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It was the closing
of an era,

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but the curtain closes,
then another curtain opens.

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Boxing is always there
as an opening act

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to everything else that's
happening in the world.

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Boxing is
a metaphor for life.

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Everyone's fighting
for something.

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There was a time
at the end of the '70s

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when you knew on some level,
you were seeing history.

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And everybody
paid attention.

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MALE NEWSCASTER:
With world oil markets tight

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and OPEC raising prices
almost daily,

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gasoline and fuel oil prices
have skyrocketed.

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The nation's energy
situation is getting worse.

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This is unreal.
Isn't this disgusting?

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Why doesn't anybody
contact the president?

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Why is he letting
this happen to us?

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Jimmy Carter comes into
office during a recession,

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a gas crisis and oil crisis
in the 1970s.

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REPORTER:  Iranian students
continue to hold

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more than 50 hostages
of the American Embassy

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in Tehran this morning.

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We're using every
available channel

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to protect the safety
of the hostages

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and to secure their release.

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So that was America.

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Coming out of that
was Muhammad Ali.

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I am the greatest!

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He said he wasn't going
to go to Vietnam.

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They took his
title from him.

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He started being
an activist.

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He's writing poetry
in the ring.

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And the game he fought,

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what he did in the ring
was beautiful.

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But then suddenly,
the brutality of the '70s

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comes full swing,

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the '80s come in,

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and the beauty
doesn't matter anymore.

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(SHOUTING)

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COMMENTATOR 1:
He gets back there.

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The body is rearing.

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It just can't do
what it used to do before.

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The sad recognition

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that all athletes eventually
come to grips with.

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COMMENTATOR 2:  You know,
it's pathetic to see a guy

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just not being able to do it.
He was the greatest, he once was

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DUNDEE: Stop the fight!

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COMMENTATOR:  Angelo Dundee
wants to stop the fight.

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COMMENTATOR 2:  That really
is a sad and sorry end

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for Muhammad Ali.

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If you were a boxing fan
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you were kind of sad

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to see Ali's career
coming to and end.

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He had meant so much.

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And you were probably
looking for somebody

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to step into that void.

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You have four
great fighters,

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Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns,

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Roberto Duran,
Marvin Hagler,

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who were fighting
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and it was enthralling.

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They all had a different
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Leonard was the golden boy,

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chosen one to bring boxing
back into favor.

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Hagler was
the perennial underdog.

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Duran was the idol of
the Latin American people.

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And Hearns was Mr. Detroit,
at a bad time for that city.

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These guys
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but not each other.

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Their fights meant so much.

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The Four Kings gave us
unique personalities,

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unique fighters

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who all fought each other
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and created
a time in boxing

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that was maybe
the greatest period

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in the history of the sport.

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LEONARD:  I've always
wanted to be special.

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To be somebody.

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Not just in the ring,
but in the world.

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When I was a kid,
I had guys who I'd idolize,

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men who were just
bigger than their sport.

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I shook up the world!

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I shook up the world!

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LEONARD:  Muhammad Ali,
he was bigger than life,

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and I wanted to be
bigger than life, too.

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Muhammad, this must
bring back a lot of memories

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seeing these young guys
coming up, like Ray Leonard.

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It makes you sad to know
that we're all getting old,

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but if they stay around
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they'll be old, too.

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MAN:  And next we go
to one of the really great

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young amateur fighters
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Ray Leonard,
18 years old.

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He's a leading candidate
to go to Montreal,

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win a gold medal
in the '76 Olympics.

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LEONARD:  I went to
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in Palmer Park

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and I was 14 years old.

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It's so vivid,
that experience,

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because I was
a kid who was shy

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and didn't like
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didn't want anybody
to hit me.

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But I put the gloves on,

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and it was like
I found boxing,

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boxing found me.

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It was magic.

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INTERVIEWER:  Muhammad,
how does it look to you?

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Well, Leonard, he's beaten
the man, but he's close.

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This is good training for
these fellas in the future

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when they turn professional.

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COMMENTATOR 1:
This Ray Leonard's

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a terrific young man
out of the ring, too.

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And the shoe
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a little picture of his
infant son taped there.

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COMMENTATOR 2:
He's 18, got a son already?

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COMMENTATOR 1:
Got a little infant son.

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-Mmm-hmm.
-There's his picture.

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You can just see it
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COMMENTATOR 2:
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-he's got to feed that kid.
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How much it's gonna
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Diapers are due
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So he's got
to whoop this man

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so he can turn professional

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and take care
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That's what must
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And that's the way
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COMMENTATOR 1:  Now,
Ray Leonard knocks him down.

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COMMENTATOR 2:
Good side hook.

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That was beautiful.

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COMMENTATOR 1:
And young Ray Leonard

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now puts the US
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COMMENTATOR 2:
And you can't beat that.

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(US NATIONAL ANTHEM PLAYS)

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The 200th birthday
of the United States.

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As the day went on,
one could almost touch

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the spirit that swept
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There's the 200th
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which is glorious.

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But the same time
people are demoralized,

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trying to figure out
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Under the surface,

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all this pent up aggression
and anger is there.

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After all the growing up,
after all the glory,

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after all the setbacks
our country's gone through,

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we can still say
with pride and gratitude,

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we are the American people.

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GREER:
There was a recession.

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You couldn't get a job,
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the cities were all torn up.

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It wasn't a good time.

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WOMAN:  ABC now projects
Carter is the winner.

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GREER:
Our leader was Jimmy Carter.

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He was a peanut farmer,
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he looked like real people.
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that's what we wanted,
what's real.

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1976, a barren landscape
for American fighters

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where Muhammad Ali
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American-born world champion
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and there were,
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between 25 and 30 champions.

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Ali was the only American.

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It all began to change
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starring the incredibly
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Ray, everyone points to you
as America's best hope

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to win a gold medal
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Do you like that
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Yes, for the simple reason

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it only builds my ego up
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I feel confident now.

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I'm a lot more secure

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because I know
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so it's no sweat.

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(MUSIC PLAYS)

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In those days
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Olympic boxing was still
such a huge stage.

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You look at the champions:

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Ali, Frasier, Patterson.

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They all came out
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WOMAN: The United States
of America.

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O'BRIEN:  Leonard rode that
all the way to the very top.

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You can see how
it launched his career.

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The '76 Olympics
elevated boxing.

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It was televised by ABC,
announced by Howard Cosell.

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All of a sudden,
boxing was cool again.

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And, of course, in sports,

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if you're not on television,
you don't exist.

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Well, I think we have
the best-prepared,

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best trained team

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in United States'
boxing history.

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And this is
Sugar Ray Leonard.

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(CHEERING)

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Tomorrow night live
in prime time,

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you'll be seeing this slick
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against a Swedish fighter
by the name of Ulf Carlsson.

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What are you gonna do
to him with the right?

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Well, I'm planning
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I know I can catch him.

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-Ah!
-(LAUGHS)

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Howard saw Leonard as
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and to be perfectly candid,

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Howard was also always
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that could vault him

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as a natural storyteller
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Leonard filled a niche
that had been left by Ali.

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All right, quick question.

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I want these people to know
you as a human being.

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You have no plans to turn
professional, do you?

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No plans whatsoever,
Howard.

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I was given a scholarship
by the people of Glenarden.

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You want that medal.
It's your dream, isn't it?

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I'm going to get it,
Howard.

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I know you are.
Good to see you.

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Thank you for being with us.

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-(CHEERING)
-Let's hear it

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for Sugar Ray from...

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I sacrificed so much.

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I wanted to be the best,

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I wanted the ultimate,

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which was the Olympics.

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That Cuban, Andres Aldama,

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had far more experience,
bigger, stronger.

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But I wanted to win.

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No, I had to win.

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This was predestined.

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It was meant to be.

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COMMENTATOR:  In boxing,

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American fighters won
five gold medals tonight.

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Light-middleweight
Sugar Ray Leonard

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of Palmer Park, Maryland,

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won a unanimous decision
over Andres Aldama of Cuba.

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LEONARD:
That wasn't about money.

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It wasn't about fame.

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It was about the Olympics,

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your country.

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I mean,
words can't describe...

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I can't elaborate enough
on what it felt like

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standing on that podium

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with that gold medal
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Oh, my God. This was it,
man, this was it.

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MAN:  After he beat
a tough Cuban

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for the Olympic gold medal,

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Sugar Ray Leonard announced
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He would enroll at
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His only battles
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LEONARD:  I love boxing,
but not that much.

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I was gonna go to
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further my education
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MAN:  And then he came home

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to this house just outside
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A house filled with
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of a golden amateur career.

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His mother, Getha,

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would suffer
a mild heart attack.

255
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His father, Cicero,

256
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was hospitalized
with meningitis.

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LEONARD:  Everyone's crying.

258
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My mom's crying, I'm crying.

259
00:10:06,668 --> 00:10:08,128
And I asked my mentor,
Janks Morton,

260
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I said, "Janks, how can I
make fast money?"

261
00:10:09,921 --> 00:10:11,715
He said, "Turn pro."

262
00:10:11,757 --> 00:10:15,802
Boxing allowed me to get
the best help, medically.

263
00:10:15,844 --> 00:10:19,973
I only did it to help
my father to pay the bills.

264
00:10:20,015 --> 00:10:21,767
MAN:  Ray's mother
did not like his decision

265
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to turn pro.

266
00:10:23,018 --> 00:10:24,645
I don't like fighting.
I don't like sports.

267
00:10:24,686 --> 00:10:26,980
I wanted him to go to school
and get an education

268
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because people can
take a fight from you,

269
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but once you get
an education,

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that's something that
no one can take from you.

271
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For 15 years,

272
00:10:34,821 --> 00:10:37,699
Muhammad Ali has dominated
the sport of boxing.

273
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Now a new boxing superstar
may be in the making.

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Sugar Ray Leonard, who won
a boxing gold medal...

275
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...turns pro in a six-round
junior welterweight bout.

276
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...turned pro the way
no young fighter

277
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had ever turned pro before.

278
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So high,
you can't get over me

279
00:10:54,716 --> 00:10:57,344
As with most
superstar boxers,

280
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Ray Leonard was
a product of his time.

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He had a natural ability
to be a star.

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MAN:  With his smile,
Sugar Ray Leonard

283
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can light up a gym.

284
00:11:06,728 --> 00:11:08,855
MAN 2:  Tomorrow, Leonard
will  fight professionally

285
00:11:08,897 --> 00:11:10,649
for the first time.

286
00:11:10,691 --> 00:11:12,192
COMMENTATOR:
And on this round,

287
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behold the boxing lord...

288
00:11:15,362 --> 00:11:17,948
COMMENTATOR 2:  That would
be Leonard's right shots.

289
00:11:27,874 --> 00:11:28,875
(BELL DINGING)

290
00:11:28,917 --> 00:11:30,293
COMMENTATOR:
And that's the end of it.

291
00:11:31,753 --> 00:11:33,630
Man, everybody look at that.

292
00:11:34,423 --> 00:11:37,092
Ray Junior and Ray Senior.

293
00:11:37,134 --> 00:11:40,595
LEONARD:  I just felt
a desire to be somebody.

294
00:11:40,637 --> 00:11:43,557
My career was nothing
short of disastrous.

295
00:11:45,267 --> 00:11:46,935
MAN:  Sugar Ray Leonard
spent nine minutes

296
00:11:46,977 --> 00:11:48,353
in the ring last night

297
00:11:48,395 --> 00:11:50,021
and rocked his welterweight
opponent from Ohio

298
00:11:50,063 --> 00:11:51,022
in the second round,

299
00:11:51,064 --> 00:11:52,899
putting him down
to the canvas.

300
00:11:55,277 --> 00:11:57,863
REPORTER:  As his manager,
Leonard chose Angelo Dundee,

301
00:11:57,904 --> 00:11:59,740
who is connected
and respected.

302
00:11:59,781 --> 00:12:02,534
Manager or trainer
to eight world champions,

303
00:12:02,576 --> 00:12:04,411
most notably Muhammad Ali.

304
00:12:06,747 --> 00:12:08,081
Angelo was chosen because

305
00:12:08,123 --> 00:12:10,250
he was an old time
boxing guy who was smart.

306
00:12:10,292 --> 00:12:11,543
There was never
anyone better

307
00:12:11,585 --> 00:12:13,712
during a fight
in a corner.

308
00:12:13,754 --> 00:12:16,339
Having Angelo be the face
of the training team

309
00:12:16,381 --> 00:12:17,758
was a smart move.

310
00:12:17,799 --> 00:12:20,177
Angelo had been through it
with the greatest.

311
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DUNDEE:  Sugar Ray is
probably the finest talent

312
00:12:22,137 --> 00:12:23,764
that I've had the pleasure
of dealing with.

313
00:12:23,805 --> 00:12:26,099
And I know the people here.

314
00:12:26,141 --> 00:12:27,267
will want to take this kid,

315
00:12:27,309 --> 00:12:28,602
'cause he's
like home cooking.

