00Sex 2: Eye of the Hurricane Page #6

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Jeez, Lisa, you gotta smoke|for breakfast?

- Do you know when we met in Brooklyn?|- Yeah.

Why"d you take me home?

Well, you know, you--|you met my folks, man...

and you brought me up here,|you did all this stuff for me.

Yeah.

No, I mean, why?

Why"d you do all that?

"Cause you were smart and funny.

And short. You know, we fi gured|it"d be good foryou to...

spend a little time|with some tall white people.

- Yeah, absolutely.|- Yeah.|- What, did you do it "cause I"m black?

And you thought|I couldn"t do it myself?

"Cause Rubin-- Rubin did it|all himself, you know.

Hey, Les, we didn"t feel|sorry foryou.

We met you and got to know you|and realized you could accomplish|some things...

and, like a lot of us,|you could use some help.

I"m sure that Hurricane Carter|had some help along the way.

- None of us does it alone.|- Hey.

As far as doin" it foryourself goes,|nobody can learn anything foryou.

Trust me. Everything you"re doing now,|you"re doing foryourself.

I"ll get it.

- You know, I been thinkin".|- Yeah?

- How"re you doing?|- About what?

No, no, no, he"s here. Hejust--

Think I wanna put up a heavy bag.|You know, like a big punching bag.

Uh, those renovations?|Probably the end ofthe month.

- Oh, any special reason?|- No. No, man.

I just feel like punchin"|something, you know?

That"s it. It"s set.

- A little low. A little low.|- Keep your hand up. Keep the left down.

Straight out of prison,|I was a fi ghting machine.

One thing I could do,|and the only thing, was box.

I had tasted my own blood...

and I loved it.

This is your ringside commentator.

Tonight"s fi ght brings together...

Rubin ""Hurricane"" Carter|from Paterson, NewJersey...

and Joey Cooper,|who is currently undefeated.

Yeah! Way to go, Hurricane!

Hit him!

And the champion,Joey Cooper,|seems to be helpless...

against Rubin Carter,|the challenger.

Yeah!

And I"ll tell ya, folks,|things are taking a surprising turn...

in this middleweight fi ght tonight.

Joey Cooper in big trouble.|Rubin Carter pourin" it on.

Left hook, right hook, uppercut-- Oh!

He"s down.|Oh, look at this.

What a disaster for Cooper.

Carter is punishing him.|He"s gonna-- Oh, he is down, folks.

He is down for the count,|and he is not getting up.

- Four, five, six...|- I"ll tell you that right now.

- Get up!|- seven...|- Get up now!

Right now!

You"re out!

Unbelievable! Rubin Carter|comes on like a hurricane...

and defeats|the undefeated Joey Cooper...

in round one of|this middleweight fi ght.

- I don"t believe it! Oh!|- Unbelievable upset tonight.

Have you ever seen anything like it?

- And the crowd is goin" wild here|in Reading, Pennsylvania.|- You all right, Cooper?

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