1:08:00
Foreman gets up to the knee at eight!
1:08:04
That's it! The fight is stopped!
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Muhammad Ali with
a dramatic eighth round knockout!
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He knocks out...George Foreman!
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He's done it! Muhammad Ali
has done it! Muhammad Ali has...
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Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali...
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(Translator) 'Muhammad Ali,
he was like a sleeping elephant.
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'You can do whatever you want
around a sleeping elephant,
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'but when he wakes up...
he tramples everything.'
1:08:35
(Crowd roars)
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Muhammad Ali, boma ye.
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Boma ye. Muhammad Ali,
boma ye George Foreman.
1:08:45
He did it.
1:08:47
'He's champion again,
we couldn't believe it.
1:08:51
'It was such a classic performance
and so beautiful
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'that at the moment
Ali hit the knockout punch,
1:08:58
'Foreman began to go,
Ali followed him around,
1:09:01
'Ali had his right cocked
for one more punch
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'but he never threw it,
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'as though he didn't want to ruin the
aesthetic of this man going down.'
1:09:11
One has mixed emotions
when you see the end of a fight.
1:09:15
'I always feel sympathy
for the man losing it,
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'particularly when you see
a titanic, formidable figure
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'suddenly on the ground.'
1:09:24
(Mailer) 'Now,
when we see George on TV,
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'and know that after that knockout
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'he went through two years
of the deepest depression,
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'he almost didn't come out of it.
1:09:35
'To see the man who's come out of it,
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'the way he reconstructed
his personality,
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'it's hard to find anyone in America
more affable than George Foreman.
1:09:46
'Foreman has become
a fabulous person in American life.'
1:09:50
Just as the fight finished,
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the monsoons, the African rains,
came, and they came so hard
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that the waters were about
three feet deep in the dressing rooms