316
00:12:28,643 --> 00:12:30,187
FARHOOD:  One thing that
made his early days

317
00:12:30,228 --> 00:12:31,605
a little different
from most fighters is,

318
00:12:31,646 --> 00:12:33,398
almost all of his fights
were televised

319
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on national television,

320
00:12:34,316 --> 00:12:35,692
because Ray got ratings,

321
00:12:35,734 --> 00:12:37,152
because he was
already a star

322
00:12:37,194 --> 00:12:38,612
before he ever turned pro,

323
00:12:38,653 --> 00:12:39,988
and it was natural
to put him on television.

324
00:12:41,990 --> 00:12:43,033
Ah, yeah!

325
00:12:45,827 --> 00:12:47,621
LEONARD:  You know, I give
thanks to the Olympics

326
00:12:47,662 --> 00:12:49,498
that boxing has
become revitalized.

327
00:12:49,539 --> 00:12:50,624
It is hot now,

328
00:12:50,665 --> 00:12:52,125
and I'mma take
advantage of it.

329
00:12:52,167 --> 00:12:54,419
I'm in no rush as far
as the title's concerned.

330
00:12:54,461 --> 00:12:56,463
They're talking 800,000,
900,000.

331
00:12:56,505 --> 00:12:57,923
I want a million dollars.

332
00:12:57,964 --> 00:12:59,883
Because I wanna be
the first little guy

333
00:12:59,925 --> 00:13:02,135
that fights for
one-million dollar purse.

334
00:13:03,512 --> 00:13:05,096
Please don't fail me now

335
00:13:06,473 --> 00:13:08,558
FARHOOD:  Angelo matched
him very tough

336
00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,602
against all different kinds
of opponents.

337
00:13:10,644 --> 00:13:12,312
And the reason Angelo
matched him tough

338
00:13:12,354 --> 00:13:13,647
was 'cause he knew
what he had.

339
00:13:15,106 --> 00:13:17,067
O'BRIEN:  He had
the showmanship of Ali,

340
00:13:17,108 --> 00:13:19,277
but he didn't have
the controversial side

341
00:13:19,319 --> 00:13:20,070
that Ali had.

342
00:13:20,946 --> 00:13:23,573
It was all safer, clean cut.

343
00:13:23,615 --> 00:13:25,116
He was a nice young man.

344
00:13:25,158 --> 00:13:26,827
I heard that from, you know,
from my grandmother.

345
00:13:26,868 --> 00:13:29,246
"Oh, he's a nice young man."

346
00:13:29,287 --> 00:13:31,331
LEONARD:  For little Ray,
he's three years old,

347
00:13:31,373 --> 00:13:34,167
I'm gonna make sure
that he has all the things

348
00:13:34,209 --> 00:13:36,253
that I didn't have
when I was coming up.

349
00:13:36,294 --> 00:13:37,838
Who's your favorite boxer?

350
00:13:37,879 --> 00:13:39,840
-There you go. (LAUGHS)
-(WOMAN LAUGHS)

351
00:13:41,049 --> 00:13:42,259
As a contender,

352
00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:44,636
the ultimate
is the championship fight.

353
00:13:44,678 --> 00:13:45,846
And it was
a scary feeling though

354
00:13:45,887 --> 00:13:47,514
because all of a sudden,

355
00:13:47,556 --> 00:13:50,058
now I'm up against
this great champion.

356
00:13:50,100 --> 00:13:53,353
Wilfred Benitez,
that fight was so tough.

357
00:13:53,395 --> 00:13:55,897
One of my most
difficult fights.

358
00:13:55,939 --> 00:13:58,358
COMMENTATOR 1:
Benitez is a great fight.

359
00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,569
(BELL DINGS)

360
00:14:00,610 --> 00:14:04,823
Benitez beginning to throw
his own left in this round.

361
00:14:04,865 --> 00:14:08,159
If he gets Leonard
against the ropes...

362
00:14:08,201 --> 00:14:09,619
Right there, a quick left.

363
00:14:09,661 --> 00:14:11,454
Astonishing, Leonard.

364
00:14:11,496 --> 00:14:13,540
And Benitez
unhappy with himself.

365
00:14:14,249 --> 00:14:15,417
You are watching

366
00:14:15,458 --> 00:14:18,712
two exceptionally
definite fights.

367
00:14:18,753 --> 00:14:20,213
LEONARD:
He was so elusive.

368
00:14:20,255 --> 00:14:22,632
I never missed so many
punches in my life.

369
00:14:22,674 --> 00:14:23,842
But I never gave up.

370
00:14:23,884 --> 00:14:25,218
I never stopped
throwing punches.

371
00:14:26,928 --> 00:14:29,723
You have to really
dig deep, and it hurts.

372
00:14:29,764 --> 00:14:31,892
But to win,
it's what it's all about.

373
00:14:31,933 --> 00:14:34,060
COMMENTATOR:
And they're toe-to-toe!

374
00:14:34,102 --> 00:14:35,478
LEONARD:  He had more
experience than me,

375
00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:37,230
more talent than I did.

376
00:14:37,272 --> 00:14:38,398
I just had more heart.

377
00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:39,482
COMMENTATOR:
It's inevitable.

378
00:14:39,524 --> 00:14:40,650
It doesn't die.

379
00:14:40,692 --> 00:14:41,902
Look at the courage
he's shown,

380
00:14:41,943 --> 00:14:43,570
or the skills he's shown.

381
00:14:43,612 --> 00:14:45,572
Maybe now they won't call

382
00:14:45,614 --> 00:14:47,324
Sugar Ray Leonard a hype.

383
00:14:47,365 --> 00:14:48,575
There it is!

384
00:14:48,617 --> 00:14:50,160
He's stopped the fight!

385
00:14:50,201 --> 00:14:53,872
And there is a new
World Welterweight Champion!

386
00:14:53,914 --> 00:14:56,583
He comes upon the block now.

387
00:14:56,625 --> 00:14:59,210
His name is Ray Leonard.

388
00:15:06,927 --> 00:15:09,512
The quality of that card
was absolutely incredible.

389
00:15:09,554 --> 00:15:11,514
Ray Leonard against Benitez,
who was, I don't know,

390
00:15:11,556 --> 00:15:13,141
38 or something like that.

391
00:15:13,183 --> 00:15:15,685
And then the same night
you have Marvin Hagler

392
00:15:15,727 --> 00:15:17,395
fighting for
the middleweight title.

393
00:15:17,437 --> 00:15:18,813
It's totally amazing

394
00:15:18,855 --> 00:15:21,024
that that was on primetime
national television.

395
00:15:21,066 --> 00:15:22,192
Hagler embodies

396
00:15:22,233 --> 00:15:24,402
the traditional
American fighter.

397
00:15:24,444 --> 00:15:25,570
A working man.

398
00:15:25,612 --> 00:15:27,030
Nothing was ever
handed to him.

399
00:15:27,072 --> 00:15:29,366
He was not being interviewed
by Howard Cosell

400
00:15:29,407 --> 00:15:31,076
before he turned pro.

401
00:15:31,117 --> 00:15:33,370
He was a fighter from
Brockton, Massachusetts.

402
00:15:33,411 --> 00:15:35,705
And good luck developing
a home fan base

403
00:15:35,747 --> 00:15:36,790
in Brockton, Massachusetts,

404
00:15:36,831 --> 00:15:37,791
when you're
a black middleweight

405
00:15:37,832 --> 00:15:39,584
without much of a name.

406
00:15:39,626 --> 00:15:42,295
Marvin Hagler didn't turn
pro on national television.

407
00:15:42,337 --> 00:15:44,798
What Marvin had to do
was take the hard route.

408
00:15:50,345 --> 00:15:52,806
Mad dog Johnny Baldwin
thinks he's tough,

409
00:15:52,847 --> 00:15:55,100
but Marvelous Marv
is twice as rough.

410
00:15:55,141 --> 00:15:57,602
My lightning right hand
will score as well.

411
00:15:57,644 --> 00:15:59,396
My dynamite left
will make the kill.

412
00:15:59,437 --> 00:16:01,856
Another step towards
the middleweight crown.

413
00:16:01,898 --> 00:16:04,567
Get ready, Monzon,
'cause you're going down.

414
00:16:04,609 --> 00:16:05,652
INTERVIEWER: All right.

415
00:16:06,861 --> 00:16:09,364
Who were you at age 16

416
00:16:09,406 --> 00:16:11,282
when you began to box?

417
00:16:11,324 --> 00:16:13,910
HAGLER:  I think at
that time, I was searching.

418
00:16:13,952 --> 00:16:17,789
My ambition, I think,
was to be somebody.

419
00:16:17,831 --> 00:16:20,417
My mother has six kids.
I'm the oldest.

420
00:16:20,458 --> 00:16:22,502
She just say,
"I like to see you grow up

421
00:16:22,544 --> 00:16:24,212
to be a strong boy.

422
00:16:24,254 --> 00:16:25,714
You gotta be different."

423
00:16:25,755 --> 00:16:27,549
I think, you know,
I had to be noticed

424
00:16:27,590 --> 00:16:29,884
so I could be recognized,
you know?

425
00:16:29,926 --> 00:16:32,637
Ah, he was only a kid
about 14 or 15 years old.

426
00:16:32,679 --> 00:16:34,347
Just that good,
tough, strong kid.

427
00:16:34,389 --> 00:16:37,183
You'd have to hit him with
a 2x4 to knock him down.

428
00:16:37,225 --> 00:16:39,978
And he'd come in the gym,
and uh, he always joked,

429
00:16:40,020 --> 00:16:41,771
"Someday, I'm gonna
be a champion."

430
00:16:41,813 --> 00:16:42,856
He was a short kid.

431
00:16:42,897 --> 00:16:44,357
You know,
we heard all the time.

432
00:16:44,399 --> 00:16:45,525
But he never gave up.

433
00:16:45,567 --> 00:16:47,694
That's his nature.

434
00:16:47,736 --> 00:16:49,654
Marvin was
a little bit behind me.

435
00:16:49,696 --> 00:16:51,114
We used to box.

436
00:16:51,156 --> 00:16:52,699
'Cause I was
more experienced,

437
00:16:52,741 --> 00:16:54,200
I used to go a little easy.

438
00:16:55,243 --> 00:16:56,703
And as time went by,

439
00:16:56,745 --> 00:16:59,289
Marvin had to go a little
easy with me.  (CHUCKLES)

440
00:17:00,623 --> 00:17:02,125
He was awarded
the outstanding fighter

441
00:17:02,167 --> 00:17:03,710
on the National
Amateur tournament.

442
00:17:03,752 --> 00:17:05,128
That's where Ray Leonard
get beat.

443
00:17:05,170 --> 00:17:08,006
Michael Spinks was there,
(INDISTINCT)  was on it.

444
00:17:08,048 --> 00:17:09,591
So Marvin was
the greatest, the toughest.

445
00:17:09,632 --> 00:17:10,925
Then we went for the money.

446
00:17:11,885 --> 00:17:14,012
Marvin didn't
have the luxury

447
00:17:14,054 --> 00:17:16,222
of trying to get
an Olympic pedigree.

448
00:17:16,264 --> 00:17:17,807
He had to turn pro

449
00:17:17,849 --> 00:17:20,143
and earn a living
for his family.

450
00:17:20,185 --> 00:17:22,020
And Leonard was able
to stay amateur

451
00:17:22,062 --> 00:17:25,065
and get to the Olympics
and build his name up.

452
00:17:27,609 --> 00:17:30,487
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
is a boxer from Brockton,

453
00:17:30,528 --> 00:17:31,780
and a good one.

454
00:17:31,821 --> 00:17:34,199
The only mar on his record
so far, a draw.

455
00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,284
I'm working on
the speed now, man.

456
00:17:36,326 --> 00:17:38,161
The power's there.
I have the power.

457
00:17:38,203 --> 00:17:39,913
My hands are getting
much faster,

458
00:17:39,954 --> 00:17:41,498
getting much smarter.

459
00:17:41,539 --> 00:17:42,874
And I'm learning every day.

460
00:17:42,916 --> 00:17:44,918
I'm learning
different things.

461
00:17:44,959 --> 00:17:46,252
The famous saying
about Marvin, of course,

462
00:17:46,294 --> 00:17:47,754
was that he had three
things go against him:

463
00:17:47,796 --> 00:17:49,255
He was black,
he was a southpaw,

464
00:17:49,297 --> 00:17:50,256
and he was good.

465
00:17:50,298 --> 00:17:51,508
So nobody wanted
to fight him

466
00:17:51,549 --> 00:17:52,759
till the money was right.

467
00:17:52,801 --> 00:17:54,719
A lot of guys
don't want to fight

468
00:17:54,761 --> 00:17:56,429
left-handed fighters.

469
00:17:56,471 --> 00:17:59,099
They say, "Oh, you can't
look good with a southpaw."

470
00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:01,601
INTERVIEWER:
What's the story?

