WE HAD OUR NEWSPAPER. 212 00:09:23,643 --> 00:09:27,443 {\an1}IT WAS A COMMUNITY IN WHICH WE WERE SAFE. 213 00:09:27,476 --> 00:09:31,643 {\an7}I DON'T HAVE A RECOLLECTION OF WHEN I FIRST MET THE CLAYS. 214 00:09:31,676 --> 00:09:35,276 {\an8}IT'S ALMOST AS IF YOU ALWAYS KNEW THEM. 215 00:09:35,309 --> 00:09:38,476 {\an1}MRS. CLAY, SHE LOVED EVERYBODY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 216 00:09:38,509 --> 00:09:40,643 {\an1}I MEAN, SHE WAS ONE OF THE ONES THAT 217 00:09:40,676 --> 00:09:43,009 {\an1}IF ANYTHING HAPPENED YOU ALWAYS KNEW 218 00:09:43,043 --> 00:09:45,443 {\an1}THAT YOU COULD RUN OVER THERE. 219 00:09:45,476 --> 00:09:48,543 {\an1}NARRATOR: ODESSA COOKED AND CLEANED FOR WHITE FAMILIES 220 00:09:48,576 --> 00:09:50,976 AND ATTENDED MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH 221 00:09:51,009 --> 00:09:52,709 EVERY SUNDAY. 222 00:09:52,743 --> 00:09:53,985 HANA: MOMMA BIRD, MY GRANDMOTHER, 223 00:09:54,009 --> 00:09:55,676 {\an1}WAS VERY SWEET, VERY QUIET, 224 00:09:55,709 --> 00:09:58,209 {\an7}AND VERY PLEASANT, NEVER SPOKE BADLY ABOUT ANYBODY, 225 00:09:58,243 --> 00:10:00,276 {\an8}VERY POSITIVE, SPIRITUAL WOMAN. 226 00:10:00,309 --> 00:10:01,943 {\an7}SO OUTGOING AND LOVING. 227 00:10:01,976 --> 00:10:05,576 {\an1}WOMAN: SHE WAS KIND, AND SHE WAS JUST SINCERE, 228 00:10:05,609 --> 00:10:08,943 {\an7}AND MY DAD TRULY RECEIVED HIS GENTLENESS 229 00:10:08,976 --> 00:10:12,909 {\an7}AND HIS KINDNESS FROM HIS MOM, MOMMA BIRD. 230 00:10:12,943 --> 00:10:14,976 NARRATOR: YOUNG CASSIUS NEVER SAT STILL. 231 00:10:15,009 --> 00:10:17,109 {\an1}HE PULLED THE POTS AND PANS FROM THE CUPBOARD 232 00:10:17,143 --> 00:10:19,509 TO BANG ON THEM, CHASED THE FAMILY'S PET CHICKEN 233 00:10:19,543 --> 00:10:22,743 AROUND THE YARD, AND STOOD UP IN HIS STROLLER 234 00:10:22,776 --> 00:10:24,676 {\an1}TO GET A BETTER VIEW. 235 00:10:24,709 --> 00:10:27,343 {\an1}RASHEDA: EVEN AS A YOUNG BOY, HE JUST HAD 236 00:10:27,376 --> 00:10:29,976 {\an1}THIS HUGE PERSONALITY, AND HE WAS ALWAYS LAUGHING 237 00:10:30,009 --> 00:10:32,443 {\an1}AND SMILING, ALWAYS MAKING OTHER PEOPLE LAUGH. 238 00:10:32,476 --> 00:10:34,319 {\an1}AND MY GRANDMOTHER, SHE WAS LIKE, "THIS... THIS BOY 239 00:10:34,343 --> 00:10:37,209 {\an1}IS GONNA BE SOMETHING SPECIAL." 240 00:10:37,243 --> 00:10:39,809 {\an1}NARRATOR: 18 MONTHS AFTER CASSIUS WAS BORN, 241 00:10:39,843 --> 00:10:42,043 ODESSA GAVE BIRTH TO A SECOND SON, WHOM THEY NAMED 242 00:10:42,076 --> 00:10:46,976 {\an1}AFTER THE SILENT FILM STAR RUDOLPH VALENTINO. 243 00:10:47,009 --> 00:10:50,143 {\an1}CASSIUS AND RUDY WERE EXCEPTIONALLY CLOSE. 244 00:10:50,176 --> 00:10:53,009 {\an1}WHEN HIS BROTHER MISBEHAVED, CASSIUS WOULD INSIST 245 00:10:53,043 --> 00:10:56,276 {\an1}THAT RUDY WAS HIS BABY AND REFUSE TO LET 246 00:10:56,309 --> 00:10:59,976 {\an1}THEIR FATHER SPANK HIM. 247 00:11:00,009 --> 00:11:03,043 CASSIUS CLAY SR., AN ARTIST WHO EARNED A LIVING 248 00:11:03,076 --> 00:11:05,709 AS A SIGN-PAINTER AND MURALIST, HAD BEEN NAMED 249 00:11:05,743 --> 00:11:10,209 {\an1}FOR A FIERY 19th CENTURY WHITE ABOLITIONIST. 250 00:11:10,243 --> 00:11:13,743 {\an1}HE LOVED TO BE NOTICED, OFTEN QUOTED FROM THE BIBLE, 251 00:11:13,776 --> 00:11:17,509 AND RAILED AGAINST RACIAL INJUSTICE. 252 00:11:17,543 --> 00:11:20,643 {\an1}"CASH," AS HE WAS CALLED, WAS "A MINIATURE VOLCANO 253 00:11:20,676 --> 00:11:24,709 {\an1}OF A MAN," ONE OBSERVER SAID, BOISTEROUS AND COCKY. 254 00:11:24,743 --> 00:11:28,209 {\an1}RASHEDA: PAPA CASH WAS CHARISMATIC, HE WAS FUNNY, 255 00:11:28,243 --> 00:11:31,809 {\an1}HE HAD THE BIGGEST PERSONALITY. 256 00:11:31,843 --> 00:11:35,009 HE LIT UP A ROOM WHEN HE WALKED IN. 257 00:11:35,043 --> 00:11:37,509 {\an1}EVERYONE JUST WANTED TO TALK TO HIM, 258 00:11:37,543 --> 00:11:39,276 {\an1}EVERYONE WANTED TO KNOW HIM. 259 00:11:39,309 --> 00:11:42,776 {\an7}OUR FATHER COULD SING, DANCE, PAINT, DRAW, 260 00:11:42,809 --> 00:11:44,276 {\an8}MEMORIZE POETRY. 261 00:11:44,309 --> 00:11:46,776 {\an1}MY BROTHER GOT HIS TALENT FROM OUR FATHER. 262 00:11:46,809 --> 00:11:49,609 {\an1}RASHEDA: MY DAD, HE'S CERTAINLY A COMBINATION OF MOMMA BIRD 263 00:11:49,643 --> 00:11:51,376 {\an1}AND PAPA CASH FOR SURE, 264 00:11:51,409 --> 00:11:55,376 {\an1}BUT HIS CHARISMA DEFINITELY CAME FROM PAPA CASH. 265 00:11:55,409 --> 00:11:57,343 {\an1}MAN: HIS FATHER WAS A RACE MAN, 266 00:11:57,376 --> 00:12:00,043 {\an7}AND HE BELIEVED THAT HIS CAREER, LIKE SO MANY OTHERS', 267 00:12:00,076 --> 00:12:02,009 {\an8}WAS HELD BACK BY THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN, 268 00:12:02,043 --> 00:12:05,009 {\an7}AND HE BELIEVED THAT HE WAS A BRILLIANT PAINTER, 269 00:12:05,043 --> 00:12:07,076 AN ARTIST, BUT HE WAS RELEGATED 270 00:12:07,109 --> 00:12:08,976 TO PAINTING SIGNS IN FRONT OF STORES 271 00:12:09,009 --> 00:12:12,309 {\an7}AND PAINTING CHURCH MURALS AND SCRAPING TO MAKE A LIVING 272 00:12:12,343 --> 00:12:14,909 {\an7}BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE THE SAME KIND OF OPPORTUNITY 273 00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:17,109 {\an1}THAT A WHITE PAINTER MIGHT HAVE HAD. 274 00:12:17,143 --> 00:12:20,443 {\an1}NARRATOR: PAPA CASH WAS ALSO AN UNREPENTANT WOMANIZER, 275 00:12:20,476 --> 00:12:22,709 {\an1}WHO COULD BE VIOLENT WHEN DRUNK. 276 00:12:22,743 --> 00:12:25,543 {\an1}HE WAS ARRESTED REGULARLY FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT 277 00:12:25,576 --> 00:12:27,243 {\an1}AND RECKLESS DRIVING. 278 00:12:27,276 --> 00:12:30,043 {\an1}AND HE OCCASIONALLY HIT HIS WIFE, 279 00:12:30,076 --> 00:12:33,209 {\an1}AND THERE WERE POLICE INVOLVED AT TIMES WHEN SHE HAD TO CALL 280 00:12:33,243 --> 00:12:35,376 {\an1}TO PROTECT HERSELF, 281 00:12:35,409 --> 00:12:37,476 AND I THINK FOR THE BOYS GROWING UP, 282 00:12:37,509 --> 00:12:40,643 {\an1}FOR CASSIUS AND FOR RUDY, IT WAS FRIGHTENING ENVIRONMENT 283 00:12:40,676 --> 00:12:42,843 {\an1}AT TIMES TO SEE THEIR MOTHER BEING THREATENED, 284 00:12:42,876 --> 00:12:45,343 {\an1}AND AS THEY GOT OLDER, THEY WOULD STEP IN 285 00:12:45,376 --> 00:12:47,276 {\an1}AND TRY TO PUT A STOP TO IT. 286 00:12:47,309 --> 00:12:49,809 {\an1}NARRATOR: AFTER ONE INCIDENT, POLICE ARRIVED 287 00:12:49,843 --> 00:12:52,309 {\an1}AT THE CLAY HOME TO FIND YOUNG CASSIUS 288 00:12:52,343 --> 00:12:54,509 {\an1}WITH A BLOODY GASH ON HIS LEG. 289 00:12:54,543 --> 00:12:57,076 {\an1}HIS FATHER HAD CUT HIM WITH A KNIFE WHEN HE'D TRIED 290 00:12:57,109 --> 00:12:59,009 {\an1}TO PROTECT HIS MOTHER DURING AN ARGUMENT 291 00:12:59,043 --> 00:13:01,243 {\an1}BETWEEN HIS PARENTS. 292 00:13:01,276 --> 00:13:04,309 {\an1}THE OFFICERS DID NOTHING. 293 00:13:04,343 --> 00:13:06,576 {\an1}DESPITE THE VIOLENCE, CASSIUS AND RUDY 294 00:13:06,609 --> 00:13:10,709 {\an7}WOULD SPEAK OF THEIR HOME LIFE AS PEACEFUL AND HAPPY. 295 00:13:10,743 --> 00:13:17,209 {\an8}♪ 296 00:13:17,243 --> 00:13:19,219 {\an7}HANA: MY FATHER, COMING UP, IN THE SEGREGATED SOUTH, 297 00:13:19,243 --> 00:13:23,143 {\an1}IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, HAD A DIFFICULT TIME. 298 00:13:23,176 --> 00:13:25,176 {\an1}MOMMA BIRD TAUGHT HIM, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE CRUEL 299 00:13:25,209 --> 00:13:27,443 IN THIS WORLD, BUT NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, 300 00:13:27,476 --> 00:13:29,176 {\an1}YOU KNOW, BECOME THAT. 301 00:13:29,209 --> 00:13:30,876 {\an1}CHILDREN: I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG 302 00:13:30,909 --> 00:13:33,543 OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 303 00:13:33,576 --> 00:13:35,643 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE LOUISVILLE OF CASSIUS CLAY'S YOUTH 304 00:13:35,676 --> 00:13:38,676 {\an1}WAS STRICTLY SEGREGATED, AND OPPORTUNITIES 305 00:13:38,709 --> 00:13:41,343 {\an1}FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS WERE LIMITED. 306 00:13:41,376 --> 00:13:44,476 {\an7}HE ATTENDED ALL-BLACK SCHOOLS, COULD NOT EAT 307 00:13:44,509 --> 00:13:47,509 {\an7}AT THE LUNCH COUNTERS OF DOWNTOWN STORES, 308 00:13:47,543 --> 00:13:49,976 {\an1}AND WATCHED FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE 309 00:13:50,009 --> 00:13:55,209 {\an1}AS WHITE FAMILIES ENJOYED A NEARBY AMUSEMENT PARK. 310 00:13:55,243 --> 00:13:57,976 {\an1}EIG: YOUNG CASSIUS CLAY WAS AWARE VERY EARLY 311 00:13:58,009 --> 00:13:59,743 {\an1}OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE 312 00:13:59,776 --> 00:14:02,243 {\an1}AND HOW DIFFERENTLY HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE TREATED 313 00:14:02,276 --> 00:14:04,876 {\an1}AND WOULD ASK HIS FATHER, "WHY CAN'T I BE RICH?" 314 00:14:04,909 --> 00:14:07,543 {\an1}AND HIS FATHER WOULD JUST POINT TO THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN 315 00:14:07,576 --> 00:14:09,809 AND SAY, "THAT'S WHY YOU CAN'T BE RICH." 316 00:14:09,843 --> 00:14:14,243 ♪ 317 00:14:14,276 --> 00:14:17,376 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN 1955, NEWS OF THE BRUTAL TORTURE 318 00:14:17,409 --> 00:14:20,009 {\an1}AND MURDER OF 14-YEAR-OLD EMMETT TILL 319 00:14:20,043 --> 00:14:23,243 {\an1}BY WHITE MEN IN MISSISSIPPI AND GRAPHIC IMAGES 320 00:14:23,276 --> 00:14:26,009 IN "JET" MAGAZINE OF HIS MUTILATED FACE 321 00:14:26,043 --> 00:14:28,176 {\an1}HAUNTED CASSIUS CLAY, 322 00:14:28,209 --> 00:14:32,009 {\an7}WHO WAS JUST 6 MONTHS YOUNGER THAN TILL. 323 00:14:32,043 --> 00:14:34,119 {\an7}HANA: THAT REALLY AFFECTED LIKE A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE 324 00:14:34,143 --> 00:14:35,876 {\an8}IN THAT TIME. 325 00:14:35,909 --> 00:14:38,043 {\an1}HE SAW HIMSELF IN EMMETT TILL AND THOUGHT, "WOW! 326 00:14:38,076 --> 00:14:39,743 {\an1}"THIS OUTGOING KID FROM THE CITY, 327 00:14:39,776 --> 00:14:41,519 {\an1}"AND HE CAME, AND HE WHISTLED AT A PRETTY LADY, 328 00:14:41,543 --> 00:14:42,885 {\an1}"AND NOW HE'S DEAD, AND YOU CAN'T EVEN 329 00:14:42,909 --> 00:14:44,709 {\an1}RECOGNIZE HIS FACE." 330 00:14:47,409 --> 00:14:49,109 {\an1}MAN: IT WAS ASTONISHING WHEN WE FOUND OUT 331 00:14:49,143 --> 00:14:51,576 {\an1}ABOUT EMMETT TILL. 332 00:14:51,609 --> 00:14:54,543 HIS MOTHER SAID, "LEAVE THE CASKET OPEN," 333 00:14:54,576 --> 00:14:57,309 {\an1}AND YOU COULD SEE WHAT, HOW THEY BRUTALIZED HIM, 334 00:14:57,343 --> 00:15:01,043 {\an1}AND SO EVERYBODY SAW THAT. 335 00:15:01,076 --> 00:15:03,343 {\an7}IT WAS REALLY KIND OF SCARY FOR EVERYBODY 336 00:15:03,376 --> 00:15:06,043 {\an7}IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE IF THEY COULD DO THAT TO HIM, 337 00:15:06,076 --> 00:15:09,276 {\an7}WHAT COULD THEY DO TO US? 338 00:15:09,309 --> 00:15:12,876 {\an1}THAT'S WHEN YOUNG BLACK GUYS STARTED TO CHANGE. 339 00:15:14,376 --> 00:15:18,909 ♪ 340 00:15:18,943 --> 00:15:20,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: AT THE VIRGINIA AVENUE COLORED SCHOOL, 341 00:15:20,876 --> 00:15:24,143 {\an1}CASSIUS CLAY HAD A HARD TIME PAYING ATTENTION. 342 00:15:24,176 --> 00:15:25,843 EIG: HE STRUGGLED WITH HIS CLASSES. 343 00:15:25,876 --> 00:15:27,909 {\an1}HE STRUGGLED TO READ, HE STRUGGLED WITH MATH. 344 00:15:27,943 --> 00:15:30,409 {\an1}HE WAS MOST CERTAINLY DYSLEXIC. 345 00:15:30,443 --> 00:15:32,609 {\an1}HE FOUND, LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE TROUBLE 346 00:15:32,643 --> 00:15:34,909 {\an1}IN SCHOOL, THAT HE HAD TO COMPENSATE, 347 00:15:34,943 --> 00:15:38,143 {\an1}AND BY BEING THE CLASS CLOWN WAS THE WAY HE DID THAT. 348 00:15:38,176 --> 00:15:40,309 {\an1}HE WOULD CARRY A PURSE TO SCHOOL, 349 00:15:40,343 --> 00:15:42,809 {\an1}HE WORE LIPSTICK ONE DAY TO GET LAUGHS. 350 00:15:42,843 --> 00:15:45,309 {\an1}HE WAS WILLING TO DO THINGS THAT BOYS IN THE 1950s 351 00:15:45,343 --> 00:15:47,843 DIDN'T OFTEN DO. 352 00:15:47,876 --> 00:15:49,476 {\an1}EVEN AS A YOUNG MAN, PEOPLE JUST LOVED 353 00:15:49,509 --> 00:15:51,009 TO BE AROUND HIM. 354 00:15:51,043 --> 00:15:54,476 HE MADE THEM FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES. 355 00:15:54,509 --> 00:15:57,176 NARRATOR: ONE DAY IN OCTOBER OF 1954, 356 00:15:57,209 --> 00:15:59,443 {\an1}12-YEAR-OLD CASSIUS RODE HIS BICYCLE 357 00:15:59,476 --> 00:16:01,209 {\an1}INTO DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE, 358 00:16:01,243 --> 00:16:04,443 WHILE RUDY SAT ON THE HANDLEBARS. 359 00:16:04,476 --> 00:16:06,943 IT BEGAN TO RAIN, AND THE BOYS TOOK COVER 360 00:16:06,976 --> 00:16:10,076 {\an1}IN THE COLUMBIA AUDITORIUM, WHERE A HOME APPLIANCE SHOW 361 00:16:10,109 --> 00:16:13,176 WAS UNDERWAY. 362 00:16:13,209 --> 00:16:15,543 {\an1}AFTER THE RAIN STOPPED, THEY EMERGED TO FIND THAT 363 00:16:15,576 --> 00:16:17,643 {\an1}THE BICYCLE WAS GONE. 364 00:16:17,676 --> 00:16:20,809 {\an1}HE HAD A BRAND-NEW SCHWINN, A BEAUTIFUL RED BICYCLE 365 00:16:20,843 --> 00:16:23,309 {\an1}THAT HE SHARED WITH HIS BROTHER, 366 00:16:23,343 --> 00:16:24,919 {\an1}AND HE WENT RUNNING AROUND LOOKING FOR HIS BICYCLE 367 00:16:24,943 --> 00:16:26,709 AND THEN RAN BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY CENTER 368 00:16:26,743 --> 00:16:28,343 ASKING FOR HELP. 369 00:16:28,376 --> 00:16:29,585 {\an1}SOMEONE TOLD HIM THERE WAS A POLICE OFFICER 370 00:16:29,609 --> 00:16:31,209 IN THE BASEMENT. 371 00:16:31,243 --> 00:16:35,576 ♪ 372 00:16:35,609 --> 00:16:37,643 {\an1}MAN: HE WENT DOWN, AND THE COP IN THE BASEMENT 373 00:16:37,676 --> 00:16:41,809 {\an1}WAS THIS JOE MARTIN, WHO WAS RUNNING A LITTLE BOXING SCHOOL. 374 00:16:41,843 --> 00:16:44,076 {\an1}EIG: CASSIUS TOLD THE STORY YEARS LATER THAT 375 00:16:44,109 --> 00:16:45,676 {\an1}FOR A MINUTE HE FORGOT ABOUT HIS BIKE 376 00:16:45,709 --> 00:16:48,343 BECAUSE THE SIGHT OF THIS BOXING GYM, 377 00:16:48,376 --> 00:16:50,376 {\an1}THE SMELL OF THE LEATHER AND THE SWEAT, 378 00:16:50,409 --> 00:16:52,676 {\an1}AND THE EXCITEMENT, THE ACTION OF BOYS 379 00:16:52,709 --> 00:16:53,852 {\an1}IN A RING HITTING EACH OTHER, 380 00:16:53,876 --> 00:16:55,709 {\an1}BLACK AND WHITE, TOGETHER. 381 00:16:55,743 --> 00:16:58,843 {\an7}AND HE, YOU KNOW, REPORTED THE CRIME, AND "I'M GONNA 382 00:16:58,876 --> 00:17:01,309 {\an7}GET THE GUY AND I'M GONNA," YOU KNOW, "KILL HIM." 383 00:17:01,343 --> 00:17:03,309 {\an7}AND JOE MARTIN SAID, "WELL, UH, DO YOU KNOW 384 00:17:03,343 --> 00:17:05,609 HOW TO FIGHT?" 385 00:17:05,643 --> 00:17:06,809 "FIGHT?" 386 00:17:06,843 --> 00:17:08,909 {\an1}AND THAT WAS THE BEGINNING. 387 00:17:08,943 --> 00:17:10,685 {\an1}NARRATOR: THOUGH HIS FATHER WAS RELUCTANT TO LET 388 00:17:10,709 --> 00:17:12,976 HIS SON TRAIN WITH A WHITE POLICE OFFICER, 389 00:17:13,009 --> 00:17:16,643 {\an1}THE LESSONS WERE FREE, AND CASSIUS WAS EAGER TO LEARN. 390 00:17:16,676 --> 00:17:20,309 {\an1}AT FIRST, THE YOUNG BOXER DID NOT IMPRESS MARTIN. 391 00:17:20,343 --> 00:17:22,943 {\an1}"HE WAS JUST ORDINARY," THE TRAINER RECALLED, 392 00:17:22,976 --> 00:17:24,885 {\an1}"AND I DOUBT WHETHER ANY SCOUT WOULD HAVE THOUGHT 393 00:17:24,909 --> 00:17:26,809 MUCH OF HIM." 394 00:17:26,843 --> 00:17:28,952 {\an1}EIG: CASSIUS DIDN'T SHOW ANY SPECIAL TALENT RIGHT AWAY, 395 00:17:28,976 --> 00:17:30,743 {\an1}BUT HE SHOWED ENORMOUS PASSION. 396 00:17:30,776 --> 00:17:34,076 {\an1}HE KNEW INSTANTLY THAT THIS WAS WHAT HE WANTED TO DO. 397 00:17:34,109 --> 00:17:35,752 {\an1}BOXING WAS PERFECT FOR HIM BECAUSE THERE'S JUST 398 00:17:35,776 --> 00:17:38,709 {\an1}TWO GUYS IN THE RING, AND YOUR EYES ARE ALWAYS 399 00:17:38,743 --> 00:17:40,452 {\an1}GOING TO BE DRAWN NATURALLY TO THE ONE WHO'S DOING 400 00:17:40,476 --> 00:17:42,976 {\an1}THE MOST MOVING, WHO'S DOING THE MOST PUNCHING, 401 00:17:43,009 --> 00:17:45,276 {\an1}WHO'S MOVING THE FASTEST, AND THAT WAS HIM, 402 00:17:45,309 --> 00:17:48,609 {\an1}AND HE KNEW THAT HE COULD GET THE MOST ATTENTION THAT WAY. 403 00:17:48,643 --> 00:17:51,976 {\an1}NARRATOR: JUST 6 WEEKS AFTER HE WALKED INTO JOE MARTIN'S GYM, 404 00:17:52,009 --> 00:17:55,443 {\an1}CASSIUS CLAY HAD HIS FIRST AMATEUR FIGHT. 405 00:17:55,476 --> 00:17:57,943 {\an7}I AT THAT TIME WAS PUTTING ON A LOCAL TELEVISION SHOW 406 00:17:57,976 --> 00:18:00,543 {\an7}HERE IN LOUISVILLE, AND I HAD AMATEUR BOUTS 407 00:18:00,576 --> 00:18:03,676 {\an7}EVERY SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AND THE FIRST BOUT I PUT HIM IN, 408 00:18:03,709 --> 00:18:06,176 {\an1}HE WEIGHED 87 POUNDS. 409 00:18:06,209 --> 00:18:08,743 {\an1}NARRATOR: AFTER DEFEATING 14-YEAR-OLD RONNIE O'KEEFE 410 00:18:08,776 --> 00:18:11,476 {\an1}IN A SPLIT DECISION, CLAY IMMEDIATELY ANNOUNCED 411 00:18:11,509 --> 00:18:14,309 {\an1}TO EVERYONE THAT ONE DAY HE WOULD BE CALLED 412 00:18:14,343 --> 00:18:17,043 {\an1}"THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME." 413 00:18:17,076 --> 00:18:18,743 {\an1}MAN: HE WAS ALWAYS BEEN A LITTLE BRAGGART, 414 00:18:18,776 --> 00:18:20,052 {\an1}"I'M THE GREATEST" AND ALL THAT, BEFORE HE EVEN GOT 415 00:18:20,076 --> 00:18:21,876 {\an1}TO BE THE GREATEST. 416 00:18:21,909 --> 00:18:25,009 {\an1}WE'D SAY, "OH, SHUT UP. YOU'RE JUST RUNNING YOUR MOUTH." 417 00:18:25,043 --> 00:18:27,276 {\an7}BUT AS HE GOT BETTER AND BETTER, 418 00:18:27,309 --> 00:18:29,543 {\an7}WE HAD MORE RESPECT FOR HIM. 419 00:18:29,576 --> 00:18:31,976 {\an1}EIG: HE BELIEVES IN HIMSELF BEFORE THERE'S ANY REASON TO, 420 00:18:32,009 --> 00:18:33,185 {\an1}BEFORE ANYONE ELSE IS TELLING HIM THAT HE 421 00:18:33,209 --> 00:18:35,176 {\an1}MIGHT EVEN HAVE TALENT. 422 00:18:35,209 --> 00:18:38,043 {\an1}IT'S SO PREPOSTEROUS. 423 00:18:38,076 --> 00:18:40,043 {\an1}NARRATOR: CASSIUS THREW HIMSELF INTO TRAINING, 424 00:18:40,076 --> 00:18:42,976 {\an1}DETERMINED TO ADD MUSCLE TO HIS SLENDER FRAME. 425 00:18:43,009 --> 00:18:46,543 {\an1}HE STOPPED DRINKING SODA POP AND SUBSTITUTED GARLIC WATER, 426 00:18:46,576 --> 00:18:49,143 {\an1}WHICH HE BELIEVED WOULD KEEP HIS BLOOD PRESSURE DOWN. 427 00:18:49,176 --> 00:18:50,676 [BELL RINGS] 428 00:18:50,709 --> 00:18:52,443 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: CASSIUS CLAY OF LOUISVILLE 429 00:18:52,476 --> 00:18:54,043 IN THE TRUNKS WITH THE WHITE STRIPES, 430 00:18:54,076 --> 00:18:57,243 {\an1}MEETS JEFFERSON DAVIS OF MOBILE, ALABAMA. 431 00:18:57,276 --> 00:19:00,476 {\an1}NARRATOR: CLAY REALIZED EARLY THAT HE WAS UNUSUALLY QUICK 432 00:19:00,509 --> 00:19:03,809 {\an1}AND AGILE, ABLE TO AVOID PUNCHES BY LEANING BACK 433 00:19:03,843 --> 00:19:06,243 {\an1}RATHER THAN DUCKING OR SLIPPING SIDE TO SIDE 434 00:19:06,276 --> 00:19:09,043 AS BOXERS WERE INSTRUCTED TO DO. 435 00:19:09,076 --> 00:19:10,609 [BELL RINGS] 436 00:19:10,643 --> 00:19:11,652 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: IT'S CASSIUS CLAY THE WINNER 437 00:19:11,676 --> 00:19:13,109 {\an1}OVER JEFFERSON DAVIS. 438 00:19:16,509 --> 00:19:19,143 {\an1}NARRATOR: SOME NIGHTS, CLAY WENT FROM MARTIN'S GYM 439 00:19:19,176 --> 00:19:22,476 {\an1}TO THE GRACE COMMUNITY CENTER ACROSS TOWN, WHERE HE CONTINUED 440 00:19:22,509 --> 00:19:25,743 {\an1}HIS BOXING EDUCATION UNDER FRED STONER, 441 00:19:25,776 --> 00:19:29,376 {\an1}A VETERAN TRAINER WHO HAD GUIDED MANY LOCAL AMATEURS TO SUCCESS 442 00:19:29,409 --> 00:19:31,876 {\an1}AT THE GOLDEN GLOVES. 443 00:19:31,909 --> 00:19:34,943 {\an1}AWAY FROM THE GYM, HE SOUGHT BOXING WISDOM 444 00:19:34,976 --> 00:19:37,609 {\an1}WHEREVER HE COULD FIND IT. 445 00:19:37,643 --> 00:19:41,409 {\an1}WHEN THE WELL-KNOWN TRAINER ANGELO DUNDEE CAME TO TOWN, 446 00:19:41,443 --> 00:19:44,176 CASSIUS PEPPERED HIM WITH QUESTIONS. 447 00:19:44,209 --> 00:19:46,843 {\an1}DUNDEE WAS IMPRESSED BY THE TEENAGER'S DETERMINATION 448 00:19:46,876 --> 00:19:49,009 AND AMBITION. 449 00:19:49,043 --> 00:19:50,785 {\an1}DUNDEE: HE WANTED TO FIND OUT HOW FIGHTERS TRAIN, 450 00:19:50,809 --> 00:19:53,743 {\an1}THE BUSINESS ABOUT, UH, DIET, AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 451 00:19:53,776 --> 00:19:56,709 {\an1}AND HE WAS VERY, VERY CURIOUS AT THAT TIME. 452 00:19:56,743 --> 00:19:58,943 {\an1}NARRATOR: BEFORE EACH FIGHT, CASSIUS CLAY WOULD GO 453 00:19:58,976 --> 00:20:01,443 {\an1}DOOR TO DOOR ACROSS LOUISVILLE, INTRODUCING 454 00:20:01,476 --> 00:20:04,709 HIMSELF TO WHITE AND BLACK RESIDENTS ALIKE. 455 00:20:04,743 --> 00:20:06,976 {\an1}MAN: HIS STRATEGY WAS TO SELL TICKETS, 456 00:20:07,009 --> 00:20:09,709 {\an7}AND ANY WAY I COULD ENTERTAIN AND SELL TICKETS, 457 00:20:09,743 --> 00:20:11,776 {\an8}THIS IS WHAT I'M GOING TO DO, 458 00:20:11,809 --> 00:20:13,209 {\an1}AND THAT'S WHAT HE DID. 459 00:20:13,243 --> 00:20:15,743 {\an1}HE DID A REAL GOOD JOB AT THAT. 460 00:20:15,776 --> 00:20:17,943 {\an1}NARRATOR: CLAY WAS OFTEN ABSENT FROM HIGH SCHOOL, 461 00:20:17,976 --> 00:20:20,476 COMPETING IN AMATEUR TOURNAMENTS. 462 00:20:20,509 --> 00:20:23,643 {\an1}WHEN HE DID ATTEND CLASS, HE SKETCHED BOXING GLOVES 463 00:20:23,676 --> 00:20:26,043 {\an1}AND LETTER JACKETS STITCHED 464 00:20:26,076 --> 00:20:28,543 {\an1}WITH "NATIONAL GOLDEN GLOVES CHAMPION" IN HIS NOTEBOOK 465 00:20:28,576 --> 00:20:31,809 {\an1}AND OFFERED TO SIGN AUTOGRAPHS FOR HIS CLASSMATES. 466 00:20:35,276 --> 00:20:37,609 {\an7}BET MY CLASSMATES THAT I WOULD BEAT THEM TO SCHOOL. 467 00:20:37,643 --> 00:20:40,176 {\an7}THEY WOULD RIDE THE BUS. 468 00:20:40,209 --> 00:20:42,176 {\an1}BENDER: HE WOULD RUN UP CHESTNUT STREET 469 00:20:42,209 --> 00:20:46,909 {\an1}WITH THE LOCAL TRANSIT BUS JUST TO GET HIMSELF CONDITIONED 470 00:20:46,943 --> 00:20:48,676 AND THEN RUN FROM CHESTNUT STREET 471 00:20:48,709 --> 00:20:52,843 {\an1}TO ALL THE WAY OVER TO BROADWAY AND COME BACK, 472 00:20:52,876 --> 00:20:54,943 {\an1}AND HE WOULD SOMETIMES STOP TO LOOK TO SEE 473 00:20:54,976 --> 00:20:56,585 {\an1}IF THERE WERE LADIES IN THERE OR WHATEVER, 474 00:20:56,609 --> 00:21:00,076 {\an1}SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND KEEP ON RUNNING. 475 00:21:00,109 --> 00:21:02,309 {\an1}ALI: THE BUS MIGHT GET A BLOCK OR TWO LEAD ON ME. 476 00:21:02,343 --> 00:21:04,343 {\an1}I WOULD ALWAYS CATCH UP TO IT WHEN IT STOPPED 477 00:21:04,376 --> 00:21:06,509 {\an1}FOR PASSENGERS OR STOPPED FOR A RED LIGHT 478 00:21:06,543 --> 00:21:08,143 OR SOMETHING. 479 00:21:08,176 --> 00:21:09,685 {\an1}BENDER: IT WAS FUNNY. IT WAS REALLY FUNNY, 480 00:21:09,709 --> 00:21:12,676 AND HE'D WAVE, WAVE, "I'M GOING ON." 481 00:21:12,709 --> 00:21:13,819 THEY'D SAY, "HE'S A STRANGE PERSON. 482 00:21:13,843 --> 00:21:16,876 {\an1}WHY'S HE RUNNING WITH US?" 483 00:21:16,909 --> 00:21:19,209 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN FEBRUARY OF 1958, 484 00:21:19,243 --> 00:21:21,376 {\an1}A MONTH AFTER HIS 16th BIRTHDAY, 485 00:21:21,409 --> 00:21:23,176 {\an1}CLAY TRAVELED WITH JOE MARTIN 486 00:21:23,209 --> 00:21:25,443 {\an1}AND A GROUP OF LOUISVILLE HOPEFULS TO CHICAGO 487 00:21:25,476 --> 00:21:28,276 {\an1}FOR THE GOLDEN GLOVES TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS. 488 00:21:28,309 --> 00:21:31,743 IT WAS HIS FIRST NATIONAL COMPETITION. 489 00:21:31,776 --> 00:21:35,743 {\an1}HE LOST IN THE QUARTER FINALS. 490 00:21:35,776 --> 00:21:38,643 ONE YEAR LATER, TALLER AND HEAVIER, 491 00:21:38,676 --> 00:21:40,643 {\an1}HE MADE IT TO THE TOURNAMENT FINALS, 492 00:21:40,676 --> 00:21:44,676 {\an1}WHERE HE DEFEATED 29-YEAR-OLD AUSTRALIAN-BORN TONY MADIGAN, 493 00:21:44,709 --> 00:21:48,743 {\an1}A TWO-TIME OLYMPIAN, WHO WAS FAVORED TO WIN. 494 00:21:48,776 --> 00:21:50,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE DECISION WAS UNANIMOUS. 495 00:21:50,876 --> 00:21:52,909 "I COULDN'T STICK HIM," MADIGAN SAID. 496 00:21:52,943 --> 00:21:55,276 {\an1}"HE WOULD ALWAYS JUST PULL OUT OF RANGE... 497 00:21:55,309 --> 00:21:57,409 {\an1}SORT OF VANISH INTO THIN AIR." 498 00:21:59,576 --> 00:22:02,343 {\an1}CASSIUS CLAY WAS NOW A GOLDEN GLOVES 499 00:22:02,376 --> 00:22:05,843 {\an1}LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. 500 00:22:05,876 --> 00:22:08,109 {\an1}A WIN AT THE NATIONAL OLYMPIC TRIALS 501 00:22:08,143 --> 00:22:11,343 {\an1}IN SAN FRANCISCO WOULD EARN HIM A SPOT ON THE TEAM HEADED 502 00:22:11,376 --> 00:22:14,709 {\an1}FOR THE 1960 ROME OLYMPICS, 503 00:22:14,743 --> 00:22:16,876 {\an1}BUT THERE WAS A PROBLEM. 504 00:22:16,909 --> 00:22:19,209 {\an1}HE WAS AFRAID OF FLYING, 505 00:22:19,243 --> 00:22:22,509 {\an1}SO AFRAID THAT HE CONSIDERED TURNING PROFESSIONAL 506 00:22:22,543 --> 00:22:25,943 {\an1}RATHER THAN COMPETE FOR A CHANCE TO GO TO ITALY. 507 00:22:25,976 --> 00:22:28,509 {\an1}HE HATED FLYING. HE WAS SCARED TO DEATH OF AIRPLANES. 508 00:22:28,543 --> 00:22:30,343 {\an1}HE ACTUALLY FLEW TO THE OLYMPIC TRIALS 509 00:22:30,376 --> 00:22:32,543 {\an1}WITH A PARACHUTE THAT HE BOUGHT AT AN ARMY-NAVY STORE 510 00:22:32,576 --> 00:22:34,343 {\an1}THAT HE WORE ON THE PLANE. 511 00:22:34,376 --> 00:22:42,176 ♪ 512 00:22:42,209 --> 00:22:44,576 {\an1}NARRATOR: AT THE COW PALACE IN SAN FRANCISCO, 513 00:22:44,609 --> 00:22:47,676 {\an1}CLAY DEFEATED HIS FIRST TWO OPPONENTS CONVINCINGLY 514 00:22:47,709 --> 00:22:50,509 {\an1}AND ADVANCED TO THE FINALS, WHERE HE FACED 515 00:22:50,543 --> 00:22:55,043 {\an1}ALLEN HUDSON, AN ARMY VETERAN AND MORE EXPERIENCED FIGHTER. 516 00:22:55,076 --> 00:22:56,976 ANNOUNCER: IN THE 178-POUND CLASS, 517 00:22:57,009 --> 00:22:59,676 {\an1}ANOTHER LOUISVILLE BOY CASSIUS CLAY IN THE DARK TRUNKS 518 00:22:59,709 --> 00:23:04,509 {\an1}IS PITTED AGAINST THE ALL-ARMY CHAMPION ALLEN HUDSON. 519 00:23:04,543 --> 00:23:06,743 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN THE THIRD ROUND, HUDSON SENT CLAY 520 00:23:06,776 --> 00:23:09,676 TO THE CANVAS. 521 00:23:09,709 --> 00:23:11,476 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: CASSIUS IS UP ALMOST IMMEDIATELY, 522 00:23:11,509 --> 00:23:14,609 {\an1}AND AFTER A CHECK BY THE REF, HE'S BACK IN ACTION. 523 00:23:14,643 --> 00:23:16,843 {\an1}CLAY'S CHANCE TO GO TO WORK. 524 00:23:16,876 --> 00:23:18,776 {\an1}HE WADES INTO HUDSON AND SENDS HIM REELING 525 00:23:18,809 --> 00:23:20,976 INTO THE CORNER. 