1:04:01
"This is...that hour.
1:04:04
"Do you have the guts?"
And he kind of nodded,
1:04:07
like, "Really got
to get it together, boy.
1:04:10
"You are gonna get it together...
you WILL get it together."
1:04:14
He nodded some more, as if he were
looking into the eyes of his maker,
1:04:19
and then turned to the crowd
and went "Ali, boma ye!"
1:04:23
and 100,000 people
all yelled back "Ali, boma ye!"
1:04:27
And this huge reverberation
of the crowd came back into the ring.
1:04:31
'Ali picked it up as if
"these are my people,
1:04:35
'"this is what I'm here for.
1:04:37
'"The time has come, I'm gonna find
a way to master this man."'
1:04:41
(Commentator) Ali tries
to tie him up.
1:04:43
No real damage done in that exchange.
1:04:46
(Mailer) 'Foreman, like everyone,
had assumed that Ali would dance,
1:04:51
'and so Ali now went to the ropes
and went into the Rope-a-Dope.
1:04:56
'And a lot of people thought
that moment the fight was over.
1:05:00
'Especially on TV, it looked like
Foreman was killing a very weak Ali.'
1:05:05
You don't go to the ropes.
1:05:07
And there he was, leaning way back.
1:05:10
'I wrote about it, like a man
leaning out of his window
1:05:13
'trying to see
if there's something on his roof.'
1:05:15
And, you know, taking it.
1:05:17
Here were these great broadsides
1:05:19
and it looked like
he was being set up for the kill.
1:05:23
It happened so quickly
and so abruptly,
1:05:25
that I said, I shouted to Norman,
"The fix is in."
1:05:30
'He's supposed to go down
in the first or second.
1:05:33
'Ropes is halfway house
to the floor.'
1:05:35
'It just looked as though
he had to cave in.'
1:05:38
(Commentator) ..some awkward but
very powerful hooks with both hands.
1:05:43
(Mailer) 'They became so basic that
they were like two kids fighting.'
1:05:48
'For that round and the next round
and the next round
1:05:51
'Ali lay against the ropes,
and he kept talking to Foreman.
1:05:55
'It was extraordinary.
1:05:57
'You had to be close to see it.'
1:05:59
'And Foreman was throwing
these prodigious punches