471
00:18:01,643 --> 00:18:02,977
You've been going
three years,

472
00:18:03,019 --> 00:18:04,354
you know, when are you ready
to hit the big guy?

473
00:18:04,395 --> 00:18:05,522
HAGLER:  I'm looking.
I've been looking for him.

474
00:18:05,563 --> 00:18:06,648
I've been on radio,
I've been on TV.

475
00:18:06,689 --> 00:18:07,690
I've been calling
everybody out

476
00:18:07,732 --> 00:18:08,858
that I can think of.

477
00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:09,984
'Cause I ain't
heard nothing,

478
00:18:10,026 --> 00:18:11,528
and the longer they stay
away from me,

479
00:18:11,569 --> 00:18:12,654
the better I'm gonna get,

480
00:18:12,695 --> 00:18:14,280
so they better
come and get me now.

481
00:18:15,615 --> 00:18:17,659
You know, how many fights
do I have to fight

482
00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:18,952
before I have to prove
to these people

483
00:18:18,993 --> 00:18:21,412
that I'm eligible
for a middleweight title?

484
00:18:21,454 --> 00:18:23,540
I'm trying to see how
these other guys get a shot

485
00:18:23,581 --> 00:18:25,416
with only 16, 17 fights.

486
00:18:25,458 --> 00:18:27,585
Trying to learn
the politics about the game.

487
00:18:27,627 --> 00:18:29,921
What I believe they want me
to do is get disgusted.

488
00:18:29,963 --> 00:18:31,673
Get all torn down,
ready to give up,

489
00:18:31,714 --> 00:18:33,049
ready to quit.

490
00:18:33,091 --> 00:18:35,802
But I'm not. I take it out
on my opponents.

491
00:18:35,844 --> 00:18:37,762
There's a school of
thought that

492
00:18:37,804 --> 00:18:40,390
Marvin developed a chip
on his shoulder

493
00:18:40,431 --> 00:18:44,477
because people didn't
recognize how good he was.

494
00:18:44,519 --> 00:18:47,105
My sense is that Marvin
had a chip on his shoulder

495
00:18:47,147 --> 00:18:49,274
long before he entered
boxing,

496
00:18:49,315 --> 00:18:51,234
and he kept it there
his whole life.

497
00:18:56,114 --> 00:18:57,365
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

498
00:18:58,032 --> 00:18:59,701
(GRUNTS)

499
00:18:59,742 --> 00:19:01,911
Hagler, nobody
wanted to fight him.

500
00:19:01,953 --> 00:19:03,496
I was doing
all the middleweight

501
00:19:03,538 --> 00:19:04,956
championship fights

502
00:19:04,998 --> 00:19:08,751
and I got two letters
that came the same day.

503
00:19:08,793 --> 00:19:10,879
One was from Tip O'Neill

504
00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:12,755
and the other
from Teddy Kennedy

505
00:19:12,797 --> 00:19:16,426
that unless I gave their
constituent Marvin Hagler

506
00:19:16,467 --> 00:19:17,969
a shot at the title,

507
00:19:18,011 --> 00:19:21,139
I would have my ass
hauled before Congress.

508
00:19:21,181 --> 00:19:23,349
So I said, "Hey, I don't
need this trouble,"

509
00:19:23,391 --> 00:19:27,187
and I agreed to match him
for the world title.

510
00:19:30,481 --> 00:19:31,983
(GRUNTS)

511
00:19:32,025 --> 00:19:33,860
I'm gonna be mean and lean,

512
00:19:33,902 --> 00:19:35,695
destructive and destroy.

513
00:19:35,737 --> 00:19:37,530
It's all that's on my mind.

514
00:19:37,572 --> 00:19:41,993
Vito the Mosquito, I'm
gonna swat him like a fly.

515
00:19:42,035 --> 00:19:44,329
MAN:
Hagler chants his mantra

516
00:19:44,370 --> 00:19:46,206
about Vito Antuofermo,

517
00:19:46,247 --> 00:19:48,208
the middleweight champion
of the world,

518
00:19:48,249 --> 00:19:50,293
whom he meets in Las Vegas
next month

519
00:19:50,335 --> 00:19:52,212
with the undisputed title
at stake.

520
00:20:02,263 --> 00:20:05,266
Vito the Mosquito.
The man must fall.

521
00:20:06,434 --> 00:20:08,686
ARUM:  Marvin really
bitched at me.

522
00:20:08,728 --> 00:20:11,481
"Why am I on an undercard
with Leonard?

523
00:20:11,522 --> 00:20:14,525
This guy who has everything
done for him?"

524
00:20:14,567 --> 00:20:15,985
And I said, "Well, hey,

525
00:20:16,027 --> 00:20:18,029
that's how we got
on prime time,

526
00:20:18,071 --> 00:20:20,573
so just be thankful."

527
00:20:20,615 --> 00:20:23,076
COMMENTATOR:  Hagler totally
poised and calm.

528
00:20:24,452 --> 00:20:27,747
I've been mainly Southhall
style as Hagler.

529
00:20:27,789 --> 00:20:31,376
Look for him to mix that up
as the fight progresses.

530
00:20:31,417 --> 00:20:33,044
To me, that fight
is emblematic

531
00:20:33,086 --> 00:20:35,797
of what Marvin Hagler
faced in life.

532
00:20:35,838 --> 00:20:38,424
And I don't know
if it's a grand conspiracy.

533
00:20:38,466 --> 00:20:39,968
It was just
he was constantly

534
00:20:40,009 --> 00:20:42,095
looked past a little bit.

535
00:20:42,136 --> 00:20:44,305
Even with the way judges
scored his fights,

536
00:20:44,347 --> 00:20:46,766
the way people
perceived him sometimes,

537
00:20:46,808 --> 00:20:50,144
he just never quite got
the respect he deserved.

538
00:20:50,812 --> 00:20:52,563
(INDISTINCT COMMENTARY)

539
00:20:56,985 --> 00:20:58,653
A lot of people,
including Hagler,

540
00:20:58,695 --> 00:21:01,281
sure felt that he won
that fight against Vito,

541
00:21:01,322 --> 00:21:03,616
a guy that everyone thought
he'd run right through.

542
00:21:03,658 --> 00:21:06,411
COMMENTATOR:  Right then
left then combination.

543
00:21:06,452 --> 00:21:08,454
ATLAS:  Sometimes when you
fight a great fighter,

544
00:21:08,496 --> 00:21:09,914
it raises you up.

545
00:21:09,956 --> 00:21:11,249
On that night,

546
00:21:11,291 --> 00:21:13,126
Antuofermo
was a better fighter

547
00:21:13,167 --> 00:21:14,502
than he'd ever been
in his life.

548
00:21:20,675 --> 00:21:22,302
(BELL DINGING)

549
00:21:26,973 --> 00:21:28,808
MAN: The decision
is a draw.

550
00:21:28,850 --> 00:21:30,310
COMMENTATOR:  It's a draw.

551
00:21:31,811 --> 00:21:33,938
Vito retains the title!

552
00:21:33,980 --> 00:21:35,148
ATLAS:  Call it fate.

553
00:21:35,189 --> 00:21:36,357
Call it whatever
you want to call it.

554
00:21:36,399 --> 00:21:37,817
We're going to
give you a draw.

555
00:21:37,859 --> 00:21:41,279
Let's see if you're truly
worthy of this destiny.

556
00:21:41,321 --> 00:21:43,489
MAN 1:  One of the most
egregious decisions

557
00:21:43,531 --> 00:21:44,699
in boxing.

558
00:21:44,741 --> 00:21:46,284
MAN 2:  The worst screwing
Marvin ever got.

559
00:21:46,326 --> 00:21:48,202
MAN 3:  He won that fight
from here to Newark.

560
00:21:48,244 --> 00:21:50,538
MAN 4:  Clearly wins
the fight.

561
00:21:53,207 --> 00:21:54,792
ATLAS:  Somebody
had a plan for him.

562
00:21:54,834 --> 00:21:57,587
That voice up above,
that bellowing voice,

563
00:21:58,546 --> 00:22:01,382
"Marvin, not yet.

564
00:22:01,424 --> 00:22:02,884
You'll get
all the recognition

565
00:22:02,925 --> 00:22:04,344
that you strive for.

566
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,014
But yours has to be
a special journey.

567
00:22:08,681 --> 00:22:09,557
A harder journey."

568
00:22:13,144 --> 00:22:14,312
Good evening.

569
00:22:14,354 --> 00:22:16,481
I want to talk to you
right now

570
00:22:16,522 --> 00:22:21,861
about a fundamental threat
to American democracy.

571
00:22:21,903 --> 00:22:25,531
It is a crisis
of confidence.

572
00:22:25,573 --> 00:22:28,201
This period,
this transition if you like,

573
00:22:28,242 --> 00:22:31,120
from the 1970s
to the 1980s,

574
00:22:31,162 --> 00:22:35,291
is an extraordinary turning
point for the United States.

575
00:22:35,333 --> 00:22:38,086
Carter was extremely
decent man,

576
00:22:38,127 --> 00:22:40,004
but he was not
a good president

577
00:22:40,046 --> 00:22:41,547
in terms of being
a bureaucrat

578
00:22:41,589 --> 00:22:43,174
or getting things
through Congress.

579
00:22:43,216 --> 00:22:44,884
He's a peanut farmer

580
00:22:44,926 --> 00:22:47,387
and he don't know how to run
this country. Believe it.

581
00:22:47,428 --> 00:22:49,722
I think you can't give a boy
a man's job.

582
00:22:49,764 --> 00:22:51,891
He's trying to convince
the American people

583
00:22:51,933 --> 00:22:53,434
to trust him

584
00:22:53,476 --> 00:22:55,603
and these people
just don't want to hear

585
00:22:55,645 --> 00:22:57,063
what he's having to say.

586
00:22:57,105 --> 00:22:58,606
Americans are hurting.

587
00:22:58,648 --> 00:23:00,942
So what does
Jimmy Carter do?

588
00:23:00,983 --> 00:23:02,527
He scolds Americans.

589
00:23:02,568 --> 00:23:04,487
He says, "We're going to
have to tighten our belts."

590
00:23:04,529 --> 00:23:07,365
Too many of us now
tend to worship

591
00:23:07,407 --> 00:23:10,576
self-indulgence
and consumption.

592
00:23:10,618 --> 00:23:14,247
Human identity
is no longer defined

593
00:23:14,288 --> 00:23:19,252
by what one does,
but by what one owns.

594
00:23:19,293 --> 00:23:21,087
Will you come in,
Mystery Challenger,

595
00:23:21,129 --> 00:23:22,296
and sign in, please?

596
00:23:27,218 --> 00:23:28,928
Well, judging
from the applause,

597
00:23:28,970 --> 00:23:30,888
I take it that
you are a performer?

598
00:23:30,930 --> 00:23:32,390
I don't know. Yeah, yeah.

599
00:23:32,432 --> 00:23:34,434
That's right, that's right,
that's right.

600
00:23:34,475 --> 00:23:36,686
Are you good looking and uh,

601
00:23:36,727 --> 00:23:39,605
considered a dreamboat type
by the girls?

602
00:23:39,647 --> 00:23:41,774
You have your answer there,
Miss Dorothy.

603
00:23:41,816 --> 00:23:43,067
DOROTHY:
Are you Ronald Reagan?

604
00:23:43,109 --> 00:23:44,819
Ronald Reagan.
That's right.

605
00:23:44,861 --> 00:23:47,947
Ronald Reagan would
come on screen on a horse

606
00:23:47,989 --> 00:23:49,282
with his cowboy hat.

607
00:23:49,323 --> 00:23:51,409
First of all he's Governor
of California,

608
00:23:51,451 --> 00:23:54,162
But he was also an actor,
he was a movie star.

609
00:23:54,203 --> 00:23:56,122
People are like
"He's going to help us."

610
00:23:56,164 --> 00:23:57,623
When I was a kid,
a friend of mine,

611
00:23:57,665 --> 00:23:59,333
his mother would give him
castor oil.

612
00:23:59,375 --> 00:24:01,711
I tried it once.
It's just nasty as hell.

613
00:24:01,752 --> 00:24:03,921
But that's Carter, like
"Look, this is the truth.

614
00:24:03,963 --> 00:24:05,214
Here's your castor oil."

615
00:24:05,256 --> 00:24:07,175
Reagan's giving you
a spoonful of sugar.

616
00:24:07,216 --> 00:24:08,801
Now that's not good for you,
but it is like,

617
00:24:08,843 --> 00:24:11,804
"Give me some more that.
I want some more."

618
00:24:11,846 --> 00:24:14,056
GREER:  You don't know
a seismic shift,

619
00:24:14,098 --> 00:24:15,808
except in retrospect.

620
00:24:15,850 --> 00:24:18,644
When I look back now,
of course, it was massive.

621
00:24:18,686 --> 00:24:22,815
Muhammad Ali made boxing
a metaphor for the struggle.