526 00:23:21,009 --> 00:23:25,576 [CROWD CHEERING] 527 00:23:25,609 --> 00:23:28,876 {\an1}HUDSON IS REALLY GROGGY AND JUST ABOUT OUT ON HIS FEET. 528 00:23:31,843 --> 00:23:36,376 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE REFEREE AWARDED CLAY A TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT. 529 00:23:36,409 --> 00:23:37,909 {\an1}HE HAD EARNED A SPOT 530 00:23:37,943 --> 00:23:41,743 {\an1}ON THE UNITED STATES OLYMPIC TEAM. 531 00:23:41,776 --> 00:23:44,309 AFTER THE TRIALS, CLAY PAWNED A WATCH HE'D WON 532 00:23:44,343 --> 00:23:47,243 IN THE TOURNAMENT AND BOUGHT A TRAIN TICKET HOME 533 00:23:47,276 --> 00:23:50,309 {\an1}SO HE WOULDN'T HAVE TO FLY. 534 00:23:50,343 --> 00:23:52,276 {\an1}HIS GRADUATION FROM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL 535 00:23:52,309 --> 00:23:54,609 {\an1}WAS NOW JUST WEEKS AWAY. 536 00:23:54,643 --> 00:23:58,376 {\an1}HE'D MISSED SO MANY DAYS AND HAD SUCH POOR GRADES 537 00:23:58,409 --> 00:24:02,809 {\an1}THAT MANY OF HIS TEACHERS FELT CLAY DID NOT DESERVE A DIPLOMA. 538 00:24:02,843 --> 00:24:05,209 {\an1}HIS PRINCIPAL DISAGREED. 539 00:24:05,243 --> 00:24:07,543 {\an1}"THE ONLY THING CASSIUS IS GOING TO HAVE TO READ 540 00:24:07,576 --> 00:24:10,376 {\an1}IS HIS IRS FORM," HE SAID, "AND I'M WILLING 541 00:24:10,409 --> 00:24:12,209 {\an1}TO HELP HIM DO IT." 542 00:24:14,676 --> 00:24:16,976 ON HIS WAY TO THE OLYMPICS IN ROME, 543 00:24:17,009 --> 00:24:20,076 {\an1}CASSIUS CLAY FIRST STOPPED IN NEW YORK, WHERE HE HOPED TO 544 00:24:20,109 --> 00:24:22,909 MEET HIS IDOL, FORMER MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPION 545 00:24:22,943 --> 00:24:26,309 {\an1}SUGAR RAY ROBINSON, WHOM MANY BELIEVED THE GREATEST 546 00:24:26,343 --> 00:24:29,376 {\an1}POUND-FOR-POUND FIGHTER IN BOXING HISTORY, 547 00:24:29,409 --> 00:24:31,676 KNOWN AS MUCH FOR HIS FLASHY STYLE 548 00:24:31,709 --> 00:24:35,176 {\an1}AS FOR HIS PROWESS IN THE RING. 549 00:24:35,209 --> 00:24:38,443 {\an1}WHILE CLAY WAITED OUTSIDE ROBINSON'S HARLEM RESTAURANT, 550 00:24:38,476 --> 00:24:40,976 {\an1}HOPING FOR A MOMENT WITH HIS HERO, 551 00:24:41,009 --> 00:24:43,109 {\an1}HE NOTICED A SMALL CROWD GATHERED 552 00:24:43,143 --> 00:24:45,109 {\an1}AROUND A WELL-DRESSED ORATOR, 553 00:24:45,143 --> 00:24:46,709 {\an1}WHO WAS CALLING UPON BLACK PEOPLE 554 00:24:46,743 --> 00:24:50,176 TO SHOP ONLY AT BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES. 555 00:24:50,209 --> 00:24:54,476 {\an1}THE MAN BELONGED TO A GROUP CALLED THE NATION OF ISLAM. 556 00:24:54,509 --> 00:24:57,276 {\an1}"HOW CAN HE TALK LIKE THAT?" CLAY WONDERED. 557 00:24:57,309 --> 00:25:00,243 {\an1}"AIN'T HE GONNA GET IN TROUBLE?" 558 00:25:00,276 --> 00:25:04,276 {\an1}WHEN SUGAR RAY FINALLY PULLED UP IN A PURPLE LINCOLN CONTINENTAL, 559 00:25:04,309 --> 00:25:08,276 {\an1}HE HAD LITTLE TIME FOR HIS YOUNG ADMIRER, HURRIEDLY SIGNING 560 00:25:08,309 --> 00:25:11,543 {\an1}A PHOTOGRAPH FOR CLAY AND WISHING HIM LUCK. 561 00:25:11,576 --> 00:25:14,109 {\an1}AT FIRST, CLAY WAS AWESTRUCK. 562 00:25:14,143 --> 00:25:17,209 "THAT SUGAR RAY, HE'S SOMETHING," HE RAVED. 563 00:25:17,243 --> 00:25:19,909 {\an1}"SOMEDAY I'M GOING TO OWN TWO CADILLACS 564 00:25:19,943 --> 00:25:23,409 {\an1}AND A FORD FOR JUST GETTING AROUND IN," 565 00:25:23,443 --> 00:25:26,909 {\an1}BUT LATER, HE REMEMBERED, HE FELT SNUBBED. 566 00:25:26,943 --> 00:25:29,243 {\an1}"IF I EVER GET GREAT AND FAMOUS AND PEOPLE WANT 567 00:25:29,276 --> 00:25:31,876 {\an1}MY AUTOGRAPH ENOUGH TO WAIT ALL DAY," HE SAID, 568 00:25:31,909 --> 00:25:34,776 {\an1}"I'M SURE GONNA TREAT THEM DIFFERENT." 569 00:25:34,809 --> 00:25:37,409 {\an1}THEN, HE NERVOUSLY FLEW TO ROME. 570 00:25:37,443 --> 00:25:44,676 ♪ 571 00:25:44,709 --> 00:25:46,943 {\an1}EIG: THE 1960 OLYMPICS WERE BIG AND EXCITING 572 00:25:46,976 --> 00:25:48,976 IN A LOT OF WAYS. 573 00:25:50,376 --> 00:25:52,809 {\an1}THE AMERICAN TEAM WAS LED BY RAFER JOHNSON. 574 00:25:54,776 --> 00:25:57,509 {\an1}IT WAS A VERY EXCITING TIME TO BE AN OLYMPIAN. 575 00:25:58,776 --> 00:26:01,676 {\an1}FOR CASSIUS, WHO'D REALLY NEVER TRAVELED VERY FAR, 576 00:26:01,709 --> 00:26:04,109 THIS WAS REALLY AN EYE-OPENER TO SEE THE WORLD 577 00:26:04,143 --> 00:26:07,243 {\an1}AND TO SEE PEOPLE WHO SPOKE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, 578 00:26:07,276 --> 00:26:08,676 {\an1}AND HE INSTANTLY BECAME 579 00:26:08,709 --> 00:26:10,276 THE MAYOR OF THE OLYMPIC VILLAGE. 580 00:26:10,309 --> 00:26:12,943 {\an1}HE WAS NOT FAMOUS YET IN ANY WAY, 581 00:26:12,976 --> 00:26:15,776 BUT HIS MAGNETISM JUST WAS AMAZING, 582 00:26:15,809 --> 00:26:19,309 {\an1}AND YOU SEE INSTANTLY REPORTERS AND OTHER ATHLETES SAYING, 583 00:26:19,343 --> 00:26:21,876 "WHO IS THIS GUY? WE NEED TO TALK TO HIM," 584 00:26:21,909 --> 00:26:25,143 {\an1}AND JUST CLUSTERS FORMING AROUND HIM WHEREVER HE WENT. 585 00:26:25,176 --> 00:26:27,676 {\an1}NARRATOR: CLAY REVELED IN ALL THE ATTENTION. 586 00:26:27,709 --> 00:26:29,609 {\an1}HE MET BING CROSBY, 587 00:26:29,643 --> 00:26:32,876 {\an1}FLIRTED WITH THE SPRINTER WILMA RUDOLPH, 588 00:26:32,909 --> 00:26:35,043 {\an1}AND POSED FOR PHOTOGRAPHS 589 00:26:35,076 --> 00:26:38,043 {\an1}WITH THE CURRENT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION FLOYD PATTERSON. 590 00:26:38,076 --> 00:26:41,609 "BE SEEING YOU IN ABOUT TWO MORE YEARS," HE SAID. 591 00:26:41,643 --> 00:26:44,643 {\an1}"THIS KID IS IRRESISTIBLE," WROTE ONE REPORTER. 592 00:26:44,676 --> 00:26:48,743 {\an1}"HE EVEN MADE FRIENDS WITH THE RUSSIANS." 593 00:26:48,776 --> 00:26:50,676 {\an1}THE OLYMPIC ATHLETE WITH THE NOBLEST ROMAN NAME 594 00:26:50,709 --> 00:26:53,343 OF THEM ALL IS CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY. 595 00:26:53,376 --> 00:26:56,109 {\an1}ACTUALLY, CASSIUS IS NO ROMAN AT ALL, HOWEVER. 596 00:26:56,143 --> 00:26:58,576 {\an1}HE'S ACTUALLY AN 18-YEAR-OLD LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT, 597 00:26:58,609 --> 00:27:00,743 {\an1}WHO MAKES HIS HOME ON GRAND STREET 598 00:27:00,776 --> 00:27:02,719 {\an1}IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, AND HE MAY VERY WELL BECOME 599 00:27:02,743 --> 00:27:05,243 {\an1}AN OLYMPIC CHAMPION. 600 00:27:05,276 --> 00:27:06,676 {\an1}REPORTER: CASSIUS CLAY... 601 00:27:06,709 --> 00:27:08,476 HE'S AMERICA'S LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT. 602 00:27:08,509 --> 00:27:10,576 {\an1}NO ONE OUTSIDE OF THE STATES HAS EVER HEARD OF HIM. 603 00:27:10,609 --> 00:27:13,876 {\an1}CLAY BEATS A BELGIAN, A RUSSIAN, AND AN AUSTRALIAN, 604 00:27:13,909 --> 00:27:17,076 {\an1}AND NOW HE'S IN THE FINAL. 605 00:27:17,109 --> 00:27:19,176 {\an1}NARRATOR: HIS OPPONENT FOR THE GOLD MEDAL WOULD BE 606 00:27:19,209 --> 00:27:22,843 {\an1}ZIGZY PIETRZYKOWSKI FROM POLAND, WHO'D WON OLYMPIC BRONZE 607 00:27:22,876 --> 00:27:25,443 4 YEARS EARLIER. 608 00:27:25,476 --> 00:27:27,176 {\an7}REPORTER: THE POLE IS 25. 609 00:27:27,209 --> 00:27:28,709 {\an7}HE'S BEEN UNBEATEN CHAMPION 610 00:27:28,743 --> 00:27:30,709 {\an7}OF EUROPE FOR 5 YEARS. 611 00:27:30,743 --> 00:27:31,909 {\an7}NARRATOR: FOR TWO ROUNDS, 612 00:27:31,943 --> 00:27:34,609 {\an1}THE MEN MEASURED EACH OTHER. 613 00:27:34,643 --> 00:27:36,676 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: CLAY, A RATHER DECEPTIVE, CASUAL WAY 614 00:27:36,709 --> 00:27:39,576 {\an1}OF THROWING PUNCHES, AND HE PUNCHES VERY HARD. 615 00:27:46,076 --> 00:27:48,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN THE THIRD AND FINAL ROUND, 616 00:27:48,876 --> 00:27:52,643 {\an1}CLAY TOOK COMMAND. 617 00:27:52,676 --> 00:27:54,409 ANNOUNCER: OH. 618 00:27:54,443 --> 00:27:57,543 {\an1}GOOD SHOT BY CLAY THEN. 619 00:27:57,576 --> 00:28:00,876 {\an1}LOOKS LIKE PIETRZYKOWSKI'S BLEEDING FROM THE MOUTH A BIT. 620 00:28:04,476 --> 00:28:06,709 PIETRZYKOWSKI NOW DEFINITELY BLEEDING OUT 621 00:28:06,743 --> 00:28:10,443 {\an1}THE NOSE AND MOUTH RATHER HEAVILY. 622 00:28:13,443 --> 00:28:15,209 {\an1}THERE'S THE END OF THE FIGHT. 623 00:28:18,943 --> 00:28:21,443 {\an1}NARRATOR: CASSIUS CLAY HAD WON THE ULTIMATE PRIZE 624 00:28:21,476 --> 00:28:23,109 {\an1}IN AMATEUR BOXING. 625 00:28:23,143 --> 00:28:27,976 [ORGAN PLAYING "THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER"] 626 00:28:28,009 --> 00:28:36,009 ♪ 627 00:28:38,543 --> 00:28:41,576 {\an1}HE FLEW BACK TO NEW YORK, WHERE A LOUISVILLE MILLIONAIRE 628 00:28:41,609 --> 00:28:45,443 {\an1}PAID FOR THE BOXER'S SUITE AT THE WALDORF TOWERS HOTEL 629 00:28:45,476 --> 00:28:47,576 {\an1}AND GAVE HIM A ROLL OF BILLS, 630 00:28:47,609 --> 00:28:49,909 WHICH HE USED TO DINE ON STEAKS AND BUY 631 00:28:49,943 --> 00:28:54,609 EXPENSIVE WATCHES FOR HIS BROTHER AND PARENTS. 632 00:28:54,643 --> 00:28:57,143 LATER, DECKED OUT IN HIS GOLD MEDAL 633 00:28:57,176 --> 00:29:00,676 {\an1}AND OLYMPIC BLAZER, CLAY VISITED TIMES SQUARE, 634 00:29:00,709 --> 00:29:03,543 {\an1}WHERE HE PAID TO HAVE A NOVELTY NEWSPAPER PRINTED UP 635 00:29:03,576 --> 00:29:07,476 {\an1}WITH THE HEADLINE "CASSIUS SIGNS FOR PATTERSON FIGHT," 636 00:29:07,509 --> 00:29:09,976 {\an1}TRIED HIS FIRST SLICE OF CHEESECAKE, 637 00:29:10,009 --> 00:29:13,009 AND AT BIRDLAND, A POPULAR JAZZ CLUB, ASKED 638 00:29:13,043 --> 00:29:17,876 {\an1}THE BARTENDER FOR A COKE WITH A SINGLE DROP OF WHISKEY. 639 00:29:17,909 --> 00:29:20,843 {\an1}EVERYWHERE HE WENT, WELL-WISHERS PRAISED HIM 640 00:29:20,876 --> 00:29:22,976 {\an1}FOR HIS SUCCESS IN ROME. 641 00:29:24,409 --> 00:29:26,576 {\an8}[CHEERING] 642 00:29:26,609 --> 00:29:29,243 {\an1}AT LOUISVILLE'S AIRPORT, HUNDREDS OF FANS WERE THERE 643 00:29:29,276 --> 00:29:31,376 TO GREET HIM. 644 00:29:35,176 --> 00:29:36,519 {\an1}REPORTER: CASSIUS, YOU'VE HEARD IT A GOOD MANY TIMES 645 00:29:36,543 --> 00:29:38,043 {\an1}TODAY ALREADY HERE AT THE AIRPORT, 646 00:29:38,076 --> 00:29:39,716 {\an1}BUT CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 647 00:29:39,743 --> 00:29:42,309 {\an1}LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THAT REAL GOLD MEDAL THERE. 648 00:29:42,343 --> 00:29:44,743 NARRATOR: CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY JR. 649 00:29:44,776 --> 00:29:48,643 WAS JUST 18, BUT HE'D FOUGHT MORE THAN 100 650 00:29:48,676 --> 00:29:54,943 {\an1}AMATEUR BOUTS AND WAS READY TO TURN PROFESSIONAL. 651 00:29:54,976 --> 00:29:56,152 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: DEMPSEY HERDS HIM ALONG THE ROPES, 652 00:29:56,176 --> 00:29:57,809 {\an1}BEATING AWAY WITH BOTH HANDS. 653 00:29:57,843 --> 00:29:59,443 WATCH, WATCH. 654 00:29:59,476 --> 00:30:02,676 {\an1}THERE'S THAT BIG LEFT, AND WILLARD'S DOWN. 655 00:30:02,709 --> 00:30:04,385 {\an1}NARRATOR: PROFESSIONAL BOXING HAD LONG BEEN 656 00:30:04,409 --> 00:30:08,043 {\an1}AMONG THE MOST POPULAR SPORTS IN AMERICA. 657 00:30:08,076 --> 00:30:10,976 MAN: THE APPEAL OF BOXING IS BASIC. 658 00:30:11,009 --> 00:30:14,509 {\an1}I MEAN, IT'S MAN AGAINST MAN, 659 00:30:14,543 --> 00:30:18,376 IT'S BRUTAL, IT'S BLOOD SPORT. 660 00:30:18,409 --> 00:30:20,509 {\an1}IT WILL ALWAYS BE HERE, 661 00:30:20,543 --> 00:30:24,176 {\an1}AND IT WILL ALWAYS HAVE PEOPLE WATCHING. 662 00:30:24,209 --> 00:30:25,985 {\an1}REMNICK: EVERYBODY KNEW WHO THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 663 00:30:26,009 --> 00:30:28,743 OF THE WORLD WAS IN THE WAY THAT YOU KNOW WHO 664 00:30:28,776 --> 00:30:30,909 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS, 665 00:30:30,943 --> 00:30:33,676 AND YOU KNEW HIS PERSONALITY, 666 00:30:33,709 --> 00:30:35,409 {\an1}WHAT HE REPRESENTED, 667 00:30:35,443 --> 00:30:37,909 WHAT HE PROJECTED INTO THE WORLD. 668 00:30:37,943 --> 00:30:40,043 {\an1}NARRATOR: JOHN L. SULLIVAN, 669 00:30:40,076 --> 00:30:41,743 JIM JEFFRIES, 670 00:30:41,776 --> 00:30:43,643 JACK JOHNSON, 671 00:30:43,676 --> 00:30:45,843 JACK DEMPSEY. 672 00:30:45,876 --> 00:30:47,676 ANNOUNCER: ONE OF THE GREATEST... 673 00:30:47,709 --> 00:30:49,509 {\an1}NARRATOR: JOE LOUIS HAD LIFTED THE SPIRITS 674 00:30:49,543 --> 00:30:50,876 {\an1}OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS EVERYWHERE... 675 00:30:50,909 --> 00:30:52,376 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: AND SCHMELING IS DOWN! 676 00:30:52,409 --> 00:30:54,176 WHEN HE SEIZED THE HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE 677 00:30:54,209 --> 00:30:56,809 IN THE MIDST OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION 678 00:30:56,843 --> 00:31:01,176 {\an1}AND HELD IT FOR A DOZEN YEARS, 679 00:31:01,209 --> 00:31:05,109 {\an1}BUT BY THE 1950S, GANGSTERS RAN THE SPORT, 680 00:31:05,143 --> 00:31:07,576 {\an1}TARNISHING ITS REPUTATION. 681 00:31:07,609 --> 00:31:09,419 {\an1}EIG: BOXING WAS KIND OF AN ANARCHY IN MANY WAYS. 682 00:31:09,443 --> 00:31:11,609 {\an1}YOU HAD THE OFFICIAL LICENSING ORGANIZATIONS 683 00:31:11,643 --> 00:31:13,276 {\an1}THAT RAN THE SPORT, BUT THERE WAS 684 00:31:13,309 --> 00:31:14,909 {\an1}NO REAL GOVERNANCE TO IT AT ALL, 685 00:31:14,943 --> 00:31:17,776 {\an1}AND IT WAS OFTEN CONTROLLED BY MAFIA FIGURES, 686 00:31:17,809 --> 00:31:19,743 {\an1}PEOPLE WHO WOULD FIX FIGHTS, 687 00:31:19,776 --> 00:31:21,643 {\an1}PEOPLE WHO WOULD EXTRACT HUGE SUMS OF MONEY 688 00:31:21,676 --> 00:31:24,109 {\an1}FROM THEIR FIGHTERS AND LEAVE THEM NOT JUST WRECKED 689 00:31:24,143 --> 00:31:26,976 {\an1}PHYSICALLY BUT BROKE. 690 00:31:27,009 --> 00:31:28,809 {\an1}THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ALMOST INEVITABLE 691 00:31:28,843 --> 00:31:30,652 {\an1}FOR BOXERS THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GET INVOLVED 692 00:31:30,676 --> 00:31:32,543 {\an1}IN THIS UNDERWORLD AND THAT TO MAKE IT 693 00:31:32,576 --> 00:31:34,609 {\an1}IN THE SPORT YOU ALMOST HAD TO ASSOCIATE 694 00:31:34,643 --> 00:31:38,043 {\an1}WITH THOSE CHARACTERS. 695 00:31:38,076 --> 00:31:40,243 {\an1}NARRATOR: BOXING INSIDERS SAW THAT CLAY COULD BE 696 00:31:40,276 --> 00:31:43,476 A BIG MONEY MAKER IN THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION. 697 00:31:43,509 --> 00:31:45,609 CUS D'AMATO, FLOYD PATTERSON'S 698 00:31:45,643 --> 00:31:48,309 SAVVY CORNER MAN, OFFERED TO TRAIN HIM. 699 00:31:48,343 --> 00:31:52,276 {\an1}SO DID FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION ROCKY MARCIANO. 700 00:31:52,309 --> 00:31:54,343 {\an1}"IF YOU DESIRE TO HAVE AN EXCELLENT MANAGER," 701 00:31:54,376 --> 00:31:57,076 {\an1}THE VETERAN FIGHTER ARCHIE MOORE CABLED, 702 00:31:57,109 --> 00:32:00,309 {\an1}"CALL ME TONIGHT." 703 00:32:00,343 --> 00:32:03,109 {\an1}THEN WILLIAM FAVERSHAM, AN EXECUTIVE 704 00:32:03,143 --> 00:32:05,776 {\an1}AT A LOUISVILLE DISTILLERY, FORMED A SYNDICATE 705 00:32:05,809 --> 00:32:07,976 OF 11 PROMINENT WHITE BUSINESSMEN 706 00:32:08,009 --> 00:32:09,609 {\an1}WITH DEEP KENTUCKY ROOTS. 707 00:32:09,643 --> 00:32:12,576 {\an1}I'M BILL FAVERSHAM. I'M W. LYONS BROWN. 708 00:32:12,609 --> 00:32:14,509 {\an7}J.D. STETSON COLEMAN. 709 00:32:14,543 --> 00:32:16,676 {\an1}NARRATOR: THEY AGREED TO POOL THEIR MONEY TO LAUNCH 710 00:32:16,709 --> 00:32:20,643 {\an1}CLAY'S CAREER AND SHIELD HIM FROM THE MOB. 711 00:32:20,676 --> 00:32:22,843 {\an1}EIG: CASSIUS CLAY WAS OFFERED THE GREATEST CONTRACT 712 00:32:22,876 --> 00:32:24,509 {\an1}IN THE HISTORY OF BOXING. 713 00:32:24,543 --> 00:32:25,976 {\an1}IT WAS A COMPLETE ANOMALY. 714 00:32:26,009 --> 00:32:27,809 THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE IT EVER BEFORE, 715 00:32:27,843 --> 00:32:30,443 {\an1}AND IN FACT, THE LAWYER WHO WROTE THE CONTRACT SAID 716 00:32:30,476 --> 00:32:32,209 {\an1}HE HAD TO GO OUTSIDE THE INDUSTRY. 717 00:32:32,243 --> 00:32:34,643 {\an1}HE WENT TO HOLLYWOOD AND LOOKED FOR CONTRACTS THAT 718 00:32:34,676 --> 00:32:37,109 {\an1}WERE GIVEN TO CHILD ACTORS TO SEE HOW THEY COULD 719 00:32:37,143 --> 00:32:39,343 {\an1}BEST BE PROTECTED. 720 00:32:39,376 --> 00:32:42,043 {\an1}FAVERSHAM: WE OFFERED HIM A $10,000 BONUS 721 00:32:42,076 --> 00:32:43,943 {\an1}FOR SIGNING A CONTRACT. 722 00:32:43,976 --> 00:32:46,176 {\an1}THIS CONTRACT, RAN FOR TWO YEARS, 723 00:32:46,209 --> 00:32:47,943 {\an1}WHERE WE PAID HIM A SALARY 724 00:32:47,976 --> 00:32:50,176 {\an1}BECAUSE AFTER ALL, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE COULD EARN. 725 00:32:50,209 --> 00:32:51,809 {\an1}BOXERS DIDN'T GET SALARIES. 726 00:32:51,843 --> 00:32:53,643 {\an1}A MONTHLY SALARY FOR BOXING? 727 00:32:53,676 --> 00:32:57,509 {\an1}WE WANTED TO GUARANTEE HIM SOME FORM OF SECURITY. 728 00:32:57,543 --> 00:33:01,809 AT THE SAME TIME, HE ALSO GOT 50% OF HIS PURSES. 729 00:33:01,843 --> 00:33:02,919 {\an1}WE'RE GONNA PAY ALL HIS EXPENSES, 730 00:33:02,943 --> 00:33:04,043 {\an1}WE'RE GONNA PAY HIS MEALS, 731 00:33:04,076 --> 00:33:05,409 {\an1}WE'RE GONNA PAY HIS RENT, 732 00:33:05,443 --> 00:33:06,585 WE'RE GONNA PAY FOR HIS TRAINING. 733 00:33:06,609 --> 00:33:07,652 {\an1}WE'RE GOING TO SET IT UP SO THAT 734 00:33:07,676 --> 00:33:09,176 {\an1}THERE ARE TAX DEDUCTIONS. 735 00:33:09,209 --> 00:33:10,319 {\an1}THERE HAD NEVER BEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT 736 00:33:10,343 --> 00:33:11,809 IN BOXING. 737 00:33:11,843 --> 00:33:13,152 {\an1}NARRATOR: THEY HOPED TO SEE A RETURN 738 00:33:13,176 --> 00:33:14,709 {\an1}ON THEIR INVESTMENT, 739 00:33:14,743 --> 00:33:16,509 {\an1}BUT AS ONE MEMBER REMARKED, 740 00:33:16,543 --> 00:33:19,143 {\an1}THEY WERE IN IT "TO DO SOMETHING NICE FOR A DESERVING, 741 00:33:19,176 --> 00:33:22,476 {\an1}"WELL-BEHAVED LOUISVILLE BOY, AND TO SAVE HIM 742 00:33:22,509 --> 00:33:26,776 FROM THE JAWS OF THE HOODLUM JACKALS." 743 00:33:26,809 --> 00:33:29,709 {\an1}CLAY USED HIS BONUS TO BUY THE CADILLAC 744 00:33:29,743 --> 00:33:33,243 {\an1}HE HAD COVETED SINCE HE WAS A BOY, 745 00:33:33,276 --> 00:33:36,409 {\an1}THOUGH HE HADN'T BOTHERED TO GET A DRIVER'S LICENSE. 746 00:33:38,709 --> 00:33:43,276 {\an1}ON OCTOBER 29, 1960, CLAY MADE HIS PROFESSIONAL DEBUT 747 00:33:43,309 --> 00:33:46,443 {\an1}AT LOUISVILLE'S FREEDOM HALL. 748 00:33:46,476 --> 00:33:48,743 {\an1}THEY FOUND A GUY IN THE HILLS OF WEST VIRGINIA. 749 00:33:48,776 --> 00:33:50,443 {\an1}HIS NAME IS TUNNEY HUNSAKER, 750 00:33:50,476 --> 00:33:53,009 {\an1}AND TUNNEY HUNSAKER WAS A SHERIFF 751 00:33:53,043 --> 00:33:55,076 {\an1}AND A STRAIGHT-ARROW GUY. 752 00:33:55,109 --> 00:33:57,143 {\an7}HE HAD THE WORLD WAR I CAMPAIGN HAT THAT 753 00:33:57,176 --> 00:33:59,743 {\an7}STATE TROOPERS WORE IN MANY STATES, 754 00:33:59,776 --> 00:34:03,243 {\an7}AND HE SAID HE WOULD FIGHT HIM. 755 00:34:03,276 --> 00:34:07,543 {\an1}IT WAS AN INEXPERIENCED FIGHTER AGAINST A BAD FIGHTER. 756 00:34:07,576 --> 00:34:10,109 {\an1}NARRATOR: CLAY PUMMELED HUNSAKER FOR 6 ROUNDS 757 00:34:10,143 --> 00:34:12,109 AND EARNED A UNANIMOUS DECISION, 758 00:34:12,143 --> 00:34:15,243 {\an1}BUT MANY IN ATTENDANCE FELT THAT HE SHOULD HAVE KNOCKED OUT 759 00:34:15,276 --> 00:34:17,743 {\an1}THE SLOW-MOVING POLICEMAN. 760 00:34:17,776 --> 00:34:20,909 {\an1}HIS SPONSORS KNEW HE WOULD NEED A FIRST-CLASS TRAINER 761 00:34:20,943 --> 00:34:22,943 {\an1}IF HE WAS EVER GOING TO CONTEND 762 00:34:22,976 --> 00:34:25,576 {\an1}FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP. 763 00:34:25,609 --> 00:34:28,476 ♪ 764 00:34:28,509 --> 00:34:31,076 {\an1}THEY DECIDED TO HIRE ARCHIE MOORE, WHO TAUGHT 765 00:34:31,109 --> 00:34:35,609 {\an1}YOUNG FIGHTERS AT HIS CAMP IN THE HILLS EAST OF SAN DIEGO. 766 00:34:35,643 --> 00:34:39,743 MOORE PREACHED DISCIPLINE AND PATIENCE. 767 00:34:39,776 --> 00:34:44,476 {\an1}MOORE ALSO DEMANDED THAT THEY COOK, CLEAN, CHOP WOOD, 768 00:34:44,509 --> 00:34:48,109 AND HELP MAINTAIN THE GROUNDS. 769 00:34:48,143 --> 00:34:51,643 {\an1}IT WAS KNOWN AS THE SALT MINE. 770 00:34:51,676 --> 00:34:54,809 {\an7}MAN: CASSIUS CLAY SAID, "I'M HERE TO BE A FIGHTER, 771 00:34:54,843 --> 00:34:56,643 {\an7}"NOT TO BE THE JANITOR. 772 00:34:56,676 --> 00:34:58,509 {\an8}THEY'RE PAYING YOU GOOD MONEY." 773 00:34:58,543 --> 00:35:00,676 {\an7}SO, ARCHIE MOORE SAID, "WELL, YOU'RE PRETTY COCKY, 774 00:35:00,709 --> 00:35:02,643 {\an1}"YOU GOT TO KNOW HUMILITY. 775 00:35:02,676 --> 00:35:05,709 {\an1}IF YOU DON'T HAVE HUMILITY, YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE ANYTHING." 776 00:35:05,743 --> 00:35:08,276 {\an1}NARRATOR: CLAY BRISTLED AT MOORE'S DEMANDS, 777 00:35:08,309 --> 00:35:12,543 {\an1}AND HE WAS AFRAID MOORE INTENDED TO CHANGE HIS STYLE. 778 00:35:12,576 --> 00:35:16,009 {\an1}AFTER ONLY A FEW WEEKS, HE WAS SENT HOME. 779 00:35:17,876 --> 00:35:20,843 {\an1}WILLIAM FAVERSHAM OF THE LOUISVILLE SPONSORING GROUP 780 00:35:20,876 --> 00:35:23,143 {\an1}THEN CALLED ANGELO DUNDEE, 781 00:35:23,176 --> 00:35:25,809 {\an1}THE MIAMI BEACH-BASED TRAINER CLAY HAD MET 782 00:35:25,843 --> 00:35:29,009 {\an1}IN LOUISVILLE BACK IN 1957. 783 00:35:29,043 --> 00:35:32,376 {\an1}DUNDEE WAS KNOWN FOR HIS CALM DEMEANOR DURING FIGHTS 784 00:35:32,409 --> 00:35:35,476 {\an1}AND HIS GIFT FOR PATCHING UP BLOODIED BOXERS. 785 00:35:35,509 --> 00:35:39,343 HE WAS WELL-LIKED AND AT 39 HAD ALREADY TRAINED 786 00:35:39,376 --> 00:35:41,843 {\an1}6 WORLD CHAMPIONS. 787 00:35:41,876 --> 00:35:45,409 {\an1}CLAY, HE HAD BEEN TOLD, SHOWED REAL POTENTIAL 788 00:35:45,443 --> 00:35:49,909 {\an1}BUT WAS OVERCONFIDENT AND WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO TEACH. 789 00:35:49,943 --> 00:35:53,076 DUNDEE REMEMBERED THE ENTHUSIASTIC TEENAGER 790 00:35:53,109 --> 00:35:55,743 {\an1}AND AGREED TO TAKE CLAY ON. 791 00:35:55,776 --> 00:35:57,876 {\an1}HE TOLD FAVERSHAM TO SEND HIS FIGHTER DOWN 792 00:35:57,909 --> 00:36:00,076 AFTER CHRISTMAS. 793 00:36:00,109 --> 00:36:03,076 {\an1}"ANGELO," FAVERSHAM SAID, "CASSIUS WANTS A FIGHT 794 00:36:03,109 --> 00:36:05,109 {\an1}BEFORE CHRISTMAS." 795 00:36:05,143 --> 00:36:10,109 ♪ 796 00:36:10,143 --> 00:36:12,709 {\an1}ON DECEMBER 19, 1960, 797 00:36:12,743 --> 00:36:15,176 {\an1}AFTER A TWO-DAY JOURNEY BY TRAIN, 798 00:36:15,209 --> 00:36:17,209 {\an1}CASSIUS CLAY ARRIVED IN MIAMI, 799 00:36:17,243 --> 00:36:20,409 {\an1}WHERE HIS NEW TRAINER GREETED HIM AT THE STATION. 800 00:36:22,809 --> 00:36:26,409 {\an1}DUNDEE DROVE CLAY TO OVERTOWN, A SEGREGATED NEIGHBORHOOD 801 00:36:26,443 --> 00:36:29,276 {\an1}WHERE BLACK VISITORS WHO WERE REFUSED SERVICE 802 00:36:29,309 --> 00:36:33,276 {\an1}AT MIAMI'S "WHITES ONLY" HOTELS COULD RENT A ROOM. 803 00:36:36,409 --> 00:36:39,143 {\an1}AT THE MARY ELIZABETH HOTEL, A HUB FOR PIMPS 804 00:36:39,176 --> 00:36:42,109 AND DRUG DEALERS, CLAY WAS TO SHARE A DINGY ROOM 805 00:36:42,143 --> 00:36:44,443 {\an1}WITH ONE DOUBLE BED AND NO AIR CONDITIONING 806 00:36:44,476 --> 00:36:46,776 {\an1}WITH A JAMAICAN HEAVYWEIGHT. 807 00:36:49,409 --> 00:36:51,976 {\an1}THE NEXT MORNING, CLAY REPORTED TO DUNDEE'S 808 00:36:52,009 --> 00:36:55,209 {\an1}5th STREET GYM IN MIAMI BEACH. 809 00:36:55,243 --> 00:36:57,709 {\an1}[THE PARKAYS' "GET IT" PLAYING] 810 00:37:01,376 --> 00:37:03,043 {\an1}BAND MEMBER: NOT YET! 811 00:37:03,076 --> 00:37:05,143 {\an1}MAN: 5th STREET GYM WAS JUST A WALKUP, 812 00:37:05,176 --> 00:37:10,576 {\an1}OLD PUBLIC BOXING GYM THAT CLAY FIRST WENT TO WHEN HE WAS 18. 813 00:37:10,609 --> 00:37:15,609 {\an7}CRICKETY STAIRS, RUM-ADDLED DRUNKS LAYING ON THE STEPS 814 00:37:15,643 --> 00:37:18,576 {\an7}THAT YOU HAD TO WALK OVER TO GET UPSTAIRS. 815 00:37:18,609 --> 00:37:20,776 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE GYM WAS HOME TO BLACK, WHITE, 816 00:37:20,809 --> 00:37:24,509 {\an1}AND CUBAN BOXERS, ALL TOILING UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYES 817 00:37:24,543 --> 00:37:28,243 OF A RAGTAG CREW OF REGULARS ONE WRITER DUBBED 818 00:37:28,276 --> 00:37:30,676 {\an1}THE "PUGILISTIC COLLEGE OF CARDINALS," 819 00:37:30,709 --> 00:37:35,943 {\an1}WHO STOOD RINGSIDE AND APPRAISED DUNDEE'S TRAINEES. 820 00:37:35,976 --> 00:37:38,476 {\an1}NONE WAS IMPRESSED WITH CLAY. 821 00:37:38,509 --> 00:37:40,976 {\an1}"HE KEEPS HIS HANDS TOO LOW," THEY AGREED. 822 00:37:41,009 --> 00:37:43,276 "HE'S OFF BALANCE WHEN HE PUNCHES, 823 00:37:43,309 --> 00:37:45,943 {\an1}HE'S A HEADHUNTER." 824 00:37:45,976 --> 00:37:49,876 {\an1}THE CUBANS CALLED HIM "NIÑO CON BOCA GRANDE"... 825 00:37:49,909 --> 00:37:52,876 {\an1}THE KID WITH THE BIG MOUTH. 826 00:37:52,909 --> 00:37:56,509 {\an1}ANGELO DUNDEE ALSO SAW A FLAWED FIGHTER 827 00:37:56,543 --> 00:37:59,343 {\an1}BUT ONE WITH EXCEPTIONAL HAND AND FOOT SPEED 828 00:37:59,376 --> 00:38:03,176 {\an1}AND A TIRELESS WORK ETHIC, AND HE WAS SURE 829 00:38:03,209 --> 00:38:06,976 {\an1}HE COULD HELP SMOOTH CLAY'S ROUGH EDGES. 830 00:38:07,009 --> 00:38:10,043 {\an1}DUNDEE: YOU CAN'T DIRECTLY TELL HIM, "DO THIS." 831 00:38:10,076 --> 00:38:12,009 {\an1}THIS IS A CARDINAL SIN. 832 00:38:12,043 --> 00:38:13,743 {\an1}SAY THIS WORKOUT TODAY. 833 00:38:13,776 --> 00:38:16,243 {\an1}I'LL GO OVER AND TELL HIM, "GEE, THAT WASN'T TOO BAD 834 00:38:16,276 --> 00:38:17,809 {\an1}"FOR THE FIRST DAY. 835 00:38:17,843 --> 00:38:19,219 {\an1}"YOUR JAB WASN'T AS SHARP AS I'D LIKE IT, 836 00:38:19,243 --> 00:38:20,976 {\an1}BUT A REAL GOOD JAB." 837 00:38:21,009 --> 00:38:22,385 {\an1}WELL, THUSLY, THE NEXT DAY HE'LL BE USING HIS JAB 838 00:38:22,409 --> 00:38:24,476 MORE EFFECTIVELY, 839 00:38:24,509 --> 00:38:26,085 {\an1}BUT IF I TELL HIM "YOUR JAB IS TERRIBLE," 840 00:38:26,109 --> 00:38:28,476 {\an1}THEN I'D BE HITTING THE WRONG KIND OF A NOTE. 841 00:38:28,509 --> 00:38:32,643 YOU GOT TO WORK ON HIM PSYCHOLOGICALLY. 842 00:38:32,676 --> 00:38:34,419 {\an1}KINDRED: OTHER TRAINERS MIGHT HAVE INSISTED THAT 843 00:38:34,443 --> 00:38:37,443 {\an1}"YOU FIGHT MY WAY," BUT ANGELO WAS SMART ENOUGH, 844 00:38:37,476 --> 00:38:38,943 {\an1}GENIUS ENOUGH REALLY, 845 00:38:38,976 --> 00:38:41,576 {\an1}TO JUST LET HIM BE AND GUIDE HIM 846 00:38:41,609 --> 00:38:44,209 {\an1}RATHER THAN TEACH HIM. 847 00:38:44,243 --> 00:38:47,009 {\an1}NARRATOR: EACH DAY, CLAY ROSE BEFORE DAWN, 848 00:38:47,043 --> 00:38:50,543 {\an1}LACED ON A PAIR OF ARMY BOOTS, AND DID HIS ROADWORK. 849 00:38:50,576 --> 00:38:55,409 ♪ 850 00:38:55,443 --> 00:38:58,209 {\an1}HE RAN THE STREETS AND CAUSEWAYS OF OVERTOWN, 851 00:38:58,243 --> 00:39:02,776 {\an1}AT TIMES BACKWARDS, SHADOWBOXING AS HE WENT. 852 00:39:02,809 --> 00:39:07,243 {\an1}THEN HE JOGGED THE 4 1/2 MILES FROM NORTH MIAMI TO 5th STREET, 853 00:39:07,276 --> 00:39:10,309 {\an1}WHERE, WHILE CLIMBING THE STAIRS TO THE SECOND FLOOR, 854 00:39:10,343 --> 00:39:14,076 {\an1}HE SOMETIMES ANNOUNCED HIS ARRIVAL BY HOLLERING, 855 00:39:14,109 --> 00:39:16,976 {\an1}"ANGELO, LINE UP ALL YOUR BUMS. 856 00:39:17,009 --> 00:39:20,043 {\an1}I'M GONNA KNOCK THEM ALL OUT." 857 00:39:20,076 --> 00:39:22,609 {\an1}IN THE GYM, HE'D HIT THE SPEED BAG, 858 00:39:22,643 --> 00:39:25,543 {\an1}THEN THE HEAVY BAG, DO HIS CALISTHENICS 859 00:39:25,576 --> 00:39:27,209 {\an1}BEFORE A FULL-LENGTH MIRROR, 860 00:39:27,243 --> 00:39:29,476 {\an1}AND SPAR WITH OTHER YOUNG FIGHTERS, 861 00:39:29,509 --> 00:39:32,743 {\an1}INCREASING HIS STAMINA WHILE DUNDEE CAREFULLY COAXED 862 00:39:32,776 --> 00:39:37,943 {\an1}HIM INTO REFINING HIS BEST PUNCH, THE JAB. 863 00:39:37,976 --> 00:39:40,409 {\an1}MAN: THE EARLY CASSIUS TOOK FROM RAY ROBINSON. 