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 00:01:03,109 --> 00:01:05,676 {\an1}INTERVIEWER: ARE YOU A WISER MAN NOW THAN YOU WERE? 27 00:01:05,709 --> 00:01:07,976 MUCH WISER, MUCH WISER. 28 00:01:08,009 --> 00:01:11,776 THEY HAVE A SAYING, "A WISE MAN CHANGE, BUT A FOOL NEVER CHANGE." 29 00:01:11,809 --> 00:01:15,243 AND I'VE CHANGED BECAUSE I'VE BECOME WISER. 30 00:01:15,276 --> 00:01:18,643 {\an1}INTERVIEWER: WELL, THEY SAY THAT THE ROAD BACK IS A LOT 31 00:01:18,676 --> 00:01:20,709 {\an1}HARDER THAN THE ROAD UP THE FIRST TIME. 32 00:01:20,743 --> 00:01:23,176 {\an1}DO YOU FEEL IT THAT WAY? 33 00:01:23,209 --> 00:01:26,809 IN MY MIND IT'S EASIER, BUT IN MY BODY IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE HARDER. 34 00:01:26,843 --> 00:01:29,809 BUT I HAVE TO COME BACK. I'M GOING TO COME BACK. 35 00:01:29,843 --> 00:01:32,343 I'LL BE CONSIDERED MUCH BETTER WHEN I COME BACK. 36 00:01:32,376 --> 00:01:35,543 I HAVE TOO MUCH TO FIGHT FOR, CAUSE TO FIGHT FOR. 37 00:01:37,343 --> 00:01:44,343 {\an1}HOWARD BRYANT: I THINK THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF POST-EXILE ALI 38 00:01:44,376 --> 00:01:48,843 IS THIS QUEST TO BE MADE WHOLE. 39 00:01:48,876 --> 00:01:50,976 {\an7}THAT'S WHY THE CLIMB IS SO IMPORTANT, SO VITAL. 40 00:01:51,009 --> 00:01:58,243 {\an7}THAT'S WHY VICTORY MATTERS, IS TO SEND THAT MESSAGE THAT 41 00:01:58,276 --> 00:02:01,409 {\an1}HE'S THE ONE THAT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BREAK. 42 00:02:03,443 --> 00:02:05,543 CROWD ROARING 43 00:02:05,576 --> 00:02:07,376 {\an1}COSELL: THE CROWD ROARS NOW 44 00:02:07,409 --> 00:02:10,843 {\an1}AS MUHAMMAD ALI COMES DOWN THE AISLE. 45 00:02:10,876 --> 00:02:14,176 {\an1}A MAN WHO HAS EVOKED ALL KINDS OF PASSION, 46 00:02:14,209 --> 00:02:16,643 AGAINST AND FOR. 47 00:02:16,676 --> 00:02:19,643 {\an1}ALI WHO KNOWS THAT HE'S GOT A LOT TO PROVE. 48 00:02:19,676 --> 00:02:21,009 CROWD ROARING THE CROWD REACTS! 49 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:27,743 {\an1}AND THIS IS NOT THE USUAL ALI STYLE AT ALL. 50 00:02:27,776 --> 00:02:30,743 {\an1}WHERE IS THAT ALI MOVEMENT? 51 00:02:30,776 --> 00:02:34,576 {\an1}STRANGE THING TO SEE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 52 00:02:34,609 --> 00:02:38,043 {\an1}NARRATOR: ON DECEMBER 7, 1970, MUHAMMAD ALI FOUGHT 53 00:02:38,076 --> 00:02:42,609 {\an1}OSCAR BONAVENA AT NEW YORK CITY'S MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. 54 00:02:42,643 --> 00:02:46,476 {\an1}HE HAD ALREADY DEFEATED JERRY QUARRY IN ATLANTA IN HIS 55 00:02:46,509 --> 00:02:50,109 {\an1}RETURN FROM A 3 1/2-YEAR BANISHMENT BY BOXING OFFICIALS 56 00:02:50,143 --> 00:02:53,876 {\an1}FOR REFUSING INDUCTION INTO THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES, 57 00:02:53,909 --> 00:02:59,276 {\an1}A CRIME FOR WHICH HE STILL FACED 5 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON. 58 00:02:59,309 --> 00:03:04,109 {\an1}EIG: AS SOON AS ALI STEPPED BACK INTO THE RING AFTER HIS EXILE, 59 00:03:04,143 --> 00:03:07,676 {\an7}BOXING AFICIONADOS, TRAINERS, OTHER BOXERS NOTICED 60 00:03:07,709 --> 00:03:10,976 {\an7}IMMEDIATELY THAT HE WAS DIFFERENT, THAT HE WAS SLOWER. 61 00:03:11,009 --> 00:03:13,276 {\an1}AND BECAUSE HE HAD NEVER HAD GREAT TECHNIQUE, 62 00:03:13,309 --> 00:03:15,476 BECAUSE HE HAD KEPT HIS HANDS TOO LOW 63 00:03:15,509 --> 00:03:18,676 {\an1}AND HE HAD NEVER LEARNED TO DUCK PUNCHES, 64 00:03:18,709 --> 00:03:20,843 THIS MADE HIM MORE VULNERABLE. 65 00:03:20,876 --> 00:03:24,843 {\an1}HE WAS GOING TO BE ABSORBING MORE PUNISHMENT NOW, 66 00:03:24,876 --> 00:03:28,043 {\an1}AND HE WAS GONNA HAVE TO LEARN DIFFERENT WAYS TO WIN. 67 00:03:28,076 --> 00:03:31,443 {\an1}COSELL: AND NOW ALI IS BEHAVING LIKE THE OLD ALI. 68 00:03:31,476 --> 00:03:33,343 IT'S OVER! 69 00:03:33,376 --> 00:03:35,976 {\an1}ALI IS THE KNOCKOUT WINNER AT 2 MINUTES AND 3 SEC... 70 00:03:36,009 --> 00:03:39,609 {\an1}NARRATOR: HE NEEDED 15 ROUNDS TO BEAT BONAVENA. 71 00:03:39,643 --> 00:03:41,576 {\an1}"I TOOK EVERYTHING HE THREW," 72 00:03:41,609 --> 00:03:43,843 {\an1}ALI TOLD REPORTERS AFTER THE FIGHT. 73 00:03:43,876 --> 00:03:46,676 {\an1}"AND HE HITS HARD." 74 00:03:46,709 --> 00:03:49,343 {\an1}"THAT WAS WHEN ALI DISCOVERED SOMETHING 75 00:03:49,376 --> 00:03:52,509 {\an1}WHICH WAS BOTH VERY GOOD AND VERY BAD," 76 00:03:52,543 --> 00:03:55,643 {\an1}HIS FIGHT DOCTOR, FERDIE PACHECO, SAID. 77 00:03:55,676 --> 00:03:57,976 {\an1}"HE COULD TAKE A PUNCH." 78 00:03:58,009 --> 00:04:06,009 ♪ 79 00:04:09,609 --> 00:04:11,876 BY THE TIME MUHAMMAD ALI HAD REGAINED 80 00:04:11,909 --> 00:04:16,076 {\an1}HIS BOXING LICENSE IN 1970, MANY AMERICANS HAD GROWN TIRED 81 00:04:16,109 --> 00:04:19,909 {\an1}OF THE EVER-INCREASING BODY COUNT, GRIM NEWS REPORTS, 82 00:04:19,943 --> 00:04:23,076 {\an1}AND GRAPHIC IMAGERY COMING BACK FROM THE FRONT LINES 83 00:04:23,109 --> 00:04:25,076 {\an1}OF THE VIETNAM WAR. 84 00:04:25,109 --> 00:04:29,609 {\an1}CIVIL UNREST IN NEWARK, CHICAGO, DETROIT, AND MANY 85 00:04:29,643 --> 00:04:33,376 {\an1}OTHER CITIES HAD FURTHER LAID BARE AFRICAN-AMERICANS' 86 00:04:33,409 --> 00:04:37,309 {\an1}DEEP FRUSTRATION WITH THEIR SECOND-CLASS STATUS, 87 00:04:37,343 --> 00:04:40,409 {\an1}WHILE THE NATION OF ISLAM, THE SEPARATIST RELIGIOUS SECT 88 00:04:40,443 --> 00:04:43,143 {\an1}THAT ALI CONTINUED TO SUPPORT, HAD, 89 00:04:43,176 --> 00:04:47,043 {\an1}SINCE THE DEATH OF MALCOLM X, RETREATED FROM THE PUBLIC EYE, 90 00:04:47,076 --> 00:04:50,843 {\an1}AND NOW SEEMED LESS THREATENING TO WHITE AMERICA. 91 00:04:50,876 --> 00:04:53,676 {\an1}[SHOUTING AND CHANTING] 92 00:04:53,709 --> 00:04:55,509 [SIRENS] 93 00:04:55,543 --> 00:05:01,843 ♪ 94 00:05:01,876 --> 00:05:05,076 {\an1}EARLY: BECAUSE OF THE CHANGES TAKING PLACE IN THE COUNTRY... 95 00:05:05,109 --> 00:05:08,109 {\an1}THE ANTI-VIETNAM WAR MOVEMENT AND THE LIKE, 96 00:05:08,143 --> 00:05:10,976 {\an1}THE RISE OF BLACK POWER IN THE COUNTRY, 97 00:05:11,009 --> 00:05:14,809 {\an1}THE RISE OF RADICALISM IN THE COUNTRY, 98 00:05:14,843 --> 00:05:19,809 {\an1}ALI SUDDENLY HAS A REAL AUDIENCE AND A REAL SET OF FOLLOWERS 99 00:05:19,843 --> 00:05:23,343 {\an1}IN A WAY THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE BEFORE, 100 00:05:23,376 --> 00:05:27,909 {\an1}AND HE NO LONGER IS SOMEONE WHO'S SEEN IN AMERICAN CULTURE 101 00:05:27,943 --> 00:05:30,009 {\an1}JUST AS TOTALLY A VILLAIN. 102 00:05:30,043 --> 00:05:34,143 {\an7}HE'S NOW A HERO TO A SIZABLE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, 103 00:05:34,176 --> 00:05:36,476 {\an1}AND HE'S GONNA PLAY TO THAT PARTICULAR SEGMENT 104 00:05:36,509 --> 00:05:39,143 {\an1}OF AMERICAN SOCIETY. 105 00:05:39,176 --> 00:05:42,643 {\an1}NARRATOR: ALI WAS DETERMINED TO REGAIN THE HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE, 106 00:05:42,676 --> 00:05:45,943 BUT HIS SENTENCE FOR DRAFT EVASION LOOMED. 107 00:05:45,976 --> 00:05:50,809 {\an1}OVER THE PAST 3 1/2 YEARS, HE HAD LOST APPEAL AFTER APPEAL. 108 00:05:50,843 --> 00:05:54,276 {\an1}NOW HIS LAST CHANCE TO AVOID PRISON 109 00:05:54,309 --> 00:05:57,409 {\an1}LAY WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, 110 00:05:57,443 --> 00:06:00,976 {\an1}IF THEY WOULD EVEN AGREE TO HEAR HIS CASE. 111 00:06:01,009 --> 00:06:03,243 ANNOUNCER: RETURN OF THE CHAMPION... 112 00:06:03,276 --> 00:06:06,643 {\an1}NARRATOR: ALI'S RETURN TO BOXING HAD DEMONSTRATED THAT 113 00:06:06,676 --> 00:06:09,009 {\an1}HE WAS STILL AN ENORMOUS ATTRACTION. 114 00:06:09,043 --> 00:06:13,109 {\an1}PEOPLE EVERYWHERE WERE EAGER TO SEE THE MOST DOMINANT BOXER 115 00:06:13,143 --> 00:06:15,643 {\an1}OF THE 1960s FIGHT AGAIN. 116 00:06:15,676 --> 00:06:17,809 {\an7}DUNPHY: MUHAMMAD ALI, CASSIUS CLAY... 117 00:06:17,843 --> 00:06:21,009 {\an7}REMNICK: WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE GREATEST FIGHTS, 118 00:06:21,043 --> 00:06:23,943 THERE ARE FIGHTS THAT ARE PERFECT, 119 00:06:23,976 --> 00:06:27,509 {\an1}AND THEN THERE ARE FIGHTS THAT ARE DRAMATIC. 120 00:06:27,543 --> 00:06:31,809 {\an1}HIS FIGHT EARLY ON AGAINST CLEVELAND WILLIAMS OR ZORA FOLLEY 121 00:06:31,843 --> 00:06:34,043 {\an8}BEFORE HE'S TAKEN OUT OF COMMISSION BECAUSE 122 00:06:34,076 --> 00:06:37,843 {\an7}OF THE DRAFT DRAMA ARE EXQUISITE AND PERFECT. 123 00:06:37,876 --> 00:06:40,676 {\an1}THE SPEED IS THERE. THE HAND SPEED IS THERE. 124 00:06:40,709 --> 00:06:42,476 {\an7}DUNPHY: THAT'S THE ALI SHUFFLE. 125 00:06:42,509 --> 00:06:45,143 {\an1}REMNICK: HE DOESN'T MAKE A FALSE MOVE, 126 00:06:45,176 --> 00:06:46,909 {\an1}AND THEN HE FINISHES IT OFF. 127 00:06:48,343 --> 00:06:51,943 {\an1}THERE'S NO MORE PERFECT PERFORMANCE. 128 00:06:51,976 --> 00:06:54,843 {\an1}BUT IT'S NOT HOMERIC IN SCALE. 129 00:06:54,876 --> 00:06:59,543 {\an1}IT DOESN'T COME WITH SUFFERING AND GREAT OPPOSITION. 130 00:06:59,576 --> 00:07:03,776 {\an1}SO THAT COMES IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES. 131 00:07:03,809 --> 00:07:07,209 {\an7}AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT ANY ATHLETE, IT'S NOT A REAL 132 00:07:07,243 --> 00:07:10,443 {\an7}DISCUSSION UNLESS THEY HAVE SOME RIVALRY. 133 00:07:10,476 --> 00:07:14,509 {\an1}SO YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT MUHAMMAD ALI WITHOUT TALKING 134 00:07:14,543 --> 00:07:16,509 {\an1}ABOUT JOE FRAZIER. 135 00:07:16,543 --> 00:07:20,543 {\an1}HIS RIVALRY IN ONE SENSE WAS WITH THE SYSTEM, THE POWERS 136 00:07:20,576 --> 00:07:22,376 {\an1}THAT BE, THE GOVERNMENT, 137 00:07:22,409 --> 00:07:26,709 {\an1}BUT HIS SPORTS RIVAL WAS JOE FRAZIER. 138 00:07:28,009 --> 00:07:29,876 [BELL CLANGS] 139 00:07:38,643 --> 00:07:42,376 {\an1}NARRATOR: ON DECEMBER 30, 1970, MUHAMMAD ALI, 140 00:07:42,409 --> 00:07:46,109 {\an1}THE NUMBER-ONE HEAVYWEIGHT CONTENDER, AND JOE FRAZIER, 141 00:07:46,143 --> 00:07:49,543 {\an1}THE REIGNING WORLD CHAMPION, MET IN NEW YORK 142 00:07:49,576 --> 00:07:52,343 TO ANNOUNCE THEIR MUCH-ANTICIPATED TITLE FIGHT. 143 00:07:52,376 --> 00:07:54,709 I PREDICT THAT WHEN I MEET JOE FRAZIER, 144 00:07:54,743 --> 00:07:56,943 {\an1}THIS WILL BE LIKE A GOOD AMATEUR 145 00:07:56,976 --> 00:07:58,943 {\an1}FIGHTING A REAL PROFESSIONAL. 146 00:07:58,976 --> 00:08:02,143 {\an1}THIS WILL BE LIKE A KID OUT OF THE OLYMPICS MEETING 147 00:08:02,176 --> 00:08:04,809 {\an1}THE FASTEST HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION THAT EVER LIVED. 148 00:08:04,843 --> 00:08:07,209 {\an1}THIS WILL BE NO CONTEST. 149 00:08:07,243 --> 00:08:09,443 {\an1}NARRATOR: THEY'D SIGNED THE LARGEST CONTRACT 150 00:08:09,476 --> 00:08:12,676 {\an1}IN THE SPORT'S HISTORY, GUARANTEEING THEM EACH 151 00:08:12,709 --> 00:08:14,843 $2.5 MILLION. 152 00:08:14,876 --> 00:08:17,609 {\an1}NEVER BEFORE HAD TWO UNDEFEATED CHAMPIONS 153 00:08:17,643 --> 00:08:20,343 {\an1}FACED EACH OTHER FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE. 154 00:08:20,376 --> 00:08:24,376 IT WAS BILLED AS "THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY." 155 00:08:25,676 --> 00:08:28,343 {\an1}NARRATOR: TWO WEEKS LATER, THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT 156 00:08:28,376 --> 00:08:32,043 {\an1}ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WOULD HEAR MUHAMMAD ALI'S APPEAL, 157 00:08:32,076 --> 00:08:36,643 {\an1}KEEPING ALIVE THE SLIM HOPE THAT HE MIGHT AVOID PRISON. 158 00:08:36,676 --> 00:08:40,309 {\an1}JEAN KNIGHT'S "MR. BIG STUFF" PLAYING 159 00:08:40,343 --> 00:08:45,443 {\an1}ON JANUARY 13, 1971, ALI ARRIVED IN MIAMI BEACH 160 00:08:45,476 --> 00:08:48,009 {\an1}TO PREPARE FOR HIS FIGHT WITH FRAZIER. 161 00:08:48,043 --> 00:08:52,309 {\an1}ANGELO DUNDEE, ALI'S LONG-TIME TRAINER, HAD ARRANGED 162 00:08:52,343 --> 00:08:56,143 {\an1}FOR THE BOXER TO STAY AT AN UPSCALE JEWISH RETIREMENT COMMUNITY 163 00:08:56,176 --> 00:08:59,243 {\an1}CALLED THE OCTAGON TOWERS. 164 00:08:59,276 --> 00:09:03,209 {\an1}HE WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN- AMERICAN EVER PERMITTED TO LIVE THERE. 165 00:09:03,243 --> 00:09:06,876 MY MAN. HE FEEDS ME KOSHER FOOD EVERY DAY. 166 00:09:06,909 --> 00:09:09,109 {\an1}YES, SIR. AND IT'S GOOD, TOO. 167 00:09:09,143 --> 00:09:11,443 {\an8}WHO ARE YOU FOR, JOE FRAZIER OR ME? 168 00:09:11,476 --> 00:09:12,752 {\an8}THEY TELL ME JOE FRAZIER'S THE NEW CHAMP. 169 00:09:12,776 --> 00:09:14,309 {\an8}WHAT DO YOU SAY? NOW WHO ARE YOU? 170 00:09:14,343 --> 00:09:15,876 {\an8}I'M THE HEAVYWE... WHO AM I? 171 00:09:15,909 --> 00:09:18,309 {\an1}LAUGHTER WOMAN: OHH! 172 00:09:20,276 --> 00:09:22,376 {\an1}KNIGHT: ♪ WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? ♪ 173 00:09:22,409 --> 00:09:23,876 ♪ MR. BIG STUFF ♪ 174 00:09:23,909 --> 00:09:26,243 NARRATOR: DUNDEE'S 5th STREET GYM, 175 00:09:26,276 --> 00:09:29,043 {\an1}WHERE ALI HAD FIRST TRAINED A DECADE EARLIER, 176 00:09:29,076 --> 00:09:33,876 {\an1}BUSTLED WITH REPORTERS AND FANS, EACH OF WHOM PAID $1.00 TO WATCH 177 00:09:33,909 --> 00:09:35,843 {\an1}THE FIGHTER ENTERTAIN. 178 00:09:35,876 --> 00:09:38,509 {\an1}ALI DID NOT DISAPPOINT. 179 00:09:38,543 --> 00:09:43,776 {\an1}KNIGHT: ♪ YOU MADE 'EM CRY, MANY POOR GIRLS CRY ♪ 180 00:09:43,809 --> 00:09:46,576 HE TOLD JOKES, POSED FOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 181 00:09:46,609 --> 00:09:48,776 {\an1}PERFORMED MAGIC TRICKS, 182 00:09:48,809 --> 00:09:52,343 {\an1}AND DREW LAUGHS WHEN HE MOCKINGLY IMITATED JOE FRAZIER'S STYLE. 183 00:09:52,376 --> 00:09:54,376 {\an1}HE'S TAKING 20 HEADSHOTS. 184 00:09:54,409 --> 00:09:58,076 {\an1}NARRATOR: "I NEVER WANTED TO WHUP ANYBODY SO BAD," ALI SAID. 185 00:09:58,109 --> 00:10:01,876 {\an1}"THE PEOPLE OF THE WHOLE WORLD GONNA SEE WHO'S KING." 186 00:10:01,909 --> 00:10:03,809 {\an1}KNIGHT: ♪ MR. BIG STUFF ♪ 187 00:10:03,843 --> 00:10:07,176 {\an1}THOUGH ALI HAD FOUGHT TWICE IN THE PAST 3 MONTHS, HE WAS 188 00:10:07,209 --> 00:10:10,909 {\an1}10 POUNDS OVER HIS PREFERRED WEIGHT AND SEEMED UNINTERESTED 189 00:10:10,943 --> 00:10:13,409 {\an1}IN GETTING IN SHAPE. 190 00:10:13,443 --> 00:10:17,476 {\an1}"TRAINING WAS MOSTLY A PUBLICITY STUNT," FERDIE PACHECO SAID. 191 00:10:17,509 --> 00:10:21,076 {\an1}"HE TRAINED A LITTLE BIT AND THEN HE TALKED A LOT." 192 00:10:22,576 --> 00:10:26,509 {\an1}JOE'S GONNA COME OUT SMOKIN', AND I AIN'T GONNA BE JOKIN'. 193 00:10:26,543 --> 00:10:30,376 {\an1}I'LL BE PECKIN' AND A POKIN', POURING WATER ON HIS SMOKIN'. 194 00:10:30,409 --> 00:10:33,676 {\an1}THIS MIGHT SHOCK AND AMAZE YA, BUT I WILL RETIRE JOE FRAZIER. 195 00:10:33,709 --> 00:10:35,176 [LAUGHTER] 196 00:10:35,209 --> 00:10:37,409 {\an7}WHEN I USED TO WATCH MUHAMMAD FIGHT, 197 00:10:37,443 --> 00:10:39,185 {\an7}I FELT CONFIDENT THAT HE WAS GONNA WHOOP ANYBODY 198 00:10:39,209 --> 00:10:40,676 {\an7}THAT GOT IN THAT RING. 199 00:10:40,709 --> 00:10:42,609 {\an7}I DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT A THING. 200 00:10:42,643 --> 00:10:45,943 {\an1}"BUT YOU'RE GETTING COCKY AND YOU'RE NOT TRAINING LIKE 201 00:10:45,976 --> 00:10:48,109 {\an1}"THE WAY YOU SUPPOSED TO BE TRAINING. 202 00:10:48,143 --> 00:10:51,943 {\an1}"YOU JUST TRYING TO CONVINCE YOURSELF THAT YOU GONNA WIN, 203 00:10:51,976 --> 00:10:57,576 {\an1}"BUT IT TAKES TRAINING AND HARD WORK, AND YOU'RE GOOD AT THAT. 204 00:10:57,609 --> 00:10:59,376 {\an1}"AND NOW YOU'RE NOT TRAINING RIGHT, 205 00:10:59,409 --> 00:11:01,443 AND YOU MAKING ME WORRIED NOW." 206 00:11:01,476 --> 00:11:02,609 {\an1}HELLO, YOUNG LADY. 207 00:11:02,643 --> 00:11:03,776 WOMAN: HELLO, SIR. 208 00:11:03,809 --> 00:11:04,876 {\an1}HOW ARE YOU TODAY? FINE. 209 00:11:04,909 --> 00:11:06,376 GOOD. 210 00:11:06,409 --> 00:11:08,052 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE CROWDS AND THE CAMERAS WERE NOT 211 00:11:08,076 --> 00:11:10,643 {\an1}ALI'S ONLY DISTRACTION. 212 00:11:10,676 --> 00:11:13,709 {\an1}EVER SINCE HIS EXILE FROM BOXING AND SUSPENSION FROM 213 00:11:13,743 --> 00:11:16,109 {\an1}THE NATION OF ISLAM, HE HAD BEEN CHEATING 214 00:11:16,143 --> 00:11:18,776 {\an1}ON BELINDA FREQUENTLY. 215 00:11:18,809 --> 00:11:21,776 {\an1}NO MATTER WHERE HE WENT, WOMEN SOUGHT HIS ATTENTION 216 00:11:21,809 --> 00:11:25,243 {\an1}AND AFFECTION, AND MEMBERS OF HIS ENTOURAGE HELPED 217 00:11:25,276 --> 00:11:29,643 {\an1}FEED HIS INCREASING APPETITE FOR CASUAL SEX. 218 00:11:29,676 --> 00:11:31,809 {\an1}BELINDA WAS HEARTBROKEN. 219 00:11:31,843 --> 00:11:35,076 SHE BEGAN HAVING HER OWN AFFAIRS. 220 00:11:35,109 --> 00:11:37,443 BELINDA ALI: WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. 221 00:11:37,476 --> 00:11:42,676 {\an1}I'M NOT PERFECT, AND I DON'T EXPECT FOR HIM TO BE PERFECT. 222 00:11:42,709 --> 00:11:48,843 {\an1}WHEN HE WAS TRAINING FOR THE JOE FRAZIER FIGHT, GUYS WAS 223 00:11:48,876 --> 00:11:51,943 {\an1}COMING AROUND TO THE CAMP, UP TO NO GOOD, 224 00:11:51,976 --> 00:11:54,143 {\an1}BRINGING HIM CHICKS. 225 00:11:54,176 --> 00:11:56,943 {\an1}I SAID "MAN, THIS IS NOT GONNA WORK. 226 00:11:58,176 --> 00:12:02,376 {\an1}I PACKED MY BAGS, AND I WENT BACK TO CHICAGO. 227 00:12:02,409 --> 00:12:04,909 {\an1}ALI: THEY DON'T COME TO SEE A TALKER. 228 00:12:04,943 --> 00:12:06,209 THEY SEEIN' AND WATCHIN' A DOER. 229 00:12:06,243 --> 00:12:07,709 {\an1}MAN: THAT'S RIGHT. 230 00:12:07,743 --> 00:12:09,509 NOW LET ME GO TO WORK NOW. YEAH. 231 00:12:09,543 --> 00:12:12,276 {\an1}[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] 232 00:12:12,309 --> 00:12:15,209 {\an1}NARRATOR: WHEN ASKED BY A REPORTER IF HE HAD 233 00:12:15,243 --> 00:12:19,209 {\an1}LOST A STEP, ALI REPLIED, "I'M JUST AS SHARP... 234 00:12:19,243 --> 00:12:21,209 {\an1}"I JUST FIGHT DIFFERENT NOW. 235 00:12:21,243 --> 00:12:23,776 {\an1}"NOW I'M A MATURE MAN, A STRONG MAN. 236 00:12:23,809 --> 00:12:26,476 THE DANCING IS NO LONGER NECESSARY." 237 00:12:26,509 --> 00:12:28,519 {\an1}ALI: I'M NOT JUST GONNA WHUP FRAZIER, I'M GONNA WHUP ALL 238 00:12:28,543 --> 00:12:30,676 {\an1}THE SO-CALLED EXPERTS. 239 00:12:30,709 --> 00:12:33,176 {\an1}AFTER THIS ONE, THEY WILL NEVER PREDICT AGAINST 240 00:12:33,209 --> 00:12:34,649 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI. MAN: YOU GOT THAT RIGHT. 241 00:12:34,676 --> 00:12:36,476 NEVER AGAIN. 242 00:12:36,509 --> 00:12:38,152 {\an1}EIG: ALI DIDN'T THINK HE WAS GONNA HAVE MUCH TROUBLE 243 00:12:38,176 --> 00:12:40,176 {\an8}WITH JOE FRAZIER. FRAZIER WAS SMALLER, 244 00:12:40,209 --> 00:12:42,309 {\an7}HE WAS NOT A PRETTY FIGHTER. 245 00:12:42,343 --> 00:12:46,809 {\an7}HE WAS THE GUY WHO JUST BULLED HIS WAY IN, GOT UNDER YOUR CHIN, 246 00:12:46,843 --> 00:12:49,309 AND JUST POUNDED AND POUNDED AND POUNDED. 247 00:12:49,343 --> 00:12:52,076 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: FRAZIER IS PUTTING EVERYTHING INTO EVERY PUNCH. 248 00:12:52,109 --> 00:12:54,243 {\an1}EIG: BUT HE HAD THIS LEFT HOOK, 249 00:12:54,276 --> 00:12:56,543 {\an1}AND WHEN HE THREW THAT HOOK, IT JUST LANDED. 250 00:12:56,576 --> 00:13:00,243 {\an1}IT'S MAYBE THE GREATEST LEFT HOOK IN ALL OF BOXING HISTORY. 251 00:13:00,276 --> 00:13:02,076 {\an1}COSELL: THAT'S THE LEFT HOOK. 252 00:13:02,109 --> 00:13:04,943 {\an1}AND ALI HAD ALWAYS BEEN VULNERABLE TO THE LEFT HOOK, 253 00:13:04,976 --> 00:13:07,309 {\an1}ALL HIS CAREER, EVEN AS AN AMATEUR. 254 00:13:07,343 --> 00:13:10,209 {\an1}LEFT HOOK WAS THE PUNCH THAT HE HAD A HARD TIME SEEING 255 00:13:10,243 --> 00:13:13,276 {\an1}AND HE'D BEEN HURT BY IT MANY TIMES. 256 00:13:13,309 --> 00:13:16,409 {\an1}SO THIS WAS A DIFFICULT MATCH-UP. 257 00:13:16,443 --> 00:13:18,743 {\an1}INTERVIEWER: I WAS TALKING TO MUHAMMAD ALI DOWN IN MIAMI 258 00:13:18,776 --> 00:13:20,176 {\an1}EARLIER THIS WEEK, 259 00:13:20,209 --> 00:13:21,943 {\an1}AND HE CALLED YOU A GOOD STREET FIGHTER. 260 00:13:21,976 --> 00:13:24,076 {\an1}DOES THAT MAKE YOU MAD? 261 00:13:24,109 --> 00:13:28,843 {\an1}DON'T MAKE ME MAD AT ALL. 262 00:13:28,876 --> 00:13:31,876 {\an1}NARRATOR: JOE FRAZIER WAS THE YOUNGEST OF 10 CHILDREN 263 00:13:31,909 --> 00:13:36,176 {\an1}BORN TO A ONE-ARMED HANDYMAN AND HIS WIFE, A FIELD HAND, 264 00:13:36,209 --> 00:13:39,009 {\an1}IN SOUTH CAROLINA'S LOW COUNTRY. 265 00:13:39,043 --> 00:13:42,243 AT 6, HE HAD SEEN JOE LOUIS BOX 266 00:13:42,276 --> 00:13:46,143 {\an1}IN AN EXHIBITION FIGHT IN NEARBY BEAUFORT. 267 00:13:46,176 --> 00:13:49,943 {\an1}LATER, HE FASHIONED A HEAVY BAG FROM A BURLAP SACK, 268 00:13:49,976 --> 00:13:55,209 {\an1}FILLING IT WITH SAND, CORNCOBS, BRICKS... WHATEVER HE COULD FIND... 269 00:13:55,243 --> 00:13:58,576 {\an1}THEN SPENT AN HOUR A DAY WALLOPING IT. 270 00:13:58,609 --> 00:14:02,143 {\an1}IZENBERG: HIS UNCLE CALLED HIM LITTLE JOE LOUIS. 271 00:14:02,176 --> 00:14:07,543 {\an7}AT SCHOOL, UM, HE WAS THE TOUGHEST GUY IN THE CLASS. 272 00:14:07,576 --> 00:14:09,376 {\an1}AND WHEN THE BULLIES WOULD COME TO TAKE 273 00:14:09,409 --> 00:14:11,209 THE OTHER KIDS' LUNCH MONEY, 274 00:14:11,243 --> 00:14:13,476 {\an1}HE WOULD DEFEND THEM. 275 00:14:13,509 --> 00:14:16,476 NARRATOR: FRAZIER QUIT SCHOOL AT 15, 276 00:14:16,509 --> 00:14:20,143 {\an1}AND AFTER BRIEF STINTS PICKING CROPS, WORKING CONSTRUCTION, 277 00:14:20,176 --> 00:14:23,076 {\an1}AND LOADING CRATES AT A COCA-COLA PLANT, 278 00:14:23,109 --> 00:14:27,343 {\an1}HE LEFT SOUTH CAROLINA IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING BETTER. 279 00:14:27,376 --> 00:14:31,409 {\an1}IN PHILADELPHIA, HE MOVED IN WITH AN AUNT, GOT A JOB 280 00:14:31,443 --> 00:14:34,809 {\an1}AT A SLAUGHTERHOUSE, AND, HOPING TO LOSE WEIGHT, 281 00:14:34,843 --> 00:14:38,176 {\an1}BEGAN WORKING OUT AT A POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE GYM 282 00:14:38,209 --> 00:14:40,809 {\an1}ON THE NORTH SIDE OF TOWN. 283 00:14:40,843 --> 00:14:44,776 {\an1}ONE DAY, A FORMER AMATEUR FIGHTER NAMED "YANK" DURHAM 284 00:14:44,809 --> 00:14:47,443 {\an1}WATCHED FRAZIER SLUG A HEAVY BAG. 285 00:14:47,476 --> 00:14:51,009 {\an1}THOUGH THE TEENAGER WAS PIGEON TOED, OVERWEIGHT, AND HAD 286 00:14:51,043 --> 00:14:54,709 {\an1}SHORT ARMS FOR A FIGHTER, DURHAM WAS IMPRESSED 287 00:14:54,743 --> 00:14:57,009 {\an1}AND OFFERED TO TRAIN HIM. 288 00:14:57,043 --> 00:15:00,176 {\an1}THE YOUNG BOXER PROVED DEDICATED AND DISCIPLINED, 289 00:15:00,209 --> 00:15:02,276 {\an1}RUNNING EACH MORNING BEFORE HIS SHIFT 290 00:15:02,309 --> 00:15:04,943 {\an1}AT THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND TRAINING AT THE GYM 291 00:15:04,976 --> 00:15:07,443 {\an1}LATE INTO THE NIGHT. 