Ali

Thank you very kindly.

Ladies and gentlemen,

right now we'd like to introduce...

the star of our show, the young man

you've all been waiting for.

So let's all get together and welcome

him to the stage with a great big hand.

How about it for Sam Cooke?

Before we do anything, we'd like

to say how are you doing out there?

- Is everyone feeling all right?

- Yeah!

How are you doing?

- You doing okay?

- Yeah!

- You two doing okay?

- Yeah!

Well, I ask you one more time.

How you doing?

Yeahh!

What you running from, son?

We got a call.

I'm gonna bust you up.

Beat your ass

like I was your daddy.

For those of you

who think you came here today...

to hear us tell you

like these Negro leaders do...

that your times

will just get better...

that we shall

overcome someday...

I say to you,

you came to the wrong place.

Because your times will never

get better unless you make them better.

Those of you who think you came here

to hear us tell you...

to turn the other cheek

to the brutality of the white man...

and this system of injustice

that's in place right here in America...

you think you're gonna come here

and hear us tell you...

to go out there and beg

for a place at their lunch counter...

again, I say you came

to the wrong place.

We don't teach you

to turn the other cheek in the South.

And we don't teach you

to turn the other cheek in the North.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad

teaches you to obey the law...

to Cary yourselves

in a respectable way...

in a proud

Afro-American way.

But at the same time,

we teach you...

that anyone puts

their hand on you...

brother, you do your best to see they

don't put their hand on anybody else...

again.

Time.

Just like that, Daddy.

Never jump in one place.

Bad for the heart.

Forwards, backwards, sideways.

That's the most important thing.

I'm called Bundini.

Rhymes with Houdini.

He was a Jew too.

Some people call me Fast Black.

Some call me Daddy Mac.

Gave Sugar Ray Robinson

my power for seven years.

My voodoo. My magic.

Now Shorty done sent me here

to work for you.

- Who's Shorty?

- I call him Shorty.

Call him Shorty

'cause he like 'em circumcised.

Original people. Like Moses.

And I was a babe in a basket too.

Born on a doorstep with a note

across my chest that read...

"You do the best

you can for him, world."

I wanna be your inspiration.

Your motivator in your corner.

Can I be in your corner,

young man?

Time!

Be the invisible man

as soon as he swings.

Get personal with him.

Sonny Liston,

you ain't no champ! You a chump!

Float like a butterfly,

sting like a bee.

Oh!

Rumble, young man, rumble.

Y'all wanna lose y' all money?

Then you bet it on Sonny.

He know I'm great.

He will fall in eight.

Come on, you big, ugly bear.

I'll whup you right now.

Two-ten and a half.

Two-ten and a half!.

The challenger, Cassius Clay,

two hundred and ten and a half pounds.

- Man, you sure that's right?

- That's what the weight is.

Old, ugly bear, come on.

Let's go.

You got these folks fooled. I ain't

scared of ya! I ain't scared of ya!

Two hundred and eighteen.

Two hundred and eighteen.

Sonny Liston,

the champion of the world.

Two hundred and eighteen pounds.

- Pounds of what?

- Pounds of ugly.

That man's so ugly,

when he sweat...

the sweat run backwards off his forehand

just to stay away from his face.

Come on, you big, ugly bear!

I'll turn you into a rug!

Keep talkin'.

I'm gonna f*ck you up.

If you whup me...

I'll crawl out of the ring and take

the first jet airplane out the country.

- Is that a promise, Mr. Clay?

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