This content is protected old timers, boxing experts, just wanna share this one with you guys. you guys have a better recollection of this event. hope you like it. one of the scenes i like: PRESIDENT: Darling, meet the champion, this is Muhammad Ali and the wife, the lovely wife, and the mother and the father. And of course, this is Joe Frazier, that’s the son. Ali was teasing Joe Frazier that he’s got to guard his wife with him around. ALI: Mr. President, you better guard your wife too. I know Joe Frazier. http://www.asianboxingnews.com/the-d...nd-and-imelda/
Might as well show the whole fight: PRESIDENT: Is this the first time you’re seeing each other here in Manila? FRAZIER: This is the first time. ALI: This wouldn’t be the last though. PRESIDENT: I gather though that you sent your son to welcome him. FRAZIER: Yes, this young man can handle him so pretty good. PRESIDENT: He looks husky for a 15 year old. ALI: Mr. President I would like to say one thing. Whenever we meet, there’s violence—whether it is on the street, the police has to keep us apart, whenever we fight, the referee keeps us apart. This is the first time we ever met on peaceful terms and that is because you’re in the middle. It takes the President of a nation to stop… PRESIDENT: Well, I can tell you it is both an honor and a pleasure for me to play referee to two champions. I gather that you have been training quite well. Do you find the facilities to your liking? FRAZIER: Very good, no problem at all. ALI: We also saw that the people are loving. The people are peaceful and kind and he’s got many friends, just as many as I have. This of course is good, and this should be a real good, interesting…. PRESIDENT: I gather that you are followed by all those joggers in the morning. ALI: Yes, every morning. But Joe here is awfully smart. He gets up at three o’clock before they (the crowds) get up. So I’ll start running at three and I just hope I won’t run into him. FRAZIER: But not because I don’t want to see people. I have been training like that for a long time. That’s gonna make me good. Every time I run alone, I get the rules working. That’s the most important thing. But meanwhile, I am here, in your beautiful country, I get the chance to run early so that I could get up later on and look around and see some of the sights. PRESIDENT: So, you always run early, very early. Have you accommodated yourselves to the new sleeping hours? ALI: Yes sir. PRESIDENT: How long do you sleep at night? ALI: Six hours. PRESIDENT: How about you, how long do you sleep at night? FRAZIER: I sleep from eight to nine because I get the bell at eight thirty at night. Nothing else for me to do but go to sleep. ALI: He likes to go to sleep. (laughter) But he and I really are good friends. We made each other very rich. PRESIDENT: I can see that. ALI: The whole world is waiting to see two colored boys fight. PRESIDENT: Ah, but you have done for boxing what nobody else has been able to do. ALI: With the help of people. If I didn’t have a good opponent, I would not be a champion. He’s out to get his title back and there a possibility he can do it. I lost and I got it back and he might get it back. This is what makes it such a good fight. We are two great fighters. PRESIDENT: That’s quite true. FRAZIER: I feel very good. PRESIDENT: I can see that. FRAZIER: I am all ready to go. ALI: (mock-menacingly to Frazier) You wanna go now? FRAZIER: We got time, plenty of time. PRESIDENT: You’ll have enough time. So you(Frazier) are staying at the Hyatt and he’s staying at the Hilton. FRAZIER: Good distance. ALI: Safe distance. ALI: I want to say that I am very surprised. I was told that Joe Frazier will be here at 10:10 and I’ll begin at 10:30. I was shocked to see that we are in the same room together. FRAZIER: Well, I thought you’d come about an hour later. (at this juncture, the First Lady Imelda Marcos enters the room.) PRESIDENT: Darling, meet the champion, this is Muhammad Ali and the wife, the lovely wife, and the mother and the father. And of course, this is Joe Frazier, that’s the son. Ali was teasing Joe Frazier that he’s got to guard his wife with him around. ALI: Mr. President, you better guard your wife too. I know Joe Frazier. PRESIDENT: (to Joe Frazier) I am told that you dream of Muhammad Ali when you go to sleep and he said, No, I dream about something else. ALI: I respect you now more so than I did at first. Looking at your wife, I can say you are not a dumb man. You know how to pick ‘em. PRESIDENT: I can say that you are not far behind. Although I am told that actually it’s the ladies who make the choice, not the men. ALI: Who make the choice? PRESIDENT: The ladies make the choice, not the men. ALI: They pick us. We’re kinda nice-looking ourselves. We have a lot to do with them. I am sure we are not the first men who said a few nice things. They choose us and we have to choose them….a woman is what her husband makes her, but a man is what he makes himself. So, she (referring to Mrs. Marcos) is the wife of the ruler of the nation and she’s(Veronica) the wife of the champion of the world. If we should get our divorces, you will still be the ruler and I will still be the champ. PRESIDENT: There’s no divorce in this country. ALI: There’s no divorce here? FRAZIER: (to Veronica) Well, you’ve got about two more weeks to be the wife of the champion. ALI: Le me tell you why he (Frazier) don’t stand the chance. (Referring to Marvis Frazier, Joe’s 15 year old son.) This is his boy. His boy is bigger than him. He’s too old to fight. My boy is three years old. FRAZIER: We grow big in the family. PRESIDENT: I can see you like each other. But your wife does help you a lot, though. ALI: Yes, sir. PRESIDENT: Keeps you on playing and all that but she can’t help you in the ring. But my wife can help me in my ring. ALI: She helps me sometimes by sitting close to the ring…She smiles and then I hit…You have to see how honored we are. We are two fellas in America who never thought that we would be champions and now we meet with the leader of this nation. We accept this as a big honor, (the President) being such a real loved man. We are sure the President of the United States will be….We hope that you’ll be watching the fight. PRESIDENT: I will, I will. Oh yes, definitely, I hope to be able to see you personally. We are still working at it. ALI: Well, I want you to be there early so you won’t miss it. FRAZIER: I agree with that too. Get there early so you won’t miss us. PRESIDENT: The coliseum is going to be jam-packed. We are very happy that you chose Manila. Thank you in behalf of the Filipino people as well as for myself….For having agreed to fight here in Manila. ALI: I know you are a busy man and we won’t take anymore of your time.