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And i just remember thinking, oh, no. oh, no. not like this. and chris was keeping his head when everybody else was losing theirs. >> that was the greatest moment night in the history of television. okay. >> reporter: and even then, says packer, he needed to verify that what he and millions of others had just seen was real. >> i said, did he really hit you? and he looked at me and he goes, yeah. he goes, i just took a punch from muhammad ali, as only chris can. he was immediately in joke mode. but you could tell that he was very much still in shock. he was telling me, i'm fine. let's just get ...

Morning america, he thought so too. >> i thought it was a bit like everybody else, once i saw will yelling at the stage with such vitreol my heart was robbed, said did he really hit you? he said yeah, i just took a punch from mohammad ali as only chris can. he was in joke mode, but could tell he was very much still in shock. >> reporter: smith played the ba boxer in the 2001 film, ali. cnn obtained new video from a seat filler inside the oscars, showing a new video of the incident, filmed this time from behind smith's wife jada pinkett smith, lapd police were ready to arrest smith that night. ...

First-time oscars producer, will p packer says in a new interview that he thought so too. >> i thought it was a bit like everybody else. once i saw will yelling at the stage with such vitriol, my heart dropped. >> reporter: packer says he rushed over to rock as he exited the stage. >> i said, did he really hit you? and he looked at me, and he goes, yeah. he goes, yeah, i just took a punch from muhammud ali, as only chris can. he was immediately in joke mode, but you could tell he was very much still in shock. >> reporter: smith played the boxer in the 2001 film "ali." cnn has obtained new vide...

Can. he was immediately, you know, in joke mode. but you could tell that he was very much still in shock. >> reporter: packer says the lapd came to his office and wanted to talk to rock. chris rock, he says, had the power at that moment to have smith arrested. >> and they were saying this is battery. we will go get him. we are prepared. we're prepared to get him right now. you can press charges. we can arrest him. as they were talking, chris was -- um -- he was being very dismissive of those options. he was like, no, i'm fine. he was like no, no, no, and even to the point where i said, rock, l...

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