292 00:15:07,476 --> 00:15:11,276 {\an1}WITHIN TWO MONTHS, FRAZIER HAD ENTERED AND WON 293 00:15:11,309 --> 00:15:14,409 {\an1}THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC GOLDEN GLOVES TOURNAMENT. 294 00:15:14,443 --> 00:15:19,043 {\an1}TWO YEARS LATER, IN 1964, HE EARNED A GOLD MEDAL 295 00:15:19,076 --> 00:15:22,909 {\an1}FIGHTING AS A HEAVYWEIGHT AT THE TOKYO OLYMPICS. 296 00:15:22,943 --> 00:15:25,909 {\an1}BACK IN PHILADELPHIA THEY BEGAN CALLING HIM 297 00:15:25,943 --> 00:15:28,409 {\an1}"THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE KID." 298 00:15:28,443 --> 00:15:34,076 {\an7}IN AUGUST OF 1965, MARRIED AND WITH 3 YOUNG CHILDREN, 299 00:15:34,109 --> 00:15:39,809 {\an1}FRAZIER, NOW 21 YEARS OLD, TURNED PROFESSIONAL. 300 00:15:39,843 --> 00:15:42,209 {\an1}WILL IT BE MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE FIGHTING PRO? 301 00:15:42,243 --> 00:15:45,176 {\an1}THE ONLY THING I CAN SEE, THE GLOVES IS A LITTLE LIGHTER. 302 00:15:45,209 --> 00:15:46,376 THAT'S ABOUT ALL. 303 00:15:46,409 --> 00:15:47,909 {\an1}REPORTER: AND THE MONEY? 304 00:15:47,943 --> 00:15:50,343 {\an1}WELL, UH, WELL, THAT'LL BE GOOD, TOO. 305 00:15:50,376 --> 00:15:54,409 {\an1}WE ALL COULD USE SOME OF THAT, YOU KNOW, EVERY NOW AND THEN. 306 00:15:54,443 --> 00:15:58,676 {\an1}MOSLEY: JOE FRAZIER, FOUGHT BEYOND WHAT HE WAS. 307 00:15:58,709 --> 00:16:01,743 {\an1}HE REALLY SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THAT COMPETITIVE IN... 308 00:16:01,776 --> 00:16:05,109 {\an7}IN THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION, CONSIDERING HIS SIZE, YOU KNOW, 309 00:16:05,143 --> 00:16:08,443 {\an7}CONSIDERING HIS TALENTS, YOU KNOW? 310 00:16:08,476 --> 00:16:14,943 {\an1}BUT HE WAS, BECAUSE HE WAS ALSO A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. 311 00:16:14,976 --> 00:16:18,376 {\an1}NOT A POLITICAL FORCE, NOT AN INTELLECTUAL FORCE, 312 00:16:18,409 --> 00:16:22,476 {\an1}JUST A BOXING FORCE, BUT A FORCE OF NATURE. 313 00:16:24,143 --> 00:16:28,209 {\an1}NARRATOR: FRAZIER WON HIS FIRST 24 FIGHTS AND HAD 314 00:16:28,243 --> 00:16:31,309 {\an1}ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A CONTENDER FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT 315 00:16:31,343 --> 00:16:35,376 {\an1}CHAMPIONSHIP THAT HAD BEEN STRIPPED FROM MUHAMMAD ALI. 316 00:16:35,409 --> 00:16:39,609 {\an7}KINDRED: THERE HAD BEEN A TOURNAMENT TO SUCCEED ALI. 317 00:16:39,643 --> 00:16:42,543 {\an7}HIS OLD SPARRING PARTNER AND FRIEND JIMMY ELLIS 318 00:16:42,576 --> 00:16:44,576 {\an1}WON THAT TOURNAMENT. 319 00:16:44,609 --> 00:16:47,976 {\an1}THEN ELLIS FOUGHT FRAZIER. 320 00:16:48,009 --> 00:16:50,609 {\an1}FRAZIER KNOCKED HIM OUT IN THE 4th ROUND, 321 00:16:50,643 --> 00:16:53,909 {\an1}AND FRAZIER BECAME THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. 322 00:16:53,943 --> 00:16:57,776 {\an1}SO A FRAZIER-ALI FIGHT WAS INEVITABLE. 323 00:16:57,809 --> 00:17:00,343 {\an7}MUWAKKIL: WHOEVER CLAIMED TO BE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 324 00:17:00,376 --> 00:17:02,576 {\an8}WAS INAUTHENTIC, AUTOMATICALLY. 325 00:17:02,609 --> 00:17:05,076 {\an1}WITHOUT BEING CHALLENGED BY ALI, 326 00:17:05,109 --> 00:17:07,909 {\an1}THERE WAS NO VALIDITY TO THEIR TITLE. 327 00:17:07,943 --> 00:17:10,476 {\an7}FRAZIER: WELL, I CONSIDER MYSELF THE HEAVYWEIGHT 328 00:17:10,509 --> 00:17:15,376 {\an7}CHAMPION OF THE WORLD UNTIL THE CHAMP GETS BACK IN ACTION AGAIN. 329 00:17:15,409 --> 00:17:20,643 {\an7}EARLY: JOE FRAZIER EMERGES AS THE GUY 330 00:17:20,676 --> 00:17:23,343 {\an1}PEOPLE THINK CAN BEAT ALI. 331 00:17:23,376 --> 00:17:25,009 FRAZIER IS A VERY GOOD FIGHTER. 332 00:17:25,043 --> 00:17:26,876 {\an1}COSELL: DOWN GOES ELLIS. 333 00:17:26,909 --> 00:17:29,643 {\an7}I THINK IT WAS NORMAN MAILER WHO CALLED HIM "THE WAR MACHINE," 334 00:17:29,676 --> 00:17:32,376 {\an1}AND, UH, THAT'S A VERY APT, UH, EXPRESSION, 335 00:17:32,409 --> 00:17:33,543 {\an7}HE WAS A WAR MACHINE. 336 00:17:33,576 --> 00:17:35,143 {\an1}COSELL: FRAZIER IS STRONG. 337 00:17:35,176 --> 00:17:36,485 {\an1}EARLY: HE CAME AT YOU VERY AGGRESSIVELY. 338 00:17:36,509 --> 00:17:37,852 {\an1}COSELL: FRAZIER AGAIN WITH THE LEFT. 339 00:17:37,876 --> 00:17:39,143 {\an1}EARLY: HE'S REALLY RELENTLESS. 340 00:17:39,176 --> 00:17:40,876 {\an1}COSELL: ELLIS STANDING THERE, OH! 341 00:17:40,909 --> 00:17:43,709 {\an1}A TREMENDOUS LEFT HOOK. IT IS OVER. 342 00:17:43,743 --> 00:17:45,543 {\an1}NARRATOR: "I'M GONNA RETIRE," FRAZIER HAD SAID 343 00:17:45,576 --> 00:17:47,609 {\an1}AFTER KNOCKING OUT ELLIS. 344 00:17:47,643 --> 00:17:51,009 {\an1}"I'M GONNA SING ROCK 'N ROLL UNTIL THAT MUHAMMAD ALI 345 00:17:51,043 --> 00:17:55,176 {\an1}OR CASSIUS CLAY OR WHATEVER HIS NAME IS CAN FIGHT ME." 346 00:17:55,209 --> 00:17:58,176 ♪ 347 00:17:58,209 --> 00:18:01,776 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI AND JOE FRAZIER HAD BEEN CIRCLING EACH OTHER 348 00:18:01,809 --> 00:18:06,209 {\an1}EVER SINCE THEY'D MET AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN IN 1967. 349 00:18:06,243 --> 00:18:09,276 {\an1}THEN, THE YOUNGER FIGHTER HAD ASKED ALI 350 00:18:09,309 --> 00:18:12,943 {\an1}FOR AN AUTOGRAPH AND PROMISED THAT, IN TWO YEARS, 351 00:18:12,976 --> 00:18:16,209 HE WOULD BE READY TO FACE THE CHAMP. 352 00:18:16,243 --> 00:18:20,543 {\an7}DURING HIS EXILE, ALI HAD HOUNDED FRAZIER MERCILESSLY, 353 00:18:20,576 --> 00:18:24,509 {\an7}TURNING UP AT HIS PHILADELPHIA GYM, CHALLENGING HIM TO FIGHT, 354 00:18:24,543 --> 00:18:27,376 {\an1}TAUNTING HIM ON TV AND RADIO. 355 00:18:27,409 --> 00:18:31,509 {\an1}ALI: I JUST CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THE BELL RING. 356 00:18:31,543 --> 00:18:33,576 {\an1}I'VE NEVER WANTED TO WHUP A MAN SO BAD. 357 00:18:33,609 --> 00:18:35,743 {\an1}I'LL FIGHT... IN THE ALLEY. ANYWHERE. 358 00:18:35,776 --> 00:18:37,619 {\an1}I WANT TO PROVE THAT JOE FRAZIER'S NOT THE HEAVYWEIGHT 359 00:18:37,643 --> 00:18:39,409 {\an1}CHAMPION OF THE WORLD. 360 00:18:39,443 --> 00:18:42,543 {\an1}WE HAVE TO WHUP JOE FRAZIER BECAUSE JOE FRAZIER IS 361 00:18:42,576 --> 00:18:44,119 {\an1}TOO UGLY TO BE THE WORLD'S HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. 362 00:18:44,143 --> 00:18:45,776 [CHEERING] 363 00:18:45,809 --> 00:18:47,719 {\an1}BOBBY DARIN: HE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS, MUHAMMAD, 364 00:18:47,743 --> 00:18:51,243 {\an1}IF INDEED THINGS DON'T WORK OUT AS YOU THINK THEY'RE GOING TO 365 00:18:51,276 --> 00:18:54,043 {\an1}AND FRAZIER, UH, DOES YOU IN? 366 00:18:54,076 --> 00:18:56,043 [LAUGHTER] NEXT QUESTION. 367 00:18:56,076 --> 00:18:57,943 {\an1}[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] 368 00:18:59,243 --> 00:19:02,676 {\an1}NARRATOR: JOE FRAZIER SET UP CAMP AT THE CONCORD HOTEL 369 00:19:02,709 --> 00:19:05,543 {\an1}IN THE FRIGID CATSKILL MOUNTAINS OF NEW YORK, 370 00:19:05,576 --> 00:19:10,543 {\an1}WHERE HE WOKE EACH MORNING BEFORE DAWN AND RAN 4.5 MILES. 371 00:19:10,576 --> 00:19:14,143 {\an1}IN THE AFTERNOON, HE BATTERED MULTIPLE SPARRING PARTNERS, 372 00:19:14,176 --> 00:19:19,209 {\an1}CHOSEN FOR THEIR ABILITY TO MIMIC ALI'S SPEED AND STYLE. 373 00:19:19,243 --> 00:19:22,209 {\an1}WHEN A SNOWSTORM MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR FRAZIER TO 374 00:19:22,243 --> 00:19:25,809 {\an1}TRAIN OUTSIDE, HE RETURNED TO HIS GYM IN PHILADELPHIA, 375 00:19:25,843 --> 00:19:29,909 {\an1}WHERE HIS FANS COULD WATCH AS "YANK" DURHAM PUT HIM THROUGH 376 00:19:29,943 --> 00:19:33,043 {\an1}ONE GRUELING EXERCISE AFTER ANOTHER. 377 00:19:34,476 --> 00:19:36,809 {\an1}"WHY IS IT THAT CLAY GETS SO MUCH SPACE?" 378 00:19:36,843 --> 00:19:38,509 {\an1}FRAZIER COMPLAINED. 379 00:19:38,543 --> 00:19:41,176 {\an1}"HE SAYS SOMETHING, AND IT'S IN THE PAPER, 380 00:19:41,209 --> 00:19:45,009 {\an1}FRONT, BACK AND SIDEWAYS." 381 00:19:45,043 --> 00:19:48,243 {\an1}A LOT OF THEM WANT ME WHUPPED BECAUSE OF THE DRAFT. 382 00:19:50,109 --> 00:19:52,976 {\an1}A LOT OF THEM WANT ME WHUPPED BECAUSE OF RELIGION. 383 00:19:54,443 --> 00:19:58,376 {\an1}A LOT OF THEM WANT ME WHUPPED BECAUSE I'M BLACK... 384 00:19:58,409 --> 00:20:00,809 {\an1}AND FOR OTHER REASONS THAT I MIGHT NOT EVEN KNOW ABOUT. 385 00:20:00,843 --> 00:20:02,443 {\an1}[LAUGHTER] 386 00:20:02,476 --> 00:20:05,843 ALI SCRIPTS THIS SORT OF THING IN COMING BACK. 387 00:20:05,876 --> 00:20:08,843 HE'S NOW THE, UH, THE ANTI-WAR HERO. 388 00:20:08,876 --> 00:20:11,709 {\an1}HE'S THE PERSON WHO'S SACRIFICED YEARS OF HIS CAREER 389 00:20:11,743 --> 00:20:13,643 {\an1}BECAUSE OF HIS BELIEFS. 390 00:20:13,676 --> 00:20:16,809 {\an1}SO HE'S NOT SEEN AS SOME KIND OF ORDINARY DRAFT DODGER. 391 00:20:16,843 --> 00:20:19,476 {\an1}HE'S SEEN AS SOMEONE WHO HAS STOOD UP FOR HIS BELIEFS 392 00:20:19,509 --> 00:20:21,543 {\an1}AND WAS WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE FOR HIS BELIEFS. 393 00:20:21,576 --> 00:20:23,543 {\an1}YOU KNOW, HE SAID, "I'M WILLING TO GO TO JAIL. 394 00:20:23,576 --> 00:20:25,685 {\an1}IF THEY WANT TO PUT ME IN JAIL, I'M WILLING TO GO TO JAIL". 395 00:20:25,709 --> 00:20:28,676 {\an1}HE'S NOT SOMEBODY WHO'S TRYING TO DUCK OUT OF ANY OF THIS. 396 00:20:28,709 --> 00:20:32,309 {\an1}SO HE, IN THIS WAY, BECOMES A KIND OF MARTYR FIGURE. 397 00:20:32,343 --> 00:20:35,776 {\an1}THIS IS WHAT FRAZIER IS UP AGAINST. 398 00:20:35,809 --> 00:20:38,609 {\an1}NARRATOR: AS THE FIGHT APPROACHED, ALI INCREASED HIS 399 00:20:38,643 --> 00:20:41,776 {\an1}ATTACKS ON FRAZIER, CALLING HIM IGNORANT AND THE FAVORITE 400 00:20:41,809 --> 00:20:43,609 {\an1}OF WHITE SOUTHERNERS. 401 00:20:43,643 --> 00:20:46,409 {\an1}THE ONLY PERSON FRAZIER WOULD HEAR FROM IF HE WON, 402 00:20:46,443 --> 00:20:49,576 ALI CLAIMED, WAS RICHARD NIXON. 403 00:20:49,609 --> 00:20:51,143 JOE FRAZIER, 404 00:20:51,176 --> 00:20:52,776 {\an1}THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD... 405 00:20:52,809 --> 00:20:55,743 CLUMSY, UGLY, FLATFOOTED JOE FRAZIER. 406 00:20:55,776 --> 00:20:57,843 {\an1}I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT A REAL CHAMPION IS. 407 00:20:57,876 --> 00:20:59,619 {\an1}MUWAKKIL: ALI, RELISHED THOSE KINDS OF CONTRASTS. 408 00:20:59,643 --> 00:21:00,909 {\an1}FORGOT HOW GOOD I WAS... 409 00:21:00,943 --> 00:21:02,576 {\an1}HE MADE THEM ALL THE TIME. 410 00:21:02,609 --> 00:21:04,243 HE MADE THEM WITH FRAZIER. 411 00:21:04,276 --> 00:21:07,276 {\an1}AND MANY WAYS, VERY UGLY CONTRASTS, YOU KNOW. 412 00:21:07,309 --> 00:21:08,852 {\an1}ALI: HE CAN'T WHOOP ME. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. 413 00:21:08,876 --> 00:21:10,843 {\an7}IN MANY WAYS, RACIST. 414 00:21:10,876 --> 00:21:13,776 {\an7}BUT HE GOT AWAY WITH IT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, HE WAS ALI 415 00:21:13,809 --> 00:21:16,743 {\an7}AND ANY ENEMY OF ALI IS AN ENEMY OF MINE, YOU KNOW. 416 00:21:18,143 --> 00:21:21,043 {\an1}NARRATOR: SPORTSWRITER DICK YOUNG ACCUSED ALI 417 00:21:21,076 --> 00:21:24,376 {\an1}OF WHITEWASHING FRAZIER, CALLING HIS VERBAL BARRAGE 418 00:21:24,409 --> 00:21:26,709 {\an1}"CRUEL AND UNWORTHY." 419 00:21:26,743 --> 00:21:30,409 {\an1}"HE'S GOT THEM SO FOOLED," FRAZIER SAID, "THEY DON'T KNOW 420 00:21:30,443 --> 00:21:32,076 {\an1}"IF THEY'RE COMING OR GOING. 421 00:21:32,109 --> 00:21:34,909 "I WAS BORN UNDER THIS RACISM THING. 422 00:21:34,943 --> 00:21:38,676 {\an1}I DON'T HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY PREACH TO ME THE DIFFERENCE." 423 00:21:38,709 --> 00:21:40,843 {\an1}IT WAS THE BIGGEST FIGHT BECAUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME 424 00:21:40,876 --> 00:21:43,709 {\an1}YOU'VE HAD A REALLY QUICK, FAST-TALKING HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP 425 00:21:43,743 --> 00:21:45,219 {\an1}WHEN THE MOST OF 'EM ANSWER THE QUESTION 426 00:21:45,243 --> 00:21:47,676 {\an1}"HOW DO YOU FEEL CHAMP?" "DAH, DUH, DUH DAH." 427 00:21:47,709 --> 00:21:49,143 [LAUGHTER] [MUMBLES MOCKINGLY] 428 00:21:49,176 --> 00:21:51,909 [APPLAUSE] 429 00:21:54,243 --> 00:21:56,976 {\an1}FRAZIER: HE TRIED TO DO EVERYTHING AND SAY EVERYTHING 430 00:21:57,009 --> 00:21:59,909 TO PUT ME DOWN, IN WHICH I DON'T AGREE WITH IT 431 00:21:59,943 --> 00:22:01,943 {\an1}AND I THINK THAT THE GUY TALK 432 00:22:01,976 --> 00:22:05,309 {\an1}FROM THE SIDE OF HIS MOUTH, AND HE'S A PHONY. 433 00:22:05,343 --> 00:22:08,676 IZENBERG: FRAZIER SAID, "WHEN ALI WAS A KID, 434 00:22:08,709 --> 00:22:10,476 {\an1}"THEY STOLE HIS BIKE. 435 00:22:10,509 --> 00:22:13,009 "SO HE HAD TO GO BECOME A BOXER. 436 00:22:13,043 --> 00:22:15,343 {\an1}WHO HAD A BIKE?" HE WAS 13 YEARS OLD. 437 00:22:15,376 --> 00:22:18,443 {\an7}"I WAS WORKIN' IN THE FIELDS, FOR A FULL DAY, 13 YEARS OLD. 438 00:22:18,476 --> 00:22:21,476 {\an1}"I LEFT THE SOUTH AT 15. 439 00:22:21,509 --> 00:22:23,509 "I WORKED IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE. 440 00:22:23,543 --> 00:22:26,776 {\an1}"YOU KNOW, I WORKED IN BLOOD UP TO MY ANKLES. 441 00:22:26,809 --> 00:22:28,609 {\an1}"AND THIS GUY NEVER HAD A JOB IN HIS LIFE. 442 00:22:28,643 --> 00:22:31,109 {\an1}"HE WAS THE PAMPERED DARLING OF THE RICH PEOPLE 443 00:22:31,143 --> 00:22:33,143 OF LOUISVILLE." 444 00:22:33,176 --> 00:22:38,776 {\an1}SO JOE HAD A CHIP LIKE ATLAS CARRIED ON HIS SHOULDER. 445 00:22:38,809 --> 00:22:44,309 {\an1}LIPSYTE: I THINK THAT JOE WAS ALWAYS UPSET BY BEING 446 00:22:44,343 --> 00:22:48,809 DISRESPECTED, SPECIFICALLY IN THAT WAY. 447 00:22:48,843 --> 00:22:53,109 {\an7}NOW, ALI TRASH-TALKED EVERYBODY, 448 00:22:53,143 --> 00:22:55,143 {\an1}MADE UP NAMES FOR THEM. 449 00:22:55,176 --> 00:23:00,976 {\an1}BUT NEVER BEFORE SO, AH, RACIALLY DISRESPECTFUL. 450 00:23:01,009 --> 00:23:04,709 {\an1}AND HE NEVER QUIT DOING IT. 451 00:23:04,743 --> 00:23:06,576 {\an1}AND HERE WAS JOE WHO WANTED TO BE FRIENDS. 452 00:23:06,609 --> 00:23:10,209 {\an1}HERE WAS JOE WHO HAD LENT HIM MONEY DURING THE EXILE. 453 00:23:10,243 --> 00:23:14,376 {\an1}HERE WAS JOE WHO, YOU KNOW, REACHED OUT IN VARIOUS WAYS, 454 00:23:14,409 --> 00:23:19,176 {\an1}A GOOD-HEARTED MAN, AND HE WAS CONSTANTLY BEING SLAPPED DOWN. 455 00:23:19,209 --> 00:23:23,509 {\an1}JOE FRAZIER'S SO UGLY, HIS FACE SHOULD BE DONATED TO 456 00:23:23,543 --> 00:23:24,976 {\an1}THE BUREAU OF WILDLIFE. 457 00:23:25,009 --> 00:23:28,143 [LAUGHTER] 458 00:23:28,176 --> 00:23:32,509 {\an1}BOYD: ALI IS MAKING THE SORT OF JOKES THAT 459 00:23:32,543 --> 00:23:36,843 {\an1}RACIST WHITE PEOPLE WOULD MAKE ABOUT A BLACK PERSON'S APPEARANCE. 460 00:23:36,876 --> 00:23:40,609 {\an1}AND HE'S MAKING JOKES ABOUT HIS LACK OF INTELLIGENCE. 461 00:23:40,643 --> 00:23:45,376 {\an1}THE ULTIMATE CONSCIOUS BLACK GUY IS ENGAGING IN BANTER 462 00:23:45,409 --> 00:23:52,109 {\an1}THAT IS BASICALLY PLAYING TO THE SIDE OF THE RACIST. 463 00:23:52,143 --> 00:23:55,843 {\an7}AND SO I THINK THERE'S A CONTRADICTION BETWEEN 464 00:23:55,876 --> 00:23:59,609 {\an7}HIS PUBLIC POLITICS AND THE WAY HE'S TREATING FRAZIER. 465 00:23:59,643 --> 00:24:03,376 {\an7}AND THIS IS COMPOUNDED BY THE FACT THAT FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, 466 00:24:03,409 --> 00:24:06,143 {\an1}CONSERVATIVE WHITES, FOR INSTANCE, FRAZIER IS 467 00:24:06,176 --> 00:24:09,476 {\an1}THE PERSON THEY'RE EMBRACING, NOT BECAUSE THEY LIKE FRAZIER, 468 00:24:09,509 --> 00:24:11,643 {\an1}BUT BECAUSE HE'S GOING AGAINST ALI. 469 00:24:11,676 --> 00:24:15,776 {\an1}AND SO I THINK IT'S HARD BECAUSE YOU WANT TO EMBRACE ALI. 470 00:24:15,809 --> 00:24:17,909 {\an1}YOU WANT TO EMBRACE WHAT HE REPRESENTS. 471 00:24:17,943 --> 00:24:21,643 {\an1}BUT LOOKING BACK ON IT IN HINDSIGHT, I THINK THE WAY HE 472 00:24:21,676 --> 00:24:25,309 {\an1}PLAYED JOE FRAZIER WAS VERY UNFORTUNATE AND REFLECTIVE 473 00:24:25,343 --> 00:24:26,909 OF THE DARK SIDE OF MUHAMMAD ALI. 474 00:24:26,943 --> 00:24:28,743 {\an1}HE COULD BE VERY CRUEL. 475 00:24:28,776 --> 00:24:31,876 {\an1}JOE FRAZIER WAS NOT SO WELL-SPOKEN. 476 00:24:31,909 --> 00:24:35,109 {\an1}HE CERTAINLY WAS NOT CHARISMATIC LIKE ALI. 477 00:24:35,143 --> 00:24:39,543 {\an1}I JUST FEEL LIKE IN THAT INSTANCE, HE USED HIS POWERS FOR EVIL, 478 00:24:39,576 --> 00:24:41,609 AS OPPOSED TO USING THEM FOR GOOD. 479 00:24:41,643 --> 00:24:43,176 {\an1}ALI: NOW, YOU AIN'T THE CHAMP... 480 00:24:43,209 --> 00:24:44,776 {\an1}NARRATOR: WHEN HE GETS INTO THE RING, 481 00:24:44,809 --> 00:24:47,676 {\an1}ALI EXPLAINED, "FRAZIER WILL FEEL LIKE A TRAITOR. 482 00:24:47,709 --> 00:24:51,709 {\an1}"HE WILL REALIZE THAT MUHAMMAD ALI IS THE REAL CHAMP. 483 00:24:51,743 --> 00:24:52,943 {\an1}"HE DON'T HAVE NOTHING. 484 00:24:52,976 --> 00:24:55,743 {\an1}BUT ME... I HAVE A CAUSE." 485 00:24:55,776 --> 00:24:57,243 {\an1}ALI: WAIT TILL I GET YOU IN THE RING. 486 00:24:57,276 --> 00:24:59,176 {\an1}EARLY: A LOT OF IT CAME DOWN TO 487 00:24:59,209 --> 00:25:01,609 {\an1}WHO WAS AUTHENTICALLY BLACK. 488 00:25:01,643 --> 00:25:04,476 {\an1}THE WHOLE CONCERN AT THE TIME WAS PART OF AN ANXIETY THAT 489 00:25:04,509 --> 00:25:07,176 {\an1}BLACK PEOPLE WERE GOING THROUGH ABOUT THEIR IDENTITY 490 00:25:07,209 --> 00:25:09,976 {\an1}AND ABOUT WHO THEY WERE AND ABOUT WHAT IT MEANT TO BE BLACK. 491 00:25:10,009 --> 00:25:14,543 {\an1}AND THIS... THIS ANXIETY WOUND UP BEING PLAYED OUT 492 00:25:14,576 --> 00:25:18,143 {\an1}DRAMATICALLY IN THE RING WITH THESE TWO FIGHTERS. 493 00:25:18,176 --> 00:25:19,976 {\an1}EIG: FRAZIER JUST WANTED TO KILL ALI, 494 00:25:20,009 --> 00:25:21,876 {\an1}I MEAN, REALLY KILL HIM. 495 00:25:21,909 --> 00:25:24,143 {\an1}HE SAID, "I'M GONNA PUNCH HIM TILL HIS INTESTINES START 496 00:25:24,176 --> 00:25:25,609 {\an1}COMING OUT THE BACK." 497 00:25:25,643 --> 00:25:27,876 HE WAS SO ANGRY. 498 00:25:27,909 --> 00:25:30,976 {\an1}AND ALI BELIEVED THAT THAT ANGER WOULD WORK TO ALI'S ADVANTAGE, 499 00:25:31,009 --> 00:25:32,343 NOT FRAZIER'S. 500 00:25:34,543 --> 00:25:37,043 NARRATOR: AS HE WOUND DOWN HIS TRAINING, 501 00:25:37,076 --> 00:25:40,309 {\an1}ALI'S NEIGHBORS AT THE OCTAGON TOWERS THREW HIM 502 00:25:40,343 --> 00:25:42,143 {\an1}A GOING-AWAY PARTY. 503 00:25:42,176 --> 00:25:45,576 {\an1}THE RESIDENTS HAD GROWN TO ADORE HIM AND SENT HIM OFF 504 00:25:45,609 --> 00:25:48,509 {\an1}WITH A CAKE FEATURING ALI STANDING OVER 505 00:25:48,543 --> 00:25:50,476 {\an1}A FALLEN OPPONENT. 506 00:25:50,509 --> 00:25:54,309 {\an1}"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, A PRIZE FIGHTER," MARVELED ONE WOMAN. 507 00:25:54,343 --> 00:25:57,309 "HE SEEMS LIKE A NICE JEWISH BOY." 508 00:25:59,009 --> 00:26:04,343 {\an1}ON MARCH 3rd, 5 DAYS BEFORE THE FIGHT, A LIMOUSINE WHISKED ALI 509 00:26:04,376 --> 00:26:07,809 {\an1}FROM THE AIRPORT TO HIS MIDTOWN MANHATTAN HOTEL 510 00:26:07,843 --> 00:26:10,009 {\an1}AND THEN TO MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 511 00:26:10,043 --> 00:26:12,543 {\an1}FOR A PRE-FIGHT PHYSICAL. 512 00:26:12,576 --> 00:26:15,709 {\an1}WHEN A THRONG OF ADMIRERS ENGULFED THE BOXER, 513 00:26:15,743 --> 00:26:17,676 {\an1}HIS BODYGUARDS AND THE POLICE 514 00:26:17,709 --> 00:26:20,243 {\an1}HAD TO OPEN A PATH INTO THE ARENA, 515 00:26:20,276 --> 00:26:24,176 {\an1}WHERE HUNDREDS OF REPORTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS AWAITED HIM. 516 00:26:24,209 --> 00:26:26,176 [FLASHBULB POPS] 517 00:26:26,209 --> 00:26:29,843 {\an1}IN THE DRESSING ROOM AFTER THE EXAM, ALI'S HANDLERS STRUGGLED 518 00:26:29,876 --> 00:26:32,876 {\an1}TO KEEP THE CRUSH OF CELEBRITIES, BOXING OFFICIALS, 519 00:26:32,909 --> 00:26:35,209 {\an1}ACQUAINTANCES, MUSLIM ASSOCIATES, 520 00:26:35,243 --> 00:26:36,943 {\an1}AND AUTOGRAPH SEEKERS 521 00:26:36,976 --> 00:26:39,876 {\an1}FROM SMOTHERING THE BOXER, WHO BARELY HAD ROOM TO 522 00:26:39,909 --> 00:26:42,576 {\an1}GET CHANGED BACK INTO HIS STREET CLOTHES. 523 00:26:42,609 --> 00:26:44,543 [JIMI HENDRIX'S "CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC" PLAYING] 524 00:26:44,576 --> 00:26:48,176 {\an1}AS ALI'S LIMOUSINE INCHED AWAY FROM THE ARENA, FANS YANKED 525 00:26:48,209 --> 00:26:51,476 {\an1}AT THE DOOR HANDLES, BEAT ON THE WINDOWS, AND CLIMBED 526 00:26:51,509 --> 00:26:53,476 ATOP THE ROOF. 527 00:26:53,509 --> 00:26:57,643 {\an1}ONE LONG-HAIRED ADMIRER IN A TATTERED ARMY JACKET CHASED 528 00:26:57,676 --> 00:27:00,976 {\an1}THE CAR FOR BLOCKS, UNTIL FINALLY, AT A STOPLIGHT, 529 00:27:01,009 --> 00:27:04,109 {\an1}ALI LOWERED THE WINDOW AND OFFERED HIS HAND. 530 00:27:04,143 --> 00:27:07,909 {\an1}"HEY, CHAMP, YOU'RE MY MAN!" THE YOUNG MAN YELLED. 531 00:27:07,943 --> 00:27:09,552 {\an1}HENDRIX: ♪ YOU JUMP IN FRONT OF MY CAR... ♪ 532 00:27:09,576 --> 00:27:11,676 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE CITY WAS IN A FEVERED FRENZY. 533 00:27:11,709 --> 00:27:16,976 {\an7}RINGSIDE SEATS HAD GONE FOR $150... 1 1/2 TIMES 534 00:27:17,009 --> 00:27:20,143 {\an7}WHAT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN HAD EVER CHARGED BEFORE... 535 00:27:20,176 --> 00:27:25,076 AND SCALPERS WERE ASKING UP TO $700. 536 00:27:25,109 --> 00:27:29,343 {\an1}WHEN THE GARDEN PUT THE FINAL 4,000 TICKETS ON SALE, FANS, 537 00:27:29,376 --> 00:27:32,443 {\an1}WHO HAD WAITED OVERNIGHT IN NEAR-FREEZING TEMPERATURES, 538 00:27:32,476 --> 00:27:35,943 BOUGHT THEM ALL WITHIN TWO HOURS. 539 00:27:35,976 --> 00:27:39,976 {\an1}300 MILLION PEOPLE ON 5 CONTINENTS WERE EXPECTED TO 540 00:27:40,009 --> 00:27:42,709 {\an1}SEE THE BOUT THROUGH CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION 541 00:27:42,743 --> 00:27:44,443 {\an1}OR BY SATELLITE BROADCAST. 542 00:27:44,476 --> 00:27:46,143 {\an1}HENDRIX: ♪ I CAN SEE YOU HAD YOUR FUN... ♪ 543 00:27:46,176 --> 00:27:48,276 {\an1}NARRATOR: MORE THAN HALF OF THE 1,500 REQUESTS 544 00:27:48,309 --> 00:27:51,476 {\an1}FOR MEDIA CREDENTIALS HAD TO BE DENIED. 