♪ yeah, i'm in africa r. yeah, afri africa's my hometown. america and what america thinks, i live in america but africa's the home of a black man and i was a slave 400 years ago and i'm going back home to fight among my brothers, yeah. >> for these two african-americans 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 we're going to get it on because we don't get along. i will eat him up. too much speed for him. too fast. too fast. i'm going to retire the heavyweight champion of the world. i'm going to retire the heavyweight champion of the world. september 25th, the world will be stunned. that's right, if you think the world was surprised when nixon resigned, wait until i kick foreman's behind. ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> an 18-year-old amateur boxing champion with a charming smile took a physical examination for his first professional fight. ♪ >> it won't 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 collide scopic 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. i'm out to break floyd patterson's record. by this day, my 20th birthday, today, january the 17th, that leaves exactly one year to reach my goals. people do say i'm cocky, some say i need a good whipping. some say i talk too much. but anything that i say i'm 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 that's impossible. >> no, no, keep it closed. >> you know that's impossible. i'm the greatest. i'm knocking out all bums, if you get too smart, i'll knock you out. >> you would take him on before the fight? >> beat him like i'm his daddy. >> i saw sonny liston a few days ago. >> ain't he ugly? ♪ >> i'm young, i'm handsome, i'm fast, i'm pretty and i can't possibly be beat. >> cassius clay goes into the record books as another who brought up 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, that's 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 he's a better boxer than george. and i'm better than i was when you saw that 22-year-old kid running from sonny liston. i'm 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, that's right. i've wrestled with an alligator, i done tussled with a whale. i done handcuffed lightning, throw thunder in jail. that's bad. only last week i murdered a rock, injured a stone. hospitalized a brick. i'm 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 man's in trouble. i'm 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 eight-count

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

good-bye to muhammed ali because very honestly i don't think he can beat george foreman. >> howard cosell, you told everybody i don't have a chance, you told them i don't 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? it's hard for me to conjure with that. >> you're talking about muhammed, you're not the same man you were ten years ago, ask your wife and she told me you're 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. >> i'm 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 couldn't see it. it was so fast, "sports illustrated" clocked it. they got a slow-motion 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, that's how quick. from the time the punching started to where it landed, it was .04 seconds. which is an eye blink.

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muhammed ali talked without fear of something happening to him. their career. >> a black muslim minister made him exempt from the draft -- >> he was already very unpopular with mainstream americans. because he had joined an organization known as the nation of islam. which was perceived as a radical black separatist group. and then on top of that, when he was called for induction and refused to take the step forward, he absolutely infuriated america. >> muhammed ali said that no vietcong ever called me nigger. >> the king is going home to get his throne, from the root to the fruit. that's where everything started at. this is god's act and you're 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 don't 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, he's going to be a

fisherman for elijah muhammed. this is only a stop, look and listen sign he's doing, fighting. we've been fighting ever since we've 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 god's 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. that's why you're 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 couldn't 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 wasn't uncommon. ali very often would not show his best stuff with a sparring partners but in fact would work on his weaknesses. he'd go against the ropes and he'd let people pummel him, very heavy hitters who were sort of clumsy, he'd 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 didn't 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 -- >> evil knievel and the kentucky derby on the same day. >> the president of zaire was willing to put $10 million of his country's own very scarce hard-earned currency on the line.

not for any short-term 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 top-notch blacks of america and the people of africa had something together. all in the world level, we're all meeting each other and learning more about each other.

it's the first assembly among american black men in africa i guess in the history of the world. it's 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. it's tearing the country up. also if they want to be like me, i'm 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 they're bad and i had to have one of them pulled. i can't 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 he's 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 don't get along. i don't 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 don't think about losing? >> no. thank you. nice talking with you. today's the day! oh look! creepy gloves for my feet. when i was a kid there was a handle. and a face. this is nice. does it come in a california king?