864 00:39:40,443 --> 00:39:43,009 {\an1}RAY ROBINSON WAS A DANCER. 865 00:39:43,043 --> 00:39:47,143 {\an7}CASSIUS, LIKE EXPANDED THE, UH, NOTION OF DANCING. 866 00:39:47,176 --> 00:39:51,909 {\an1}TYPICALLY A BOXER IS TAUGHT TO STAY IN THE POCKET 867 00:39:51,943 --> 00:39:54,809 {\an1}AND PARRY A PUNCH. 868 00:39:54,843 --> 00:39:56,609 {\an1}THIS GUY WOULD DO SOMETHING 869 00:39:56,643 --> 00:39:58,243 {\an1}THAT IT'S LIKE SACRILEGE IN BOXING. 870 00:39:58,276 --> 00:40:01,343 {\an1}YOU DON'T LEAN BACK, MAN, BUT HE LEANED BACK. 871 00:40:01,376 --> 00:40:03,643 {\an1}DUNDEE: I MEAN, CASSIUS CLAY HAS HIS OWN STYLE. 872 00:40:03,676 --> 00:40:05,409 THERE'S NO OTHER FIGHTER LIKE HIM. 873 00:40:05,443 --> 00:40:07,519 {\an1}NOW SEE, THAT ALMOST DID IT. SEE? HE'S OUT. HE'S OUT. 874 00:40:07,543 --> 00:40:09,443 OH, GOD, OH, GOD. 875 00:40:09,476 --> 00:40:12,609 {\an1}LOOK AT IT. TAKE HIM OUT. 876 00:40:12,643 --> 00:40:14,419 {\an1}THIS IS THE STYLE THAT CAN WIN THE HEAVYWEIGHT 877 00:40:14,443 --> 00:40:16,476 {\an1}CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. 878 00:40:16,509 --> 00:40:18,743 {\an7}NARRATOR: IN HIS FIRST TWO MONTHS IN MIAMI, 879 00:40:18,776 --> 00:40:21,309 {\an7}CLAY FOUGHT 4 TIMES. 880 00:40:21,343 --> 00:40:24,809 {\an1}ON DECEMBER 27 IN HIS SECOND PROFESSIONAL FIGHT, 881 00:40:24,843 --> 00:40:27,909 {\an1}HE DEFEATED HERB SILER BY TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT 882 00:40:27,943 --> 00:40:30,209 IN 4 ROUNDS. 883 00:40:30,243 --> 00:40:35,043 {\an1}IN JANUARY 1961, CLAY CELEBRATED HIS 19th BIRTHDAY 884 00:40:35,076 --> 00:40:38,876 BY DISPATCHING TONY ESPERTI IN THE THIRD. 885 00:40:38,909 --> 00:40:42,243 {\an1}3 WEEKS LATER, CLAY NEEDED JUST ONE ROUND 886 00:40:42,276 --> 00:40:45,743 {\an1}TO KNOCK OUT JIM ROBINSON. 887 00:40:45,776 --> 00:40:49,476 {\an1}IN FEBRUARY, CLAY SPARRED WITH FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 888 00:40:49,509 --> 00:40:52,476 {\an1}INGEMAR JOHANSSON, WHO WAS IN MIAMI TO PROMOTE 889 00:40:52,509 --> 00:40:56,409 {\an1}HIS UPCOMING TITLE FIGHT WITH FLOYD PATTERSON. 890 00:40:56,443 --> 00:40:58,509 {\an1}CLAY SKIPPED AROUND JOHANSSON WHILE PEPPERING 891 00:40:58,543 --> 00:41:01,243 {\an1}THE SWEDE WITH SHARP JABS. 892 00:41:01,276 --> 00:41:04,876 {\an1}JOHANSSON FAILED TO LAND A SINGLE PUNCH, 893 00:41:04,909 --> 00:41:07,176 {\an1}AND HIS MANAGER CUT THE SESSION SHORT 894 00:41:07,209 --> 00:41:10,343 {\an1}AFTER JUST TWO ROUNDS. 895 00:41:10,376 --> 00:41:12,309 {\an1}"I'M THE ONE WHO SHOULD BE FIGHTING PATTERSON, 896 00:41:12,343 --> 00:41:15,076 {\an1}NOT YOU, SUCKER," CLAY TAUNTED. 897 00:41:18,176 --> 00:41:21,843 ON APRIL 19 IN FRONT OF MORE THAN 5,000 FANS 898 00:41:21,876 --> 00:41:24,809 {\an1}AT LOUISVILLE'S FREEDOM HALL, CLAY RECOVERED 899 00:41:24,843 --> 00:41:27,709 FROM A VICIOUS FIRST-ROUND PUNCH TO HIS JAW 900 00:41:27,743 --> 00:41:30,309 {\an1}TO BREAK LAMAR CLARK'S NOSE AND KNOCK HIM OUT 901 00:41:30,343 --> 00:41:33,343 {\an1}IN THE SECOND ROUND JUST AS HE'D PREDICTED 902 00:41:33,376 --> 00:41:36,809 {\an1}HE WOULD BEFORE THE FIGHT. 903 00:41:36,843 --> 00:41:38,943 {\an1}"HE HAS THE FASTEST HANDS OF ANY HEAVYWEIGHT 904 00:41:38,976 --> 00:41:42,009 {\an1}I'VE SEEN ANY PLACE," CLARK'S MANAGER MARVELED, 905 00:41:42,043 --> 00:41:44,009 {\an1}PREDICTING THAT CLAY WAS "NOT MANY FIGHTS 906 00:41:44,043 --> 00:41:46,176 {\an1}FROM A CHAMPIONSHIP." 907 00:41:46,209 --> 00:41:52,009 ♪ 908 00:41:52,043 --> 00:41:54,043 IN JUNE, CLAY RELUCTANTLY FLEW 909 00:41:54,076 --> 00:41:56,676 {\an1}TO LAS VEGAS FOR HIS NEXT MATCH. 910 00:41:56,709 --> 00:41:59,409 {\an1}"I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE FIGHT," HE TOLD A REPORTER, 911 00:41:59,443 --> 00:42:01,976 {\an1}"I'M AFRAID OF THE FLIGHT." 912 00:42:02,009 --> 00:42:05,043 {\an1}HIS OPPONENT WAS DUKE SABEDONG, 913 00:42:05,076 --> 00:42:10,209 {\an1}A TOWERING HAWAIIAN NOTORIOUS FOR HIS DIRTY TACTICS. 914 00:42:10,243 --> 00:42:14,376 {\an1}CLAY WON A UNANIMOUS DECISION. 915 00:42:14,409 --> 00:42:17,743 {\an1}BEFORE THE FIGHT, CLAY HAD APPEARED ON A LOCAL RADIO 916 00:42:17,776 --> 00:42:20,009 {\an1}SHOW WITH GEORGE WAGNER, 917 00:42:20,043 --> 00:42:21,676 A WELL-KNOWN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER 918 00:42:21,709 --> 00:42:25,409 {\an1}WHO CALLED HIMSELF GORGEOUS GEORGE. 919 00:42:25,443 --> 00:42:27,909 {\an1}REMNICK: HE WOULD COME IN WITH A JEWELED CAPE, 920 00:42:27,943 --> 00:42:31,509 {\an1}AND HE WOULD HAVE ONE PERSON PUTTING THE POMADE IN HIS HAIR, 921 00:42:31,543 --> 00:42:33,543 {\an7}AND PEOPLE WOULD BOO AND BOO AND BOO, 922 00:42:33,576 --> 00:42:36,243 {\an7}AND SOME PEOPLE WOULD CHEER AND CHEER AND CHEER. 923 00:42:36,276 --> 00:42:39,043 {\an1}AND CLAY SEES THIS, AND HE THINKS, "OH, MY GOD. 924 00:42:39,076 --> 00:42:42,009 {\an1}LOOK AT THE ATTENTION HE GETS." 925 00:42:42,043 --> 00:42:44,243 {\an1}ALI: I SAW HIM TALKING ONCE ABOUT "HOW PRETTY I AM. 926 00:42:44,276 --> 00:42:45,876 {\an1}I CANNOT BE BEAT." 927 00:42:45,909 --> 00:42:47,743 {\an1}HE SAID, "LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL SILVER HAIR. 928 00:42:47,776 --> 00:42:49,443 {\an1}"NO MAN IN THE WORLD CAN BEAT ME. 929 00:42:49,476 --> 00:42:52,043 {\an1}"I'M THE GREATEST WRASSLER THAT EVER LIVED. 930 00:42:52,076 --> 00:42:53,252 {\an1}"WHEN I GO INTO THAT RING I'M GONNA 931 00:42:53,276 --> 00:42:54,543 {\an1}"ANNIHILATE THE BUM. 932 00:42:54,576 --> 00:42:56,109 I'M BEAUTIFUL." 933 00:42:56,143 --> 00:42:57,943 {\an1}AND THAT NIGHT WHEN GORGEOUS GEORGE WENT 934 00:42:57,976 --> 00:42:59,919 {\an1}TO THE WRASSLING RING, ALL THE LADIES WERE BOOING, 935 00:42:59,943 --> 00:43:02,009 {\an1}AND THE PEOPLE WERE SO MAD, AND THE PLACE WAS FULL. 936 00:43:02,043 --> 00:43:05,043 EVERYBODY PAID A HIGH PRICE TO COME IN, 937 00:43:05,076 --> 00:43:08,709 {\an1}AND AT THAT MOMENT I SAID, "THIS IS A GOOD IDEA." 938 00:43:08,743 --> 00:43:11,276 {\an1}REMNICK: CLAY... HE'S A SPONGE. 939 00:43:11,309 --> 00:43:15,876 {\an1}HIS GENIUS IS TO KNOW HOW TO DEPLOY IT TO HIS ENDS. 940 00:43:15,909 --> 00:43:17,743 {\an1}NARRATOR: BACK IN MIAMI, HE APPEARED 941 00:43:17,776 --> 00:43:20,776 {\an1}ON LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO, GRANTING INTERVIEWS 942 00:43:20,809 --> 00:43:24,743 {\an1}TO ANY WRITER WHO ASKED, TELLING ONE, "I'M THE BEST FRIEND 943 00:43:24,776 --> 00:43:26,843 {\an1}A REPORTER EVER HAD." 944 00:43:26,876 --> 00:43:30,176 {\an1}AND HE WAS BEGINNING TO ATTRACT NATIONAL ATTENTION. 945 00:43:30,209 --> 00:43:38,209 {\an8}♪ 946 00:43:38,276 --> 00:43:41,509 {\an1}KINDRED: HE WAS 19 YEARS OLD IN MIAMI BEACH WHEN HE HEARD 947 00:43:41,543 --> 00:43:44,009 {\an1}THAT FLIP SCHULKE, A PHOTOGRAPHER 948 00:43:44,043 --> 00:43:47,976 {\an1}FOR "LIFE" MAGAZINE, WANTED TO SHOOT PICTURES OF HIM TRAINING. 949 00:43:48,009 --> 00:43:50,543 SO HE INVITED HIM TO COME WATCH HIM. 950 00:43:50,576 --> 00:43:53,609 {\an1}HE TOOK THE ORDINARY PICTURES LIKE RUNNING ON THE BEACH, 951 00:43:53,643 --> 00:43:55,976 ALL THAT STUFF. 952 00:43:56,009 --> 00:43:59,309 {\an1}CLAY SAID, "DO YOU WANT TO SEE ME TRAIN UNDERWATER?" 953 00:43:59,343 --> 00:44:07,343 ♪ 954 00:44:08,876 --> 00:44:12,076 {\an7}LATER, SCHULKE REALIZED WHEN THEY'RE DONE THAT 955 00:44:12,109 --> 00:44:14,009 {\an8}HE'D BEEN HAD. 956 00:44:14,043 --> 00:44:16,176 CASSIUS CLAY HAD NEVER TRAINED UNDERWATER. 957 00:44:16,209 --> 00:44:18,443 {\an1}NOBODY TRAINS UNDERWATER, 958 00:44:18,476 --> 00:44:20,376 {\an1}BUT CLAY UNDERSTOOD THE PROMOTION BUSINESS 959 00:44:20,409 --> 00:44:22,709 TO KNOW THAT IF YOU'RE IN "LIFE" MAGAZINE, 960 00:44:22,743 --> 00:44:24,809 {\an1}A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SEE IT. 961 00:44:24,843 --> 00:44:26,843 {\an1}SO HE INVENTED THIS ON THE SPOT, 962 00:44:26,876 --> 00:44:29,476 {\an1}AND SCHULKE WAS AMAZED, THOUGHT THAT IT WAS A SIGN 963 00:44:29,509 --> 00:44:31,509 {\an1}OF JUST PURE GENIUS, 964 00:44:31,543 --> 00:44:34,076 AND IT WAS. 965 00:44:34,109 --> 00:44:36,909 {\an1}NARRATOR: BEFORE FIGHTS, HE APPLIED 3 COATS OF POLISH 966 00:44:36,943 --> 00:44:40,076 {\an1}TO HIS WHITE SHOES, COVERED HIS ARMS AND TORSO 967 00:44:40,109 --> 00:44:43,843 {\an1}IN A THIN LAYER OF VASELINE TO EMPHASIZE HIS MUSCLES, 968 00:44:43,876 --> 00:44:46,643 {\an1}AND WORE A WHITE SATIN ROBE AND WHITE TRUNKS 969 00:44:46,676 --> 00:44:48,676 INTO THE RING. 970 00:44:48,709 --> 00:44:51,576 "THE WOMEN SAYS, 'LAND, AIN'T HE NICE AND NEAT'," 971 00:44:51,609 --> 00:44:53,209 EXPLAINED CLAY. 972 00:44:53,243 --> 00:44:56,009 {\an1}"IF THE WOMEN COME, THE MEN GOT TO FOLLOW. 973 00:44:56,043 --> 00:44:58,243 AIN'T THAT SO?" 974 00:44:58,276 --> 00:45:01,476 NOT EVERYONE APPRECIATED HIS COCKINESS. 975 00:45:01,509 --> 00:45:02,752 REPORTER: LET ME SEE YOU CLOSE YOUR MOUTH 976 00:45:02,776 --> 00:45:04,143 AND JUST KEEP IT CLOSED. 977 00:45:04,176 --> 00:45:05,809 {\an1}WELL, YOU KNOW THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE. 978 00:45:05,843 --> 00:45:06,943 NO, NO, NOW KEEP IT CLOSED. 979 00:45:06,976 --> 00:45:08,076 {\an1}YOU KNOW THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE. 980 00:45:08,109 --> 00:45:09,243 {\an1}I'M THE GREATEST. 981 00:45:09,276 --> 00:45:10,776 {\an1}I'M KNOCKING OUT ALL BUMS, 982 00:45:10,809 --> 00:45:13,643 {\an1}AND IF YOU GET TOO SMART, I'LL KNOCK YOU OUT. 983 00:45:13,676 --> 00:45:16,009 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN OCTOBER, CLAY PREDICTED THE ROUND 984 00:45:16,043 --> 00:45:18,476 {\an1}IN WHICH HE WOULD DEFEAT HIS NEXT OPPONENT, 985 00:45:18,509 --> 00:45:21,443 {\an1}THE ARGENTINIAN ALEX MITEFF. 986 00:45:21,476 --> 00:45:25,809 {\an1}"MITEFF," HE SAID, "MUST FALL IN 6." 987 00:45:25,843 --> 00:45:27,076 {\an7}ANNOUNCER: CLAY HAS REALLY 988 00:45:27,109 --> 00:45:28,476 {\an8}OPENED FAST. 989 00:45:31,109 --> 00:45:34,143 {\an1}BENTT: WHAT MADE CASSIUS SPECIAL WAS HIS MASTERY 990 00:45:34,176 --> 00:45:36,776 OF THE CRAFT AT, LIKE, THAT YOUNG AGE. 991 00:45:36,809 --> 00:45:38,976 {\an1}THIS GUY WAS ABLE TO HAVE HIS OPPONENT, LIKE, 992 00:45:39,009 --> 00:45:42,543 {\an1}5, 6 INCHES IN FRONT OF HIM, THROW, LIKE, YOU KNOW, 993 00:45:42,576 --> 00:45:45,243 A BUNCH OF SHOTS, CLEAN SHOTS, EFFECTIVE SHOTS, 994 00:45:45,276 --> 00:45:49,276 {\an1}AND PIROUETTE AROUND THE GUY. 995 00:45:49,309 --> 00:45:52,943 {\an1}NO ONE IS ABLE TO DO THAT AS FLUIDLY, 996 00:45:52,976 --> 00:45:57,009 {\an1}AS SEAMLESSLY AS HIM. 997 00:45:57,043 --> 00:45:59,143 HOW HE DID IT? I HAVE NO IDEA. 998 00:45:59,176 --> 00:46:03,809 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: AT 188 POUNDS, CLAY IS LIGHTNING FAST. 999 00:46:03,843 --> 00:46:06,876 {\an8}MAN: HIS SPEED, BOTH HIS HAND SPEED 1000 00:46:06,909 --> 00:46:11,043 {\an7}AND HIS FOOT SPEED WAS JUST INCREDIBLE. 1001 00:46:11,076 --> 00:46:14,009 [CROWD CHEERING] 1002 00:46:14,043 --> 00:46:16,243 {\an1}IF YOU THROW A PUNCH TOO FAR OUT, 1003 00:46:16,276 --> 00:46:18,909 {\an1}WHICH MOST NOVICE FIGHTERS DO, 1004 00:46:18,943 --> 00:46:20,476 {\an1}YOU'RE TOO FAR AWAY FROM YOUR OPPONENT, 1005 00:46:20,509 --> 00:46:23,209 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HIT YOUR OPPONENT, 1006 00:46:23,243 --> 00:46:25,976 {\an1}OR IF YOU GET TOO CLOSE, YOU DON'T HAVE THE LEVERAGE 1007 00:46:26,009 --> 00:46:27,543 ON YOUR OPPONENT, 1008 00:46:27,576 --> 00:46:29,776 {\an1}AND IF YOU'RE TOO CLOSE, YOU'RE EASIER TO TIE UP. 1009 00:46:29,809 --> 00:46:31,943 {\an1}SO IT TAKES A GREAT TALENT. 1010 00:46:31,976 --> 00:46:34,876 YOU HAVE TO BE AT THE EXACT DISTANCE 1011 00:46:34,909 --> 00:46:37,143 {\an1}ALMOST TO THE INCH AWAY TO LAND 1012 00:46:37,176 --> 00:46:39,943 {\an1}THE MOST EFFECTIVE PUNCH. 1013 00:46:39,976 --> 00:46:42,109 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: MITEFF PAID FOR THAT. 1014 00:46:42,143 --> 00:46:44,109 {\an1}ROBERTS: AND CASSIUS COULD DO THIS. 1015 00:46:44,143 --> 00:46:45,709 {\an1}HE DID IT INNATELY. 1016 00:46:45,743 --> 00:46:48,676 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: MITEFF'S LEFT EYE CLOSING RAPIDLY, 1017 00:46:48,709 --> 00:46:51,709 {\an1}A TRICKLE OF BLOOD BELOW IT. 1018 00:46:51,743 --> 00:46:54,276 AND MITEFF DOWN! 1019 00:46:54,309 --> 00:47:02,309 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1020 00:47:03,243 --> 00:47:04,709 {\an1}HE DOESN'T KNOW WHERE HE IS. 1021 00:47:04,743 --> 00:47:07,276 {\an1}THEY'RE GOING TO STOP IT, AND THEY SHOULD. 1022 00:47:07,309 --> 00:47:10,043 {\an1}NARRATOR: CLAY STOPPED MITEFF IN THE SIXTH ROUND 1023 00:47:10,076 --> 00:47:11,909 {\an1}JUST AS HE SAID HE WOULD. 1024 00:47:11,943 --> 00:47:17,543 {\an7}ANNOUNCER: AND THE WINNER BY A TKO, CASSIUS CLAY! 1025 00:47:17,576 --> 00:47:21,076 {\an7}[CHEERING AND BOOING] 1026 00:47:21,109 --> 00:47:22,485 {\an1}REPORTER: WHERE DO YOU RATE YOURSELF TODAY 1027 00:47:22,509 --> 00:47:24,543 {\an1}IN THE HEAVYWEIGHT RANKS? 1028 00:47:24,576 --> 00:47:26,476 WELL, JIM, MOST PEOPLE SAY I'M CRAZY 1029 00:47:26,509 --> 00:47:28,609 OR PUNCH DRUNK FOR SAYING THESE THINGS, 1030 00:47:28,643 --> 00:47:32,776 BUT I WOULD RATE MYSELF ABOUT NUMBER TWO NOW. 1031 00:47:32,809 --> 00:47:34,709 {\an1}NARRATOR: HE CLAIMED TO BE "EMBARRASSED TO GET 1032 00:47:34,743 --> 00:47:37,543 {\an1}INTO THE RING" WITH THE UNRANKED WILLIE BESMANOFF, 1033 00:47:37,576 --> 00:47:40,776 {\an1}WHOM HE PROMISED TO KNOCK OUT IN ROUND 7. 1034 00:47:40,809 --> 00:47:43,709 {\an1}WHEN THE GERMAN BOXER BEGAN TO WOBBLE IN THE FIFTH, 1035 00:47:43,743 --> 00:47:47,543 {\an1}CLAY SLOWED HIS ATTACK, TOYING WITH HIM FOR TWO ROUNDS 1036 00:47:47,576 --> 00:47:51,509 {\an1}BEFORE MAKING GOOD AGAIN ON HIS PREDICTION. 1037 00:47:51,543 --> 00:47:55,076 {\an1}BOYD: CASSIUS CLAY... HE UNDERSTOOD VERBAL WARFARE. 1038 00:47:55,109 --> 00:47:58,209 {\an1}SO NOT ONLY AM I GOING TO BEAT YOU PHYSICALLY, 1039 00:47:58,243 --> 00:48:01,676 {\an1}I'M GOING TO TELL YOU HOW BAD I'M GOING TO BEAT YOU, 1040 00:48:01,709 --> 00:48:05,776 {\an7}AND IF YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME, YOU'LL SHUT ME UP. 1041 00:48:05,809 --> 00:48:07,543 {\an7}YOU'LL MAKE ME STOP TALKING. 1042 00:48:07,576 --> 00:48:09,519 {\an1}IF NOT, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME TALK. 1043 00:48:09,543 --> 00:48:12,543 I'M GOING TO ADD TO THE HUMILIATION. 1044 00:48:12,576 --> 00:48:15,509 {\an1}IT'S AN ADDED LAYER, AND IF YOU CAN'T GET 1045 00:48:15,543 --> 00:48:17,876 {\an1}BEYOND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE, 1046 00:48:17,909 --> 00:48:19,776 {\an1}IT'S UNLIKELY THAT YOU'RE GOING TO WIN 1047 00:48:19,809 --> 00:48:22,276 {\an1}THE PHYSICAL WARFARE. 1048 00:48:22,309 --> 00:48:24,143 NARRATOR: CLAY'S PROFESSIONAL RECORD 1049 00:48:24,176 --> 00:48:26,943 WAS NOW 10-0, HIS FUTURE BRIGHT, 1050 00:48:26,976 --> 00:48:29,309 {\an1}AND HIS CONFIDENCE SOARING. 1051 00:48:29,343 --> 00:48:32,843 {\an1}"I GOT THE HEIGHT, THE REACH, THE WEIGHT," HE DECLARED. 1052 00:48:32,876 --> 00:48:35,843 {\an1}"TO BEAT ME, YOU GOT TO BE GREATER THAN GREAT." 1053 00:48:35,876 --> 00:48:37,476 {\an1}RAY CHARLES: ♪ YOU KNOW THE NIGHT TIME ♪ 1054 00:48:37,509 --> 00:48:39,509 {\an1}RAELETTES: ♪ NIGHT AND DAY ♪ 1055 00:48:39,543 --> 00:48:43,109 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN LATE 1961, CASSIUS CLAY WAS DIVIDING 1056 00:48:43,143 --> 00:48:45,909 {\an1}HIS TIME BETWEEN LOUISVILLE AND MIAMI, 1057 00:48:45,943 --> 00:48:48,076 {\an1}WHERE HE CONTINUED TO PURSUE BOXING 1058 00:48:48,109 --> 00:48:50,476 {\an1}WITH A SINGLE-MINDED ZEAL. 1059 00:48:50,509 --> 00:48:53,909 STILL JUST 19 BUT NOW MAINLY ON HIS OWN, 1060 00:48:53,943 --> 00:48:56,776 {\an1}CLAY HAD BECOME A FAMILIAR FACE IN OVERTOWN, RUNNING A TAB 1061 00:48:56,809 --> 00:48:59,643 {\an1}AT THE FAMOUS CHEF RESTAURANT 1062 00:48:59,676 --> 00:49:01,776 {\an1}AND COMPOSING RHYMES FOR THE OTHER CLIENTS 1063 00:49:01,809 --> 00:49:05,676 {\an1}AT SONNY ARMBRIMSTER'S BARBER SHOP. 1064 00:49:05,709 --> 00:49:08,376 {\an1}WHEN LOCAL HUSTLERS INVITED HIM TO THE SIR JOHN 1065 00:49:08,409 --> 00:49:11,743 {\an1}OR HARLEM SQUARE, WHERE COUNT BASIE, ELLA FITZGERALD, 1066 00:49:11,776 --> 00:49:14,709 {\an1}AND B.B. KING PERFORMED, CLAY JOINED THEM 1067 00:49:14,743 --> 00:49:18,243 {\an1}FOR THE MUSIC BUT DRANK ONLY ORANGE JUICE 1068 00:49:18,276 --> 00:49:22,109 {\an1}AND NEVER STAYED LONG. 1069 00:49:22,143 --> 00:49:25,076 WHEN HE VENTURED BEYOND OVERTOWN TO WHITE MIAMI, 1070 00:49:25,109 --> 00:49:27,443 {\an1}WHERE AFRICAN-AMERICANS WERE REGULARLY HARASSED 1071 00:49:27,476 --> 00:49:31,543 {\an1}BY THE LOCAL POLICE, CLAY KEPT HIS COOL. 1072 00:49:31,576 --> 00:49:35,076 {\an1}AT A DEPARTMENT STORE, A WHITE PHOTOGRAPHER LOOKED ON 1073 00:49:35,109 --> 00:49:39,043 {\an1}AS CLAY WAS SCOLDED BY A CLERK FOR HANDLING A SHIRT. 1074 00:49:39,076 --> 00:49:42,509 {\an1}THE PHOTOGRAPHER WAS INDIGNANT, BUT CLAY SAID, 1075 00:49:42,543 --> 00:49:44,643 {\an1}"I DON'T WANT TO MAKE A BIG MESS HERE. 1076 00:49:44,676 --> 00:49:46,376 {\an1}IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL." 1077 00:49:46,409 --> 00:49:51,143 {\an1}DEMONSTRATORS: ♪ FREEDOM ♪ 1078 00:49:51,176 --> 00:49:53,076 ♪ FREEDOM ♪ 1079 00:49:53,109 --> 00:49:55,343 {\an1}MARTIN LUTHER KING: NOW IT IS TRUE THAT MEN HAVE ALWAYS 1080 00:49:55,376 --> 00:49:58,209 {\an1}CRIED OUT FOR FREEDOM, 1081 00:49:58,243 --> 00:50:03,576 BUT IN THE PAST, THESE CRIES FOR FREEDOM WERE 1082 00:50:03,609 --> 00:50:08,609 IN MANY INSTANCES SOLO VOICES CRYING FOR FREEDOM, 1083 00:50:08,643 --> 00:50:11,676 {\an1}BUT THE DIFFERENCE TODAY IS THAT THIS SOLO VOICE 1084 00:50:11,709 --> 00:50:14,676 {\an1}HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO A MIGHTY CHORUS, 1085 00:50:14,709 --> 00:50:17,943 {\an1}SINGING WITH AMAZING HARMONY, 1086 00:50:17,976 --> 00:50:20,376 {\an1}"WE WANT TO BE FREE." 1087 00:50:20,409 --> 00:50:22,176 {\an1}IT IS TRUE THAT WE... 1088 00:50:22,209 --> 00:50:23,852 {\an1}NARRATOR: CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS HAD BEEN CHALLENGING 1089 00:50:23,876 --> 00:50:27,109 {\an1}SEGREGATION WITH NON-VIOLENT ACTION ON BUSES 1090 00:50:27,143 --> 00:50:31,543 {\an1}AND AT LUNCH COUNTERS ACROSS THE SOUTH, 1091 00:50:31,576 --> 00:50:34,343 {\an1}BUT WHEN ASKED ABOUT RACIAL INJUSTICE, 1092 00:50:34,376 --> 00:50:37,643 {\an1}CLAY SAID HE WISHED TO PROTECT THE WHITE LOUISVILLE SYNDICATE 1093 00:50:37,676 --> 00:50:39,709 {\an1}THAT MANAGED HIS CAREER. 1094 00:50:39,743 --> 00:50:42,176 {\an1}"I DON'T JOIN ANY GROUPS OR NOTHING BECAUSE IT MIGHT 1095 00:50:42,209 --> 00:50:45,909 {\an1}EMBARRASS MY SPONSORS," HE TOLD ONE REPORTER. 1096 00:50:45,943 --> 00:50:48,709 {\an1}HE KNEW SPEAKING OUT ON MATTERS OF RACE WOULD 1097 00:50:48,743 --> 00:50:52,209 {\an1}ONLY HARM HIS CHANCES OF ONE DAY GETTING A TITLE FIGHT. 1098 00:50:52,243 --> 00:50:54,709 {\an1}KING: AND THAT IS ANOTHER THING THAT YOU ARE SAYING 1099 00:50:54,743 --> 00:50:56,876 {\an1}TO LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, AND THAT YOU ARE SAYING 1100 00:50:56,909 --> 00:51:01,476 {\an1}TO THE NATION IN THIS MOVEMENT, THAT THE NEGRO IS ETERNALLY 1101 00:51:01,509 --> 00:51:04,176 {\an1}THROUGH WITH SEGREGATION. 1102 00:51:06,176 --> 00:51:10,076 {\an1}NARRATOR: STILL, THE MEMORY OF EMMETT TILL HAUNTED HIM, 1103 00:51:10,109 --> 00:51:13,809 {\an1}AND HIS FATHER'S EVER-PRESENT ANGER AT RACIAL OPPRESSION 1104 00:51:13,843 --> 00:51:17,509 CONTINUED TO STIR HIS OWN CONSCIENCE. 1105 00:51:17,543 --> 00:51:21,309 {\an1}LOUIS X: WHY ARE WE CALLED NEGRO? 1106 00:51:21,343 --> 00:51:26,309 WHY ARE WE DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND? 1107 00:51:26,343 --> 00:51:29,409 {\an1}NARRATOR: YEARS EARLIER, CLAY HAD PURCHASED A RECORD 1108 00:51:29,443 --> 00:51:34,243 {\an7}CALLED "A WHITE MAN'S HEAVEN IS A BLACK MAN'S HELL," 1109 00:51:34,276 --> 00:51:36,976 {\an7}WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY LOUIS X, 1110 00:51:37,009 --> 00:51:38,909 {\an8}A MINISTER FOR THE NATION OF ISLAM, 1111 00:51:38,943 --> 00:51:42,276 {\an7}WHICH CLAY LISTENED TO OVER AND OVER. 1112 00:51:42,309 --> 00:51:45,376 {\an7}LOUIS X: A WHITE MAN'S HEAVEN IS A BLACK MAN'S HELL. 1113 00:51:45,409 --> 00:51:48,443 {\an1}NARRATOR: ONE DAY IN MIAMI, CLAY SPOTTED A BLACK MAN 1114 00:51:48,476 --> 00:51:51,376 {\an1}IN A SUIT SELLING COPIES OF THE NEWSPAPER 1115 00:51:51,409 --> 00:51:53,409 {\an1}"MUHAMMAD SPEAKS." 1116 00:51:53,443 --> 00:51:56,609 {\an1}MAN: I WAS SELLING THE PAPERS ONE DAY ON THE STREETS, 1117 00:51:56,643 --> 00:51:58,776 AND HE SAW ME. 1118 00:51:58,809 --> 00:52:01,443 {\an7}HE SAID, "HEY, BROTHER! 1119 00:52:01,476 --> 00:52:03,943 {\an7}"WHY ARE WE CALLED NEGROES? 1120 00:52:03,976 --> 00:52:06,609 {\an7}"WHY ARE WE BLIND, DEAF, AND DUMB? 1121 00:52:06,643 --> 00:52:08,076 {\an8}"WHY EVERYBODY MAKING PROGRESS, 1122 00:52:08,109 --> 00:52:10,976 {\an7}AND WE LAGGING SO FAR BEHIND?" 1123 00:52:11,009 --> 00:52:12,319 I HOLLERED... I LOOKED BACK AT HIM, 1124 00:52:12,343 --> 00:52:13,743 I SAID "HEY, MAN! 1125 00:52:13,776 --> 00:52:15,643 {\an1}YOU HIP TO THE TEACHINGS, AIN'T YEAH?" 1126 00:52:15,676 --> 00:52:18,309 HE SAID, "YEAH. I'M CASSIUS CLAY. 1127 00:52:18,343 --> 00:52:20,176 {\an1}"I'M GONNA BE THE NEXT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 1128 00:52:20,209 --> 00:52:21,843 OF THE WORLD." 1129 00:52:21,876 --> 00:52:24,009 {\an1}NARRATOR: A ONE-TIME POOL SHARK FROM ATLANTA, 1130 00:52:24,043 --> 00:52:26,843 ABDUL RAHMAN... KNOWN AS CAPTAIN SAM... 1131 00:52:26,876 --> 00:52:29,643 {\an1}HAD ABANDONED A LIFE OF HUSTLING WHEN HE HEARD THE TEACHINGS 1132 00:52:29,676 --> 00:52:34,676 {\an1}OF THE NATION OF ISLAM'S LEADER ELIJAH MUHAMMAD. 1133 00:52:34,709 --> 00:52:37,143 ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: THE SO-CALLED AMERICAN NEGRO 1134 00:52:37,176 --> 00:52:45,176 {\an1}HAS TO BE COMPLETELY REEDUCATED THAT HE NOW CAN MOVE OUT 1135 00:52:46,176 --> 00:52:50,176 {\an1}IN THE WORLD AND FEEL THAT HE IS THE EQUAL 1136 00:52:50,209 --> 00:52:56,776 {\an1}OF OTHER CIVILIZED BEINGS AND DOES NOT FEEL ASHAMED 1137 00:52:56,809 --> 00:52:59,043 {\an1}TO BE CALLED A BLACK MAN. 1138 00:52:59,076 --> 00:53:03,543 ♪ 1139 00:53:03,576 --> 00:53:05,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: CAPTAIN SAM ENCOURAGED CLAY TO ATTEND 1140 00:53:05,876 --> 00:53:08,576 {\an1}MEETINGS AT TEMPLE NO. 29, 1141 00:53:08,609 --> 00:53:13,376 {\an1}A VACANT STOREFRONT THAT HAD BEEN TURNED INTO A MOSQUE. 1142 00:53:13,409 --> 00:53:16,443 {\an1}"THE FIRST TIME I FELT TRULY SPIRITUAL IN MY LIFE 1143 00:53:16,476 --> 00:53:19,209 {\an1}WAS WHEN I WALKED INTO THE MUSLIM TEMPLE IN MIAMI," 1144 00:53:19,243 --> 00:53:21,643 {\an1}CLAY LATER RECALLED. 1145 00:53:21,676 --> 00:53:24,243 {\an1}"A MAN NAMED BROTHER JOHN WAS SPEAKING, 1146 00:53:24,276 --> 00:53:28,209 {\an1}AND I COULD REACH OUT AND TOUCH WHAT HE WAS SAYING." 1147 00:53:28,243 --> 00:53:31,376 GOD WAS BLACK, PREACHED THE MINISTER. 1148 00:53:31,409 --> 00:53:33,409 {\an1}THERE WAS NO CHANCE OF RECONCILIATION 1149 00:53:33,443 --> 00:53:35,776 {\an1}WITH WHITE PEOPLE, WHO HAD DELIBERATELY STOLEN 1150 00:53:35,809 --> 00:53:38,376 {\an1}THE BLACK MAN'S IDENTITY. 1151 00:53:38,409 --> 00:53:42,343 {\an1}ONLY BY EMBRACING ALLAH WOULD BLACK PEOPLE OVERCOME 1152 00:53:42,376 --> 00:53:44,276 WHITE CRUELTY. 1153 00:53:44,309 --> 00:53:47,009 {\an1}MAN: ELIJAH MUHAMMAD PRESENTED ISLAM AS THIS ALTERNATIVE 1154 00:53:47,043 --> 00:53:49,776 {\an8}TO CHRISTIANITY, "THE BLACK MAN'S RELIGION," 1155 00:53:49,809 --> 00:53:52,209 {\an7}AND THAT WAS A SELLING POINT THAT ELIJAH MUHAMMAD USED, 1156 00:53:52,243 --> 00:53:55,243 {\an7}AND IT WAS PRETTY EFFECTIVE. 1157 00:53:55,276 --> 00:53:58,043 {\an1}WOMAN: HE'S STEPPING INTO AN ALTERNATE REALITY, 1158 00:53:58,076 --> 00:54:01,643 {\an7}WHERE UP IS DOWN AND DOWN IS UP AND BLACK IS SACRED 1159 00:54:01,676 --> 00:54:03,643 {\an7}AND BLACK IS VALUABLE. 1160 00:54:03,676 --> 00:54:06,609 {\an1}YOU KNOW, YOUR MIND IS BLOWN. 1161 00:54:06,643 --> 00:54:08,676 {\an1}SOMETHING LIKE THAT DEFINITELY HAS ENORMOUS 1162 00:54:08,709 --> 00:54:10,809 {\an1}TRANSFORMATIVE POWER. 1163 00:54:10,843 --> 00:54:12,476 {\an1}MUWAKKIL: ESPECIALLY FOR THE LOWER-INCOME 1164 00:54:12,509 --> 00:54:14,776 {\an1}AND LESSER-EDUCATED AFRICAN-AMERICANS 1165 00:54:14,809 --> 00:54:19,376 {\an1}WHO HE WAS TARGETING AT THAT TIME. 1166 00:54:19,409 --> 00:54:23,109 {\an1}NARRATOR: ELIJAH MUHAMMAD WAS BORN ELIJAH POOLE, 1167 00:54:23,143 --> 00:54:28,176 {\an1}THE SON OF A BAPTIST PREACHER, IN RURAL GEORGIA IN 1897. 1168 00:54:28,209 --> 00:54:31,209 {\an1}WHEN POOLE WAS 14, A WHITE MOB LYNCHED 1169 00:54:31,243 --> 00:54:33,876 {\an1}HIS FRIEND ALBERT HAMILTON, WHO WAS ACCUSED 1170 00:54:33,909 --> 00:54:36,609 {\an1}OF ASSAULTING A WHITE WOMAN. 1171 00:54:36,643 --> 00:54:39,343 {\an1}THE ANGRY CROWD HAD DRAGGED HAMILTON FROM A JAIL CELL, 1172 00:54:39,376 --> 00:54:41,843 {\an1}HUNG HIM FROM A TREE, AND SHOT HIM 1173 00:54:41,876 --> 00:54:44,409 {\an1}MORE THAN 300 TIMES. 1174 00:54:44,443 --> 00:54:47,309 {\an1}POOLE RESOLVED THAT HE WOULD, HE SAID, "FIND A WAY 1175 00:54:47,343 --> 00:54:50,409 {\an1}TO AVENGE HIM AND MY PEOPLE." 1176 00:54:52,876 --> 00:54:56,409 {\an1}IN 1923, POOLE MOVED TO DETROIT, 1177 00:54:56,443 --> 00:54:59,576 {\an1}WHERE HE FELL UNDER THE SWAY OF A SELF-STYLED MESSIAH 1178 00:54:59,609 --> 00:55:02,409 NAMED W.D. FARD. 1179 00:55:02,443 --> 00:55:05,643 {\an1}A CHARISMATIC ORATOR, FARD HAD INVENTED 1180 00:55:05,676 --> 00:55:08,509 {\an1}AN ELABORATE HISTORY AND THEOLOGY FOR BLACK PEOPLE 1181 00:55:08,543 --> 00:55:11,676 {\an1}ROOTED IN THE BELIEF THAT THEY WERE THE EARTH'S 1182 00:55:11,709 --> 00:55:15,709 {\an1}ORIGINAL INHABITANTS, RULING FOR TRILLIONS OF YEARS 1183 00:55:15,743 --> 00:55:19,743 {\an1}UNDER THE BANNER OF ISLAM UNTIL THEY WERE UNDERMINED 1184 00:55:19,776 --> 00:55:23,076 {\an1}BY A RACE OF "WHITE DEVILS," WHO WOULD ONE DAY FACE 1185 00:55:23,109 --> 00:55:27,443 {\an1}A BRUTAL END AT THE HAND OF ALLAH. 