622
00:24:22,857 --> 00:24:24,942
ALI:  I want to use my name
for righteousness,

623
00:24:24,984 --> 00:24:26,986
for Allah's sake,
for God's sake,

624
00:24:27,028 --> 00:24:28,738
for helping my people unite.

625
00:24:28,779 --> 00:24:31,324
This is the main thing
that keeps me fighting.

626
00:24:31,365 --> 00:24:34,744
GREER:  But by the '80s,
it becomes a metaphor

627
00:24:34,785 --> 00:24:37,997
for this whole idea
of individualism

628
00:24:38,039 --> 00:24:41,000
you know, every man, woman
for him or herself.

629
00:24:41,042 --> 00:24:42,168
You know, people ask me
to say,

630
00:24:42,210 --> 00:24:44,921
"Hey, did you try
to surpass Ali

631
00:24:44,962 --> 00:24:46,506
in as far as
doing his thing?"

632
00:24:46,547 --> 00:24:50,176
I said "Physically,
I don't try to surpass Ali,

633
00:24:50,218 --> 00:24:51,511
financially I do."

634
00:24:51,552 --> 00:24:53,679
(LAUGHTER)

635
00:24:53,721 --> 00:24:55,848
Leonard was
the golden boy.

636
00:24:55,890 --> 00:24:57,141
He got the gold medal

637
00:24:57,183 --> 00:24:58,476
and because he had
the gold medal,

638
00:24:58,518 --> 00:25:00,228
you know, he's fighting
for $40,000

639
00:25:00,269 --> 00:25:01,604
in his first pro fight

640
00:25:01,646 --> 00:25:02,772
and, of course,

641
00:25:02,813 --> 00:25:04,524
Hagler was taking
the tougher route.

642
00:25:04,565 --> 00:25:07,235
MAN: So I take the pictures
so that we can simulate

643
00:25:07,276 --> 00:25:09,695
that it's near
the end of the fight.

644
00:25:09,737 --> 00:25:12,031
You know, I want you
to be kind of tired

645
00:25:12,073 --> 00:25:13,533
but victorious.

646
00:25:14,325 --> 00:25:15,451
A guy like Hagler,

647
00:25:15,493 --> 00:25:17,370
he wasn't image conscious
at all.

648
00:25:18,538 --> 00:25:20,248
He just wanted to be
a fighter,

649
00:25:20,289 --> 00:25:21,749
Given what he had to do

650
00:25:21,791 --> 00:25:23,709
and the price he had to pay
to reach the top,

651
00:25:23,751 --> 00:25:24,961
he's going to look at
a guy like Leonard

652
00:25:25,002 --> 00:25:27,129
and say "Everything
was handed to him."

653
00:25:27,171 --> 00:25:28,548
Even though
that wasn't true,

654
00:25:28,589 --> 00:25:30,216
it's very easy to see how
Marvin would think that.

655
00:25:30,258 --> 00:25:32,301
(ANNOUNCER SPEAKING)

656
00:25:40,434 --> 00:25:41,978
MAN: That bald-headed
fellow there

657
00:25:42,019 --> 00:25:43,229
is Marvin Hagler, Don.

658
00:25:43,271 --> 00:25:44,689
DON: I'm glad to know that,
Larry.

659
00:25:44,730 --> 00:25:46,816
LARRY: He is the most
outstanding fighter

660
00:25:46,857 --> 00:25:49,735
to come out of this region
in recent years.

661
00:25:49,777 --> 00:25:52,196
With Hagler,
he's just good.

662
00:25:52,238 --> 00:25:54,740
But that doesn't work
for a promoter sometimes.

663
00:25:55,783 --> 00:25:57,410
What else are you?

664
00:25:57,451 --> 00:25:58,911
Tell me, what else you got?

665
00:26:00,204 --> 00:26:02,081
I remember Ray
was doing commentary

666
00:26:02,123 --> 00:26:03,249
on national television.

667
00:26:03,291 --> 00:26:04,584
Ray spoke beautifully.

668
00:26:04,625 --> 00:26:06,419
Marvin was
a little more shy.

669
00:26:06,460 --> 00:26:07,837
Sugar Ray Leonard,
Ladies and gentlemen.

670
00:26:07,878 --> 00:26:10,339
You look right into there,
let them have a look at you.

671
00:26:10,381 --> 00:26:12,758
ATLAS:  So you combine
all these factors

672
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,552
and it took a while longer
for Marvin

673
00:26:14,594 --> 00:26:16,721
to get recognized
by American television.

674
00:26:21,851 --> 00:26:24,145
ANNOUNCER:  Spanning
the globe to bring you

675
00:26:24,186 --> 00:26:26,439
the constant variety
of sport.

676
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,443
Today, live on ABC's
Wide World of Sports,

677
00:26:30,484 --> 00:26:32,069
you're going to see boxing

678
00:26:32,111 --> 00:26:35,740
of the most exciting type
in the world.

679
00:26:35,781 --> 00:26:38,117
Well, we're on camera now,
Sugar Ray.

680
00:26:38,159 --> 00:26:39,619
And that's the Clint Jackson

681
00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:42,788
that we really expected
to be fighting at Montreal.

682
00:26:43,914 --> 00:26:45,708
Well, he's well groomed.

683
00:26:45,750 --> 00:26:47,960
I wish you'd put on
your headset, Sugar Ray,

684
00:26:48,002 --> 00:26:49,378
so we can hear you.

685
00:26:49,420 --> 00:26:51,130
That was an exciting fight,

686
00:26:51,172 --> 00:26:53,424
one of the best
we have seen,

687
00:26:53,466 --> 00:26:55,301
and we've seen nothing
but good fights today.

688
00:26:55,343 --> 00:26:56,761
Right now coming up,

689
00:26:56,802 --> 00:26:59,305
you're going to see
a youngster from Detroit.

690
00:26:59,347 --> 00:27:01,932
Just 17 years of age,
named Hearns,

691
00:27:01,974 --> 00:27:04,894
one of the slickest boxers
you'd want to see.

692
00:27:04,935 --> 00:27:06,520
Tommy "The Hitman" Hearns

693
00:27:06,562 --> 00:27:08,856
was a brilliantly
gifted fighter

694
00:27:08,898 --> 00:27:11,150
from the Kronk Gym
in Detroit,

695
00:27:11,192 --> 00:27:13,152
described by
Emanuel Steward,

696
00:27:13,194 --> 00:27:14,195
his Hall of Fame trainer,

697
00:27:14,236 --> 00:27:15,780
as the Elvis Presley
of boxing.

698
00:27:17,365 --> 00:27:20,409
BERNSTEIN:  Hearns, live,
angular, splendid.

699
00:27:20,451 --> 00:27:22,703
Has a lot of movement.

700
00:27:22,745 --> 00:27:24,914
Sugar Ray,
that's what it takes

701
00:27:24,955 --> 00:27:26,457
to beat these fighters,
doesn't it?

702
00:27:26,499 --> 00:27:28,834
LEONARD:  Hearns is a
good, clean boxer

703
00:27:28,876 --> 00:27:31,462
and he has a good height
and quickness.

704
00:27:31,504 --> 00:27:34,173
This is a great asset
in amateur boxing.

705
00:27:34,215 --> 00:27:36,425
BERNSTEIN:
Hearns 17, you 21,

706
00:27:36,467 --> 00:27:38,094
you're getting old,
Sugar Ray.

707
00:27:38,135 --> 00:27:39,512
(LEONARD CHUCKLES)
Not yet, Al.

708
00:27:42,973 --> 00:27:44,266
COMMENTATOR:
We thought there could be

709
00:27:44,308 --> 00:27:45,685
no question about it.

710
00:27:45,726 --> 00:27:48,437
So, the United States takes
a five to three...

711
00:27:52,817 --> 00:27:54,694
Tommy was
a great amateur,

712
00:27:54,735 --> 00:27:55,945
really accomplished amateur.

713
00:27:55,986 --> 00:27:58,280
Emanuel Steward
strengthened Tommy,

714
00:27:58,322 --> 00:27:59,824
and it was a bond
that lasted

715
00:27:59,865 --> 00:28:00,825
all through their life.

716
00:28:03,577 --> 00:28:05,204
COMMENTATOR:  Oh,
that's a left to the body

717
00:28:05,246 --> 00:28:06,497
and right to the chin.

718
00:28:06,539 --> 00:28:08,207
One of the best combinations
in boxing.

719
00:28:08,249 --> 00:28:10,501
Thomas lost
close decisions,

720
00:28:10,543 --> 00:28:13,337
the Olympic trials
back to Aaron Pryor,

721
00:28:13,379 --> 00:28:15,047
who was 20 years old
at the time,

722
00:28:15,089 --> 00:28:16,716
a big political favorite.

723
00:28:16,757 --> 00:28:20,010
ANNOUNCER:  That's it.
Pryor is your champion.

724
00:28:33,274 --> 00:28:34,608
O'BRIEN:  For Hearns,

725
00:28:34,650 --> 00:28:36,444
the disappointment
of missing the Olympics

726
00:28:36,485 --> 00:28:38,696
fueled him to changing
that style.

727
00:28:38,738 --> 00:28:40,281
So he became
a very different

728
00:28:40,322 --> 00:28:41,824
and very effective pro.

729
00:28:41,866 --> 00:28:43,159
STEWARD:
When he turned professional

730
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,744
we focused a lot on

731
00:28:44,785 --> 00:28:46,579
teaching him to tighten up
at the end of the punches,

732
00:28:46,620 --> 00:28:47,872
add a little bit more
body weight,

733
00:28:47,913 --> 00:28:50,499
but still maintain
his boxing skills.

734
00:28:50,541 --> 00:28:52,042
Tommy as an amateur

735
00:28:52,084 --> 00:28:53,753
was more of the peck
and poke style.

736
00:28:53,794 --> 00:28:56,589
Tall guy, 6'2",
jabbed a lot,

737
00:28:56,630 --> 00:28:58,549
hadn't discovered the power
in his right hand,

738
00:28:58,591 --> 00:28:59,759
probably because
he hadn't been taught

739
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,051
how to properly
throw the right hand.

740
00:29:01,093 --> 00:29:02,762
Enter Emanuel Steward,
all of a sudden,

741
00:29:02,803 --> 00:29:04,430
you have
a tremendous puncher.

742
00:29:05,973 --> 00:29:08,768
MAN:  Young and handsome,
and somewhat shy

743
00:29:08,809 --> 00:29:10,936
Tommy turned pro
only last year.

744
00:29:10,978 --> 00:29:12,772
He's demolished
all of his opponents

745
00:29:12,813 --> 00:29:14,106
by knockout.

746
00:29:14,148 --> 00:29:15,649
INTERVIEWER:  When you came
in here at Kronk,

747
00:29:15,691 --> 00:29:17,693
when you were just a kid,

748
00:29:17,735 --> 00:29:19,779
did you ever think
you'd do this much?

749
00:29:19,820 --> 00:29:22,239
Yes, I felt that, you know,
as I was coming up,

750
00:29:22,281 --> 00:29:24,200
I used to have dreams that

751
00:29:24,241 --> 00:29:26,994
I would at some time be
the champion of the world.

752
00:29:28,037 --> 00:29:29,830
(CROWD CHEERING)

753
00:29:31,957 --> 00:29:34,001
I realized near
the very beginning,

754
00:29:34,043 --> 00:29:35,294
"This kid's a freak."

755
00:29:35,336 --> 00:29:36,670
Most of the welterweights

756
00:29:36,712 --> 00:29:38,589
were, you know, 5'7", 5'8".

757
00:29:38,631 --> 00:29:40,299
He's like 6'1.5"

758
00:29:40,341 --> 00:29:42,343
and he's got
a 78 inch reach.

759
00:29:45,763 --> 00:29:48,808
He was just different.
He stood out.

760
00:29:50,559 --> 00:29:52,853
(CROWD CHEERING)

761
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:55,648
INTERVIEWER:  Okay.
What's next?

762
00:29:55,689 --> 00:29:57,441
-Can you get Sugar Ray?
-I don't think so.

763
00:29:57,483 --> 00:29:58,651
-No?
-No.

764
00:29:58,692 --> 00:30:00,236
Leonard won't fight us
on any conditions

765
00:30:00,277 --> 00:30:01,570
we have been told,
he'll wait

766
00:30:01,612 --> 00:30:02,947
until Tommy grows
into middleweight

767
00:30:02,988 --> 00:30:04,406
which means he'll have to
wait for two years

768
00:30:04,448 --> 00:30:05,491
before making his move.

769
00:30:06,659 --> 00:30:08,661
(INDISTINCT COMMENTARY)

770
00:30:14,708 --> 00:30:17,586
Thomas combined that
huge reach and height

771
00:30:17,628 --> 00:30:19,672
with frightening
right-hand power.

772
00:30:23,384 --> 00:30:24,969
And in boxing,
for boxing fans,

773
00:30:25,010 --> 00:30:27,555
there is nothing as
appealing as a big puncher.