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flying over the saharan desert. african airline with all african stewards, with all african pilots. ain't 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 can't even speak english good. [ speaking french ]

>> ain't this beautiful? i'm free! i'm free. ♪ i want everybody ♪ to repeat after me ♪ if you don't 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 third-world 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 haven't 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 that's 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 didn't 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. >> you're the out of towner here. >> africa is the cradle of civilization. everybody at home is african. ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ >> okay. fine, so they're leaving tomorrow. typhoid. how do you spell typhoid. is that all that we're 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 don't have tickets? who doesn't have airline tickets? >> hi! you know who we are, don't you? i'm lola love and i'm one of the

dancers for the james brown show revue. >> zaire was there or whatever. >> yeah, man, when are we going to get to zaire? >> who? >> mobutu-land. >> we're going to fly to zaire until we get to zaire. >> that's right. ♪ ♪ around the station, ♪ suitcase in my hand ♪ going back to where i came from ♪ ♪ had all that i could stand note i was up and they knocked me down ♪ ♪ ain't gonna hang around ♪ i'm going home note coming home yes i am ♪ ♪ coming home more than i can stand ♪ ♪ why don't you tell someone believe me ♪

♪ i'm coming home ♪ tell someone why don't you ♪ let me tell you came to this old town ♪ ♪ seek some fortune and some fame ♪ ♪ never got the chance to prove myself tired of playing the game ♪ ♪ amusing people i won't dangle from any old string ♪ ♪ turn me inside out i'm coming home ♪ ♪ i got it you know too ♪ hey i know what i'm going to do ♪ ♪ tell someone to meet me at the airport i'm coming home ♪ ♪ yes i am hey hey ♪ tell me baby when you found it out ♪ ♪ i got it look here

>> the plane is not coming in at 6:00, it's now coming in between 10:00 and 11:00, you don't have to have the trucks out to the airport that early. >> where's james brown? they told me james brown is going to be here. b.b. king is going to be here and i showed up and they ain't nowhere around. ♪ ♪ >> sixth, fifth, and fourth, elevators are working. >> can we -- there's no air conditioning up there at all? >> it's 80% of it's out. it's all in. but it doesn't work. >> what do you mean, 80% of it, what floors? >> i have sixth, fifth and fourth. >> i understand that. what about -- >> individual air conditioning controls, right? >> what apartments have air conditioning working? how many beds can we move people into tonight? >> four. four rooms. >> just eight people? >> yeah.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ africa ♪ africa >> hello, brother! >> yeah. >> how you doing. >> you're my own kind of man. i got ants in my pants and i got to dance. hey, kool-aid man! ...husband. oh yeah!!! [ crashing ] [ electricity crackles ] hey at least you got your homeowners insurance through progressive. by bundling it with your car insurance you saved a ton! yeah.

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i'm richard lui. muhammad ali will be laid to rest friday in louisville, kentucky. the boxing great died last night in a fink-area hospital at the age of 74. president obama called ali's wife earlier today to offer condolences. hillary clinton continued her attack against donald trump

today calling his tone hateful and very prejudice additional. clinton is campaigning in california hoping to officially lock up the democratic nomination in the coming days. for now back to "when we were kings." the fight was held in zaire in the former belgian congo. kinshasa. it was the capital on the banks of the congo. just before the rainy season when this fight took place. up to the north you could see the flickering of storms. coming closer and closer. but it was very important to the promoters of this fight that the fight get in before the storms occurred. once the rainy season comes you can't do anything. the congo had such a wonderful name. to call it zaire didn't have quite the majesty. but there it was, the congo. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> mobutu was everywhere. he was the equivalent of joseph stalin. you saw his picture everywhere. part of the vanity of dictators, they almost always, with the possible exception of mussolini, who was half ugly and half attractive. most dictators are unbelievably ugly or plain. franco. hitler. mobutu looked the archetype, the epitome of a closet sadist. sort of guy if you meet him in the bar you think, oh my god, who are the poor women who are associated with this fellow? since mobutu was an extraordinarily practical man for his country, down under the stadium seated 100,000 people were