545 00:27:51,509 --> 00:27:53,143 {\an1}THERE WAS NO ROOM. 546 00:27:53,176 --> 00:27:55,209 HENDRIX: ♪ STRAIGHT UP AHEAD... ♪ 547 00:27:55,243 --> 00:27:58,143 NARRATOR: "IT'S A CLASSIC CONFRONTATION IN PRIZE FIGHTING 548 00:27:58,176 --> 00:28:01,443 {\an1}"BETWEEN A MAN WHO CAN HIT AND A MAN WHO IS ADEPT 549 00:28:01,476 --> 00:28:04,443 {\an1}AT NOT GETTING HIT," ARGUED ONE SPORTSWRITER, 550 00:28:04,476 --> 00:28:07,609 {\an1}"THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE MATCHMAKING." 551 00:28:07,643 --> 00:28:09,643 {\an1}NOW I THINK CLAY'S GONNA WIN. I REALLY DO. 552 00:28:09,676 --> 00:28:11,109 FRAZIER. REPORTER: WHY? 553 00:28:11,143 --> 00:28:12,843 I JUST THINK HE'S IN BETTER SHAPE. 554 00:28:12,876 --> 00:28:15,976 {\an1}CLAY SHOULD BEAT HIM WITH SPEED AND JAB HIM GOOD. 555 00:28:16,009 --> 00:28:17,676 WELL, I THINK IT'LL BE FRAZIER. 556 00:28:17,709 --> 00:28:21,076 I SORTA LIKE CLAY. I LIKE TO HEAR HIM. 557 00:28:21,109 --> 00:28:22,843 {\an1}HENDRIX: ♪ LOOK OUT... ♪ 558 00:28:22,876 --> 00:28:25,509 {\an1}NARRATOR: "MUHAMMAD ALI TRANSCENDS THE FIGHTER. 559 00:28:25,543 --> 00:28:29,209 {\an1}HE IS WITHOUT PEER," WROTE THE SPORTSWRITER MARK KRAM, 560 00:28:29,243 --> 00:28:33,143 {\an1}WHO ALSO CALLED JOE FRAZIER "THE FINEST GLADIATOR... 561 00:28:33,176 --> 00:28:35,209 {\an1}"IN THE PUREST SENSE OF THE WORD... 562 00:28:35,243 --> 00:28:37,176 {\an1}IN HEAVYWEIGHT HISTORY." 563 00:28:37,209 --> 00:28:42,176 {\an1}LAS VEGAS ODDSMAKERS GAVE FRAZIER THE EDGE. 564 00:28:42,209 --> 00:28:45,343 FRAZIER: I'M COOL MAN, YEAH. 565 00:28:45,376 --> 00:28:47,876 {\an1}I'M READY FOR THIS ONE. 566 00:28:47,909 --> 00:28:50,443 {\an1}EIG: IT WAS THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY. 567 00:28:50,476 --> 00:28:54,043 {\an1}IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT TWO UNDEFEATED CHAMPIONS HAD EVER MET. 568 00:28:54,076 --> 00:28:56,043 {\an1}ALI WAS CHAMPION WHEN HE WAS STRIPPED OF HIS TITLE 569 00:28:56,076 --> 00:28:57,943 {\an1}AND HAD NEVER LOST. 570 00:28:57,976 --> 00:29:02,743 {\an1}FRAZIER HAD WON THE OLYMPICS IN '64 AND HAD NEVER LOST 571 00:29:02,776 --> 00:29:07,409 {\an1}AND IT WAS A $5 MILLION PURSE, WHICH WAS JUST UNHEARD OF. 572 00:29:07,443 --> 00:29:10,843 {\an1}ALI WOULD MAKE MORE MONEY IN ONE FIGHT THAN HANK AARON 573 00:29:10,876 --> 00:29:13,843 {\an1}EARNED IN HIS ENTIRE CAREER PLAYING MORE THAN TWO DECADES 574 00:29:13,876 --> 00:29:15,509 OF BASEBALL. 575 00:29:15,543 --> 00:29:18,443 SO THIS WAS AN UNBELIEVABLE SPECTACLE. 576 00:29:18,476 --> 00:29:20,543 [GUITAR PLAYING] 577 00:29:20,576 --> 00:29:24,476 {\an1}NARRATOR: ON THE EVE OF THE FIGHT, JOE FRAZIER STRUMMED A GUITAR 578 00:29:24,509 --> 00:29:26,809 {\an1}AND RELAXED WITH FRIENDS IN HIS SUITE 579 00:29:26,843 --> 00:29:30,743 {\an1}AT AN UNDISCLOSED HOTEL WHERE HE HAD BEEN MOVED AFTER THREATS 580 00:29:30,776 --> 00:29:33,609 {\an1}WERE MADE AGAINST HIS LIFE. 581 00:29:33,643 --> 00:29:37,443 {\an1}AT THE HOTEL NEW YORKER, MUHAMMAD ALI AND HIS ENTOURAGE 582 00:29:37,476 --> 00:29:40,709 {\an1}HAD TAKEN OVER THE ENTIRE 25th FLOOR. 583 00:29:40,743 --> 00:29:44,076 {\an1}THE LOBBY BUSTLED WITH REPORTERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, 584 00:29:44,109 --> 00:29:47,743 {\an1}MANY STILL SEEKING CREDENTIALS FOR THE FIGHT. 585 00:29:47,776 --> 00:29:52,509 {\an1}UPSTAIRS, ALI, SURROUNDED BY HIS INNER CIRCLE, ENTERTAINED 586 00:29:52,543 --> 00:29:54,709 {\an1}A HANDFUL OF WRITERS. 587 00:29:54,743 --> 00:29:56,909 {\an1}"MY PEOPLE ARE FOR ME," HE TOLD THEM. 588 00:29:56,943 --> 00:29:59,076 "THEY IDENTIFY WITH MY STRUGGLE. 589 00:29:59,109 --> 00:30:01,743 {\an1}"SAME ONE THEY'RE FIGHTING EVERY DAY IN THE STREETS 590 00:30:01,776 --> 00:30:03,576 {\an1}"AND AGAINST THE POLICE. 591 00:30:03,609 --> 00:30:05,443 {\an1}"IF I WIN, THEY WIN. 592 00:30:05,476 --> 00:30:08,609 {\an1}IF I LOSE, THEY LOSE." 593 00:30:08,643 --> 00:30:14,676 {\an1}EARLY ON THE EVENING OF MARCH 8, 1971, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 594 00:30:14,709 --> 00:30:16,576 BEGAN TO FILL UP. 595 00:30:16,609 --> 00:30:18,943 {\an7}[CURTIS MAYFIELD'S "BEAUTIFUL BROTHER OF MINE" PLAYING] 596 00:30:18,976 --> 00:30:25,376 {\an8}♪ 597 00:30:25,409 --> 00:30:28,209 {\an1}BOYD: THIS WAS, LIKE, THE ACADEMY AWARDS 598 00:30:28,243 --> 00:30:32,376 {\an1}AND THE GRAMMYS AND A GREAT PRIZE FIGHT. 599 00:30:32,409 --> 00:30:35,476 ALL THESE THINGS ROLLED INTO ONE. 600 00:30:35,509 --> 00:30:37,309 {\an1}PEOPLE WOULD GO HANG OUT 601 00:30:37,343 --> 00:30:39,943 {\an1}EVEN IF THEY COULDN'T GET IN TO SEE THE FIGHT, 602 00:30:39,976 --> 00:30:42,876 {\an1}SO WHAT'S GOING ON OUTSIDE THE ARENA, I THINK, 603 00:30:42,909 --> 00:30:47,076 {\an1}IS MAYBE AS INTERESTING AS WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE ARENA, 604 00:30:47,109 --> 00:30:49,076 {\an1}AND ALI IS THE REASON FOR ALL THAT. 605 00:30:49,109 --> 00:30:51,443 {\an1}HE'S THE ONE WHO GENERATES ALL THIS EXCITEMENT. 606 00:30:51,476 --> 00:30:53,709 ALI'S GONNA WIN. I FEEL IT. 607 00:30:53,743 --> 00:30:55,183 {\an1}BOYD: IT CLEARLY WAS THE PLACE TO BE. 608 00:30:55,209 --> 00:30:57,009 DIANA ROSS: MUHAMMAD ALI. 609 00:30:57,043 --> 00:30:59,343 {\an1}NARRATOR: WRITER NORMAN MAILER, 610 00:30:59,376 --> 00:31:01,476 {\an1}BANDLEADER COUNT BASIE, 611 00:31:01,509 --> 00:31:03,743 {\an1}BROADCASTER ED SULLIVAN, 612 00:31:03,776 --> 00:31:07,676 {\an1}FILM DIRECTOR WOODY ALLEN AND ACTOR DIANE KEATON, 613 00:31:07,709 --> 00:31:12,943 {\an1}SINGERS MARVIN GAYE, ISAAC HAYES, AND BOB DYLAN, 614 00:31:12,976 --> 00:31:15,243 {\an1}FORMER CHAMPION JOE LOUIS, 615 00:31:15,276 --> 00:31:17,776 PLAYBOY PUBLISHER HUGH HEFNER, 616 00:31:17,809 --> 00:31:19,609 {\an1}AND FRANK SINATRA, 617 00:31:19,643 --> 00:31:22,309 {\an1}WHO WAS TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS FOR "LIFE" MAGAZINE, 618 00:31:22,343 --> 00:31:24,176 ALL TURNED OUT. 619 00:31:24,209 --> 00:31:26,809 {\an1}MAYFIELD: ♪ TOGETHER, WE'RE TRULY BLACK POWER ♪ 620 00:31:26,843 --> 00:31:28,343 CHORUS: ♪ POWER ♪ 621 00:31:28,376 --> 00:31:30,609 {\an1}♪ LEARNING TO TRUST BY THE HOUR ♪ 622 00:31:30,643 --> 00:31:31,809 ♪ HOUR ♪ 623 00:31:31,843 --> 00:31:33,043 {\an1}♪ LOVING OUR WOMEN... ♪ 624 00:31:33,076 --> 00:31:34,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: GWENDOLYN BROOKS, 625 00:31:34,876 --> 00:31:37,876 {\an1}THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO WIN A PULITZER PRIZE, 626 00:31:37,909 --> 00:31:41,843 {\an1}WAS ASKED TO WRITE A POEM FOR THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM. 627 00:31:41,876 --> 00:31:45,309 {\an1}"LET BLACK LOVE SURVIVE THE CHALLENGE AND THE BLOOD," 628 00:31:45,343 --> 00:31:47,443 {\an1}SHE URGED THE BOXERS. 629 00:31:47,476 --> 00:31:48,976 {\an1}MAYFIELD: ♪ WE'VE GOT LOVE... ♪ 630 00:31:49,009 --> 00:31:50,543 NARRATOR: AT THE WHITE HOUSE, 631 00:31:50,576 --> 00:31:52,909 {\an1}A CLOSED-CIRCUIT LINE HAD BEEN INSTALLED 632 00:31:52,943 --> 00:31:55,609 {\an1}SO THAT PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON COULD WATCH THE FIGHT. 633 00:31:55,643 --> 00:31:57,609 {\an7}MAYFIELD: ♪ WE'VE GOT LOVE ♪ 634 00:31:57,643 --> 00:32:00,643 {\an7}NARRATOR: IN HIS DRESSING ROOM, ALI REVEALED HIS PREDICTION, 635 00:32:00,676 --> 00:32:03,676 {\an7}WRITTEN DAYS EARLIER AND SEALED IN AN ENVELOPE. 636 00:32:03,709 --> 00:32:06,643 {\an7}"BOXING EXPERTS WILL BE SHOCKED AT HOW EASY I WILL 637 00:32:06,676 --> 00:32:10,309 {\an7}BEAT JOE FRAZIER," ALI ANNOUNCED TO THE TV CAMERAS. 638 00:32:10,343 --> 00:32:12,909 {\an1}"FRAZIER FALLS IN 6." 639 00:32:14,409 --> 00:32:16,376 {\an7}ADDIE: MAIN EVENT. 640 00:32:16,409 --> 00:32:23,076 {\an7}15 ROUNDS FOR THE UNDISPUTED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP 641 00:32:23,109 --> 00:32:24,509 OF THE WORLD. 642 00:32:25,909 --> 00:32:29,743 {\an1}INTRODUCING, FROM LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY... 643 00:32:29,776 --> 00:32:33,109 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE CHALLENGER, IN HIS "ALI SHUFFLE SHOES," 644 00:32:33,143 --> 00:32:37,276 {\an1}WHITE WITH RED TASSELS THAT HE BELIEVED MADE HIM APPEAR FASTER, 645 00:32:37,309 --> 00:32:38,876 ENTERED FIRST. 646 00:32:38,909 --> 00:32:41,709 {\an1}ADDIE: HERE IS MUHAMMAD ALI! 647 00:32:41,743 --> 00:32:45,343 {\an1}[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] 648 00:32:45,376 --> 00:32:47,409 HIS OPPONENT... 649 00:32:47,443 --> 00:32:50,743 {\an1}NARRATOR: JOE FRAZIER, HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, 650 00:32:50,776 --> 00:32:53,843 {\an1}WEARING A GREEN ROBE WITH HIS NAME AND THOSE 651 00:32:53,876 --> 00:32:56,909 OF HIS 5 CHILDREN STITCHED IN GOLD ON THE BACK, 652 00:32:56,943 --> 00:32:58,543 CAME NEXT. 653 00:32:58,576 --> 00:33:01,243 {\an1}ADDIE: THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, 654 00:33:01,276 --> 00:33:02,943 JOE FRAZIER! 655 00:33:02,976 --> 00:33:04,643 {\an1}[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] 656 00:33:07,409 --> 00:33:10,809 {\an1}NARRATOR: INSIDE THE RING, REFEREE ARTHUR MERCANTE GAVE 657 00:33:10,843 --> 00:33:14,409 {\an1}THE BOXERS INSTRUCTIONS AS THEY GLARED AT EACH OTHER. 658 00:33:14,443 --> 00:33:16,043 MERCANTE: SHAKE HANDS NOW, MEN. 659 00:33:16,076 --> 00:33:19,776 {\an1}NARRATOR: "I'M GONNA KILL YOU," FRAZIER TOLD ALI. 660 00:33:19,809 --> 00:33:26,843 ♪ 661 00:33:26,876 --> 00:33:29,643 {\an1}DUNPHY: FRAZIER WILL TRY TO BORE IN AND CATCH HIS MAN. 662 00:33:29,676 --> 00:33:32,409 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI OPENING UP FAST. 663 00:33:32,443 --> 00:33:36,576 {\an1}FRAZIER JUST FIGHTS ONE WAY. HE POURS IN AND HE PUNISHES. 664 00:33:36,609 --> 00:33:38,443 {\an1}BENTT: JOE WAS A SLUGGER, 665 00:33:38,476 --> 00:33:41,843 {\an1}WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY A GUY WHO COMES FORWARD LIKE 666 00:33:41,876 --> 00:33:45,843 A SHERMAN TANK ON FULL ATTACK MODE 667 00:33:45,876 --> 00:33:51,743 {\an7}AND IS WILLING TO TAKE 2 OR 3 TO LAND 1 OR 2, 668 00:33:51,776 --> 00:33:56,743 {\an1}WHEREAS MUHAMMAD WAS A GLIDER, A CRAFTSMAN. 669 00:33:56,776 --> 00:34:00,309 {\an1}I'M GONNA HIT YOU MORE TIMES THAN YOU CAN HIT ME, 670 00:34:00,343 --> 00:34:02,509 {\an1}AND YOU CAN'T EVEN FIND ME. 671 00:34:03,876 --> 00:34:07,043 {\an1}NARRATOR: THOUGH THE JUDGES SCORED THE FIRST 2 ROUNDS FOR ALI, 672 00:34:07,076 --> 00:34:11,276 {\an1}HE STRAYED FROM THE STYLE THAT HAD ONCE SERVED HIM SO WELL. 673 00:34:11,309 --> 00:34:14,476 {\an1}INSTEAD OF STAYING UP ON HIS TOES, DANCING, 674 00:34:14,509 --> 00:34:16,976 {\an1}HE STOOD FLAT-FOOTED LIKE FRAZIER, 675 00:34:17,009 --> 00:34:19,476 THROWING JABS AND COMBINATIONS. 676 00:34:19,509 --> 00:34:22,343 {\an1}DUNPHY: HE MAY BE TRYING TO SLUG WITH JOE. 677 00:34:22,376 --> 00:34:26,676 {\an1}BENTT: ALI IS RECOGNIZING HE'S NOT COMFORTABLE DANCING 678 00:34:26,709 --> 00:34:28,843 {\an1}LIKE HE DID 5 YEARS AGO. 679 00:34:28,876 --> 00:34:30,509 DUNPHY: HE'S NOT DANCING TONIGHT. 680 00:34:30,543 --> 00:34:31,819 {\an1}BENTT: HE'S NOT MOVING LIKE HE'S IN CONTROL 681 00:34:31,843 --> 00:34:33,343 {\an1}OF THE RING'S GEOGRAPHY. 682 00:34:33,376 --> 00:34:35,309 {\an1}DUNPHY: FRAZIER HAS CAUGHT HIM AGAIN! 683 00:34:35,343 --> 00:34:38,009 {\an1}BENTT: HE'S MOVING JUST TO GET AWAY FROM THE STORM 684 00:34:38,043 --> 00:34:40,676 {\an1}WITHOUT HAVING CONTROL OF THE STORM, 685 00:34:40,709 --> 00:34:43,909 {\an1}AND THAT ESSENTIALLY TRAPS MUHAMMAD 686 00:34:43,943 --> 00:34:46,509 {\an1}AND JOE TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THAT. 687 00:34:46,543 --> 00:34:48,876 {\an1}DUNPHY: MUHAMMAD ALI IS NOT KEEPING JOE FRAZIER 688 00:34:48,909 --> 00:34:50,809 AWAY FROM HIM, 689 00:34:50,843 --> 00:34:54,243 {\an1}AND HE GETS CAUGHT ON THE ROPES WHICH HE SHOULD NOT DO. 690 00:34:54,276 --> 00:34:56,809 {\an1}KINDRED: HE COULDN'T PLAY WITH JOE FRAZIER. 691 00:34:56,843 --> 00:34:58,876 {\an1}FRAZIER WOULD HURT HIM. 692 00:34:58,909 --> 00:35:00,909 {\an1}THERE WAS ONE POINT IN THAT FIGHT WHERE ALI... 693 00:35:00,943 --> 00:35:02,719 {\an1}DUNPHY: ALI SHAKES HIS HEAD. KINDRED: LEANED IN 694 00:35:02,743 --> 00:35:05,743 {\an1}AGAINST THE ROPES AND LOOKED DOWN AT THE PRESS ROW 695 00:35:05,776 --> 00:35:09,709 {\an7}AND SAID, "NO CONTEST," WHILE FRAZIER IS BEATING ON HIM, 696 00:35:09,743 --> 00:35:12,043 {\an7}JUST KIND OF GIVING AWAY A ROUND. 697 00:35:12,076 --> 00:35:17,409 {\an1}HE COULD DO THAT WITH LESSER PEOPLE, BUT NOT WITH FRAZIER. 698 00:35:17,443 --> 00:35:21,676 {\an1}NARRATOR: FRAZIER STAYED LOW, BOBBING AND DUCKING, 699 00:35:21,709 --> 00:35:24,443 {\an1}BUT FORCING HIS WAY FORWARD RELENTLESSLY, 700 00:35:24,476 --> 00:35:26,576 {\an1}REDUCING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM, 701 00:35:26,609 --> 00:35:29,443 {\an1}NEUTRALIZING ALI'S LONGER REACH. 702 00:35:29,476 --> 00:35:31,643 {\an1}DUNPHY: FRAZIER IS BOBBING AND WEAVING ALL THE TIME. 703 00:35:31,676 --> 00:35:35,443 {\an1}BENTT: FRAZIER'S CONSTANT HEAD MOVEMENT DOESN'T GIVE MUHAMMAD 704 00:35:35,476 --> 00:35:40,409 {\an1}AN EASY TARGET, AND THAT'S EXHAUSTING, PHYSICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY. 705 00:35:40,443 --> 00:35:41,943 {\an1}DUNPHY: MUHAMMAD ALI HAS BEEN MISSING. 706 00:35:41,976 --> 00:35:43,876 BENTT: THIS GUY'S IN FRONT OF YOU 707 00:35:43,909 --> 00:35:45,576 {\an1}AND HE'S BOBBING AND WEAVING LIKE THAT, 708 00:35:45,609 --> 00:35:47,143 {\an1}AND YOU CAN'T HIT HIM. 709 00:35:47,176 --> 00:35:49,076 {\an1}DUNPHY: FRAZIER'S JUST LAUGHING AT HIM. 710 00:35:49,109 --> 00:35:51,085 {\an1}BENTT: AND HE'S MOCKING YOU? DUNPHY: TALKING TO HIM. 711 00:35:51,109 --> 00:35:52,876 {\an1}BENTT: THAT'S A NIGHTMARE. 712 00:35:52,909 --> 00:35:55,376 {\an1}DUNPHY: HE SAID HE WOULD GO TO THE BODY AND HE IS. 713 00:35:55,409 --> 00:36:01,009 {\an1}BENTT: HIS THEORY WAS TO STAY CLOSE TO MUHAMMAD, 714 00:36:01,043 --> 00:36:04,676 {\an1}DON'T LET HIM BREATHE AND CONSTANTLY PUNCH, 715 00:36:04,709 --> 00:36:07,309 {\an1}PUNCH HIM EVERYWHERE... 716 00:36:07,343 --> 00:36:09,109 ON THE BICEPS, 717 00:36:09,143 --> 00:36:10,976 ON THE HIP BONE, 718 00:36:11,009 --> 00:36:13,076 ON THE ASS BONE. 719 00:36:13,109 --> 00:36:15,476 DUNPHY: OOH, THAT MUST HAVE HURT. 720 00:36:15,509 --> 00:36:19,609 {\an1}BENTT: IF THE REFEREE IS BEHIND YOU AND HE CAN'T SEE 721 00:36:19,643 --> 00:36:23,776 {\an1}WHERE THE SHOT IS LANDING, HIT HIM ON THIS HIP BONE. 722 00:36:23,809 --> 00:36:26,809 {\an1}IT'S BELOW THE BELT BUT IF THE REFEREE DON'T SEE IT, 723 00:36:26,843 --> 00:36:29,843 GUESS WHAT. IT'S NOT A FOUL. 724 00:36:29,876 --> 00:36:31,776 [BELL CLANGS] DUNPHY: WHAT A ROUND. 725 00:36:31,809 --> 00:36:34,109 [CROWD SHOUTING] 726 00:36:34,143 --> 00:36:35,943 {\an1}TWO UNDEFEATED FIGHTERS. 727 00:36:35,976 --> 00:36:40,109 {\an1}NEITHER ONE HAS EVER FOUGHT A FIGHTER OF THE CALIBER 728 00:36:40,143 --> 00:36:42,443 {\an1}OF THE OPPONENT TONIGHT. 729 00:36:42,476 --> 00:36:45,609 {\an1}THIS FIGHT SO FAR RANKS WITH THE GREAT ONES. 730 00:36:45,643 --> 00:36:48,609 {\an1}NARRATOR: BOTH FIGHTERS CAME OUT HARD IN THE 6th, 731 00:36:48,643 --> 00:36:53,843 {\an1}ALI INTENDING TO FULFILL HIS PREDICTION, FRAZIER EAGER TO 732 00:36:53,876 --> 00:36:55,276 {\an1}MAKE A LIAR OF ALI. 733 00:36:55,309 --> 00:36:59,376 ♪ 734 00:36:59,409 --> 00:37:03,343 {\an1}AT THE END OF THE ROUND, FRAZIER WAS STILL STANDING. 735 00:37:03,376 --> 00:37:05,309 {\an1}[CROWD CHANTING "ALI!] 736 00:37:05,343 --> 00:37:10,343 {\an1}AFTER THE 7th ROUND, THE FANS CHANTED "ALI, ALI, ALI!" 737 00:37:10,376 --> 00:37:12,909 {\an1}DUNPHY: THE CROWD IS CHANTING, "ALI!" 738 00:37:12,943 --> 00:37:14,809 AND JOE SAYS, "COME ON OUT AND FIGHT." 739 00:37:18,543 --> 00:37:23,076 {\an1}NARRATOR: AFTER THE 8th, IT WAS "JOE, JOE, JOE!" 740 00:37:23,109 --> 00:37:25,376 {\an1}DUNPHY: I DON'T KNOW ANYONE WHO GETS THE SHEER JOY 741 00:37:25,409 --> 00:37:29,409 OF COMBAT THE WAY JOE FRAZIER DOES. 742 00:37:29,443 --> 00:37:32,876 {\an1}KINDRED: ALI COULD STILL MOVE FOR 2 MINUTES A ROUND, 743 00:37:32,909 --> 00:37:35,709 {\an1}2.5 MINUTES A ROUND. 744 00:37:35,743 --> 00:37:41,543 {\an1}HE FOUND WAYS TO REST, BUT FRAZIER HIT HIM A LOT. 745 00:37:41,576 --> 00:37:45,009 {\an1}IN SAYING THAT, HE DIDN'T HIT ALI NEARLY AS MUCH 746 00:37:45,043 --> 00:37:46,943 AS ALI HIT HIM. 747 00:37:46,976 --> 00:37:48,852 {\an1}DUNPHY: FRAZIER HAS TAKEN A GOOD BATTERING IN THIS ROUND. 748 00:37:48,876 --> 00:37:51,043 {\an1}KINDRED: BY THE END OF THAT FIGHT, FRAZIER'S FACE 749 00:37:51,076 --> 00:37:53,843 {\an1}WAS A GARGOYLE'S FACE, 750 00:37:53,876 --> 00:37:57,043 {\an1}JUST BUMPS AND BRUISES EVERYWHERE. 751 00:37:57,076 --> 00:38:00,176 {\an1}DUNPHY: JOE FRAZIER JUST SPIT SOME BLOOD. 752 00:38:00,209 --> 00:38:02,843 {\an1}WAVING FRAZIER ON. 753 00:38:02,876 --> 00:38:05,143 [CROWD ROARS] 754 00:38:05,176 --> 00:38:07,376 THAT ONE HURT. SO DID THAT. 755 00:38:07,409 --> 00:38:10,809 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI STAGGERS! MUHAMMAD ALI WAS ROCKED! 756 00:38:10,843 --> 00:38:16,076 {\an1}BENTT: THE WILLPOWER OF THE FIGHTER IS WHAT REALLY 757 00:38:16,109 --> 00:38:17,876 {\an1}DETERMINES WHO WINS AND LOSES. 758 00:38:17,909 --> 00:38:21,076 {\an1}DUNPHY: 30 SECONDS TO GO IN THE ROUND. 30 SECONDS. 759 00:38:21,109 --> 00:38:22,752 {\an1}BENTT: IT'S NEVER CLEARER THAN THIS FIGHT RIGHT HERE. 760 00:38:22,776 --> 00:38:25,243 {\an1}DUNPHY: MUHAMMAD ALI IN REAL TROUBLE. 761 00:38:25,276 --> 00:38:27,376 {\an1}BENTT: EVERY PUNCH THAT JOE FRAZIER IS THROWING, 762 00:38:27,409 --> 00:38:29,543 {\an1}YOU CAN BEST BELIEVE THAT HE'S SAYING, 763 00:38:29,576 --> 00:38:36,609 {\an1}"THIS IS FROM AN UNCLE TOM. AM I AN UNCLE TOM NOW?" 764 00:38:36,643 --> 00:38:38,576 {\an1}DUNPHY: MUHAMMAD ALI ROCKED TO THE ROPES! 765 00:38:38,609 --> 00:38:40,085 {\an1}BENTT: THAT'S THE KIND OF VENOM YOU HAVE TO HAVE. 766 00:38:40,109 --> 00:38:41,643 {\an1}DUNPHY: HE ALMOST WENT DOWN. 767 00:38:41,676 --> 00:38:43,776 {\an1}BENTT: JOE WANTED IT MORE THAN MUHAMMAD. 768 00:38:43,809 --> 00:38:45,609 {\an1}MUHAMMAD WANTED IT... 769 00:38:45,643 --> 00:38:47,109 {\an1}DUNPHY: 10 SECONDS... 770 00:38:47,143 --> 00:38:49,976 {\an1}BENTT: BUT JOE NEEDED IT, 771 00:38:50,009 --> 00:38:52,409 AND MUHAMMAD IS BEING PUSHED TO THE BRINK. 772 00:38:52,443 --> 00:38:53,819 {\an1}ADDIE: THE ROUND IS OVER. [BELL CLANGING] 773 00:38:53,843 --> 00:38:57,643 {\an1}THE ROUND IS OVER. WHAT A ROUND. 774 00:38:57,676 --> 00:39:01,209 {\an1}DUNPHY: MUHAMMAD ALI HAS NEVER TAKEN SUCH A BATTERING. 775 00:39:01,243 --> 00:39:04,209 {\an1}IT COULD BE A TOUGH FIGHT TO SCORE. 776 00:39:04,243 --> 00:39:08,043 {\an1}NARRATOR: AS THE FIGHT HEADED INTO THE 15th AND FINAL ROUND, 777 00:39:08,076 --> 00:39:12,676 {\an1}FRAZIER'S FACE WAS SWOLLEN, HIS RIGHT EYE NEARLY SHUT. 778 00:39:12,709 --> 00:39:16,543 {\an1}ALI'S CORNER MEN, WORRIED HE WAS LOSING ON POINTS, 779 00:39:16,576 --> 00:39:19,976 {\an1}TOLD HIM HE NEEDED A KNOCKOUT. 780 00:39:20,009 --> 00:39:21,543 [BELL CLANGS] 781 00:39:21,576 --> 00:39:24,476 {\an1}ADDIE: 15th AND FINAL ROUND. 782 00:39:24,509 --> 00:39:27,276 {\an1}IZENBERG: ALI WAS TOLD THE END OF THE ROUND, 783 00:39:27,309 --> 00:39:28,876 {\an1}"YOU GOTTA KNOCK HIM OUT. 784 00:39:28,909 --> 00:39:31,276 {\an1}YOU CAN'T WIN IF YOU DON'T KNOCK HIM OUT." 785 00:39:31,309 --> 00:39:33,009 AND IT'S TRUE. 786 00:39:33,043 --> 00:39:35,143 {\an1}SO ALI'S OUT THERE. 787 00:39:35,176 --> 00:39:38,843 POP, BOOM, POP, COMBINATIONS, THIS, THAT. 788 00:39:40,409 --> 00:39:42,976 {\an1}AND FRAZIER DUCKS INSIDE. 789 00:39:43,009 --> 00:39:46,709 {\an1}BOOM, LEFT HOOK, DOWN, 790 00:39:46,743 --> 00:39:49,876 {\an1}GETS UP QUICK, BUT THAT ENDED ANY CHANCE 791 00:39:49,909 --> 00:39:51,343 {\an1}HE HAD TO WIN THE FIGHT. 792 00:39:51,376 --> 00:39:53,476 [CROWD SHOUTING] 793 00:39:53,509 --> 00:39:55,843 {\an1}DUNPHY: HE TAKES THE MANDATORY 8 COUNT. 794 00:39:55,876 --> 00:39:59,176 {\an1}THE ONLY KNOCKDOWN OF THE FIGHT. 795 00:39:59,209 --> 00:40:01,676 MUHAMMAD ALI WAS FLAT ON HIS BACK, 796 00:40:01,709 --> 00:40:04,409 {\an1}BUT HE'S A WELL-CONDITIONED ATHLETE. 797 00:40:04,443 --> 00:40:07,643 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI GAMELY FIGHTS BACK. 798 00:40:07,676 --> 00:40:09,976 {\an1}THE CROWD IS IN A BEDLAM. 799 00:40:11,709 --> 00:40:13,609 [BELL CLANGS] 800 00:40:13,643 --> 00:40:15,276 [LOUD CHEERING] 801 00:40:18,076 --> 00:40:22,709 {\an1}WE'RE GOING TO AWAIT THE DECISION BY THE TWO JUDGES 802 00:40:22,743 --> 00:40:24,443 AND THE REFEREE. 803 00:40:24,476 --> 00:40:27,176 {\an1}AND THE RING IS STARTING TO CROWD UP. 804 00:40:27,209 --> 00:40:30,676 {\an1}DESPITE THE SECURITY MEASURES TAKEN, THE PEOPLE ARE 805 00:40:30,709 --> 00:40:34,943 {\an1}COMING IN THE RING, AND THIS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. 806 00:40:34,976 --> 00:40:40,876 {\an1}ADDIE: AH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, REFEREE ARTHUR MERCANTE 807 00:40:40,909 --> 00:40:46,143 {\an1}SCORES IT 8-6, ONE EVEN FOR FRAZIER. 808 00:40:46,176 --> 00:40:48,876 {\an1}[CHEERS AND GROANS] 809 00:40:48,909 --> 00:40:53,209 {\an1}ARTIE AIDALA 9 TO 6 FOR FRAZIER. 810 00:40:53,243 --> 00:40:55,543 [LOUD GROANS] 811 00:40:55,576 --> 00:41:00,543 {\an1}BILL RECHT 11 ROUNDS FOR FRAZIER, 812 00:41:00,576 --> 00:41:04,476 [LOUDER GROANS] 4 ALI, 11 AND 4, 813 00:41:04,509 --> 00:41:09,043 {\an1}THE WINNER BY UNANIMOUS DECISION AND STILL... 814 00:41:09,076 --> 00:41:13,709 {\an1}HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, JOE FRAZIER! 815 00:41:13,743 --> 00:41:15,276 {\an1}[CHEERS AND GROANS] 816 00:41:15,309 --> 00:41:17,843 {\an1}[FUNKADELIC'S "I'LL STAY" PLAYING] 817 00:41:17,876 --> 00:41:22,909 ♪ 818 00:41:22,943 --> 00:41:27,376 {\an1}NARRATOR: IT WAS MUHAMMAD ALI'S FIRST PROFESSIONAL LOSS. 819 00:41:27,409 --> 00:41:31,509 {\an1}HE RETURNED TO HIS DRESSING ROOM, HIS JAW GROTESQUELY SWOLLEN, 820 00:41:31,543 --> 00:41:35,109 {\an1}WHERE HIS MOTHER, ODESSA, HELD HIM, MURMURING, 821 00:41:35,143 --> 00:41:36,909 {\an1}"HE'LL BE ALL RIGHT." 822 00:41:36,943 --> 00:41:40,243 {\an1}THE SINGER DIANA ROSS CAME TO CHECK ON HER FRIEND. 823 00:41:40,276 --> 00:41:46,043 {\an1}SO DID THE PHOTOGRAPHER GORDON PARKS, WHO TOOK NO PICTURES. 