Ali Page #9

a word with you, please?

Yeah.

What's goin' on?

What do you mean,

what's goin' on?

Do you have to throw it

in my face?

Do I have to read about it? Do people

have to call me on the phone to tell me?

I didn't mean for that

to come out.

And I live with the casual ones.

I live with 'em.

So why do you

disrespect me like this?

I respect you.

I will always respect you.

Do you love her?

I don't know.

So what is supposed to happen now?

I fight George.

I didn't come all this far to lose.

Neither did I.

Belinda.

What, Bingham?

There it is.

Hey, Zack, where's George?

What's he pulling?

Where's George?

Where'd he go?

I just wanna make sure

you're gonna control the evening.

George is jerking us off,

making us wait.

It's all over for you, man.

You don't have a chance.

You don't have no chance.

The rumble in the jungle!

You don't have no chance, man.

Okay, let's go.

You guys know the rules.

I want a good, clean fight.

Ali, be quiet

and listen to the instructions.

You been hearing about me

ever since you was a boy.

Ali, be quiet.

Listen to the instructions.

- Now you got to face me.

- No hitting low.

- When I tell you to break--

- You got to face me now.

Be quiet,

or I'll disqualify you.

When I tell you to break,

I want a clean break. Understand?

- You shoulda never came to Africa.

- All right, shake hands.

Take your corners.

Okay. All right.

No problem.

Break!

All right, break. Step back.

Take it to him!

That's what we came to do, Daddy!

The heavyweight championship fight...

- That's all you got?

- Live via satellite...

direct from Zaire, Africa.

- There we go.

- That's it, Daddy.

You just keep dancing

around him, okay?

Just keep moving.

Legs hurting.

Air heavy...

Like I'm in water.

Get away from the rope!

Get off the rope!

Get off there! Move it!

Get off there! Get off there!

Get off the rope!

Get off them ropes!

Come on now, Ali,

get off the ropes!

Come on, baby!

Come on, Ali!

That's it?

That's all you got? That's it?

Move him out to the center!

There he goes!

Get away from the ropes!

Get off the ropes!

Been here before.

Little greenroom.

Open that door.

Gonna get out this place.

Come on, man,

get up and get out.

They said you could punch, George.

You ain't hittin'.

You hittin' like a sissy, George.

You can't lay up on the ropes

like that.

You're letting him beat on you.

You can't do that, champ. Come on, now.

-You wanna explain that to me?

- Jab, then go to the middle of the ring.

- You had your fight going, then--

- You gotta dance, baby.

Shut up! Just be quiet!

You let me take care of this!

Got to dance.

You can't come out there like that.

- You can't back up.

- You got to respect the man.

What is with the ropes? Something

going on you wanna talk to me about?

Tell me what's going on with you.

What are you doing?

Put the jab on him.

You got to let him go and dance.

Don't let him get in your corner.

He's tying to cut the ring off you.

He's tying to cut you off the ring.

You can't let that happen.

Just take care of it!

And there's the bell.

The fighters meet in mid-ring.

Get off the ropes!

Stay off the ropes!

Foreman again

pushing him against the ropes.

And Ali laying back, fighting those

blows against the sides of his body.

Get back in the middle

of the ring, Ali!

Muhammad, get off the ropes!

You're punching like a sissy, George.

Punching like a sissy.

What the hell's going on?

Come on.

George, get him back.

What the hell's going on? Come on.

You got to get off the ropes!

Get off the ropes!

Eight rounds to go.

Running out of gas, big fella?

Let him go.

Can't let you get that second wind which

you don't even know is there for you.

You want the title?

Want to wear the heavyweight crown?

Nose broke, jaw smashed,

face busted in.

You ready for that?

Is that you?

'Cause you facing a man who will die

before he lets you win.

Ali, don't let him beat on you

on the inside.

Don't let him beat on you

on the inside.

Come on, Ali.

Let's go, Ali.

Let's go, baby!

Stay off the ropes!

Get off the ropes!

There it is.

Keep 'em in his face.

Break!

Oh, you missed him, George!

You gotta go to work on him, Ali!

I thought you could punch, George.

They said you could punch.

Come on, Ali!

Get away from the rope!

Get off the rope!

He got him!

Move him around! Take him!

Come on, Ali!

Get off the ropes!

Get off the ropes!

Get off the ropes!

George Foreman is hit

by a combination of punches...

and down he goes!

George Foreman is down!

He's fallen

like a tree in the forest!

He is felled by a combination of blows

from Muhammad Ali!

Okay, this fight's over!

This fight's over!

I told you! I told you!

Referee Zack Clayton is counting.

Seven, eight!

And he's on his knee.

It is over!

It is over! It is over!

It is over!

George Foreman has been knocked out

by Muhammad Ali!

Muhammad Ali

has done the impossible!

He has regained

the heavyweight crown...

that was taken unjustly

from him in 1967.

What a moment of history

in this arena...

in Zaire, Africa!

A tremendous, tremendous moment.

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