detention pens and rooms and chambers where you could imprison as many as a couple thousand people at once. before the fight came, the criminal rate in zaire began to go up. and a few white foreigners had been killed driving their cars. and mobutu decided this was going to be a disaster in terms of publicity. so on a given day he had 1,000 of the leading criminals in kinshasa rounded up. and put in this stadium down in the detention pens. and then the legend has it, and i suspect the legend may even be true that he had 100 of them taken at random and killed them. and the reason was a particularly simple one from mobutu's point of view. criminals who make a life out of it have connections that protect them when they're in trouble. by making this kill of 100 out of 1,000 arbitrarily, what mobutu was saying is your connections are worth nothing, i am jehovah, i'm going to blast you out of existence if you fool

around with me. ♪ ♪ he made his point. kinshasa was probably one of the safest cities, not only in africa but probably in all the world, while the foreign press was there for the fight. ♪ ♪ >> to me the drum has been the communicator since the beginning of time. i'm sure it was the first message ever sent. when i think of the beat today and i think of the beat centuries ago, it's the only thing that kept us together. we had this thing that when we hurt, we sung for trial and tribulation, we sung for relief

we sung songs to god. and this music that you hear today is the same songs that have been made popular throughout the world without anybody's intentions or volition. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> so i would just say that anybody who knows anything about the rhythm and the blues as it's so called today, should know about africa. ♪ when i first met you baby baby

you were just sweet 16 ♪ ♪ when i first met you baby baby you were just sweet 16 ♪ ♪ just out your home then baby ♪ oh the sweetest thing i'd ever seen ♪ >> the music i'm listening to now, if i went to your house or most white people's places i don't hear this kind of music, because your culture, your woman didn't leave you, your woman didn't slip off on you like our women because you didn't have no money. you had money to keep your woman. your songs are like ♪ when that train comes around and the folsom prison and the

folsom prison ♪ ♪ y'all come y'all come whatever it is, that's different. chinese have different music. i don't want to hear that. and he understand it. everybody's got that culture. so we are not saying that we hate you, or we want to be more united, never talking to you again or doing business, we don't do that. what we're saying is that we want to be independent now. ♪ baby i wonder yes i wonder baby i wonder ♪ ♪ ah i wonder in in the world's going to happen to me ♪

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in kinshasa was up the river. the presidential palace. that are ws we saw foreman who seemed incredible. i had seen him fight before. i saw him destroy frazier. i'd never seen destruction like that. the thing that i've always remembered was that the beaten fighter, even a man as powerful as big as frazier, and he was very much favored to win that, suddenly becomes about the size of a bigmy. they just diminish in size. foreman suddenly became this gigantic figure. and he had a trainer, dick sadler, tiny by comparison. sadler would hang on to the heavy bag. foreman would hit this bag. sadler would just literally be picked off his feet. >> foreman hitting the heavy bag is one of the more prodigious sights i've had in my life. it seems to me of all the people i've seen hitting heavy bags, including sonny liston, no one ever hit it the way foreman did. at the end of 15 minutes

pounding the heavy bag there would be a hole in the heavy bag. not a hole but a huge dent the size of half a small watermelon. in that tremendous heavy bag. and foreman used to use the biggest heavy bag around. what will be interesting is ali who would train after foreman would often pass by this large hall where the training took place. and he never looked at foreman hitting the heavy bag. he just walked right by as if foreman did not exist. it was significant, because if you were going to fight the man, you did not want to see him hitting that heavy bag. >> i'm a speed demon! i'm a brain fighter! i'm scientific and artistic! i plan my style! he's a bull, i'm a matador! he's scared to death. he's scared to death. he wish he could get out of the whole thing, he wish he could

get out of the whole thing when i look at him. the man is frightened, he's meeting his master, his teacher, his idol. when i come to work i'm in shape. >> ali had announced he was going to dance. he spoke about all the time you couldn't do an interview with ali during that period where he would say, how is foreman going to get near to me? i'm going to dance. i'm going to dance and dance. that man will look foolish trying to find me. and as he gropes his way forward in this storm of blindness, at the speed of my dancing, i will strike him with my jab. boom, boom, boom. he would go and so forth. we heard this over and over. and foreman heard it, too. foreman was working now on what's called cutting off the ring. cutting off the ring essentially just means cornering your opponent against the ropes or in

