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Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend and giant of 20th | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
I will beat any man in the world and I want everyone out there to know | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
it, I am the greatest! The most iconic heavyweight | :00:22. | :00:22. | |
of all time had been in hospital I'm the champion, the real champion! | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
There will never be one like me! BBC viewers voted him | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
Sports Personality of Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
30 years ago, Mohammed Ali We'll be looking back | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
at his extraordinary life. Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend | :00:45. | :00:59. | |
and for many the greatest sporting icon of the 20th | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
century, has died. The former champion defeated almost | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
every top heavyweight in his era. George Foreman, who lost | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
to Ali in the famous Rumble In The Jungle, | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
said, "Part of me has gone". Joe Wilson looks back | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
at the life of Muhammad Ali. I'll whoop any man in the world | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
and I want everybody out Muhammad Ali simply | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
voiced his own punchlines. He could tell you he would float | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
like a butterfly and sting Born Cassius Clay in Louisville, | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Kentucky, in 1942, he first achieved fame when he won gold | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
at the Rome Olympics in 1960. Three years later, he was famously | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
floored by a left hook Cooper stole the moment, | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
lost the fight. Clay was left with a shot | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
at the world title, held by Sonny Liston, | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
a fearsome fighter Ali called him The Bear, | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
mocked him before, Put him in the hospital, | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
he's never been stopped! The next day he announced his | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
conversion to Islam, swearing allegiance to Elijah | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Muhammad. Why do you insist on being | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
called Muhammad Ali now? Because that's the name | :02:22. | :02:35. | |
given to me by my leading My original name, that's a black man | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
name, Cassius Clay was my slave On religious grounds, | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Ali refused to obey his call-up The territory he now occupied | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
was way beyond boxing. A champion in the ring, | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
a hero beyond the ring, sacrificing his career | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
for principals and anti-war profit. He was stripped of his title | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
and sentenced to five years in jail. This was quashed on appeal, but Ali | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
was refused a licence to box. He spent over three years out | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
of the ring. In the 1970s, Ali made some | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
memorable appearances To me, as someone interested | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
in sport, he's without doubt the most beautiful and compete | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
athlete I've ever seen. To others, he's a political leader, | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
a figurehead in the battle between black and white, | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
and to more people who care little about sport and even less | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
about politics, he's one of the world great | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
entertainers, a character, He revealed his showmanship | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
and taste for publicity were inspired by an American | :03:39. | :03:49. | |
wrestler called gorgeous George. When I saw all of those people | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
coming to see George get beat, and they all paid to get in, | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
that's the thing, they paid! And right away I start talking, | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
"I am the greatest! When you look back over a career | :04:05. | :04:19. | |
such as I have had an look at the thousands of people you have | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
interviewed, a few standout, and he was the one who stands out most of | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
all. And extraordinary man, and you are lucky to have met him, that is | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
the thing, his image and memory will live on for the rest of time, I | :04:34. | :04:34. | |
suppose. His career had one remarkable twist | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
of bravery and achievement to come. In Zaire, in 1974, against | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
the mountainous George Foreman, If you think I whooped Sonny Liston, | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
you wait till I get George Foreman! He talks too much, he's | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
ugly, he's pretending! I'm the true champion | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
and they make me the underdog?! I'll show them all they're wrong | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
because I'm the champion, the real champion, there will never | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
be one like me and all you people in Britain who rate me | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
as the greatest, I'm going to prove I'm the greatest, | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
prove to you and prove to the world This is my last fight, | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
I want none of you to miss it! I'm going to eat some raw meat, | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
I'm going to train, I'm Ali won after deliberately absorbing | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
punches and exhausting his opponent. He just beat himself out, | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
he was so tired, he was just I said, "Man, this is the wrong | :05:25. | :05:41. | |
place to get tired!" Ali predicted Zaire | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
would be his last fight. It wasn't - he fought | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
on for seven more years. The onset of Parkinson's disease | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
was only too obvious when, with great dignity and bravery, | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
he lit the Olympic flame in 1996. When it came to a vote for | :06:01. | :06:10. | |
Sports Personality of the Century, Ali polled more than the rest | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
of the contenders put together. Even while his body was failing him, | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
the famous wit still sparkled. I had a good time boxing, | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
I enjoyed it, and I may come back! Go to any country, any city, | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
any village in the world, To put it simply, to use his words, | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
he was the greatest. Though he was born and raised | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
in Louisville, Kentucky, New York became the place where Ali | :06:34. | :06:48. | |
trained and where he fought some Nick Bryant has been talking to some | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
of the New Yorkers who knew New York's most famous boxing gym | :06:52. | :07:08. | |
also doubles as a shrine to Muhammad Ali. He trained at geese and in the | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
1960s, where his super-sized charisma made him an electrifying | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
presence. But it is not just as a megastar that they remember him yet, | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
it is also as a friend. He would do anything, he helped as much as he | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
can. He would give me the shirt off his back, a is just that nice of a | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
guy, just a nice person, period. He will stop, he will not only stop and | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
talk to the guy standing on the corner with a suit and tie on, he | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
will talk to the bomb laying on the ground, half drunk. You start | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
