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
1:06:03
'and Ali swung
like a man in the rigging.'
1:06:06
He'd go all the way back,
he'd slide out like that.
1:06:08
Occasionally, he'd get hit and he'd
say "George, you disappoint me.
1:06:12
"You don't hit as hard
as I thought you would, George,
1:06:16
"you're not breaking popcorn!"
1:06:18
'And Foreman's insane with rage,
1:06:21
'wanging at him and wanging at him,
1:06:23
'powerful, powerful, powerful.
1:06:26
'And middle of the fifth round
Foreman had punched himself out.
1:06:30
'It had taken three rounds.'
1:06:32
(Commentator) Ali picks it up,
40 seconds left in round five.
1:06:40
First good combination by Ali
lands on the head of Foreman.
1:06:45
Foreman with that right hook.
1:06:47
Ali scores a hook!
1:06:49
Quick jab with the right
backs up Foreman!
1:06:52
Backs him up in his tracks!
1:06:54
Foreman tries the hook!
Ali goes to the right!
1:06:57
Foreman gets knocked to the left!