1186 00:55:27,476 --> 00:55:30,443 {\an1}HE PREACHED BLACK SEPARATISM, SELF-DETERMINATION, 1187 00:55:30,476 --> 00:55:33,609 AND CLEAN LIVING AND SOMETIMES ASSIGNED 1188 00:55:33,643 --> 00:55:36,209 {\an1}CONVERTS NEW SURNAMES TO REPLACE 1189 00:55:36,243 --> 00:55:39,176 {\an1}THEIR "SLAVE NAMES." 1190 00:55:39,209 --> 00:55:44,543 {\an1}FARD CALLED HIS GROUP THE LOST-FOUND NATION OF ISLAM. 1191 00:55:44,576 --> 00:55:50,076 {\an1}POOLE, HIS LATEST CONVERT, BECAME ELIJAH MUHAMMAD. 1192 00:55:50,109 --> 00:55:52,409 {\an1}MUWAKKIL: THERE WAS A TRADITION OF THOSE KINDS OF GROUPS. 1193 00:55:52,443 --> 00:55:54,876 THERE WAS THE MOORISH SCIENCE TEMPLE 1194 00:55:54,909 --> 00:55:56,509 {\an1}OF NOBLE DREW ALI. 1195 00:55:56,543 --> 00:55:58,743 {\an1}THERE WAS THE BLACK HEBREW ORGANIZATION 1196 00:55:58,776 --> 00:56:00,609 OF THIS GUY BY THE NAME BLACK ZARAB. 1197 00:56:00,643 --> 00:56:02,643 {\an1}THERE WAS MARCUS GARVEY'S 1198 00:56:02,676 --> 00:56:04,776 UNITED NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, 1199 00:56:04,809 --> 00:56:07,909 {\an1}AND THE NATION OF ISLAM WAS JUST ONE OF THEM. 1200 00:56:07,943 --> 00:56:11,809 {\an1}THEY CALL BLACK CHRISTIANITY THE WHITE MAN'S RELIGION, 1201 00:56:11,843 --> 00:56:15,776 {\an1}AND CHRISTIANITY WAS DEEPLY ROOTED IN BLACK AMERICA, 1202 00:56:15,809 --> 00:56:18,243 {\an1}AND ANYONE WHO LOOKED AT THEMSELVES AS AN ENEMY 1203 00:56:18,276 --> 00:56:20,476 {\an1}TO THAT TRADITION WAS SEEN AS SOMEONE 1204 00:56:20,509 --> 00:56:23,009 {\an1}WHO WAS ALMOST DEMONIC, 1205 00:56:23,043 --> 00:56:26,609 {\an1}AND IT WAS THAT KIND OF FEAR ABOUT THEM. 1206 00:56:26,643 --> 00:56:30,309 {\an1}NARRATOR: WHEN FARD MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED IN 1934, 1207 00:56:30,343 --> 00:56:32,476 {\an1}ELIJAH MUHAMMAD TOOK CONTROL, 1208 00:56:32,509 --> 00:56:34,943 CALLED HIMSELF THE "MESSENGER OF ALLAH," 1209 00:56:34,976 --> 00:56:38,009 {\an1}AND RELOCATED TO CHICAGO. 1210 00:56:38,043 --> 00:56:40,843 {\an1}HE WENT TO PRISON RATHER THAN REGISTER FOR THE DRAFT 1211 00:56:40,876 --> 00:56:43,943 {\an1}DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, CONTINUED TO PREACH 1212 00:56:43,976 --> 00:56:45,909 {\an1}SEPARATION OF THE RACES, 1213 00:56:45,943 --> 00:56:48,643 {\an7}AND SPOKE OF THE "MOTHER PLANE," 1214 00:56:48,676 --> 00:56:51,043 {\an7}A WHEEL-SHAPED SPACECRAFT HE CLAIMED 1215 00:56:51,076 --> 00:56:53,143 {\an7}WAS HOVERING MILES ABOVE THE EARTH, 1216 00:56:53,176 --> 00:56:56,109 {\an8}WAITING TO ANNIHILATE THE "WHITE DEVILS" 1217 00:56:56,143 --> 00:56:59,076 {\an8}ON JUDGMENT DAY. 1218 00:56:59,109 --> 00:57:01,509 {\an1}THOUGH ELIJAH MUHAMMAD BORROWED ABUNDANTLY 1219 00:57:01,543 --> 00:57:04,876 {\an1}FROM MUSLIM TEACHINGS, HIS MESSAGE OF SEPARATISM 1220 00:57:04,909 --> 00:57:07,776 {\an1}AND CLAIM TO BE A PROPHET DIVERGED SHARPLY 1221 00:57:07,809 --> 00:57:10,343 {\an1}FROM TRADITIONAL ISLAM, A RELIGION FOUNDED 1222 00:57:10,376 --> 00:57:13,976 {\an1}IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY THAT, BY 1950, 1223 00:57:14,009 --> 00:57:17,609 {\an1}HAD MORE THAN 400 MILLION FOLLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD. 1224 00:57:19,543 --> 00:57:22,143 {\an7}THE NATION OF ISLAM WAS AN AMERICAN HYBRID. 1225 00:57:22,176 --> 00:57:27,743 {\an7}IT USED CERTAIN TENETS OF ISLAM, BUT OTHER TENETS 1226 00:57:27,776 --> 00:57:32,176 WERE MADE UP BY THEM OR IMPROVISED. 1227 00:57:32,209 --> 00:57:34,676 {\an1}THEY TRIED TO AMERICANIZE IT TO THE POINT 1228 00:57:34,709 --> 00:57:37,476 {\an1}WHERE IT WAS NOT AUTHENTIC. 1229 00:57:37,509 --> 00:57:41,809 ELIJAH WAS NOT THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD. 1230 00:57:41,843 --> 00:57:44,909 {\an1}MAN: ELIJAH MUHAMMAD... HIS MODEL WAS DO FOR SELF. 1231 00:57:44,943 --> 00:57:47,343 {\an7}BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO DO FOR THEMSELVES, 1232 00:57:47,376 --> 00:57:48,909 {\an7}THEY NEED TO BUILD FOR THEMSELVES, 1233 00:57:48,943 --> 00:57:50,609 {\an7}THEY NEED TO START THEIR OWN BUSINESSES. 1234 00:57:50,643 --> 00:57:52,943 {\an1}YOU NEED TO CONTROL YOUR OWN COMMUNITIES. 1235 00:57:52,976 --> 00:57:55,209 {\an1}LET'S QUIT BEGGING WHITE PEOPLE FOR JOBS. 1236 00:57:55,243 --> 00:57:58,009 {\an1}LET'S MAKE JOBS FOR OURSELVES. 1237 00:57:58,043 --> 00:58:00,376 {\an1}WE HAD TO BE SELF-INDEPENDENT 1238 00:58:00,409 --> 00:58:04,343 {\an1}INSTEAD OF BEING IN SOME WELFARE LINE OR EMPLOYMENT, 1239 00:58:04,376 --> 00:58:05,909 {\an1}LOOKING FOR A JOB. 1240 00:58:05,943 --> 00:58:07,776 {\an1}WE WAS TRYING TO MAKE JOBS FOR OURSELVES, 1241 00:58:07,809 --> 00:58:09,876 TRYING TO KEEP THE MONEY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD 1242 00:58:09,909 --> 00:58:13,943 {\an1}IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO ENRICH THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 1243 00:58:13,976 --> 00:58:17,109 {\an1}NARRATOR: ELIJAH MUHAMMAD PURCHASED A FARM IN MICHIGAN 1244 00:58:17,143 --> 00:58:19,109 {\an1}AND OPENED A CLOTHING STORE, BAKERY, 1245 00:58:19,143 --> 00:58:24,143 {\an1}AND RESTAURANT IN CHICAGO SERVING MOSTLY BLACK CUSTOMERS. 1246 00:58:24,176 --> 00:58:25,743 {\an1}WE HATE OURSELVES. 1247 00:58:25,776 --> 00:58:27,376 {\an1}THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT! 1248 00:58:27,409 --> 00:58:29,576 {\an1}BECAUSE OF THE TEACHINGS 1249 00:58:29,609 --> 00:58:32,443 AND THE TRAINING OF OUR SLAVE MASTERS. 1250 00:58:32,476 --> 00:58:33,909 {\an1}YES, SIR! 1251 00:58:33,943 --> 00:58:35,443 {\an1}YOU NEED TO MOVE AWAY 1252 00:58:35,476 --> 00:58:37,209 {\an1}FROM THESE WHITE PEOPLE. 1253 00:58:37,243 --> 00:58:38,619 {\an1}YOU DON'T WANT TO INTEGRATE WITH THESE WHITE PEOPLE, 1254 00:58:38,643 --> 00:58:40,243 YOU WANT TO MOVE AWAY FROM THEM. 1255 00:58:40,276 --> 00:58:43,209 YOUR SLAVE MASTER AND ALL HIS CHILDREN 1256 00:58:43,243 --> 00:58:47,143 ARE NONE OTHER THAN THE DEVIL. 1257 00:58:47,176 --> 00:58:49,976 {\an1}AUSTON: HE WAS GENERALLY REGARDED BY MEMBERS 1258 00:58:50,009 --> 00:58:52,143 OF THAT MOVEMENT AS THE MESSENGER 1259 00:58:52,176 --> 00:58:53,743 OF ALLAH OR GOD. 1260 00:58:53,776 --> 00:58:55,943 {\an1}HE WAS HIGHLY REVERED, AND THEY ANSWER 1261 00:58:55,976 --> 00:58:58,009 TO HIS DICTATES. 1262 00:58:58,043 --> 00:59:00,843 {\an1}THIS AN AFFIRMATION OF BLACK HUMANITY 1263 00:59:00,876 --> 00:59:05,109 {\an1}AND BLACK DIGNITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS A COLLECTIVE. 1264 00:59:05,143 --> 00:59:08,009 {\an1}HERE'S HOPE IN THE FORM OF A TANGIBLE PROGRAM 1265 00:59:08,043 --> 00:59:10,809 {\an1}THAT YOU CAN FOLLOW THAT WILL GET YOU THERE. 1266 00:59:10,843 --> 00:59:12,576 {\an1}ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: I SAY, GET OUT OF THAT 1267 00:59:12,609 --> 00:59:13,843 SLAVERY TEACHING. 1268 00:59:13,876 --> 00:59:15,643 {\an1}THAT'S THE WHITE MAN'S TEACHING 1269 00:59:15,676 --> 00:59:17,476 {\an1}TO KEEP YOU BLIND, DEAF, AND DUMB 1270 00:59:17,509 --> 00:59:21,076 {\an1}TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF SELF. 1271 00:59:21,109 --> 00:59:23,143 {\an1}MAN: THE NATION OF ISLAM HAD A PRESENCE 1272 00:59:23,176 --> 00:59:26,376 {\an1}IN AMERICAN PRISONS AND YOU CAN ENCOUNTER A GUY 1273 00:59:26,409 --> 00:59:30,176 {\an1}WHO WAS NOT VERY EDUCATED, DIDN'T DO VERY WELL IN SCHOOL, 1274 00:59:30,209 --> 00:59:32,109 {\an1}MAYBE EVEN DROPPED OUT, WENT TO PRISON, 1275 00:59:32,143 --> 00:59:34,209 {\an1}AND JOINED THE NATION OF ISLAM. 1276 00:59:34,243 --> 00:59:36,109 {\an7}COMES OUT OF PRISON, AND NOW YOU HAVE TO HAVE 1277 00:59:36,143 --> 00:59:39,043 {\an7}A DICTIONARY TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH HIM. 1278 00:59:39,076 --> 00:59:43,543 {\an1}MASTERY OF STANDARD ENGLISH NOW IS NO LONGER INDEXED 1279 00:59:43,576 --> 00:59:46,976 {\an1}TO ANY KIND OF UNCLE TOMISM, BUT NOW IS EQUATED 1280 00:59:47,009 --> 00:59:51,309 {\an1}WITH WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A DIGNIFIED BLACK MAN. 1281 00:59:51,343 --> 00:59:53,776 {\an1}RAHMAN: THIS MAN SAVED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE 1282 00:59:53,809 --> 00:59:57,843 {\an1}FROM THE GUTTER AND TOOK MANY OUT OF THE GUTTER. 1283 00:59:57,876 --> 01:00:01,176 MANY DRUG ADDICTS CLEANED UP UNDER HIS TEACHINGS, 1284 01:00:01,209 --> 01:00:03,143 {\an1}SO YOU CAN'T DO NOTHING BUT MARVEL OVER A MAN 1285 01:00:03,176 --> 01:00:04,843 CAN DO THAT. 1286 01:00:04,876 --> 01:00:06,643 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE NATION APPEALED AT FIRST MOSTLY 1287 01:00:06,676 --> 01:00:11,176 {\an1}TO POOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BUT BY THE LATE 1950s, 1288 01:00:11,209 --> 01:00:14,609 {\an1}ELIJAH MUHAMMAD'S MESSAGE OF BLACK EMPOWERMENT BEGAN REACHING 1289 01:00:14,643 --> 01:00:16,909 {\an1}SOME MEMBERS OF THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS 1290 01:00:16,943 --> 01:00:21,443 {\an1}FRUSTRATED WITH THE SLOW PACE OF CHANGE. 1291 01:00:21,476 --> 01:00:27,176 {\an1}THE NATION OF ISLAM WAS SUCH A FRINGE GROUP THAT 1292 01:00:27,209 --> 01:00:29,943 {\an1}VERY FEW CERTAINLY WHITE AMERICANS 1293 01:00:29,976 --> 01:00:31,843 {\an1}HAD EVER HEARD OF IT. 1294 01:00:31,876 --> 01:00:33,385 MIKE WALLACE: EVEN THE CLOTHES THEY WEAR... 1295 01:00:33,409 --> 01:00:36,343 {\an1}ROBERTS: BUT 1959, MIKE WALLACE DID 1296 01:00:36,376 --> 01:00:37,976 {\an1}A BIG DOCUMENTARY ON IT 1297 01:00:38,009 --> 01:00:39,709 {\an1}"THE HATE THAT HATE PRODUCED." 1298 01:00:39,743 --> 01:00:43,009 THESE HOMEGROWN NEGRO AMERICAN MUSLIMS 1299 01:00:43,043 --> 01:00:46,143 {\an1}ARE THE MOST POWERFUL OF THE BLACK SUPREMACIST GROUPS. 1300 01:00:46,176 --> 01:00:48,776 {\an1}THEY HAVE THEIR OWN PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS, 1301 01:00:48,809 --> 01:00:52,209 {\an1}WHERE MUSLIM CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT TO HATE THE WHITE MAN. 1302 01:00:52,243 --> 01:00:55,509 {\an1}AUSTON: THIS DOCUMENTARY WAS DESIGNED TO BE PROVOCATIVE 1303 01:00:55,543 --> 01:00:57,743 {\an1}AND FRIGHTENING ACTUALLY 1304 01:00:57,776 --> 01:01:00,476 {\an1}TO YOUR AVERAGE WHITE VIEWER. 1305 01:01:00,509 --> 01:01:02,209 {\an1}MINISTER: I CHARGE THE WHITE MAN WITH BEING 1306 01:01:02,243 --> 01:01:04,676 {\an1}THE GREATEST TROUBLEMAKER ON EARTH. 1307 01:01:04,709 --> 01:01:06,185 {\an1}WALLACE: THE WHITE MAN HAS BEEN PUT ON TRIAL 1308 01:01:06,209 --> 01:01:07,676 FOR HIS SINS AGAINST THE BLACK MAN. 1309 01:01:07,709 --> 01:01:09,743 {\an1}HE HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY. 1310 01:01:09,776 --> 01:01:11,509 {\an1}THE SENTENCE IS DEATH. 1311 01:01:11,543 --> 01:01:15,643 {\an1}MINISTER: GUILTY AS CHARGED. 1312 01:01:15,676 --> 01:01:19,343 {\an1}AUSTON: "OH, MY GOD. THIS IS WHAT THESE ANGRY BLACK PEOPLE 1313 01:01:19,376 --> 01:01:21,576 {\an1}ARE PLANNING TO DO." 1314 01:01:21,609 --> 01:01:25,709 {\an1}THIS IS A MOMENT OF REAL PANIC FOR A LOT OF WHITE PEOPLE 1315 01:01:25,743 --> 01:01:27,676 {\an1}WHEN THIS DOCUMENTARY AIRS, 1316 01:01:27,709 --> 01:01:31,943 {\an1}AND I THINK IT WAS... IT WAS MEANT TO BE THAT. 1317 01:01:31,976 --> 01:01:34,943 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN MIAMI, CASSIUS CLAY QUIETLY CONTINUED 1318 01:01:34,976 --> 01:01:38,876 {\an1}TO ATTEND MEETINGS AT TEMPLE NO. 29. 1319 01:01:38,909 --> 01:01:42,943 {\an1}REMNICK: HE BECOMES ATTRACTED TO ITS MESSAGE OF PRIDE, 1320 01:01:42,976 --> 01:01:45,776 OF NOT DEPENDING ON THE BENEFICENCE AND FAVORS 1321 01:01:45,809 --> 01:01:48,843 {\an1}OF WHITES AND WHITE POLITICS, 1322 01:01:48,876 --> 01:01:52,609 {\an1}AND IT'S MARRIED TO A SENSE OF RELIGION AND A RHETORIC 1323 01:01:52,643 --> 01:01:55,276 {\an1}OF NO MORE SLAVE NAME, A NEW NAME, 1324 01:01:55,309 --> 01:01:57,343 {\an1}AND HE GETS CAUGHT UP, 1325 01:01:57,376 --> 01:01:59,243 {\an1}AND THE MESSAGE, WHICH WAS SO IRONIC BECAUSE 1326 01:01:59,276 --> 01:02:02,876 HE'S SURROUNDED BY WHITE PEOPLE A LOT, 1327 01:02:02,909 --> 01:02:06,643 OF SEPARATISM. 1328 01:02:06,676 --> 01:02:08,809 {\an1}EARLY: YOU BASICALLY SEE YOURSELF AS HAVING REMOVED 1329 01:02:08,843 --> 01:02:10,643 {\an1}YOURSELF FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD. 1330 01:02:10,676 --> 01:02:12,543 {\an1}EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE INTERACTING WITH IT, 1331 01:02:12,576 --> 01:02:15,409 {\an1}YOU HAVE BASICALLY REMOVED YOURSELF FROM IT. 1332 01:02:15,443 --> 01:02:19,643 THAT'S APPEALING, BUT IT'S ALSO DANGEROUS. 1333 01:02:19,676 --> 01:02:22,276 {\an1}THE REASON WHY IT WAS SO APPEALING IS BECAUSE CULTS 1334 01:02:22,309 --> 01:02:24,143 {\an1}GIVE YOU THIS VISION OF UTOPIA, 1335 01:02:24,176 --> 01:02:26,576 {\an1}THIS VISION OF HAVING THIS COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE 1336 01:02:26,609 --> 01:02:28,309 {\an1}THAT YOU WOULD BE AROUND, 1337 01:02:28,343 --> 01:02:30,443 {\an1}THIS VISION THAT WE WERE ALL MARCHING FORWARD 1338 01:02:30,476 --> 01:02:33,343 FOR THIS GOAL OF LIBERATING BLACK PEOPLE, 1339 01:02:33,376 --> 01:02:37,776 {\an1}AND YOU HAD THIS GOD ALLAH, AND YOU SAW HOW BLACK WOMEN 1340 01:02:37,809 --> 01:02:39,943 {\an1}WERE BEING RESPECTED AND HOW BLACK MEN 1341 01:02:39,976 --> 01:02:42,343 {\an1}WERE LOOKED UP TO. 1342 01:02:42,376 --> 01:02:44,943 {\an1}IT SEEMED LIKE A DREAM. 1343 01:02:44,976 --> 01:02:46,676 {\an1}THAT'S WHAT CULTS DO TO PEOPLE. 1344 01:02:46,709 --> 01:02:50,409 {\an1}THEY OFFER YOU A KIND OF DREAM. 1345 01:02:50,443 --> 01:02:51,652 {\an1}I PREDICTED TO WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP 1346 01:02:51,676 --> 01:02:53,109 AT THE AGE OF 21. 1347 01:02:53,143 --> 01:02:55,576 I'M OUT TO BREAK FLOYD PATTERSON'S RECORD, 1348 01:02:55,609 --> 01:02:58,243 {\an1}AND BY THIS DAY, MY 20th BIRTHDAY TODAY, 1349 01:02:58,276 --> 01:03:01,943 {\an1}JANUARY THE 17th, THAT LEAVES ME EXACTLY ONE YEAR 1350 01:03:01,976 --> 01:03:04,476 TO REACH MY GOAL. 1351 01:03:04,509 --> 01:03:08,509 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN EARLY FEBRUARY OF 1962, ANGELO DUNDEE GOT 1352 01:03:08,543 --> 01:03:11,776 {\an1}A PHONE CALL FROM A PROMOTER AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, 1353 01:03:11,809 --> 01:03:15,043 WHO OFFERED CLAY A FIGHT AGAINST SONNY BANKS, 1354 01:03:15,076 --> 01:03:18,643 {\an1}A HARD-PUNCHING JOURNEYMAN FROM DETROIT. 1355 01:03:18,676 --> 01:03:20,009 {\an1}IT WOULD BE HIS FIRST FIGHT 1356 01:03:20,043 --> 01:03:23,809 AT BOXING'S MOST CELEBRATED VENUE. 1357 01:03:23,843 --> 01:03:26,309 CLAY BOASTED TO SPORTSWRITERS THAT BANKS 1358 01:03:26,343 --> 01:03:30,643 {\an1}WOULD FALL IN THE FOURTH ROUND. 1359 01:03:30,676 --> 01:03:33,076 JOHNNY ADDIE: FROM LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, 1360 01:03:33,109 --> 01:03:40,509 {\an1}WEARING WHITE TRUNKS, WEIGHING 194.5 POUNDS, 1361 01:03:40,543 --> 01:03:44,309 {\an1}THE FORMER OLYMPIC CHAMPION AND UNDEFEATED 1362 01:03:44,343 --> 01:03:49,843 AS A PROFESSIONAL CASSIUS CLAY, CLAY. 1363 01:03:49,876 --> 01:03:53,309 HIS OPPONENT, FROM DETROIT, MICHIGAN, 1364 01:03:53,343 --> 01:03:57,043 {\an1}SONNY BANKS, BANKS. 1365 01:03:57,076 --> 01:03:58,709 {\an7}DON DUNPHY: ROUND ONE! 1366 01:03:58,743 --> 01:04:00,443 {\an7}10 ROUNDS SCHEDULED. 1367 01:04:00,476 --> 01:04:02,043 {\an7}IF BANKS DOES ANYTHING, 1368 01:04:02,076 --> 01:04:03,309 {\an7}IT'S FIGURED TO BE EARLY. 1369 01:04:03,343 --> 01:04:04,509 {\an7}HE'S A POWER PUNCHER 1370 01:04:04,543 --> 01:04:06,276 {\an8}EARLY IN A FIGHT. 1371 01:04:06,309 --> 01:04:07,876 {\an7}CLAY IS THE MOST LOQUACIOUS 1372 01:04:07,909 --> 01:04:09,543 {\an1}HEAVYWEIGHT SINCE JACK SHARKEY. 1373 01:04:09,576 --> 01:04:16,109 ♪ 1374 01:04:16,143 --> 01:04:19,076 {\an1}THERE GOES CLAY ON THE FLOOR! 1375 01:04:19,109 --> 01:04:21,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: WHEN CLAY WAS KNOCKED DOWN IN THE FIRST, DUNDEE WAS 1376 01:04:21,876 --> 01:04:24,109 {\an1}AFRAID HIS BOXER'S CAREER WAS OVER 1377 01:04:24,143 --> 01:04:26,676 {\an1}BEFORE IT HAD REALLY STARTED. 1378 01:04:26,709 --> 01:04:30,043 {\an1}"CASSIUS WENT DOWN EYES CLOSED," DUNDEE REMEMBERED, 1379 01:04:30,076 --> 01:04:31,743 {\an1}"BUT WHEN HIS BUTT HIT THE FLOOR, 1380 01:04:31,776 --> 01:04:34,543 {\an1}THEY OPENED AND LIT UP." 1381 01:04:34,576 --> 01:04:36,419 {\an7}BENTT: YOU HAVE TO GET KNOCKED DOWN AT SOME POINT. 1382 01:04:36,443 --> 01:04:37,985 {\an7}IF THE FIGHTER WHO GOT KNOCKS DOWN PANICS, 1383 01:04:38,009 --> 01:04:39,109 {\an8}GUESS WHAT. 1384 01:04:39,143 --> 01:04:40,943 {\an8}I GOTCHA. 1385 01:04:40,976 --> 01:04:43,076 {\an1}BECAUSE, IF I KNOCK YOU DOWN, THAT MEANS I CAN 1386 01:04:43,109 --> 01:04:46,143 KNOCK YOU OUT. 1387 01:04:46,176 --> 01:04:48,076 {\an1}CASSIUS NEVER PANICKED. 1388 01:04:48,109 --> 01:04:49,909 {\an1}HE KNEW HOW TO RESPOND TO IT. 1389 01:04:49,943 --> 01:04:53,443 {\an1}HE KNEW HOW TO STAY POISED AND STAY IN CONTROL. 1390 01:04:53,476 --> 01:04:56,943 {\an1}DUNPHY: FIRST TIME THAT CASSIUS CLAY WAS EVER DOWN. 1391 01:04:56,976 --> 01:04:59,743 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN THE SECOND ROUND, HE TOOK COMMAND, 1392 01:04:59,776 --> 01:05:03,009 BEWILDERING BANKS WITH BLOW AFTER BLOW. 1393 01:05:03,043 --> 01:05:05,043 {\an1}BENTT: HE STAYED LOYAL TO HIS JAB 1394 01:05:05,076 --> 01:05:07,576 {\an1}AND THEN WENT TO WORK ON HIM. 1395 01:05:07,609 --> 01:05:09,376 DUNPHY: ROUND 4. 1396 01:05:12,309 --> 01:05:17,243 {\an1}NOW CLAY SEEMS TO BE COMING ON A LITTLE BIT. 1397 01:05:17,276 --> 01:05:18,643 {\an1}REFEREE: HOLD IT, HOLD IT, HOLD IT. 1398 01:05:18,676 --> 01:05:20,143 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN THE FOURTH ROUND, 1399 01:05:20,176 --> 01:05:22,076 {\an1}THE REFEREE HAD SEEN ENOUGH 1400 01:05:22,109 --> 01:05:25,076 {\an1}AND CALLED THE MATCH IN FAVOR OF CLAY... 1401 01:05:25,109 --> 01:05:28,276 ADDIE: WINNER BY TKO CASSIUS CLAY. 1402 01:05:28,309 --> 01:05:31,509 NARRATOR: JUST AS HE HAD PREDICTED. 1403 01:05:31,543 --> 01:05:34,309 {\an1}"WATCHING HIM GET UP OFF THE FLOOR AGAINST BANKS 1404 01:05:34,343 --> 01:05:37,643 AND THEN RECOVER TO WIN," DUNDEE REMEMBERED, 1405 01:05:37,676 --> 01:05:40,276 {\an7}"THAT'S THE NIGHT I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE KID." 1406 01:05:43,043 --> 01:05:46,676 {\an1}BETWEEN FIGHTS HE CONTINUED TO TALK, OFFERING A QUIP, 1407 01:05:46,709 --> 01:05:50,509 {\an1}POEM, OR PREDICTION TO EVERY REPORTER HE COULD 1408 01:05:50,543 --> 01:05:53,843 {\an1}AND DOUBLING DOWN ON HIS GUARANTEE THAT HE WOULD SOON 1409 01:05:53,876 --> 01:05:57,809 {\an1}BECOME THE YOUNGEST HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION EVER. 1410 01:05:57,843 --> 01:06:01,109 {\an1}MY LAST 3 FIGHTS, I PREDICTED A 4-ROUND KNOCKOUT. 1411 01:06:01,143 --> 01:06:03,509 {\an1}I KNOCKED OUT SONNY BANKS IN 4 ROUNDS, 1412 01:06:03,543 --> 01:06:05,209 I KNOCKED OUT DON WARNER IN 4 ROUNDS, 1413 01:06:05,243 --> 01:06:09,809 {\an1}AND I JUST ANNIHILATED GEORGE LOGAN IN 4 ROUNDS. 1414 01:06:09,843 --> 01:06:12,076 {\an1}NARRATOR: WHITE SPORTSWRITERS STARTED CALLING HIM 1415 01:06:12,109 --> 01:06:15,176 "MIGHTY MOUTH," "CASSIUS THE GASEOUS," 1416 01:06:15,209 --> 01:06:16,976 {\an1}THE "LOUISVILLE LIP." 1417 01:06:17,009 --> 01:06:19,809 {\an1}NOTHING WOULD PLEASE PEOPLE MORE, ONE REPORTER SAID, 1418 01:06:19,843 --> 01:06:23,043 {\an1}THAN TO SEE CASSIUS "GAG ON A GLOVE." 1419 01:06:23,076 --> 01:06:25,409 {\an8}MAN: HE WAS RUDE, RUDE TO HIS OPPONENTS. 1420 01:06:25,443 --> 01:06:27,576 {\an7}BEFORE A FIGHT HE WOULD INSULT THEM, 1421 01:06:27,609 --> 01:06:29,143 {\an7}HE WOULD MOCK THEM, HE WOULD PREDICT 1422 01:06:29,176 --> 01:06:31,009 {\an7}BAD THINGS FOR THEM. 1423 01:06:31,043 --> 01:06:33,409 {\an1}HE DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT LOSING IN THE EARLY DAYS. 1424 01:06:33,443 --> 01:06:35,509 {\an1}IT WASN'T PROPER BEHAVIOR. 1425 01:06:35,543 --> 01:06:37,576 {\an1}NARRATOR: TO THEM, HE WAS NOTHING LIKE THE REVERED 1426 01:06:37,609 --> 01:06:41,943 {\an1}FORMER CHAMPION OF THE 1930s AND 1940S JOE LOUIS, 1427 01:06:41,976 --> 01:06:45,076 {\an1}WHOSE MANAGERS HAD DEMANDED HE REFRAIN FROM CELEBRATING 1428 01:06:45,109 --> 01:06:48,276 {\an1}AFTER DEFEATING WHITE OPPONENTS. 1429 01:06:48,309 --> 01:06:52,043 {\an1}REMNICK: AND THESE GUYS, THESE ELDERS, WERE OFFENDED 1430 01:06:52,076 --> 01:06:54,743 {\an1}BY THIS "GASEOUS CASSIUS." 1431 01:06:54,776 --> 01:06:57,276 {\an1}THEY JUST THOUGHT THAT HE WAS IMPERTINENT, 1432 01:06:57,309 --> 01:07:00,909 {\an7}THAT HE OFFENDED THEIR SENSE OF ATHLETIC AESTHETICS. 1433 01:07:00,943 --> 01:07:02,509 {\an8}"WHAT'S ALL THIS PRANCING AROUND? 1434 01:07:02,543 --> 01:07:04,276 {\an8}STAND AND FIGHT!" 1435 01:07:04,309 --> 01:07:06,909 {\an1}LIPSYTE: THE SPORTSWRITERS WERE MOSTLY OLDER MEN, 1436 01:07:06,943 --> 01:07:08,609 WHITE MEN. 1437 01:07:08,643 --> 01:07:10,252 {\an1}NOW THERE WERE A FEW OF US YOUNGER GUYS AROUND, 1438 01:07:10,276 --> 01:07:11,643 AND WE LOVED HIM. 1439 01:07:11,676 --> 01:07:12,976 {\an8}IT WAS WONDERFUL. 1440 01:07:13,009 --> 01:07:16,209 {\an7}I WAS AROUND CASSIUS' AGE. 1441 01:07:16,243 --> 01:07:17,976 {\an1}IT WAS VERY EXCITING. 1442 01:07:18,009 --> 01:07:20,409 {\an1}CLAY: MOST PEOPLE THINK BECAUSE I CAN PREDICT 1443 01:07:20,443 --> 01:07:22,643 A FIGHT LIKE THIS AND MAKE IT COME TRUE, 1444 01:07:22,676 --> 01:07:25,743 {\an1}THEY THINK THAT I AM BECOMING OVERCONFIDENT. 1445 01:07:25,776 --> 01:07:27,943 {\an1}I'M GUNNING FOR FLOYD PATTERSON AND SONNY LISTON, 1446 01:07:27,976 --> 01:07:31,376 {\an1}AND IF THEY GET IN MY WAY, I WILL ANNIHILATE THEM, ALSO. 1447 01:07:31,409 --> 01:07:34,576 {\an7}SO THERE'S THIS... THIS SORT OF MAINSTREAM SENSIBILITY 1448 01:07:34,609 --> 01:07:38,143 {\an7}ABOUT HOW A MAN SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF IN PUBLIC, 1449 01:07:38,176 --> 01:07:42,109 {\an7}WHICH IS BASED PURELY ON THIS SORT OF WHITE MALE LOGIC. 1450 01:07:42,143 --> 01:07:44,243 {\an1}CASSIUS CLAY'S ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE TO COME ALONG 1451 01:07:44,276 --> 01:07:45,819 {\an1}IN PUBLIC AND SAY, "I'M NOT GOING TO FOLLOW 1452 01:07:45,843 --> 01:07:47,276 "THOSE RULES. 1453 01:07:47,309 --> 01:07:50,643 I'M GOING TO SAY AND DO WHAT I CHOOSE." 1454 01:07:50,676 --> 01:07:53,643 {\an1}IT'S ABOUT INDEPENDENCE. 1455 01:07:53,676 --> 01:07:58,309 {\an1}IN EARLY JUNE 1962, ABDUL RAHMAN INVITED CASSIUS 1456 01:07:58,343 --> 01:08:01,143 {\an1}AND HIS BROTHER RUDY TO A NATION OF ISLAM RALLY 1457 01:08:01,176 --> 01:08:03,509 {\an1}IN DETROIT LATER THAT MONTH. 1458 01:08:03,543 --> 01:08:06,043 {\an1}THOUGH PUBLICLY ASSOCIATING WITH THE SECT COULD HARM 1459 01:08:06,076 --> 01:08:09,143 {\an1}CLAY'S CHANCES OF GETTING A TITLE FIGHT, 1460 01:08:09,176 --> 01:08:11,076 {\an1}THE BROTHERS SAID YES. 1461 01:08:11,109 --> 01:08:16,376 {\an7}RAHMAN: CLAY WAS IN LOUISVILLE, HIS CAR WAS IN MIAMI, 1462 01:08:16,409 --> 01:08:20,676 {\an7}SO I DROVE HIS CAR FROM MIAMI TO LOUISVILLE TO PICK HIM UP, 1463 01:08:20,709 --> 01:08:23,343 {\an7}AND WE DROVE FROM THERE ON INTO DETROIT 1464 01:08:23,376 --> 01:08:26,509 {\an1}TO HEAR THE LECTURE OF THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD. 1465 01:08:26,543 --> 01:08:28,976 {\an1}NARRATOR: BEFORE THE RALLY, THE 3 VISITED THE LUNCHEONETTE 1466 01:08:29,009 --> 01:08:31,476 {\an1}NEXT DOOR TO MOSQUE NO. 1, 1467 01:08:31,509 --> 01:08:33,376 WHERE THEY MET A WELL-KNOWN MINISTER 1468 01:08:33,409 --> 01:08:36,209 {\an1}FROM NEW YORK WHO WAS IN TOWN TO DELIVER OPENING REMARKS 1469 01:08:36,243 --> 01:08:37,843 AT THE RALLY. 1470 01:08:37,876 --> 01:08:40,043 {\an1}HIS NAME WAS MALCOLM X. 1471 01:08:40,076 --> 01:08:42,543 {\an1}CLAY APPROACHED HIM, ENTHUSIASTICALLY OFFERED 1472 01:08:42,576 --> 01:08:45,809 HIS HAND, AND INTRODUCED HIMSELF. 1473 01:08:45,843 --> 01:08:47,809 {\an1}EIG: WHEN MALCOLM MET CASSIUS CLAY, 1474 01:08:47,843 --> 01:08:50,343 {\an1}HE'D NEVER HEARD OF HIM, WAS NOT MUCH OF A BOXING FAN. 1475 01:08:50,376 --> 01:08:52,709 {\an7}THE NATION OF ISLAM DISCOURAGED ITS MEMBERS 1476 01:08:52,743 --> 01:08:55,243 {\an7}FROM PARTICIPATING IN SPORT AND ENTERTAINMENT. 1477 01:08:55,276 --> 01:08:57,209 {\an7}THEY DIDN'T THINK IT WAS SERIOUS ENOUGH. 1478 01:08:57,243 --> 01:08:58,743 {\an7}IT WAS SEEN AS A DISTRACTION. 1479 01:08:58,776 --> 01:09:02,043 SO HE DIDN'T RECOGNIZE CASSIUS CLAY. 1480 01:09:02,076 --> 01:09:04,109 {\an1}NARRATOR: AFTER A BRIEF CHAT, MALCOLM RETURNED 1481 01:09:04,143 --> 01:09:06,309 {\an1}TO PREPARING FOR HIS ADDRESS, 1482 01:09:06,343 --> 01:09:09,043 {\an1}BUT THE YOUNG FIGHTER HAD LEFT AN IMPRESSION. 1483 01:09:09,076 --> 01:09:12,409 {\an1}CLAY HAD A "CONTAGIOUS QUALITY," MALCOLM LATER RECALLED. 1484 01:09:12,443 --> 01:09:15,643 HE WAS "CLEAN CUT AND DOWN TO EARTH." 1485 01:09:15,676 --> 01:09:17,552 {\an1}EIG: THEY QUICKLY DEVELOPED A FRIENDSHIP AND A BOND, 1486 01:09:17,576 --> 01:09:20,576 {\an1}AND MALCOLM BECAME A VERY IMPORTANT TEACHER 1487 01:09:20,609 --> 01:09:23,276 {\an1}FOR CASSIUS, UH, TEACHING HIM ABOUT THE NATION OF ISLAM 1488 01:09:23,309 --> 01:09:25,376 AND ABOUT WHAT THE RELIGION MEANT. 1489 01:09:25,409 --> 01:09:28,109 {\an1}THEY BECAME GOOD FRIENDS. 1490 01:09:28,143 --> 01:09:30,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: BORN IN 1925 TO PARENTS WHO FOLLOWED 1491 01:09:30,876 --> 01:09:33,909 {\an1}THE BLACK SEPARATIST LEADER MARCUS GARVEY, 1492 01:09:33,943 --> 01:09:36,743 {\an1}MALCOLM LITTLE WAS INTRODUCED TO THE NATION OF ISLAM 1493 01:09:36,776 --> 01:09:39,443 IN THE LATE 1940s WHILE SERVING TIME 1494 01:09:39,476 --> 01:09:43,743 {\an1}IN A MASSACHUSETTS PRISON FOR BURGLARY. 1495 01:09:43,776 --> 01:09:46,743 DEEPLY AFFECTED BY ELIJAH MUHAMMAD'S TEACHINGS, 1496 01:09:46,776 --> 01:09:49,543 {\an1}LITTLE WROTE TO THE LEADER ALMOST DAILY 1497 01:09:49,576 --> 01:09:53,276 {\an1}AND TOOK THE NAME MALCOLM X. 1498 01:09:53,309 --> 01:09:55,809 {\an1}LATER AFTER HIS RELEASE FROM PRISON, 1499 01:09:55,843 --> 01:09:58,243 {\an1}MUHAMMAD WOULD MAKE HIM PRINCIPAL MINISTER 1500 01:09:58,276 --> 01:10:01,276 {\an1}AT TEMPLE NO. 7 IN HARLEM. 1501 01:10:01,309 --> 01:10:02,709 {\an8}WHO ARE YOU? 1502 01:10:02,743 --> 01:10:04,243 {\an8}YOU DON'T KNOW. 1503 01:10:04,276 --> 01:10:06,909 {\an7}DON'T TELL ME NEGRO. THAT'S NOTHING. 1504 01:10:06,943 --> 01:10:08,385 {\an1}WHAT WERE YOU BEFORE THE WHITE MAN NAMED 1505 01:10:08,409 --> 01:10:09,943 YOU A NEGRO? 1506 01:10:09,976 --> 01:10:11,543 {\an1}AND WHERE WERE YOU? 1507 01:10:11,576 --> 01:10:13,409 {\an1}AND WHAT DID YOU HAVE? 1508 01:10:13,443 --> 01:10:15,043 WHAT WAS YOURS? 