Muhammad Ali 10/7/9/75 D

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I'm feeling real good.

I was sore for about a week, but I'm all right now.

The toughest fight you had? Just about, I would say.

All of them are tough, but I'm with George Fumah because I beat him, but they must realize the best in the world is beating him.

That doesn't mean he's a finish because the best beat him.

I think Joe has got a great future.

Joe's got a good five years of top -notch fighting.

Well, right now, I want to take a rest for maybe three or four months.

Probably, I don't know who my next one will be, I think.

Probably Henry Clark from Top Contender.

We have, there's not too many men around that I haven't fought, but I would like to rest a while before we really consider.

I was going to say, you're not the exuberant Mohammed Ali everybody knows.

You're still pretty tired, aren't you? Yep.

How about, go ahead.

You would be tired too if you had to go through what I went through.

You're going to Germany on Thursday.

Yes, Random House is coming out with my life story, my book, and I think they sell them there.

They introduce them to the world.

There's something about the market there.

I'll be there on the 10th and the 14th.

I've got to be back to New Orleans to Mohammed Appreciation Day.

They're having something in the Superdome.

Things are going real good now, but I know they won't be always, but they're doing things are pretty good now.

How many more fights? Any idea at all? I know after the Frasier fight, you had White Sox.

Two more good fights, I'll be finished.

Just two of you, I think.

Foreman included in those? Yeah.

I have on Black Sox, not White Sox.

I started mentioning the White Sox.

They have a new owner.

He's looking for people to invest in.

He said he'd be interested in having some black investors in there.

Any chance you might go in with Bill Beck at all? Have you talked to him at all? No, I haven't.

I don't know too much about baseball or investments itself.

I don't talk about them.

I've got people who know, but I'll talk to anybody about any investment.

If it's profitable, I'll look into it.

When they get old and pass away, then the youth who are coming up who don't remember me, they'll be following somebody else.

There's always going to be a president or a champion.

One might be more colorful than the other, more newsworthy, but there'll always be one.

Identifier

F.2012-03-1534

Date Of Production

October 7 1975

Abstract

Muhammad Ali talks with a journalist about his recent fight with Joe Frazier, his upcoming book tour in Germany, and his future.

Description

Muhammad Ali and a journalist conduct an interview for ABC7 alongside Ali's training ring. There are three outtakes here: First they discuss Ali's winning fight with Joe Frazier (October 1, 1975); then they discuss Ali's upcoming trip to Germany, on a tour that Random House organized to promote their publication of his autobiography and to New Orleans for Muhammad Ali Appreciation Day at the Superdome (on October 14, 1975); finally they discuss his future plans, wherein Ali asserts that he probably only has two more fights left in him before he retires, and the journalist asks him if he is interested in investing in William Veeck's recent aquisition of Chicago's White Sox.

Run Time

0:03:10

Format

16mm

Extent

114 feet

Color

Color

Sound

Mag Stripe

Reel/Tape Number

1/1

Has Been Digitized?

Yes

Language Of Materials

English

Element

Trims and Outs

Genre

Sports

Form

Outtakes
Interviews

Subject

Sports
Boxing

Related Collections

SUBSERIES II: Sports

Main Credits

Koza, Frank (is filmmaker)

Participants And Performers

Ali, Muhammad (is interviewee)

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