Im going back home to fight among my brothers, yeah. For these two africanamericans to come home, this was a great, great significance. Because of hollywood and tv, a lot of us had been taught to hate africa. There was a time when you called a black person an african, they would be ready to fight. When i get to africa were going to get it on because we dont get along. I will eat him up. Too much speed for him. Too fast. Too fast. Im going to retire the heavyweight champion of the world. Im going to retire the heavyweight champion of the world. September 25th, the world will be stunned. Thats right, if you think the world was surprised when nixon resigned, wait until i kick foremans behind. An 18yearold amateur boxing champion with a charming smile took a physical examination for his first professional fight. It wont be an easy fight. But my plan of attack on a fighter like alec would be two fast left jabs, a rapid right cross and a left hook. In the belgian congo, freedom was followed by rioting and armed mutiny. For months the political pattern kept changing with kaleidoscopic speed until pro red premier lumumba was seized by the strong forces of colonel mobutu. After watching mike dejon i would rate myself about number two now. Im out to break Floyd Pattersons record. By this day, my 20th birthday, today, january the 17th, that leaves exactly one year to reach my goals. People do say im cocky, some say i need a good whipping. Some say i talk too much. But anything that i say im willing to back up. The other night i predicted i would knock out this banks in four rounds, and i did. I knocked out don juan in four rounds, i just annihilated george logan in four rounds. Close your mouth and just keep it closed. You know thats impossible. No, no, keep it closed. You know thats impossible. Im the greatest. Im knocking out all bums, if you get too smart, ill knock you out. You would take him on before the fight . Beat him like im his daddy. I saw sonny liston a few days ago. Aint he ugly . Im young, im handsome, im fast, im pretty and i cant possibly be beat. Cassius clay goes into the record books as another who brought off one of the great upsets in the heavyweight history. It is befitting that i leave the game just like i came in. Beating the big bad monster who knocks out everybody and no one can whip him, thats what little cassius clay from louisville kentucky, came up and stopped sonny liston, the man who annihilated Floyd Patterson twice, he was going to kill me. He hit harder than george. His reach is longer than george and hes a better boxer than george. And im better than i was when you saw that 22yearold kid running from sonny liston. Im professional now. My jaw has been broke. Knocked down a couple of times. Been chopping trees, i done something new for this fight. I done wrestled with an alligator, thats right. Ive wrestled with an alligator, i done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, throw thunder in jail. Thats bad. Only last week i murdered a rock, injured a stone. Hospitalized a brick. Im so mean i make medicine sick. Fast, fast, fast. Last night i cut the light off in my bedroom. Hit the switch, was in the bed before the room was dark. Incredible. Fast. Incredible. You, George Foreman, all of you chumps are going to bow when i whup him. All of you. I know you got him. I know you got him picked, but the mans in trouble. Im going to show you how great i am. Hell, i think ali was scared. I think he was scared even then. He knew he was going to be scared as he got closer to the fight. The way george fights, i named him the mummy. With his ego, he could keep telling himself that he would dominate foreman, he would beat him, he would dance, make a fool of him, that he would show him superior boxing, that foreman would never lay a glove on him. In fact in his sleep or wherever his private moment came, he had to know he had not done nearly as well against two fighters particularly, joe frazier and ken norton, whom foreman had demolished. Down goes frazier. Down goes frazier. The heavyweight champion is taking the mandatory eightcount and foreman is as poised as can be. Foreman is going about his job he had an overpowering intensity when he punched. Foreman had won the championship by knocking joe frazier out. Knocked him down Something Like seven times. Then he destroyed ken norton in two rounds. The word murderous does not quite apply. Foreman was awesome. This chump has got everybody scared. Scared of what . Nothing to be scared of. Scared of what . How many fellows in here now picks george, be truthful, be men, tell truth. John, raise your hand. You got george . You got george . Tell the truth. You, you, fellow. No pick . I just want to know. You got george . The time may have come to say goodbye to muhammed ali because very honestly i dont think he can beat George Foreman. Howard cosell, you told everybody i dont have a chance, you told them i dont have nothing but a prayer. Well, chump, all i need is a prayer. Because if that prayer reach the right man, not only will George Foreman fall but mountains will fall. Maybe he can pull off a miracle. But against George Foreman . So young, so strong, so fearless . Against George Foreman, who does away with his opponents one after another in less than three