1509 01:10:15,076 --> 01:10:17,376 {\an1}WHAT LANGUAGE DID YOU SPEAK THEN? 1510 01:10:17,409 --> 01:10:18,943 {\an1}WHAT WAS YOUR NAME? 1511 01:10:18,976 --> 01:10:21,609 {\an1}IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN SMITH OR JONES 1512 01:10:21,643 --> 01:10:23,009 {\an1}OR BUNCH OR POWELL. 1513 01:10:23,043 --> 01:10:24,709 {\an1}THAT WASN'T YOUR NAME. 1514 01:10:24,743 --> 01:10:26,019 {\an7}THEY DON'T HAVE THOSE KIND OF NAMES WHERE YOU AND I 1515 01:10:26,043 --> 01:10:28,009 {\an8}CAME FROM. 1516 01:10:28,043 --> 01:10:32,043 {\an1}MUWAKKIL: WHEN MALCOLM CAME ALONG, HIS CHARISMA WAS MARRIED 1517 01:10:32,076 --> 01:10:34,909 {\an1}TO ELIJAH MUHAMMAD'S PURITANICAL MESSAGE, 1518 01:10:34,943 --> 01:10:36,909 AND IT TOOK OFF. 1519 01:10:36,943 --> 01:10:39,076 {\an1}I WAS MESMERIZED BY THE GUY. 1520 01:10:39,109 --> 01:10:41,009 AMERICA IS STILL A COUNTRY 1521 01:10:41,043 --> 01:10:44,209 {\an1}WHOSE GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM IS BASED UPON FREEDOM, 1522 01:10:44,243 --> 01:10:47,576 {\an1}JUSTICE, AND EQUALITY FOR WHITE PEOPLE ONLY. 1523 01:10:47,609 --> 01:10:50,776 {\an1}MUWAKKIL: AND I COULDN'T IMAGINE ANYONE BESTING HIM 1524 01:10:50,809 --> 01:10:52,909 {\an1}IN AN INTELLECTUAL ARGUMENT. 1525 01:10:52,943 --> 01:10:54,252 {\an1}MALCOLM X: YOU HAVEN'T DONE THE RIGHT THING... 1526 01:10:54,276 --> 01:10:55,476 {\an1}MUWAKKIL: HE WAS THAT SHARP. 1527 01:10:55,509 --> 01:10:57,143 MALCOLM X: BY MY PEOPLE, 1528 01:10:57,176 --> 01:10:59,043 AND BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T DONE THE RIGHT THING 1529 01:10:59,076 --> 01:11:03,443 {\an1}BY MY PEOPLE, NOW I GOT TO DO THE RIGHT THING BY YOU. 1530 01:11:03,476 --> 01:11:06,143 {\an1}YOUR KINGDOM HAS GOT TO GO. 1531 01:11:06,176 --> 01:11:08,443 {\an1}MUWAKKIL: OFTEN WHEN PEOPLE HAD INTELLECTUAL ATTAINMENT, 1532 01:11:08,476 --> 01:11:10,376 THEY DISDAINED, THE STREET LIFE, 1533 01:11:10,409 --> 01:11:13,276 {\an8}AND THEY HAD THIS AURA OF SUPERIORITY. 1534 01:11:13,309 --> 01:11:15,643 {\an7}MALCOLM, HE DIDN'T HAVE THAT AT ALL. 1535 01:11:15,676 --> 01:11:17,609 {\an1}HE SEEMED TO EMBRACE THE STREET LIFE IN A WAY 1536 01:11:17,643 --> 01:11:19,009 {\an1}THAT FEW OTHERS HAD, 1537 01:11:19,043 --> 01:11:22,509 AND THAT WAS A VERY UNIQUE THING. 1538 01:11:22,543 --> 01:11:24,476 {\an1}NARRATOR: MANY AMERICANS, NOW FAMILIAR 1539 01:11:24,509 --> 01:11:27,676 {\an1}WITH THE NON-VIOLENT ACTIONS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1540 01:11:27,709 --> 01:11:30,809 {\an1}LED PRIMARILY BY SOUTHERN MINISTERS, WERE SHOCKED 1541 01:11:30,843 --> 01:11:33,609 {\an1}AND FRIGHTENED BY WHAT MALCOLM X HAD TO SAY. 1542 01:11:33,643 --> 01:11:36,443 {\an1}MALCOLM X: NO MAN CAN SPEAK FOR NEGROES WHO TELLS 1543 01:11:36,476 --> 01:11:39,109 {\an1}NEGROES LOVE THEIR ENEMY. 1544 01:11:39,143 --> 01:11:42,643 {\an8}NO MAN CAN SPEAK FOR NEGROES WHO TELLS NEGROES 1545 01:11:42,676 --> 01:11:44,643 {\an7}TURN THE OTHER CHEEK. 1546 01:11:44,676 --> 01:11:47,443 THERE IS NO NEGRO IN HIS RIGHT MIND TODAY 1547 01:11:47,476 --> 01:11:51,243 {\an1}WHO IS GOING TO TURN THE OTHER CHEEK. 1548 01:11:51,276 --> 01:11:53,176 {\an1}NARRATOR: AS MALCOLM'S INFLUENCE GREW, 1549 01:11:53,209 --> 01:11:56,709 {\an1}HIS ACTIVITIES DREW INCREASING INTEREST FROM THE FBI, 1550 01:11:56,743 --> 01:11:59,943 {\an1}WHICH BEGAN TRACKING HIS EVERY MOVE, 1551 01:11:59,976 --> 01:12:04,676 {\an1}SURVEILLANCE THAT WOULD CONTINUE UNTIL THE END OF HIS LIFE. 1552 01:12:04,709 --> 01:12:06,285 ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: STOP TRYING TO BE IN UNITY 1553 01:12:06,309 --> 01:12:08,343 {\an1}WITH THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT YOU. 1554 01:12:08,376 --> 01:12:11,343 {\an1}THEY HATE YOU AND CALL YOU THESE BLACK 1555 01:12:11,376 --> 01:12:12,776 SO AND SO AND SO. 1556 01:12:12,809 --> 01:12:14,943 GET OUT OF THAT PEOPLE'S FAITH. 1557 01:12:14,976 --> 01:12:17,243 {\an1}NARRATOR: AT THE RALLY IN DETROIT THAT CASSIUS, RUDY, 1558 01:12:17,276 --> 01:12:19,776 AND ABDUL RAHMAN HAD DRIVEN TO, 1559 01:12:19,809 --> 01:12:23,543 THE BROTHERS HUNG ON ELIJAH MUHAMMAD'S EVERY WORD. 1560 01:12:23,576 --> 01:12:25,543 ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: HE IS THROUGH WITH YOU AND I. 1561 01:12:25,576 --> 01:12:26,909 {\an1}HE HAS FREED YOU AND I. 1562 01:12:26,943 --> 01:12:28,809 {\an1}LET'S ACT LIKE FREE MEN. 1563 01:12:28,843 --> 01:12:31,809 {\an1}DO FOR OUR FREE SELVES. 1564 01:12:31,843 --> 01:12:35,476 {\an7}ROBERTS: IF CASSIUS COMES OUT AND SAYS, "YES, I'M A MEMBER 1565 01:12:35,509 --> 01:12:38,809 {\an7}OF THE NATION OF ISLAM," HIS CAREER IS OVER. 1566 01:12:38,843 --> 01:12:41,909 {\an7}YOU KNOW, I MEAN BOXING IS IN THE DOLDRUMS ANYWAY. 1567 01:12:41,943 --> 01:12:46,009 {\an7}JUST WHAT WE NEED NOW, A TOP CONTENDER AFFIRMING 1568 01:12:46,043 --> 01:12:48,409 HIS BELIEF IN THE NATION OF ISLAM. 1569 01:12:48,443 --> 01:12:50,809 {\an1}HE'S NOT GOING TO ATTRACT ANY BIG FIGHTS. 1570 01:12:50,843 --> 01:12:52,543 {\an1}WHITE AMERICA IS NOT GOING TO GIVE 1571 01:12:52,576 --> 01:12:55,443 {\an1}THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP TO A BLACK MUSLIM. 1572 01:12:55,476 --> 01:12:59,176 {\an1}CLAY HAD TO PLAY IT VERY COY. 1573 01:12:59,209 --> 01:13:01,609 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN JULY, CASSIUS CLAY PREDICTED HE'D 1574 01:13:01,643 --> 01:13:05,509 {\an1}KNOCK OUT AN ARGENTINE CONTENDER NAMED ALEJANDRO LAVORANTE 1575 01:13:05,543 --> 01:13:08,743 {\an1}IN THE FIFTH ROUND AND THEN ONCE AGAIN 1576 01:13:08,776 --> 01:13:10,943 {\an1}MADE GOOD ON THAT PREDICTION. 1577 01:13:10,976 --> 01:13:13,609 HE WAS NOW 15-0. 1578 01:13:13,643 --> 01:13:16,276 AFTER THE MATCH, CLAY SPOTTED ARCHIE MOORE 1579 01:13:16,309 --> 01:13:17,676 AT RINGSIDE. 1580 01:13:17,709 --> 01:13:18,819 {\an1}"YOU'RE NEXT, OLD MAN" HE SHOUTED 1581 01:13:18,843 --> 01:13:21,643 {\an1}TO HIS ONE-TIME TRAINER. 1582 01:13:21,676 --> 01:13:24,476 {\an1}MOORE CLAIMED TO BE 45, THOUGH MANY BELIEVE 1583 01:13:24,509 --> 01:13:26,476 {\an1}HE WAS CLOSER TO 50, 1584 01:13:26,509 --> 01:13:28,776 {\an1}BUT HE NEEDED THE MONEY AND QUICKLY AGREED 1585 01:13:28,809 --> 01:13:30,876 TO THE FIGHT. 1586 01:13:30,909 --> 01:13:33,909 {\an1}ARCHIE MOORE WAS LIKE THE PROFESSOR OF FIGHTERS. 1587 01:13:33,943 --> 01:13:36,243 {\an1}ARCHIE MOORE WAS INCREDIBLY BRILLIANT, 1588 01:13:36,276 --> 01:13:39,643 {\an1}BUT ARCHIE MOORE HAD THE VANITY OF THINKING 1589 01:13:39,676 --> 01:13:41,576 {\an1}THAT HE COULD FIGURE OUT THE YOUNG GUY 1590 01:13:41,609 --> 01:13:44,076 {\an1}AND THROUGH POSITIONING HIMSELF RIGHT AND MOVING RIGHT 1591 01:13:44,109 --> 01:13:48,143 HE COULD OUTSMART THIS YOUNG GUY. 1592 01:13:48,176 --> 01:13:52,143 {\an1}LET'S JUST SAY THE PREROGATIVES OF YOUTH OVERCAME HIM. 1593 01:13:52,176 --> 01:13:55,876 {\an1}NARRATOR: CLAY WON BY TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT IN THE FOURTH ROUND. 1594 01:13:57,709 --> 01:14:01,743 {\an1}BY THE END OF 1962, CASSIUS CLAY WAS RANKED NUMBER 4 1595 01:14:01,776 --> 01:14:05,009 {\an1}AMONG HEAVYWEIGHT CONTENDERS, AND HE HAD BEGUN 1596 01:14:05,043 --> 01:14:08,809 {\an1}TO LOOK LIKE A SHREWD BET BY HIS LOUISVILLE SPONSORS, 1597 01:14:08,843 --> 01:14:11,676 {\an1}WHO WERE ON PACE TO RECOUP THEIR INITIAL INVESTMENT 1598 01:14:11,709 --> 01:14:13,876 {\an1}IN THE COMING YEAR. 1599 01:14:13,909 --> 01:14:16,376 MR. CASSIUS CLAY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 1600 01:14:16,409 --> 01:14:20,043 [APPLAUSE] 1601 01:14:20,076 --> 01:14:21,509 {\an1}JERRY, I'M THE GREATEST FIGHTER 1602 01:14:21,543 --> 01:14:22,885 {\an1}THAT'S EVER STEPPED FOOT IN THE RING. 1603 01:14:22,909 --> 01:14:24,352 {\an1}I'M SO GREAT, I TELL A CLOWN WHAT ROUND 1604 01:14:24,376 --> 01:14:26,209 {\an1}HE'S GOING DOWN. 1605 01:14:26,243 --> 01:14:28,152 {\an1}REPORTER: YOU SEEM TO BE MAKING PREDICTIONS ABOUT FIGHTS. 1606 01:14:28,176 --> 01:14:29,652 CLAY: THAT'S PART OF THE CLAY PSYCHOLOGY 1607 01:14:29,676 --> 01:14:32,143 AND ALSO PART OF THE CLAY GREATNESS. 1608 01:14:32,176 --> 01:14:33,643 {\an1}AND THE CLAY GREATNESS. 1609 01:14:33,676 --> 01:14:34,952 {\an1}WELL, NOW YOU CLAIM TO BE YOU'RE GOING TO BE 1610 01:14:34,976 --> 01:14:36,609 {\an1}THE NEXT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD. 1611 01:14:36,643 --> 01:14:38,143 NEXT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD. 1612 01:14:38,176 --> 01:14:39,676 I'LL HOLD THE TITLE FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS 1613 01:14:39,709 --> 01:14:41,976 AND THEN GIVE IT TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER RUDOLPH. 1614 01:14:42,009 --> 01:14:43,476 {\an1}NARRATOR: THOUGH CRITICS GRUMBLED 1615 01:14:43,509 --> 01:14:45,009 {\an1}THAT HE STILL TALKED TOO MUCH 1616 01:14:45,043 --> 01:14:47,609 {\an1}AND HADN'T YET FACED A WORTHY OPPONENT, 1617 01:14:47,643 --> 01:14:51,143 CASSIUS CLAY HAD THE BOXING WORLD'S ATTENTION. 1618 01:14:51,176 --> 01:14:53,176 {\an1}"I DON'T CARE IF THIS KID CAN'T FIGHT A LICK," 1619 01:14:53,209 --> 01:14:56,209 {\an1}SAID THE FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION JACK DEMPSEY. 1620 01:14:56,243 --> 01:14:57,876 "I'M FOR HIM. 1621 01:14:57,909 --> 01:14:59,709 {\an1}THINGS ARE LIVE AGAIN." 1622 01:15:04,643 --> 01:15:09,409 {\an1}FRED McDOWELL: ♪ IT WAS SOON ONE MORNING ♪ 1623 01:15:09,443 --> 01:15:13,309 {\an7}♪ DEATH COME CREEPIN' ♪ 1624 01:15:13,343 --> 01:15:17,143 {\an8}♪ SOON WHEN ♪ 1625 01:15:17,176 --> 01:15:20,143 {\an7}♪ DEATH COME CREEPIN' IN MY ROOM ♪ 1626 01:15:20,176 --> 01:15:26,409 {\an1}MOSLEY: POOR MEN BOX BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY CHOICE THEY HAVE, 1627 01:15:26,443 --> 01:15:31,409 {\an1}WHICH IS THE REASON THAT BOXING ITSELF IS POETRY. 1628 01:15:31,443 --> 01:15:33,085 {\an1}"WHY YOU WANT TO GET IN THE RING AND GET HURT?" 1629 01:15:33,109 --> 01:15:35,509 {\an8}SAID, "MAN, I CAN GO DOWN TO THE BAR AND GET HURT. 1630 01:15:35,543 --> 01:15:37,185 {\an7}"YOU KNOW, I CAN GO DOWN THERE TO THE JUKE JOINT 1631 01:15:37,209 --> 01:15:39,209 {\an8}AND LISTEN TO ROBERT JOHNSON AND GET HURT." 1632 01:15:39,243 --> 01:15:40,785 {\an1}HE SAID, "AT LEAST WHEN I GET IN THE RING, 1633 01:15:40,809 --> 01:15:42,943 "THEY PAY ME, 1634 01:15:42,976 --> 01:15:46,609 {\an1}AND THEY GOT TO WEAR GLOVES WHEN THEY HIT ME." 1635 01:15:46,643 --> 01:15:48,509 {\an1}McDOWELL: ♪ O MY LORD ♪ 1636 01:15:48,543 --> 01:15:52,509 {\an1}MOSLEY: YOU FIGHT BECAUSE YOU FIGHT EVERY DAY ANYWAY. 1637 01:15:52,543 --> 01:15:54,509 A BLACK MAN, BUT NOT JUST BLACK MEN, 1638 01:15:54,543 --> 01:15:59,276 {\an1}ANY POOR... A MEXICAN OR IRISHMAN OR JEW... IF THEY'RE FIGHTING, 1639 01:15:59,309 --> 01:16:03,609 THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES, 1640 01:16:03,643 --> 01:16:05,683 {\an1}AND THE ONLY REASON THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES 1641 01:16:05,709 --> 01:16:09,543 {\an1}IN THE RING IS BECAUSE IT'S A LITTLE BIT SAFER 1642 01:16:09,576 --> 01:16:15,309 {\an1}THAN FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE ON THE STREETS OF AMERICA. 1643 01:16:15,343 --> 01:16:18,543 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN SEPTEMBER 1962, HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 1644 01:16:18,576 --> 01:16:20,843 FLOYD PATTERSON WAS SCHEDULED TO FIGHT 1645 01:16:20,876 --> 01:16:25,609 {\an1}CHALLENGER SONNY LISTON AT CHICAGO'S COMISKEY PARK. 1646 01:16:25,643 --> 01:16:28,109 PATTERSON WAS THE SENTIMENTAL FAVORITE, 1647 01:16:28,143 --> 01:16:30,443 {\an1}BUT THE ODDS WERE AGAINST HIM. 1648 01:16:30,476 --> 01:16:33,109 {\an1}TALESE: FLOYD PATTERSON WAS A REMARKABLE FIGHTER 1649 01:16:33,143 --> 01:16:34,776 BECAUSE HE WAS A HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 1650 01:16:34,809 --> 01:16:36,576 {\an1}WITHOUT BEING A HEAVYWEIGHT. 1651 01:16:36,609 --> 01:16:38,443 {\an1}PATTERSON HAD A HUMILITY ABOUT HIM 1652 01:16:38,476 --> 01:16:41,809 {\an1}AND A CERTAIN RIGHTEOUSNESS ABOUT HIM THAT HE APPEALED 1653 01:16:41,843 --> 01:16:43,443 {\an1}TO THE WHITE MIDDLE CLASS, 1654 01:16:43,476 --> 01:16:47,809 {\an1}THE WHITE SPORTSWRITER, THE WHITE ELEMENT. 1655 01:16:47,843 --> 01:16:50,776 {\an1}PATTERSON: I MET THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 1656 01:16:50,809 --> 01:16:53,643 HE KNEW OF MY FIGHT WITH LISTON, 1657 01:16:53,676 --> 01:16:57,943 {\an1}AND HE HAD SAID TO ME, UH, YOU KNOW, "FLOYD, 1658 01:16:57,976 --> 01:16:59,852 {\an1}"YOU WANT TO TRY TO KEEP THE TITLE BECAUSE YOU REPRESENT 1659 01:16:59,876 --> 01:17:03,243 SOMETHING GOOD." 1660 01:17:03,276 --> 01:17:05,509 {\an1}IZENBERG: FLOYD'S MANAGER WAS CUS D'AMATO, 1661 01:17:05,543 --> 01:17:10,343 {\an8}AND HE DISCOVERED VERY EARLY THAT FLOYD REALLY HAD 1662 01:17:10,376 --> 01:17:16,043 {\an7}THE QUICK HANDS OF A COBRA AND THE CHIN OF A POET. 1663 01:17:16,076 --> 01:17:18,443 {\an1}HE DIDN'T WANT HIM TO FIGHT SONNY LISTON. 1664 01:17:18,476 --> 01:17:20,385 {\an1}DEFINITELY DID NOT WANT HIM TO FIGHT SONNY LISTON. 1665 01:17:20,409 --> 01:17:23,776 {\an1}FLOYD WAS BAITED INTO THE FIGHT BECAUSE HE DECIDED 1666 01:17:23,809 --> 01:17:26,209 {\an1}HE WAS DEPUTIZED TO GET RID OF ALL BULLIES 1667 01:17:26,243 --> 01:17:28,376 {\an1}AND WHATEVER ELSE. 1668 01:17:28,409 --> 01:17:30,509 {\an1}CASSIUS, IN ABOUT A MONTH FROM NOW, 1669 01:17:30,543 --> 01:17:32,143 {\an1}SONNY LISTON IS GOING TO BE TRYING TO GET 1670 01:17:32,176 --> 01:17:34,643 {\an1}THE CHAMPIONSHIP FROM FLOYD PATTERSON. 1671 01:17:34,676 --> 01:17:36,176 {\an1}HOW DO YOU SEE THIS FIGHT? 1672 01:17:36,209 --> 01:17:37,576 TRYING TO GET? 1673 01:17:37,609 --> 01:17:39,476 SONNY LISTON WILL GET IT. 1674 01:17:39,509 --> 01:17:41,252 I SEE SONNY LISTON KNOCKING FLOYD PATTERSON OUT 1675 01:17:41,276 --> 01:17:43,743 WITHIN THE FIRST 5 ROUNDS. 1676 01:17:43,776 --> 01:17:47,343 IN MY ESTIMATION, SONNY LISTON IS 1677 01:17:47,376 --> 01:17:51,043 {\an1}A GREAT AMERICAN HERO. 1678 01:17:51,076 --> 01:17:54,309 HE HAD TAKEN ALL THE WORST FROM EVERYBODY. 1679 01:17:54,343 --> 01:17:57,409 {\an1}HE'S A MAN WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHEN HE WAS BORN, 1680 01:17:57,443 --> 01:18:00,743 {\an1}DOESN'T, HAVE ANY RELATIONSHIP WHATSOEVER WITH HIS FATHER, 1681 01:18:00,776 --> 01:18:03,909 {\an1}HAD A MOTHER WHO KEPT ON RUNNING AWAY FROM HIM. 1682 01:18:03,943 --> 01:18:07,009 HE WAS A MAN OF EXTRAORDINARY POWER 1683 01:18:07,043 --> 01:18:11,309 {\an1}AND AN EXTRAORDINARY FOCUS, WHO TOOK ALL THE BARBS 1684 01:18:11,343 --> 01:18:15,809 AND ARROWS THAT EVERYBODY HAD TO THROW 1685 01:18:15,843 --> 01:18:18,476 {\an1}AND STILL MADE IT. 1686 01:18:18,509 --> 01:18:21,143 {\an1}BOXING IS THAT GUY, LIKE LISTON, WHO JUST BASICALLY 1687 01:18:21,176 --> 01:18:23,743 CLIMBS RIGHT UP OUT OF THE MUD. 1688 01:18:23,776 --> 01:18:26,843 {\an1}THEY SAY, "WHERE ARE YOU FROM?" HE SAID, "I'M FROM BACK THERE." 1689 01:18:26,876 --> 01:18:28,209 YOU KNOW. 1690 01:18:30,943 --> 01:18:33,309 NARRATOR: THE SON OF AN ARKANSAS SHARECROPPER 1691 01:18:33,343 --> 01:18:37,643 {\an7}WHO WHIPPED HIM ALMOST DAILY, CHARLES "SONNY" LISTON WAS 1692 01:18:37,676 --> 01:18:41,976 {\an7}FIRST INTRODUCED TO BOXING IN 1950 BY A PRISON CHAPLAIN 1693 01:18:42,009 --> 01:18:44,509 {\an8}AT MISSOURI STATE PENITENTIARY, WHERE HE WAS 1694 01:18:44,543 --> 01:18:47,643 {\an8}SERVING TIME FOR ARMED ROBBERY. 1695 01:18:47,676 --> 01:18:51,743 {\an1}WITHIN 4 WEEKS, NO INMATES, INCLUDING TRAINED BOXERS, 1696 01:18:51,776 --> 01:18:55,009 WOULD GET IN THE RING WITH HIM. 1697 01:18:55,043 --> 01:18:58,743 HE WAS PAROLED IN OCTOBER OF 1952. 1698 01:18:58,776 --> 01:19:02,809 {\an1}A LOCAL MOB BOSS GOT LISTON A JOB AT AN ORDNANCE PLANT 1699 01:19:02,843 --> 01:19:05,843 AND ENTERED HIM IN AMATEUR TOURNAMENTS. 1700 01:19:05,876 --> 01:19:09,043 {\an1}4 MONTHS LATER, AFTER CAPTURING THE INTERNATIONAL 1701 01:19:09,076 --> 01:19:11,509 GOLDEN GLOVES HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE, 1702 01:19:11,543 --> 01:19:13,976 {\an1}LISTON TURNED PROFESSIONAL. 1703 01:19:14,009 --> 01:19:17,109 {\an1}OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS, HE WORKED IN CONSTRUCTION 1704 01:19:17,143 --> 01:19:19,776 {\an1}AND AS A CHAUFFEUR AND SOMETIME ENFORCER 1705 01:19:19,809 --> 01:19:22,476 {\an1}FOR THE UNION BOSSES. 1706 01:19:22,509 --> 01:19:25,709 {\an1}HE WAS HARASSED CONSTANTLY BY ST. LOUIS POLICE, 1707 01:19:25,743 --> 01:19:27,843 WHO PICKED HIM UP FOR "QUESTIONING" 1708 01:19:27,876 --> 01:19:31,109 {\an1}MORE THAN 100 TIMES. 1709 01:19:31,143 --> 01:19:34,176 {\an1}IN THE RING, SONNY LISTON WAS NEARLY UNBEATABLE, 1710 01:19:34,209 --> 01:19:37,009 {\an1}USING WHAT ONE REPORTER CALLED "A PILE DRIVER" 1711 01:19:37,043 --> 01:19:44,109 {\an1}OF A LEFT HAND TO WIN 17 OF HIS FIRST 18 PROFESSIONAL FIGHTS. 1712 01:19:44,143 --> 01:19:47,609 {\an1}AS LISTON CLIMBED THE RANKS, FRANK CARBO, 1713 01:19:47,643 --> 01:19:51,209 {\an1}A MOB HITMAN WHO BECAME A POWERFUL BOXING PROMOTER, 1714 01:19:51,243 --> 01:19:55,443 {\an1}TOOK AN INTEREST AND APPROACHED THE SMALL-TIME MOBSTER 1715 01:19:55,476 --> 01:19:57,776 {\an1}WHO THOUGHT HE OWNED LISTON. 1716 01:19:57,809 --> 01:20:00,943 {\an1}IZENBERG: FRANKIE CARBO, WHO'S RUNNING BOXING SAID, 1717 01:20:00,976 --> 01:20:02,709 "HERE'S 75,000. 1718 01:20:02,743 --> 01:20:04,376 {\an1}"YOU NEVER SAW LISTON. 1719 01:20:04,409 --> 01:20:05,876 {\an1}"YOU'RE NEVER GONNA SEE HIM AGAIN. 1720 01:20:05,909 --> 01:20:08,509 FORGET IT. HE'S MY FIGHTER." 1721 01:20:08,543 --> 01:20:10,485 {\an1}HE WAS IN THE HANDS OF THE MOB, AND THE MOB TREATED HIM 1722 01:20:10,509 --> 01:20:12,543 PRETTY WELL. 1723 01:20:12,576 --> 01:20:15,143 {\an1}SONNY WAS ILLITERATE, BUT BY NO MEANS 1724 01:20:15,176 --> 01:20:17,876 {\an1}WAS SONNY IGNORANT. 1725 01:20:17,909 --> 01:20:20,643 {\an1}MOSLEY: I THINK PEOPLE HATED LISTON BECAUSE HE WAS A BRUTE. 1726 01:20:20,676 --> 01:20:23,009 {\an1}THEY HATED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS DEADLY 1727 01:20:23,043 --> 01:20:24,676 {\an1}AND HE WAS DANGEROUS. 1728 01:20:24,709 --> 01:20:27,076 {\an1}THEY HATED HIM BECAUSE OF THE CORRUPT COUNTRY 1729 01:20:27,109 --> 01:20:28,676 THEY CREATED. 1730 01:20:28,709 --> 01:20:30,376 {\an1}THAT CORRUPTION CO-OPTED HIM. 1731 01:20:30,409 --> 01:20:32,143 {\an1}THEY HATED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS ILLITERATE, 1732 01:20:32,176 --> 01:20:34,643 {\an1}BUT THEY DIDN'T TEACH HIM HOW TO READ AND WRITE. 1733 01:20:34,676 --> 01:20:38,409 {\an1}HE'S HATED BY WHITE PEOPLE AND BLACK PEOPLE, 1734 01:20:38,443 --> 01:20:39,843 {\an1}AND HE JUST NEVER STOPPED. 1735 01:20:39,876 --> 01:20:41,576 {\an1}HE JUST KEPT RIGHT ON GOING, 1736 01:20:41,609 --> 01:20:44,376 {\an1}AND IF YOU'RE LIKE A BLACK MAN OR A WOMAN IN AMERICA 1737 01:20:44,409 --> 01:20:46,476 {\an1}AND YOU SEE SOMEBODY LIKE SONNY LISTON, YOU SAY, 1738 01:20:46,509 --> 01:20:51,143 {\an1}"THAT'S WHAT THEY DO TO US." 1739 01:20:51,176 --> 01:20:53,509 {\an1}NARRATOR: BY THE TIME LISTON CHALLENGED FLOYD PATTERSON 1740 01:20:53,543 --> 01:20:56,309 {\an1}FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE IN 1962, 1741 01:20:56,343 --> 01:21:00,909 HE HAD 33 WINS AND JUST 1 LOSS. 1742 01:21:00,943 --> 01:21:02,809 "PATTERSON WAS THE MORAL FAVORITE," 1743 01:21:02,843 --> 01:21:05,376 THE WRITER JAMES BALDWIN OBSERVED. 1744 01:21:05,409 --> 01:21:09,043 {\an1}"PEOPLE FELT LISTON'S VICTORY WOULD BE A DISASTER." 1745 01:21:09,076 --> 01:21:12,476 ADDIE: WEIGHING 214 POUNDS, 1746 01:21:12,509 --> 01:21:17,676 {\an1}FROM PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SONNY LISTON. 1747 01:21:17,709 --> 01:21:19,276 [BOOING] 1748 01:21:19,309 --> 01:21:21,509 {\an1}NARRATOR: SONNY LISTON UNDERSTOOD. 1749 01:21:21,543 --> 01:21:23,876 {\an1}"IT'S LIKE A COWBOY MOVIE," HE SAID. 1750 01:21:23,909 --> 01:21:25,943 {\an1}"THERE'S GOT TO BE GOOD GUYS, 1751 01:21:25,976 --> 01:21:30,409 {\an1}AND THERE'S GOT TO BE BAD GUYS." 1752 01:21:30,443 --> 01:21:32,109 [BELL RINGS] 1753 01:21:32,143 --> 01:21:33,919 CHRIS SCHENKEL: SONNY LISTON MOVES OUT TO FACE 1754 01:21:33,943 --> 01:21:38,409 {\an1}THE BIG CHANCE OF HIS 28 YEARS OF A TURBULENT LIFE. 1755 01:21:38,443 --> 01:21:40,419 {\an1}THE LISTON HOOK TO THE HEAD IS THE FIRST GOOD PUNCH 1756 01:21:40,443 --> 01:21:42,509 OF THE FIGHT. 1757 01:21:46,309 --> 01:21:48,276 {\an1}A LEFT TO GRAZING RIGHT AND A SOLID LEFT 1758 01:21:48,309 --> 01:21:51,709 {\an1}TO THE CHEEKBONE DROPPED THE CHAMPION. 1759 01:21:51,743 --> 01:21:54,943 {\an1}NARRATOR: IT TOOK LISTON JUST 2 MINUTES AND 6 SECONDS 1760 01:21:54,976 --> 01:21:59,676 {\an1}TO BECOME HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD. 1761 01:21:59,709 --> 01:22:01,585 {\an1}IZENBERG: IT WAS CLEAR TO ME THAT NOBODY WOULD EVER BEAT 1762 01:22:01,609 --> 01:22:03,343 {\an1}SONNY LISTON AND THAT HE WOULD BE 107 1763 01:22:03,376 --> 01:22:06,243 {\an1}AND HE WOULD RETIRE AS THE UNDEFEATED CHAMPION. 1764 01:22:09,543 --> 01:22:12,943 {\an1}ROBERTS: BOXING WAS IN THE WINTER OF ITS DISCONTENT. 1765 01:22:12,976 --> 01:22:15,943 RUMORS THAT EVERYTHING'S FIXED. 1766 01:22:15,976 --> 01:22:19,109 {\an1}DUNPHY: PARET AGAINST THE ROPES, ALMOST HELPLESS. 1767 01:22:19,143 --> 01:22:21,643 A MINUTE TO GO. 1768 01:22:21,676 --> 01:22:23,876 {\an1}AND THEY'RE GONNA STOP IT. 1769 01:22:23,909 --> 01:22:26,143 {\an1}THEY'RE GONNA STOP IT AS PARET SAGS... 1770 01:22:26,176 --> 01:22:28,119 {\an1}ROBERTS: AND ANOTHER MAJOR PROBLEM THAT HAD WAS JUST 1771 01:22:28,143 --> 01:22:30,809 {\an1}THE SHEER VIOLENCE OF THE SPORT. 1772 01:22:30,843 --> 01:22:32,476 {\an1}DUNPHY: WE'RE MORE CONCERNED 1773 01:22:32,509 --> 01:22:34,843 {\an1}ABOUT THE CONDITION OF BENNY "KID" PARET. 1774 01:22:34,876 --> 01:22:37,009 {\an1}ROBERTS: YOU HAD FIGHTS ON TELEVISION 1775 01:22:37,043 --> 01:22:38,809 {\an1}THAT STARTLED AMERICANS. 1776 01:22:38,843 --> 01:22:41,543 YOU KNOW, "DO WE WANT TO WATCH THIS? 1777 01:22:41,576 --> 01:22:45,343 {\an1}WE'VE GOT TO BAN THIS SPORT." 1778 01:22:45,376 --> 01:22:49,143 {\an1}NARRATOR: ON FEBRUARY 4, 1963, CASSIUS CLAY TRAVELED 1779 01:22:49,176 --> 01:22:52,043 {\an1}TO ALBANY, NEW YORK, TO APPEAR AS A WITNESS 1780 01:22:52,076 --> 01:22:54,643 {\an1}BEFORE A LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE CONSIDERING A BILL 1781 01:22:54,676 --> 01:22:57,943 {\an1}THAT WOULD ABOLISH BOXING IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK 1782 01:22:57,976 --> 01:23:01,676 {\an1}BECAUSE OF ITS BRUTALITY AND EVER-PRESENT CORRUPTION. 1783 01:23:01,709 --> 01:23:03,443 COMMITTEE MEMBER: DON'T YOU THINK THAT 1784 01:23:03,476 --> 01:23:05,085 {\an1}THESE PREDICTIONS THAT YOU'RE MAKING AND THE FACT 1785 01:23:05,109 --> 01:23:07,543 {\an1}THAT THE LAST FEW FIGHTS HAVE HAPPENED TO END 1786 01:23:07,576 --> 01:23:10,543 {\an1}IN THE EXACT ROUND THAT YOU STATE HAVE CREATED 1787 01:23:10,576 --> 01:23:13,376 {\an1}A BAD IMAGE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF BOXING? 1788 01:23:13,409 --> 01:23:17,276 {\an1}WELL, NO, IT HAVEN'T. A FEW PEOPLE... 1789 01:23:17,309 --> 01:23:18,743 {\an1}WELL, IN OTHER WORDS, THEY SAY, 1790 01:23:18,776 --> 01:23:20,576 {\an1}"IT TAKE A CROOK TO KNOW A CROOK." 1791 01:23:20,609 --> 01:23:23,076 NOW, YOU PROVE... 1792 01:23:23,109 --> 01:23:26,209 [LAUGHTER] 1793 01:23:26,243 --> 01:23:30,243 {\an1}ROBERTS: CASSIUS CLAY COMES LIKE A BREATH OF SPRING AIR. 1794 01:23:30,276 --> 01:23:34,043 {\an1}YES, HE'S OUTRAGEOUS. YES, HE'S CONCEITED. 1795 01:23:34,076 --> 01:23:37,643 {\an1}YES, HE BOASTS CONSTANTLY, BUT HE'S EXCITING, 1796 01:23:37,676 --> 01:23:41,143 {\an1}AND HE'S GOOD-LOOKING, AND HE'S YOUNG. 1797 01:23:41,176 --> 01:23:42,585 COMMITTEE MEMBER: BY THE WAY, CASSIUS, 1798 01:23:42,609 --> 01:23:44,343 {\an1}I THINK THAT POINT WAS WELL TAKEN, 1799 01:23:44,376 --> 01:23:46,843 {\an1}AND I THINK THAT MY COLLEAGUES IN THE LEGISLATURE 1800 01:23:46,876 --> 01:23:49,076 {\an1}GOT A LITTLE FUN OUT OF IT, BUT GO AHEAD. 1801 01:23:49,109 --> 01:23:51,009 {\an1}CLAY: I HAVE HAD 11 FIGHTS, 11 OF THEM 1802 01:23:51,043 --> 01:23:53,076 I PREDICTED JUST WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. 1803 01:23:53,109 --> 01:23:55,409 {\an1}NOW WOULD YOU SAY ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ARE CROOKS, 1804 01:23:55,443 --> 01:23:57,309 ALL OF THE PROMOTERS ARE CROOKS? 1805 01:23:57,343 --> 01:23:59,043 COMMITTEE MEMBER: I ASKED YOU THE QUESTION. 1806 01:23:59,076 --> 01:24:00,743 WELL, THAT'S JUST UP TO YOU TO FIGURE. 1807 01:24:00,776 --> 01:24:02,876 I TELL THE PEOPLE THAT I'M THE GREATEST, 1808 01:24:02,909 --> 01:24:05,576 {\an1}SO IF I SAY HE'S GONNA FALL IN 5 AND HE FALLS IN 5, 1809 01:24:05,609 --> 01:24:08,576 {\an1}WELL, THAT JUST MAKES ME THAT MUCH GREATER. 1810 01:24:08,609 --> 01:24:10,743 {\an1}NARRATOR: CLAY ALSO PROMISED THE LEGISLATORS 1811 01:24:10,776 --> 01:24:12,876 {\an1}THAT HE WOULD SELL OUT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 1812 01:24:12,909 --> 01:24:15,976 {\an1}FOR HIS UPCOMING FIGHT WITH THE NUMBER-3 RANKED CONTENDER 1813 01:24:16,009 --> 01:24:19,443 {\an1}DOUG JONES, A FEAT NO EVENT HELD AT THE ARENA 1814 01:24:19,476 --> 01:24:23,243 {\an1}HAD ACHIEVED IN YEARS. 1815 01:24:23,276 --> 01:24:26,176 ON THE TRAIN BACK FROM ALBANY TO NEW YORK CITY, 1816 01:24:26,209 --> 01:24:29,776 {\an1}A REPORTER WARNED CLAY THAT A MONTHS-LONG PRINTERS STRIKE 1817 01:24:29,809 --> 01:24:31,909 {\an1}THAT HAD SHUTTERED MOST OF THE CITY'S 1818 01:24:31,943 --> 01:24:34,676 {\an1}MAJOR DAILY NEWSPAPERS COULD MAKE IT DIFFICULT 1819 01:24:34,709 --> 01:24:37,243 {\an1}TO PUBLICIZE THE FIGHT. 1820 01:24:37,276 --> 01:24:39,409 {\an1}CLAY WAS UNDETERRED. 1821 01:24:39,443 --> 01:24:42,643 {\an1}HE BEGAN A RELENTLESS PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN. 1822 01:24:42,676 --> 01:24:44,085 REPORTER: ARE YOU STILL PLUGGING THE LINE THAT YOU ARE 1823 01:24:44,109 --> 01:24:45,676 THE GREATEST HEAVYWEIGHT ALIVE? 1824 01:24:45,709 --> 01:24:47,609 {\an1}I'M THE GREATEST HEAVYWEIGHT ON TWO FEET TODAY. 1825 01:24:47,643 --> 01:24:50,309 {\an1}I'M THE ONLIEST MAN WHO CALLS THE EXACT ROUND 1826 01:24:50,343 --> 01:24:52,109 {\an1}IN WHICH MY OPPONENT WILL FALL MONTHS 1827 01:24:52,143 --> 01:24:54,176 {\an1}BEFORE THE FIGHT. 