Chuck Page #5

Yeah. No, I know. I'm sorry.

This is big for me, though, you know?

Big moment, huh?

Yeah, lucky day, lucky man, right?

Yeah. I just wanna share it

with you guys. Be a family?

Used to be a family here, Phyll.

Phyll? You there?

Yeah, I'm here.

I'm gonna train full-time

up in the Catskills.

I never had that before.

This is the real thing, you know?

This is different.

I mean, everything's gonna be

different now, baby.

Congratulations, Chuck.

I'm real happy for you, I am.

Phyll? Phyll?

Everything was different.

I was fighting Muhammad Ali.

The big press conference was in New York.

I figured I'd better be prepared if I was

gonna get a word in edgewise with Ali.

He's one of the most formidable foes,

I think, that could come into the ring.

He has an 18-inch neck

and a solid-rock granite jaw.

So, I think that Ali's in

for an interesting evening,

and he's not taking it lightly,

he's taking it serious.

Muhammad is the master of the poem,

so I wrote a poem.

Goes like this.

"What's in a word?

"And who's to say what will be?

"But there are those who say that

he's the best to ever wear the crown

"And that this fight's a tune-up

against someone of little renown

"I proved them wrong time and time again

"And won my fights in spite of them

"So, don't write me off or count me out..."

Hold on, Chuck. Hold on.

Did you have a feeling

that was gonna happen? 'Cause I didn't.

What you gotta say now, Champ?

Don King say

they gonna leave feminine napkins...

Okay.

...in Chuck's corner.

Because the way he bleed,

that's gonna be the only thing

that mop up the blood.

I will beat him,

but no punches gonna land here, here.

Only in here.

All right. All right. All right. Okay.

'Cause I don't want no excuses about cuts.

- Are you done? Yeah?

- For the moment.

So I took what I could get

She looked at me with her big brown eyes

And said, you ain't seen nothing yet

Bop, bop

Baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet

Bop, bop

We trained at the Granit Hotel

in upstate New York.

This place was top shelf. I mean,

I never seen anything like it in my life.

Come on, huh?

I think you got a pool in your room, bro.

I heard they got two pools.

I had my own room, separate dining room.

No menu. I just, you know,

ordered whatever I wanted.

This was professional.

Finally, I was training like a pro.

It was a big step up

for a club fighter from Bayonne.

Hey, Chuck. Hey, Chuck.

How are you?

Yes, yes. That's what we're talking about.

Let's hear about this fight.

How's it going, guys? All right.

- One at a time. One at a time.

- How you doing? Good to see you.

Where's the guy from the New Jersey Sun?

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