Muhammad Ali This is your Life

[Saddo]

I remember watching this show when I was a kid and this is the first time I have watched it since... I know now that Ali didn't want to do the show as they tried to get him for years... Eamonn Andrews was a massive fan so they paid Ali alot of money to do the show... nice to step back in time to a point when Ali should have retired....

[Mark TKO]

well I just saw this thread and thught I'll watch that at weekend - just ended up watching it all the way through. Absoultely brilliant !

Never seen that before, cheer Saddo.

Bit confused re Frazier though - didn't he hate him at this point ?!?

[Master]

That was brilliant seeing Frasier and Ali getting on so well, Ali seemed overwhelmed by everything. Joe Louis was there too.

[Saddo]

Bit confused re Frazier though - didn't he hate him at this point ?!?

I think Ali was thinking the same thing

[Master]

No that was real love. Frazier helped Ali when he was broke and in exile. Ali did seem genuinely moved and it was great seeing the old time fighters and trainers.

[Saddo]

No that was real love. Frazier helped Ali when he was broke and in exile. Ali did seem genuinely moved and it was great seeing the old time fighters and trainers.

I read Ali's book he released just after the foreman win and he devotes a whole chapter just on that car ride.... Ali told a totally different story about it.

not read that book for along time but Ali basically said Fraizer helped him out and he was shocked that Fraizer really thought he could beat Ali.

he also mentions that they stopped, got out of the car and a shitload of people started surrounding ali after autographs and the like... pushing past the then heavyweight champion without even knowing who he was... fraizer didn't like that at all.

but Ali was full of fraizers praise.

I think it was Fraizer who held the grudge.. which is quite sad if true because him foreman and Ali made the best era of heavyweight boxing bar NONE

[Master]

I read that book too, it was 500 + pages and Frazier did help Ali out with some money. I agree maybe Fraizer took the jibes personally which was easy to do because they were very harsh but those men shared a ring and fought to their near death. If that does not get each others respect nothing would have. Still a beautiful moment between them two.