1828 01:24:54,209 --> 01:24:56,076 {\an1}NARRATOR: HE TRADED JOKES WITH JOHNNY CARSON 1829 01:24:56,109 --> 01:24:59,309 {\an1}ON "THE TONIGHT SHOW," READ POETRY AT THE BITTER END, 1830 01:24:59,343 --> 01:25:01,543 A COFFEEHOUSE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, 1831 01:25:01,576 --> 01:25:04,709 {\an1}AND HELD COURT IN HIS ROOM AT THE PLYMOUTH HOTEL, 1832 01:25:04,743 --> 01:25:08,209 {\an1}BOASTING THAT DOUG JONES POSED LITTLE THREAT 1833 01:25:08,243 --> 01:25:10,909 {\an1}AND WOULDN'T KEEP HIM FROM THE "TOMATO-RED CADILLAC 1834 01:25:10,943 --> 01:25:14,076 {\an1}ELDORADO CONVERTIBLE WITH WHITE LEATHER UPHOLSTERY" 1835 01:25:14,109 --> 01:25:16,576 {\an1}THAT THE LOUISVILLE SPONSORING GROUP HAD PROMISED HIM 1836 01:25:16,609 --> 01:25:19,643 IN VICTORY. 1837 01:25:19,676 --> 01:25:21,152 {\an1}FLOYD PATTERSON WON THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT 1838 01:25:21,176 --> 01:25:23,443 {\an1}CHAMPIONSHIP ONE MONTH BEFORE HE WAS 22 1839 01:25:23,476 --> 01:25:25,643 {\an1}I JUST HAD A BIRTHDAY JANUARY THE 17th. 1840 01:25:25,676 --> 01:25:28,209 {\an1}AFTER I ANNIHILATE DOUG JONES, 1841 01:25:28,243 --> 01:25:30,676 {\an1}LISTON WILL BE MY MEAT. 1842 01:25:30,709 --> 01:25:32,976 {\an1}MAN: ♪ O SAY CAN YOU SEE ♪ 1843 01:25:33,009 --> 01:25:35,376 {\an1}NARRATOR: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN HAD SOLD ITS LAST SEAT 1844 01:25:35,409 --> 01:25:37,609 5 DAYS BEFORE. 1845 01:25:37,643 --> 01:25:41,976 {\an1}IT WAS THE ARENA'S FIRST-EVER ADVANCE SELLOUT. 1846 01:25:42,009 --> 01:25:43,443 {\an1}SCHENKEL: IT'S STANDING ROOM ONLY 1847 01:25:43,476 --> 01:25:45,176 {\an1}AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN IN NEW YORK CITY, 1848 01:25:45,209 --> 01:25:47,309 {\an8}WHERE ONCE AGAIN, THE FAMOUS LANDMARK HAS BECOME 1849 01:25:47,343 --> 01:25:49,209 {\an7}THE MECCA OF BOXING. 1850 01:25:49,243 --> 01:25:51,352 {\an7}THERE IS ONE YOUNG MAN WHO HAS MADE THIS ALL POSSIBLE. 1851 01:25:51,376 --> 01:25:54,443 {\an1}HE IS A 21-YEAR-OLD HEAVYWEIGHT FROM LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, 1852 01:25:54,476 --> 01:25:57,209 {\an1}NAMED CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY. 1853 01:25:57,243 --> 01:25:58,543 [BELL RINGS] 1854 01:25:58,576 --> 01:25:59,809 {\an8}CASSIUS CLAY... 1855 01:25:59,843 --> 01:26:01,009 {\an7}WATCH HIS SPEEDY LEFT HAND. 1856 01:26:01,043 --> 01:26:02,443 {\an7}HE'S GOT A BEAUTY. 1857 01:26:02,476 --> 01:26:04,243 {\an7}BENTT: STYLES MAKE FIGHTS. 1858 01:26:04,276 --> 01:26:05,743 {\an7}SCHENKEL: YOU JUST SAW ONE 1859 01:26:05,776 --> 01:26:07,019 OF CLAY'S HABITS, PULLING AWAY FROM PUNCHES 1860 01:26:07,043 --> 01:26:09,076 {\an1}INSTEAD OF TRYING TO SLIP THEM. 1861 01:26:09,109 --> 01:26:10,843 {\an1}BENTT: DOUG JONES KNEW HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE 1862 01:26:10,876 --> 01:26:13,909 {\an1}OF CLAY'S LEANING BACK AND HANDS DROPPED. 1863 01:26:13,943 --> 01:26:15,909 {\an1}SCHENKEL: 2, 2 1/2, AND THERE IT IS. 1864 01:26:15,943 --> 01:26:18,676 {\an1}A GOOD, SOLID PUNCH. 1865 01:26:18,709 --> 01:26:22,009 {\an1}BENTT: DOUG JONES PUNCHED WHILE CASSIUS WAS PUNCHING. 1866 01:26:22,043 --> 01:26:23,752 {\an1}IF YOU PUNCH WHILE HE'S PUNCHING, HE'S NOT ABLE TO 1867 01:26:23,776 --> 01:26:26,776 {\an1}ADJUST TO, LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S COMING AT HIM. 1868 01:26:26,809 --> 01:26:30,476 {\an1}SCHENKEL: CLAY WAS DEFINITELY SHAKEN UP BY A SHOT 1869 01:26:30,509 --> 01:26:32,243 THAT CUT HIM AS HE WAS BACKING AWAY 1870 01:26:32,276 --> 01:26:34,443 {\an1}FROM A PUNCH INSTEAD OF TRYING TO SLIP IT. 1871 01:26:34,476 --> 01:26:37,709 {\an1}BENTT: WHEN A FIGHTER LIKE CASSIUS GETS HIT WITH SHOTS 1872 01:26:37,743 --> 01:26:39,609 THAT GETS HIS ATTENTION, GUESS WHAT. 1873 01:26:39,643 --> 01:26:42,743 {\an1}HE STARTS FIGHTING WITH HIS BACK FOOT OUT THE DOOR, 1874 01:26:42,776 --> 01:26:45,943 {\an1}WITHOUT THE CONFIDENCE THAT HE USUALLY HAS. 1875 01:26:45,976 --> 01:26:50,409 {\an1}AS HE'S GOING BACK, JUST GOT NAILED BY A RIGHT HAND. 1876 01:26:50,443 --> 01:26:53,376 {\an1}NARRATOR: JONES PEPPERED CLAY WITH PUNCHES, 1877 01:26:53,409 --> 01:26:55,943 {\an1}WHILE WEATHERING CLAY'S OWN ASSAULT. 1878 01:26:55,976 --> 01:26:58,476 {\an1}SCHENKEL: 15 SECONDS TO GO. 1879 01:26:58,509 --> 01:27:02,476 {\an1}FANS ARE PROBABLY BOOING ABOUT THE PREDICTION. 1880 01:27:02,509 --> 01:27:04,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: WHEN THE BELL RANG ENDING THE FOURTH ROUND 1881 01:27:04,876 --> 01:27:08,276 {\an1}WITH JONES STILL ON HIS FEET, THE CROWD JEERED CLAY 1882 01:27:08,309 --> 01:27:11,143 {\an1}FOR FAILING TO FULFILL HIS PREDICTION. 1883 01:27:11,176 --> 01:27:15,809 {\an1}SCHENKEL: CASSIUS CLAY PUNCHED AWAY TO NO EFFECT. 1884 01:27:15,843 --> 01:27:19,009 IT'S ROUND 5 AT THE GARDEN IN NEW YORK. 1885 01:27:19,043 --> 01:27:20,976 {\an1}BENTT: IF CASSIUS CLAY WAS IN CONTROL, 1886 01:27:21,009 --> 01:27:23,343 {\an1}HE'S DANCING AROUND THE RING. 1887 01:27:23,376 --> 01:27:27,309 {\an1}IF YOU WATCH CLAY, WHEN HE STOPS DANCING, 1888 01:27:27,343 --> 01:27:28,643 {\an1}HE'S UNCOMFORTABLE, 1889 01:27:28,676 --> 01:27:32,309 AND THAT'S WHEN HE'S VULNERABLE. 1890 01:27:32,343 --> 01:27:38,009 {\an1}SCHENKEL: WE HAVE ONE MINUTE LEFT IN ROUND 5. 1891 01:27:38,043 --> 01:27:40,776 {\an1}BENTT: STYLISTICALLY, DOUG JONES SOLVED CLAY. 1892 01:27:40,809 --> 01:27:42,376 [BELL RINGS] 1893 01:27:46,443 --> 01:27:49,809 {\an1}NARRATOR: BEFORE THE SEVENTH ROUND, ANGELO DUNDEE WARNED CLAY 1894 01:27:49,843 --> 01:27:52,176 {\an1}THAT HE COULD "KISS THE CADILLAC GOOD-BYE" 1895 01:27:52,209 --> 01:27:54,843 {\an1}IF HE DIDN'T GET GOING. 1896 01:27:54,876 --> 01:27:59,643 {\an1}OVER THE LAST 3 ROUNDS, CLAY OUT-PUNCHED JONES 1897 01:27:59,676 --> 01:28:01,676 {\an1}BUT COULD NOT KNOCK HIM OUT. 1898 01:28:01,709 --> 01:28:03,676 {\an1}SCHENKEL: 5 SECONDS. 1899 01:28:03,709 --> 01:28:05,876 [BELL RINGS] 1900 01:28:05,909 --> 01:28:09,976 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE JUDGES WOULD HAVE TO DECIDE. 1901 01:28:10,009 --> 01:28:13,309 {\an1}BENTT: I DON'T THINK THAT CLAY WAS PROJECTING BODY LANGUAGE 1902 01:28:13,343 --> 01:28:15,409 {\an1}THAT HE WON THE FIGHT. 1903 01:28:15,443 --> 01:28:17,343 {\an1}HE LOOKED DEJECTED. 1904 01:28:17,376 --> 01:28:18,909 {\an1}DOUG JONES DOMINATES CLAY. 1905 01:28:18,943 --> 01:28:21,009 {\an1}HE OUT-PUNCHED HIM, HE OUT-HUSTLED HIM, 1906 01:28:21,043 --> 01:28:22,676 {\an1}HE CONTROLLED HIM. 1907 01:28:22,709 --> 01:28:24,352 {\an1}JUST BECAUSE YOU DO THAT, IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE 1908 01:28:24,376 --> 01:28:26,076 {\an1}GOING TO GET THE DECISION 1909 01:28:26,109 --> 01:28:28,476 {\an1}BECAUSE IT'S BUSINESS. 1910 01:28:28,509 --> 01:28:30,843 ADDIE: WINNER BY UNANIMOUS DECISION 1911 01:28:30,876 --> 01:28:33,043 CASSIUS CLAY. 1912 01:28:33,076 --> 01:28:34,385 {\an1}SCHENKEL: THERE YOU HAVE IT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 1913 01:28:34,409 --> 01:28:36,109 NARRATOR: THE CROWD YELLED, "FIX!" 1914 01:28:36,143 --> 01:28:40,243 AND HURLED CIGARS AND PAPER CUPS INTO THE RING. 1915 01:28:40,276 --> 01:28:43,776 {\an1}SOME CLAIMED THAT CLAY'S FAULTS... HE HAD NO BALANCE, 1916 01:28:43,809 --> 01:28:47,343 {\an1}KEPT HIS HANDS TOO LOW, HIS PUNCHES LACKED FORCE... 1917 01:28:47,376 --> 01:28:49,776 {\an1}HAD NEVER BEEN MORE APPARENT. 1918 01:28:49,809 --> 01:28:52,709 "HE HAS THE STUFF BUT NEEDS A LOT OF SEASONING," 1919 01:28:52,743 --> 01:28:56,076 {\an1}FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION GENE TUNNEY SAID. 1920 01:28:56,109 --> 01:28:58,076 {\an1}OTHERS WERE SIMPLY DISAPPOINTED THAT 1921 01:28:58,109 --> 01:29:01,909 {\an1}THE YOUNG UPSTART HADN'T BEEN PUT IN HIS PLACE. 1922 01:29:01,943 --> 01:29:03,576 {\an1}SCHENKEL: CASSIUS CLAY IS MIMICKING SOME 1923 01:29:03,609 --> 01:29:06,109 {\an1}OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BOOING THE DECISION. 1924 01:29:06,143 --> 01:29:07,443 CLAY: I LOVE IT. 1925 01:29:07,476 --> 01:29:08,909 {\an1}REPORTER: YOU LOVE TO BE BOOED? 1926 01:29:08,943 --> 01:29:11,176 {\an1}BOO, YELL, SCREAM, THROW PEANUTS, 1927 01:29:11,209 --> 01:29:14,776 {\an1}BUT WHATEVER YOU DO, PAY TO GET IN. 1928 01:29:14,809 --> 01:29:19,576 {\an1}SONNY LISTON HAD BEEN WATCHING ON CLOSED-CIRCUIT IN MIAMI. 1929 01:29:19,609 --> 01:29:23,976 {\an1}"I'LL GET LOCKED UP FOR MURDER IF I FIGHT HIM," HE SAID. 1930 01:29:24,009 --> 01:29:27,109 {\an7}DON'T YOU HAVE ANY RESPECT FOR HIM AT ALL AS A FIGHTER? 1931 01:29:27,143 --> 01:29:28,843 {\an8}AS A FIGHTER? 1932 01:29:28,876 --> 01:29:30,243 {\an8}I THINK HE SHOULD BE LOCKED UP 1933 01:29:30,276 --> 01:29:33,376 {\an8}FOR IMPERSONATING A FIGHTER. 1934 01:29:33,409 --> 01:29:36,776 {\an1}NARRATOR: SORE AND EXHAUSTED, CLAY WAS EAGER TO RELAX 1935 01:29:36,809 --> 01:29:39,909 {\an1}AND FETCH THE TOMATO-RED CONVERTIBLE THAT AWAITED HIM 1936 01:29:39,943 --> 01:29:43,076 AT LOUISVILLE'S STANDARD CADILLAC COMPANY. 1937 01:29:43,109 --> 01:29:45,909 {\an1}MARVIN GAYE: ♪ YOU ARE ♪ 1938 01:29:45,943 --> 01:29:48,443 {\an1}MAN: I'M TELLING YOU. PRETTY, PRETTY. 1939 01:29:48,476 --> 01:29:50,743 {\an1}A MOVIE STAR. 1940 01:29:50,776 --> 01:29:52,976 {\an1}NARRATOR: THOUGH HE HAD STRUGGLED AGAINST JONES, 1941 01:29:53,009 --> 01:29:55,143 {\an1}CLAY HAD MUCH TO CELEBRATE. 1942 01:29:55,176 --> 01:29:57,443 {\an1}HE WAS NOW 18-0 AND STILL 1943 01:29:57,476 --> 01:30:00,576 {\an1}THE NUMBER TWO CONTENDER BEHIND THE EX-CHAMPION 1944 01:30:00,609 --> 01:30:03,043 FLOYD PATTERSON. 1945 01:30:03,076 --> 01:30:05,943 {\an1}THE MEDIA ATTENTION HE HAD TIRELESSLY COURTED... 1946 01:30:05,976 --> 01:30:10,143 {\an1}GOOD OR BAD... NOW CAME IN TORRENTS. 1947 01:30:10,176 --> 01:30:12,119 {\an1}CLAY: I'M THE ONLIEST POET IN THE FIGHT GAME TODAY, 1948 01:30:12,143 --> 01:30:13,476 {\an1}THE ONLIEST PROPHET. 1949 01:30:13,509 --> 01:30:15,209 {\an1}DON'T BE SURPRISED OF NOTHING I DO. 1950 01:30:15,243 --> 01:30:17,243 {\an1}I'LL SOON BE IN THE MOVIES. 1951 01:30:17,276 --> 01:30:19,643 I CUT RECORDS, I SING, I CAN FIGHT, 1952 01:30:19,676 --> 01:30:21,076 {\an1}I CAN DO ANYTHING. 1953 01:30:21,109 --> 01:30:22,943 THAT'S WHY I SAY I AM THE GREATEST. 1954 01:30:22,976 --> 01:30:26,209 {\an1}THAT'S THE NAME OF THE ALBUM, "I AM THE GREATEST!" 1955 01:30:26,243 --> 01:30:28,909 THIS IS THE LEGEND OF CASSIUS CLAY, 1956 01:30:28,943 --> 01:30:32,409 {\an1}THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FIGHTER IN THE WORLD TODAY. 1957 01:30:32,443 --> 01:30:35,343 {\an1}NARRATOR: "I'M THE GREATEST. I'M THE DOUBLE GREATEST. 1958 01:30:35,376 --> 01:30:38,009 I WILL BE A CLEAN AND SPARKLING CHAMPION," 1959 01:30:38,043 --> 01:30:40,143 {\an1}HE BRAGGED TO TIME MAGAZINE, WHICH FEATURED HIM 1960 01:30:40,176 --> 01:30:41,843 ON ITS COVER. 1961 01:30:41,876 --> 01:30:44,109 {\an1}CLAY: HE TALKS A GREAT DEAL AND BRAGS INDEEDY 1962 01:30:44,143 --> 01:30:47,776 {\an1}OF A MUSCULAR PUNCH THAT'S INCREDIBLY SPEEDY. 1963 01:30:47,809 --> 01:30:50,643 ALEX POINSETT OF "EBONY" MAGAZINE SAW 1964 01:30:50,676 --> 01:30:54,743 IN CLAY'S BRAVADO MORE THAN PLAYFUL BOASTING. 1965 01:30:54,776 --> 01:30:57,476 {\an1}"CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY IS A BLAST FURNACE 1966 01:30:57,509 --> 01:31:00,643 OF RACE PRIDE," HE WROTE, "A PRIDE SCORCHED 1967 01:31:00,676 --> 01:31:04,476 WITH MEMORIES OF A MILLION LITTLE BURNS." 1968 01:31:04,509 --> 01:31:07,009 {\an1}CLAY: FOR I AM THE MAN THIS POEM IS ABOUT, 1969 01:31:07,043 --> 01:31:10,076 {\an1}THE NEXT CHAMP OF THE WORLD, THERE ISN'T A DOUBT. 1970 01:31:10,109 --> 01:31:12,843 THIS I PREDICT, AND I KNOW THE SCORE. 1971 01:31:12,876 --> 01:31:16,243 I'LL BE CHAMP OF THE WORLD IN '64. 1972 01:31:16,276 --> 01:31:18,976 {\an1}JESSE JACKSON: IT WAS VERY DIFFERENT TO USE THAT PLATFORM 1973 01:31:19,009 --> 01:31:21,076 {\an1}REALLY FOR SELF-AFFIRMATION 1974 01:31:21,109 --> 01:31:22,809 {\an1}AND PROMOTE HIMSELF AS A FIGHTER 1975 01:31:22,843 --> 01:31:26,743 {\an7}AND IN HIS OWN WAY LIFT UP BLACK PEOPLE. 1976 01:31:26,776 --> 01:31:29,476 "I AM SOMEBODY, I AM THE GREATEST." 1977 01:31:29,509 --> 01:31:31,143 {\an1}AND MOST OF ALL, I'M PRETTY. 1978 01:31:31,176 --> 01:31:33,743 {\an1}MOST FIGHTERS ARE UGLY. 1979 01:31:33,776 --> 01:31:36,543 {\an1}EARLY: WHAT MADE CLAY APPEALING TO MY GENERATION 1980 01:31:36,576 --> 01:31:38,976 {\an1}WAS THAT HE WAS YOUNG, HE WAS HUMOROUS, 1981 01:31:39,009 --> 01:31:41,876 {\an1}AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY UNUSUAL 1982 01:31:41,909 --> 01:31:43,619 {\an7}FOR A BLACK PUBLIC FIGURE, PARTICULARLY HUMOROUS 1983 01:31:43,643 --> 01:31:45,209 {\an7}IN THE WAY THAT HE WAS. 1984 01:31:45,243 --> 01:31:47,609 {\an7}HE WASN'T SOME KIND OF STEPIN FETCHIT CLOWN 1985 01:31:47,643 --> 01:31:49,543 {\an7}OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 1986 01:31:49,576 --> 01:31:54,443 {\an1}CLAY REPRESENTED SOMETHING FOR THE GENERATION I GREW UP IN 1987 01:31:54,476 --> 01:31:57,176 {\an1}THAT WAS DIFFERENT FROM MY UNCLE'S GENERATION. 1988 01:31:57,209 --> 01:31:58,809 {\an1}THEY WERE WORLD WAR II, 1989 01:31:58,843 --> 01:32:00,576 THEY WERE THE GREATEST GENERATION, 1990 01:32:00,609 --> 01:32:03,509 THEIR HEROES WERE JACKIE ROBINSON, JESSE OWENS, 1991 01:32:03,543 --> 01:32:05,343 {\an1}AND PEOPLE LIKE THAT, 1992 01:32:05,376 --> 01:32:08,009 {\an1}AND CLAY CAME ALONG, AND HE WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 1993 01:32:08,043 --> 01:32:09,676 {\an1}HE WAS FROM MY GENERATION. 1994 01:32:09,709 --> 01:32:11,076 {\an1}WELL LET ME FINISH, LET ME TALK! 1995 01:32:11,109 --> 01:32:12,352 {\an1}THIS BOY'S MODEST. I'M THE GREATEST. 1996 01:32:12,376 --> 01:32:13,876 {\an1}HE'S NOT A TALKER. 1997 01:32:13,909 --> 01:32:15,085 {\an1}I'M GOING TO FIGHT SONNY LISTON RIGHT AFTER 1998 01:32:15,109 --> 01:32:16,843 {\an1}I ANNIHILATE HENRY COOPER, 1999 01:32:16,876 --> 01:32:18,876 {\an1}AND AS SOON AS I ANNIHILATE HENRY COOPER, I WANT 2000 01:32:18,909 --> 01:32:22,676 {\an1}THAT BIG, UGLY BEAR RIGHT IN, UH... RIGHT HERE ON MIAMI BEACH. 2001 01:32:22,709 --> 01:32:25,009 {\an1}NARRATOR: WITH LISTON AND PATTERSON SLATED FOR A REMATCH 2002 01:32:25,043 --> 01:32:28,209 {\an1}THAT SUMMER, CLAY SIGNED TO FIGHT ENGLAND'S 2003 01:32:28,243 --> 01:32:30,409 HENRY COOPER. 2004 01:32:30,443 --> 01:32:32,185 {\an1}IZENBERG: WELL, THERE'S A GUY IN ENGLAND NAMED HENRY COOPER. 2005 01:32:32,209 --> 01:32:34,576 TODAY, HE'S NAMED SIR HENRY COOPER, 2006 01:32:34,609 --> 01:32:37,576 {\an1}AND WHAT HE WENT THROUGH WITH HIS HIGH CHEEK BONES 2007 01:32:37,609 --> 01:32:40,209 AND BLEEDING, HE SHOULD BE A SIR. 2008 01:32:40,243 --> 01:32:42,709 {\an1}TREMENDOUS LEFT HOOK THAT NOBODY APPRECIATED 2009 01:32:42,743 --> 01:32:44,543 {\an1}EXCEPT THE BRITISH. 2010 01:32:44,576 --> 01:32:46,876 CLAY: WELL, HENRY COOPER'S NOT GOING TO 5 ROUNDS WITH ME. 2011 01:32:46,909 --> 01:32:48,543 {\an1}HE'S NOT GOING 5 ROUNDS WITH YOU? 2012 01:32:48,576 --> 01:32:50,143 IF HE GOES OVER 5, I WON'T RETURN 2013 01:32:50,176 --> 01:32:51,709 TO MY COUNTRY FOR 90 DAYS. FOR 90 DAYS. 2014 01:32:51,743 --> 01:32:54,043 AND IF HE BEATS ME, I'LL RETIRE. 2015 01:32:54,076 --> 01:32:55,809 {\an1}NARRATOR: ARRIVING IN LONDON, CLAY HAD 2016 01:32:55,843 --> 01:32:58,376 {\an1}THE OUTFITTERS TO THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH TAILOR HIM 2017 01:32:58,409 --> 01:33:02,043 {\an1}A RED BROCADE COCKTAIL JACKET WITH A DRAGON MOTIF 2018 01:33:02,076 --> 01:33:05,343 AND BOWLER HAT AND HIRED A ROLLS-ROYCE 2019 01:33:05,376 --> 01:33:06,976 {\an1}TO TAKE HIM TO PROMOTIONS. 2020 01:33:07,009 --> 01:33:09,343 SINGER: ♪ YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH ♪ 2021 01:33:09,376 --> 01:33:12,543 {\an1}NARRATOR: HE CALLED COOPER A TRAMP AND A CRIPPLE, 2022 01:33:12,576 --> 01:33:15,043 {\an1}BRAGGED THAT HE HADN'T EVEN BOTHERED TO TRAIN 2023 01:33:15,076 --> 01:33:18,676 {\an1}AND WOULD STILL WIN IN 5 ROUNDS. 2024 01:33:18,709 --> 01:33:21,176 {\an1}THE BRITISH WERE NOT AMUSED. 2025 01:33:21,209 --> 01:33:24,176 [FANFARE] 2026 01:33:26,143 --> 01:33:27,785 {\an1}HARRY CARPENTER: AND I IMAGINE THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE 2027 01:33:27,809 --> 01:33:29,285 {\an1}SITTING AROUND THE RINGSIDE HERE IN THE OPEN AIR 2028 01:33:29,309 --> 01:33:31,176 {\an1}AT WEMBLEY TONIGHT WHO MAY WELL THINK 2029 01:33:31,209 --> 01:33:34,509 {\an1}THAT BY COMING INTO THE RING WITH THAT RIDICULOUS CROWN 2030 01:33:34,543 --> 01:33:36,209 {\an1}ON HIS HEAD MR. CLAY IS DOING HIS BEST 2031 01:33:36,243 --> 01:33:38,043 TO CHEAPEN THE PROFESSIONAL FIGHT GAME, 2032 01:33:38,076 --> 01:33:40,743 {\an1}AND I MUST SAY I'M INCLINED TO SHARE THOSE VIEWS MYSELF. 2033 01:33:43,043 --> 01:33:46,409 {\an1}JOHNNY BEST: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 2034 01:33:46,443 --> 01:33:48,776 THE MAIN EVENT. 2035 01:33:48,809 --> 01:33:52,476 {\an7}PRESENTING, FROM BELLINGHAM, 2036 01:33:52,509 --> 01:33:54,176 {\an7}THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 2037 01:33:54,209 --> 01:33:55,309 {\an8}OF GREAT BRITAIN 2038 01:33:55,343 --> 01:33:57,409 {\an7}AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 2039 01:33:57,443 --> 01:33:59,409 HENRY COOPER! 2040 01:33:59,443 --> 01:34:03,509 {\an1}[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] 2041 01:34:03,543 --> 01:34:09,643 {\an1}FROM LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY. 2042 01:34:09,676 --> 01:34:11,976 [BOOING] 2043 01:34:16,043 --> 01:34:17,976 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE CROWD ROARED WHEN COOPER BLOODIED 2044 01:34:18,009 --> 01:34:19,976 {\an1}CLAY'S NOSE IN THE FIRST. 2045 01:34:21,943 --> 01:34:24,476 {\an1}IN THE SECOND, CLAY OPENED A SMALL CUT ABOVE 2046 01:34:24,509 --> 01:34:28,309 {\an1}COOPER'S LEFT EYE, WHICH BY ROUND 3 HAD BROKEN OPEN, 2047 01:34:28,343 --> 01:34:32,143 {\an1}SENDING BLOOD FLOWING OVER COOPER'S FACE. 2048 01:34:32,176 --> 01:34:33,709 [BELL RINGS] 2049 01:34:33,743 --> 01:34:35,676 {\an1}CARPENTER: NOW CLAY IS JUST JABBING CASUALLY 2050 01:34:35,709 --> 01:34:37,243 {\an1}WITH HIS LEFT HAND. 2051 01:34:37,276 --> 01:34:39,209 {\an1}NARRATOR: BUT INSTEAD OF FINISHING HIM OFF, 2052 01:34:39,243 --> 01:34:42,743 {\an1}CLAY SEEMED TO BE DELIBERATELY PROLONGING THE FIGHT. 2053 01:34:45,743 --> 01:34:49,343 {\an1}[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] 2054 01:34:49,376 --> 01:34:51,509 {\an1}CARPENTER: THE BELL HAS SOUNDED, 2055 01:34:51,543 --> 01:34:55,176 AND HE'S UP AT ABOUT 3... CLAY. 2056 01:34:55,209 --> 01:34:57,076 THAT WAS THE END OF THE FOURTH ROUND, 2057 01:34:57,109 --> 01:35:00,409 {\an1}AND HE HIT HIM ABOUT TWO SECONDS BEFORE THE END OF THE ROUND. 2058 01:35:00,443 --> 01:35:03,309 {\an1}NARRATOR: HOPING TO REVIVE CLAY, HIS CORNER MEN BROKE VIALS 2059 01:35:03,343 --> 01:35:05,976 OF SMELLING SALTS UNDER HIS NOSE 2060 01:35:06,009 --> 01:35:08,476 {\an1}AND DROPPED ICE CUBES INTO HIS TRUNKS. 2061 01:35:08,509 --> 01:35:10,085 {\an1}CARPENTER: THEY'RE WORKING FURIOUSLY ON HIM 2062 01:35:10,109 --> 01:35:12,676 IN THE CORNER, ANGELO DUNDEE HIS TRAINER. 2063 01:35:12,709 --> 01:35:15,809 {\an1}NARRATOR: IT WORKED. 2064 01:35:15,843 --> 01:35:18,443 {\an1}WHEN THE BELL SIGNALED THE START OF ROUND 5, 2065 01:35:18,476 --> 01:35:20,676 {\an1}CLAY CAME OUT AGGRESSIVELY. 2066 01:35:20,709 --> 01:35:22,309 {\an1}CARPENTER: AND NOW ROUND 5 IS THE ROUND 2067 01:35:22,343 --> 01:35:25,443 {\an1}IN WHICH CLAY SAID HE WOULD BEAT COOPER. 2068 01:35:25,476 --> 01:35:28,809 {\an1}AND NOW COOPER'S LEFT EYE IS REALLY IN A SHOCKING STATE. 2069 01:35:28,843 --> 01:35:30,509 IT REALLY IS NOW. 2070 01:35:30,543 --> 01:35:32,443 {\an1}AND I THINK TOMMY LITTLE WILL HAVE TO STOP THIS 2071 01:35:32,476 --> 01:35:34,909 {\an1}BECAUSE COOPER'S EYE IS REALLY 2072 01:35:34,943 --> 01:35:37,276 IN AN ABSOLUTELY APPALLING STATE. 2073 01:35:37,309 --> 01:35:39,185 {\an1}AND NOW HE'S STEPPING IN, AND I THINK THIS IS IT! 2074 01:35:39,209 --> 01:35:41,943 {\an1}THE TOWEL HAS COME IN FROM COOPER'S CORNER, 2075 01:35:41,976 --> 01:35:45,143 {\an1}AND TOMMY LITTLE'S LOOKING AT IT, 2076 01:35:45,176 --> 01:35:46,385 {\an1}AND HE'S HAD TO STOP THE FIGHT. 2077 01:35:46,409 --> 01:35:47,876 {\an1}NARRATOR: CLAY HAD PREVAILED, 2078 01:35:47,909 --> 01:35:50,543 AND HE DID IT IN THE FIFTH ROUND. 2079 01:35:50,576 --> 01:35:52,709 {\an1}CARPENTER: CLAY IS GETTING BOMBARDED WITH PROGRAMS 2080 01:35:52,743 --> 01:35:54,476 {\an1}FROM ANGRY RINGSIDERS. 2081 01:35:54,509 --> 01:35:55,476 {\an1}CLAY: I'M ALWAYS BOOED, EVERYWHERE I GO I'M BOOED. 2082 01:35:55,509 --> 01:35:56,643 {\an1}I LIKE TO BE BOOED. 2083 01:35:56,676 --> 01:35:58,109 {\an1}THAT'S WHY I FIGHT HARD. 2084 01:35:58,143 --> 01:35:59,285 {\an1}REPORTER: AND YOU CAME IN THE RING 2085 01:35:59,309 --> 01:36:00,609 {\an1}WITH A CROWN ON YOUR HEAD. 2086 01:36:00,643 --> 01:36:01,709 {\an1}IS THAT UH... 2087 01:36:01,743 --> 01:36:03,443 {\an7}BECAUSE I AM THE KING. 2088 01:36:03,476 --> 01:36:04,952 {\an7}I UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE A QUEEN OF ENGLAND, 2089 01:36:04,976 --> 01:36:06,176 {\an7}BUT YOU DON'T HAVE A KING. 2090 01:36:06,209 --> 01:36:08,476 {\an1}BUT WHAT'S SONNY LISTON, CASSIUS? 2091 01:36:08,509 --> 01:36:10,509 {\an8}SONNY LISTON, THAT BIG, UGLY BEAR? 2092 01:36:10,543 --> 01:36:12,876 {\an8}UH, HE WILL FALL IN 8 ROUNDS. 2093 01:36:12,909 --> 01:36:16,943 {\an7}LISTON WILL FALL IN 8 TO PROVE THAT I AM GREAT. 2094 01:36:16,976 --> 01:36:18,809 WAITING FOR CLAY IN HIS DRESSING ROOM 2095 01:36:18,843 --> 01:36:21,876 {\an1}WAS SONNY LISTON'S MANAGER JACK NILON. 2096 01:36:21,909 --> 01:36:24,643 {\an1}"WE WANT YOU BAD," HE TOLD CLAY AND PROMISED HIM 2097 01:36:24,676 --> 01:36:28,543 {\an1}A FIGHT AFTER LISTON'S REMATCH WITH PATTERSON. 2098 01:36:28,576 --> 01:36:33,943 ♪ 2099 01:36:33,976 --> 01:36:35,319 REPORTER: SONNY, WELL, YOU'RE LOOKING FORWARD, 2100 01:36:35,343 --> 01:36:37,609 I KNOW TO YOUR FIGHT AGAINST PATTERSON. 2101 01:36:37,643 --> 01:36:39,843 DO YOU EXPECT THAT FIGHT TO GO MUCH DIFFERENTLY 2102 01:36:39,876 --> 01:36:41,643 THAN IT DID LAST TIME AROUND? 2103 01:36:41,676 --> 01:36:44,309 {\an1}I DON'T THINK SO. 2104 01:36:44,343 --> 01:36:46,109 WHAT HAPPENS AFTER PATTERSON? 2105 01:36:46,143 --> 01:36:47,876 CASSIUS IN THE LINE? 2106 01:36:47,909 --> 01:36:50,576 {\an1}YEAH, HE'S RIGHT UP FRONT. 2107 01:36:50,609 --> 01:36:53,009 WHAT ABOUT CASSIUS? 2108 01:36:53,043 --> 01:36:56,643 {\an1}WELL, I IMAGINE THAT IF HE WOULD COME TO ME, 2109 01:36:56,676 --> 01:36:58,209 {\an1}I'D KILL HIM, AND IF HE RUNS, 2110 01:36:58,243 --> 01:36:59,843 {\an1}I'M GONNA CATCH HIM AND KILL HIM. 2111 01:36:59,876 --> 01:37:01,776 B.B. KING: ♪ WELL, MY BAD LUCK ♪ 2112 01:37:01,809 --> 01:37:04,109 {\an1}REPORTER: IN LAS VEGAS, AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN IS DUE, 2113 01:37:04,143 --> 01:37:08,376 {\an1}BUT ALMOST NO ONE ANTICIPATES AN ECLIPSE OF SONNY. 2114 01:37:08,409 --> 01:37:10,209 LISTON IS 5-1 ON. 2115 01:37:10,243 --> 01:37:13,709 {\an1}KING: ♪ BAD LUCK IS FALLING ♪ 2116 01:37:13,743 --> 01:37:15,643 ♪ FALLING DOWN ♪ 2117 01:37:15,676 --> 01:37:18,576 {\an1}NARRATOR: LISTON KNOCKED PATTERSON DOWN 3 TIMES 2118 01:37:18,609 --> 01:37:22,143 {\an1}IN A FIGHT THAT LASTED 2 MINUTES AND 10 SECONDS, 2119 01:37:22,176 --> 01:37:28,276 {\an1}JUST 4 SECONDS LONGER THAN THEIR FIRST BOUT. 2120 01:37:28,309 --> 01:37:31,409 {\an1}CASSIUS CLAY, IN TOWN FOR THE FIGHT, HAD NOT MISSED 2121 01:37:31,443 --> 01:37:34,376 {\an1}HIS CHANCE TO NEEDLE THE CHAMP. 2122 01:37:34,409 --> 01:37:36,243 {\an1}IZENBERG: SONNY LISTON WAS A SERIOUS GAMBLER. 2123 01:37:36,276 --> 01:37:39,209 {\an1}CLAY IS FOLLOWING HIM THROUGH THE CASINO. 2124 01:37:39,243 --> 01:37:41,409 {\an1}NARRATOR: "LOOK AT THE BIG, UGLY BEAR," SAID CLAY. 2125 01:37:41,443 --> 01:37:43,443 "HE CAN'T EVEN SHOOT CRAPS." 2126 01:37:43,476 --> 01:37:47,909 {\an1}FURIOUS, LISTON THREATENED TO RIP CLAY'S TONGUE OUT. 2127 01:37:47,943 --> 01:37:50,576 {\an1}AT THAT MOMENT, LISTON DISLIKED HIM INTENSELY, 2128 01:37:50,609 --> 01:37:53,243 {\an1}AND CLAY KNEW THAT HE COULD GET TO LISTON. 2129 01:37:58,143 --> 01:38:02,109 {\an1}[PEOPLE SCREAMING] 2130 01:38:02,143 --> 01:38:03,909 {\an1}MALCOLM X: MARTIN LUTHER KING TEACHES NEGROES 2131 01:38:03,943 --> 01:38:05,985 {\an1}TO LOVE ALL WHITE PEOPLE NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO TO YOU, 2132 01:38:06,009 --> 01:38:08,009 {\an1}AND THE SAME WHITES WHO HE TEACHES NEGROES TO LOVE 2133 01:38:08,043 --> 01:38:10,843 SIC DOGS ON HIM, SIC DOGS ON THEIR CHILDREN, 2134 01:38:10,876 --> 01:38:13,943 {\an1}DOGS ON THEIR WOMEN, AND DOGS ON THEIR BABIES. 2135 01:38:13,976 --> 01:38:16,076 SO I THINK IT'S VERY HYPOCRITICAL ON THE PART 2136 01:38:16,109 --> 01:38:18,676 {\an1}OF WHITES WHO ACCUSE MR. MUHAMMAD OF A HATE TEACHER 2137 01:38:18,709 --> 01:38:20,943 {\an1}BECAUSE HE SAYS SEPARATION, AND THEN SIC DOGS 2138 01:38:20,976 --> 01:38:23,643 {\an1}ON MARTIN LUTHER KING, WHO IS TEACHING INTEGRATION. 2139 01:38:23,676 --> 01:38:25,909 {\an1}IT MEANS THAT NO MATTER WHAT THE NEGRO DOES, 2140 01:38:25,943 --> 01:38:27,909 {\an1}HE IS NOT GOING TO GET ALONG WITH WHITES, 2141 01:38:27,943 --> 01:38:30,243 {\an1}SO I THINK THAT MR. MUHAMMAD'S WHOLE PHILOSOPHY IS MORE 2142 01:38:30,276 --> 01:38:34,243 {\an1}INTELLIGENT THAN MR. KING'S. 2143 01:38:34,276 --> 01:38:36,676 {\an1}NARRATOR: SINCE RETURNING FROM FIGHTING HENRY COOPER 2144 01:38:36,709 --> 01:38:39,143 {\an1}IN LONDON, CLAY HAD BEEN SLIPPING OFF TO NEW YORK 2145 01:38:39,176 --> 01:38:42,243 {\an1}WHENEVER HE COULD, VISITING TEMPLE NO. 7 2146 01:38:42,276 --> 01:38:45,743 AND SPENDING TIME WITH MALCOLM X. 2147 01:38:45,776 --> 01:38:47,743 CLAY FACED MORE AND MORE QUESTIONS 2148 01:38:47,776 --> 01:38:50,776 {\an1}FROM SPORTSWRITERS DETERMINED TO FIND OUT IF HE'D OFFICIALLY 2149 01:38:50,809 --> 01:38:54,343 {\an1}JOINED THE NATION OF ISLAM. 2150 01:38:54,376 --> 01:38:57,476 {\an1}THAT SUMMER IN CHICAGO, A REPORTER HAD TAILED CLAY'S 2151 01:38:57,509 --> 01:39:00,709 {\an1}CADILLAC OUT OF THE ALLEY BEHIND A MUSLIM SCHOOL 2152 01:39:00,743 --> 01:39:02,743 {\an1}ON THE SOUTH SIDE. 2153 01:39:02,776 --> 01:39:05,176 "ARE YOU A BLACK MUSLIM?" HE YELLED. 2154 01:39:05,209 --> 01:39:07,609 {\an1}"NO," SAID CASSIUS AT FIRST. 2155 01:39:07,643 --> 01:39:11,676 {\an1}THEN, AFTER A PAUSE, HE ADDED, "I DON'T KNOW. 2156 01:39:11,709 --> 01:39:14,743 {\an1}I'M FOR THE BLACK MUSLIMS." 