rounds . Its hard for me to conjure with that. Youre talking about muhammed, youre not the same man you were ten years ago, ask your wife and she told me youre not the same man you was two years ago. After this fight, i suspect ali will retire. Through all of the years, my own memories of him will be as a fighter, and as the strange and curious and gregarious and engaging and sometimes cruel and sometimes family man that he is. Im going to let everybody know that that thing you got on your head is a phony and it comes from the tail of a pony. Stolen bicycle. He had a bicycle and he went to columbia gym. It was something going on up there and he left his bike parked outside. So when he came out, someone had stolen it and he went inside. And he was crying and he told the policeman there, his name was joe martin, that someone stole his bike. And joe martin, he would also teach the little boys how to box in the evening. So he asked them would he be interested in learning how to box and he told him yes. Because if he ever found out who stole his bike, he wanted to know how to fight so he could beat them up. An overhand right sends sonny to the canvas. Referee trying to get ali to the corner. Ali yelling at liston to get up and fight. The anchor punch. Which one . Anchor. I call it the anchor punch. Yeah, man. People couldnt see it. It was so fast, Sports Illustrated clocked it. They got a slowmotion camera they clocked the punch and the punch flew at. 04 of a second. You can break a cycle down to 100 pieces, you know how people who win a ski race, he won in. 016 seconds, hundredths of a second . You can break a second down into 100 pieces. They got a machine that goes real quick and it counts real quick. Real quick. And by the time that thing hit 4, thats how quick. From the time the punching started to where it landed, it was. 04 seconds. Which is an eye blink. Like a camera flash. Thats. 04 seconds. Now the minute i hit sonny liston all of those people blinked at that moment. Thats why they didnt see the punch. I swear. If you watch the film close you got to hold your eyes. And keep looking. I say, all right. Im getting ready to hit him. You got to hold your eyes and wait or you wont see it, man. Had this beautiful specimen, fighting machine. He was handsome, he was articulate. He was funny. Charismatic. He was whupping ass, too. 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The king is going home to get his throne, from the root to the fruit. Thats where everything started at. This is gods act and youre part of it. This is no hollywood set, this is real. Hollywood come here and take these kind of scenes and set them up. Have somebody in the movies playing his life. This is real, we dont pick up a script. We get up in the morning feeling tired, sometime we feel good. Sometime bad. But we go through it with feeling. Muhammed ali were born to do it as a prophet, hes going to be a fisherman for elijah muhammed. This is only a stop, look and listen sign hes doing, fighting. Weve been fighting ever since weve been met. We beat uncle sam three and a half years come out of a garage, beat number two. First man ever did it. Rest of them, they put out the country. This is gods act. We just actors in it. If jesus was here, everybody would want his autograph. And if films was around when he was around, they would be filming him. The only thing, this is a sport. Thats why youre walking, talk to him. I think muhammed is a prophet, how you going to beat god, son . Anybody love poor people and Little People got to be a prophet. He was champion of the world, had a long table full of food. Had a house for his mother, one for him and he told them to take it and share of it. If he couldnt love his god, what do you think he is, mister . Ali trained for the fight with foreman at deer lake, pennsylvania. He trained very hard for that fight. One more. And he had very good sparring partners. Larry holmes was one of his sparring partners. I was struck with how well he handled, he actually handled ali in their sparring session, he dominated ali. That wasnt uncommon. Ali very often would not show his best stuff with a sparring partners but in fact would work on his weaknesses. Hed go against the ropes and hed let people pummel him, very heavy hitters who were sort of clumsy, hed let them bang away at him. It was as if he wanted to train his body to receive these messages of punishment. And absorb them faster than other fighters can absorb them. True significance of why they fought in africa, they came away with 10 million, 5 million for George Foreman, 5 million for me. London, england, was trying to get it. Promotors in america were trying to get it but none of them could surpass the 5 million mark. The dream is now becoming a reality. Don king went to George Foreman and got foreman to sign an option agreement saying if king could deliver 5 million, foreman would fight ali. Then king went to ali and made the same deal with him. So don king now had both fighters. Their signatures on a piece of paper. What he didnt have was 10 million. A festival that will complement this great sporting event, the greatest sporting event in the history of the world. The greatest of all time. Of all time, the champ says. Greatest of all time. With some evel knievel