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Just go and cut 'em off, Angie.

No, no. You can't fight

with no gloves on.

Just get up. Get up.

Try and do it. Come on.

I can't see, man.

- Come on, Cass!

- Dance!

Liston crouching,

hitting to the body.

It's like he's blinking,

like he doesn't see Liston.

Ref, you gotta do your job.

Hold it.

Stay away from him, Clay.

Stay away from him.

The champion, you can see,

is the aggressor.

- Get him, Cass!

- Come on, Cass!

- Knock him up!

- Clay looks all done.

Hold on to him!

- Stop it. Stop. Break.

- Knock him up.

Get on him.

Get on him, man.

- You can see him now.

- You go get him, man.

Clay lands a left,

but Liston ducked under it...

and took it high

on the forehead.

It's Clay coming on.

And Liston backs away.

And all the predictions

are going down the drain...

as Liston is listless.

And there's the bell.

We're coming up

to round seven.

Wait a minute!

Liston's not coming out.

The winner and new heavyweight

champion of the world is Cassius Clay.

Eat your words!

Eat your words!

Les, I'm going up into the ring.

Get back.

I'm the greatest thing

ever happened to boxing.

Cassius. Cassius.

I shook up the world!

It's a scene of

absolute bedlam in the ring!

I am the greatest.

I'm a bad man. I shook up the world!

Did he ever hurt you?

I'm only 22 years old.

I ain't got a mark on my face.

- I must be the greatest.

- And you're pretty.

I must be the greatest.

Wait. Hold on. Hold on one second.

That's Sam Cooke back there.

- Come on, Sam Cooke.

- Let Sam Cooke in here.

The greatest rock-and-roll singer,

and I'm the world's greatest boxer.

Hello, Sam.

That mummy's

gonna get him, baby.

- That mummy ain't gonna get him.

- Yeah, he is.

He ain't scared of that mummy.

That mummy too slow to catch anybody.

- What's going on, Sam?

- How you doing, Cassius?

Don't believe that stuff on TV.

Don't listen to him.

- Hey, congratulations, Clay.

- Hey, thank you, Jim.

- Hell of a fight.

- You next, man. You next.

- Go ahead and get some food, brother.

- Cassius Clay versus Jim Brown.

Biggest fight in history.

- The mummy only has one eye.

- One eye and a limp.

That mummy's 643 years old.

He can't catch nobody.

Look at him.

You gotta fall down 'cause that's

the only way the mummy could catch you.

Way to go, champ!

- Yeah, you the greatest.

- Thank you, brother. Thank you.

- I'll see your next fight.

- You'll see the next one?

- Oh, yeah.

- Well, you better get there very early.

You better get there very early

'cause that man's going down.

If he talk a little jive,

he's going down in five.

He talk a little more,

I might drop him in four.

If you wanna have more fun,

do it in round one.

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