774
00:30:29,181 --> 00:30:30,391
INTERVIEWER:
What's your strategy?

775
00:30:30,432 --> 00:30:31,684
Well, first two rounds

776
00:30:31,725 --> 00:30:33,352
I was planning on
just coming out,

777
00:30:33,394 --> 00:30:34,979
just trying to give
my boxing best

778
00:30:35,020 --> 00:30:37,022
then I would try
bigger shots from there.

779
00:30:37,064 --> 00:30:38,899
Knockout or are you gonna
predict anything?

780
00:30:38,941 --> 00:30:41,527
Not predicting, I'm not
predicting anything.

781
00:30:41,569 --> 00:30:43,028
MAN:  Tommy Hearns
is unbeaten,

782
00:30:43,070 --> 00:30:45,072
winning all his fights
by knockouts,

783
00:30:45,114 --> 00:30:46,866
all by the third round.

784
00:30:46,907 --> 00:30:49,159
But he'll be put to the test
by Pedro Rojas,

785
00:30:49,201 --> 00:30:51,745
ranked third in the world
by the World Boxing Council.

786
00:30:51,787 --> 00:30:53,998
Rojas will be Hearns'
stiffest test to date.

787
00:30:59,753 --> 00:31:02,381
When Tommy turned pro,
he was popping 'em out.

788
00:31:02,423 --> 00:31:03,674
One fight after another

789
00:31:03,716 --> 00:31:05,009
at the Olympia Stadium
in Detroit.

790
00:31:05,050 --> 00:31:06,635
Pop, another one
round there.

791
00:31:06,677 --> 00:31:08,053
Pop, another one
round knockout.

792
00:31:13,767 --> 00:31:15,728
You did not get
popcorn or beer

793
00:31:15,769 --> 00:31:17,146
before the fight started.

794
00:31:18,188 --> 00:31:19,398
You sat down there,

795
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:20,566
'cause if you blinked

796
00:31:20,608 --> 00:31:21,901
or you started talking
to someone else,

797
00:31:21,942 --> 00:31:23,569
you would miss that fight.

798
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,823
(BELL DINGING)

799
00:31:29,533 --> 00:31:30,576
MAN:  I thought you said

800
00:31:30,618 --> 00:31:31,577
you're gonna
give us a chance.

801
00:31:31,619 --> 00:31:32,578
You were gonna coast
the first round.

802
00:31:32,620 --> 00:31:33,412
Why did you beat him
so quick?

803
00:31:33,454 --> 00:31:34,955
I never said that.

804
00:31:34,997 --> 00:31:37,082
What do you think, Emanuel,
now? What's next for Tommy?

805
00:31:37,124 --> 00:31:39,043
Whoever's between us
and the championship,

806
00:31:39,084 --> 00:31:41,879
that's who we want next,
that is willing to fight us.

807
00:31:41,921 --> 00:31:44,256
Although most of the guys
are afraid.

808
00:31:44,298 --> 00:31:47,301
Leonard was the one
that we wanted.

809
00:31:47,343 --> 00:31:49,887
Emanuel and Tommy,
everybody talked.

810
00:31:49,929 --> 00:31:52,264
Ray Leonard, Ray Leonard,
Ray Leonard.

811
00:31:52,306 --> 00:31:54,224
There's been
a lot of criticism that

812
00:31:54,266 --> 00:31:56,310
I'm afraid to fight
Tommy Hearns.

813
00:31:57,853 --> 00:31:59,271
I will say that
when the money is right,

814
00:31:59,313 --> 00:32:00,272
then I will fight.

815
00:32:00,314 --> 00:32:01,482
But you're not dodging
him or anything?

816
00:32:01,523 --> 00:32:02,983
No, that's baloney.

817
00:32:03,025 --> 00:32:04,526
I mean, just put him
in the ring

818
00:32:04,568 --> 00:32:06,111
and I got a very talented
youngster.

819
00:32:06,153 --> 00:32:07,363
He's very talented.

820
00:32:07,404 --> 00:32:09,615
What the heck? Let's go.

821
00:32:09,657 --> 00:32:12,618
Sugar Ray Leonard
had higher ambitions

822
00:32:12,660 --> 00:32:14,203
than Tommy Hearns.

823
00:32:14,244 --> 00:32:16,246
Didn't want to just be
a great champion.

824
00:32:16,288 --> 00:32:19,583
He wanted to be something
beyond that.

825
00:32:19,625 --> 00:32:22,544
LEONARD:  I had a certain
persona that was different.

826
00:32:22,586 --> 00:32:24,129
In other words,
people considered me

827
00:32:24,171 --> 00:32:26,632
more of a personality
than just a boxer.

828
00:32:27,341 --> 00:32:29,051
And I value that.

829
00:32:29,093 --> 00:32:31,762
The Four Kings model
is so interesting to me

830
00:32:31,804 --> 00:32:33,806
because you really have
Ray Leonard

831
00:32:33,847 --> 00:32:36,475
as the only
marketable figure,

832
00:32:36,517 --> 00:32:38,477
the only person
who can speak

833
00:32:38,519 --> 00:32:40,521
to the educated masses.

834
00:32:40,562 --> 00:32:43,983
We talk about fighters
who understand the media

835
00:32:44,024 --> 00:32:46,652
and can talk better and
get their point across.

836
00:32:46,694 --> 00:32:48,445
The same thing
with politicians.

837
00:32:48,487 --> 00:32:51,699
Reagan was an actor,
but people bought into it.

838
00:32:51,740 --> 00:32:52,908
He could talk to you.

839
00:32:54,034 --> 00:32:56,328
Most voters
in the United States

840
00:32:56,370 --> 00:32:59,164
are what we would call
low information voters.

841
00:32:59,206 --> 00:33:01,166
It's much more based
on marketing.

842
00:33:01,208 --> 00:33:03,502
If a candidate can come up
with the right slogan,

843
00:33:03,544 --> 00:33:06,338
that candidate has a huge
advantage over other people.

844
00:33:06,380 --> 00:33:07,589
And Reagan did that.

845
00:33:07,631 --> 00:33:10,718
...and that you,
along with us,

846
00:33:10,759 --> 00:33:13,679
can make America
great again.

847
00:33:13,721 --> 00:33:15,264
That's what
we're going to do.

848
00:33:15,305 --> 00:33:16,849
Thank you very much.

849
00:33:18,684 --> 00:33:20,436
Remember
the American electorate

850
00:33:20,477 --> 00:33:24,773
think that all politicians
are crooks, are liars.

851
00:33:24,815 --> 00:33:26,525
The candidate
they'll support

852
00:33:26,567 --> 00:33:30,362
is the one they think
will give them something

853
00:33:30,404 --> 00:33:31,780
because they expect

854
00:33:31,822 --> 00:33:34,199
from the average politician,
nothing.

855
00:33:34,241 --> 00:33:37,369
You can make your family's
life much better.

856
00:33:37,411 --> 00:33:39,496
WOLFF:  He had the corporate
seal of approval

857
00:33:39,538 --> 00:33:42,207
from one of the five most
important corporations

858
00:33:42,249 --> 00:33:43,292
in America,

859
00:33:43,333 --> 00:33:44,835
namely General Electric.

860
00:33:44,877 --> 00:33:47,421
...for General Electric,
here is Ronald Reagan.

861
00:33:47,463 --> 00:33:49,006
People thought
that he was

862
00:33:49,048 --> 00:33:51,383
at the edges of
the Republican Party.

863
00:33:51,425 --> 00:33:53,761
So by the time
you get to the '80s,

864
00:33:53,802 --> 00:33:55,095
this is a man
who's been governor,

865
00:33:55,137 --> 00:33:56,513
this is a man
who's tried to get

866
00:33:56,555 --> 00:33:58,390
the Republican nomination
a couple of times.

867
00:33:58,432 --> 00:34:00,267
So he had his hands
on the pulse of

868
00:34:00,309 --> 00:34:02,269
American conservativism.

869
00:34:02,311 --> 00:34:05,105
He was a sure
mannequin speaking

870
00:34:05,147 --> 00:34:07,775
whatever lines
the people around him wrote.

871
00:34:07,816 --> 00:34:09,735
REAGAN:  A troubled
and afflicted mankind

872
00:34:09,777 --> 00:34:11,236
looks to us

873
00:34:11,278 --> 00:34:15,282
that we will become
that shining city on a hill.

874
00:34:15,324 --> 00:34:16,700
I believe that together,

875
00:34:16,742 --> 00:34:19,244
we can keep this rendezvous
with destiny.

876
00:34:22,372 --> 00:34:24,750
And that's the same kind of
thing with Ray Leonard.

877
00:34:24,792 --> 00:34:25,918
Leonard was a darling.

878
00:34:25,959 --> 00:34:28,170
He wasn't a threat
to America.

879
00:34:28,212 --> 00:34:30,714
Everybody embraced him
because he had that smile

880
00:34:30,756 --> 00:34:32,049
and all he was doing
was fighting

881
00:34:32,091 --> 00:34:33,842
and he wasn't saying
anything else.

882
00:34:33,884 --> 00:34:35,302
You know, I feel like
an idiot doing this.

883
00:34:36,303 --> 00:34:38,013
(OLD SCHOOL RAP MUSIC PLAYING)

884
00:34:40,224 --> 00:34:43,435
(SINGING JINGLE)

885
00:34:43,477 --> 00:34:46,021
To call
Sugar Ray Leonard apolitical

886
00:34:46,063 --> 00:34:48,357
is to ignore the politics
of the '80s.

887
00:34:48,398 --> 00:34:49,942
Sugar Ray Leonard's
narrative

888
00:34:49,983 --> 00:34:52,194
was that he was
a bootstraps capitalist

889
00:34:52,236 --> 00:34:54,238
who pulled himself up
from nothing,

890
00:34:54,279 --> 00:34:56,573
who supported the country,
who was patriotic.

891
00:34:56,615 --> 00:34:59,118
It plays into
Reagan's narrative well.

892
00:34:59,159 --> 00:35:00,828
I'm so glad
you could join us.

893
00:35:00,869 --> 00:35:02,162
I love your commercials.

894
00:35:02,204 --> 00:35:03,914
That's the problem
of so many fighters.

895
00:35:03,956 --> 00:35:05,165
You want to be accepted.

896
00:35:05,207 --> 00:35:06,416
You think of
Mohammed Ali,

897
00:35:06,458 --> 00:35:07,626
how great he was.

898
00:35:07,668 --> 00:35:09,169
The only things
I remember him endorsing

899
00:35:09,211 --> 00:35:11,338
was roach spray
and shoe polish.

900
00:35:11,380 --> 00:35:12,631
I mean roaches.

901
00:35:12,673 --> 00:35:15,092
I'm going to show you
how you remove roaches.

902
00:35:15,134 --> 00:35:17,010
PAIGE:  I think it's safe
to say that Ray Leonard

903
00:35:17,052 --> 00:35:18,637
was the first of a group

904
00:35:18,679 --> 00:35:20,389
of television babies
and athletes

905
00:35:20,430 --> 00:35:23,433
where he wasn't doing
an ethnic commercial.

906
00:35:23,475 --> 00:35:24,685
He was doing 7up.

907
00:35:24,726 --> 00:35:25,978
He was doing commercials

908
00:35:26,019 --> 00:35:27,813
that would run
on all network.

909
00:35:27,855 --> 00:35:29,606
I can feel
it's coming now

910
00:35:29,648 --> 00:35:31,150
A fresh look on the sea

911
00:35:31,191 --> 00:35:33,152
With a whole new
style of living

912
00:35:33,193 --> 00:35:35,612
Light and crisp
and clean

913
00:35:35,654 --> 00:35:37,489
Ray Leonard recognized

914
00:35:37,531 --> 00:35:39,324
there was an inevitable

915
00:35:39,366 --> 00:35:42,995
new age of entertainment
and sports

916
00:35:43,036 --> 00:35:45,414
getting closer and closer
to each other.

917
00:35:47,457 --> 00:35:48,584
He planted the seed

918
00:35:48,625 --> 00:35:50,752
where so many athletes,
not just boxing,

919
00:35:50,794 --> 00:35:52,004
but in other sports, saying,

920
00:35:52,045 --> 00:35:53,797
"Wait a minute,
there's money to be made."

921
00:35:53,839 --> 00:35:56,133
Yes, it's safe to say
that Leonard paved the way

922
00:35:56,175 --> 00:35:57,426
for somebody like
Michael Jordan

923
00:35:57,467 --> 00:35:58,635
who was making more money
off the court

924
00:35:58,677 --> 00:35:59,845
than on the court.

925
00:36:01,555 --> 00:36:03,765
REPORTER:  The 7up people
threw a luncheon

926
00:36:03,807 --> 00:36:05,517
in New York City recently

927
00:36:05,559 --> 00:36:08,270
to show off their
bright new salesman.

928
00:36:08,312 --> 00:36:10,898
Well, here is a man
who is a champion

929
00:36:10,939 --> 00:36:14,776
in the ring and out of it.
Sugar Ray Leonard.