824 00:41:46,076 --> 00:41:50,576 {\an1}CONCERNED THAT ALI'S JAW WAS BROKEN, FERDIE PACHECO SENT HIM 825 00:41:50,609 --> 00:41:53,743 {\an1}TO FLOWER 5th AVENUE HOSPITAL FOR X-RAYS. 826 00:41:53,776 --> 00:41:57,143 {\an1}THERE WAS NO FRACTURE, BUT DOCTORS STILL WANTED HIM 827 00:41:57,176 --> 00:41:59,543 {\an1}TO REMAIN THERE OVERNIGHT. 828 00:41:59,576 --> 00:42:04,043 {\an1}ALI REFUSED, UNWILLING TO GIVE JOE FRAZIER THE SATISFACTION 829 00:42:04,076 --> 00:42:06,776 OF HAVING PUT HIM IN THE HOSPITAL. 830 00:42:06,809 --> 00:42:08,619 {\an1}JOURNALIST: WHAT DID MUHAMMAD ALI SAY WHEN YOU GOT TO 831 00:42:08,643 --> 00:42:10,543 {\an1}THE DRESSING ROOM? 832 00:42:10,576 --> 00:42:13,809 {\an1}BUNDINI: HE JUST WANT TO KNOW DID HE PUT UP A GREAT FIGHT. 833 00:42:13,843 --> 00:42:16,343 {\an1}NARRATOR: BUNDINI BROWN APPEARED AT THE POST-FIGHT 834 00:42:16,376 --> 00:42:18,776 PRESS CONFERENCE IN ALI'S PLACE. 835 00:42:18,809 --> 00:42:21,109 {\an1}"WE AIN'T THROUGH YET," HE SAID. 836 00:42:21,143 --> 00:42:25,009 {\an1}"MUHAMMAD JUST BEEN OUT 3 YEARS." 837 00:42:25,043 --> 00:42:30,176 {\an1}BENTT: WE SEE HIS DECLINE WHEN HE FIGHTS JOE FRAZIER 'CAUSE 838 00:42:30,209 --> 00:42:34,476 {\an1}HIS LEGS WHICH WERE HIS PRIMARY INSTRUMENTS, 839 00:42:34,509 --> 00:42:36,176 {\an1}THEY WERE NO MORE. 840 00:42:36,209 --> 00:42:38,576 THEY WERE DEAD. 841 00:42:38,609 --> 00:42:41,576 {\an1}NARRATOR: "TONIGHT THE BLACK WORLD WEEPS THAT THEIR KING 842 00:42:41,609 --> 00:42:45,809 {\an1}HAS PASSED AWAY," LAMENTED A BLACK NATIONALIST FROM BRITAIN. 843 00:42:45,843 --> 00:42:49,043 {\an1}PRESIDENT MUAMMAR EL-QADDAFI OF LIBYA 844 00:42:49,076 --> 00:42:51,109 {\an1}DECLARED A DAY OF MOURNING. 845 00:42:51,143 --> 00:42:54,943 {\an1}IT WAS "A VERY PAINFUL EXPERIENCE IN EVERY WAY," 846 00:42:54,976 --> 00:42:56,809 {\an1}WROTE HUNTER S. THOMPSON, 847 00:42:56,843 --> 00:43:02,276 {\an1}WHO CALLED ALI'S DEFEAT "A PROPER END TO THE SIXTIES." 848 00:43:02,309 --> 00:43:06,243 THOUGH ALI FANS AROUND THE WORLD DESPAIRED, 849 00:43:06,276 --> 00:43:10,843 {\an1}MOST AGREED THAT THE BOUT HAD LIVED UP TO ITS IMMENSE HYPE. 850 00:43:10,876 --> 00:43:13,509 {\an1}"THE MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR FIGHT... WAS WORTH EVERY 851 00:43:13,543 --> 00:43:16,843 {\an1}GLORIOUS, HEARTBREAKING PENNY," WROTE ARTHUR DALEY 852 00:43:16,876 --> 00:43:19,576 {\an1}IN THE "NEW YORK TIMES." 853 00:43:19,609 --> 00:43:24,676 {\an1}MORE THAN 5,000 PEOPLE HAD BRAVED 18-DEGREE TEMPERATURES 854 00:43:24,709 --> 00:43:27,143 TO ATTEND A CLOSED-CIRCUIT BROADCAST 855 00:43:27,176 --> 00:43:30,076 {\an1}AT PITTSBURGH'S OPEN-AIR THREE RIVERS STADIUM. 856 00:43:30,109 --> 00:43:32,009 {\an1}MAN: OH, THERE HE GOES! 857 00:43:32,043 --> 00:43:34,709 {\an1}LONDONERS HAD STAYED UP ALL NIGHT FOR A BROADCAST THAT 858 00:43:34,743 --> 00:43:38,343 {\an1}BEGAN JUST BEFORE 5 A.M. 859 00:43:38,376 --> 00:43:40,876 AND IN VIETNAM, AMERICAN TROOPS 860 00:43:40,909 --> 00:43:43,543 {\an1}HAD LISTENED IN ON THEIR TRANSISTOR RADIOS. 861 00:43:43,576 --> 00:43:47,576 {\an1}REPORTER: JOE FRAZIER OUT- POINTED MUHAMMAD ALI TONIGHT 862 00:43:47,609 --> 00:43:51,576 {\an1}AND RETAINED THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. 863 00:43:53,309 --> 00:43:55,543 {\an1}REPORTER: ALI, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO HAVE 864 00:43:55,576 --> 00:43:58,443 {\an1}FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL CAREER, HAVE LOST? 865 00:43:58,476 --> 00:44:00,409 {\an1}I FEEL YOU HAVE OBLIGATION TO MANY 866 00:44:00,443 --> 00:44:03,076 {\an1}THOUSANDS OF FANS WHO ARE PULLING FOR YOU, WHO ARE CRYING 867 00:44:03,109 --> 00:44:05,343 {\an1}AND THEY'RE WORRYING ABOUT YOU AND HOW YOU FEEL. 868 00:44:05,376 --> 00:44:08,843 {\an1}AND I THINK IF THEY CAN SEE THAT YOU REALIZE THAT 869 00:44:08,876 --> 00:44:12,343 {\an1}I'M HUMAN AND I REALIZE THAT WE ALL HAVE TO LOSE 870 00:44:12,376 --> 00:44:15,076 {\an1}AND LIFE STILL GOING ON, THEN THEY'LL FEEL STRONGER. 871 00:44:15,109 --> 00:44:18,309 {\an1}I THINK A CELEBRITY OR ANY SO-CALLED GREAT PERSON 872 00:44:18,343 --> 00:44:22,309 {\an1}HAVE OBLIGATION TO FULFILL TO TAKE DEFEAT LIKE A MAN SO THEY 873 00:44:22,343 --> 00:44:24,443 {\an1}CAN TAKE THEIR DEFEATS WHEN THEY HAVE THEM. 874 00:44:24,476 --> 00:44:26,643 {\an1}BECAUSE WE'RE ALL GONNA HAVE VARIOUS DEFEATS IN LIFE, 875 00:44:26,676 --> 00:44:29,409 {\an1}WHETHER WE LOST OUR LOVED ONES OR WEALTH OR TITLES. 876 00:44:29,443 --> 00:44:31,943 {\an1}AND MANY PEOPLE JUST CAN'T STAND THESE PRESSURES AND THEY 877 00:44:31,976 --> 00:44:33,743 CRACK UP ON THEM. 878 00:44:33,776 --> 00:44:36,243 {\an1}AND WHEN A MAN CAN COME THROUGH THIS AFTER SO MANY 879 00:44:36,276 --> 00:44:39,243 {\an1}YEARS OF VICTORY AND BEING SO SUPREME IN HIS FIELD AND ABLE 880 00:44:39,276 --> 00:44:42,243 {\an1}TO HANDLE THE DEFEAT ALSO VICTORIOUS, AND THIS MAKE HIM 881 00:44:42,276 --> 00:44:43,943 {\an1}A BIGGER MAN. REPORTER: DO YOU... 882 00:44:43,976 --> 00:44:46,209 {\an1}I JUST LOST A FIGHT, THAT'S ALL. 883 00:44:46,243 --> 00:44:49,143 {\an1}[BLACK MERDA'S "REALITY" PLAYING] 884 00:44:49,176 --> 00:44:51,776 {\an1}LIPSYTE: THE NEXT DAY, ALI LOOKED LIKE HE HAD BEEN 885 00:44:51,809 --> 00:44:53,576 IN A FIGHT. 886 00:44:53,609 --> 00:44:57,643 {\an1}I'D NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE LOOKING LIKE THAT. 887 00:44:57,676 --> 00:45:01,709 {\an1}BLACK MERDA: ♪ YOU THINK IF YOU PRAY SOMETHING WILL ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS... ♪ 888 00:45:01,743 --> 00:45:07,176 {\an1}LIPSYTE: JOE FRAZIER JUSTIFIABLY GOT THE DECISION, 889 00:45:07,209 --> 00:45:14,043 {\an7}BUT I THINK IN A SENSE ALI WON AMERICA. 890 00:45:14,076 --> 00:45:18,043 {\an1}AND THE REASON HE WON AMERICA WAS THAT 891 00:45:18,076 --> 00:45:25,176 {\an1}IT WAS NOW VERY CLEAR HOW MUCH HE HAD SACRIFICED. 892 00:45:25,209 --> 00:45:27,052 {\an1}EIG: I THINK LOSING TO JOE FRAZIER IS ONE OF THE MOST 893 00:45:27,076 --> 00:45:29,776 {\an1}IMPORTANT THINGS THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ALI. 894 00:45:29,809 --> 00:45:31,843 {\an1}BECAUSE HE'S HUMAN NOW. 895 00:45:31,876 --> 00:45:35,509 {\an1}PEOPLE HATED HIM WHEN HE REFUSED TO FIGHT FOR HIS COUNTRY. 896 00:45:35,543 --> 00:45:38,309 {\an1}THEY HATED HIM WHEN HE CHANGED HIS NAME. 897 00:45:38,343 --> 00:45:40,809 {\an1}BUT NOW THEY SEE HIM LYING ON HIS BACK. 898 00:45:40,843 --> 00:45:42,843 {\an1}AND AS SOON AS HE GETS KNOCKED DOWN BY FRAZIER, 899 00:45:42,876 --> 00:45:45,776 {\an1}HE'S UP ON HIS FEET AGAIN. 900 00:45:45,809 --> 00:45:49,976 {\an1}AND HE CONTINUES AND HE LASTS THROUGH THE REST OF THE FIGHT 901 00:45:50,009 --> 00:45:53,076 {\an1}AND THEN THE DECISION IS FOR FRAZIER. 902 00:45:53,109 --> 00:45:57,343 {\an1}SO ALI IS A LOSER, BUT HE'S HUMAN NOW. 903 00:45:57,376 --> 00:45:59,185 {\an1}AND HE'S TRYING TO FIGHT HIS WAY BACK TO ANOTHER SHOT 904 00:45:59,209 --> 00:46:01,143 {\an1}AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP. 905 00:46:01,176 --> 00:46:05,743 {\an1}AND THIS IS WHEN ALI REALLY BECOMES POPULAR IN AMERICA. 906 00:46:05,776 --> 00:46:08,943 {\an1}AND NOW YOU'RE STARTING TO SEE KIDS LIKE ME PUT HIS POSTER 907 00:46:08,976 --> 00:46:10,009 ON THE WALL. 908 00:46:11,809 --> 00:46:14,609 {\an1}NARRATOR: JOE FRAZIER STRUGGLED TO RECOVER FROM 909 00:46:14,643 --> 00:46:17,143 {\an1}THE BRUTAL POUNDING HE HAD RECEIVED. 910 00:46:17,176 --> 00:46:21,243 {\an1}HE WAS UNABLE TO WALK OR EVEN STAND UP. 911 00:46:21,276 --> 00:46:25,776 {\an1}THE NEXT DAY, HIS EYES REMAINED SWOLLEN AND SENSITIVE TO LIGHT, 912 00:46:25,809 --> 00:46:27,743 {\an1}AND HE COULDN'T URINATE. 913 00:46:27,776 --> 00:46:31,076 {\an1}HE FAILED TO SHOW UP AT A TELEVISION STUDIO WHERE HE 914 00:46:31,109 --> 00:46:35,109 {\an1}AND ALI WERE SCHEDULED TO DISCUSS THEIR BOUT WITH HOWARD COSELL, 915 00:46:35,143 --> 00:46:37,943 {\an1}CLAIMING HE WAS STRICKEN WITH THE FLU. 916 00:46:37,976 --> 00:46:39,876 {\an1}A WEEK AFTER THE FIGHT, 917 00:46:39,909 --> 00:46:42,209 HE CHECKED INTO A PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL, 918 00:46:42,243 --> 00:46:44,776 {\an1}WHERE DOCTORS PUT HIM ON A RESTRICTED DIET 919 00:46:44,809 --> 00:46:48,376 {\an1}AND TREATED HIM FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND EXHAUSTION. 920 00:46:48,409 --> 00:46:52,209 {\an1}A RUMOR CIRCULATED THAT HE WAS NEAR DEATH. 921 00:46:52,243 --> 00:46:56,709 {\an1}10 DAYS LATER, FRAZIER FINALLY RETURNED HOME. 922 00:46:56,743 --> 00:46:59,543 {\an1}IZENBERG: I GO DOWN TO PHILADELPHIA TO JOE'S GYM. 923 00:46:59,576 --> 00:47:02,009 WE'RE STANDING ON THE SIDEWALK. 924 00:47:02,043 --> 00:47:04,776 {\an1}3 KIDS COME RUNNING DOWN THE STREET, LITTLE KIDS, 925 00:47:04,809 --> 00:47:09,209 {\an1}8 YEARS OLD, BLACK KIDS. "JOE FRAZIER, JOE FRAZIER!" 926 00:47:09,243 --> 00:47:11,285 {\an1}HE SAYS TO A GOPHER, "GO GET THE PICTURES OUT OF THE CAR," 927 00:47:11,309 --> 00:47:13,209 YOU KNOW, PATS 'EM ON THE HEAD. 928 00:47:13,243 --> 00:47:15,452 {\an1}ALL OF A SUDDEN, ONE KID LOOKS UP AND SAYS, "MY DADDY SAYS 929 00:47:15,476 --> 00:47:17,376 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI WAS DRUGGED." 930 00:47:17,409 --> 00:47:19,343 FRAZIER LEANS IN. 931 00:47:19,376 --> 00:47:21,376 {\an1}I THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA PUSH HIM OR SOMETHING. 932 00:47:21,409 --> 00:47:25,276 {\an1}AND THEN HE SAID, "YOU GO HOME AND TELL YOUR DADDY HE'S RIGHT. 933 00:47:25,309 --> 00:47:27,609 "HE WAS DRUGGED. I DRUG HIM WITH A LEFT HOOK. 934 00:47:27,643 --> 00:47:29,209 {\an1}NOW GET OUTTA HERE." 935 00:47:30,976 --> 00:47:33,909 {\an1}NARRATOR: ALI RETURNED TO THE SPANISH-STYLE RANCH HOUSE 936 00:47:33,943 --> 00:47:37,276 {\an1}ON 4 ACRES HE AND BELINDA HAD RECENTLY PURCHASED 937 00:47:37,309 --> 00:47:40,943 {\an1}IN CHERRY HILL, NEW JERSEY, JUST ACROSS THE DELAWARE RIVER 938 00:47:40,976 --> 00:47:42,643 {\an1}FROM PHILADELPHIA. 939 00:47:42,676 --> 00:47:45,809 {\an1}HE HELPED BELINDA CHOOSE FURNISHINGS, KEPT UP 940 00:47:45,843 --> 00:47:48,943 {\an1}WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS BY TELEPHONE, AND OCCASIONALLY 941 00:47:48,976 --> 00:47:52,809 {\an1}ENTERTAINED HIS 3 CHILDREN... MARYUM AND THE TWINS 942 00:47:52,843 --> 00:47:55,309 {\an1}JAMILLAH AND RASHEDA. 943 00:47:55,343 --> 00:47:59,276 BUT HE WAS HAPPIEST ON THE ROAD. 944 00:47:59,309 --> 00:48:01,576 {\an1}I'M NEVER HOME MUCH, AND THEY DON'T KNOW ME. 945 00:48:01,609 --> 00:48:03,443 {\an1}MY MARYUM, THE OLDER ONE, KNOW ME, 946 00:48:03,476 --> 00:48:05,709 {\an1}BUT RASHEDA AND JAMILLAH... THEY DON'T KNOW ME TOO WELL. 947 00:48:05,743 --> 00:48:08,276 {\an1}THEY ABOUT A YEAR OLD AND THEY GIVE ME A LOT OF TROUBLE, 948 00:48:08,309 --> 00:48:10,609 {\an1}AND I PICK THEM UP, BUT I HAVE TO START STAYING HOME MORE. 949 00:48:10,643 --> 00:48:14,076 {\an1}BUT I THINK THAT THE WIFE OR THE MOTHER SHOULD TRAIN 'EM, 950 00:48:14,109 --> 00:48:17,009 {\an1}AND BY THE TIME THEY'RE 3 YEARS OLD, THEY SHOULD BE READY 951 00:48:17,043 --> 00:48:20,009 {\an1}TO GO TO SOME TYPE SCHOOL WITH ENOUGH HOME TRAINING TO 952 00:48:20,043 --> 00:48:22,009 {\an1}GIVE THEM A GOOD START. 953 00:48:22,043 --> 00:48:24,376 {\an8}HE LIKES KIDS, HE LIKES TO BE AROUND THEM 954 00:48:24,409 --> 00:48:26,252 {\an7}FOR 20 MINUTES AND THEN HE READY TO PUT 'EM DOWN. 955 00:48:26,276 --> 00:48:29,643 {\an1}BUT UH, HE CAN'T, YOU KNOW, HE DON'T STAY THAT LONG. 956 00:48:29,676 --> 00:48:32,043 {\an1}HE JUST... HE JUST FOR THE MOMENT AND HE'S DONE. 957 00:48:32,076 --> 00:48:33,709 {\an1}BUT HE WAS A GREAT FATHER. 958 00:48:33,743 --> 00:48:36,509 {\an1}HE MADE SURE EVERYBODY HAD WHAT THEY NEEDED, 959 00:48:36,543 --> 00:48:39,176 {\an1}AND HE WAS A GREAT FATHER WHEN IT COMES TO THAT. 960 00:48:39,209 --> 00:48:42,476 {\an1}DO YOU KNOW YOUR DADDY'S THE BADDEST MAN IN THE WORLD? 961 00:48:42,509 --> 00:48:46,409 {\an1}DO YOU KNOW YOUR DADDY CAN WHOOP ALL THE MEN IN THE WHOLE WORLD 962 00:48:46,443 --> 00:48:48,643 {\an1}AND YOU DON'T CARE? 963 00:48:48,676 --> 00:48:51,543 {\an1}NARRATOR: REPORTERS TURNED UP AT THE HOUSE EAGER TO KNOW 964 00:48:51,576 --> 00:48:54,376 {\an1}WHEN THE BOXER WOULD FIGHT FRAZIER AGAIN. 965 00:48:54,409 --> 00:48:57,143 "HE'S RESTING. I'M RESTING. 966 00:48:57,176 --> 00:49:00,043 {\an1}THE PUBLIC NEEDS A REST, TOO," ALI SAID. 967 00:49:00,076 --> 00:49:04,576 {\an1}HE ALSO CLAIMED THAT A REMATCH WOULD BE HIS FINAL FIGHT 968 00:49:04,609 --> 00:49:07,143 {\an1}BEFORE HE QUIT BOXING TO FOCUS FULL-TIME 969 00:49:07,176 --> 00:49:10,476 {\an1}ON SPREADING THE TEACHINGS OF ELIJAH MUHAMMAD. 970 00:49:10,509 --> 00:49:12,676 {\an1}IT HAD BEEN NEARLY TWO YEARS 971 00:49:12,709 --> 00:49:15,909 {\an1}SINCE THE NATION OF ISLAM'S LEADER HAD SUSPENDED ALI 972 00:49:15,943 --> 00:49:18,643 {\an1}AND REVOKED HIS MUSLIM NAME. 973 00:49:18,676 --> 00:49:22,009 {\an1}"IF BOXING'S IN YOUR BLOOD," ELIJAH MUHAMMAD HAD TOLD HIM, 974 00:49:22,043 --> 00:49:23,976 "GET IT OUT." 975 00:49:24,009 --> 00:49:27,409 {\an1}"I CAN'T REPRESENT THE MUSLIMS AGAIN UNTIL I QUIT SPORTS," 976 00:49:27,443 --> 00:49:29,476 ALI SAID. 977 00:49:29,509 --> 00:49:33,143 {\an1}BUT HE HAD CONTINUED TO USE HIS MUSLIM NAME 978 00:49:33,176 --> 00:49:36,909 {\an1}AND CONTINUED TO ASSOCIATE WITH MEMBERS OF THE NATION OF ISLAM, 979 00:49:36,943 --> 00:49:40,543 {\an1}NOW PLAGUED BY INCREASING VIOLENCE AND CORRUPTION 980 00:49:40,576 --> 00:49:43,376 {\an1}AS SOME LIEUTENANTS POSITIONED THEMSELVES 981 00:49:43,409 --> 00:49:46,209 {\an1}TO SUCCEED THEIR AGING LEADER. 982 00:49:46,243 --> 00:49:49,643 {\an1}AND IN SPITE OF ALI'S BANISHMENT, HERBERT MUHAMMAD, 983 00:49:49,676 --> 00:49:52,609 {\an1}ELIJAH'S SON, REMAINED THE BOXER'S MANAGER, 984 00:49:52,643 --> 00:49:55,876 {\an1}POCKETING 1/3 OF ALI'S BOXING INCOME, AS WELL AS 985 00:49:55,909 --> 00:49:58,943 {\an1}A PERCENTAGE OF THE CLOSED- CIRCUIT TELEVISION PROFITS 986 00:49:58,976 --> 00:50:01,043 FROM EACH BOUT. 987 00:50:01,076 --> 00:50:04,909 {\an1}IN THE DECADE SINCE HE HAD TURNED PROFESSIONAL, ALI HAD 988 00:50:04,943 --> 00:50:08,409 {\an1}BURNED THROUGH MUCH OF HIS $7 MILLION IN EARNINGS, 989 00:50:08,443 --> 00:50:12,109 {\an1}CARING FOR HIS FAMILY AND HIS ENTOURAGE, MAINTAINING 990 00:50:12,143 --> 00:50:14,976 {\an1}MULTIPLE HOUSES AND A FLEET OF CARS THAT INCLUDED 991 00:50:15,009 --> 00:50:19,909 {\an1}TWO ROLLS-ROYCES, A COLLECTION OF CADILLACS, AND A BUS. 992 00:50:19,943 --> 00:50:23,143 {\an1}HE ALSO GAVE PLENTY OF IT AWAY. 993 00:50:23,176 --> 00:50:27,143 {\an1}THERE WAS A GUY CAME INTO THE GYM IN A WHEELCHAIR AND A DODGERS HAT 994 00:50:27,176 --> 00:50:29,009 {\an1}AND HE HAD NO LEGS. 995 00:50:29,043 --> 00:50:31,276 {\an1}AND ANGELO WENT OVER TO ALI AND SAID, "ALI THAT GUY'S 996 00:50:31,309 --> 00:50:32,752 {\an1}"GONNA TELL YOU HE'S ROY CAMPANELLA AND HE'S GONNA HIT 997 00:50:32,776 --> 00:50:34,643 {\an1}"YOU UP FOR MONEY, HE'S A HUSTLER. 998 00:50:34,676 --> 00:50:37,876 {\an1}HE COMES IN HERE ALL THE TIME. DON'T GIVE HIM ANY MONEY." 999 00:50:37,909 --> 00:50:39,952 {\an1}AND THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, DUNDEE LOOKS OVER AND HE SEES 1000 00:50:39,976 --> 00:50:42,219 {\an1}ALI REACHING INTO HIS POCKET, TAKING OUT A BIG WAD OF CASH 1001 00:50:42,243 --> 00:50:44,043 {\an1}AND HANDING IT TO THE GUY. 1002 00:50:44,076 --> 00:50:46,209 {\an1}AND ANGELO COMES OVER AFTERWARDS AND SAYS, 1003 00:50:46,243 --> 00:50:48,309 {\an1}"WHAT'D YOU DO THAT FOR? I TOLD YOU HE'S A HUSTLER." 1004 00:50:48,343 --> 00:50:52,876 {\an1}AND ALI SAYS, "ANG, WE GOT LEGS." 1005 00:50:52,909 --> 00:50:56,976 {\an7}RILEY: HERE COME THIS DRUNK, JUST SHAKING, AND HE SAY, 1006 00:50:57,009 --> 00:51:01,276 {\an7}"MR. ALI, CAN I GET SOME MONEY TO GET ME SOMETHING TO EAT?" 1007 00:51:01,309 --> 00:51:04,709 {\an1}AND ALI HAD JUST BOUGHT A CASHMERE OVERCOAT. 1008 00:51:04,743 --> 00:51:08,176 {\an1}HE TOOK THAT COAT OFF AND WRAPPED IT IN HIM AND TOLD ME, 1009 00:51:08,209 --> 00:51:10,309 {\an1}"GIVE HIM $10," AND I GAVE HIM $10. 1010 00:51:10,343 --> 00:51:12,319 {\an1}[THE OLYMPIANS' "SAGITARRIUS BY MOONLIGHT" PLAYING] 1011 00:51:12,343 --> 00:51:20,343 ♪ 1012 00:51:26,343 --> 00:51:31,543 {\an1}WOMAN: IN ALI'S PRESENCE, YOU ALWAYS FELT THAT HE CARED. 1013 00:51:31,576 --> 00:51:33,843 {\an1}THAT MOMENT THAT HE WAS WITH YOU, THERE WAS NOBODY ELSE 1014 00:51:33,876 --> 00:51:35,676 {\an8}IN THE WORLD. 1015 00:51:35,709 --> 00:51:40,143 {\an7}I'M NOT SO SURE THAT THAT'S TRUE OF A LOT OF PEOPLE. 1016 00:51:40,176 --> 00:51:45,109 {\an1}RASHEDA: WE SAW AT A YOUNG AGE THAT DADDY, EVERY TIME HE 1017 00:51:45,143 --> 00:51:48,509 {\an1}WOKE UP IN THE MORNING, I THINK HE REALLY FELT LIKE, 1018 00:51:48,543 --> 00:51:51,143 {\an1}"HOW AM I GOING TO HELP SOMEBODY TODAY?" 1019 00:51:51,176 --> 00:51:54,476 {\an1}AND HE DID THAT ALL THE TIME. 1020 00:51:54,509 --> 00:51:57,343 {\an1}HE WOULD HAVE ROLEX WATCHES AND HE WOULD JUST TAKE IT OFF 1021 00:51:57,376 --> 00:51:58,509 {\an7}AND GIVE IT TO PEOPLE. 1022 00:51:58,543 --> 00:52:00,543 {\an7}HE'D HAVE MONEY IN HIS PO... 1023 00:52:00,576 --> 00:52:03,376 {\an7}AND WE'D BE LIKE, "DADDY DON'T DO THAT, YOU CAN'T." 1024 00:52:03,409 --> 00:52:04,776 {\an7}HE'D HAVE MONEY IN HIS POCKET, 1025 00:52:04,809 --> 00:52:06,743 {\an1}AND HE'D JUST HAND IT TO PEOPLE. 1026 00:52:06,776 --> 00:52:10,076 {\an1}ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK, AND HE WOULD GIVE THEM 1027 00:52:10,109 --> 00:52:12,409 {\an1}WHATEVER THEY WANTED, 1028 00:52:12,443 --> 00:52:16,376 {\an1}BECAUSE DADDY'S PURPOSE WAS JUST TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL SPECIAL 1029 00:52:16,409 --> 00:52:18,209 AND HELP PEOPLE. 1030 00:52:18,243 --> 00:52:21,543 {\an1}ALI COULD HAVE $30,000 IN HIS POCKET ONE AFTERNOON, 1031 00:52:21,576 --> 00:52:23,776 HE COME BACK, HE HAVE NOTHIN'. 1032 00:52:23,809 --> 00:52:27,943 {\an1}SOMEBODY GIVE HIM A SAD STORY, HE WOULD FALL IN AND TAKE CARE 1033 00:52:27,976 --> 00:52:29,709 {\an1}OF THEIR KID AND TAKE CARE OF THEIR HOUSE, 1034 00:52:29,743 --> 00:52:31,776 {\an1}THEY LOSIN' THEY HOUSE. 1035 00:52:31,809 --> 00:52:33,543 {\an1}HE JUST LOVE TO GIVE. 1036 00:52:33,576 --> 00:52:36,076 {\an1}IF SOMEBODY'S HURTING, HE LOVED TO HELP THE PAIN. 1037 00:52:36,109 --> 00:52:38,676 I THINK... I THINK HE'LL GO TO PARADISE 1038 00:52:38,709 --> 00:52:41,209 {\an1}BECAUSE OF THAT, 'CAUSE HE DID GIVE A LOT OF CHARITY! 1039 00:52:41,243 --> 00:52:45,909 ♪ 1040 00:52:45,943 --> 00:52:47,619 {\an1}DICK CAVETT: HOW DO YOU STAND NOW WITH THE POSSIBILITY 1041 00:52:47,643 --> 00:52:49,209 OF GOING TO JAIL? 1042 00:52:49,243 --> 00:52:50,443 {\an1}OH, I DON'T KNOW. 1043 00:52:50,476 --> 00:52:51,876 {\an1}I'M JUST WAITING, ANY DAY NOW. 1044 00:52:51,909 --> 00:52:54,609 DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT? [LAUGHTER] 1045 00:52:54,643 --> 00:52:57,109 {\an1}WHENEVER PEOPLE WANT TO REALLY MAKE PROGRESS, 1046 00:52:57,143 --> 00:52:59,376 {\an1}SOME HAVE TO SACRIFICE A LOT. 1047 00:52:59,409 --> 00:53:04,176 {\an1}AND I LIKE TO SAY, UM... WHITE AMERICA RIGHT NOW IS 1048 00:53:04,209 --> 00:53:06,176 {\an1}SPENDING $30 MILLION A DAY IN ASIA, 1049 00:53:06,209 --> 00:53:08,476 {\an1}BLACK AND WHITE BOYS ARE DYING UNJUSTLY FOR NOTHING. 1050 00:53:08,509 --> 00:53:11,209 {\an1}SO WHY SHOULD I WORRY ABOUT GOING TO LITTLE OLD JAIL 1051 00:53:11,243 --> 00:53:14,609 {\an1}TO FREE MY POOR PEOPLE WHO'S BEEN CATCHING HELL HERE FOR 400 YEARS? 1052 00:53:14,643 --> 00:53:16,776 [APPLAUSE] 1053 00:53:18,243 --> 00:53:22,776 {\an1}NARRATOR: ON APRIL 19, 1971, CHAUNCEY ESKRIDGE, 1054 00:53:22,809 --> 00:53:25,876 {\an1}A LAWYER WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY REPRESENTED MARTIN LUTHER KING, 1055 00:53:25,909 --> 00:53:28,876 {\an1}APPEARED BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT ON BEHALF 1056 00:53:28,909 --> 00:53:32,776 {\an1}OF MUHAMMAD ALI, ARGUING THAT HIS CONVICTION FOR REFUSING 1057 00:53:32,809 --> 00:53:36,176 THE DRAFT SHOULD BE OVERTURNED. 1058 00:53:36,209 --> 00:53:40,976 {\an1}THE JUSTICES HAD NOT INITIALLY PLANNED TO HEAR THE CASE. 1059 00:53:41,009 --> 00:53:43,909 {\an1}KRATTENMAKER: THEY WERE AGAIN PREDISPOSED TO JUST DENY IT 1060 00:53:43,943 --> 00:53:47,109 {\an1}BECAUSE THERE DIDN'T SEEM TO BE ANY BIG LEGAL ISSUE HERE, 1061 00:53:47,143 --> 00:53:50,309 {\an1}BUT JUSTICE BRENNAN MADE AN IMPASSIONED PLEA THAT THEY 1062 00:53:50,343 --> 00:53:53,976 {\an1}SHOULD AT LEAST HEAR THE CASE, BECAUSE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 1063 00:53:54,009 --> 00:53:58,143 {\an7}WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY SOMEBODY WHO WAS ADVANCING 1064 00:53:58,176 --> 00:54:01,876 {\an7}A CLAIM LIKE THIS, WHO HAD THE STATURE AND IMPORTANCE 1065 00:54:01,909 --> 00:54:05,743 OF MUHAMMAD ALI, HADN'T HAD A DAY IN COURT. 1066 00:54:05,776 --> 00:54:09,176 {\an1}AND SO THE COURT AGREED TO HEAR THE CASE, FULLY EXPECTING 1067 00:54:09,209 --> 00:54:12,576 {\an1}THAT THEY WERE PROBABLY GOING TO AFFIRM THE CONVICTION. 1068 00:54:12,609 --> 00:54:14,909 {\an1}NARRATOR: "THE PETITIONER JUST DOESN'T WANT TO FIGHT 1069 00:54:14,943 --> 00:54:18,176 {\an1}THE WHITE MAN'S WAR, AND I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT," 1070 00:54:18,209 --> 00:54:22,243 {\an1}SOLICITOR GENERAL ERWIN GRISWOLD TOLD THE SUPREME COURT ON BEHALF 1071 00:54:22,276 --> 00:54:23,909 {\an1}OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. 1072 00:54:23,943 --> 00:54:27,743 {\an1}"BUT THAT'S NOT THE SAME AS BEING A PACIFIST." 1073 00:54:29,243 --> 00:54:33,543 {\an1}ALI'S OPPOSITION TO FIGHTING, ARGUED HIS LAWYER, WASN'T 1074 00:54:33,576 --> 00:54:37,043 {\an1}RACIAL OR POLITICAL, BUT ROOTED IN SINCERE 1075 00:54:37,076 --> 00:54:40,276 RELIGIOUS BELIEF. 1076 00:54:40,309 --> 00:54:43,576 {\an1}IZENBERG: THURGOOD MARSHALL CANNOT VOTE BECAUSE HE HAD 1077 00:54:43,609 --> 00:54:46,309 {\an1}WORKED FOR THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WHEN ALI 1078 00:54:46,343 --> 00:54:48,243 {\an1}WAS FIRST CHARGED. 1079 00:54:48,276 --> 00:54:51,309 {\an1}SO HE'S GOTTA RECUSE HIMSELF. 1080 00:54:51,343 --> 00:54:53,476 SO NOW WE HAVE AN 8-JUDGE COURT. 1081 00:54:54,843 --> 00:54:56,876 {\an8}THEY SIT DOWN AND HAVE THEIR CONFERENCE. 