1:01:00
The championship is at stake
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and $5 million will be paid
to both fighters.
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Ali ready, Foreman ready,
we're waiting for the bell.
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Here we go,
Ali quickly across the ring.
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Round one, Ali bouncing around,
shifting left to right.
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George moves slow,
Ali gets the first punch in,
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a light right-hand taken
on the forehead by the champion.
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Foreman moving slow, stalking.
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Ali looks like he's ready to go here.
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He's not staying away,
he's going after his man.
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Foreman cautious in the first round,
looking to drop that left hook.
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Foreman's locked his man
to the far corner.
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There's that left upper-cut
into the body of Muhammad Ali.
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Ali tries to hang on
to the head of George Foreman.
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Foreman dances...
Ali with a right-hand lead!
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Has Foreman slightly confused
with that right-hand lead,
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which I haven't seen
too many times before.
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A right-hand lead, where you throw
your right without countering,
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you throw it first, like a jab.
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That has to travel that extra
distance across the shoulders.
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'Professionals rarely use this
because it's so dangerous to throw
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'since you are open to a left hook.
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'Since fighters work in milliseconds
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'they can see a right coming
much faster than a jab.'
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Nobody had thrown a right-hand lead
at Foreman in two years,
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and none of his sparring partners,
for $50 a day,
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was going to start
throwing right-hand leads at him
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because it's a great insult
to a top professional.
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'It suggests he's slow enough
that you can hit him with it.'
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'Instead Ali figured out Foreman's
not expecting a right-hand lead.
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'"I'm gonna hit him with a right hand
and knock him out."
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'Ali threw 12 right hand leads, he
hadn't told anybody he was going to.'
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He may have debated whether to
up until the last moment.