930
00:36:14,818 --> 00:36:15,736
REPORTER:
The champion earned

931
00:36:15,777 --> 00:36:17,112
an extra measure of respect

932
00:36:17,154 --> 00:36:18,614
from these businessmen.

933
00:36:18,655 --> 00:36:22,242
After all, he's Sugar Ray
Leonard Incorporated.

934
00:36:22,284 --> 00:36:24,661
The real brains
behind Ray Leonard

935
00:36:24,703 --> 00:36:26,413
was Mike Trainer,
who was a divorce lawyer

936
00:36:26,455 --> 00:36:28,207
from Silver Spring,
Maryland.

937
00:36:28,248 --> 00:36:31,376
Because of Trainer,
Ray was able to remain

938
00:36:31,418 --> 00:36:34,338
a promotional free agent
for most of his career.

939
00:36:34,379 --> 00:36:36,381
That was unheard of
at the time.

940
00:36:36,423 --> 00:36:38,884
In boxing, everything starts
with a promoter.

941
00:36:38,926 --> 00:36:40,219
In those days,
if you didn't have

942
00:36:40,260 --> 00:36:42,054
a major league
power promoter

943
00:36:42,095 --> 00:36:44,389
backing you,
you never get a chance.

944
00:36:44,431 --> 00:36:46,391
We decided that
we try to do it ourselves

945
00:36:46,433 --> 00:36:47,392
in the beginning

946
00:36:47,434 --> 00:36:49,394
and establish
Ray's market value,

947
00:36:49,436 --> 00:36:50,729
go directly to arenas,

948
00:36:50,771 --> 00:36:52,314
go directly to TV,

949
00:36:52,356 --> 00:36:54,358
put on our own show,
so to speak.

950
00:36:54,399 --> 00:36:57,569
I'm independent and I always
will remain independent.

951
00:36:57,611 --> 00:36:59,196
If I was owned by anyone,

952
00:36:59,238 --> 00:37:01,531
I would not be a
professional fighter today.

953
00:37:01,573 --> 00:37:03,659
You know, a lot
of promoters fear me.

954
00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:05,118
They fear what
Sugar Ray Leonard

955
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,162
and his people
have established.

956
00:37:07,204 --> 00:37:09,081
I think Trainer's
an ingrate.

957
00:37:09,122 --> 00:37:10,540
He's unappreciative.

958
00:37:11,041 --> 00:37:12,626
I think that, uh,

959
00:37:12,668 --> 00:37:16,046
he's the type of guy
that is very selfish.

960
00:37:16,088 --> 00:37:17,547
In every year of boxing,

961
00:37:17,589 --> 00:37:19,716
there's one or two
promotional groups

962
00:37:19,758 --> 00:37:21,134
at the top of the pyramid.

963
00:37:21,176 --> 00:37:22,761
Bob Arum and Don King

964
00:37:22,803 --> 00:37:25,222
did really control the sport
during that era.

965
00:37:25,264 --> 00:37:27,057
I made more millionaires
out of prize fighters

966
00:37:27,099 --> 00:37:28,850
than anyone in history.

967
00:37:28,892 --> 00:37:30,936
This was done
by enterprise,

968
00:37:30,978 --> 00:37:33,438
what America truly
is founded upon.

969
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,565
King came off
of the streets.

970
00:37:35,607 --> 00:37:39,778
He was the largest
Number Czar in Cleveland.

971
00:37:39,820 --> 00:37:41,196
He killed two people,

972
00:37:41,238 --> 00:37:43,365
went to jail
for manslaughter.

973
00:37:44,074 --> 00:37:47,202
Very tough street guy.

974
00:37:47,244 --> 00:37:48,787
And then you have Bob Arum,

975
00:37:48,829 --> 00:37:52,207
who grew up in a Hasidic
neighborhood in Brooklyn,

976
00:37:52,249 --> 00:37:54,960
went to NYU and
Harvard Law School,

977
00:37:55,002 --> 00:37:57,421
worked in
the U.S. Attorney's office.

978
00:37:57,462 --> 00:37:59,923
Bob Arum got
his start in boxing

979
00:37:59,965 --> 00:38:01,550
with Muhammad Ali.

980
00:38:01,591 --> 00:38:04,845
King and Arum,
their tentacles just reached

981
00:38:04,886 --> 00:38:07,556
further and further
and further.

982
00:38:07,597 --> 00:38:10,434
I think King cared
more about being famous,

983
00:38:10,475 --> 00:38:12,227
than Arum did, maybe.

984
00:38:12,269 --> 00:38:16,398
It was more in the DNA
of King to be flamboyant.

985
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,359
It's showmanship.
Entertainment business.

986
00:38:19,401 --> 00:38:21,320
My responsibility
as a promoter

987
00:38:21,361 --> 00:38:24,489
is to present great events
and to sell tickets.

988
00:38:24,531 --> 00:38:27,117
And to try
to hype that event

989
00:38:27,159 --> 00:38:29,828
until you get a groundswell
of public opinion

990
00:38:29,870 --> 00:38:31,663
that will
support that event.

991
00:38:31,705 --> 00:38:33,123
(LAUGHS)

992
00:38:33,165 --> 00:38:35,083
My job is to promote.

993
00:38:35,125 --> 00:38:36,418
MAN:  Arum and King,

994
00:38:36,460 --> 00:38:38,378
they became their
own antagonist.

995
00:38:38,420 --> 00:38:40,922
You had those two guys
to warm you up,

996
00:38:40,964 --> 00:38:43,550
to let you know that
there was static in the air,

997
00:38:43,592 --> 00:38:45,677
and static in the hair.

998
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,846
Mike Trainer had an idea

999
00:38:47,888 --> 00:38:50,349
to keep Ray independent,

1000
00:38:50,390 --> 00:38:53,310
but he didn't know anything
about closed circuit,

1001
00:38:53,352 --> 00:38:56,313
he didn't know how to make
deals with exhibitors.

1002
00:38:56,355 --> 00:38:59,024
We had been
doing that for years.

1003
00:38:59,066 --> 00:39:01,610
So in order
to do an event,

1004
00:39:01,651 --> 00:39:05,155
he had a go to us,
make us the promoter,

1005
00:39:05,197 --> 00:39:08,575
which he did
with the Duran fight.

1006
00:39:08,617 --> 00:39:11,036
When you are
the number one guy.

1007
00:39:11,078 --> 00:39:13,330
you fight who you want,
when you want,

1008
00:39:13,372 --> 00:39:16,041
where you want,
for how much money you want.

1009
00:39:16,083 --> 00:39:18,251
That was Ray Leonard.
He was number one.

1010
00:39:18,293 --> 00:39:19,795
He was a star fighter

1011
00:39:19,836 --> 00:39:21,380
who could have
fought anyone.

1012
00:39:21,421 --> 00:39:23,256
And he picked Roberto Duran.

1013
00:39:23,298 --> 00:39:24,800
And that was his way

1014
00:39:24,841 --> 00:39:27,177
of showing the boxing world,
"I'm legitimate."

1015
00:39:27,219 --> 00:39:28,220
MAN:
Sugar Ray was named

1016
00:39:28,261 --> 00:39:29,596
1979's
"Fighter of the Year."

1017
00:39:29,638 --> 00:39:31,640
Roberta Duran was named
"Fighter of the Decade."

1018
00:39:31,681 --> 00:39:34,393
This particular fight
is more significant

1019
00:39:34,434 --> 00:39:37,104
than all my professional
amateur fights

1020
00:39:37,145 --> 00:39:38,438
for a simple reason.

1021
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,357
Roberto Duran
is known worldwide.

1022
00:39:40,399 --> 00:39:42,192
He's the most
recognized fighter

1023
00:39:42,234 --> 00:39:43,193
that I have faced.

1024
00:39:43,235 --> 00:39:44,820
He's so profitable

1025
00:39:44,861 --> 00:39:47,364
and I think that
the anticipation

1026
00:39:47,406 --> 00:39:50,742
is far better
than Wilfredo Benitez fight.

1027
00:39:50,784 --> 00:39:52,077
MAN: Scared?

1028
00:39:52,119 --> 00:39:53,495
Just a little.

1029
00:39:53,537 --> 00:39:54,579
REPORTER:
At the news conference

1030
00:39:54,621 --> 00:39:56,998
announcing
the Leonard-Duran fight,

1031
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,917
boxing's leading
entrepreneurs

1032
00:39:58,959 --> 00:40:00,585
who loathe each other,

1033
00:40:00,627 --> 00:40:01,878
embraced each other.

1034
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:03,922
This is something new.
(LAUGHS)

1035
00:40:03,964 --> 00:40:06,091
We believe that this event

1036
00:40:06,133 --> 00:40:08,760
will be the highest
grossing boxing match

1037
00:40:08,802 --> 00:40:10,429
in the history of the sport.

1038
00:40:10,470 --> 00:40:12,431
MAN:  I don't think
it could be overstated

1039
00:40:12,472 --> 00:40:14,683
how unusual it was
for a non-heavyweight

1040
00:40:14,724 --> 00:40:16,560
to get paid
this kind of money.

1041
00:40:16,601 --> 00:40:19,020
It was front page news
in the American press.

1042
00:40:19,062 --> 00:40:22,065
I often use Leonard-Duran
as the perfect example

1043
00:40:22,107 --> 00:40:24,192
of a fight that
stopped the world

1044
00:40:24,234 --> 00:40:26,445
For that moment,
everybody froze.

1045
00:40:26,486 --> 00:40:28,196
The world
was focused on boxing.

1046
00:40:28,864 --> 00:40:32,117
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1047
00:40:38,707 --> 00:40:40,083
(IN ENGLISH)
I'm not here to be a clown

1048
00:40:40,125 --> 00:40:41,251
like this guy over here.

1049
00:40:41,293 --> 00:40:42,627
(PEOPLE LAUGHING)

1050
00:40:42,669 --> 00:40:43,545
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1051
00:40:59,186 --> 00:41:02,647
The word enigma was
invented for Roberto Duran.

1052
00:41:02,689 --> 00:41:06,067
From the moment
he hit center stage,

1053
00:41:06,109 --> 00:41:07,444
he was an anti-hero

1054
00:41:07,486 --> 00:41:10,197
who was thought of
as a bad boy of boxing.

1055
00:41:11,364 --> 00:41:13,158
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1056
00:41:18,455 --> 00:41:20,999
I think that Duran
had more natural talent

1057
00:41:21,041 --> 00:41:22,792
than maybe anyone.

1058
00:41:22,834 --> 00:41:24,836
You have to go back,
maybe to Ray Robinson

1059
00:41:24,878 --> 00:41:28,632
to find somebody with that
kind of natural talents.

1060
00:41:28,673 --> 00:41:30,842
People talk about him
as a savage

1061
00:41:30,884 --> 00:41:32,135
and an attacking force,

1062
00:41:32,177 --> 00:41:33,303
but if you watch
those fights

1063
00:41:33,345 --> 00:41:34,721
when he's a lightweight,

1064
00:41:34,763 --> 00:41:37,015
it's almost like a joy
that he brought to the ring.

1065
00:41:37,057 --> 00:41:38,350
His movement is almost

1066
00:41:38,391 --> 00:41:40,393
as if he heard
this internal music.

1067
00:41:41,937 --> 00:41:43,313
Within the boxing business

1068
00:41:43,355 --> 00:41:44,481
Duran was perceived as

1069
00:41:44,523 --> 00:41:45,649
maybe the best fighter
in the world

1070
00:41:45,690 --> 00:41:46,733
at that point.

1071
00:41:46,775 --> 00:41:48,652
He had been
a dominant lightweight,

1072
00:41:48,693 --> 00:41:50,570
thought to this day by many

1073
00:41:50,612 --> 00:41:52,155
to be the greatest
lightweight ever.

1074
00:41:52,197 --> 00:41:54,824
And then he
went up in weight.

1075
00:41:54,866 --> 00:41:57,202
Every big fight can use
a guy wearing the black hat

1076
00:41:57,244 --> 00:41:58,578
and it was just so natural

1077
00:41:58,620 --> 00:42:00,038
for Duran
to wear the black hat.

1078
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:01,915
He had a resentment
of Leonard to begin with.

1079
00:42:01,957 --> 00:42:03,250
He had a little bit
of a resentment of America

1080
00:42:03,291 --> 00:42:04,751
to begin with.

1081
00:42:04,793 --> 00:42:06,545
And he resented Leonard
for being the golden boy.

1082
00:42:07,879 --> 00:42:09,214
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1083
00:42:16,346 --> 00:42:18,139
MAN:  In Washington
on September 7,

1084
00:42:18,181 --> 00:42:20,892
President Carter and
the Panamanian president,

1085
00:42:20,934 --> 00:42:22,727
General Omar Torrijos,

1086
00:42:22,769 --> 00:42:25,146
signed to treaties aimed
at solving the problem

1087
00:42:25,188 --> 00:42:28,316
on who will control
their most valuable asset

1088
00:42:28,358 --> 00:42:29,859
of the famous canal.

