The Great White Hype
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Hey, look, man, cut the bullshit.
I want Shabazz.

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Shut up, boy! You work for me.
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And if you do shut up,
and you do work for me,

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you'll make more money
than you've ever dreamed of.

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You'll make $40 million.
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If I'm making 40,
look how much you're gonna make.

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- I am.
- Hey, look, Rev.

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Nobody gonna buy the idea
of a white contender.

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It ain't about race. It's about boxing.
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- Sit down.
- I just stood up.

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What's the highest-grossing fight
in the history of boxing?

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- Uh, Tyson-Gibbons.
- Ali-Frazier.

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- Hagler-Leonard.
- No, Hagler-Hearns.

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No, no, no, no, no,
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no, no, no, no!
:15:03
The highest-grossing fight
in the history of boxing...

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Is Cooney versus Holmes.
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- Can you tell me why, James?
- Yeah. Cos Cooney was a white boy.

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And his jab couldn't break wind.
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If there ain't a white guy out there for you,
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I'm gonna create you one.
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Fred Sultan.
:15:32
You and I are gonna take a close look
at this boxing promoter,

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this exploiter, embezzler,
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charlatan and demagogue.
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By the time our journey is over,
I'm gonna expose him for what he really is:

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The devil incarnate.
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The real story begins in 1953 in Atlanta,
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when a young man
by the name of Fred Johnson,

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who had been a child evangelist
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and who'd been caught running
a pyramid scam on his parishioners,


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