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Champ.
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- Champ, George had an accident.
- He-- He had what?
2:00:17
- What areyou talking about?
- He got cut right above his right eye.
2:00:19
His sparring partner's elbow
split it open.
2:00:22
- Can he fight?
- Not for six weeks.
2:00:26
This is not a humorous situation,
my champ.
2:00:29
This postponement could be long,
especially ifGeorge leaves.
2:00:32
You trying to
pull something here, Don?
2:00:35
IfGeorge leaves, he ain't comin' back.
George don't like it here.
2:00:38
How rightyou are, my suspicious
and short ltalian brother.
2:00:42
Look here, man,
my fiduciary responsibility...
2:00:45
to this first all-black promotion...
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is analogous to a garden in the African
sun-- it must grow, it must bloom.
2:00:51
Cannot flower in the gloom and shade
ofpostponement to the Astrodome...
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or any dome out ofZaire where it be
deprivileged oflight and bled ofwater.
2:00:58
'Cause what gonna be bleedin' out of
there is money-- a hemorrhage ofcash.
2:01:02
I'm talkin' about blood on the floor.
2:01:04
Double hotel costs, airplane,
travel costs, food and beverage.
2:01:08
- So what doyou want us to do?
- Muhammad Ali. The people's champion.
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My black brother.
2:01:13
I need you.
I need your strength.
2:01:16
I need you to find a way
to get George to stay.
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Be Moses in reverse.
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Do not let my people go.
Keep them the fuck right here in Egypt.
2:01:26
- Ifyou'll pardon my Swahili.
- Lingala.
2:01:28
- Saywhat?
- They speak Lingala.
2:01:31
Ali wants his title,
and he wants it in Zaire.
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Okay, all right, okay.
Let's take it back.
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George go, George go.
Hell, I can getyouJoe Frazier.
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Ali-Frazier 3.
That's the fight everybodywant to see.
2:01:48
- We don't want Frazier, we want George.
- Hell, I don't control George Foreman.