1089
00:42:29,901 --> 00:42:32,195
CARTER:
This agreement is a symbol

1090
00:42:32,237 --> 00:42:33,738
for the world

1091
00:42:33,780 --> 00:42:36,324
of the mutual respect
and cooperation

1092
00:42:36,366 --> 00:42:38,368
among all our nations.

1093
00:42:38,410 --> 00:42:41,413
Good evening to
all of you from California.

1094
00:42:41,454 --> 00:42:44,082
General Omar Torrijos,
the dictator of Panama,

1095
00:42:44,124 --> 00:42:46,376
seized power eight years ago

1096
00:42:46,418 --> 00:42:48,587
by ousting
the duly elected government

1097
00:42:48,628 --> 00:42:49,963
(OMAR TORRIJOS
SPEAKING SPANISH)

1098
00:42:58,471 --> 00:43:00,265
REAGAN:
As I talk to you tonight,

1099
00:43:00,307 --> 00:43:02,726
negotiations with Torrijos
go forward.

1100
00:43:02,767 --> 00:43:05,228
Negotiations aimed at
giving up our ownership

1101
00:43:05,270 --> 00:43:07,731
of the Panama Canal Zone.

1102
00:43:07,772 --> 00:43:09,482
REPORTER:  The canal and
the American Canal Zone

1103
00:43:09,524 --> 00:43:10,692
cut right through the heart

1104
00:43:10,734 --> 00:43:12,777
of the tiny country
of Panama.

1105
00:43:12,819 --> 00:43:14,863
For whole generations
of Americans,

1106
00:43:14,904 --> 00:43:16,781
the canal has been
an article of faith,

1107
00:43:16,823 --> 00:43:19,117
a symbol of American
might and mission.

1108
00:43:19,159 --> 00:43:20,952
But now
President Carter says

1109
00:43:20,994 --> 00:43:22,454
the times have changed.

1110
00:43:22,495 --> 00:43:24,289
We must turn the canal
over to Panama.

1111
00:43:24,331 --> 00:43:26,791
MAN: There is one word
for this new treaty

1112
00:43:26,833 --> 00:43:28,543
and that word is no.

1113
00:43:28,585 --> 00:43:29,794
No!

1114
00:43:29,836 --> 00:43:31,296
(MEN CHANTING)

1115
00:43:33,298 --> 00:43:34,633
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1116
00:44:09,542 --> 00:44:10,418
REAGAN:
But the Canal Zone

1117
00:44:10,460 --> 00:44:12,504
is not
a colonial possession.

1118
00:44:12,545 --> 00:44:14,589
It is not a long term lease.

1119
00:44:14,631 --> 00:44:17,509
It is sovereign
United States territory.

1120
00:44:17,550 --> 00:44:18,843
(ROBERTO DURAN
SPEAKING SPANISH)

1121
00:44:50,500 --> 00:44:51,876
CARTER:
As long as I am president,

1122
00:44:51,918 --> 00:44:53,753
the government
of the United States

1123
00:44:53,795 --> 00:44:56,172
will continue
throughout the world

1124
00:44:56,214 --> 00:44:58,550
to enhance human rights.

1125
00:44:58,591 --> 00:45:00,719
REAGAN:  Tell the General
we bought it,

1126
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:01,720
we paid for it,

1127
00:45:01,761 --> 00:45:03,012
we built it,

1128
00:45:03,054 --> 00:45:04,681
and we intend to keep it.

1129
00:45:06,891 --> 00:45:07,892
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1130
00:45:15,567 --> 00:45:18,528
In Montreal, where
the fight is taking place,

1131
00:45:18,570 --> 00:45:20,488
Ray is in one hotel,

1132
00:45:20,530 --> 00:45:22,532
Duran is in the other hotel.

1133
00:45:22,574 --> 00:45:24,993
Duran had a spy,

1134
00:45:25,034 --> 00:45:29,330
and that spy's job
was to call Duran

1135
00:45:29,372 --> 00:45:31,332
when Leonard's wife Juanita

1136
00:45:31,374 --> 00:45:33,418
would leave the hotel,

1137
00:45:33,460 --> 00:45:36,212
and Duran's car
would pull up

1138
00:45:36,254 --> 00:45:38,381
and he'd say things like,

1139
00:45:38,423 --> 00:45:40,383
"When I beat your husband,

1140
00:45:40,425 --> 00:45:42,177
I go to sleep with you."

1141
00:45:42,218 --> 00:45:43,595
Crazy stuff.

1142
00:45:43,636 --> 00:45:47,015
And of course, Juanita
went back and told Ray.

1143
00:45:47,056 --> 00:45:49,184
Ray got so furious

1144
00:45:49,225 --> 00:45:51,770
that his idea was,

1145
00:45:51,811 --> 00:45:53,605
"I'm gonna show this guy,

1146
00:45:53,646 --> 00:45:56,608
and I'm going to beat
the hell out of him."

1147
00:45:56,649 --> 00:45:57,692
LEONARD:
All of a sudden now

1148
00:45:57,734 --> 00:45:59,736
this man is
insulting my wife,

1149
00:45:59,778 --> 00:46:02,614
and I can't do
anything about it.

1150
00:46:02,655 --> 00:46:05,450
But I mean, I was gonna
defend my wife.

1151
00:46:05,492 --> 00:46:06,659
MAN:
While Sugar Ray Leonard,

1152
00:46:06,701 --> 00:46:07,952
who fights with a flair,

1153
00:46:07,994 --> 00:46:09,829
and Roberto Duran,
who fights with a fury,

1154
00:46:09,871 --> 00:46:11,664
square off tomorrow
night at Montreal

1155
00:46:11,706 --> 00:46:13,750
for the WBC
welterweight title.

1156
00:46:13,792 --> 00:46:15,168
Leonard,
with the fastest hands

1157
00:46:15,210 --> 00:46:16,461
in the boxing game,

1158
00:46:16,503 --> 00:46:17,587
is listed as
the nine-to-five favorite

1159
00:46:17,629 --> 00:46:18,630
among the oddsmakers.

1160
00:46:18,671 --> 00:46:20,965
But 17 of the 30
sports writers

1161
00:46:21,007 --> 00:46:22,091
covering the fight

1162
00:46:22,133 --> 00:46:23,426
go with the more
experienced Duran.

1163
00:46:26,137 --> 00:46:28,389
You know, the first
Duran-Leonard fight,

1164
00:46:28,431 --> 00:46:31,768
it started the era
of the Four Kings.

1165
00:46:31,810 --> 00:46:35,313
Still to me was that
golden era of boxing.

1166
00:46:35,355 --> 00:46:38,483
These guys like Leonard,
Hearns, Hagler and Duran,

1167
00:46:38,525 --> 00:46:40,902
each one was at the top
of his game,

1168
00:46:40,944 --> 00:46:43,822
and each one felt that
to be the best

1169
00:46:43,863 --> 00:46:45,907
they had to beat
the other three.

1170
00:46:46,825 --> 00:46:48,827
It was boxing at its best.

1171
00:46:49,869 --> 00:46:51,162
MAN:  I don't know
if I can stand

1172
00:46:51,204 --> 00:46:52,163
this much excitement

1173
00:46:52,205 --> 00:46:54,916
because here comes
Roberto Duran.

1174
00:46:54,958 --> 00:46:56,626
When you get two fighters
who were both

1175
00:46:56,668 --> 00:46:58,753
clearly established
as great fighters,

1176
00:46:58,795 --> 00:47:00,421
there's a tremendous
anticipation

1177
00:47:00,463 --> 00:47:01,548
because you really
don't know

1178
00:47:01,589 --> 00:47:03,174
what's going to happen
in the ring.

1179
00:47:03,216 --> 00:47:04,300
What you do know,

1180
00:47:04,342 --> 00:47:05,677
and this is the appeal
of boxing,

1181
00:47:05,718 --> 00:47:08,179
Duran is 100% sure
he's going to win.

1182
00:47:08,221 --> 00:47:10,431
Leonard is 100% sure
he's going to win.

1183
00:47:10,473 --> 00:47:11,975
One of them is wrong.

1184
00:47:12,016 --> 00:47:14,227
I could see Duran beating
the crap out of this guy.

1185
00:47:14,269 --> 00:47:17,063
I could see Leonard
boxing Duran silly,

1186
00:47:17,105 --> 00:47:18,189
anything in between.

1187
00:47:20,191 --> 00:47:21,401
MAN:  Boxing in Panama

1188
00:47:21,442 --> 00:47:23,444
is a source
of national pride.

1189
00:47:23,486 --> 00:47:25,363
Roberto Duran
is as revered here

1190
00:47:25,405 --> 00:47:26,614
as another strongman,

1191
00:47:26,656 --> 00:47:28,741
General Omar Torrijos.

1192
00:47:28,783 --> 00:47:30,827
Here in the narrow alleys
of Chorrillo,

1193
00:47:30,869 --> 00:47:33,580
a slum in Panama City
where Duran was born,

1194
00:47:33,621 --> 00:47:35,707
the dirty street
turned into a theater.

1195
00:47:36,749 --> 00:47:37,709
COMMENTATOR:
The last 30 seconds

1196
00:47:37,750 --> 00:47:38,710
from Ray ourselves.

1197
00:47:38,751 --> 00:47:40,003
-(BELL RINGS)
-They're ready.

1198
00:47:40,044 --> 00:47:42,463
And round one
of the long awaited...

1199
00:47:42,505 --> 00:47:44,007
Sugar Ray Leonard.

1200
00:47:44,048 --> 00:47:46,676
Roberto Duran, welterweight
championship fighter.

1201
00:47:46,718 --> 00:47:48,052
Leonard in flat-footed.

1202
00:47:48,094 --> 00:47:49,554
He did not
come out to dance.

1203
00:47:49,596 --> 00:47:51,180
He wants to go
toe-to-toe with him.

1204
00:47:51,222 --> 00:47:53,808
He's slowly cutting
that distance between them.

1205
00:47:53,850 --> 00:47:55,310
Oh, he took the hard left...

1206
00:47:55,351 --> 00:47:56,728
(CROWD CHEERING)

1207
00:47:59,105 --> 00:48:00,982
There's a lot of bad blood
between the two,

1208
00:48:01,024 --> 00:48:03,568
on the way in Leonard
blew a kiss at Duran

1209
00:48:03,610 --> 00:48:05,612
and Duran answered
with a word,

1210
00:48:05,653 --> 00:48:07,280
which I cannot repeat.

1211
00:48:07,322 --> 00:48:09,574
Duran does not
like this man.

1212
00:48:12,327 --> 00:48:13,536
(CROWD CHEERING)

1213
00:48:15,204 --> 00:48:16,247
He's holding on.

1214
00:48:16,289 --> 00:48:17,749
Leonard is in trouble.

1215
00:48:19,667 --> 00:48:21,044
Roberto Duran,

1216
00:48:21,085 --> 00:48:22,795
he got inside my head.

1217
00:48:22,837 --> 00:48:24,005
He would talk trash,

1218
00:48:24,047 --> 00:48:26,174
he cursed me,
he cursed my wife.

1219
00:48:26,215 --> 00:48:27,467
And I said you know what,

1220
00:48:27,508 --> 00:48:28,468
I'm gonna beat him
at his own game,

1221
00:48:28,509 --> 00:48:30,261
and that's where
I went wrong.

1222
00:48:30,303 --> 00:48:31,596
He got under my skin.

1223
00:48:32,805 --> 00:48:34,182
He throws so many punches.

1224
00:48:34,223 --> 00:48:36,142
He hit me so hard
so many times

1225
00:48:36,184 --> 00:48:37,602
in so many places.

1226
00:48:37,644 --> 00:48:39,854
He's like a Tasmanian devil.

1227
00:48:39,896 --> 00:48:42,774
I'm in trouble because
I didn't know what to do.

1228
00:48:44,108 --> 00:48:45,401
(BELL RINGS)

1229
00:48:45,443 --> 00:48:46,819
COMMENTATOR:  He's punching
with the intensity

1230
00:48:46,861 --> 00:48:49,030
that only Roberto Duran
can punch with.

1231
00:48:49,072 --> 00:48:51,783
Why would they
want Leonard to take...

1232
00:48:52,325 --> 00:48:53,785
Leonard is hurt!

1233
00:48:53,826 --> 00:48:55,703
Leonard is hurt again!

1234
00:48:56,996 --> 00:49:00,291
Ray wasn't ready
for that fight

1235
00:49:00,333 --> 00:49:01,876
psychologically.

1236
00:49:01,918 --> 00:49:05,129
He was ready
for Duran physically,

1237
00:49:05,171 --> 00:49:08,591
but he hadn't quite gotten
to that next level

1238
00:49:08,633 --> 00:49:11,427
to fight a very talented,

1239
00:49:11,469 --> 00:49:15,098
very savage,
spectacular fighter,

1240
00:49:15,139 --> 00:49:17,809
which Duran was
at that point in time.

