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"I'm Going to Show You How Great I Am" Quiz
The 1974 Speech by Muhammad Ali
He floated like a butterfly and he stung like a bee, but in 1974, Muhammad Ali gave a speech, one preceding his fight against George Foreman, that reminded listeners just how great he was.
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"It is befitting that I leave the game just like I came in, beating who knocks out everybody and no one can whoop him. That's when little from Louisville, Kentucky, came up to stop . The man who annihilated twice. HE WAS GONNA KILL ME! But he hit harder than George. His reach is longer than George's. He's a better boxer than George.
And I'm better now than I was when you saw that 22-years old undeveloped kid running from Sonny Liston. I'm experienced now, professional. Jaws been broke, been knocked down a couple of times, I'm bad! Been chopping .
I done something new for this fight. I done wrestled with an alligator. That's right. I have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with . I done handcuffed , thrown in jail. That's bad! Only last week I murdered , injured , hospitalised ! I'm so mean I make sick!
Bad, fast! Fast! Fast! Last night I cut the off in my bedroom, hit the and was in the before the room was dark.
And you , all you chumps are going to bow when I whoop him. All of ya. I know you've got him. I know you've got him picked. But the man's in trouble
I'm going to show you how great I am."
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Born in 1942, Muhammad Ali was nicknamed 'The Greatest' when he broke into the boxing scene (and it wasn't his only nickname either, only his most famous). He was a heavyweight champion through most of the 1960s, winning the Olympic Gold in Rome in 1960, and after refusing the draft in the Vietnam War, his career waned and resurged until he took on some of the greatest names in the sport throughout the 1970s, being one of the most famous sports figures in the world.
Ali's quote-- the one in question-- was a speech that he gave while speaking to the press at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City in September 1974. The speech preceded the Rumble in the Jungle, an event held in what was, then, Zaire in late October of that year wherein Ali, an underdog considering his recent past, faced off against heavyweight champion George Foreman in the ring. The event was, then, the most watched television broadcast in the world.
But the speech here is one of Ali's most memorable and indicative of his personality out of the ring. Ali was a notable and charismatic figure who could command a room with his voice. It's his confidence that came through in these moments; his track record proved his abilities as 'The Greatest'; his history to that point had already established him as a man of his word, having been a conscientious objector to the war and a convert to the Nation of Islam. It's especially notable because Ali was known to have notable learning disabilities (determined to derive from a diagnosis of dyslexia).
Nevertheless, Ali was massively successful in and out of the sporting world. His general trash talking, considered by many to be eloquent, launched Ali into the spoken word poetry scene. In 1963 he released the comedy album "I Am the Greatest"; it was meant in a lot of earnest despite the comedic take. Many critics, in hindsight, regard it as a seminal hip hop album, influential to many rap artists in the decades to come.
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