talking to him, he will start talking to you. One thing about | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Muhammad Ali, he loved to talk. Two things that are hard to it and see, | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali! People would queue up even to watch | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Muhammad Ali train and at a time when boxing was in danger of being | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
relegated to a backstreet sport he ushered in its golden age. His star | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
power could fill arenas the size of Madison Square Garden 100 times | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
over, but it was the intimacy that photographer Michael Gaffney | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
recalls. He spent a year on the road with Ali in the late 1970s and has | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
special memories of a trip to South America where Ali toured hospitals | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
filled with polio victims, and lent a helping hand to the poor. Every | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
day that we were there, there were beggars lined up in the wall way. | :08:34. | :08:45. | |
And he would... Sorry. He gave each one of them $100 bill. And I said, | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
Champ... Why are you doing that? And he said, because $100 here is worth | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
$10,000 at home. That was him. Ali was a sportsman who almost defies | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
description, superstar, icon, the superlatives seem inadequate but his | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
own famous post also served as an epitaph. He was, quite simply, the | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
greatest. Let's go live now to | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
Louisville in Kentucky and to our correspondent, | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
Aleem Maqbool. A sad day? | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Indeed, this is where Muhammad Ali was born and when he complained, at | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
12 years old, to a police officer saying that his bike had been stolen | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
and said he wanted to beat up whoever stole the bike, and the | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
police officer persuaded him to go to a boxing gym. He returned here at | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
Olympic gold-medal winner and he returned here after winning both | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
world titles, where he spent some tough times out of the ring in the | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
late 60s, and also where this building has been built in tribute | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
to Muhammad Ali, the Muhammad Ali centre which deals not | :10:05. | :10:21. | |
just with his life and sporting achievements but the other | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
dimensions of the man, the charity giving, the spirituality as well. | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
While tributes have been coming in from around the world, from world | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
leaders, from across America from people like Bill Clinton, Mike | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Tyson, it is here that it would appear his loss is being felt the | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
most. The mayor, in a few hours' time, will lead a tribute to | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
Muhammad Ali and flags will be delivered across this city. As I | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
say, as people here reflect, there are those around the world who are | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
now looking again at the impact that Muhammad Ali had not just on sport | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
but far wider than that as one of the most recognisable figures | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
through the 70s and 80s, and a man who transcended his sporting | :10:51. | :10:51. | |
achievements. Thanks very much. | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
As we've been hearing, Ali was a prominent figure both | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
In the 1960s he became a leading civil rights activist in America, | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
but his influence on racial equality was felt far beyond the shores | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
of the United States, as Elaine Dunkley now reports | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
Britain in the 1960s was deeply divided, a colour bar meant new | :11:07. | :11:20. | |
arrivals from the Commonwealth were denied housing and work. It was to | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
America that black Britons would look for cultural icons, and they | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
didn't come much bigger than Muhammad Ali. The white man has been | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
brainwashed and it is time for him to learn something about himself! | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
Someone like Muhammad Ali came on the scene, you know, he made to feel | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
so good as young people. He was of great significance for someone like | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
myself who was involved in radical politics. I was a member of the | :11:49. | :12:00. | |
Black Panther movement, and people like Angela Davis, Malcolm X, were | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
like our heroes when we were teenagers. Muhammad Ali fit nicely | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
within that group of people. In 1963, activist Paul Stephenson | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
successfully led a campaign to boycott a bus company in Bristol | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
which was refusing to employ black and Asian drivers. The fight for | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
regular quality was the making of a friendship with Muhammad Ali. He | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
wanted to see England follow America in the civil rights. We spoke about | :12:34. | :12:43. | |
how we can deal with racism and how he could be used to get England | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
talking about racism. In 1974 Muhammad Ali's visit to Brixton | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
bought the streets to a standstill. Photographer Neal Ken Lough, caught | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
on camera pivotal moment in black British history. It was just | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
fantastic that he decided to leave America to come to Brixton to | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
support our community, and that is what really touched me. And of | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
course he would play with people, talk to anybody, he was an | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
incredible person. He didn't behave like other successful and rich | :13:24. | :13:36. | |
superstars. Muhammad Ali will be remembered as one of the greatest | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
boxers of all time. But, to many, his greatest legacy was his fight | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
for civil rights. Memories of the Muhammad Ali. | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Now briefly to some of the day's other news. | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
Police searching for a missing couple have launched a murder | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
inquiry after a body was found in woodland near where they live. | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
Peter and Sylvia Stuart, from Weybread in Suffolk, | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
were reported missing after not being seen since last Saturday. | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
Six former Labour leaders have published a joint open letter urging | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
supporters of the party to vote Remain in the EU referendum. | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
In a speech this morning, Lord Kinnock said, "Decisions | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
Later today, the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
is expected to say that if Labour stays at home, Britain leaves. | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
Our next news on BBC One is on at 6.30pm, but before we go | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
we'll leave you with a few words from Muhammad Ali. | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
Float like a butterfly and stings like a bee! He has got ten! I love | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
my people and I'm not going to sell them out and mislead them. I'm the | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
champion, the real champion, there will never be one like the! We're | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
going to prove to the world I'm the greatest! | :14:48. | :14:57. | |
Good afternoon, it was a slow start to the day for many others with | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
extensive cloud cover, a view of Liverpool not so long ago. There was | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
some mist and fog, very little to speak of but the cloud has broken | :15:10. | :15:10. |