When We Were Kings Page #4
- PG
- Year:
- 1996
- 88 min
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The dream is becoming a reality.
'Don King
went to George Foreman
'and got him to sign an agreement
'saying that if King could deliver
$5 million, Foreman would fight Ali.
'Then King went to Ali
and made the same deal,
'so Don King now had both fighters,
'their signatures
on a piece of paper.
'What he didn't have
was $10 million.'
..a festival to complement
in history.
- Of all time!
- All time, as the champ says.
Greatest event of all time!
Bigger than Evel 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
in terms of promoting Zaire and also
in terms of promoting himself,
and as Ali said at the time,
countries go to war
and wars cost
a lot more than $10 million.
Some of the most dynamic
performers from Afro-America
Kinshasa on the 20th, 21st and 22nd,
with this theatrical release.
It will be James Brown,
- Is he playing?
- Yes, James Brown will be there.
We will have BB King, The Spinners...
This is the first assembly in history
where the top-notch Blacks of America
something together, all on a level,
we're all meeting and learning more
about each other,
the first assembly among American
Black men and Africans in history
and it's a big honour.
Plus I gotta whup George!
'Got to whup George!'
We're gonna rumble in the jungle!
Come on, come on.
Speak up, boy. Go ahead.
- Good boy.
Get down.
- Quiet.
- George?
the toughest of your career?
Could be, could be. I doubt it.
This is Muhammad Ali, September 10th
at New York City airport,
the heavyweight title of the world.
Champ, what would you like to say
to the children of the world?
I'd like to say, mainly where they
understand English in America,
to...live a clean life,
stay off the dope.
Also, if they wanna be like me,
I'm going to whup George Foreman,
and when they see this
I will have beaten him.
Tell them to quit eating
so much candy,
and I had to have one of 'em pulled,
I can't chew my food like I should.
Eat natural foods
because we must whup Mr Tooth Decay.
I got one right there and one there.
Ali told us he's going to use part
of his money to build a hospital.
Do you intend to use part of your
money for something, a project?
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