and the Kentucky Derby on the same day. The president of zaire was willing to put 10 million of his countrys own very scarce hardearned currency on the line. Not for any shortterm economic reason, but because he felt that the fight would be good in terms of promoting zaire and also in terms of promoting himself and as ali said at the time, countries go to war to get their names on the map. And wars cost a lot more than 10 million. Some of the most dynamic performers from afro america will be appearing down there in the stadium in kinshasa. Along with the world and his theatrical release, james brown, soul brother number one, one of our top releasing black artists, yes, james brown will be there performing. We will have b. B. King. The spinners. First assembly in the history of all america, where all the topnotch blacks of america and the people of africa had something together. All in the world level, were all meeting each other and learning more about each other. Its the First Assembly among american black men in africa i guess in the history of the world. Its a big honor to be part of that, too. Plus i got to whup george. Got to whup george. We going to rumble in the jungle. Come on, come on. George . Is this fight against ali will be the toughest of your career, you think . [ speaking french ] could be. Could be. I doubt it. This is muhammed ali, september 10th, at new york city airport en route to zaire to reclaim the heavyweight title of the world. Champ, what would you like to say to the children of the world . I would like to tell the children of the world, mainly right here where they speak and understand english, and america, to live a clean life. Stay off of dope. Its tearing the country up. Also if they want to be like me, im getting ready to go whup George Foreman. And by the time they see this, i will have beaten him. Tell them to quit eating so much candy. I have three rotten teeth and theyre bad and i had to have one of them pulled. I cant chew my food like i should. Eat natural foods, because we must whip mr. Tooth decay. I got one right here and one right here. Yesterday ali told us hes going to use part of his money for the building of a hospital. Do you intend yourself to use part of your money for something, a project . He may think he may have to be in the hospital. I want the man. Yeah, when i get to africa, we going to get it on, because we dont get along. I dont like him. He talks too much. I beg your pardon . You will continue boxing even if you would lose over there . I beg your pardon . You dont think about losing . No. Thank you. Nice talking with you. Ken care. Home, car, Life Insurance obviously, ohhh. But with added touches you cant get everywhere else, like claim free rewards. Or safe driving bonus checks. 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Aint this something flying in an airplane with all black pilots, all black crew. Amazing. This is strange to the american negro, we never dreamed of this. And every time we watch television, they show us tarzan and the natives and the jungles, they never told us that africans were more intelligent than we are. They speak english, they speak english, french and african. We cant even speak english good. [ speaking french ] aint this beautiful . Im free im free. I want everybody to repeat after me if you dont know who you are and where your place in life is note just say to yourself i am somebody i am somebody i may be poor but i am somebody it was a great joy to see that the championship was going to happen in africa. People were so happy. At last the world was paying attention to our continent. Yes. We knew muhammed ali as a boxer. But more importantly, for his political stance. When we saw that america was at war in a thirdworld country, vietnam, and that one of the children of the United States said, me . You want me to go and fight against the vietcong . Why should i fight against them . They havent done anything against me. And for us, it was extraordinary to see that in the america of that time, someone could take such a position. He may have lost his title, he may have lost millions of dollars, but thats where he gained the esteem of millions of africans. Ali ali ali what is your population . 22 million. 22 million . 22 million. How many George Foreman fans here . None. How many for muhammed ali . We have so many of them, we cannot count them. George foreman, we didnt know who he was. We had heard there was a world champion. We thought he was white. Then we realize he was black, like muhammed ali. But still, for us, foreman represented america, he arrived with a dog, a german shepherd, which immediately offended africans since the belgians had used shepherds as police dogs. Youre the out of towner here. Africa is the cradle of civilization. Everybody at home is african. Okay. Fine, so theyre leaving tomorrow. Typhoid. How do you spell typhoid. Is that all that were giving . Who do you want to be your beneficiary in case of anything . You need an actual Airline Ticket to get on this plane. Let me see some hands of the 51 who dont have tickets . Who doesnt have Airline Tickets . Hi you know who we are, dont you . Im lola love and im one of the dancers for the james brown show revue. Zaire was there or whatever. Yeah, man, when are we going