1082 00:54:56,909 --> 00:54:59,709 {\an8}THEY VOTE 5-3, HE GOES TO JAIL. 1083 00:55:01,243 --> 00:55:03,876 {\an1}KRATTENMAKER: DURING THE PERIOD WHILE THE ALI CASE WAS 1084 00:55:03,909 --> 00:55:07,709 {\an1}UP AT THE SUPREME COURT THE SECOND TIME, I WAS A LAW CLERK 1085 00:55:07,743 --> 00:55:10,409 {\an1}TO ONE OF THE JUSTICES, TO JUSTICE HARLAN. 1086 00:55:10,443 --> 00:55:14,043 {\an1}THE CHIEF JUSTICE CHOSE JUSTICE HARLAN TO WRITE THE OPINION, 1087 00:55:14,076 --> 00:55:16,909 {\an1}AND THEY ALL EXPECTED HE WAS GOING TO WRITE AN OPINION 1088 00:55:16,943 --> 00:55:18,943 {\an1}TO AFFIRM THE CONVICTION. 1089 00:55:18,976 --> 00:55:21,509 {\an1}NARRATOR: TOM KRATTENMAKER HAD BEEN READING ABOUT 1090 00:55:21,543 --> 00:55:23,409 {\an1}THE NATION OF ISLAM 1091 00:55:23,443 --> 00:55:26,309 {\an1}AND BELIEVED THAT ALI'S CLAIM OF RELIGIOUS OPPOSITION 1092 00:55:26,343 --> 00:55:29,143 {\an1}TO FIGHTING IN WARS WAS NO DIFFERENT THAN THE ARGUMENT 1093 00:55:29,176 --> 00:55:31,909 {\an1}JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES HAD SUCCESSFULLY PRESENTED TO 1094 00:55:31,943 --> 00:55:34,909 {\an1}THE COURT IN THE 1950s. 1095 00:55:34,943 --> 00:55:37,343 {\an1}IZENBERG: THE LAW CLERK OF JUSTICE HARLAN GOES IN 1096 00:55:37,376 --> 00:55:40,576 {\an1}AND SAYS, "LISTEN, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT MR. JUSTICE, 1097 00:55:40,609 --> 00:55:42,185 {\an1}"I'VE GOT SOME STUFF HERE ABOUT THE NATION OF ISLAM 1098 00:55:42,209 --> 00:55:43,643 {\an1}AND WHAT IT BELIEVES." 1099 00:55:43,676 --> 00:55:45,609 I THOUGHT ONCE HE GOT DEEPER INTO 1100 00:55:45,643 --> 00:55:49,909 {\an1}THE DOCUMENTS AND INTO THE UNDERLYING MATERIALS 1101 00:55:49,943 --> 00:55:52,976 {\an1}IN THE CASE, HE WOULD FIND THAT ALI DID IN FACT HAVE 1102 00:55:53,009 --> 00:55:56,476 {\an1}A SINCERE OBJECTION TO FIGHTING ALL WARS. 1103 00:55:56,509 --> 00:56:00,976 {\an7}WHAT ALI SAID IS, I AM A MEMBER OF THE LOST-FOUND 1104 00:56:01,009 --> 00:56:02,609 {\an8}NATION OF ISLAM. 1105 00:56:02,643 --> 00:56:05,143 {\an7}IT IS PART OF OUR RELIGIOUS TENET THAT WE 1106 00:56:05,176 --> 00:56:08,809 {\an7}WILL NOT FIGHT ANY WARS IN WHICH HUMAN LIFE IS BEING TAKEN, 1107 00:56:08,843 --> 00:56:12,109 UNLESS I'M COMMANDED TO FIGHT BY ALLAH. 1108 00:56:12,143 --> 00:56:18,243 {\an1}AND, THOSE VIEWS ARE, A RELIGIOUSLY BASED OBJECTION 1109 00:56:18,276 --> 00:56:22,576 {\an1}TO PARTICIPATION IN WAR IN ALL FORMS. 1110 00:56:22,609 --> 00:56:27,076 {\an1}AND ONE DAY, JUSTICE HARLAN WALKED IN AND SAID, 1111 00:56:27,109 --> 00:56:32,209 {\an1}"YOU KNOW, I'VE DECIDED YOU GUYS ARE RIGHT." 1112 00:56:32,243 --> 00:56:35,876 {\an1}IT'S PRETTY UNUSUAL FOR JUSTICES TO CHANGE THEIR MIND. 1113 00:56:35,909 --> 00:56:38,576 {\an1}IN THIS CASE, IT WAS QUITE A BOMBSHELL. 1114 00:56:38,609 --> 00:56:40,543 {\an1}NO ONE EXPECTED IT. 1115 00:56:40,576 --> 00:56:42,376 {\an1}EVERYONE ON THE COURT THOUGHT THIS CONVICTION 1116 00:56:42,409 --> 00:56:44,376 {\an1}WAS GOING TO BE AFFIRMED. 1117 00:56:44,409 --> 00:56:47,209 {\an1}NARRATOR: CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN BURGER WAS LIVID, 1118 00:56:47,243 --> 00:56:52,643 {\an1}CALLING HARLAN "AN APOLOGIST FOR THE BLACK MUSLIMS." 1119 00:56:52,676 --> 00:56:57,276 {\an1}THE VOTE, NOW SPLIT 4-4, MEANT THAT ALI'S CONVICTION 1120 00:56:57,309 --> 00:57:02,876 {\an1}WOULD BE UPHELD, BUT THE JUSTICES WOULD PUBLISH NO OPINION. 1121 00:57:02,909 --> 00:57:06,976 {\an1}IT WOULD BE AS IF THEY HAD NEVER EVEN TAKEN THE CASE. 1122 00:57:09,276 --> 00:57:13,443 {\an1}THEN, ANOTHER JUSTICE, POTTER STEWART, DISCOVERED 1123 00:57:13,476 --> 00:57:17,209 {\an1}A PROCEDURAL ERROR BY THE KENTUCKY APPEALS BOARD THAT HE 1124 00:57:17,243 --> 00:57:21,043 {\an1}BELIEVED THE COURT COULD USE TO OVERTURN ALI'S CONVICTION 1125 00:57:21,076 --> 00:57:23,209 {\an1}WITHOUT SETTING A PRECEDENT. 1126 00:57:23,243 --> 00:57:27,943 {\an1}WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE STATE APPEAL BOARD USED 1127 00:57:27,976 --> 00:57:32,709 {\an1}AS A REASON FOR DENYING ALI CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR STATUS, 1128 00:57:32,743 --> 00:57:34,709 BECAUSE THEY GAVE NO REASONS. 1129 00:57:34,743 --> 00:57:37,143 {\an1}THEY JUST TURNED HIM DOWN. 1130 00:57:37,176 --> 00:57:40,943 {\an1}AND SO THAT DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW TO THIS ONE PERSON, 1131 00:57:40,976 --> 00:57:42,876 MUHAMMAD ALI. 1132 00:57:42,909 --> 00:57:46,943 {\an1}ONCE JUSTICE STEWART LATCHED ON TO THIS PROCEDURAL POINT, 1133 00:57:46,976 --> 00:57:49,443 {\an1}HE AND HIS LAW CLERKS DRAFTED IT UP 1134 00:57:49,476 --> 00:57:51,109 {\an1}AND SENT IT AROUND, 1135 00:57:51,143 --> 00:57:54,243 {\an1}AND ONE BY ONE, JUSTICES STARTED JOINING IT. 1136 00:57:54,276 --> 00:57:57,376 {\an1}THE FINAL PERSON TO JOIN WAS THE CHIEF JUSTICE. 1137 00:57:57,409 --> 00:58:02,076 {\an1}AND SO, BY THE END, IT WAS UNANIMOUS TO REVERSE 1138 00:58:02,109 --> 00:58:03,676 ALI'S CONVICTION. HA HA! 1139 00:58:03,709 --> 00:58:06,309 {\an1}REPORTER: THE COURT UNANIMOUSLY THREW OUT 1140 00:58:06,343 --> 00:58:09,509 {\an1}THE CONVICTION OF BOXER MUHAMMAD ALI, OR CASSIUS CLAY... 1141 00:58:09,543 --> 00:58:14,676 {\an1}NARRATOR: ON JUNE 28, 1971, AS ALI WAS LEAVING A CORNER STORE 1142 00:58:14,709 --> 00:58:18,343 {\an1}ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO, THE SHOPKEEPER HEARD THE NEWS 1143 00:58:18,376 --> 00:58:21,209 {\an1}AND RAN AFTER HIM TO LET HIM KNOW. 1144 00:58:21,243 --> 00:58:24,176 {\an1}WELL I WAS ON 79th STREET ON THE SOUTH SIDE AND JUST 1145 00:58:24,209 --> 00:58:25,943 {\an1}BOUGHT ME AN ORANGE IN A GROCERY STORE, 1146 00:58:25,976 --> 00:58:28,176 {\an1}AND THE GROCERY OWNER CAME OUT AND GRABBED ME 1147 00:58:28,209 --> 00:58:29,976 {\an1}AND HUGGED ME WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES, 1148 00:58:30,009 --> 00:58:32,343 {\an1}LITTLE BLACK FELLA, AND TOLD ME THAT "YOU'VE JUST 1149 00:58:32,376 --> 00:58:34,143 "BEEN VINDICATED AND YOU FREE. 1150 00:58:34,176 --> 00:58:36,643 {\an1}8 JUDGES ALL VOTED IN YOUR FAVOR." 1151 00:58:36,676 --> 00:58:39,109 {\an1}AND HE JUST HUGGED ME AND SQUEEZED ME. 1152 00:58:39,143 --> 00:58:42,043 {\an1}REPORTER: HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT OUR SYSTEM NOW? 1153 00:58:42,076 --> 00:58:44,509 {\an1}ALI: WELL, I DON'T KNOW WHO WILL BE ASSASSINATED TONIGHT. 1154 00:58:44,543 --> 00:58:47,376 {\an1}I DON'T KNOW WHO WILL BE ENSLAVED OR MISTREATED. 1155 00:58:47,409 --> 00:58:49,609 {\an1}I DON'T KNOW WHO WILL BE DEPRIVED OF SOME OTHER JUSTICE 1156 00:58:49,643 --> 00:58:52,176 OR EQUALITY, SO I CAN'T SAY NOTHING. 1157 00:58:52,209 --> 00:58:54,443 ALL I CAN TALK ABOUT IS MY CASE. 1158 00:58:54,476 --> 00:58:57,776 {\an1}AND I'M THANKFUL THAT THE COURTS RECOGNIZED MY SINCERITY 1159 00:58:57,809 --> 00:58:59,843 OF MY BELIEFS IN THIS CASE. 1160 00:58:59,876 --> 00:59:02,643 {\an1}THAT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. OH, THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. 1161 00:59:02,676 --> 00:59:06,343 {\an8}I CRIED BECAUSE I WAS SO HAPPY. 1162 00:59:06,376 --> 00:59:08,409 {\an7}MY BROTHER FACING PRISON, PRISON SENTENCE 1163 00:59:08,443 --> 00:59:10,309 {\an7}IF HE FOUND GUILTY, 1164 00:59:10,343 --> 00:59:13,243 {\an1}HE WASN'T FOUND GUILTY. THEY LET HIM GO. HE WAS RIGHT. 1165 00:59:13,276 --> 00:59:15,176 THE SUPREME COURT SAID HE WAS RIGHT. 1166 00:59:15,209 --> 00:59:17,176 {\an1}IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. 1167 00:59:17,209 --> 00:59:19,143 {\an1}IT SHOWS... IT SHOWS THERE'S A GOD. 1168 00:59:19,176 --> 00:59:20,709 {\an1}IT WAS EASY FOR HIM. 1169 00:59:20,743 --> 00:59:22,509 {\an1}YOU KNOW WHY IT WAS EASY, YOU KNOW WHY? 1170 00:59:22,543 --> 00:59:25,676 {\an1}BECAUSE IN HIS MIND, HE WAS DOING THE RIGHT THING. 1171 00:59:25,709 --> 00:59:28,376 {\an1}DO THE RIGHT THING IN LIFE, YOU'RE HAPPY, 1172 00:59:28,409 --> 00:59:30,843 NO MATTER WHAT PEOPLE SAY. 1173 00:59:30,876 --> 00:59:33,576 {\an1}DO WHAT YOU THINK IS RIGHT. 1174 00:59:33,609 --> 00:59:37,209 {\an1}MOSLEY: SOMEBODY ASKED ME ONCE IN HIGH SCHOOL, 1175 00:59:37,243 --> 00:59:39,043 {\an1}"WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE WAR IN VIETNAM 1176 00:59:39,076 --> 00:59:40,385 {\an1}AND MAYBE GOING OVER THERE AND FIGHTING?" 1177 00:59:40,409 --> 00:59:42,209 {\an1}AND I SAID, "LISTEN. 1178 00:59:42,243 --> 00:59:44,252 {\an7}"I CAN'T SEE ANY REASON THAT I'D BEEN SHOOTING THESE 1179 00:59:44,276 --> 00:59:46,176 {\an7}"VIETNAMESE MEN AND WOMEN. 1180 00:59:46,209 --> 00:59:48,176 {\an7}"WHY WOULD I BE DOING THAT? WHY WOULD I GO THERE? 1181 00:59:48,209 --> 00:59:50,376 {\an7}WHY WOULD I SUPPORT THAT?" 1182 00:59:50,409 --> 00:59:52,976 I THOUGHT IT WAS MY OWN THOUGHT. 1183 00:59:54,709 --> 00:59:58,676 THAT SHOWS HOW POWERFUL MUHAMMAD ALI IS. 1184 00:59:58,709 --> 01:00:02,076 {\an1}IT WAS A THOUGHT THAT I HAD GOTTEN FROM HIM, BUT I DIDN'T 1185 01:00:02,109 --> 01:00:04,743 {\an1}EVEN KNOW I'D GOTTEN IT FROM HIM. 1186 01:00:04,776 --> 01:00:07,409 {\an1}WHEN HE SAYS, "NO VIET CONG EVER CALLED ME NIGGER," 1187 01:00:07,443 --> 01:00:11,743 {\an1}I MEAN, SOMEHOW THAT GOT INTO MY HEAD, BUT NOT UN... 1188 01:00:11,776 --> 01:00:13,209 NOT ON PURPOSE, NOT CONSCIOUSLY. 1189 01:00:13,243 --> 01:00:15,976 {\an1}AND THAT'S A REAL LEADER. 1190 01:00:16,009 --> 01:00:20,443 {\an1}HE INFLUENCES YOU, AND YOU DON'T KNOW IT'S HAPPENING. 1191 01:00:23,243 --> 01:00:26,876 {\an1}REPORTER: SUPPOSE YOU DO FIGHT FRAZIER AGAIN AND BEAT HIM, THEN WHAT? 1192 01:00:26,909 --> 01:00:29,876 {\an1}SUPPOSE I BEAT HIM? I'M GONNA WHOOP HIM. 1193 01:00:29,909 --> 01:00:32,543 {\an1}I WHOOPED HIM THE FIRST TIME, I WHOOPED HIM FOR 9 ROUNDS, 1194 01:00:32,576 --> 01:00:34,452 {\an1}BEAT HIM SO TERRIBLE, THEY PUT HIM IN THE HOSPITAL. 1195 01:00:34,476 --> 01:00:36,376 {\an1}THAT'S WHEN I WAS OFF. 1196 01:00:36,409 --> 01:00:38,776 {\an1}WHEN THEY TOOK MY TITLE, IF I FOUGHT JOE FRAZIER THEN, 1197 01:00:38,809 --> 01:00:40,743 {\an1}HE'D HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED. 1198 01:00:40,776 --> 01:00:43,376 {\an1}YOU LET ME GET IN THE RING WITH JOE FRAZIER ONE MORE TIME, 1199 01:00:43,409 --> 01:00:45,443 {\an1}AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I DO WITH JOE FRAZIER. 1200 01:00:45,476 --> 01:00:47,109 {\an1}I'M TIRED OF TALKING ABOUT IT! 1201 01:00:47,143 --> 01:00:49,043 {\an1}YOU'LL SEE WHAT I DO WITH JOE FRAZIER! 1202 01:00:49,076 --> 01:00:53,109 {\an1}[JOE FRAZIER AND THE KNOCKOUTS' "KNOCKOUT DROP" PLAYING] 1203 01:00:53,143 --> 01:00:55,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: JOE FRAZIER WAS IN NO HURRY TO FIGHT ALI 1204 01:00:55,876 --> 01:00:58,043 OR ANYONE ELSE. 1205 01:00:58,076 --> 01:01:01,576 {\an1}HE LOVED BEING THE UNDISPUTED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD 1206 01:01:01,609 --> 01:01:05,909 {\an1}AND TOURED EUROPE WITH HIS SOUL BAND, THE KNOCKOUTS. 1207 01:01:05,943 --> 01:01:08,643 {\an1}♪ OHH, MY LOVE, MY LOVE, MY LOVE ♪ 1208 01:01:08,676 --> 01:01:11,209 {\an1}♪ IS LIKE A KNOCKOUT DROP ♪ 1209 01:01:11,243 --> 01:01:14,609 {\an1}NARRATOR: HE APPEARED BEFORE THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE, 1210 01:01:14,643 --> 01:01:17,076 ONE OF THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICANS TO DO SO 1211 01:01:17,109 --> 01:01:18,643 {\an1}SINCE RECONSTRUCTION. 1212 01:01:18,676 --> 01:01:20,776 {\an1}WE MUST SAVE OUR PEOPLE. 1213 01:01:20,809 --> 01:01:25,109 {\an1}NARRATOR: AND HE PURCHASED A 366-ACRE FORMER RICE PLANTATION 1214 01:01:25,143 --> 01:01:29,843 {\an1}OUTSIDE BEAUFORT, WHERE HE MOVED HIS MOTHER, DOLLY. 1215 01:01:29,876 --> 01:01:34,976 {\an1}ONE AIDE CLAIMED HE WAS UNLIKELY TO BOX AGAIN THAT YEAR. 1216 01:01:35,009 --> 01:01:37,576 {\an1}THE FACT IS THAT YOU'RE A CROWD PULLER 1217 01:01:37,609 --> 01:01:40,009 {\an1}AND FRAZIER'S NOT, IS HE? WHY IS THAT? 1218 01:01:40,043 --> 01:01:41,776 WELL, NUMBER ONE, HE'S UGLY. 1219 01:01:41,809 --> 01:01:44,943 [LAUGHTER] 1220 01:01:44,976 --> 01:01:50,676 {\an1}HE HAS NO RHYTHM, NO FOOTWORK, NO CLASS, HE CANNOT TALK. 1221 01:01:50,709 --> 01:01:52,576 [LAUGHTER] 1222 01:01:52,609 --> 01:01:54,809 AND WHO TOLD HIM HE COULD SING? 1223 01:01:54,843 --> 01:01:56,776 HE CANNOT SING. [LOUD LAUGHTER] 1224 01:01:56,809 --> 01:02:02,543 {\an1}NARRATOR: BEGINNING IN JULY OF 1971, ALI, NOW FREE TO BOX 1225 01:02:02,576 --> 01:02:06,209 {\an1}WHENEVER AND WHEREVER HE PLEASED, FOUGHT 9 TIMES 1226 01:02:06,243 --> 01:02:10,476 {\an1}IN 15 MONTHS WHILE WAITING FOR ANOTHER SHOT AT FRAZIER. 1227 01:02:10,509 --> 01:02:15,976 {\an1}HIS OPPONENTS... OFTEN SMALLER, SLOWER, OR PAST THEIR PRIME... 1228 01:02:16,009 --> 01:02:19,876 {\an1}WERE CAREFULLY CHOSEN TO PROTECT ALI FROM A SECOND DEFEAT 1229 01:02:19,909 --> 01:02:22,109 {\an1}THAT WOULD HAVE DESTROYED HIS CAREER BEFORE HE COULD 1230 01:02:22,143 --> 01:02:24,676 {\an1}FACE FRAZIER AGAIN. 1231 01:02:24,709 --> 01:02:27,176 {\an1}NARRATOR: FIRST, HE DEFEATED HIS BOYHOOD FRIEND 1232 01:02:27,209 --> 01:02:29,709 {\an1}AND LONGTIME SPARRING PARTNER JIMMY ELLIS 1233 01:02:29,743 --> 01:02:32,143 {\an1}AT THE ASTRODOME IN HOUSTON. 1234 01:02:32,176 --> 01:02:36,709 {\an1}ALI, WHO OUTWEIGHED ELLIS BY 31 POUNDS, LOOKED LISTLESS 1235 01:02:36,743 --> 01:02:38,309 AND UNPREPARED. 1236 01:02:38,343 --> 01:02:41,209 {\an1}FRAZIER, WHO HAD WATCHED A CLOSED-CIRCUIT SHOWING 1237 01:02:41,243 --> 01:02:44,143 IN PHILADELPHIA, WAS UNIMPRESSED. 1238 01:02:44,176 --> 01:02:47,543 {\an1}HE CALLED ALI A CLOWN AND ACCUSED HIM OF HIKING UP 1239 01:02:47,576 --> 01:02:49,176 {\an1}HIS OVER-SIZED TRUNKS 1240 01:02:49,209 --> 01:02:51,976 {\an1}TO CONCEAL A LAYER OF FAT AROUND HIS WAIST. 1241 01:02:52,009 --> 01:02:53,976 FRAZIER: ♪ LIKE A KNOCKOUT DROP ♪ 1242 01:02:54,009 --> 01:02:55,176 {\an1}NARRATOR: BUSTER MATHIS. 1243 01:02:55,209 --> 01:02:56,976 JURGEN BLIN. 1244 01:02:57,009 --> 01:02:58,509 MAC FOSTER. 1245 01:02:58,543 --> 01:03:00,409 GEORGE CHUVALO. 1246 01:03:00,443 --> 01:03:02,209 JERRY QUARRY. 1247 01:03:02,243 --> 01:03:04,376 ALVIN LEWIS. 1248 01:03:04,409 --> 01:03:06,009 HE BEAT THEM ALL. 1249 01:03:06,043 --> 01:03:08,409 FRAZIER: ♪ I CAN, OH... ♪ 1250 01:03:08,443 --> 01:03:10,576 {\an1}NARRATOR: LIFE ON THE ROAD WAS CHAOTIC. 1251 01:03:10,609 --> 01:03:14,509 {\an1}BETWEEN WORKOUTS, ALI GOOFED OFF WITH BUNDINI, 1252 01:03:14,543 --> 01:03:17,243 PLAYED PRANKS ON UNSUSPECTING COMPANIONS, 1253 01:03:17,276 --> 01:03:20,543 AND SPENT HOURS IN FRONT OF THE TELEVISION. 1254 01:03:20,576 --> 01:03:24,043 {\an1}HE ALSO SOUGHT TO FULFILL HIS NEAR-INSATIABLE 1255 01:03:24,076 --> 01:03:27,843 {\an1}CRAVING FOR SEX, REGULARLY CHEATING ON HIS WIFE, 1256 01:03:27,876 --> 01:03:30,709 AT TIMES PAYING WOMEN FOR SEX. 1257 01:03:30,743 --> 01:03:33,709 {\an1}HIS RENDEZVOUS WERE OFTEN ARRANGED BY THE MEN 1258 01:03:33,743 --> 01:03:35,909 IN HIS ENTOURAGE. 1259 01:03:35,943 --> 01:03:37,485 {\an1}FEMALE REPORTER: YOU KNOW, THERE'S A THEORY THAT 1260 01:03:37,509 --> 01:03:39,443 {\an1}THE MORE YOU SAY HOW GREAT YOU ARE, 1261 01:03:39,476 --> 01:03:41,776 {\an1}IT REALLY MEANS THAT YOU DON'T THINK YOU'RE SO GREAT. 1262 01:03:41,809 --> 01:03:43,376 {\an1}WHAT DO YOU THINK IS WRONG WITH YOU? 1263 01:03:43,409 --> 01:03:45,309 {\an1}WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? WHAT ARE YOUR FAULTS? 1264 01:03:45,343 --> 01:03:46,809 WELL, I HAVE A LOT OF FAULTS. 1265 01:03:46,843 --> 01:03:48,643 {\an1}LIKE WHAT? WHAT'S THE WORST? 1266 01:03:48,676 --> 01:03:51,876 {\an1}I CAN'T TELL YOU MY WORST FAULT BECAUSE I'M MARRIED. 1267 01:03:51,909 --> 01:03:54,709 [MEN LAUGHING] 1268 01:03:54,743 --> 01:03:57,243 YOU FIGURE IT OUT. 1269 01:03:57,276 --> 01:04:01,143 {\an1}ARUM: I THINK HE HAD A GREAT MORAL COMPASS AS BEING HONEST 1270 01:04:01,176 --> 01:04:03,009 AND CHARITABLE. 1271 01:04:03,043 --> 01:04:07,909 {\an7}NOW, IF YOU SAY DID HE HAVE A MORAL COMPASS BEING... 1272 01:04:07,943 --> 01:04:11,809 {\an7}UH, OBSERVING FIDELITY WITH HIS WIFE? 1273 01:04:11,843 --> 01:04:13,943 NO. NOT AT ALL. 1274 01:04:13,976 --> 01:04:15,343 {\an1}[WOMEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 1275 01:04:15,376 --> 01:04:16,743 YOU'RE NOT MARRIED YET, ARE YOU? 1276 01:04:16,776 --> 01:04:18,909 {\an1}ARUM: ALI WAS A WOMANIZER. 1277 01:04:18,943 --> 01:04:22,409 {\an1}THAT'S KNOWN, AND I'M NOT TELLING TALES OUT OF SCHOOL. 1278 01:04:22,443 --> 01:04:23,976 ALI: MUHAMMAD ALI FAN. 1279 01:04:24,009 --> 01:04:27,476 {\an1}[LAUGHING AND TALKING INDISTINCTLY] 1280 01:04:27,509 --> 01:04:30,476 {\an1}BELINDA ALI: I'M SORRY THAT I DID NOT... 1281 01:04:30,509 --> 01:04:34,009 {\an7}UM, STEP IN AND... 1282 01:04:34,043 --> 01:04:36,509 {\an7}I JUST ALLOWED HIM TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTED TO DO. 1283 01:04:36,543 --> 01:04:39,209 {\an7}I... I... I'M SORRY FOR THAT. 1284 01:04:39,243 --> 01:04:40,976 SEE YOU ON TELEVISION. 1285 01:04:41,009 --> 01:04:42,776 YOU WANNA SHOW ME LOVE AND GIVE ME A HUG? 1286 01:04:42,809 --> 01:04:45,409 {\an1}BELINDA ALI: I JUST LET HIM DO WHAT HE HAD TO DO. 1287 01:04:46,976 --> 01:04:49,509 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN SEPTEMBER 1972, 1288 01:04:49,543 --> 01:04:53,309 {\an1}ALI DEFEATED AN AGING FLOYD PATTERSON A SECOND TIME. 1289 01:04:53,343 --> 01:04:56,376 IT WOULD BE PATTERSON'S FINAL FIGHT. 1290 01:04:56,409 --> 01:05:00,743 {\an1}JOE FRAZIER, INTRODUCED BEFORE THE BOUT, HAD STOOD 1291 01:05:00,776 --> 01:05:04,176 {\an1}AT THE CENTER OF THE RING AND SMILED, WHILE ALI, 1292 01:05:04,209 --> 01:05:06,476 {\an1}RESTRAINED BY BUNDINI BROWN, 1293 01:05:06,509 --> 01:05:08,676 {\an1}PRETENDED TO LUNGE AT THE CHAMPION. 1294 01:05:08,709 --> 01:05:11,143 {\an1}COSELL: MUHAMMAD ALI IS PUTTING ON HIS ACT. 1295 01:05:11,176 --> 01:05:13,376 "LET ME AT HIM. LET ME AT HIM." 1296 01:05:13,409 --> 01:05:15,409 NARRATOR: "LET'S STOP ALL THIS AND DO 1297 01:05:15,443 --> 01:05:18,143 {\an1}WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT," ALI TOLD REPORTERS. 1298 01:05:18,176 --> 01:05:21,009 "TELL FRAZIER TO QUIT DUCKING ME." 1299 01:05:21,043 --> 01:05:23,043 [THE BUDOS BAND'S "VEIL OF SHADOWS" PLAYING] 1300 01:05:23,076 --> 01:05:31,076 ♪ 1301 01:05:38,009 --> 01:05:39,243 ♪ 1302 01:05:39,276 --> 01:05:42,676 {\an1}DESPITE ALI'S VICTORIES, SOME SPORTSWRITERS SAW 1303 01:05:42,709 --> 01:05:45,776 {\an1}A DIMINISHED FIGHTER WHO NOW WON ON GUILE, 1304 01:05:45,809 --> 01:05:49,009 {\an1}ABSORBED TOO MANY BLOWS OVER TOO MANY ROUNDS, 1305 01:05:49,043 --> 01:05:53,009 {\an1}AND DID NOT DESERVE A REMATCH WITH FRAZIER. 1306 01:05:53,043 --> 01:05:57,543 {\an1}"HE'S STILL VERY FAST," GEORGE CHUVALO SAID, "BUT HE MISSED 1307 01:05:57,576 --> 01:05:59,376 {\an1}"A LOT MORE PUNCHES THIS TIME. 1308 01:05:59,409 --> 01:06:01,509 {\an1}I DEFINITELY HURT HIM." 1309 01:06:03,176 --> 01:06:06,343 {\an1}"JOE FRAZIER WOULD SLAUGHTER ALI," WROTE DICK YOUNG. 1310 01:06:06,376 --> 01:06:11,309 {\an1}"HE'S JUST A MEMORY OF THE GREATEST. A GRIM MEMORY." 1311 01:06:13,309 --> 01:06:16,309 {\an1}BUT HIS TRAINER ANGELO DUNDEE, WHO HAD WORRIED 1312 01:06:16,343 --> 01:06:19,109 {\an1}THAT HIS FIGHTER HAD JUST BEEN GOING THROUGH THE MOTION, 1313 01:06:19,143 --> 01:06:24,576 {\an1}WAS SURE THAT ANOTHER FRAZIER FIGHT WOULD BRING OUT ALI'S BEST. 1314 01:06:24,609 --> 01:06:29,043 {\an1}THEN, IN NOVEMBER, JOE FRAZIER, UNDER PRESSURE FROM 1315 01:06:29,076 --> 01:06:33,143 {\an1}BOXING OFFICIALS TO DEFEND HIS TITLE AGAINST A TOP CONTENDER, 1316 01:06:33,176 --> 01:06:36,276 SIGNED TO FIGHT AN UNDEFEATED 23-YEAR-OLD 1317 01:06:36,309 --> 01:06:39,043 {\an1}NAMED GEORGE FOREMAN. 1318 01:06:39,076 --> 01:06:43,143 {\an1}ALI'S REMATCH WITH FRAZIER WOULD HAVE TO WAIT. 1319 01:06:46,176 --> 01:06:48,376 {\an8}[LAUGHTER] 1320 01:06:52,976 --> 01:06:54,943 {\an8}MAN: GO GET HIM! 1321 01:06:54,976 --> 01:06:57,743 [INDISTINCT] KNOCK HIM DOWN. 1322 01:07:02,843 --> 01:07:04,643 {\an1}[CHEERING AND LAUGHTER] 1323 01:07:08,676 --> 01:07:10,209 [BIRDS CHIRPING] 1324 01:07:10,243 --> 01:07:12,709 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN THE SPRING OF 1972, 1325 01:07:12,743 --> 01:07:14,976 MUHAMMAD ALI HAD PURCHASED 6 ACRES 1326 01:07:15,009 --> 01:07:17,776 {\an1}ATOP A RIDGE NEAR DEER LAKE, PENNSYLVANIA 1327 01:07:17,809 --> 01:07:20,376 {\an1}AND BEGUN BUILDING HIS OWN TRAINING CAMP 1328 01:07:20,409 --> 01:07:24,009 {\an1}EQUIPPED WITH A BOXING GYM, MOSQUE, MESS HALL, 1329 01:07:24,043 --> 01:07:27,843 {\an1}AND ENOUGH LODGING FOR HIS ENTIRE ENTOURAGE. 1330 01:07:27,876 --> 01:07:32,176 {\an1}ALI AND BELINDA, WHO GAVE BIRTH THAT MAY TO THEIR 4th CHILD, 1331 01:07:32,209 --> 01:07:35,143 MUHAMMAD ALI JR., SCOURED THE AREA 1332 01:07:35,176 --> 01:07:37,676 {\an1}FOR FURNISHINGS TO OUTFIT THE COMPOUND. 1333 01:07:37,709 --> 01:07:40,609 {\an1}THEY BOUGHT ANTIQUE FURNITURE FOR THE CABINS, 1334 01:07:40,643 --> 01:07:44,576 {\an1}A 150-YEAR-OLD HORSE-DRAWN WAGON FOR THE YARD, 1335 01:07:44,609 --> 01:07:46,876 AND A REPLICA OF THE LIBERTY BELL, 1336 01:07:46,909 --> 01:07:50,509 {\an1}WHICH THE BOXER PLANNED TO RING EACH MORNING AT 4:30 1337 01:07:50,543 --> 01:07:53,476 TO HERALD THE START OF HIS DAY. 1338 01:07:53,509 --> 01:07:56,709 {\an1}ALI HAD HIS FATHER PAINT MASSIVE BOULDERS SCATTERED 1339 01:07:56,743 --> 01:07:59,876 {\an1}ACROSS THE GROUNDS WITH THE NAMES OF CHAMPIONS... 1340 01:07:59,909 --> 01:08:05,776 {\an7}JOE LOUIS, SONNY LISTON, ARCHIE MOORE, JACK JOHNSON. 1341 01:08:05,809 --> 01:08:09,376 {\an1}REPORTER: NOW, MUHAMMAD ALI DID NOT MEET THE PRESIDENT, 1342 01:08:09,409 --> 01:08:12,743 {\an1}BUT HE HAPPENED TO BE PASSING BY MT. RUSHMORE ONE DAY, 1343 01:08:12,776 --> 01:08:14,743 {\an1}AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED. OK. 1344 01:08:14,776 --> 01:08:17,276 DO NOT BE SHOCKED, BECAUSE IT WILL SOON BE THE TRUTH. 