"rumble in the jungle!" that's the name i given it.
a historical happening. this event will show that the black man has arrived on the world stage. muhammad ali and george foreman in kinshasa, zaire.
because you miss the significance. i dream, as martin luther king once dreamt, that a man could be judged by the content of his mind. this is about black men helping black men, overcoming four hundred years of racial depression to the dawn of a new day of liberation. financial and otherwise.
it will raise up the spirit of our inner cities. it will rise up and fill with hope the souls, the unrequited needs of the black proletariat, that is, the discouraged, dispirited, denigrated, denizens of the demimonde, that is called. the ghetto.
ten million dollars. with one stroke of the pen, you split the world's biggest emolumation of the history of sports!
the "rumble in the jungle"!
champ! champ! george had an accident.
got cut. right above his right eye. his sparring partner's elbow. split it open, so.
not for six weeks.
this is not a humorous situation, my champion. this postponement could be long, especially if george leaves.
how right you are, my suspicious and short italian brother. and my fiduciary responsibility to this first all-black promotion is like a garden in the african sun. it must grow! it must bloom! it cannot flower in the gloom and shade of postponement to some dome. like the astrodome, the super-dome, any dome outta zaire, where it be deprived of light and bled of water. 'cause what gonna bleed. is money. a hemorrhage of cash. . blood on the floor. double hotel costs. double travel costs. airplanes. food and beverage.
muhammad. find a way to get george to stay. be moses in reverse: do not let my people go! stay the fuck right here, in egypt, if you'll pardon my swahili.
what?
who cares?
if george goes? george goes, my champion, i will get you joe frazier. ali-frazier iii. the fight everybody want to see.
you bad!
ain't no doubt about it.
we will reschedule the fight, and to ensure george is ready, we are thinking of postponing from september 24th to october 30th.
that would go off as planned on september 22nd and 23rd.
i ain't talkin' to you!
as tall as only three other men: foreman, ali and bundini, walks into the ring wearing black.