2157 01:39:14,776 --> 01:39:18,009 {\an1}CLAY'S SPONSORS GREW WORRIED, AND HE BEGAN TO 2158 01:39:18,043 --> 01:39:20,076 {\an1}QUESTION HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM, 2159 01:39:20,109 --> 01:39:23,009 {\an1}SUGGESTING THAT HE BE PAID MORE. 2160 01:39:23,043 --> 01:39:26,909 {\an1}"I AM MY OWN MASTER," HE SAID, ECHOING MALCOLM X. 2161 01:39:26,943 --> 01:39:31,343 {\an1}"THERE IS NOBODY TELLING ME WHAT TO DO." 2162 01:39:31,376 --> 01:39:34,209 {\an1}CONCERNED THAT CLAY WAS TOO INEXPERIENCED TO BEAT 2163 01:39:34,243 --> 01:39:37,443 {\an1}THE OVERPOWERING SONNY LISTON, THE LOUISVILLE GROUP 2164 01:39:37,476 --> 01:39:40,343 {\an1}NEVERTHELESS FORGED AHEAD TO SECURE THE FIGHT 2165 01:39:40,376 --> 01:39:44,843 {\an1}THEY FEARED MIGHT BE HIS LAST. 2166 01:39:44,876 --> 01:39:47,209 {\an1}I WILL BE FIGHTING SONNY LISTON AS SOON 2167 01:39:47,243 --> 01:39:49,276 {\an1}AS THEY GET MY MONEY RIGHT. 2168 01:39:49,309 --> 01:39:52,043 {\an1}NOT ONLY UNTIL THEN, AND, UH... BECAUSE THIS WILL BE 2169 01:39:52,076 --> 01:39:53,843 {\an1}THE BIGGEST GATE IN ALL HISTORY, 2170 01:39:53,876 --> 01:39:56,676 {\an1}AND I EXPECT TO BE HALF RICH AFTER THE FIGHT. 2171 01:39:56,709 --> 01:39:58,976 {\an1}NARRATOR: LISTON'S MANAGERS, EAGER TO TAKE ADVANTAGE 2172 01:39:59,009 --> 01:40:02,909 {\an1}OF CLAY'S CELEBRITY, AGREED TO A DEAL THAT WOULD GROSS CLAY 2173 01:40:02,943 --> 01:40:06,543 {\an1}NEARLY $1 MILLION, THE LARGEST PAYDAY EVER 2174 01:40:06,576 --> 01:40:08,643 {\an1}FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT CHALLENGER. 2175 01:40:08,676 --> 01:40:10,652 {\an1}LITTLE RICHARD: ♪ GONNA TELL AUNT MARY 'BOUT UNCLE JOHN ♪ 2176 01:40:10,676 --> 01:40:14,209 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN EARLY NOVEMBER, CLAY LEFT CHICAGO IN AN OLD BUS 2177 01:40:14,243 --> 01:40:16,209 {\an1}HE'D BOUGHT AND HEADED FOR DENVER, 2178 01:40:16,243 --> 01:40:18,909 {\an1}WHERE CLAY AND LISTON PLANNED TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE 2179 01:40:18,943 --> 01:40:21,976 {\an1}TO ANNOUNCE THEIR FIGHT. 2180 01:40:22,009 --> 01:40:25,176 {\an1}AT 1:00 IN THE MORNING, CASSIUS CLAY STEERED HIS BUS 2181 01:40:25,209 --> 01:40:29,876 {\an1}INTO LISTON'S NEIGHBORHOOD AND LEANED ON THE HORN. 2182 01:40:29,909 --> 01:40:31,809 {\an1}CLAY: I WOKE HIM UP, AND HE CAME OUT 2183 01:40:31,843 --> 01:40:33,752 {\an1}IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IN HIS UNDERCLOTHES, HIS ROBE, 2184 01:40:33,776 --> 01:40:35,243 {\an1}AND HE HAD A BIG STICK. 2185 01:40:35,276 --> 01:40:37,243 AND I SAID "YOU BIG, UGLY BEAR, YOU. 2186 01:40:37,276 --> 01:40:39,809 {\an1}I'M GONNA SEE YOU TOMORROW FOR THE SIGNING, 2187 01:40:39,843 --> 01:40:42,043 "AND I'M GONNA KNOCK YOU OUT IN 8, 2188 01:40:42,076 --> 01:40:45,409 {\an1}AND IF YOU WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN, I'LL GET YOU IN 7." 2189 01:40:45,443 --> 01:40:48,076 {\an1}AND HE GOT MAD AND WE ARGUED FOR ABOUT AN HOUR, 2190 01:40:48,109 --> 01:40:50,309 {\an1}AND THEN THE POLICEMEN CAME WITH DOGS. 2191 01:40:50,343 --> 01:40:51,709 [DOGS BARKING] 2192 01:40:51,743 --> 01:40:53,409 THE SCENE THAT WE HAD THAT NIGHT, 2193 01:40:53,443 --> 01:40:55,085 {\an1}IT WOULD HAVE MADE YOU THINK MARTIN LUTHER KING 2194 01:40:55,109 --> 01:40:58,376 {\an1}WAS DEMONSTRATING. 2195 01:40:58,409 --> 01:41:03,509 ♪ 2196 01:41:03,543 --> 01:41:05,809 {\an1}NARRATOR: LATER THAT DAY, CLAY AND LISTON WENT 2197 01:41:05,843 --> 01:41:07,743 BEFORE THE PRESS. 2198 01:41:07,776 --> 01:41:10,909 "I'M READY TO GO TO WAR," CLAY SAID. 2199 01:41:10,943 --> 01:41:13,443 LET'S GET IT ON! WANT TO GO NOW? 2200 01:41:13,476 --> 01:41:14,676 [LAUGHTER] 2201 01:41:14,709 --> 01:41:16,309 {\an1}I'LL WHOOP YOU NOW. 2202 01:41:16,343 --> 01:41:18,076 {\an1}IT'S GOING TO TAKE A GOOD MAN TO WHOOP ME. 2203 01:41:18,109 --> 01:41:19,619 {\an1}YOU CAN LOOK AT ME. I'M LOADED WITH CONFIDENCE. 2204 01:41:19,643 --> 01:41:21,309 I CAN'T BE BEAT. 2205 01:41:21,343 --> 01:41:23,309 {\an1}I HAD 180 AMATEUR FIGHTS, 22 PROFESSIONAL FIGHTS, 2206 01:41:23,343 --> 01:41:25,676 {\an1}AND I'M PRETTY AS A GIRL. 2207 01:41:25,709 --> 01:41:28,776 [LAUGHTER] 2208 01:41:28,809 --> 01:41:30,443 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE FIGHT WAS SCHEDULED 2209 01:41:30,476 --> 01:41:34,409 {\an1}FOR FEBRUARY AFTER HIS 22nd BIRTHDAY. 2210 01:41:34,443 --> 01:41:37,843 {\an1}THOUGH HE NOW COULD NO LONGER BE THE YOUNGEST CHAMP EVER, 2211 01:41:37,876 --> 01:41:41,776 {\an1}HE WOULD FINALLY GET HIS SHOT AT THE TITLE. 2212 01:41:41,809 --> 01:41:43,152 CLAY: HERE IS THE EIGHTH ROUND EXACTLY 2213 01:41:43,176 --> 01:41:44,743 {\an1}AS IT WILL HAPPEN. 2214 01:41:44,776 --> 01:41:46,076 {\an1}CLAY COMES OUT TO MEET LISTON, 2215 01:41:46,109 --> 01:41:47,943 {\an1}AND LISTON STARTS TO RETREAT. 2216 01:41:47,976 --> 01:41:49,509 {\an1}IF LISTON GOES BACK AN INCH FARTHER, 2217 01:41:49,543 --> 01:41:51,676 {\an1}HE'LL END UP IN A RINGSIDE SEAT. 2218 01:41:51,709 --> 01:41:54,309 {\an1}CLAY SWINGS WITH A LEFT. CLAY SWINGS WITH A RIGHT. 2219 01:41:54,343 --> 01:41:56,143 {\an1}LOOK AT YOUNG CASSIUS CARRY THE FIGHT. 2220 01:41:56,176 --> 01:41:57,509 {\an1}NOW CLAY LANDS WITH A RIGHT. 2221 01:41:57,543 --> 01:41:59,343 {\an1}WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SWING, 2222 01:41:59,376 --> 01:42:01,943 {\an1}AND THE PUNCH RAISES THE BEAR CLEAR OUT OF THE RING. 2223 01:42:01,976 --> 01:42:03,276 [LAUGHTER] 2224 01:42:03,309 --> 01:42:04,809 {\an1}LISTON IS STILL RISING, 2225 01:42:04,843 --> 01:42:06,276 {\an1}AND THE REF WEARS A FROWN, 2226 01:42:06,309 --> 01:42:08,043 {\an1}FOR HE CAN'T START COUNTING, 2227 01:42:08,076 --> 01:42:10,276 {\an1}TILL SONNY COMES DOWN. 2228 01:42:10,309 --> 01:42:12,709 {\an1}WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT WHEN THEY CAME TO THE FIGHT 2229 01:42:12,743 --> 01:42:14,276 {\an1}THAT THEY'D WITNESS THE LAUNCHING 2230 01:42:14,309 --> 01:42:16,043 {\an1}OF A HUMAN SATELLITE? 2231 01:42:16,076 --> 01:42:17,543 [LAUGHTER] 2232 01:42:17,576 --> 01:42:21,676 {\an1}I AM THE GREATEST! 2233 01:42:21,709 --> 01:42:25,809 {\an1}NARRATOR: ALMOST NOBODY GAVE CLAY A CHANCE. 2234 01:42:25,843 --> 01:42:28,309 {\an1}TROUPE: WE ALL THOUGHT HE WAS TALKING SO MUCH 2235 01:42:28,343 --> 01:42:30,609 {\an1}THAT HE WAS SCARED TO DEATH. 2236 01:42:30,643 --> 01:42:32,843 {\an7}THAT'S WHY EVERYBODY SAID, "SHUT UP, CLAY. 2237 01:42:32,876 --> 01:42:34,476 {\an7}"YOU'RE JUST SCARED. 2238 01:42:34,509 --> 01:42:37,643 {\an7}YOU'RE JUST SCARED TO FIGHT THIS MAN." 2239 01:42:37,676 --> 01:42:40,376 {\an1}SONNY LISTON WAS SO FORMIDABLE. 2240 01:42:40,409 --> 01:42:42,476 {\an1}HE JUST DESTROYED PEOPLE. 2241 01:42:42,509 --> 01:42:45,409 IT WAS LIKE A BICYCLE AGAINST A TANK. 2242 01:42:47,309 --> 01:42:50,009 {\an1}IF ANYBODY TELLS YOU THAT THEY THOUGHT CLAY 2243 01:42:50,043 --> 01:42:52,309 {\an1}WAS GONNA BEAT LISTON, THEY LYING. 2244 01:42:52,343 --> 01:42:54,043 THEY ARE LYING. 2245 01:42:54,076 --> 01:42:56,976 {\an1}WHO'D THIS GUY EVER FIGHT? WHO, CLAY? 2246 01:42:57,009 --> 01:42:58,309 {\an1}YEAH. HE BOXED LONDON. 2247 01:42:58,343 --> 01:42:59,609 {\an1}LONDON. BOXED WHO? 2248 01:42:59,643 --> 01:43:01,109 PETER COOPER... I MEAN HENRY COOPER. 2249 01:43:01,143 --> 01:43:03,043 {\an1}YOU COULD LICK PETER COOPER. 2250 01:43:03,076 --> 01:43:04,385 {\an1}HE'LL FREEZE UP WHEN HE GETS IN THE RING. 2251 01:43:04,409 --> 01:43:05,643 {\an1}I'LL GUARANTEE THAT. 2252 01:43:05,676 --> 01:43:06,952 {\an1}REPORTER: WHAT MAKES YOU SO SURE? 2253 01:43:06,976 --> 01:43:09,309 {\an8}LISTON IS TOO POWERFUL. 2254 01:43:09,343 --> 01:43:11,443 {\an8}HE'LL KNOCK HIM OUT IN THE SECOND ROUND. 2255 01:43:11,476 --> 01:43:13,109 {\an7}OH, YEAH, I ALWAYS PRAY FOR HIM. 2256 01:43:13,143 --> 01:43:16,043 {\an7}I PRAYED FOR HIM DURING THE... WHAT DO YOU CALL IT... 2257 01:43:16,076 --> 01:43:17,809 {\an7}THE FIGHT OVER IN ENGLAND, COOPER, 2258 01:43:17,843 --> 01:43:19,243 {\an7}HENRY COOPER FIGHT. 2259 01:43:19,276 --> 01:43:22,076 {\an1}WHEN HE KNOCKED HIM DOWN, I WAS PRAYING. 2260 01:43:22,109 --> 01:43:23,943 {\an1}NARRATOR: IF CASSIUS CLAY WAS CONCERNED, 2261 01:43:23,976 --> 01:43:25,743 HE DIDN'T LET ON. 2262 01:43:25,776 --> 01:43:28,776 {\an1}SONNY LISTON MAY HAVE MORE POWER, CLAY CONCEDED, 2263 01:43:28,809 --> 01:43:31,709 {\an1}BUT HE BELIEVED THAT THE GREAT ONES... LIKE JOE LOUIS 2264 01:43:31,743 --> 01:43:35,309 {\an1}AND SUGAR RAY ROBINSON... RELIED ON FOOTWORK, RHYTHM, 2265 01:43:35,343 --> 01:43:38,409 {\an1}AND TIMING, NOT STRENGTH ALONE. 2266 01:43:38,443 --> 01:43:41,609 {\an1}THE BEATLES: ♪ IT'S BEEN A HARD DAY'S NIGHT ♪ 2267 01:43:41,643 --> 01:43:45,476 {\an1}♪ AND I'VE BEEN WORKING LIKE A DOG ♪ 2268 01:43:45,509 --> 01:43:46,743 {\an1}REPORTER: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 2269 01:43:46,776 --> 01:43:49,143 {\an1}THIS IS CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY. 2270 01:43:49,176 --> 01:43:50,809 {\an1}HE'S YOUNG, HE'S HANDSOME. 2271 01:43:50,843 --> 01:43:52,543 THEY KNOW IT. 2272 01:43:52,576 --> 01:43:55,243 {\an1}MAN: DANCE FOR THE CROWD. DANCE, BOY. 2273 01:43:55,276 --> 01:43:56,809 {\an1}AHH! THE WORLD IS WATCHING YOU. 2274 01:43:56,843 --> 01:43:58,143 {\an1}AHH! 2275 01:43:58,176 --> 01:43:59,609 {\an1}CLAY: I'M THE CHAMP. 2276 01:43:59,643 --> 01:44:01,476 {\an1}I'M THE BIGGEST THING IN HISTORY. 2277 01:44:01,509 --> 01:44:02,976 I'M THE KING! 2278 01:44:03,009 --> 01:44:04,609 {\an1}MAN: QUEEN... THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND... 2279 01:44:04,643 --> 01:44:05,943 THE BEATLES WANT MY AUTOGRAPH. 2280 01:44:05,976 --> 01:44:07,276 {\an1}YES, THEY DO. I'M, THE KING. 2281 01:44:07,309 --> 01:44:09,276 {\an1}KING OF THE RING! AHH! 2282 01:44:09,309 --> 01:44:11,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: AS THE FIGHT APPROACHED, CLAY AND DUNDEE 2283 01:44:11,876 --> 01:44:15,176 {\an1}WATCHED FILMS OF LISTON'S RECENT FIGHTS, SEARCHING 2284 01:44:15,209 --> 01:44:18,409 FOR WAYS TO ELUDE HIS PISTON-LIKE JAB, 2285 01:44:18,443 --> 01:44:21,276 {\an1}AND FILMS OF SUGAR RAY ROBINSON, WHO HAD WORN DOWN 2286 01:44:21,309 --> 01:44:26,143 {\an1}MORE POWERFUL OPPONENTS WITH HIS NONSTOP MOTION. 2287 01:44:26,176 --> 01:44:29,076 CLAY ALSO HELD BRUTAL SPARRING SESSIONS, 2288 01:44:29,109 --> 01:44:30,976 PREPARING AS THOUGH THE FIGHT WOULD GO 2289 01:44:31,009 --> 01:44:33,643 ALL 15 ROUNDS. 2290 01:44:33,676 --> 01:44:36,809 {\an1}HE WAS CERTAIN HE COULD OUTLAST LISTON, 2291 01:44:36,843 --> 01:44:40,609 {\an1}WHOSE FIGHTS HAD RARELY LASTED MORE THAN A FEW ROUNDS. 2292 01:44:40,643 --> 01:44:42,119 {\an4}CLAY: I'M TOO FAST. CHAMPION FROM THE CRIB. 2293 01:44:42,143 --> 01:44:43,909 I'M THE KING. KING OF THE RING. 2294 01:44:43,943 --> 01:44:45,452 {\an5}BORN THE CHAMP. BORN A CHAMP FROM THE CRIB. 2295 01:44:45,476 --> 01:44:46,943 BOTH: AHH! 2296 01:44:46,976 --> 01:44:48,452 {\an1}DREW "BUNDINI" BROWN, A ONE-TIME MEMBER 2297 01:44:48,476 --> 01:44:51,343 {\an1}OF SUGAR RAY ROBINSON'S ENTOURAGE, 2298 01:44:51,376 --> 01:44:53,443 {\an1}WAS NOW AT CLAY'S SIDE. 2299 01:44:53,476 --> 01:44:55,076 {\an1}CLAY: YOU KNOW HOW GREAT I AM. 2300 01:44:55,109 --> 01:44:56,352 {\an1}I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT MY STRATEGY. 2301 01:44:56,376 --> 01:44:57,909 {\an1}I'LL LET MY TRAINER TELL YOU. 2302 01:44:57,943 --> 01:44:59,252 {\an1}BUNDINI, COME HERE. BUNDINI, TELL HIM. 2303 01:44:59,276 --> 01:45:00,576 {\an1}WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO? 2304 01:45:00,609 --> 01:45:02,076 {\an1}YOU'RE GONNA FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY 2305 01:45:02,109 --> 01:45:03,243 {\an1}AND STING LIKE A BEE. 2306 01:45:03,276 --> 01:45:04,476 AHH! 2307 01:45:04,509 --> 01:45:06,176 {\an1}RUMBLE YOUNG MAN, RUMBLE. 2308 01:45:06,209 --> 01:45:08,009 AHH! 2309 01:45:08,043 --> 01:45:10,609 {\an1}NARRATOR: WHEN LISTON ARRIVED AT THE MIAMI AIRPORT, 2310 01:45:10,643 --> 01:45:12,676 {\an1}CLAY WAS THERE TO GREET HIM. 2311 01:45:12,709 --> 01:45:14,409 {\an1}CLAY: WELL, JUST TO SHOW HIM HOW BOLD I AM, 2312 01:45:14,443 --> 01:45:16,609 {\an1}I'M READY TO GO TO WAR IF NECESSARY. 2313 01:45:16,643 --> 01:45:18,376 {\an1}I'M NOT JIVING. 2314 01:45:18,409 --> 01:45:19,885 YOU THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA, CASSIUS? 2315 01:45:19,909 --> 01:45:21,343 {\an1}IT DON'T MAKE ME NO DIFFERENCE. 2316 01:45:21,376 --> 01:45:22,676 {\an1}I MEAN, I'M READY NOW. 2317 01:45:22,709 --> 01:45:24,019 {\an1}I'M TIRED OF WAITING FOR THIS FIGHT. 2318 01:45:24,043 --> 01:45:25,376 {\an1}I'M NERVOUS. HE'S GOT MY JOB. 2319 01:45:25,409 --> 01:45:27,543 {\an1}I'M THE CHAMP. 2320 01:45:27,576 --> 01:45:29,509 {\an1}REPORTER: AN UNHEARD-OF THING HAPPENED 2321 01:45:29,543 --> 01:45:31,343 {\an1}AT THE MAIN STREET GYM IN MIAMI. 2322 01:45:31,376 --> 01:45:34,676 {\an1}CHALLENGER CASSIUS INVADED WHILE LISTON WAS TRAINING. 2323 01:45:34,709 --> 01:45:36,276 {\an1}CLAY: IF YOU'D LIKE TO LOSE YOUR MONEY, 2324 01:45:36,309 --> 01:45:38,009 THEN BE A FOOL AND BET ON SONNY, 2325 01:45:38,043 --> 01:45:39,285 {\an1}BUT IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A GOOD DAY, 2326 01:45:39,309 --> 01:45:41,409 {\an1}THEN PUT IT ON CLAY. 2327 01:45:41,443 --> 01:45:43,009 {\an1}RAHMAN: I ASKED HIM. 2328 01:45:43,043 --> 01:45:44,419 {\an1}I SAID, "ALI, ARE YOU SCARED OF LISTON?" 2329 01:45:44,443 --> 01:45:46,409 "NAW, MAN. I'MMA CHOP HIM DOWN." 2330 01:45:46,443 --> 01:45:48,376 {\an1}HE HAD THAT KIND OF ATTITUDE. 2331 01:45:48,409 --> 01:45:50,843 {\an1}HE SAID, "LISTON'S GOING IN THE EIGHTH." 2332 01:45:50,876 --> 01:45:52,509 {\an1}"WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT? 2333 01:45:52,543 --> 01:45:54,543 {\an1}THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION, GOING IN THE EIGHTH?" 2334 01:45:54,576 --> 01:45:56,176 JABBING AND LEFT HOOKING, 2335 01:45:56,209 --> 01:45:59,543 {\an1}JABBING AND LEFT HOOKING. 2336 01:45:59,576 --> 01:46:01,343 {\an1}YEAH, I'M A PRETTY FIGHTER... 2337 01:46:01,376 --> 01:46:05,143 {\an1}RAHAMAN: WHEN YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, IT REMOVES FEAR, 2338 01:46:05,176 --> 01:46:07,409 {\an1}AND WHEN YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE SERVING GOD, 2339 01:46:07,443 --> 01:46:09,776 {\an1}THE TRUE AND THE LIVING GOD, ONCE YOU BELIEVE THAT, 2340 01:46:09,809 --> 01:46:11,443 {\an1}YOU DON'T FEAR NOTHING. 2341 01:46:11,476 --> 01:46:15,776 SEE, AND THAT'S THE WAY HE BECAME. 2342 01:46:15,809 --> 01:46:18,309 {\an1}NARRATOR: WHEN HE WASN'T TRAINING FOR SONNY LISTON, 2343 01:46:18,343 --> 01:46:21,409 {\an1}CLAY SPENT WHATEVER TIME HE COULD WITH MALCOLM X, 2344 01:46:21,443 --> 01:46:24,409 {\an1}WHO HAD BROUGHT HIS FAMILY TO MIAMI AT CLAY'S EXPENSE 2345 01:46:24,443 --> 01:46:27,043 {\an1}FOR A RARE VACATION. 2346 01:46:27,076 --> 01:46:30,476 {\an1}MEANWHILE, ELIJAH MUHAMMAD SAW NO REASON TO IDENTIFY 2347 01:46:30,509 --> 01:46:32,943 {\an1}HIS MOVEMENT WITH CASSIUS CLAY. 2348 01:46:32,976 --> 01:46:35,609 {\an1}BOXING WAS A "VERY WICKED SPORT," HE SAID, 2349 01:46:35,643 --> 01:46:39,376 {\an1}AND CLAY WAS A LOUDMOUTH, SURE TO LOSE. 2350 01:46:39,409 --> 01:46:42,476 {\an1}HE ORDERED HIS NEWSPAPER "MUHAMMAD SPEAKS" 2351 01:46:42,509 --> 01:46:45,476 {\an1}NOT TO COVER THE COMING FIGHT. 2352 01:46:45,509 --> 01:46:48,143 {\an1}MALCOLM X HAD A DIFFERENT VIEW. 2353 01:46:48,176 --> 01:46:50,943 {\an1}THE CONTEST WOULD PIT ISLAM AGAINST CHRISTIANITY, 2354 01:46:50,976 --> 01:46:56,876 {\an1}HE SAID, AND CLAY... AND ISLAM... WOULD EMERGE VICTORIOUS, 2355 01:46:56,909 --> 01:46:59,809 {\an1}BUT MALCOLM'S DESIRE TO SEE CLAY SUCCEED 2356 01:46:59,843 --> 01:47:02,709 {\an1}HAD ANOTHER DIMENSION. 2357 01:47:02,743 --> 01:47:05,809 {\an1}BACK IN LATE NOVEMBER, AFTER MALCOLM HAD SAID 2358 01:47:05,843 --> 01:47:09,109 {\an1}THAT THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY 2359 01:47:09,143 --> 01:47:12,643 {\an1}HAD BEEN A CASE OF "CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST," 2360 01:47:12,676 --> 01:47:14,643 {\an1}ELIJAH MUHAMMAD HAD CENSURED 2361 01:47:14,676 --> 01:47:16,743 {\an1}HIS CONTROVERSIAL MINISTER, 2362 01:47:16,776 --> 01:47:18,843 {\an1}ORDERING MALCOLM TO REFRAIN FROM SPEAKING 2363 01:47:18,876 --> 01:47:20,809 {\an1}PUBLICLY OR PREACHING 2364 01:47:20,843 --> 01:47:23,476 {\an1}AT MOSQUE NO. 7 FOR 90 DAYS. 2365 01:47:23,509 --> 01:47:25,352 MALCOLM X: I'VE BEEN IN SILENCE FOR THE PAST 90 DAYS 2366 01:47:25,376 --> 01:47:27,009 BECAUSE OF SOME STATEMENTS I MADE 2367 01:47:27,043 --> 01:47:29,543 CONCERNING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 2368 01:47:29,576 --> 01:47:31,209 WHICH WERE DISTORTED. 2369 01:47:31,243 --> 01:47:32,385 {\an1}REPORTER: THEY WERE DISTORTED? YES. 2370 01:47:32,409 --> 01:47:34,143 {\an1}WHAT DID YOU SAY, MALCOLM? 2371 01:47:34,176 --> 01:47:35,652 {\an1}WELL, I SAID THE SAME THING THAT EVERYBODY SAYS, 2372 01:47:35,676 --> 01:47:37,843 THAT HIS ASSASSINATION WAS THE RESULT 2373 01:47:37,876 --> 01:47:39,543 OF THE CLIMATE OF HATE. 2374 01:47:39,576 --> 01:47:41,976 ONLY I SAID, "THE CHICKENS CAME HOME TO ROOST," 2375 01:47:42,009 --> 01:47:44,376 WHICH MEANS THE SAME THING. 2376 01:47:44,409 --> 01:47:47,143 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE REBUKE HAD SHAKEN MALCOLM X. 2377 01:47:47,176 --> 01:47:50,743 {\an1}HE HAD APOLOGIZED INSTANTLY AND BEGUN TRYING TO GET BACK 2378 01:47:50,776 --> 01:47:53,709 {\an1}INTO ELIJAH MUHAMMAD'S GOOD GRACES. 2379 01:47:53,743 --> 01:47:55,876 {\an1}IF HE COULD DELIVER THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 2380 01:47:55,909 --> 01:47:59,509 {\an1}OF THE WORLD INTO THE FOLD, PERHAPS ELIJAH MUHAMMAD 2381 01:47:59,543 --> 01:48:02,043 {\an1}WOULD FORGIVE HIM, 2382 01:48:02,076 --> 01:48:05,909 {\an1}BUT EVEN BEFORE THE SUSPENSION, LONG-STANDING DIFFERENCES 2383 01:48:05,943 --> 01:48:09,476 {\an1}BETWEEN THE LEADER OF THE NATION OF ISLAM AND MALCOLM X 2384 01:48:09,509 --> 01:48:14,576 {\an1}HAD ALREADY BEGUN TO THREATEN HIS POSITION IN THE SECT. 2385 01:48:14,609 --> 01:48:18,576 {\an7}MUWAKKIL: MALCOLM, HE HAD POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS. 2386 01:48:18,609 --> 01:48:20,409 {\an7}HE THOUGHT THAT THE NATION OF ISLAM SHOULD BE 2387 01:48:20,443 --> 01:48:24,276 {\an8}MORE ACTIVE IN THE POLITICAL ARENA. 2388 01:48:24,309 --> 01:48:26,243 ELIJAH MUHAMMAD DIDN'T FEEL THAT WAY, 2389 01:48:26,276 --> 01:48:29,176 {\an1}AND THAT CAUSED FRICTION. 2390 01:48:29,209 --> 01:48:31,709 {\an1}NARRATOR: MALCOLM HAD ALSO BECOME DISILLUSIONED 2391 01:48:31,743 --> 01:48:34,709 {\an1}WITH WHAT HE VIEWED AS MORALLY INDEFENSIBLE BEHAVIOR 2392 01:48:34,743 --> 01:48:38,743 {\an1}BY ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, INCLUDING FINANCIAL CORRUPTION 2393 01:48:38,776 --> 01:48:43,176 {\an1}AND IMPREGNATING AT LEAST 7 OF HIS SECRETARIES. 2394 01:48:43,209 --> 01:48:45,176 {\an1}ELIJAH MUHAMMAD'S LIEUTENANTS, 2395 01:48:45,209 --> 01:48:48,709 {\an1}WARY OF MALCOLM'S RISING PUBLIC STATURE AND DETERMINED 2396 01:48:48,743 --> 01:48:52,776 {\an1}TO GUARD THEIR LEADER'S EXALTED STATUS AMONG HIS DISCIPLES, 2397 01:48:52,809 --> 01:48:55,909 {\an1}WERE PLOTTING MALCOLM'S PERMANENT EXPULSION 2398 01:48:55,943 --> 01:48:59,209 {\an1}FROM THE NATION OF ISLAM. 2399 01:48:59,243 --> 01:49:01,843 A MONTH BEFORE HIS BOUT WITH LISTON, 2400 01:49:01,876 --> 01:49:04,309 {\an1}CLAY HAD ADDRESSED 1,200 MUSLIMS GATHERED 2401 01:49:04,343 --> 01:49:06,909 {\an1}AT A BALLROOM IN HARLEM. 2402 01:49:06,943 --> 01:49:10,609 {\an1}"I AM A RACE MAN," HE SAID TO LOUD APPLAUSE, 2403 01:49:10,643 --> 01:49:15,009 {\an1}"AND EVERY TIME I GO TO A MUSLIM MEETING, I GET INSPIRED." 2404 01:49:16,743 --> 01:49:19,609 {\an1}CASSIUS CLAY SR. COMPLAINED THAT THE MUSLIMS HAD BEEN 2405 01:49:19,643 --> 01:49:22,209 {\an1}BRAINWASHING HIS SON, 2406 01:49:22,243 --> 01:49:25,643 {\an1}AND WHEN THE FIGHTER WAS SEEN IN MIAMI WITH MALCOLM X, 2407 01:49:25,676 --> 01:49:28,876 {\an1}IT SEEMED TO CONFIRM THE RUMORS THAT CASSIUS CLAY 2408 01:49:28,909 --> 01:49:31,576 HAD JOINED THE NATION OF ISLAM. 2409 01:49:33,809 --> 01:49:38,376 {\an1}ON FEBRUARY 22, 1964, 3 DAYS BEFORE THE FIGHT, 2410 01:49:38,409 --> 01:49:41,876 WITH TICKET SALES WELL BELOW EXPECTATIONS, 2411 01:49:41,909 --> 01:49:44,843 {\an1}THE PROMOTER BILL MacDONALD, WHO'D PUT UP HIS OWN MONEY 2412 01:49:44,876 --> 01:49:47,509 {\an1}TO STAGE THE BOUT, VISITED CLAY 2413 01:49:47,543 --> 01:49:50,943 {\an1}AND WARNED HIM THAT THE FIGHT WOULD BE CALLED OFF 2414 01:49:50,976 --> 01:49:53,543 {\an1}IF HE DIDN'T DISAVOW ANY ASSOCIATION 2415 01:49:53,576 --> 01:49:56,109 {\an1}WITH THE NATION OF ISLAM. 2416 01:49:56,143 --> 01:49:58,276 CLAY REFUSED. 2417 01:49:58,309 --> 01:49:59,876 {\an1}"MY RELIGION'S MORE IMPORTANT TO ME 2418 01:49:59,909 --> 01:50:03,309 {\an1}THAN THE FIGHT," HE TOLD MacDONALD. 2419 01:50:03,343 --> 01:50:05,676 {\an1}ROBERTS: FINALLY SOMEBODY GOES TO MALCOLM AND SAYS, 2420 01:50:05,709 --> 01:50:08,776 {\an1}"LOOK, YOUR PRESENCE HERE IS JEOPARDIZING THIS FIGHT. 2421 01:50:08,809 --> 01:50:10,676 {\an1}"IT'S GOING TO BE CALLED OFF. 2422 01:50:10,709 --> 01:50:12,476 WILL YOU LEAVE?" 2423 01:50:12,509 --> 01:50:15,476 AND MALCOLM SAYS, "I'LL LEAVE, I'LL LEAVE FOR NOW, 2424 01:50:15,509 --> 01:50:16,943 {\an1}BUT I'M COMING BACK FOR THE FIGHT." 2425 01:50:16,976 --> 01:50:18,776 {\an1}AND THEY SAY, "FINE." 2426 01:50:18,809 --> 01:50:21,843 {\an1}SO NOW MALCOLM LEAVES, HE GOES BACK UP TO NEW YORK, 2427 01:50:21,876 --> 01:50:23,509 THE FIGHT'S ON. 2428 01:50:23,543 --> 01:50:25,909 I'M A CHAMP! 2429 01:50:25,943 --> 01:50:27,676 {\an1}I'M THE REAL CHAMP! 2430 01:50:27,709 --> 01:50:29,685 {\an1}NARRATOR: ON THE MORNING OF THE FIGHT, CASSIUS CLAY 2431 01:50:29,709 --> 01:50:32,509 {\an1}ARRIVED AT THE MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER WEARING 2432 01:50:32,543 --> 01:50:36,676 {\an1}A BLUE DENIM JACKET WITH THE WORDS "BEAR HUNTIN'" 2433 01:50:36,709 --> 01:50:38,476 {\an1}EMBROIDERED ON THE BACK. 2434 01:50:38,509 --> 01:50:39,909 WHERE IS HE AT? 2435 01:50:39,943 --> 01:50:41,743 {\an1}I'M THE KING OF THE RING! 2436 01:50:41,776 --> 01:50:43,643 {\an1}I'M THE BIGGEST THING IN HISTORY! 2437 01:50:43,676 --> 01:50:45,676 {\an1}NARRATOR: HE WAS FLANKED BY HIS BROTHER RUDY, 2438 01:50:45,709 --> 01:50:49,009 {\an1}SUGAR RAY ROBINSON, ANGELO DUNDEE, 2439 01:50:49,043 --> 01:50:51,843 WILLIAM FAVERSHAM OF HIS LOUISVILLE SPONSORS, 2440 01:50:51,876 --> 01:50:54,809 {\an1}AND BUNDINI BROWN. 2441 01:50:54,843 --> 01:50:57,309 {\an1}YOU TELL JOE LOUIS AND SONNY LISTON THAT I'M 2442 01:50:57,343 --> 01:51:00,076 {\an1}HERE WITH SUGAR RAY! 2443 01:51:00,109 --> 01:51:01,709 {\an1}JOE LOUIS IS FLATFOOTED, 2444 01:51:01,743 --> 01:51:03,743 {\an1}AND SONNY LISTON IS FLATFOOTED! 2445 01:51:03,776 --> 01:51:05,676 {\an1}SUGAR RAY AND I ARE TWO PRETTY DANCERS! 2446 01:51:05,709 --> 01:51:08,909 WE CAN'T BE BEAT! 2447 01:51:08,943 --> 01:51:12,176 {\an1}NARRATOR: AN HOUR LATER, CLAY EMERGED FROM HIS DRESSING ROOM 2448 01:51:12,209 --> 01:51:13,843 {\an1}AND HEADED FOR THE WEIGH-IN. 2449 01:51:13,876 --> 01:51:17,343 ♪ 2450 01:51:17,376 --> 01:51:20,409 {\an1}I PREDICT THAT TONIGHT SOMEBODY WILL DIE 2451 01:51:20,443 --> 01:51:22,943 {\an1}AT RINGSIDE FROM SHOCK. 2452 01:51:22,976 --> 01:51:24,119 {\an1}IZENBERG: I NEVER SAW ANYTHING LIKE IT IN MY LIFE 2453 01:51:24,143 --> 01:51:25,709 AT A WEIGH-IN. 2454 01:51:25,743 --> 01:51:27,252 {\an1}I MEAN, I SAW GUYS STARE EACH OTHER DOWN. 2455 01:51:27,276 --> 01:51:30,109 {\an1}THIS IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT. HE'S NUTS. 2456 01:51:30,143 --> 01:51:34,176 {\an1}IF HE'S PUTTING ON AN ACT, HE SHOULD BE ON BROADWAY. 2457 01:51:34,209 --> 01:51:36,343 EXCEPT HE WAS PUTTING ON AN ACT. 2458 01:51:36,376 --> 01:51:37,943 {\an1}NOW LISTON COMES OUT. 2459 01:51:37,976 --> 01:51:40,843 {\an1}LISTON LOOKS AT HIM AND SAYS, "SHUT UP." 2460 01:51:40,876 --> 01:51:43,076 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: SEEMINGLY UNPERTURBED BY CLAY'S HOWLING, 2461 01:51:43,109 --> 01:51:45,176 {\an1}LISTON POINTED OUT THE ROUND HE EXPECTED 2462 01:51:45,209 --> 01:51:48,043 THE FIGHT TO END. 2463 01:51:48,076 --> 01:51:51,543 [LAUGHTER] 2464 01:51:51,576 --> 01:51:53,209 REPORTER: LET'S SEE THIS. 2465 01:51:53,243 --> 01:51:54,676 {\an1}YOU AIN'T GOT A CHANCE. 2466 01:51:54,709 --> 01:51:56,276 LET US SEE, LET US SEE! 2467 01:51:56,309 --> 01:51:58,443 {\an1}AIN'T NO WAY YOU CAN TAKE ME, AND YOU KNOW IT! 2468 01:51:58,476 --> 01:51:59,943 {\an1}MAN: THE FINE IS $2,500 2469 01:51:59,976 --> 01:52:02,343 FOR HIS CONDUCT ON THE PLATFORM. 2470 01:52:02,376 --> 01:52:05,509 {\an1}AND ADDING TO THE SCENE THE FRIGGIN' COMMISSION DOCTOR 2471 01:52:05,543 --> 01:52:07,943 {\an1}SAYS, "I JUST TOOK HIS BLOOD PRESSURE. 2472 01:52:07,976 --> 01:52:09,852 {\an1}"IT'S TWICE WHAT IT SHOULD BE FOR A HEALTHY MAN, 2473 01:52:09,876 --> 01:52:11,443 "NORMAL MAN. 2474 01:52:11,476 --> 01:52:14,309 {\an1}HIS HEART LOOKS LIKE IT'S GONNA EXPLODE." 2475 01:52:14,343 --> 01:52:16,085 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE DOCTOR WHO TOOK THE READING WORRIED 2476 01:52:16,109 --> 01:52:17,843 {\an1}THAT CLAY WAS GRIPPED BY WHAT HE CALLED 2477 01:52:17,876 --> 01:52:21,276 {\an1}"MORTAL FEAR" AND WONDERED IF IT WAS EVEN SAFE 2478 01:52:21,309 --> 01:52:23,776 FOR HIM TO FIGHT, 2479 01:52:23,809 --> 01:52:26,109 BUT AN HOUR LATER WHEN CLAY'S OWN DOCTOR TESTED 2480 01:52:26,143 --> 01:52:31,276 {\an1}HIM AGAIN, EVERYTHING HAD RETURNED TO NORMAL. 2481 01:52:31,309 --> 01:52:35,209 {\an1}CLAY WENT HOME AND TOOK A NAP. 2482 01:52:35,243 --> 01:52:37,709 {\an1}IZENBERG: MY RADIO'S ON, AND THE NEWS COMES ON. 2483 01:52:37,743 --> 01:52:40,543 {\an1}THERE'S A BULLETIN. CASSIUS CLAY WAS SPOTTED 2484 01:52:40,576 --> 01:52:43,076 {\an1}AT MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BUYING A TICKET 2485 01:52:43,109 --> 01:52:45,043 {\an1}FOR A FOREIGN COUNTRY. 2486 01:52:45,076 --> 01:52:49,143 THE RUMOR THROUGH THE PRESS ROW WAS THAT 2487 01:52:49,176 --> 01:52:52,776 {\an1}HE WAS AT THE AIRPORT, THAT HE HAD RUN AWAY, 2488 01:52:52,809 --> 01:52:55,109 {\an1}THAT HE WAS NOT IN THE BUILDING, 2489 01:52:55,143 --> 01:52:57,709 {\an1}AND OTHER REPORTERS, THEY WERE FILING THIS 2490 01:52:57,743 --> 01:53:01,476 {\an1}AND SPREADING THIS, AND I KIND OF WANDERED AROUND, 2491 01:53:01,509 --> 01:53:05,109 {\an1}AND I SAW HIM WATCHING HIS KID BROTHER RUDY 2492 01:53:05,143 --> 01:53:06,643 {\an1}HAVE HIS FIRST FIGHT. 