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