a corner. and it's an art. a balletic art. you have to have very good footwork, performance footwork. he was a big, powerful man but his footwork was far better than anyone expected. he worked with very fast fighters, smaller than himself, who certainly could dance, he worked on cornering them and he was very good. we watched this, the combination of hitting the heavy bag and watching foreman cut off the ring made most of the fight writers, myself included, terribly pessimistic about ali's chances. ♪ ♪

>> the guy threw up his elbows to protect himself from foreman, and foreman walked into his elbow. and he got cut? that's how he got cut in the eye? what else can happen that hasn't happened? >> i saw the man's cut. this man cannot fight. this man cannot fight for our world championship. i don't give a damn. >> doesn't matter. >> they kicked us out. they want the fight to go on. that's all there is to it. >> he won't fight with that eye, he's not that dumb. >> he's not that dumb. >> all you want is to fight. >> no -- >> that's all you want to say. excuse me, gentlemen. that's all you want to say. that's allou want. >> i respectfully ask are the fighters remaining here because they want to remain here?

or has the government requested that they remain? >> mr. sadler told me to convey to the press that it's nothing but an accident. he will be getting in touch with the promoters of the fight and it's possible that we may have to delay the fight. and he will let the press know as soon as possible. >> do they have to stitch foreman? they had to stitch him. holy [ bleep ]. so how long is the delay, man? >> take another day or two to get any intelligence, this just happened yesterday. then after we make a decision. >> how does george feel about it? >> well, like anybody else, he's only human. how would any individual feel? >> i don't know. does he want to go ahead and fight or does he want to postpone? >> why should he? >> why should he go ahead with it? >> why should he make any decision? who would know what another man thinks? how can i truthfully tell you

what you would think or what i would think? a man may have mixed emotions, i don't know. i couldn't speak for george. i can only speak for dick sadler, not for somebody else. it will be hard, i'm not that intelligent. i don't have that knowledge. that ability to speak what's in another man's mind. he never discussed to me what his thought is. a person's mind change from time to time. >> the decision is yours -- >> the decision is mine to make. right now i haven't made any of the, i don't have any decisions to make. >> okay, let's get the show on the road. this meeting is now called to order. >> effects on the fight at all. >> the delay won't have any, any effects on the fight at all. there hasn't been there will not be a delay, the fight will be rescheduled, but when it happen, it will be actually intended for that time. fate intended it for another time. there is no delay.

>> how does ali feel about it? >> if there ever has been any disappointments in sports, and in setbacks or rainy days to stop the ball game, anything, this is the worst of all time. >> initially muhammed went through a pretty bad couple of hours. and he first wanted to move the whole fight back to the united states. and when he was told that wouldn't work, he said well, then let's bring joe frazier over here and i'll fight him again and instead of each of us getting $5 million i'll take $3 million and joe can take $1 million. after a while he calmed down and he realized that there was nothing that could be done about it except stay in zaire an extra six weeks and make the best of it. >> now i got to wait. he's going to get his whuping but i just have to wait. i was ready. i was going to youn set the world again. the whole world was going to crawl and bow the next morning. i was going to defeat that big

uninstructible george foreman, i was going to rip him up. my dream is all messed up for six more weeks. the man's in trouble. the man is scared. he's in my country to start with. my country, you want to see? you want to me me who's in my country? ♪ ali ♪ boom boomia ♪ ali ♪ boom boom yeah ♪ can you stretch 100,000? ♪ ali ♪ boom boom yeah ♪ ali ♪ boom boom yeah when i hear them brothers hollering like that, i'm going to get my soul and my spirit, 100,000 african brothers hollering ali boom boom yeah. i'm tired, i can't take it no more, let me get out of here. i got to get out of here. i'm going to -- i'm going to my

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