2493 01:53:06,676 --> 01:53:08,209 KEEP MOVING AND JAB! 2494 01:53:10,209 --> 01:53:11,976 TAKE YOUR TIME. MAN: GOOD GOING, RUDY. 2495 01:53:12,009 --> 01:53:13,509 WATCH HIM! HOOK HIM! 2496 01:53:13,543 --> 01:53:15,476 {\an1}IZENBERG: HE'S STANDING IN THE AISLE, 2497 01:53:15,509 --> 01:53:17,976 {\an1}AND HE'S GIVING IN... HE'S GONNA FIGHT FOR THE WORLD TITLE. 2498 01:53:18,009 --> 01:53:19,776 {\an1}HE'S GIVING INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS BROTHER 2499 01:53:19,809 --> 01:53:21,276 {\an1}IN A 4-ROUND FIGHT. 2500 01:53:21,309 --> 01:53:24,976 THIS GUY SEEMS TO HAVE FOOLED ALL OF US. 2501 01:53:25,009 --> 01:53:28,609 HE'S TIRED. TIE HIM UP! TIE HIM UP! 2502 01:53:32,043 --> 01:53:33,709 {\an1}NARRATOR: BUT BACK IN HIS DRESSING ROOM, 2503 01:53:33,743 --> 01:53:35,576 {\an1}THINGS GREW TENSE. 2504 01:53:35,609 --> 01:53:38,143 {\an1}CLAY FIDGETED NERVOUSLY. 2505 01:53:38,176 --> 01:53:40,676 {\an1}HIS DOCTOR FERDIE PACHECO NOTICED HE WAS 2506 01:53:40,709 --> 01:53:44,143 {\an1}UNCHARACTERISTICALLY ANXIOUS. 2507 01:53:44,176 --> 01:53:46,909 {\an1}ROBERTS: NOW HE GETS WORRIED, HE'S PARANOID. 2508 01:53:46,943 --> 01:53:50,809 HIS BROTHERS IN THE NATION HAD SAID, 2509 01:53:50,843 --> 01:53:52,543 {\an1}"BE AWARE OF THE WHITE DEVIL. 2510 01:53:52,576 --> 01:53:53,852 {\an1}"THEY'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING TO MAKE YOU LOSE. 2511 01:53:53,876 --> 01:53:55,743 "THE MONEY IS BET ON SONNY LISTON. 2512 01:53:55,776 --> 01:53:57,876 {\an1}"THE MOB'S INVOLVED WITH THIS SPORT. 2513 01:53:57,909 --> 01:54:00,209 BE AWARE." 2514 01:54:00,243 --> 01:54:03,076 {\an1}THEN HE SEES A WATER BOTTLE, AND HE THINKS, 2515 01:54:03,109 --> 01:54:04,709 "THERE COULD BE SOMETHING IN THAT WATER." 2516 01:54:04,743 --> 01:54:06,243 {\an1}SO HE DUMPS THE WATER OUT. 2517 01:54:06,276 --> 01:54:07,876 {\an1}THEN HE FILLS IT UP AGAIN. 2518 01:54:07,909 --> 01:54:10,076 {\an1}THEN HE TAPES THE TOP OF THE WATER BOTTLE, 2519 01:54:10,109 --> 01:54:11,285 {\an1}AND HE GIVES IT TO HIS BROTHER, AND HE SAYS, 2520 01:54:11,309 --> 01:54:13,609 {\an1}"YOU WATCH OVER THIS." 2521 01:54:13,643 --> 01:54:16,643 {\an1}NARRATOR: LATER, MALCOLM X JOINED CASSIUS AND RUDY 2522 01:54:16,676 --> 01:54:22,643 {\an1}AS THEY FACED EAST, BOWED, AND PRAYED TO ALLAH. 2523 01:54:22,676 --> 01:54:27,909 ♪ 2524 01:54:27,943 --> 01:54:29,552 {\an1}MAN ONE: LISTON IN THE FOURTH ROUND BECAUSE 2525 01:54:29,576 --> 01:54:32,609 {\an1}I REALLY THINK LISTON IS GOING TO SHOW THAT MAN 2526 01:54:32,643 --> 01:54:36,576 {\an1}HIS MOUTHPIECE AIN'T VALUABLE. 2527 01:54:36,609 --> 01:54:38,185 {\an1}MAN TWO: FIGHTS ARE ALWAYS WON WITH FISTS 2528 01:54:38,209 --> 01:54:39,843 {\an1}AND NOT WITH MOUTH TALK. 2529 01:54:39,876 --> 01:54:41,876 {\an1}I PICK LISTON TO WIN BY THE FIFTH ROUND. 2530 01:54:41,909 --> 01:54:43,443 {\an1}THIRD ROUND. FIFTH ROUND. 2531 01:54:43,476 --> 01:54:46,009 I EXPECT IN ABOUT TWO ROUNDS. 2532 01:54:48,776 --> 01:54:52,709 {\an1}NARRATOR: AT 10 P.M., THE FIGHTERS ENTERED THE ARENA. 2533 01:54:52,743 --> 01:54:55,576 {\an1}CLAY WAS AN 8-TO-1 UNDERDOG. 2534 01:54:55,609 --> 01:54:58,776 [CROWD CHEERING] 2535 01:55:01,976 --> 01:55:05,276 {\an1}FRANK FREEMAN: THIS BOUT, 15 ROUNDS, 2536 01:55:05,309 --> 01:55:10,276 {\an1}FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. 2537 01:55:10,309 --> 01:55:12,909 {\an1}LIPSYTE: WHEN THE TWO MEN MET IN THE RING 2538 01:55:12,943 --> 01:55:15,776 {\an1}JUST BEFORE THE FIGHT BEGAN FOR THE RING INSTRUCTIONS, 2539 01:55:15,809 --> 01:55:21,276 {\an1}I WAS STRUCK BY HOW MUCH BIGGER CASSIUS CLAY WAS 2540 01:55:21,309 --> 01:55:22,809 {\an1}THAN SONNY LISTON. 2541 01:55:22,843 --> 01:55:25,343 {\an1}HE WAS TALLER, HE WAS BROAD. 2542 01:55:25,376 --> 01:55:27,909 {\an1}WAS NOT QUITE AS THICK, 2543 01:55:27,943 --> 01:55:31,509 {\an1}BUT THIS IS NOT DAVID AND GOLIATH BY ANY MEANS. 2544 01:55:31,543 --> 01:55:32,885 {\an1}REFEREE: BREAK, STOP PUNCHING, AND STEP BACK. 2545 01:55:32,909 --> 01:55:34,009 GOOD LUCK. 2546 01:55:34,043 --> 01:55:35,376 SHAKE HANDS. 2547 01:55:35,409 --> 01:55:37,276 [BELL RINGS] 2548 01:55:40,576 --> 01:55:42,176 {\an7}ANNOUNCER: CASSIUS CLAY 2549 01:55:42,209 --> 01:55:43,509 {\an7}ON THE MOVE AS WE SEE, 2550 01:55:43,543 --> 01:55:46,009 {\an7}LOOKING TO GET SONNY TO LUNGE. 2551 01:55:46,043 --> 01:55:49,709 CARRYING HIS LEFT HAND DANGEROUSLY LOW. 2552 01:55:49,743 --> 01:55:52,609 {\an1}IZENBERG: LISTON HAD A JAB THAT COULD KNOCK YOU OUT. 2553 01:55:52,643 --> 01:55:55,809 {\an1}JAB, JAB, AND WHEN THAT RIGHT HAND CAME IN, IT WAS OVER. 2554 01:55:55,843 --> 01:55:59,709 I THINK HE HAD EXPECTED TO DO THAT. 2555 01:55:59,743 --> 01:56:02,843 {\an1}IT BECOMES THE BULL AND THE MATADOR. 2556 01:56:02,876 --> 01:56:04,709 {\an1}CLAY IS BOOM, BOOM, 2557 01:56:04,743 --> 01:56:07,843 {\an1}AND LISTON IS SHOCKED. 2558 01:56:07,876 --> 01:56:12,209 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: WE'RE HALFWAY THROUGH ROUND ONE. 2559 01:56:12,243 --> 01:56:17,776 {\an1}BENTT: CASSIUS HAS THE MASK OF CONFIDENCE. 2560 01:56:17,809 --> 01:56:22,076 {\an1}"I MAY BE RETREATING BUT YOU'RE CHASING ME, 2561 01:56:22,109 --> 01:56:24,709 {\an1}AND I'M SETTING TRAPS FOR YOU." 2562 01:56:24,743 --> 01:56:26,285 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: THE RIGHT HAND, THE BEST PUNCH 2563 01:56:26,309 --> 01:56:28,443 {\an1}OF THE FIGHT SO FAR. 2564 01:56:28,476 --> 01:56:30,943 {\an1}BENTT: "YOU FOLLOW ME AROUND EVERYWHERE YOU GO, 2565 01:56:30,976 --> 01:56:34,076 {\an1}I'LL SLAP YOU AGAIN." 2566 01:56:34,109 --> 01:56:35,909 {\an1}SONNY HAD NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE. 2567 01:56:35,943 --> 01:56:37,843 {\an1}HE WASN'T PREPARED FOR IT. 2568 01:56:37,876 --> 01:56:39,643 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: WE'RE DOWN TO THE CLOSING SECOND 2569 01:56:39,676 --> 01:56:42,209 {\an1}OF THIS FIRST ROUND, AND THE LONG LEFT LEAD 2570 01:56:42,243 --> 01:56:45,509 {\an1}IS MAKING THE DIFFERENCE SO FAR BY MR. CLAY. 2571 01:56:45,543 --> 01:56:47,743 {\an1}BENTT: HE'S THROWING HIS SHOTS WITH HIS HANDS DOWN. 2572 01:56:47,776 --> 01:56:49,319 {\an1}YOU DON'T THROW THOSE KIND OF SHOTS UNLESS YOU 2573 01:56:49,343 --> 01:56:52,009 {\an1}TRUST YOUR TALENT. 2574 01:56:52,043 --> 01:56:53,743 [BELL RINGS] 2575 01:56:53,776 --> 01:56:55,709 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: THE REFEREE DID NOT STOP THAT ROUND 2576 01:56:55,743 --> 01:56:57,243 {\an1}WHEN THAT BELL SOUNDED. 2577 01:56:57,276 --> 01:56:59,009 {\an1}PERHAPS THE REFEREE DIDN'T HEAR IT. 2578 01:56:59,043 --> 01:57:01,276 {\an1}INTO THE CORNER IS CASSIUS CLAY, WHO IS STILL DOING 2579 01:57:01,309 --> 01:57:03,109 THE TALKING. 2580 01:57:03,143 --> 01:57:05,043 {\an1}CHAMPION JOE LOUIS. 2581 01:57:05,076 --> 01:57:06,619 {\an1}LOUIS: WELL, STEVE, I THINK THIS WAS THE GREATEST ROUND 2582 01:57:06,643 --> 01:57:08,576 {\an1}OF ANY A FIGHT WE'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME. 2583 01:57:08,609 --> 01:57:10,943 {\an1}I HOPE THAT CLAY DON'T GET TOO MUCH CONFIDENCE, 2584 01:57:10,976 --> 01:57:13,709 OR HE GONNA GET KNOCKED OUT. 2585 01:57:17,176 --> 01:57:19,643 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: THIS YOUNGSTER HAS HIS OWN STYLE, 2586 01:57:19,676 --> 01:57:21,943 {\an1}AND IT'S CONFUSING FOR THE CHAMPION TO FATHOM 2587 01:57:21,976 --> 01:57:23,643 {\an1}THIS EARLY IN THE FIGHT. 2588 01:57:23,676 --> 01:57:26,243 [BELL RINGS] 2589 01:57:26,276 --> 01:57:28,543 {\an1}BENTT: WHEN CLAY CAME OUT IN THE THIRD, 2590 01:57:28,576 --> 01:57:30,809 {\an1}HE'S SHOOTING JABS THAT WERE LIKE RAZORBLADES. 2591 01:57:30,843 --> 01:57:32,809 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: WOBBLED! SONNY WOBBLED! 2592 01:57:32,843 --> 01:57:36,076 {\an1}CASSIUS HAS HIM HURT! 2593 01:57:36,109 --> 01:57:39,243 {\an1}BENTT: SONNY'S ESSENTIALLY TAMED BY THIS POINT. 2594 01:57:39,276 --> 01:57:42,176 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: HE VERBALLY CHALLENGES THE CHAMPION. 2595 01:57:42,209 --> 01:57:46,176 {\an1}IZENBERG: NOBODY BELIEVED THIS GUY COULD DO THIS TO LISTON, 2596 01:57:46,209 --> 01:57:51,009 {\an1}AND HE DOMINATES THE ROUND. 2597 01:57:51,043 --> 01:57:53,443 {\an1}LIPSYTE: THERE WAS NO QUESTION CLAY TOOK CONTROL 2598 01:57:53,476 --> 01:57:56,076 {\an1}OF THE FIGHT VERY QUICKLY. 2599 01:57:56,109 --> 01:58:00,743 {\an1}HE HIT LISTON AT WILL, OPENED A CUT UNDER HIS EYE. 2600 01:58:00,776 --> 01:58:04,009 {\an1}NARRATOR: IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN 34 PROFESSIONAL FIGHTS 2601 01:58:04,043 --> 01:58:06,509 {\an1}THAT SONNY LISTON HAD BEEN CUT. 2602 01:58:06,543 --> 01:58:08,709 [BELL RINGS] 2603 01:58:08,743 --> 01:58:10,909 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: THE CHAMPION IS STRONG, DURABLE, 2604 01:58:10,943 --> 01:58:12,676 {\an1}TAKES THE GOOD SHOT. 2605 01:58:12,709 --> 01:58:16,143 {\an1}HOWEVER, HE IS BEING OUTMANEUVERED AT MOST POINTS 2606 01:58:16,176 --> 01:58:19,043 {\an1}BECAUSE THIS FELLOW HAS THAT AWKWARDLY FAST STYLE 2607 01:58:19,076 --> 01:58:21,409 {\an1}OF GOING SIDE TO SIDE, MOVING THE UPPER PART 2608 01:58:21,443 --> 01:58:24,676 OF HIS BODY. 2609 01:58:24,709 --> 01:58:27,476 {\an1}HALF A MINUTE MORE IN ROUND NUMBER 4. 2610 01:58:27,509 --> 01:58:29,676 ROBERTS: DURING THE FOURTH ROUND, 2611 01:58:29,709 --> 01:58:32,709 {\an1}SOMETHING GETS IN CLAY'S EYES. 2612 01:58:32,743 --> 01:58:36,576 AND WE CAN START TO SEE HIM BLINKING. 2613 01:58:36,609 --> 01:58:40,109 {\an1}AT ONE POINT THAT LISTON RUBS HIS GLOVES IN A CLINCH 2614 01:58:40,143 --> 01:58:42,709 {\an1}ACROSS CLAY'S EYES. 2615 01:58:42,743 --> 01:58:44,343 {\an1}MY GUESS IS THAT'S WHERE SOMETHING GOT 2616 01:58:44,376 --> 01:58:47,209 IN CLAY'S EYES. 2617 01:58:47,243 --> 01:58:50,176 {\an1}AT THE END OF THE FOURTH ROUND, CLAY GOES BACK TO HIS CORNER, 2618 01:58:50,209 --> 01:58:52,543 {\an1}AND BY NOW HE'S IN PAIN. 2619 01:58:52,576 --> 01:58:54,176 HE CAN'T SEE, 2620 01:58:54,209 --> 01:58:57,443 {\an1}AND HE SAYS TO ANGELO, "CUT THEM OFF. 2621 01:58:57,476 --> 01:59:01,876 {\an1}CUT THE GLOVES OFF. I'M DONE. I CAN'T FIGHT." 2622 01:59:01,909 --> 01:59:06,276 REMNICK: THE CROWD IS GOING BAT... 2623 01:59:06,309 --> 01:59:10,376 THE OTHER CORNER SENSES BLOOD, 2624 01:59:10,409 --> 01:59:15,409 {\an1}AND DUNDEE DOES THE BEST HE CAN TO WIPE HIS EYES CLEAN, 2625 01:59:15,443 --> 01:59:20,343 {\an1}AND HE BASICALLY PUSHES HIM BACK INTO THE FIGHT. 2626 01:59:20,376 --> 01:59:22,285 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: THEY'RE YELLING FROM CASSIUS CLAY'S CORNER 2627 01:59:22,309 --> 01:59:24,943 SOMETHING GOT IN HIS RIGHT EYE. 2628 01:59:24,976 --> 01:59:27,376 {\an1}HOWEVER, HE'S BLINKING BADLY. 2629 01:59:27,409 --> 01:59:29,609 {\an1}REMNICK: AND IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE THAT THIS WAS 2630 01:59:29,643 --> 01:59:32,109 {\an1}A DELIBERATE ACT ON BY LISTON AND THE LISTON CORNER 2631 01:59:32,143 --> 01:59:35,076 {\an1}TO PUT WHAT'S CALLED LINIMENT ON THE GLOVES, WHICH EVENTUALLY 2632 01:59:35,109 --> 01:59:37,376 ARE GONNA GET IN THE OTHER GUY'S EYES. 2633 01:59:37,409 --> 01:59:40,309 {\an1}IZENBERG: AND THE CHORUS FROM CLAY'S CORNER WAS 2634 01:59:40,343 --> 01:59:43,043 {\an1}STAY THE HELL AWAY, STAY THE HELL AWAY. 2635 01:59:43,076 --> 01:59:45,209 STAY THE HELL AWAY. 2636 01:59:45,243 --> 01:59:47,152 {\an1}RAHAMAN: WHEN THAT HAPPENED, WHEN I LAST SAW HIM BLIND 2637 01:59:47,176 --> 01:59:50,943 {\an1}LIKE THAT, I SAID, "THEY DONE GOT TO US." 2638 01:59:50,976 --> 01:59:52,876 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: SONNY'S GONNA TRY TO PULL IT OFF. 2639 01:59:52,909 --> 01:59:55,009 {\an1}RAHAMAN: "THEY DONE GOT TO US." 2640 01:59:58,776 --> 02:00:01,776 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: CASSIUS STILL HAVING SOME PROBLEMS 2641 02:00:01,809 --> 02:00:03,543 {\an1}WITH HIS... WITH HIS EYES. 2642 02:00:03,576 --> 02:00:05,276 HE'S BLINKING, AND HE'S BOUNCING 2643 02:00:05,309 --> 02:00:06,876 AWAY CONTINUALLY. 2644 02:00:06,909 --> 02:00:09,076 [BELL RINGS] 2645 02:00:09,109 --> 02:00:13,276 {\an1}NARRATOR: CLAY SOMEHOW SURVIVED THE FIFTH ROUND. 2646 02:00:13,309 --> 02:00:15,909 IN ROUND 6, HIS EYES CLEAR, 2647 02:00:15,943 --> 02:00:18,476 {\an1}CLAY STOOD FLATFOOTED AND LAUNCHED JABS 2648 02:00:18,509 --> 02:00:21,776 {\an1}AT LISTON'S HEAD, SWELLING THE CHAMP'S CHEEKS, 2649 02:00:21,809 --> 02:00:23,576 AND DRAWING MORE BLOOD FROM THE CUT 2650 02:00:23,609 --> 02:00:26,776 {\an1}BENEATH HIS LEFT EYE. 2651 02:00:26,809 --> 02:00:31,643 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: EASY TARGET. EASY. 2652 02:00:31,676 --> 02:00:35,809 {\an1}BENTT: IF A FIGHTER ESCAPES GETTING THAT DONE TO HIM, 2653 02:00:35,843 --> 02:00:39,943 {\an1}THE AMOUNT OF VENOM THAT THE FIGHTER'S GONNA IMPRESS 2654 02:00:39,976 --> 02:00:43,076 {\an1}TO HIS OPPONENT IS INCREASED, LIKE, PROFOUNDLY, MAN. 2655 02:00:43,109 --> 02:00:45,276 {\an1}I'M TRYING TO HURT YOU WORSE BECAUSE 2656 02:00:45,309 --> 02:00:47,676 {\an1}YOU TRIED TO CHEAT ME. 2657 02:00:49,976 --> 02:00:52,043 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: SONNY CAN'T SEEM TO SLIP OR KNOCK DOWN 2658 02:00:52,076 --> 02:00:54,243 {\an1}THAT JAB EFFECTIVELY. 2659 02:00:54,276 --> 02:00:57,343 CASSIUS THROWS IT FROM ALL ANGLES. 2660 02:00:57,376 --> 02:00:59,743 {\an1}THE CROWD'S NOW CHEERING THE CHALLENGER. 2661 02:00:59,776 --> 02:01:01,843 {\an1}LET'S GET OVER TO OUR CHAMPION JOE LOUIS. 2662 02:01:01,876 --> 02:01:03,843 {\an1}JOE, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING ON 2663 02:01:03,876 --> 02:01:05,776 IN SONNY'S MIND AT THIS POINT? 2664 02:01:05,809 --> 02:01:07,652 {\an1}LOUIS: WELL, I THINK SONNY NOW'S BEGINNING TO WORRY NOW. 2665 02:01:07,676 --> 02:01:10,176 {\an1}AT LEAST HIS CORNER IS BEGINNING TO WORRY NOW BECAUSE... 2666 02:01:10,209 --> 02:01:12,243 {\an1}NARRATOR: AS CLAY AWAITED THE BELL SIGNALING 2667 02:01:12,276 --> 02:01:15,809 {\an1}THE START OF ROUND 7, HE TURNED TO THE REPORTERS 2668 02:01:15,843 --> 02:01:17,909 {\an1}SEATED BESIDE THE RING. 2669 02:01:17,943 --> 02:01:21,909 {\an1}"I'M GONNA UPSET THE WORLD!" HE YELLED AT THEM. 2670 02:01:21,943 --> 02:01:24,609 {\an1}IN LISTON'S CORNER, TRAINERS MASSAGED 2671 02:01:24,643 --> 02:01:28,409 {\an1}THE CHAMP'S MUSCLES AND RUBBED VASELINE ON HIS BROW. 2672 02:01:28,443 --> 02:01:30,152 {\an1}LOUIS: OH, I THINK THE CORNER MEN ARE BEGINNING TO 2673 02:01:30,176 --> 02:01:31,743 {\an1}WORRY A LITTLE BIT NOW. 2674 02:01:31,776 --> 02:01:33,743 {\an1}LISTON NOW I THINK HE DON'T SEE TOO WELL OUT 2675 02:01:33,776 --> 02:01:36,143 {\an1}OF BOTH HIS EYES NOW THEY MAY WELL PUCK OUT. 2676 02:01:36,176 --> 02:01:38,776 {\an1}NARRATOR: AFTER ONE TRAINER PUT IN HIS MOUTHPIECE, 2677 02:01:38,809 --> 02:01:41,443 {\an1}LISTON SPIT IT OUT. 2678 02:01:41,476 --> 02:01:42,909 [BELL RINGS] 2679 02:01:42,943 --> 02:01:44,476 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: THEY MIGHT BE STOPPING IT. 2680 02:01:44,509 --> 02:01:46,376 {\an1}THAT MIGHT BE ALL, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 2681 02:01:46,409 --> 02:01:48,876 {\an1}NARRATOR: HE WAS FINISHED. 2682 02:01:48,909 --> 02:01:51,609 {\an1}CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY JR. 2683 02:01:51,643 --> 02:01:55,009 {\an1}WAS NOW THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD. 2684 02:01:55,043 --> 02:01:58,043 [CROWD CHEERING] 2685 02:01:59,743 --> 02:02:02,209 {\an1}CLAY: I MUST BE THE GREATEST! 2686 02:02:02,243 --> 02:02:06,676 {\an1}I AM THE KING OF THE WORLD! I'M A BAD MAN! 2687 02:02:06,709 --> 02:02:09,376 {\an1}HE HAD LINIMENT ON HIS HANDS, HE HAD LINIMENT IN HIS GLOVES. 2688 02:02:09,409 --> 02:02:12,709 {\an1}MY WHOLE FACE WAS BURNING. 2689 02:02:12,743 --> 02:02:14,276 {\an1}I AM THE GREATEST! 2690 02:02:14,309 --> 02:02:15,909 {\an1}ALL I GOT TO SAY IS I BEAT LISTON LIKE 2691 02:02:15,943 --> 02:02:17,409 {\an1}HE WAS AN AMATEUR. 2692 02:02:17,443 --> 02:02:19,243 {\an1}I HELD MY HANDS LOW, I LEANED BACK, 2693 02:02:19,276 --> 02:02:21,009 I'M STILL PRETTY. 2694 02:02:21,043 --> 02:02:22,885 {\an1}HE WAS THE ONE ALL CUT UP. I SHOOK UP THE WORLD. 2695 02:02:22,909 --> 02:02:25,509 {\an1}NOW WHAT ARE YOU ALL GOING TO SAY ABOUT THAT NOW, HUH? 2696 02:02:25,543 --> 02:02:27,676 {\an1}NARRATOR: AFTER THE FIGHT, SONNY LISTON WAS TAKEN 2697 02:02:27,709 --> 02:02:29,409 TO THE HOSPITAL. 2698 02:02:29,443 --> 02:02:31,276 {\an1}"THAT WASN'T THE GUY I WAS SUPPOSED TO FIGHT," 2699 02:02:31,309 --> 02:02:32,576 HE MUTTERED. 2700 02:02:32,609 --> 02:02:35,043 {\an1}"THAT GUY COULD HIT." 2701 02:02:35,076 --> 02:02:36,709 BACK TO THE MICROPHONE, CASSIUS, 2702 02:02:36,743 --> 02:02:38,409 TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS. 2703 02:02:38,443 --> 02:02:39,552 {\an1}ALL YOU REPORTERS... ALL OF YOU REPORTERS 2704 02:02:39,576 --> 02:02:40,943 {\an1}MADE IT HARD ON LISTON. 2705 02:02:40,976 --> 02:02:41,943 {\an1}NEVER WRITE ABOUT ME LIKE THAT. 2706 02:02:41,976 --> 02:02:43,743 {\an1}NEVER MAKE ME 6-1. 2707 02:02:43,776 --> 02:02:45,276 {\an1}IT JUST MAKE ME ANGRY. 2708 02:02:45,309 --> 02:02:47,509 {\an1}NEVER MAKE ME NO UNDERDOG AND NEVER TALK 2709 02:02:47,543 --> 02:02:49,143 {\an1}ABOUT WHO'S GONNA STOP ME. 2710 02:02:49,176 --> 02:02:51,076 {\an1}AIN'T NOBODY GONNA STOP ME! 2711 02:02:51,109 --> 02:02:53,376 {\an1}NOT A HEAVYWEIGHT IN THE WORLD FAST ENOUGH TO STOP ME! 2712 02:02:53,409 --> 02:02:57,209 {\an1}OH, I'M SO PRETTY. I SHOOK UP THE WORLD. 2713 02:02:57,243 --> 02:02:59,243 {\an1}NOW I'M THROUGH TALKING. 2714 02:02:59,276 --> 02:03:00,909 {\an1}I'M THROUGH TALKING. 2715 02:03:00,943 --> 02:03:03,943 NOW YOU WRITE... YOU WRITE THE RESULTS. 2716 02:03:03,976 --> 02:03:05,809 {\an1}MAN 1: I LIKE CLAY'S STYLE. 2717 02:03:05,843 --> 02:03:09,743 {\an1}I LIKE THAT OLD 1-2-3, 3-4-5. 2718 02:03:09,776 --> 02:03:15,076 {\an1}LET'S GET TOGETHER GET SOME OLD... WIDE. 2719 02:03:15,109 --> 02:03:16,876 HE'S THE GREATEST OF THEM ALL! 2720 02:03:16,909 --> 02:03:18,709 HE'S THE GREATEST! 2721 02:03:18,743 --> 02:03:20,909 {\an1}FLY LIKE A BUTTERFLY, STING LIKE A BEE. 2722 02:03:20,943 --> 02:03:22,976 {\an1}CASSIUS CLAY! 2723 02:03:23,009 --> 02:03:24,709 {\an1}3, 2, 1! 2724 02:03:24,743 --> 02:03:25,985 {\an1}CLAY: WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION CASSIUS CLAY 2725 02:03:26,009 --> 02:03:27,543 IN PERSON. 2726 02:03:27,576 --> 02:03:29,376 I'M THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD. 2727 02:03:29,409 --> 02:03:30,809 YOU THE GREATEST, BABY. 2728 02:03:30,843 --> 02:03:33,576 {\an1}CLAY: I'M A BAD MAN. I'M A BAD MAN. 2729 02:03:33,609 --> 02:03:34,809 YOU THE GREATEST! 2730 02:03:34,843 --> 02:03:36,076 {\an1}I DIDN'T STOP HIM. 2731 02:03:36,109 --> 02:03:37,376 {\an1}I SENT HIM TO THE HOSPITAL. 2732 02:03:37,409 --> 02:03:41,709 I GOT TO BE BAD! I GOT TO BE BAD! 2733 02:03:41,743 --> 02:03:44,709 {\an1}OH! IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE ABLE TO HOLLER 2734 02:03:44,743 --> 02:03:48,076 {\an1}WHEN YOU KNOW YOU'RE BAD. 2735 02:03:48,109 --> 02:03:50,309 {\an1}NARRATOR: UNPREPARED FOR CLAY'S VICTORY, 2736 02:03:50,343 --> 02:03:53,176 {\an1}THE LOUISVILLE SPONSORING GROUP RUSHED TO ARRANGE 2737 02:03:53,209 --> 02:03:56,276 {\an1}A CELEBRATION IN MIAMI BEACH, 2738 02:03:56,309 --> 02:03:59,609 BUT CASSIUS CLAY HAD OTHER PLANS. 2739 02:03:59,643 --> 02:04:02,043 {\an1}AFTER MIDNIGHT, HE HEADED TO THE CAFÉ 2740 02:04:02,076 --> 02:04:07,743 {\an1}OF THE ALL-BLACK HAMPTON HOUSE, WHERE HE ATE VANILLA ICE CREAM. 2741 02:04:07,776 --> 02:04:12,843 {\an1}LATER, CLAY, MALCOLM X, FOOTBALL STAR JIM BROWN, 2742 02:04:12,876 --> 02:04:16,909 {\an1}AND SINGER SAM COOKE TALKED LONG INTO THE NIGHT 2743 02:04:16,943 --> 02:04:20,809 {\an1}ABOUT THE 22-YEAR-OLD BOXER'S FUTURE. 2744 02:04:20,843 --> 02:04:24,576 {\an1}FROM NOW ON, EVERYTHING WOULD BE DIFFERENT. 2745 02:04:24,609 --> 02:04:27,409 {\an1}HE HAD SCALED BOXING'S HIGHEST PEAK, 2746 02:04:27,443 --> 02:04:31,809 {\an1}WOULD NO LONGER NEED TO CAMPAIGN FOR A SHOT AT THE TITLE 2747 02:04:31,843 --> 02:04:34,443 {\an1}OR CONCEAL HIS MUSLIM FAITH. 2748 02:04:35,876 --> 02:04:40,809 {\an8}♪ 2749 02:04:40,843 --> 02:04:43,509 {\an7}EIG: NEXT MORNING, HE'S MORE SUBDUED. 2750 02:04:43,543 --> 02:04:46,243 {\an1}HE'S THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD. 2751 02:04:46,276 --> 02:04:49,009 {\an1}NEW RESPONSIBILITIES HAVE BEEN ACCORDED HIM. 2752 02:04:49,043 --> 02:04:50,883 {\an1}BECAUSE I'M THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION NOW, 2753 02:04:50,909 --> 02:04:53,643 {\an1}I DON'T HAVE TO HOLLER AND BRAG AS LOUD AS I USED TO. 2754 02:04:53,676 --> 02:04:55,609 {\an1}I'M WHERE I WANT TO BE NOW. 2755 02:04:55,643 --> 02:04:58,009 {\an1}SO ALL I HAVE TO DO IS LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE 2756 02:04:58,043 --> 02:04:59,343 {\an1}TELL ME ABOUT HOW GREAT I AM. 2757 02:04:59,376 --> 02:05:01,209 {\an1}I'M THROUGH TALKING. 2758 02:05:01,243 --> 02:05:03,119 {\an1}EIG: HE ALSO MAKES A REALLY IMPORTANT DECLARATION. 2759 02:05:03,143 --> 02:05:06,709 {\an1}CLAY: I DON'T HAVE TO BE WHAT YOU WANT ME TO BE. 2760 02:05:06,743 --> 02:05:08,419 {\an1}I'M FREE TO BE WHAT I WANT TO BE AND THINK WHAT I 2761 02:05:08,443 --> 02:05:10,009 WANT TO THINK. 2762 02:05:10,043 --> 02:05:11,376 EIG: BOOM. 2763 02:05:11,409 --> 02:05:13,376 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI IS BORN. 2764 02:05:13,409 --> 02:05:16,443 {\an1}[BEYONCÉ'S "FREEDOM" PLAYING] 2765 02:05:16,476 --> 02:05:19,009 {\an1}♪ FREEDOM, FREEDOM I CAN'T MOVE ♪ 2766 02:05:19,043 --> 02:05:22,076 {\an1}♪ FREEDOM, CUT ME LOOSE, HEY, HEY ♪ 2767 02:05:22,109 --> 02:05:24,543 {\an1}♪ FREEDOM, FREEDOM, WHERE ARE YOU? ♪ 2768 02:05:24,576 --> 02:05:26,943 {\an1}♪ 'CAUSE I NEED FREEDOM, TOO ♪ 2769 02:05:26,976 --> 02:05:29,543 {\an1}♪ I'LL BREAK CHAINS ALL BY MYSELF ♪ 2770 02:05:29,576 --> 02:05:32,843 {\an1}♪ WON'T LET MY FREEDOM ROT IN HELL ♪ 2771 02:05:32,876 --> 02:05:35,509 ♪ HEY, I'MMA KEEP-A RUNNING ♪ 2772 02:05:35,543 --> 02:05:38,876 {\an1}♪ 'CAUSE A WINNER DON'T QUIT ON THEMSELVES ♪ 2773 02:05:38,909 --> 02:05:41,743 {\an1}♪ I'MMA WADE, I'MMA WAVE THROUGH THE WATERS ♪ 2774 02:05:41,776 --> 02:05:44,409 {\an1}♪ TILL THE TIDE DON'T MOVE ♪ 2775 02:05:44,443 --> 02:05:47,276 {\an1}♪ I'MMA RIOT, I'MMA RIOT THROUGH YOUR BORDERS ♪ 2776 02:05:47,309 --> 02:05:50,243 {\an1}♪ CALL ME BULLETPROOF ♪ 2777 02:05:50,276 --> 02:05:53,043 {\an1}♪ LORD, FORGIVE ME, I'VE BEEN RUNNIN' ♪ 2778 02:05:53,076 --> 02:05:55,776 {\an1}♪ RUNNIN' BLIND IN TRUTH ♪ 2779 02:05:55,809 --> 02:05:58,609 {\an1}♪ I'MMA WADE, I'MMA WAVE THROUGH YOUR SHALLOW LOVE ♪ 2780 02:05:58,643 --> 02:06:01,476 {\an1}♪ TELL THE DEEP I'M NEW ♪ 2781 02:06:01,509 --> 02:06:09,509 ♪ 2782 02:06:15,476 --> 02:06:23,476 ♪ 2783 02:06:30,409 --> 02:06:31,409 ♪ 2784 02:06:31,543 --> 02:06:33,409 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: NEXT TIME ON "MUHAMMAD ALI"... 2785 02:06:33,443 --> 02:06:34,809 {\an1}JACKSON: HE'S 22 YEARS OLD, 2786 02:06:34,843 --> 02:06:37,476 {\an1}AND HE'S STANDING UP TO THE WHOLE ESTABLISHMENT. 2787 02:06:37,509 --> 02:06:39,376 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: THE CHAMP CHANGES HIS NAME... 2788 02:06:39,409 --> 02:06:41,976 {\an1}EARLY: HE WAS VILIFIED, AND IT WAS THOUGHT 2789 02:06:42,009 --> 02:06:43,643 {\an1}THAT HE WAS UN-AMERICAN. 2790 02:06:43,676 --> 02:06:45,309 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: DEFENDS THE TITLE... 2791 02:06:45,343 --> 02:06:46,785 {\an1}BENTT: THAT KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, ARTISTRY 2792 02:06:46,809 --> 02:06:48,243 {\an1}WILL NEVER BEEN SEEN AGAIN. 2793 02:06:48,276 --> 02:06:50,309 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: AND PREPARES FOR HIS GREATEST FIGHT YET. 2794 02:06:50,343 --> 02:06:52,019 {\an1}ALI: YOU WANT ME TO GO SOMEWHERE AND FIGHT, 2795 02:06:52,043 --> 02:06:54,076 {\an1}BUT YOU WON'T EVEN STAND UP FOR ME HERE AT HOME. 2796 02:06:54,109 --> 02:06:56,943 {\an1}I WAS POSITIVE HE'D GO TO JAIL IF HE HAD TO. 2797 02:06:56,976 --> 02:06:59,509 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: THAT'S NEXT TIME ON "MUHAMMAD ALI." 2798 02:07:01,443 --> 02:07:03,576 ANNOUNCER: STREAM THE FULL SERIES, 2799 02:07:03,609 --> 02:07:05,376 {\an1}GO BEHIND THE SCENES, AND LEARN HOW TO BRING 2800 02:07:05,409 --> 02:07:07,943 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI'S STORY INTO THE CLASSROOM 2801 02:07:07,976 --> 02:07:14,776 {\an1}BY VISITING PBS.ORG/ALI OR THE PBS VIDEO APP. 2802 02:07:14,809 --> 02:07:17,843 {\an1}TO ORDER "MUHAMMAD ALI" ON DVD OR BLU-RAY, 2803 02:07:17,876 --> 02:07:22,209 VISIT SHOPPBS OR CALL 1-800-PLAY-PBS. 2804 02:07:22,243 --> 02:07:24,109 {\an1}"MUHAMMAD ALI" IS ALSO AVAILABLE 2805 02:07:24,143 --> 02:07:28,009 WITH PBS PASSPORT AND ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO. 2806 02:07:29,776 --> 02:07:31,343 {\an1}MAN: ♪ OW, OW, OW ♪ 2807 02:07:31,376 --> 02:07:39,376 ♪ 2808 02:07:46,309 --> 02:07:51,676 ♪ 2809 02:07:51,709 --> 02:07:52,909 WOMAN: ♪ OH, AH ♪ 2810 02:07:52,943 --> 02:07:54,343 CROWD: HEY! 2811 02:07:54,376 --> 02:07:55,476 ♪ OH, AH ♪ 2812 02:07:55,509 --> 02:07:56,743 {\an3}HEY! 2813 02:07:56,776 --> 02:07:57,909 ♪ OH, AH ♪ 2814 02:07:57,943 --> 02:07:59,609 {\an3}HEY! 2815 02:07:59,643 --> 02:08:00,943 ♪ OH, AH ♪ 2816 02:08:00,976 --> 02:08:02,243 {\an3}HEY! 2817 02:08:02,276 --> 02:08:03,643 ♪ OH, AH ♪ 2818 02:08:03,676 --> 02:08:04,943 {\an3}HEY! 2819 02:08:04,976 --> 02:08:06,176 ♪ OH, AH ♪ 2820 02:08:06,209 --> 02:08:07,643 {\an3}HEY! 2821 02:08:07,676 --> 02:08:08,909 ♪ OH, AH ♪ 2822 02:08:08,943 --> 02:08:10,343 {\an3}HEY! 2823 02:08:10,376 --> 02:08:11,509 ♪ OH, AH ♪ 2824 02:08:11,543 --> 02:08:13,309 {\an3}HEY! 2825 02:08:13,343 --> 02:08:14,785 {\an1}BUNDINI: YOU GONNA FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY 2826 02:08:14,809 --> 02:08:16,143 {\an1}AND STING LIKE A BEE. 2827 02:08:16,176 --> 02:08:17,476 {\an1}BUNDINI AND ALI: AHH! 2828 02:08:17,509 --> 02:08:19,409 {\an1}RUMBLE, YOUNG MAN, RUMBLE. 2829 02:08:19,443 --> 02:08:20,976 AHH! 2830 02:08:23,109 --> 02:08:24,143 ♪ 2831 02:08:25,543 --> 02:08:27,576 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: MAJOR FUNDING FOR "MUHAMMAD ALI" 2832 02:08:27,609 --> 02:08:29,776 WAS PROVIDED BY: DAVID M. 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