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When We Were Kings is great — it also prompted me to read Norman Mailer’s The Fight, which I recommend.

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"Ali attracted crowds chanting, “Ali bomaye.” At one point, Foreman asks one of his handlers what that meant. “Ali, kill him!” he’s told. “OK, we got a hostile crowd here” he thought."

In "The Greatest". a film biography of Ali from the 1970s, "Ali Bombaye" was the basis of a groovy funk track by songwriters Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser, and which was performed on the soundtrack by Masser and the brilliant funk band Mandrill.

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