1345 01:08:17,309 --> 01:08:19,109 {\an1}(LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE) 1346 01:08:28,276 --> 01:08:30,209 {\an1}NARRATOR: ONE DAY, WHILE ALI 1347 01:08:30,243 --> 01:08:33,543 {\an1}WAS TRAINING IN A MAKESHIFT GYM NEAR THE HALF-BUILT CAMP, 1348 01:08:33,576 --> 01:08:37,743 {\an1}A 22-YEAR-OLD AMATEUR FIGHTER FROM NEARBY EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA 1349 01:08:37,776 --> 01:08:43,176 {\an1}NAMED LARRY HOLMES, SHOWED UP, EAGER TO MEET HIS IDOL. 1350 01:08:43,209 --> 01:08:47,976 {\an1}ONE OF 12 KIDS RAISED BY HIS MOTHER FLOSSIE IN PUBLIC HOUSING 1351 01:08:48,009 --> 01:08:51,776 {\an1}ON EASTON'S SOUTH SIDE, HOLMES HAD FIRST BOXED FOR 1352 01:08:51,809 --> 01:08:56,043 {\an1}HOT DOGS AND SODAS IN THE CITY'S WEDNESDAY-NIGHT BAR FIGHTS 1353 01:08:56,076 --> 01:08:58,609 {\an1}AT JUST 10 YEARS OLD. 1354 01:08:58,643 --> 01:09:01,843 {\an1}HOLMES: WHEN I LEFT SCHOOL, I WAS IN THE 7th GRADE. 1355 01:09:01,876 --> 01:09:07,209 {\an7}IT WAS EITHER QUIT OR GET THROWN OUT. 1356 01:09:07,243 --> 01:09:10,009 {\an8}THEREFORE, I JUST DECIDED TO GO. 1357 01:09:10,043 --> 01:09:13,943 {\an1}YOU KNOW, I WORKED IN THE CAR WASH, I SHINED SHOES, 1358 01:09:13,976 --> 01:09:19,476 {\an1}I DID WHATEVER I COULD DO TO HELP BRING IN MONEY TO THE HOUSE. 1359 01:09:19,509 --> 01:09:22,409 {\an1}AND THEN I MET A GUY BY THE NAME OF ERNIE BUTLER 1360 01:09:22,443 --> 01:09:26,676 {\an1}TEACHING KIDS HOW TO BOX, AND I STARTED LEARNING HOW TO BOX. 1361 01:09:28,509 --> 01:09:31,343 {\an1}NARRATOR: BY THE TIME HOLMES ARRIVED AT DEER LAKE, 1362 01:09:31,376 --> 01:09:34,409 {\an1}HE WAS HOPING TO MAKE THE OLYMPIC TEAM. 1363 01:09:34,443 --> 01:09:36,676 {\an7}ALI PUT UP HIS HAND. HE SAID, "LET ME SEE YOUR JAB." 1364 01:09:36,709 --> 01:09:38,609 {\an8}[SMACK] AND LARRY'S HITTING IT. 1365 01:09:38,643 --> 01:09:40,309 {\an7}"OH, THAT'S GOOD." 1366 01:09:40,343 --> 01:09:42,119 {\an1}I SAID, "LARRY, DO YOU HAVE YOUR BOXING STUFF?" 1367 01:09:42,143 --> 01:09:43,676 {\an1}"YEAH, I HAVE IT." 1368 01:09:43,709 --> 01:09:46,009 {\an1}ALI SAID, "GOOD. I NEED A GOOD WORKOUT." 1369 01:09:46,043 --> 01:09:48,376 {\an1}SO WE GO DOWN, AND THEY SPAR. 1370 01:09:48,409 --> 01:09:50,709 {\an1}AND LARRY GOT A SHINER. 1371 01:09:50,743 --> 01:09:53,443 {\an1}AND I SAID, "LARRY, LET ME PUT SOME ICE ON THIS." 1372 01:09:53,476 --> 01:09:55,009 "NO, NO, NO. 1373 01:09:55,043 --> 01:09:56,652 {\an1}"I'M GOING BACK TO EASTON, I'M GOING TO TELL 1374 01:09:56,676 --> 01:09:59,143 {\an1}"ALL THE PEOPLE, MUHAMMAD ALI PUT THIS HERE. 1375 01:09:59,176 --> 01:10:00,809 {\an1}I'M SO PROUD OF THIS." 1376 01:10:00,843 --> 01:10:05,009 {\an1}AND THEN I INVITED LARRY TO OUR TRAINING CAMP. 1377 01:10:05,043 --> 01:10:08,609 {\an1}HOLMES: I WOULD COME IN HERE AND WASH DISHES IN THE KITCHEN. 1378 01:10:08,643 --> 01:10:13,809 {\an1}I WOULD SIT IN HIS DRESSING ROOMS, TALK TO HIM, AND ASK HIM QUESTIONS, 1379 01:10:13,843 --> 01:10:17,009 AND YOU KNOW, HE PROBABLY GOT TIRED OF ME 1380 01:10:17,043 --> 01:10:20,943 {\an1}FOR ASKING A LOT OF QUESTIONS, BUT I DID IT ANYWAY. 1381 01:10:20,976 --> 01:10:25,309 {\an1}THE QUICKNESS AND THE MOBILITY THAT HE HAD. 1382 01:10:25,343 --> 01:10:29,676 {\an1}HE COULD DUCK, PULL AWAY FROM PUNCHES AND STUFF, BLOCK... 1383 01:10:29,709 --> 01:10:31,176 {\an1}YOU COULDN'T HIT HIM. 1384 01:10:31,209 --> 01:10:32,643 {\an1}HELLO AGAIN, EVERYONE. 1385 01:10:32,676 --> 01:10:35,243 {\an1}I'M HOWARD COSELL ALONG WITH MUHAMMAD ALI 1386 01:10:35,276 --> 01:10:37,976 {\an1}BRINGING YOU THE OLYMPIC BOXING TRIALS, 1387 01:10:38,009 --> 01:10:39,809 {\an1}AND YOU'LL BE SEEING LARRY HOLMES. 1388 01:10:39,843 --> 01:10:41,576 {\an8}[BELL DINGS] 1389 01:10:41,609 --> 01:10:44,243 {\an7}HOLMES: A LOT OF THE STUFF THAT ALI DID, I COPY. 1390 01:10:44,276 --> 01:10:46,176 {\an1}AND EVERYBODY SAY, "YOU'RE A COPYCAT." 1391 01:10:46,209 --> 01:10:48,176 "OK, SO? AND? WHAT'S NEXT?" 1392 01:10:48,209 --> 01:10:49,976 ALI: HE REMINDS ME OF MYSELF IN FOOTWORK, 1393 01:10:50,009 --> 01:10:52,176 THE WAY HE'S CONSTANTLY MOVING AND CIRCLING... 1394 01:10:52,209 --> 01:10:53,685 {\an1}HOLMES: I'M GONNA LEARN FROM THE BEST. 1395 01:10:53,709 --> 01:10:55,209 {\an1}THIS MAN IS THE BEST. 1396 01:10:55,243 --> 01:10:57,343 SO I'M GONNA DO... I'M GONNA COPY IT. 1397 01:10:57,376 --> 01:10:59,843 {\an1}COSELL: GOOD LEFT BY HOLMES. 1398 01:10:59,876 --> 01:11:03,543 {\an1}IF I CAN'T GET IT, AT LEAST I GAVE IT A SHOT, 1399 01:11:03,576 --> 01:11:05,443 {\an1}BUT I'VE WORKED IT OUT PRETTY GOOD. 1400 01:11:06,976 --> 01:11:10,009 {\an1}NARRATOR: HOLMES FAILED TO MAKE THE OLYMPIC TEAM, 1401 01:11:10,043 --> 01:11:12,676 {\an1}BUT CONTINUED TRAINING WITH ALI AT DEER LAKE, 1402 01:11:12,709 --> 01:11:15,509 {\an1}EVENTUALLY BEGINNING A PROFESSIONAL CAREER 1403 01:11:15,543 --> 01:11:19,609 {\an1}THAT WOULD ONE DAY LEAD HIM BACK TO HIS MENTOR. 1404 01:11:19,643 --> 01:11:22,909 {\an1}COSELL: WE'RE BACK AT RINGSIDE AND GEORGE FOREMAN, 1405 01:11:22,943 --> 01:11:25,843 {\an1}THE CHALLENGER, HAS JUST COME INTO THE RING. 1406 01:11:25,876 --> 01:11:27,876 {\an1}THERE'S NO FEAR IN EITHER MAN. 1407 01:11:27,909 --> 01:11:32,076 {\an1}THERE IS NO FEAR IN GEORGE FOREMAN. 1408 01:11:32,109 --> 01:11:34,876 {\an1}HE'S A BIG, STRONG BOY. 1409 01:11:34,909 --> 01:11:36,809 {\an1}DOWN GOES FRAZIER! 1410 01:11:36,843 --> 01:11:38,643 {\an1}DOWN GOES FRAZIER! 1411 01:11:38,676 --> 01:11:40,676 {\an1}DOWN GOES FRAZIER! 1412 01:11:40,709 --> 01:11:46,209 {\an1}NARRATOR: ON JANUARY 23, 1973, IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA, 1413 01:11:46,243 --> 01:11:50,509 {\an1}GEORGE FOREMAN SENT JOE FRAZIER TO THE CANVAS 6 TIMES 1414 01:11:50,543 --> 01:11:56,043 {\an1}BEFORE THE REFEREE STOPPED THE FIGHT AT 1:35 OF ROUND 2. 1415 01:11:56,076 --> 01:11:59,009 {\an1}COSELL: THERE HE GOES, 3 TIMES! 1416 01:11:59,043 --> 01:12:01,843 {\an1}IT IS OVER! IT IS OVER! 1417 01:12:01,876 --> 01:12:04,476 {\an1}IT IS OVER IN THE 2nd ROUND. 1418 01:12:04,509 --> 01:12:07,309 {\an1}NARRATOR: FOREMAN WAS NOW THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION 1419 01:12:07,343 --> 01:12:08,776 OF THE WORLD. 1420 01:12:08,809 --> 01:12:10,609 {\an1}COSELL: THEY'RE CARRYING GEORGE FOREMAN. 1421 01:12:10,643 --> 01:12:13,443 {\an1}THEY'RE CARRYING GEORGE FOREMAN ON THEIR SHOULDERS, 1422 01:12:13,476 --> 01:12:15,243 {\an1}RIGHT OUT OF THE RING. 1423 01:12:15,276 --> 01:12:17,076 {\an1}JOE FRAZIER IS... 1424 01:12:17,109 --> 01:12:18,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: "I COMPLETELY UNDERESTIMATED HIM," 1425 01:12:18,876 --> 01:12:22,409 {\an1}FRAZIER SAID, FIGHTING BACK TEARS. 1426 01:12:22,443 --> 01:12:24,276 [CROWD SCREAMING] 1427 01:12:24,309 --> 01:12:27,809 {\an1}THE NEXT MORNING, PROMOTERS FROM NEW YORK TO HONOLULU 1428 01:12:27,843 --> 01:12:31,309 {\an1}RUSHED TO OFFER FOREMAN A CHANCE TO DEFEND HIS NEW TITLE 1429 01:12:31,343 --> 01:12:35,876 {\an1}AGAINST MUHAMMAD ALI, WHILE OBSERVERS SPECULATED HOW MUCH 1430 01:12:35,909 --> 01:12:38,109 {\an1}THE MATCH WOULD FETCH. 1431 01:12:38,143 --> 01:12:42,243 {\an1}ALI, WHO HAD BEEN ASLEEP AT HIS CAMP IN DEER LAKE DURING 1432 01:12:42,276 --> 01:12:45,576 {\an1}THE FIGHT, WAS SURE THAT FRAZIER HAD COST THEM BOTH 1433 01:12:45,609 --> 01:12:49,243 {\an1}AN ENORMOUS PAY DAY BY NOT FIGHTING HIM FIRST. 1434 01:12:49,276 --> 01:12:52,776 {\an1}HE PROMISED TO ANNIHILATE FOREMAN, BUT NOT BEFORE FACING 1435 01:12:52,809 --> 01:12:57,443 {\an1}A STRING OF CONTENDERS HE'D ALREADY AGREED TO FIGHT. 1436 01:12:57,476 --> 01:13:00,009 {\an1}5 WEEKS LATER, IN SAN DIEGO, 1437 01:13:00,043 --> 01:13:02,809 {\an1}HE WOULD FIGHT 6TH-RANKED KEN NORTON, 1438 01:13:02,843 --> 01:13:06,309 {\an1}A 6'3" EX-MARINE, WHO HAD BEEN PAID JUST 1439 01:13:06,343 --> 01:13:09,176 {\an1}$300 FOR HIS PREVIOUS BOUT. 1440 01:13:09,209 --> 01:13:13,743 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI WILL BE COMING TO YOU ON HOME TELEVISION, LIVE... 1441 01:13:13,776 --> 01:13:15,576 {\an1}NARRATOR: WHEN THE MATCH-UP FAILED TO SELL 1442 01:13:15,609 --> 01:13:18,676 {\an1}ENOUGH CLOSED-CIRCUIT TICKETS, THE PROMOTERS DECIDED 1443 01:13:18,709 --> 01:13:23,143 {\an1}TO AIR IT LIVE ON ABC'S "WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS." 1444 01:13:23,176 --> 01:13:25,709 {\an7}COSELL: ALI, FIGHTING THE 6th-RANKED HEAVYWEIGHT 1445 01:13:25,743 --> 01:13:27,676 {\an8}KENNY NORTON. 1446 01:13:27,709 --> 01:13:29,619 {\an7}YOU HAVEN'T HEARD MUCH ABOUT NORTON AND THIS IS SUPPOSED TO 1447 01:13:29,643 --> 01:13:33,309 {\an1}BE A ROUTINE EXERCISE FOR ALI. 1448 01:13:33,343 --> 01:13:36,509 {\an1}NARRATOR: ALI ENTERED THE ARENA WEARING A BEJEWELED ROBE 1449 01:13:36,543 --> 01:13:40,876 {\an1}WITH THE WORDS "PEOPLE'S CHOICE" INSCRIBED ON THE BACK. 1450 01:13:40,909 --> 01:13:44,609 {\an1}IT HAD BEEN A GIFT FROM ELVIS PRESLEY. 1451 01:13:44,643 --> 01:13:48,376 {\an1}COSELL: GOOD LEFT THERE BY NORTON. THAT EXCITED THE CROWD. 1452 01:13:48,409 --> 01:13:53,009 {\an1}BENTT: KEN NORTON DIDN'T ALLOW MUHAMMAD TO GET INTO HIS HEAD. 1453 01:13:53,043 --> 01:13:56,243 {\an1}HE WASN'T INTIMIDATED BY ALI. 1454 01:13:56,276 --> 01:13:58,243 HE WAS A MARINE. 1455 01:13:58,276 --> 01:14:03,643 {\an7}ALTHOUGH HE STARTED BOXING LATE, HE HAD GOOD MECHANICS 1456 01:14:03,676 --> 01:14:05,543 {\an7}AND HE WAS A GOOD ATHLETE. 1457 01:14:05,576 --> 01:14:08,409 {\an1}COSELL: THE RIGHT GOT INTO ALI AND THEN A LEFT. 1458 01:14:08,443 --> 01:14:10,476 {\an1}BENTT: HIS PUNCHES CAME FROM EVERYWHERE. 1459 01:14:10,509 --> 01:14:13,043 {\an1}COSELL: IF NOTHING ELSE, NORTON'S CONFIDENCE IS GROWING. 1460 01:14:13,076 --> 01:14:16,809 {\an1}BENTT: HE JABBED WITH HIS LEFT HAND DOWN LIKE ALI DID, 1461 01:14:16,843 --> 01:14:20,376 AND ALI NEVER SAW SOMEONE LIKE THAT BEFORE. 1462 01:14:20,409 --> 01:14:22,309 {\an1}AND HE OUT-JABBED HIM. 1463 01:14:22,343 --> 01:14:27,343 {\an1}AND A STRONG JAB IS GONNA DISCOURAGE YOU FROM THROWING 1464 01:14:27,376 --> 01:14:30,509 {\an1}YOUR JAB OR THROWING PUNCHES PERIOD. 1465 01:14:30,543 --> 01:14:33,609 {\an1}YOU'RE GONNA HAVE YOUR FOOT OUT THE BACK DOOR. 1466 01:14:33,643 --> 01:14:36,276 {\an1}SO YOU'RE OFF-BALANCE. 1467 01:14:36,309 --> 01:14:39,209 {\an7}JOE FRAZIER'D BE LIKE THIS, YOU KNOW, COMING AND MOVING, 1468 01:14:39,243 --> 01:14:43,043 {\an7}BOBBING AND WEAVING, WHEREAS NORTON WAS THIS WAY, 1469 01:14:43,076 --> 01:14:47,909 {\an1}BLOCKING THE JAB, BLOCKING THE JAB, BLOCKING THE JAB. 1470 01:14:47,943 --> 01:14:52,409 YOU KNOW, POW! POW! LIKE THIS. 1471 01:14:52,443 --> 01:14:55,909 {\an1}SO MUHAMMAD HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO TRY TO GO IN, 1472 01:14:55,943 --> 01:14:58,909 LEAVING HIMSELF TOTALLY EXPOSED. 1473 01:14:58,943 --> 01:15:02,109 {\an1}BENTT: NOT TO MENTION THAT KEN NORTON COULD CRACK. 1474 01:15:02,143 --> 01:15:04,876 {\an1}AND HE CAN GET YOUR ATTENTION. 1475 01:15:04,909 --> 01:15:08,376 {\an1}WHEN YOU THROW SHOTS LIKE THAT, THAT SPEAKS TO YOUR 1476 01:15:08,409 --> 01:15:10,676 {\an1}LEVEL OF DISRESPECT FOR THE GUY. 1477 01:15:10,709 --> 01:15:14,776 {\an1}HE'S WALKING MUHAMMAD DOWN, DISRESPECTFULLY. 1478 01:15:14,809 --> 01:15:17,476 {\an1}I THINK KEN NORTON THOUGHT THAT HE WAS ON THE SAME LEVEL 1479 01:15:17,509 --> 01:15:19,543 AS MUHAMMAD ALI. 1480 01:15:19,576 --> 01:15:23,109 {\an1}COSELL: THERE HASN'T BEEN MUCH MOVEMENT BY ALI IN THIS FIGHT. 1481 01:15:23,143 --> 01:15:25,176 {\an1}WHY? IT'S HARD TO FIGURE. 1482 01:15:25,209 --> 01:15:28,643 {\an1}HAS HE GONE BACK THAT FAR? THAT'S NOT EASILY BELIEVABLE. 1483 01:15:28,676 --> 01:15:32,443 {\an1}YOU HAVE TO WONDER IF HE'S TAKING NORTON TOO LIGHTLY. 1484 01:15:32,476 --> 01:15:37,009 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN ROUND 8, HOWARD COSELL NOTICED THAT A NEAR-SILENT ALI 1485 01:15:37,043 --> 01:15:39,976 {\an1}HAD BEGUN MOVING HIS MOUTH AWKWARDLY. 1486 01:15:40,009 --> 01:15:41,443 {\an8}[BELL CLANGS] 1487 01:15:41,476 --> 01:15:44,276 {\an7}COSELL: ALL RIGHT, WE'RE BACK FOR ROUND 8, 1488 01:15:44,309 --> 01:15:47,309 {\an7}AND ALI JUST HASN'T BEEN RIGHT. 1489 01:15:47,343 --> 01:15:51,276 {\an1}AND I THINK HE MAY HAVE CRACKED A TOOTH IN HIS MOUTH 1490 01:15:51,309 --> 01:15:54,943 {\an1}JUDGING BY THE WAY HE'S HOLDING HIS MOUTH. 1491 01:15:54,976 --> 01:15:58,276 {\an1}LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET DR. FERDIE PACHECO TO TELL US. 1492 01:15:58,309 --> 01:16:00,843 {\an1}FERDIE, IS THERE ANYTHING WRONG WITH MUHAMMAD'S MOUTH? 1493 01:16:00,876 --> 01:16:02,685 {\an1}PACHECO: NO, I THINK, UH, HE'S LOOSENED A TOOTH 1494 01:16:02,709 --> 01:16:04,452 {\an1}BUT THERE'S NO FRACTURE, THERE'S NO BROKEN ANYTHING. 1495 01:16:04,476 --> 01:16:06,109 {\an1}THERE'S NOTHING, YOU KNOW. 1496 01:16:06,143 --> 01:16:08,176 {\an1}NARRATOR: BUT PACHECO KNEW BETTER. 1497 01:16:10,776 --> 01:16:13,043 {\an1}A 2nd-ROUND BLOW BY NORTON 1498 01:16:13,076 --> 01:16:15,743 {\an1}HAD BROKEN ALI'S LOWER LEFT JAWBONE, 1499 01:16:15,776 --> 01:16:18,743 {\an1}THE JAGGED EDGES DIGGING INTO THE INSIDE 1500 01:16:18,776 --> 01:16:20,209 OF HIS CHEEK. 1501 01:16:20,243 --> 01:16:23,676 {\an1}COSELL: A GOOD RIGHT! HE IS ALL OVER ALI. 1502 01:16:23,709 --> 01:16:26,443 {\an1}SOLANO: EVERY TIME NORTON HIT HIM, 1503 01:16:26,476 --> 01:16:29,043 IT WAS JUST PAIN, PAIN, PAIN. 1504 01:16:29,076 --> 01:16:30,776 {\an1}COSELL: THERE'S BLOOD IN ALI'S MOUTH. 1505 01:16:30,809 --> 01:16:33,243 {\an1}BECAUSE OF THE JAW, EVERY PUNCH WAS PAIN. 1506 01:16:33,276 --> 01:16:35,976 {\an1}COSELL: ONE HAS TO WONDER, IS HE NOW BUT A RELIC 1507 01:16:36,009 --> 01:16:37,843 {\an1}OF THE FIGHTER HE WAS? 1508 01:16:37,876 --> 01:16:42,176 {\an1}NARRATOR: ALI STILL BELIEVED HE COULD BEAT KEN NORTON. 1509 01:16:42,209 --> 01:16:44,909 {\an1}BUNDINI: LET'S GO, CHAMP! 1510 01:16:44,943 --> 01:16:47,709 {\an1}COSELL: ALI IS LANDING IN THIS ROUND, AS YOU CAN SEE. 1511 01:16:47,743 --> 01:16:49,043 {\an1}HE IS SCORING. 1512 01:16:51,343 --> 01:16:53,509 {\an1}HOWEVER, NORTON KEEPS COMING AT ALI, 1513 01:16:53,543 --> 01:16:56,509 {\an1}AND ALI IS AGAINST THE ROPES. 1514 01:16:56,543 --> 01:16:58,076 {\an1}NARRATOR: "YOU MISSED ME, SUCKER!" 1515 01:16:58,109 --> 01:16:59,976 {\an1}NORTON JEERED ALI. 1516 01:17:00,009 --> 01:17:02,643 {\an1}"YOU AIN'T HIT NOTHIN' BUT A GHOST." 1517 01:17:02,676 --> 01:17:04,276 [BELL DINGS] 1518 01:17:04,309 --> 01:17:06,309 {\an1}COSELL: THIS CROWD IS GOING WILD. 1519 01:17:06,343 --> 01:17:11,643 {\an1}THEY ARE SENSING A DECISION IN FAVOR OF UNKNOWN KENNY NORTON. 1520 01:17:11,676 --> 01:17:14,743 {\an1}NOBODY CAN REALLY BELIEVE WHAT THEY HAVE SEEN. 1521 01:17:14,776 --> 01:17:17,843 {\an1}IT IS A TIRED ALI AND A HURT ALI. 1522 01:17:17,876 --> 01:17:22,676 {\an1}RING ANNOUNCER: REFEREE FRANK RUSTITCH SCORES IT 1523 01:17:22,709 --> 01:17:26,309 7 POINTS NORTON, 5 POINTS ALI! 1524 01:17:26,343 --> 01:17:28,909 {\an1}COSELL: THERE IT IS! THERE IT IS! 1525 01:17:28,943 --> 01:17:33,776 {\an7}ONE OF THE GREATEST UPSETS AGAIN IN BOXING HISTORY. KENNY... 1526 01:17:33,809 --> 01:17:36,109 {\an1}NARRATOR: BUNDINI BROWN AND ANGELO DUNDEE 1527 01:17:36,143 --> 01:17:38,109 {\an1}RUSHED ALI FROM THE RING, 1528 01:17:38,143 --> 01:17:42,309 {\an1}AS NORTON EMBRACED HIS OLD SPARRING PARTNER JOE FRAZIER. 1529 01:17:42,343 --> 01:17:44,976 {\an1}COSELL: ALI'S MOUTH FILLED WITH BLOOD. 1530 01:17:45,009 --> 01:17:48,376 {\an1}KILROY: ALI GETS A JAW OPERATED ON, AND I STAYED 1531 01:17:48,409 --> 01:17:50,243 {\an1}THERE WITH HIM ALL NIGHT. 1532 01:17:50,276 --> 01:17:54,376 {\an7}WHEN HE WOKE UP IN THE MORNING, HE WAS ALL WIRED UP. 1533 01:17:54,409 --> 01:17:56,976 {\an1}NARRATOR: IT WOULD BE AT LEAST 3 MONTHS 1534 01:17:57,009 --> 01:17:59,476 BEFORE HE COULD EVEN TRAIN AGAIN. 1535 01:18:01,743 --> 01:18:05,576 {\an1}THE NEXT DAY, KEN NORTON STOPPED BY ALI'S HOSPITAL ROOM 1536 01:18:05,609 --> 01:18:07,676 {\an1}TO PAY HIS RESPECTS. 1537 01:18:07,709 --> 01:18:09,643 {\an1}HE BROUGHT A PHOTOGRAPHER. 1538 01:18:09,676 --> 01:18:11,476 {\an1}[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] 1539 01:18:11,509 --> 01:18:14,709 {\an1}THE IMAGE OF ALI, STRETCHED OUT ON A HOSPITAL BED 1540 01:18:14,743 --> 01:18:16,343 {\an1}WITH NORTON HOVERING OVER HIM, 1541 01:18:16,376 --> 01:18:19,243 APPEARED IN NEWSPAPERS EVERYWHERE. 1542 01:18:19,276 --> 01:18:22,576 {\an1}HOWARD COSELL DECLARED HIM FINISHED. 1543 01:18:22,609 --> 01:18:29,309 {\an1}RED SMITH CALLED THE BOXER A LIMP EFFIGY OF MUHAMMAD ALI. 1544 01:18:29,343 --> 01:18:32,143 {\an1}IT HAD BEEN NEARLY A DECADE SINCE HE HAD STOPPED 1545 01:18:32,176 --> 01:18:35,243 {\an1}SONNY LISTON TO BECOME HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. 1546 01:18:35,276 --> 01:18:40,076 {\an1}MANY OBSERVERS WONDERED IF HIS FOOT AND HAND SPEED WERE GONE, 1547 01:18:40,109 --> 01:18:43,209 {\an1}IF HE STILL POSSESSED THE WILL TO TRAIN PROPERLY, 1548 01:18:43,243 --> 01:18:48,243 {\an1}IF HIS BRUTAL BOUT WITH FRAZIER HAD CAUSED MORE HARM THAN ACKNOWLEDGED, 1549 01:18:48,276 --> 01:18:52,476 IF HE COULD EVER BE THE SAME FIGHTER. 1550 01:18:52,509 --> 01:18:56,809 {\an1}JUST BEFORE HE'D FACED NORTON, HERBERT MUHAMMAD HAD CHIDED ALI 1551 01:18:56,843 --> 01:18:59,843 {\an1}FOR POOR CONDITIONING AND OVERCONFIDENCE. 1552 01:18:59,876 --> 01:19:03,909 {\an1}HE'D TRAINED FOR JUST 3 WEEKS, SKIPPED ROADWORK, 1553 01:19:03,943 --> 01:19:07,409 {\an1}AND HAD APPEARED OUT OF BREATH WHILE PUNCHING THE HEAVY BAG 1554 01:19:07,443 --> 01:19:11,043 {\an1}AND JUMPING ROPE DURING WORKOUTS IN SAN DIEGO. 1555 01:19:11,076 --> 01:19:14,076 {\an1}HE HAD ALSO SPENT THE HOURS LEADING UP TO THE FIGHT 1556 01:19:14,109 --> 01:19:16,243 {\an1}IN BED WITH TWO WOMEN. 1557 01:19:18,643 --> 01:19:21,876 {\an1}BEFORE LEAVING THE HOSPITAL, THE NURSES HAD GIVEN ALI 1558 01:19:21,909 --> 01:19:24,543 {\an1}A STACK OF LETTERS ADDRESSED TO HIM. 1559 01:19:24,576 --> 01:19:28,009 {\an1}"THE BUTTERFLY HAS LOST ITS WINGS," READ ONE. 1560 01:19:28,043 --> 01:19:30,276 {\an1}"THE BEE HAS LOST ITS STING. 1561 01:19:30,309 --> 01:19:33,743 {\an1}YOUR MOUTH HAS BEEN SHUT UP FOR ALL TIMES." 1562 01:19:33,776 --> 01:19:38,443 {\an1}LATER, HE WOULD TAPE IT TO THE GYM WALL FOR INSPIRATION. 1563 01:19:38,476 --> 01:19:40,685 {\an1}CAVETT: AND WOULD YOU WELCOME, THE INCREDIBLE MUHAMMAD ALI. 1564 01:19:40,709 --> 01:19:43,709 [APPLAUSE] 1565 01:19:43,743 --> 01:19:46,543 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN SPITE OF ALL THE DOUBTS AND THE INJURY THAT 1566 01:19:46,576 --> 01:19:50,276 {\an1}LEFT HIM MUZZLED AND TEMPORARILY UNABLE TO TRAIN, 1567 01:19:50,309 --> 01:19:53,876 {\an1}ALI REMAINED BOXING'S BIGGEST ATTRACTION, THE MOST 1568 01:19:53,909 --> 01:19:56,343 {\an1}COMPELLING ATHLETE ANYWHERE. 1569 01:19:56,376 --> 01:19:57,919 CAVETT: I HEARD YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO TALK 1570 01:19:57,943 --> 01:19:59,576 FOR QUITE A WHILE. 1571 01:19:59,609 --> 01:20:01,052 {\an1}NO. THE DOCTOR TOLD ME I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO, 1572 01:20:01,076 --> 01:20:02,409 {\an1}BUT I TOLD HIM HE'S WRONG. 1573 01:20:02,443 --> 01:20:05,209 [LAUGHTER] 1574 01:20:05,243 --> 01:20:06,609 IF THEY TOLD YOU TOMORROW 1575 01:20:06,643 --> 01:20:08,009 THAT YOU COULD NOT FIGHT AGAIN, 1576 01:20:08,043 --> 01:20:09,285 IF THEY HAD A LOOK AT YOUR JAW AND SAID 1577 01:20:09,309 --> 01:20:10,576 "IT'S JUST TOO DANGEROUS," 1578 01:20:10,609 --> 01:20:12,876 WOULD YOU... WOULD YOU CRY? 1579 01:20:12,909 --> 01:20:15,443 {\an1}NO. I'D REJOICE. 1580 01:20:15,476 --> 01:20:19,143 {\an1}I'D BE GLAD THAT I FOUND OUT BEFORE I KILLED MYSELF. 1581 01:20:19,176 --> 01:20:21,643 {\an1}[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] 1582 01:20:26,243 --> 01:20:29,143 {\an1}NARRATOR: WHEN ALI AND NORTON AGREED TO A REMATCH 1583 01:20:29,176 --> 01:20:34,543 {\an1}IN LOS ANGELES IN SEPTEMBER OF 1973, EVEN PERSISTENT CRITICS, 1584 01:20:34,576 --> 01:20:37,809 {\an1}EAGER TO FILL THEIR NOTEBOOKS AGAIN WITH ALI'S QUIPS 1585 01:20:37,843 --> 01:20:40,076 {\an1}AND PREDICTIONS, REJOICED. 1586 01:20:40,109 --> 01:20:41,943 {\an1}THIS AIN'T NO BIG THING BEATIN' KEN NORTON. 1587 01:20:41,976 --> 01:20:44,443 {\an1}THIS MAN WASN'T NOBODY AND STILL AIN'T NOBODY. 1588 01:20:44,476 --> 01:20:46,976 {\an1}I JUST MADE HIM SOMEBODY BY NOT TRAINING AND COMIN' IN 1589 01:20:47,009 --> 01:20:48,776 {\an1}TOO FAT AND GETTING' MY JAW BROKE 1590 01:20:48,809 --> 01:20:50,376 {\an1}AND COULDN'T PULL OUT OF IT. 1591 01:20:50,409 --> 01:20:52,276 {\an1}THIS TIME, IT'LL BE NO MATCH. 1592 01:20:52,309 --> 01:20:54,376 {\an1}NARRATOR: "THE NORTON FIGHT WAS GOD'S WARNING," 1593 01:20:54,409 --> 01:20:56,309 {\an1}ALI TOLD THE PRESS. 1594 01:20:56,343 --> 01:20:58,809 {\an1}"HE WAS PUNISHING ME FOR DOING THINGS NOT ACCORDING 1595 01:20:58,843 --> 01:21:01,376 {\an1}TO MY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS." 1596 01:21:01,409 --> 01:21:07,776 {\an1}IN LATE MAY, ALI, NOW 31 YEARS OLD, WITH A RECORD OF 41 WINS 1597 01:21:07,809 --> 01:21:11,309 {\an1}AND 2 LOSSES... TO JOE FRAZIER AND KEN NORTON... 1598 01:21:11,343 --> 01:21:15,076 {\an1}WITHDREW TO DEER LAKE TO BEGIN TRAINING. 1599 01:21:15,109 --> 01:21:16,309 {\an1}AFTER I ANNIHILATE KEN NORTON, 1600 01:21:16,343 --> 01:21:17,776 {\an1}GOING TO JAKARTA, INDONESIA 1601 01:21:17,809 --> 01:21:19,109 TO WHUP THIS RUDIE LUBBERS, 1602 01:21:19,143 --> 01:21:20,809 {\an1}THE DUTCH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. 1603 01:21:20,843 --> 01:21:22,452 {\an1}I WANNA COME BACK AND SETTLE THIS WHOLE THING 1604 01:21:22,476 --> 01:21:24,085 {\an1}WITH GEORGE FOREMAN, AND FOR OLD TIMES' SAKES, 1605 01:21:24,109 --> 01:21:25,585 {\an1}I'M GONNA WHUP JOE FRAZIER AGAIN RIGHT THERE 1606 01:21:25,609 --> 01:21:27,309 {\an1}IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. 1607 01:21:27,343 --> 01:21:28,809 {\an1}AND I'M TIRED. I GOTTA GO TO WORK. 1608 01:21:28,843 --> 01:21:30,509 {\an1}I AIN'T GOT NO TIME TO BE TALKING. 1609 01:21:30,543 --> 01:21:32,443 {\an1}[STEVIE WONDER'S "HIGHER GROUND" PLAYING] 1610 01:21:32,476 --> 01:21:35,809 {\an1}NARRATOR: ALI PLANNED TO RUN 4 MILES A DAY, AND HE WOULD 1611 01:21:35,843 --> 01:21:39,976 {\an1}REFRAIN FROM SPARRING UNTIL 3 WEEKS BEFORE THE FIGHT. 1612 01:21:40,009 --> 01:21:42,609 {\an1}"I CAN'T PLAY NO MORE," HE SAID. 1613 01:21:42,643 --> 01:21:46,743 {\an7}"I'LL BE DAMN SERIOUS RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING." 1614 01:21:46,776 --> 01:21:54,343 {\an7}WONDER: ♪ SOLDIERS KEEP ON WARNIN' ♪ 1615 01:21:54,376 --> 01:21:59,409 {\an7}♪ WORLD KEEP ON TURNIN' ♪ 1616 01:21:59,443 --> 01:22:03,543 {\an1}LOOK LIKE I'M 20 YEARS OLD, GOING BACK IN TIME. 1617 01:22:03,576 --> 01:22:06,843 {\an1}NARRATOR: AT THE CAMP, ALI WAS NEVER ALONE. 