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Muhammad Ali - Boxing's Best (Sports Illustrated)
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| Product Description: | | | | | MUHAMMAD ALI - BOXING'S BEST was produced for an HBO television series on great heavyweights, a series that also includes Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey. Each program runs about one hour. The documentary includes ring action as well as other important events in the life of Muhammad Ali. Host Barry Tompkins interviews the owner of the Louisville gym where Ali (then Clay) first trained, and also interviews with his longtime trainer Angelo Dundee. There are a number of period film footage interviews with Ali, most of the pre-fight buildup variety. Rare early fight footage is also featured, including his 1960 Olympic finals victory and his first professional bout with Tunny Hunsaker. Other highlights include his bouts with Archie Moore (1962), Sonny Liston (both I and II) when in the first fight the odds against him were 8 to 1, Cleveland Williams, Zora Folley, Oscar Bonavena, Joe Frazier (I, II and III: "The Thrilla in Manila"), Leon Spinks, and Larry Holmes. The documentary offers brief insight of the complex nature of Ali's personality that made him the continued focus of media and the public during the peak of his career in the 1960's and 1970's. Ali was full of witticisms before cameras and was often requoted for his own motto: "Fly like a butterfly - sting like a bee".Boxing history is brought to life in this unique collection of physical and verbal bouts with the man they called "The Greatest". | |
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