1241
00:49:19,811 --> 00:49:21,187
COMMENTATOR:
Oh, right hand!

1242
00:49:21,229 --> 00:49:22,146
(CROWD CHEERING)

1243
00:49:23,940 --> 00:49:26,234
A tremendous
right hand by Duran,

1244
00:49:26,275 --> 00:49:27,986
throws Leonard
back into the rope.

1245
00:49:29,779 --> 00:49:31,406
I'm not sure
how Leonard survived

1246
00:49:31,447 --> 00:49:32,782
those first four rounds.

1247
00:49:32,824 --> 00:49:35,910
I think Leonard
wanted to show people

1248
00:49:35,952 --> 00:49:39,205
that he was tougher
than just a pretty boy.

1249
00:49:39,247 --> 00:49:41,749
And then Leonard's corner
spoke to him.

1250
00:49:41,791 --> 00:49:43,668
Try to talk
some sense into him.

1251
00:49:43,710 --> 00:49:45,128
COMMENTATOR:
Round number six.

1252
00:49:45,169 --> 00:49:46,295
(CROWD CHEERING)

1253
00:49:48,047 --> 00:49:50,633
Leonard fighting
very well off the ropes now.

1254
00:49:52,010 --> 00:49:54,178
I followed everything
with body shots,

1255
00:49:54,220 --> 00:49:55,596
left hooks,

1256
00:49:55,638 --> 00:49:56,806
from here on out,

1257
00:49:56,848 --> 00:49:59,308
Duran respected
my punching ability.

1258
00:49:59,350 --> 00:50:02,103
(COMMENTATOR SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY)

1259
00:50:02,812 --> 00:50:04,272
Oh, he's been hurt!

1260
00:50:04,313 --> 00:50:06,190
A left hook...
(CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)

1261
00:50:06,232 --> 00:50:08,192
Duran is hurt!

1262
00:50:08,234 --> 00:50:09,527
Duran is hurt!

1263
00:50:09,569 --> 00:50:10,611
(BELL RINGS)

1264
00:50:10,653 --> 00:50:11,863
(CROWD CHEERING)

1265
00:50:11,904 --> 00:50:13,364
Oh, what a fight!

1266
00:50:16,743 --> 00:50:18,286
Duran was hurt.

1267
00:50:18,327 --> 00:50:21,039
For the first time,
he clutched his left.

1268
00:50:21,831 --> 00:50:22,999
It's very possible

1269
00:50:23,041 --> 00:50:24,292
both corners
think they're ahead.

1270
00:50:24,333 --> 00:50:26,502
It's that close.

1271
00:50:26,544 --> 00:50:29,047
This is in the hands
of the judges unless...

1272
00:50:31,132 --> 00:50:32,300
(CROWD CHEERING)

1273
00:50:35,720 --> 00:50:38,056
This one will go all
the way.

1274
00:50:38,097 --> 00:50:39,223
And we're going to have
to have a decision.

1275
00:50:39,265 --> 00:50:42,393
And then Leonard
may have...

1276
00:50:42,435 --> 00:50:44,395
Leonard bombing away!

1277
00:50:44,437 --> 00:50:47,023
Duran thinks
he has won the fight.

1278
00:50:47,065 --> 00:50:48,107
I can't believe it.

1279
00:50:48,149 --> 00:50:49,108
(BELL RINGS)

1280
00:50:49,901 --> 00:50:52,028
(CROWD CHEERING)

1281
00:50:55,948 --> 00:50:57,992
(COMMENTATOR
SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

1282
00:50:59,827 --> 00:51:02,747
Here's
the official decision.

1283
00:51:02,789 --> 00:51:05,833
Duran, 146.

1284
00:51:06,459 --> 00:51:09,170
Leonard, 144.

1285
00:51:09,212 --> 00:51:10,838
(CROWD CHEERING)

1286
00:51:12,590 --> 00:51:15,134
Duran, 147.

1287
00:51:16,427 --> 00:51:19,097
Leonard, 147.

1288
00:51:20,306 --> 00:51:22,016
COMMENTATOR:
He pulled in a draw.

1289
00:51:23,643 --> 00:51:24,811
(ANNOUNCER SPEAKING FRENCH)

1290
00:51:38,324 --> 00:51:39,951
(CROWD CHEERING)

1291
00:51:40,451 --> 00:51:42,328
(CHEERING)

1292
00:51:45,540 --> 00:51:46,499
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1293
00:51:47,834 --> 00:51:49,127
He was fantastic.

1294
00:51:49,168 --> 00:51:51,587
I can't even express myself.
I can't even talk.

1295
00:51:51,629 --> 00:51:52,755
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1296
00:51:55,633 --> 00:51:57,009
I'll be real truthful.

1297
00:51:57,051 --> 00:51:59,303
I've never been so depressed
over a fight in my life.

1298
00:51:59,345 --> 00:52:00,638
Do you agree
with the decision?

1299
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:02,598
Yes, he fought
his heart out.

1300
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:03,891
There's no question
in my mind

1301
00:52:03,933 --> 00:52:05,852
that Roberto Duran lost.

1302
00:52:05,893 --> 00:52:08,896
Duran won the fight
fair and square,

1303
00:52:08,938 --> 00:52:10,731
but Sugar Ray Leonard
is the winner

1304
00:52:10,773 --> 00:52:12,984
because he made
ten million dollars.

1305
00:52:13,693 --> 00:52:15,111
Indications right now are

1306
00:52:15,153 --> 00:52:17,155
that this was the biggest
box office match

1307
00:52:17,196 --> 00:52:18,573
of all time.

1308
00:52:18,614 --> 00:52:20,992
After the fight, both boxers
met with the press.

1309
00:52:21,033 --> 00:52:23,035
Do you respect Leonard?

1310
00:52:25,204 --> 00:52:27,290
Sure, sure.

1311
00:52:27,331 --> 00:52:29,584
Leonard,
you're my friend now.

1312
00:52:29,625 --> 00:52:31,335
(ALL LAUGHING)

1313
00:52:31,377 --> 00:52:32,253
(CAR HORNS HONKING)

1314
00:52:32,295 --> 00:52:33,045
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1315
00:52:34,547 --> 00:52:35,840
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1316
00:52:38,968 --> 00:52:40,011
MAN:  Within minutes,

1317
00:52:40,052 --> 00:52:41,470
thousands
took to the streets

1318
00:52:41,512 --> 00:52:44,056
for celebrations that
surpassed those on the day

1319
00:52:44,098 --> 00:52:46,642
the US gave up control
of the Panama Canal.

1320
00:52:46,684 --> 00:52:49,854
Monday has already been
declared a national holiday

1321
00:52:49,896 --> 00:52:51,898
as Panamanians
await the return

1322
00:52:51,939 --> 00:52:54,150
of the man
with the fists of stone.

1323
00:52:57,403 --> 00:52:58,821
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1324
00:53:16,339 --> 00:53:17,381
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1325
00:53:35,858 --> 00:53:37,568
(LAUGHS)

1326
00:53:52,792 --> 00:53:54,126
(SPEAKING SPANISH)

1327
00:54:18,150 --> 00:54:20,278
Why do people box?

1328
00:54:21,153 --> 00:54:23,197
It's like as base as we get.

1329
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,449
And I'm sorry to say that

1330
00:54:25,491 --> 00:54:27,285
because there is
a nobility in it,

1331
00:54:27,326 --> 00:54:29,537
there is something
beautiful about it.

1332
00:54:29,578 --> 00:54:30,705
(BELL RINGS)

1333
00:54:30,746 --> 00:54:32,540
In a perfect world,

1334
00:54:32,581 --> 00:54:34,959
boxing would not exist.

1335
00:54:35,001 --> 00:54:37,253
You're talking
about two men

1336
00:54:37,295 --> 00:54:41,424
trying to inflict brain
damage on each other.

1337
00:54:41,465 --> 00:54:44,719
But it's not
a perfect world.

1338
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:46,971
GREER:  And I'm not
excusing the violence,

1339
00:54:47,013 --> 00:54:49,056
but when it's
done beautifully,

1340
00:54:49,098 --> 00:54:51,267
fighting becomes
a metaphor.

1341
00:54:51,309 --> 00:54:53,936
The ring becomes
a sort of symbol

1342
00:54:53,978 --> 00:54:55,646
of the lottery of life.

1343
00:54:56,856 --> 00:54:59,442
HAUSER:  There was a time

1344
00:54:59,483 --> 00:55:01,986
when the heavyweight
championship of the world

1345
00:55:02,028 --> 00:55:05,197
was the most
coveted title in sports.

1346
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,158
More people listen
to the second

1347
00:55:07,199 --> 00:55:09,827
Louis-Schmeling fight
on radio

1348
00:55:09,869 --> 00:55:12,830
than had ever listened
to any event

1349
00:55:12,872 --> 00:55:14,999
in the history
of the world.

1350
00:55:18,169 --> 00:55:20,087
Man is by nature violent.

1351
00:55:20,129 --> 00:55:21,714
There's not a doubt
in my mind about that.

1352
00:55:21,756 --> 00:55:23,215
And when you see a fight,

1353
00:55:23,257 --> 00:55:25,176
and you see the crowd
reacting the way they do,

1354
00:55:25,217 --> 00:55:26,844
living vicariously
through the fighters,

1355
00:55:26,886 --> 00:55:28,471
screaming for blood,

1356
00:55:28,512 --> 00:55:30,765
you realize how violent
we are as people,

1357
00:55:30,806 --> 00:55:33,184
And I think that boxing,
in its own way,

1358
00:55:33,225 --> 00:55:36,354
fills a need
to the audience.

1359
00:55:36,395 --> 00:55:39,523
I think that's part of what
makes boxing so special.

1360
00:55:39,565 --> 00:55:41,942
It's the violence
of Westerns

1361
00:55:41,984 --> 00:55:43,694
or the drama of them

1362
00:55:43,736 --> 00:55:46,697
with this poetry of musicals

1363
00:55:46,739 --> 00:55:48,157
and the way people move.

1364
00:55:48,199 --> 00:55:50,368
It's this ballet
of violence.

1365
00:55:51,994 --> 00:55:54,705
To me,
boxing is the most cruel,

1366
00:55:54,747 --> 00:55:57,166
brutal and beautiful ballet

1367
00:55:57,208 --> 00:55:59,210
in all of sports.

1368
00:55:59,251 --> 00:56:01,003
To be an artist,

1369
00:56:01,045 --> 00:56:03,923
you don't have to have
a paintbrush necessarily.

1370
00:56:04,924 --> 00:56:07,468
Anybody who
can do something

1371
00:56:07,510 --> 00:56:10,388
no one else can
is an artist.

1372
00:56:11,764 --> 00:56:13,516
(INAUDIBLE)

1373
00:56:23,234 --> 00:56:26,112
We have a craving
to know what we are.

1374
00:56:26,153 --> 00:56:27,405
What will we do

1375
00:56:27,446 --> 00:56:30,282
if we were
in a difficult situation?

1376
00:56:30,324 --> 00:56:32,410
Can you depend on yourself?

1377
00:56:32,451 --> 00:56:35,496
The truth can come to you
in a lot of places in life,

1378
00:56:35,538 --> 00:56:37,665
but it comes to you
a lot faster in the ring.

1379
00:56:37,706 --> 00:56:39,417
It's the express train.

1380
00:56:39,458 --> 00:56:41,585
You find out
who the freak you are.

1381
00:56:44,088 --> 00:56:46,841
(CROWD CHEERING)

1382
00:56:46,882 --> 00:56:48,676
(INAUDIBLE)

1383
00:56:48,717 --> 00:56:50,052
It's a funny thing,

1384
00:56:50,094 --> 00:56:52,054
the fight that
really made Duran

1385
00:56:52,096 --> 00:56:53,681
was this fight.

1386
00:56:53,722 --> 00:56:56,517
But he won
and lost that night.

1387
00:56:56,559 --> 00:56:58,894
Who would have thought
that on a night

1388
00:56:58,936 --> 00:57:02,273
that was going to lead him
to his greatest moment,

1389
00:57:02,314 --> 00:57:04,567
to open the gates
to great wealth

1390
00:57:04,608 --> 00:57:07,695
and all the things that
this poor kid from Panama

1391
00:57:07,736 --> 00:57:09,905
starved for, dreamed of,

1392
00:57:09,947 --> 00:57:12,825
was the same night
that was gonna condemn him

1393
00:57:12,867 --> 00:57:14,577
in the future.

1394
00:57:14,618 --> 00:57:17,663
All the things
that made Duran great

1395
00:57:17,705 --> 00:57:19,623
and that made
the world watch,

1396
00:57:19,665 --> 00:57:21,250
and made his legend

1397
00:57:22,126 --> 00:57:24,420
were gone after that night.

1398
00:57:24,462 --> 00:57:55,784
(WOMAN SINGING IN SPANISH)