1618 01:22:06,876 --> 01:22:11,709 {\an1}HIS ASSOCIATE GENE KILROY MADE ALL THE ARRANGEMENTS. 1619 01:22:11,743 --> 01:22:15,776 {\an1}LUIS SARRIA, ALI'S MASSEUR, WORE THE BOXER OUT WITH HIS 1620 01:22:15,809 --> 01:22:18,443 {\an1}DEMANDING EXERCISE ROUTINES. 1621 01:22:18,476 --> 01:22:21,709 {\an1}BUNDINI BROWN RAISED EVERYONE'S SPIRITS, 1622 01:22:21,743 --> 01:22:27,176 {\an1}WHILE LANA SHABBAZ KEPT THE ENTIRE ENTOURAGE WELL FED. 1623 01:22:27,209 --> 01:22:31,109 {\an1}BELINDA BROUGHT THEIR KIDS UP FROM CHERRY HILL OFTEN, 1624 01:22:31,143 --> 01:22:32,909 {\an1}BUT SELDOM STAYED LONG. 1625 01:22:32,943 --> 01:22:36,409 {\an1}ALI'S PARENTS VISITED REGULARLY, HELPING 1626 01:22:36,443 --> 01:22:39,276 IN THE KITCHEN, AND HIS BROTHER, RAHAMAN 1627 01:22:39,309 --> 01:22:41,909 SERVED AS A SPARRING PARTNER. 1628 01:22:41,943 --> 01:22:45,709 {\an1}HOWARD BINGHAM PHOTOGRAPHED IT ALL. 1629 01:22:45,743 --> 01:22:49,243 {\an1}"THESE PEOPLE ARE LIKE A LITTLE TOWN FOR MUHAMMAD ALI," 1630 01:22:49,276 --> 01:22:51,243 {\an1}HERBERT MUHAMMAD SAID. 1631 01:22:51,276 --> 01:22:56,343 {\an1}"HE'S THE SHERIFF, THE JUDGE, THE MAYOR, AND THE TREASURER." 1632 01:22:56,376 --> 01:22:57,943 I'M TRIM. MY JAW IS READY. 1633 01:22:57,976 --> 01:23:00,743 {\an1}LOOK AT MY BODY. LOOK AT IT. IN PERFECT SHAPE. 1634 01:23:00,776 --> 01:23:03,609 {\an1}212 POUNDS, SAME WEIGHT I FOUGHT SONNY LISTON. 1635 01:23:03,643 --> 01:23:05,576 {\an1}I CHOPPED DOWN 85 TREES FOR THIS FIGHT. 1636 01:23:05,609 --> 01:23:07,576 {\an1}TALKIN' BOUT NORTON CLOSING MY MOUTH. 1637 01:23:07,609 --> 01:23:09,443 YOU TELL NORTON HE OPENED MY MOUTH WIDER. 1638 01:23:09,476 --> 01:23:10,819 {\an1}DON'T BELIEVE THAT STUFF. PREDICTIN' ON THE PREDICTER. 1639 01:23:10,843 --> 01:23:12,643 {\an1}I'M GONNA BE SO FAST. 1640 01:23:12,676 --> 01:23:14,419 {\an1}WATCH WHAT IMMA DO WITH MY HANDS IN THE RING THAT NIGHT. 1641 01:23:14,443 --> 01:23:16,809 {\an1}IMMA BE SO FAST, IF NORTON DOING THE DIRTY STUFF, 1642 01:23:16,843 --> 01:23:19,209 {\an1}IMMA REACH FROM NOWHERE AND PULL OUT A LONG CANE. 1643 01:23:19,243 --> 01:23:21,776 AND I... [LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] 1644 01:23:25,909 --> 01:23:27,709 {\an1}RASHEDA: MY DAD WOULD 1645 01:23:27,743 --> 01:23:33,909 {\an1}ACTUALLY DRIVE HIS BLUEBIRD BUS FROM CHERRY HILL 1646 01:23:33,943 --> 01:23:37,143 TO DEER LAKE. 1647 01:23:37,176 --> 01:23:43,643 {\an7}AND WE WOULD ALL PACK IN THE BUS AND HIS ENTOURAGE 1648 01:23:43,676 --> 01:23:46,243 {\an1}AND THE BABYSITTERS AND ALL OF US WOULD GO, 1649 01:23:46,276 --> 01:23:49,443 {\an1}AND MY MOM AND ALL OF US WOULD BE THERE. 1650 01:23:49,476 --> 01:23:52,209 {\an1}DADDY HAD A WAGON. 1651 01:23:52,243 --> 01:23:56,209 HE WOULD DRAG US IN THE WAGON. 1652 01:23:56,243 --> 01:24:00,209 {\an1}WE HAD PONIES THERE. WE WOULD RIDE. 1653 01:24:00,243 --> 01:24:03,609 {\an1}I CAN SMELL THE CEDAR WOOD. 1654 01:24:05,009 --> 01:24:06,609 FOND MEMORIES. 1655 01:24:06,643 --> 01:24:09,143 I'VE JUST COME TO SEE MY DAUGHTER FOR A... 1656 01:24:09,176 --> 01:24:11,009 {\an1}[FILM PROJECTOR CLICKING] 1657 01:24:11,043 --> 01:24:12,643 {\an1}NARRATOR: MOST EVENINGS AFTER DINNER, 1658 01:24:12,676 --> 01:24:15,476 THE GYM BECAME A MAKESHIFT MOVIE HOUSE 1659 01:24:15,509 --> 01:24:19,343 {\an1}AS EVERYONE PILED IN FOR A SCREENING. 1660 01:24:19,376 --> 01:24:23,576 {\an1}OCCASIONALLY, ON CLEAR NIGHTS, WHEN BELINDA VISITED, 1661 01:24:23,609 --> 01:24:27,343 {\an1}SHE AND ALI WOULD SIT IN THE QUARRY WAGON AND SEARCH 1662 01:24:27,376 --> 01:24:30,743 {\an1}THE SKIES FOR THE MOTHERSHIP ELIJAH MUHAMMAD HAD PROMISED 1663 01:24:30,776 --> 01:24:32,543 {\an1}WAS ORBITING ABOVE. 1664 01:24:32,576 --> 01:24:35,176 {\an1}ALI: YOU MRS. MUHAMMAD ALI. 1665 01:24:35,209 --> 01:24:39,509 {\an1}NARRATOR: BY THE TIME HIS TRAINER ANGELO DUNDEE ARRIVED 3 WEEKS BEFORE THE FIGHT, 1666 01:24:39,543 --> 01:24:42,543 {\an1}ALI WAS WELL-RESTED, IN HIGH SPIRITS, 1667 01:24:42,576 --> 01:24:44,843 {\an1}AND IN EXCELLENT SHAPE. 1668 01:24:44,876 --> 01:24:47,009 ♪ 1669 01:24:47,043 --> 01:24:52,743 {\an7}ON SEPTEMBER 10, 1973, ALI FACED KEN NORTON AGAIN 1670 01:24:52,776 --> 01:24:55,876 {\an7}AT THE FORUM IN INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA. 1671 01:24:55,909 --> 01:24:58,876 {\an1}HEARN: ALI HAS NOT STOPPED DANCING FOR A SECOND. 1672 01:24:58,909 --> 01:25:02,576 {\an1}THIS IS THE BEST I'VE SEEN ALI LOOK SINCE GOING BACK BEFORE 1673 01:25:02,609 --> 01:25:04,043 {\an1}THE JOE FRAZIER FIGHT. 1674 01:25:04,076 --> 01:25:05,243 FURILLO: IT'S THE OLD ALI. 1675 01:25:05,276 --> 01:25:06,976 {\an1}HEARN: YES, IT IS. 1676 01:25:08,976 --> 01:25:12,243 {\an1}NARRATOR: ALI STAYED ON HIS TOES THIS TIME AND SHOWED 1677 01:25:12,276 --> 01:25:14,476 MORE STAMINA THAN HE HAD IN YEARS. 1678 01:25:14,509 --> 01:25:16,409 {\an1}HEARN: WHAT A FIGHT! 1679 01:25:16,443 --> 01:25:18,543 {\an1}[LOUD CHEERING] BOTH MEN HAVE BEEN HURT. 1680 01:25:18,576 --> 01:25:21,076 {\an1}THE CROWD IS GOING ABSOLUTELY BERSERK, 1681 01:25:21,109 --> 01:25:23,009 {\an1}AS THESE FINE HEAVYWEIGHTS UNLEASH... 1682 01:25:23,043 --> 01:25:24,743 FURILLO: FIGHT OF THE YEAR! 1683 01:25:24,776 --> 01:25:26,943 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE TWO FIGHTERS BATTLED TO A DRAW 1684 01:25:26,976 --> 01:25:29,043 {\an1}OVER THE FIRST 11 ROUNDS. 1685 01:25:29,076 --> 01:25:31,343 {\an1}HEARN: 12th AND FINAL ROUND. 1686 01:25:31,376 --> 01:25:34,543 {\an1}NARRATOR: BUT IN THE 12th, ALI UNLEASHED A BARRAGE 1687 01:25:34,576 --> 01:25:38,209 TO NORTON'S HEAD, OVERWHELMING HIS OPPONENT 1688 01:25:38,243 --> 01:25:41,643 {\an1}AND TILTING THE DECISION IN HIS FAVOR. 1689 01:25:43,709 --> 01:25:45,709 ALL RIGHT, WE'RE WITH MUHAMMAD HERE. 1690 01:25:45,743 --> 01:25:48,109 CHAMP, A GREAT FIGHT. 1691 01:25:48,143 --> 01:25:49,909 YOU HAVEN'T BEEN IN THIS KIND OF CONDITION 1692 01:25:49,943 --> 01:25:52,109 I'M SURE FOR MANY YEARS AND YOU HAD TO BE. 1693 01:25:52,143 --> 01:25:54,743 {\an1}RIGHT. I'M IN GOOD CONDITION, 1694 01:25:54,776 --> 01:26:01,009 {\an1}BUT I'M TIREDER THAN USUAL BECAUSE OF MY AGE. 1695 01:26:01,043 --> 01:26:04,009 {\an1}NARRATOR: NO SOONER HAD HE BEEN DECLARED THE WINNER 1696 01:26:04,043 --> 01:26:08,476 {\an1}THAN THE PRESS TURNED ITS ATTENTION TO A LONG-ANTICIPATED FIGHT, 1697 01:26:08,509 --> 01:26:12,776 {\an1}FINALLY IN THE PLANNING STAGES: A REMATCH BETWEEN ALI 1698 01:26:12,809 --> 01:26:15,243 AND JOE FRAZIER. 1699 01:26:15,276 --> 01:26:18,343 {\an1}SOME WRITERS SAW IT AS A BATTLE OF HAS-BEENS, 1700 01:26:18,376 --> 01:26:23,109 {\an1}WHOSE FAILURE TO FIGHT YEARS EARLIER HAD COST THEM MILLIONS. 1701 01:26:23,143 --> 01:26:26,143 {\an1}BUT THE REMATCH WOULD BE A HUGE DRAW, 1702 01:26:26,176 --> 01:26:31,043 {\an1}AND THE WINNER WOULD BE IN LINE TO FIGHT GEORGE FOREMAN. 1703 01:26:31,076 --> 01:26:35,609 {\an1}IT'S "TWO MEN ON A PRECIPICE," WROTE SPORTSWRITER MARK KRAM, 1704 01:26:35,643 --> 01:26:40,476 {\an1}"AND POSSIBLY ONLY ONE WILL PICK UP HIS TALENT AND GO ON." 1705 01:26:40,509 --> 01:26:41,819 {\an1}FRAZIER: I'LL TAKE HIM. I KNOW I'LL TAKE HIM. 1706 01:26:41,843 --> 01:26:43,309 AND WHERE? 1707 01:26:43,343 --> 01:26:44,819 ANYWHERE! THE STREET FIGHT AND THE RING. 1708 01:26:44,843 --> 01:26:46,276 {\an1}ALI: KEEPS CALLING ME CLAY! 1709 01:26:46,309 --> 01:26:47,876 {\an1}HE'S STILL CALLING ME CLAY! 1710 01:26:47,909 --> 01:26:50,343 {\an1}I'M GOING TO GET ALL THE UNCLE TOMS OUT OF BOXING. 1711 01:26:50,376 --> 01:26:52,543 {\an1}I'M TIRED OF ALL THESE UNCLE TOM NEGROES. 1712 01:26:52,576 --> 01:26:54,176 {\an1}FRAZIER: YOU A ONE-SIDED GUY. 1713 01:26:54,209 --> 01:26:56,309 {\an1}YOU... YOU TALK FROM TWO SIDE OF YOUR MOUTH! 1714 01:26:56,343 --> 01:26:58,243 {\an1}ONE TO THE WHITE AND ONE TO THE BLACK. 1715 01:26:59,909 --> 01:27:03,009 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN THE 2 1/2 YEARS SINCE THEIR FIRST FIGHT, 1716 01:27:03,043 --> 01:27:07,676 {\an1}THE TWO MEN HAD MADE LITTLE EFFORT TO EASE THE ACRIMONY BETWEEN THEM. 1717 01:27:07,709 --> 01:27:09,185 {\an1}LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, BOY. SOMEBODY TOLD ME... 1718 01:27:09,209 --> 01:27:10,352 FRAZIER: I DUNNO, WHAT'S THAT WORD? 1719 01:27:10,376 --> 01:27:11,843 {\an1}I SAID ROY. FRAZIER: OH. 1720 01:27:11,876 --> 01:27:13,409 [LAUGHTER] 1721 01:27:13,443 --> 01:27:15,543 INTERVIEWER: DO YOU REALLY DISLIKE ALI? 1722 01:27:15,576 --> 01:27:17,076 WELL, YA KNOW. 1723 01:27:17,109 --> 01:27:19,609 {\an1}NOTHING TO WRITE HOME TO MOMMA ABOUT, YA KNOW. 1724 01:27:19,643 --> 01:27:21,543 I GOT A SPARRING PARTNER. 1725 01:27:21,576 --> 01:27:23,709 LET HIM OUT! LET HIM OUT! 1726 01:27:23,743 --> 01:27:26,376 {\an1}NARRATOR: "WE WANT EACH OTHER BAD," SAID FRAZIER, 1727 01:27:26,409 --> 01:27:30,009 {\an1}WHO CONTINUED TO REFER TO ALI AS CLAY. 1728 01:27:30,043 --> 01:27:33,243 {\an1}"IF YOU'VE BEEN AROUND THIS GUY LONG ENOUGH, YOU CAN HAVE 1729 01:27:33,276 --> 01:27:36,043 {\an1}A LOT OF HATE IN YOUR HEART WHEN THE BELL RINGS." 1730 01:27:36,076 --> 01:27:38,709 {\an1}THIS GETS ME READY FOR JOE FRAZIER. 1731 01:27:38,743 --> 01:27:40,376 {\an1}HE RESEMBLES JOE FRAZIER. 1732 01:27:40,409 --> 01:27:41,943 REFEREE: TIME! 1733 01:27:43,276 --> 01:27:44,676 {\an1}REPORTER: JOE, DOES THIS GET YOU 1734 01:27:44,709 --> 01:27:45,752 {\an1}MORE DETERMINED TO BEAT HIM? 1735 01:27:45,776 --> 01:27:47,876 {\an1}YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT. 1736 01:27:47,909 --> 01:27:49,219 {\an1}IZENBERG: SO WHEN THEY COME TOGETHER, 1737 01:27:49,243 --> 01:27:51,176 THERE'S NO TITLE AT STAKE. 1738 01:27:51,209 --> 01:27:55,309 {\an1}AND I ASKED ALI, "WHY WOULD PEOPLE COME TO THIS FIGHT 1739 01:27:55,343 --> 01:27:57,143 "WITHOUT A TITLE, YOU KNOW, 1740 01:27:57,176 --> 01:27:59,243 AFTER FRAZIER GOT BEAT SO BADLY BY FOREMAN?" 1741 01:27:59,276 --> 01:28:01,643 AND I WAS OUT 4 YEARS AND CAME BACK AND WHOOPED YOU. 1742 01:28:01,676 --> 01:28:07,276 {\an7}HE SAID, "YOU KNOW, PEOPLE COME TO SEE ME, 1743 01:28:07,309 --> 01:28:12,809 {\an7}BUT IF THERE'S NO JOE FRAZIER, THEY CAN'T SEE ME AT MY BEST." 1744 01:28:12,843 --> 01:28:15,443 PEOPLE ASK ME, WHAT WAS ALI'S BEST FIGHT? 1745 01:28:15,476 --> 01:28:17,109 {\an1}SECOND FRAZIER FIGHT. 1746 01:28:17,143 --> 01:28:19,276 {\an1}[ALI BREATHING HARD] 1747 01:28:19,309 --> 01:28:21,376 {\an1}ALI TRAINED REAL WELL. 1748 01:28:21,409 --> 01:28:24,043 {\an1}HEAVY BAG, SPEED BAG, GOOD SPARRING PARTNERS 1749 01:28:24,076 --> 01:28:26,876 {\an1}IN THE COLD WEATHER, RAN. 1750 01:28:26,909 --> 01:28:29,409 {\an1}HIS MOM AND DAD WERE COOKING AT THE CAMP, 1751 01:28:29,443 --> 01:28:32,109 {\an1}HIS BROTHER RAHAMAN, EVERYBODY. 1752 01:28:32,143 --> 01:28:35,509 {\an1}EVERYTHING WAS HITTING, EVERYTHING. 1753 01:28:35,543 --> 01:28:37,743 {\an1}ALI HAD THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS. 1754 01:28:39,476 --> 01:28:43,676 {\an1}ALI: I'M READY TO WHOOP JOE FRAZIER AGAIN... 1755 01:28:43,709 --> 01:28:47,609 {\an1}BUT THIS TIME I'LL MAKE IT MORE CLEAR. 1756 01:28:47,643 --> 01:28:49,776 {\an1}I'M SERIOUS THIS TIME. 1757 01:28:49,809 --> 01:28:53,743 {\an1}NARRATOR: JOE FRAZIER, WHO HAD DEFENDED HIS TITLE JUST TWICE 1758 01:28:53,776 --> 01:28:58,276 {\an1}BEFORE LOSING IT TO FOREMAN, TRAINED WITH A SINGLE-MINDED ZEAL AS WELL, 1759 01:28:58,309 --> 01:29:00,876 SHAPING HIS BODY, ONE WRITER SAID, 1760 01:29:00,909 --> 01:29:04,176 {\an1}"LIKE A MAN HAMMERING A STRIP OF HOT STEEL." 1761 01:29:04,209 --> 01:29:09,909 {\an1}ON JANUARY 23rd, 5 DAYS BEFORE THE FIGHT, THE TWO MEN JOINED 1762 01:29:09,943 --> 01:29:12,409 HOWARD COSELL TO TAPE A SEGMENT 1763 01:29:12,443 --> 01:29:14,809 FOR ABC'S "WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS." 1764 01:29:14,843 --> 01:29:16,083 {\an1}ALI: THAT SHOWS HOW DUMB YOU ARE 1765 01:29:16,109 --> 01:29:17,343 {\an1}FRAZIER: HOW COME PEOPLE... 1766 01:29:17,376 --> 01:29:18,843 {\an1}HE BROUGHT UP THE HOSPITAL. 1767 01:29:18,876 --> 01:29:20,585 {\an1}HE GONNA BRING UP THE HOSPITAL. SO IGNORANT. 1768 01:29:20,609 --> 01:29:22,876 WHAT DIFFERENCE? WHY DO YOU THINK I'M IGNORANT? 1769 01:29:22,909 --> 01:29:24,209 {\an1}I WENT TO THE HOSPITAL FOR... 1770 01:29:24,243 --> 01:29:25,376 WHY YOU THINK I'M IGNORANT? 1771 01:29:25,409 --> 01:29:26,709 {\an1}HOW WOULD I KNOW? 1772 01:29:26,743 --> 01:29:28,143 WHY YOU THINK I'M IGNORANT? 1773 01:29:28,176 --> 01:29:30,643 {\an1}MAN, SET DOWN. SET DOWN. 1774 01:29:30,676 --> 01:29:31,976 {\an1}SET DOWN, JOE. 1775 01:29:32,009 --> 01:29:33,176 WHY YOU THINK I'M IGNORANT? 1776 01:29:33,209 --> 01:29:34,509 {\an1}SET DOWN, JOE. SET DOWN, QUICK. 1777 01:29:34,543 --> 01:29:35,709 WHY YOU THINK I'M IGNORANT? 1778 01:29:35,743 --> 01:29:36,709 {\an1}ALI: THE BROTHERS ARE HERE. 1779 01:29:36,743 --> 01:29:37,876 YOU IN THIS, TOO? 1780 01:29:37,909 --> 01:29:40,143 {\an1}ALI: SET DOWN, QUICK, JOE! 1781 01:29:40,176 --> 01:29:43,109 [STRUGGLING] 1782 01:29:43,143 --> 01:29:46,543 {\an1}COSELL: THIS KIND OF THING HAS BEEN GOING ON ALL ALONG 1783 01:29:46,576 --> 01:29:48,143 IN TERMS OF PROMOTION OF THE FIGHT, 1784 01:29:48,176 --> 01:29:50,509 AND THIS TIME IT SEEMS TO BE FOR REAL, 1785 01:29:50,543 --> 01:29:53,343 BECAUSE JOE FRAZIER IS REALLY ANGRY. 1786 01:29:53,376 --> 01:29:56,643 {\an1}MUHAMMAD CALLED HIM IGNORANT AND HE'S REALLY ANGRY. 1787 01:29:56,676 --> 01:30:00,143 I DON'T THINK THIS ONE IS CLOWNING AT ALL. 1788 01:30:00,176 --> 01:30:02,109 IT'S A BAD AND AN UGLY SCENE... 1789 01:30:02,143 --> 01:30:03,476 {\an1}KINDRED: YOU HAVE TO BE CRUEL 1790 01:30:03,509 --> 01:30:05,476 TO BE A FIGHTER, TO BEGIN WITH. 1791 01:30:05,509 --> 01:30:07,843 {\an1}YOU HAVE TO BE CRUEL IN THE RING. 1792 01:30:07,876 --> 01:30:11,276 {\an1}YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE CRUEL OUTSIDE THE RING. 1793 01:30:11,309 --> 01:30:16,209 {\an7}MY DIME STORE PSYCHOLOGY ON THE WHOLE THING WAS THAT 1794 01:30:16,243 --> 01:30:20,643 {\an1}ALI WAS CRUELEST WHEN HE WAS MOST AFRAID, 1795 01:30:20,676 --> 01:30:23,776 {\an1}AND I THINK HE WAS MOST AFRAID OF JOE FRAZIER. 1796 01:30:23,809 --> 01:30:26,976 {\an1}THE DEPLORABLE CONDUCT OF MUHAMMAD ALI AND JOE FRAZIER... 1797 01:30:27,009 --> 01:30:31,143 {\an1}NARRATOR: AFTER THE TUSSLE, EACH BOXER WAS FINED $5,000 1798 01:30:31,176 --> 01:30:34,576 {\an1}BY THE NEW YORK STATE ATHLETIC COMMISSION. 1799 01:30:34,609 --> 01:30:39,309 {\an1}THIS TIME, LAS VEGAS ODDSMAKERS FAVORED ALI. 1800 01:30:39,343 --> 01:30:40,976 {\an1}DUNPHY: HERE HE COMES! 1801 01:30:41,009 --> 01:30:45,509 {\an1}NARRATOR: AT 10:26 P.M. ON JANUARY 28, 1974, 1802 01:30:45,543 --> 01:30:48,343 {\an1}BEFORE A SOLD-OUT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, 1803 01:30:48,376 --> 01:30:50,843 MUHAMMAD ALI ENTERED THE RING. 1804 01:30:50,876 --> 01:30:53,309 {\an1}DUNPHY: HERE COMES JOE FRAZIER. SMOKIN' JOE. 1805 01:30:53,343 --> 01:30:57,043 {\an1}NARRATOR: FRAZIER FOLLOWED A MINUTE LATER. 1806 01:30:57,076 --> 01:30:59,643 {\an7}DUNPHY: YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE MAN MANY CONSIDER THE MOST 1807 01:30:59,676 --> 01:31:02,976 {\an7}SPECTACULAR ATHLETE OF ALL TIME... MUHAMMAD ALI. 1808 01:31:04,776 --> 01:31:07,809 {\an1}JOE FRAZIER GETS A CHANCE TO PROVE TONIGHT WHAT HE THOUGHT 1809 01:31:07,843 --> 01:31:10,576 {\an1}HE PROVED 3 YEARS AGO... 1810 01:31:10,609 --> 01:31:12,409 {\an1}THAT HE'S A BETTER FIGHTER THAN MUHAMMAD ALI. 1811 01:31:12,443 --> 01:31:16,909 {\an1}BENTT: JOE'S COMING OFF THE LOSS AGAINST GEORGE FOREMAN. 1812 01:31:16,943 --> 01:31:21,743 {\an1}SO THAT'S GONNA AFFECT THE LEVEL OF THE CRAFT. 1813 01:31:21,776 --> 01:31:28,476 {\an1}BUT WITH ALI AND JOE, IT WAS ALWAYS HUGELY PERSONAL. 1814 01:31:28,509 --> 01:31:31,143 {\an1}THESE GUYS DESPISE EACH OTHER. 1815 01:31:31,176 --> 01:31:34,643 {\an1}THEY'RE FOES FOR LIFE. 1816 01:31:34,676 --> 01:31:36,509 [BELL DINGS] 1817 01:31:36,543 --> 01:31:39,243 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN THE 1st ROUND, ALI SHUFFLED AND JABBED 1818 01:31:39,276 --> 01:31:41,543 {\an1}AND KEPT FRAZIER FROM FINDING HIS RHYTHM. 1819 01:31:41,576 --> 01:31:43,709 {\an1}DUNPHY: FRAZIER'S COMING IN WIDE OPEN. 1820 01:31:43,743 --> 01:31:45,709 {\an1}WIDE OPEN! 1821 01:31:45,743 --> 01:31:49,543 {\an1}THE QUESTION IS IF FRAZIER CAN HOLD UP UNDER THIS PUNISHMENT 1822 01:31:49,576 --> 01:31:51,509 {\an1}AND ALI SLOWS DOWN. 1823 01:31:51,543 --> 01:31:55,009 {\an1}NARRATOR: LATE IN THE 2nd, ALI WOBBLED FRAZIER 1824 01:31:55,043 --> 01:31:56,876 {\an1}WITH A STIFF RIGHT TO HIS HEAD. 1825 01:31:56,909 --> 01:31:59,109 {\an1}DUNPHY: ALI IS DOMINATING THE FIGHT. 1826 01:31:59,143 --> 01:32:03,076 {\an1}BENTT: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS FIGHT AND THE FIRST FIGHT 1827 01:32:03,109 --> 01:32:07,176 {\an1}IS THAT MUHAMMAD IS FOCUSED ON MAKING JOE FIND HIM 1828 01:32:07,209 --> 01:32:09,176 {\an1}THROUGH HIS MOVEMENT. 1829 01:32:09,209 --> 01:32:11,676 {\an1}AND WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE A GUY FIND YOU, 1830 01:32:11,709 --> 01:32:13,776 {\an1}YOU CAN DISRUPT HIS RHYTHM. 1831 01:32:13,809 --> 01:32:17,909 {\an1}BECAUSE IF I'M MOVING, YOU DON'T CONTROL WHEN I PUNCH. 1832 01:32:17,943 --> 01:32:19,409 {\an1}I CONTROL WHEN YOU PUNCH. 1833 01:32:19,443 --> 01:32:22,243 {\an1}DUNPHY: ALI KEEPING FRAZIER OFF-BALANCE. 1834 01:32:22,276 --> 01:32:25,309 {\an1}NARRATOR: AS THE FIGHT WENT ON, ALI MIXED HIS JABS 1835 01:32:25,343 --> 01:32:29,109 {\an1}WITH HOOKS AND COMBINATIONS, AND RELIED ON CLINCHES 1836 01:32:29,143 --> 01:32:30,909 {\an1}TO STIFLE FRAZIER'S ATTACK. 1837 01:32:30,943 --> 01:32:33,409 {\an1}DUNPHY: ALI DOING THE HOLDING. 1838 01:32:33,443 --> 01:32:36,909 {\an7}IN THE FIRST FIGHT, JOE WAS LIKE THE TASMANIAN DEVIL. 1839 01:32:36,943 --> 01:32:38,943 {\an8}HE WAS... HE NEVER STOPPED PUNCHING. 1840 01:32:38,976 --> 01:32:41,776 {\an1}AND IF ALI HELD HIM, YOU COULD SEE JOE LIKE TAKE HIS HANDS 1841 01:32:41,809 --> 01:32:45,976 {\an1}AND PUT 'EM DOWN AND JUST PUN... KEPT ON PUNCHING. 1842 01:32:46,009 --> 01:32:49,109 {\an1}WHEN ALI HELD JOE IN THE SECOND FIGHT, 1843 01:32:49,143 --> 01:32:52,043 YOU NEVER SAW JOE REACT LIKE THAT. 1844 01:32:52,076 --> 01:32:54,876 HE'S COOPERATING WITH MUHAMMAD. 1845 01:32:54,909 --> 01:32:58,043 {\an7}DUNPHY: ALI IS OUTSMARTING FRAZIER. 1846 01:32:58,076 --> 01:33:02,109 {\an7}FRAZIER CAN'T AFFORD TO GIVE ANY MORE ROUNDS AWAY. 1847 01:33:02,143 --> 01:33:06,043 {\an1}NARRATOR: FRAZIER JUST KEPT COMING, ABSORBING ALI'S PUNCHES 1848 01:33:06,076 --> 01:33:09,709 {\an1}AS HE ATTEMPTED TO GET UNDER ALI'S ARMS AND LAND HIS 1849 01:33:09,743 --> 01:33:11,209 LETHAL LEFT HOOK. 1850 01:33:11,243 --> 01:33:13,009 {\an1}DUNPHY: OH! GOT HIM THERE! 1851 01:33:14,443 --> 01:33:18,443 {\an1}BENTT: WHAT WAS HOLDING FRAZIER BACK WAS THE GHOSTS 1852 01:33:18,476 --> 01:33:22,709 {\an1}OF GETTING KNOCKED OUT BY GEORGE FOREMAN A YEAR PRIOR. 1853 01:33:22,743 --> 01:33:26,209 {\an1}AND WHEN YOU'RE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION AND YOU GO TO JAMAICA 1854 01:33:26,243 --> 01:33:27,919 {\an1}AND YOU END UP GETTING KNOCKED OUT BY THIS GUY... 1855 01:33:27,943 --> 01:33:29,076 {\an1}COSELL: DOWN GOES FRAZIER! 1856 01:33:29,109 --> 01:33:31,709 {\an1}BENTT: IT MAKES YOU PLUMMET. 1857 01:33:31,743 --> 01:33:34,009 {\an1}THAT'S SOMETHING YOU'LL NEVER FORGET. 1858 01:33:34,043 --> 01:33:38,543 {\an1}SO THIS JOE FRAZIER AND THE ONE FROM '71, 1859 01:33:38,576 --> 01:33:41,176 {\an1}TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. 1860 01:33:41,209 --> 01:33:44,509 {\an1}IF YOU'RE JOE FRAZIER, EVERY TIME YOU GET HIT, 1861 01:33:44,543 --> 01:33:47,143 {\an1}LIKE A SOLID SHOT, 1862 01:33:47,176 --> 01:33:50,343 {\an1}YOU THINK ABOUT THE LAST TIME YOU GOT KNOCKED OUT. 1863 01:33:50,376 --> 01:33:54,976 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN ROUNDS 7 AND 8, FRAZIER BROKE THROUGH, 1864 01:33:55,009 --> 01:33:58,543 {\an1}TAGGING ALI WITH SEVERAL DEVASTATING PUNCHES, 1865 01:33:58,576 --> 01:34:01,443 {\an1}INCLUDING ONE THAT SENT ALI TO THE ROPES 1866 01:34:01,476 --> 01:34:04,576 {\an1}AS THE BELL RANG TO SIGNAL THE END OF THE 8th. 1867 01:34:04,609 --> 01:34:07,609 ANNOUNCER: OH! GOT HIM, THAT HURT HIM. 1868 01:34:07,643 --> 01:34:09,976 {\an1}DUNPHY: ALI'S FACE IS GETTING PUFFY. 1869 01:34:10,009 --> 01:34:13,209 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: THAT'S BY FAR THE BEST ROUND FOR JOE FRAZIER. 1870 01:34:13,243 --> 01:34:16,476 {\an1}DUNPHY: FRAZIER IS SO CONFIDENT AT THIS POINT. 1871 01:34:16,509 --> 01:34:20,476 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN THE 9th, HIS FACE SWOLLEN FROM FRAZIER'S BLOWS 1872 01:34:20,509 --> 01:34:24,543 {\an1}AND HIS NOSE TRICKLING BLOOD, ALI CONNECTED WITH 10 PUNCHES 1873 01:34:24,576 --> 01:34:26,876 {\an1}FOR EVERY ONE LANDED BY FRAZIER, 1874 01:34:26,909 --> 01:34:30,876 {\an1}INSPIRING CHANTS OF "ALI!" FROM THE ELECTRIFIED CROWD. 1875 01:34:30,909 --> 01:34:32,809 {\an1}[CROWD CHANTING "ALI!"] 1876 01:34:32,843 --> 01:34:35,976 {\an1}DUNPHY: THIS IS AS GOOD AS THE LAST FIGHT. 1877 01:34:36,009 --> 01:34:39,343 {\an1}PLENTY OF EXCITEMENT AT OLD MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. 1878 01:34:40,976 --> 01:34:43,476 {\an1}THIS IS THE LAST ROUND. 1879 01:34:43,509 --> 01:34:46,309 {\an1}THERE'S NO TOMORROW, ONLY TONIGHT. 1880 01:34:46,343 --> 01:34:49,609 {\an1}THE BOUT COULD END IN A DRAW. 1881 01:34:49,643 --> 01:34:51,409 {\an1}NARRATOR: "YOU GOTTA STOP HIM TO WIN!" 1882 01:34:51,443 --> 01:34:55,109 {\an1}DUNDEE SHOUTED AT ALI, AS FRAZIER CHASED AFTER HIM, 1883 01:34:55,143 --> 01:34:58,009 {\an1}DESPERATELY LAUNCHING LEFT HOOKS. 1884 01:34:58,043 --> 01:35:00,243 BUNDINI: YOU GOT TO WIN THIS ROUND, CHAMP! 1885 01:35:02,276 --> 01:35:04,476 {\an1}DUNPHY: TREMENDOUS LEFT HOOKS! 1886 01:35:04,509 --> 01:35:07,843 {\an1}FRAZIER'S TEEING OFF. 1887 01:35:07,876 --> 01:35:11,243 {\an1}NOW FRAZIER IS GETTING CARELESS. 1888 01:35:11,276 --> 01:35:14,309 {\an1}THEY'RE PUTTING EVERYTHING INTO THIS. 1889 01:35:14,343 --> 01:35:17,909 {\an1}NOW IT'S A BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL. 1890 01:35:17,943 --> 01:35:20,576 {\an1}WHAT A FINISH! 1891 01:35:20,609 --> 01:35:28,609 {\an1}♪ 1892 01:35:33,743 --> 01:35:35,143 [BELL DINGS] 1893 01:35:35,176 --> 01:35:37,509 {\an1}THERE IT IS. 1894 01:35:37,543 --> 01:35:39,809 {\an1}IT'S ALL OVER. 1895 01:35:39,843 --> 01:35:42,743 {\an1}THE JUDGES WILL HAVE THEIR WORK CUT OUT FOR THEM. 1896 01:35:42,776 --> 01:35:44,976 {\an1}JOE BOSTON: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 1897 01:35:45,009 --> 01:35:49,043 {\an1}MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE? 1898 01:35:49,076 --> 01:35:53,876 {\an1}HERE IS YOUR DECISION. 1899 01:35:53,909 --> 01:36:01,909 {\an1}THE WINNER BY UNANIMOUS DECISION IS MUHAMMAD ALI! 1900 01:36:01,976 --> 01:36:03,809 [CROWD ROARS] 1901 01:36:05,876 --> 01:36:09,176 {\an1}NARRATOR: 3 YEARS AFTER LOSING THE "FIGHT OF THE CENTURY," 1902 01:36:09,209 --> 01:36:13,876 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI HAD AVENGED HIS LOSS TO JOE FRAZIER. 1903 01:36:13,909 --> 01:36:17,243 {\an1}BRYANT: HE'S NOT THE SAME FIGHTER HE WAS AGAINST LISTON. 1904 01:36:17,276 --> 01:36:19,543 {\an1}HE'S NOT UNDEFEATED ANYMORE BECAUSE FRAZIER 1905 01:36:19,576 --> 01:36:21,709 ALREADY BEAT HIM. 1906 01:36:21,743 --> 01:36:25,443 {\an1}WE KNOW HE CAN BE HURT BECAUSE NORTON BROKE HIS JAW. 1907 01:36:25,476 --> 01:36:28,409 {\an1}SO WHO IS THIS FIGHTER? 1908 01:36:28,443 --> 01:36:31,409 {\an7}THIS IS THE COMPELLING PART OF ALI AS WELL, 1909 01:36:31,443 --> 01:36:34,509 {\an7}THE COMPETITOR WHO HAS SOMETHING NEW FOR YOU 1910 01:36:34,543 --> 01:36:37,776 {\an1}TO SHOW YOU THAT THIS IS A GREAT FIGHTER. 1911 01:36:37,809 --> 01:36:42,709 {\an1}THIS IS A GREAT MAN, AND HE COULD ONLY DO THAT AGAINST 1912 01:36:42,743 --> 01:36:44,676 {\an1}SOMEBODY LIKE FRAZIER. 1913 01:36:44,709 --> 01:36:48,276 {\an1}YOU GOTTA HAVE REAL COMPETITION TO PROVE YOUR GREATNESS. 1914 01:36:49,609 --> 01:36:52,976 {\an1}NARRATOR: AFTER THE FIGHT, FRAZIER ASSURED REPORTERS 1915 01:36:53,009 --> 01:36:54,776 {\an1}THAT HE WAS NOT FINISHED. 1916 01:36:54,809 --> 01:36:58,876 {\an1}"I WANT HIM AGAIN," HE TOLD THEM, "ONE MORE TIME." 1917 01:36:58,909 --> 01:37:01,709 {\an1}"I'M GONNA GIVE JOE ANOTHER CHANCE," SAID ALI. 1918 01:37:01,743 --> 01:37:03,776 {\an1}"I'M NOT GONNA DUCK HIM." 1919 01:37:03,809 --> 01:37:06,543 {\an1}ALI: I THINK THIS FIGHT WAS MUCH BETTER THAN THE FIRST FIGHT. 1920 01:37:06,576 --> 01:37:09,609 {\an1}YOU TALKIN' ABOUT SUPER FIGHT NUMBER TWO... 1921 01:37:09,643 --> 01:37:13,109 {\an1}TWO FIGHTERS THAT ARE NOT CHAMPIONS WHO PUNCHED EACH OTHER TO DEATH. 1922 01:37:13,143 --> 01:37:16,509 {\an1}AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY AGAIN FOR THE SURPRISE OF ALL OF YOU, 1923 01:37:16,543 --> 01:37:19,376 {\an1}WE JUST PUT ON ANOTHER FIGHT THAT CAN'T BE TOPPED BY NO 1924 01:37:19,409 --> 01:37:21,843 {\an1}HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHT IN HISTORY. 1925 01:37:21,876 --> 01:37:25,643 {\an1}NARRATOR: PROMOTERS, WRITERS AND FANS WERE EAGER TO SEE 1926 01:37:25,676 --> 01:37:29,976 {\an1}THE TWO EX-CHAMPIONS SQUARE OFF IN A THIRD MATCH TO SETTLE THEIR 1927 01:37:30,009 --> 01:37:32,709 {\an1}RIVALRY ONCE AND FOR ALL. 1928 01:37:32,743 --> 01:37:36,276 {\an1}BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING, ALI WANTED TO REGAIN 1929 01:37:36,309 --> 01:37:38,309 {\an1}THE HEAVYWEIGHT CROWN. 1930 01:37:38,343 --> 01:37:41,943 {\an1}TO DO THAT, HE WOULD NEED TO DEFEAT THE CURRENT CHAMP 1931 01:37:41,976 --> 01:37:43,876 {\an8}GEORGE FOREMAN. 1932 01:37:43,909 --> 01:37:45,809 {\an8}[BABY HUEY'S "HARD TIMES" PLAYING] 1933 01:37:45,843 --> 01:37:49,443 {\an8}♪ 1934 01:37:49,476 --> 01:37:53,309 {\an7}BOYD: GEORGE FOREMAN HAD PUT THE FEAR OF GOD INTO PEOPLE 1935 01:37:53,343 --> 01:37:59,643 IN BOXING CIRCLES BECAUSE ALI FOUGHT FRAZIER, 1936 01:37:59,676 --> 01:38:05,043 {\an1}FRAZIER KNOCKED ALI DOWN AND WON THE FIRST FIGHT, 1937 01:38:05,076 --> 01:38:07,509 FRAZIER FOUGHT GEORGE FOREMAN... 1938 01:38:07,543 --> 01:38:09,085 {\an1}COSELL: FOREMAN IS ALL OVER JOE FRAZIER. 1939 01:38:09,109 --> 01:38:11,143 {\an1}AND IN THE FIRST 2 ROUNDS OF THE FIGHT, 1940 01:38:11,176 --> 01:38:12,809 GOT DEMOLISHED. 1941 01:38:12,843 --> 01:38:15,509 {\an1}COSELL: IT IS OVER! IT IS OVER IN THE 2nd ROUND. 1942 01:38:15,543 --> 01:38:19,509 {\an1}GEORGE FOREMAN, NOT ONLY WAS HE BEATING PEOPLE, 1943 01:38:19,543 --> 01:38:21,976 {\an1}HE WAS DESTROYING PEOPLE. 1944 01:38:22,009 --> 01:38:25,676 {\an7}HE WAS KNOCKING PEOPLE OUT LIKE IT WAS NOTHING. 1945 01:38:25,709 --> 01:38:27,385 {\an1}BABY HUEY: ♪ SO I PLAY THE PART I FEEL... ♪ 1946 01:38:27,409 --> 01:38:31,409 {\an1}NARRATOR: 25-YEAR-OLD GEORGE FOREMAN STOOD 6'4" 1947 01:38:31,443 --> 01:38:34,243 {\an1}AND WEIGHED 225 POUNDS. 1948 01:38:34,276 --> 01:38:38,376 {\an1}HE HAD WON ALL 39 OF HIS FIGHTS, 36 BY KNOCKOUT. 1949 01:38:38,409 --> 01:38:39,976 {\an1}BABY HUEY: ♪ ...IN THIS CRAZY TOWN ♪ 1950 01:38:40,009 --> 01:38:41,509 NARRATOR: RAISED POOR AND HUNGRY 1951 01:38:41,543 --> 01:38:43,543 {\an1}IN A FLOOD-PRONE, CRIME-RIDDEN SECTION 1952 01:38:43,576 --> 01:38:46,743 {\an1}OF HOUSTON KNOWN AS "THE BLOODY FIFTH," 1953 01:38:46,776 --> 01:38:49,343 {\an1}FOREMAN WAS FREQUENTLY IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW 1954 01:38:49,376 --> 01:38:52,209 {\an1}BEFORE HE JOINED THE JOB CORPS AT 16, 1955 01:38:52,243 --> 01:38:55,409 {\an1}WHERE HE GOT HIS GED, TRAINED TO BE A CARPENTER 1956 01:38:55,443 --> 01:38:58,509 {\an1}AND A BRICKLAYER, AND TOOK UP BOXING. 1957 01:38:58,543 --> 01:39:01,476 {\an1}FOREMAN: I GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO BEFORE I TURN PRO, 1958 01:39:01,509 --> 01:39:03,776 {\an1}BUT WHEN I DO START, I'M GOING ALL THE WAY UP. 1959 01:39:03,809 --> 01:39:05,609 {\an1}REPORTER: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY ALL THE WAY UP? 1960 01:39:05,643 --> 01:39:07,976 {\an1}ALL THE WAY UP TO HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP 1961 01:39:08,009 --> 01:39:09,976 {\an1}OF THE WORLD, FOR REAL. 1962 01:39:10,009 --> 01:39:14,109 {\an1}NARRATOR: BY 20, HE HAD WON A GOLD MEDAL AT THE 1968 1963 01:39:14,143 --> 01:39:16,976 {\an1}MEXICO CITY OLYMPICS AND TURNED PROFESSIONAL. 1964 01:39:17,009 --> 01:39:19,309 {\an1}BABY HUEY: ♪ IN THIS CRAZY TOWN... ♪ 1965 01:39:19,343 --> 01:39:21,519 {\an1}NARRATOR: THE WAY TO BEAT FOREMAN, WROTE THE SCOTTISH SPORTSWRITER 1966 01:39:21,543 --> 01:39:24,576 {\an1}HUGH McILVANNEY, "INVOLVES SHELLING HIM 1967 01:39:24,609 --> 01:39:29,143 {\an1}FOR 3 DAYS AND THEN SENDING IN THE INFANTRY." 1968 01:39:29,176 --> 01:39:32,343 {\an1}"HE'S NOT THE REAL CHAMP," SCOFFED ALI, WHO CALLED 1969 01:39:32,376 --> 01:39:34,576 {\an1}FOREMAN A "SISSY FIGHTER." 1970 01:39:34,609 --> 01:39:36,843 {\an1}"I'M THE REAL CHAMP." 1971 01:39:36,876 --> 01:39:41,909 ♪ 1972 01:39:41,943 --> 01:39:45,243 {\an1}"THERE'LL BE A FIGHT WHEN GEORGE FOREMAN TELLS US 1973 01:39:45,276 --> 01:39:48,909 {\an1}HE WANTS TO FIGHT," SAID ALI'S PROMOTER AND ATTORNEY BOB ARUM, 1974 01:39:48,943 --> 01:39:51,809 WHO BELIEVED THAT IT WOULD TAKE $10 MILLION, 1975 01:39:51,843 --> 01:39:55,309 {\an1}$5 MILLION TO EACH BOXER, TO GET THE MATCH MADE. 1976 01:39:56,909 --> 01:40:00,043 {\an1}BUT ARUM WAS NOT THE ONLY PROMOTER WITH PLANS 1977 01:40:00,076 --> 01:40:02,109 FOR MUHAMMAD ALI. 1978 01:40:02,143 --> 01:40:05,376 {\an1}NARRATOR: DON KING HAD ONCE RUN AN ILLEGAL NUMBERS GAME 1979 01:40:05,409 --> 01:40:08,243 {\an1}IN CLEVELAND, OHIO BEFORE HE WAS FOUND GUILTY 1980 01:40:08,276 --> 01:40:10,043 {\an1}OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER 1981 01:40:10,076 --> 01:40:12,709 {\an1}FOR STOMPING A FORMER ASSOCIATE TO DEATH 1982 01:40:12,743 --> 01:40:18,376 {\an1}OUTSIDE A BAR IN 1966 OVER AN UNPAID DEBT. 1983 01:40:18,409 --> 01:40:21,943 {\an7}WHEN THE JUDGE UNEXPECTEDLY REDUCED HIS LIFE SENTENCE, 1984 01:40:21,976 --> 01:40:26,743 {\an1}KING ENDED UP SERVING LESS THAN 4 YEARS IN PRISON. 1985 01:40:26,776 --> 01:40:30,209 {\an7}AFTER HIS RELEASE, HE CONVINCED ALI TO BOX 1986 01:40:30,243 --> 01:40:33,643 {\an7}AT A BENEFIT FOR A FAILING CLEVELAND HOSPITAL. 1987 01:40:33,676 --> 01:40:36,976 {\an7}THOUGH THEIR EFFORTS RAISED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, 1988 01:40:37,009 --> 01:40:39,809 {\an7}FOREST CITY HOSPITAL SAW LITTLE OF IT 1989 01:40:39,843 --> 01:40:42,843 {\an7}AND CLOSED 5 YEARS LATER. 1990 01:40:45,076 --> 01:40:48,576 {\an1}BUT DON KING HAD DISCOVERED HIS CALLING. 1991 01:40:48,609 --> 01:40:50,309 {\an1}KING: I AM VERY HAPPY TO BE A PART OF THIS, 1992 01:40:50,343 --> 01:40:52,376 AND I AM AN EXTRAORDINARY HUSTLER. 1993 01:40:52,409 --> 01:40:55,976 {\an1}SO THEREFORE, I FEEL THAT I AM LIKENED TO ONLY 2 OR 3 1994 01:40:56,009 --> 01:40:57,952 {\an1}GIANT PROMOTERS IN THE LIFETIME THAT WE HAVE LIVED IN, 1995 01:40:57,976 --> 01:41:00,643 {\an1}AND THAT'S P.T. BARNUM AND MICHAEL TODD AND YOURS TRULY. 1996 01:41:00,676 --> 01:41:04,909 {\an1}NARRATOR: LOUD AND BLUSTERY, DON KING SPOKE IN RHYTHMIC TORRENTS, 1997 01:41:04,943 --> 01:41:09,409 {\an1}QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LIBERALLY, AND KEPT HIS SAVINGS IN CASH, 1998 01:41:09,443 --> 01:41:12,476 {\an1}SO THAT THE WHITE MAN COULD NOT TAKE HIS MONEY 1999 01:41:12,509 --> 01:41:17,043 AND NO ONE COULD FIND OUT HOW MUCH HE HAD. 2000 01:41:17,076 --> 01:41:20,643 {\an1}HE WAS PERSISTENT AND PERSUASIVE, AND AS AN EMERGING 2001 01:41:20,676 --> 01:41:23,643 {\an1}BLACK PROMOTER IN A WHITE-CONTROLLED PROFESSION, 2002 01:41:23,676 --> 01:41:27,876 {\an1}HE COULD OFFER A POWERFUL MESSAGE TO THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN BOXERS 2003 01:41:27,909 --> 01:41:31,643 {\an1}WHO DOMINATED THE SPORT... THAT HE UNDERSTOOD THEM 2004 01:41:31,676 --> 01:41:34,843 {\an1}IN WAYS WHITE PROMOTERS NEVER COULD. 2005 01:41:34,876 --> 01:41:39,009 {\an1}KING BOUGHT A STAKE IN SEVERAL UP-AND-COMING HEAVYWEIGHTS, 2006 01:41:39,043 --> 01:41:41,843 STAGED DRAMATIC PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGNS, 2007 01:41:41,876 --> 01:41:43,809 {\an1}DOUBLE-CROSSED HIS PARTNERS, 2008 01:41:43,843 --> 01:41:49,576 {\an1}STIFFED THE BOXERS, AND DROPPED THEM AS SOON AS THEY LOST. 2009 01:41:49,609 --> 01:41:53,576 {\an1}NARRATOR: BUT BEFORE HE COULD REPRESENT ALI, KING NEEDED TO 2010 01:41:53,609 --> 01:41:57,076 {\an1}GET APPROVAL FROM ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, WHO HAD QUIETLY 2011 01:41:57,109 --> 01:41:59,609 {\an1}EMBRACED THE BOXER AGAIN. 2012 01:41:59,643 --> 01:42:04,376 {\an1}AT A MEETING IN CHICAGO, KING ASKED THE NATION OF ISLAM'S LEADER 2013 01:42:04,409 --> 01:42:07,376 WHY HE ALLOWED A WHITE MAN, BOB ARUM, 2014 01:42:07,409 --> 01:42:09,943 {\an1}TO PROMOTE ALI'S FIGHTS. 2015 01:42:09,976 --> 01:42:12,876 {\an1}DON KING ASSURED HIM THAT HE COULD DO IT BETTER. 2016 01:42:14,509 --> 01:42:18,743 EVEN THOUGH KING REJECTED AN INVITATION TO JOIN THE NATION OF ISLAM, 2017 01:42:18,776 --> 01:42:23,276 {\an1}ELIJAH MUHAMMAD GAVE THE PROMOTER HIS BLESSING. 2018 01:42:23,309 --> 01:42:27,576 {\an7}ARUM: KING'S PITCH WITH EVERY BLACK ATHLETE WAS, "DON'T DO 2019 01:42:27,609 --> 01:42:30,576 {\an7}"BUSINESS WITH THE JEW, DO BUSINESS WITH ME. 2020 01:42:30,609 --> 01:42:32,609 {\an1}I'M THE SAME KIND AS YOU." 2021 01:42:34,076 --> 01:42:37,576 {\an1}NARRATOR: DON KING TOLD ALI AND HERBERT MUHAMMAD THAT HE 2022 01:42:37,609 --> 01:42:42,043 {\an1}WOULD GET ALI AND GEORGE FOREMAN $5 MILLION EACH... 2023 01:42:42,076 --> 01:42:46,676 {\an1}TWICE WHAT ALI AND FRAZIER MADE IN THEIR TITLE FIGHT. 2024 01:42:46,709 --> 01:42:51,009 {\an1}KING PROMISED ALI AN ADVANCE AND AGREED THAT IF HE FAILED 2025 01:42:51,043 --> 01:42:54,876 {\an1}TO MAKE ANY OF THE SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS, ALI COULD WALK AWAY 2026 01:42:54,909 --> 01:42:58,543 {\an1}AND KEEP WHATEVER HE'D ALREADY BEEN PAID. 2027 01:42:58,576 --> 01:43:02,343 {\an1}ARUM: AND, HERBERT CAME TO ME AND SAID, "WHAT SHOULD HE DO?" 2028 01:43:02,376 --> 01:43:04,609 {\an1}I SAID, "GET A DOWN PAYMENT, TAKE THE MONEY, 2029 01:43:04,643 --> 01:43:06,476 {\an1}"AND IT'S EASY MONEY. 2030 01:43:06,509 --> 01:43:09,143 {\an1}"YOU'LL... YOU'LL GET THE DOWN PAYMENT AND WALK AWAY. 2031 01:43:09,176 --> 01:43:12,109 NO WAY HE'S GONNA GET THE MONEY." 2032 01:43:12,143 --> 01:43:15,276 {\an1}NARRATOR: "THIS ISN'T JUST ANOTHER FIGHT," KING TOLD ALI. 2033 01:43:15,309 --> 01:43:17,209 {\an1}"FREEDOM. JUSTICE. 2034 01:43:17,243 --> 01:43:19,776 {\an1}"THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL BE GAINING FOR YOUR PEOPLE BY GETTING 2035 01:43:19,809 --> 01:43:21,443 THE TITLE BACK." 2036 01:43:23,076 --> 01:43:28,343 {\an1}ON FEBRUARY 14, 1974, KING FLEW TO CALIFORNIA, 2037 01:43:28,376 --> 01:43:30,976 {\an1}WHERE GEORGE FOREMAN WAS TRAINING FOR AN UPCOMING 2038 01:43:31,009 --> 01:43:33,276 {\an1}BOUT WITH KEN NORTON. 2039 01:43:33,309 --> 01:43:36,209 {\an1}THE PROMOTER CORNERED THE CHAMPION IN THE PARKING LOT 2040 01:43:36,243 --> 01:43:38,009 OF HIS HOTEL. 2041 01:43:38,043 --> 01:43:41,843 {\an1}RECENTLY DIVORCED, HIS FINANCES IN DISARRAY AFTER 2042 01:43:41,876 --> 01:43:45,143 {\an1}HEEDING THE SHABBY ADVICE OF HIS HANDLERS, AND UNABLE TO 2043 01:43:45,176 --> 01:43:48,976 {\an1}FIGHT IN THE U.S. DUE TO LIENS ON HIS EARNINGS, FOREMAN WAS 2044 01:43:49,009 --> 01:43:51,009 IN A FOUL MOOD. 2045 01:43:51,043 --> 01:43:55,676 {\an1}THE MEN PACED THE LOT FOR TWO HOURS AS KING MADE HIS PITCH. 2046 01:43:55,709 --> 01:43:59,443 {\an1}"I KNOW PEOPLE BEEN SCREWIN' YOU," KING TOLD THE CHAMP, 2047 01:43:59,476 --> 01:44:03,176 {\an1}"BUT I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO MAKE $5 MILLION." 2048 01:44:03,209 --> 01:44:08,043 {\an1}KING ALSO PROMISED FOREMAN HE COULD DELIVER ALI. 2049 01:44:08,076 --> 01:44:11,643 {\an1}KING: IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT FOR GEORGE FOREMAN. 2050 01:44:11,676 --> 01:44:14,843 {\an7}WHEN I WENT TO GEORGE FOREMAN AND I PRESENTED THAT 2051 01:44:14,876 --> 01:44:18,509 {\an7}ALI WAS MY FRIEND AND THAT I COULD DELIVER HIM, YOU KNOW, 2052 01:44:18,543 --> 01:44:23,643 {\an1}HE SAY, "WHAT CAN I WIN BEATING UP AN OLD MAN?" 2053 01:44:23,676 --> 01:44:27,009 {\an1}HE SAYS, "IF I HURT HIM, EVERYBODY GONNA LOOK AT ME 2054 01:44:27,043 --> 01:44:29,676 {\an1}"WITH DISDAIN BECAUSE THE PEOPLE LOVE HIM. 2055 01:44:29,709 --> 01:44:33,243 {\an1}AND BESIDES THAT, HE TALKS TOO MUCH." 2056 01:44:33,276 --> 01:44:36,143 {\an1}AND I SAY, "THAT'S IT, GEORGE. THAT'S IT. 2057 01:44:36,176 --> 01:44:38,876 {\an1}"I HAVE TO AGREE WITH YOU THERE. SHUT HIS MOUTH." 2058 01:44:38,909 --> 01:44:40,552 {\an1}[THE ROLLING STONES' "SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL" PLAYING] 2059 01:44:40,576 --> 01:44:42,576 {\an1}NARRATOR: "THIS IS MY PROMOTION," SAID KING, 2060 01:44:42,609 --> 01:44:45,243 POINTING TO THE SKIN ON HIS ARM. 2061 01:44:45,276 --> 01:44:48,543 {\an1}"I'M GIVING YOU MY TRUST," FOREMAN TOLD HIM. 2062 01:44:48,576 --> 01:44:51,009 {\an1}"YOU GOT THE FIGHT." 2063 01:44:51,043 --> 01:44:56,409 {\an1}BEFORE PARTING WAYS, KING HAD FOREMAN SIGN 3 BLANK PAGES, 2064 01:44:56,443 --> 01:45:00,543 {\an1}PROMISING HE WOULD FILL IN THE DETAILS LATER AND THEN SEND 2065 01:45:00,576 --> 01:45:03,443 THE AGREEMENT TO FOREMAN'S LAWYER. 2066 01:45:03,476 --> 01:45:05,576 {\an1}ALI: GEORGE HITS MUCH HARDER THAN I DO. 2067 01:45:05,609 --> 01:45:10,276 {\an1}NARRATOR: ON MARCH 26, 1974, MUHAMMAD ALI SAT 2068 01:45:10,309 --> 01:45:15,309 {\an1}RINGSIDE IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA AS FOREMAN STOPPED KEN NORTON 2069 01:45:15,343 --> 01:45:18,309 {\an1}2 MINUTES INTO ROUND 2. 2070 01:45:18,343 --> 01:45:21,409 {\an1}ALI: I'M SURE THAT WHEN I MEET GEORGE FOREMAN, 2071 01:45:21,443 --> 01:45:24,343 {\an1}THIS IS GONNA BE A TOUGH FIGHT, 2072 01:45:24,376 --> 01:45:26,943 {\an1}BUT I'M SURE AND CONFIDENT AFTER WATCHING THIS THAT 2073 01:45:26,976 --> 01:45:29,076 {\an1}I'LL BE THE NEXT WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. 2074 01:45:29,109 --> 01:45:32,176 WILL YOU BE FIGHTING HIM IN AFRICA IN SEPTEMBER AS REPORTED? 2075 01:45:32,209 --> 01:45:34,609 {\an1}YES, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM IN A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN'T COME. 2076 01:45:34,643 --> 01:45:36,409 {\an1}HOWARD, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM IN THE CONGO 2077 01:45:36,443 --> 01:45:38,243 {\an1}WHERE THE LUMUMBA BOYS ARE. 2078 01:45:38,276 --> 01:45:41,643 {\an1}AND IF YOU COME OVER THERE AGITATIN', YOU'LL GET COOKED! 2079 01:45:41,676 --> 01:45:45,309 {\an1}NARRATOR: IN THE WEEKS SINCE ALI AND FOREMAN HAD SIGNED WITH KING, 2080 01:45:45,343 --> 01:45:48,243 {\an1}THE PROMOTER HAD CHASED FINANCING FROM WALL STREET 2081 01:45:48,276 --> 01:45:53,609 {\an1}TO DALLAS TO MADISON SQUARE GARDEN AND EVENTUALLY TO PARIS, 2082 01:45:53,643 --> 01:45:55,409 {\an1}WHERE HE CONVINCED REPRESENTATIVES 2083 01:45:55,443 --> 01:45:58,809 {\an1}OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAIRE, A FORMER BELGIAN COLONY 2084 01:45:58,843 --> 01:46:03,009 {\an1}IN CENTRAL AFRICA, TO BACK THE FIGHT. 2085 01:46:03,043 --> 01:46:06,576 {\an1}ON THE FLIGHT HOME FROM CARACAS, MUHAMMAD ALI HAD 2086 01:46:06,609 --> 01:46:10,376 {\an1}QUIZZED THE FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION JOE LOUIS. 2087 01:46:10,409 --> 01:46:13,843 {\an1}"DID YOU EVER CHOP WOOD WHEN YOU WERE IN TRAINING?" HE ASKED. 2088 01:46:13,876 --> 01:46:16,976 "ALL THE TIME," RESPONDED LOUIS. 2089 01:46:17,009 --> 01:46:21,476 {\an1}"I THINK I'LL CHOP SOME BEFORE THE FOREMAN FIGHT," SAID ALI. 2090 01:46:21,509 --> 01:46:25,509 {\an1}"BETTER CHOP A LOT," LOUIS ADVISED. 2091 01:46:25,543 --> 01:46:28,876 {\an1}MICK JAGGER: ♪ I WATCHED WITH GLEE WHILE YOUR KINGS AND QUEENS ♪ 2092 01:46:28,909 --> 01:46:33,109 {\an1}♪ FOUGHT FOR 10 DECADES FOR THE GODS THEY MADE ♪ 2093 01:46:33,143 --> 01:46:37,009 ♪ I SHOUTED OUT, "WHO KILLED THE KENNEDYS?" ♪ 2094 01:46:37,043 --> 01:46:40,676 {\an1}♪ WHEN AFTER ALL, IT WAS YOU AND ME ♪ 2095 01:46:40,709 --> 01:46:42,276 ♪ OOH OOH ♪ 2096 01:46:42,309 --> 01:46:45,343 {\an1}♪ LET ME PLEASE INTRODUCE MYSELF ♪ 2097 01:46:45,376 --> 01:46:48,476 {\an1}♪ I'M A MAN OF WEALTH AND TASTE ♪ 2098 01:46:48,509 --> 01:46:50,009 ♪ OOH OOH ♪ 2099 01:46:50,043 --> 01:46:53,676 {\an1}♪ AND I LAID TRAPS FOR TROUBADOURS ♪ 2100 01:46:53,709 --> 01:46:56,776 ♪ WHO GET KILLED BEFORE THEY REACH BOMBAY ♪ 2101 01:46:56,809 --> 01:46:58,609 ♪ OOH OOH ♪ 2102 01:46:58,643 --> 01:47:01,009 ♪ OOH OOH, OOH OOH ♪ 2103 01:47:01,043 --> 01:47:04,943 {\an1}♪ PLEASED TO MEET YOU, HOPE YOU GUESSED MY NAME ♪ 2104 01:47:04,976 --> 01:47:07,043 ♪ OOH OOH ♪ ♪ OH, YEAH ♪ 2105 01:47:07,076 --> 01:47:08,343 ♪ OOH OOH ♪ 2106 01:47:08,376 --> 01:47:10,209 {\an1}♪ BUT WHAT'S PUZZLING YOU ♪ 2107 01:47:10,243 --> 01:47:13,276 {\an1}♪ IS THE NATURE OF MY GAME ♪ 2108 01:47:13,309 --> 01:47:15,076 ♪ OOH OOH ♪ ♪ AW, YEAH ♪ 2109 01:47:15,109 --> 01:47:17,376 ♪ OOH OOH ♪ ♪ GET DOWN WITH IT ♪ 2110 01:47:17,409 --> 01:47:21,109 ♪ OOH OOH, OOH OOH ♪ 2111 01:47:21,143 --> 01:47:25,643 ♪ OOH OOH, OOH OOH ♪ 2112 01:47:25,676 --> 01:47:29,876 ♪ OOH OOH, OOH OOH ♪ 2113 01:47:29,909 --> 01:47:33,776 ♪ OOH OOH, OOH OOH ♪ 2114 01:47:33,809 --> 01:47:36,309 ♪ OOH OOH, OOH OOH ♪ 2115 01:47:37,109 --> 01:47:39,709 {\an7}ANNOUNCER: NEXT TIME, THE CONCLUSION OF "MUHAMMAD ALI"... 2116 01:47:39,743 --> 01:47:41,152 {\an7}GERALD EARLY: THIS IS THE FIGHT ABOUT WHO'S GONNA BE 2117 01:47:41,176 --> 01:47:42,809 {\an1}THE CHAMPION OF THE BLACK WORLD. 2118 01:47:42,843 --> 01:47:44,776 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: THE RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE... 2119 01:47:44,809 --> 01:47:47,409 {\an1}CROWD: ALI, BOMAYE! 2120 01:47:47,443 --> 01:47:49,376 ANNOUNCER: THE THRILLA IN MANILA... 2121 01:47:49,409 --> 01:47:50,752 HOWARD BRYANT: THIS CHAPTER'S NOT FINISHED. 2122 01:47:50,776 --> 01:47:52,476 THIS BATTLE'S NOT FINISHED. 2123 01:47:52,509 --> 01:47:54,643 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: AND THE LEGACY OF A CHAMPION. 2124 01:47:54,676 --> 01:47:56,743 RASHEDA ALI: BOXING WAS THIS MUCH. 2125 01:47:56,776 --> 01:48:01,809 {\an1}HIS EVOLUTION INTO THE PERSON HE IS TODAY IS WAY BIGGER. 2126 01:48:01,843 --> 01:48:03,476 ANNOUNCER: NEXT TIME, DON'T MISS 2127 01:48:03,509 --> 01:48:05,476 {\an1}THE FINAL ROUND OF "MUHAMMAD ALI." 2128 01:48:07,043 --> 01:48:09,176 ANNOUNCER: STREAM THE FULL SERIES, 2129 01:48:09,209 --> 01:48:10,976 {\an1}GO BEHIND THE SCENES, AND LEARN HOW TO BRING 2130 01:48:11,009 --> 01:48:13,543 {\an1}MUHAMMAD ALI'S STORY INTO THE CLASSROOM 2131 01:48:13,576 --> 01:48:20,376 {\an1}BY VISITING PBS.ORG/ALI OR THE PBS VIDEO APP. 2132 01:48:20,409 --> 01:48:23,443 {\an1}TO ORDER "MUHAMMAD ALI" ON DVD OR BLU-RAY, 2133 01:48:23,476 --> 01:48:27,809 VISIT SHOPPBS OR CALL 1-800-PLAY-PBS. 2134 01:48:27,843 --> 01:48:29,709 {\an1}"MUHAMMAD ALI" IS ALSO AVAILABLE 2135 01:48:29,743 --> 01:48:33,609 WITH PBS PASSPORT AND ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO. 2136 01:48:35,276 --> 01:48:37,176 ♪ OOH OOH OOH, OH, YEAH ♪ 2137 01:48:37,209 --> 01:48:39,276 ♪ OOH OOH ♪ 2138 01:48:39,309 --> 01:48:41,843 ♪ OOH OOH, OOH OOH ♪ 2139 01:48:41,876 --> 01:48:46,509 {\an1}♪ OH, OH, WHAT'S MY NAME? ♪ ♪ OOH OOH ♪ 2140 01:48:46,543 --> 01:48:50,576 ♪ BABY, BABY, OH, WHAT'S MY NAME? ♪ 2141 01:48:50,609 --> 01:48:53,776 {\an1}♪ TELL ME, SWEETIE, OH, WHAT'S MY NAME? ♪ 2142 01:48:53,809 --> 01:48:55,443 ♪ OOH OOH, OOH OOH ♪ 2143 01:48:55,476 --> 01:48:58,576 ♪ OOH OOH OOH, OOH OOH OOH ♪ 2144 01:48:58,609 --> 01:49:01,343 {\an1}♪ OOH OOH OOH, OOH OOH OOH ♪ 2145 01:49:01,376 --> 01:49:05,843 ♪ OOH OOH OOH OOH ♪ 2146 01:49:05,876 --> 01:49:09,909 ♪ OOH OOH, OOH OOH ♪ 2147 01:49:09,943 --> 01:49:14,376 ♪ OOH OOH, OOH OOH ♪ 2148 01:49:14,409 --> 01:49:15,743 ♪ OOH OOH... ♪ 2149 01:49:18,243 --> 01:49:19,976 {\an8}♪ 2150 01:49:21,209 --> 01:49:23,243 {\an1}ANNOUNCER: MAJOR FUNDING FOR "MUHAMMAD ALI" 2151 01:49:23,276 --> 01:49:25,443 WAS PROVIDED BY: DAVID M. 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