Name: Dick Cavett Talks About The Time He Stepped In The Ring With Muhammad Ali
Uploaded: 2020-03-17T16:02:02.000Z
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>> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY, WE'RE BACK HERE-- WE'RE BACK

HERE FROM OUR COMMERCIAL BREAK WITH MR. DICK CAVETT.

ONE OF YOUR GREATEST GUESTS WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME,

AND YOU HAVE A NEW DOCUMENTARY-- YOU HAVE A NEW DOCUMENTARY ON

"ALI & CAVETT, AS SEEN THROUGHOUT ALL HIS APPEARANCE ON

>> THE VERY FIRST TIME I MET ALI WAS ON A SIDEWALK, HOLLYWOOD AND

VINE, IN FRONT OF THE EL CAPITAN THEATER, WHICH BECAME THE JERRY

AND I WAS A WRITER FOR JERRY LEWIS ON THAT NOTORIOUS TWO-HOUR

I RAN DOWNSTAIRS, OUT IN FRONT OF THE THEATER AND THERE WAS A

CROWD LOOKING AT HIM, AND THERE WERE TWO PEOPLE FIGHT AGO

ONE OF THEM WAS MUHAMMAD ALI, AND ONE WAS A CENTERING MAN WHO

AND THEN ALI SAID, "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!"

IT WAS ALL AN ACT, AND IT WAS A CASE OF WHAT A WONDERFUL ACTOR

HE KNEW-- HE WAS SO SHOW CANNY-- CAVETT-- FORGET IT.

( LAUGHTER ) HE WOULD KNOW JUST ONE INCH MORE

MOVING WOULD TAKE HIM OUT OF CAMERA SHOT.

HE JUST-- LIKE HENRY FONDA ALWAYS HIT HIS SPOT WITHOUT

AND ALI BROKE INTO LAUGHTER, AND HE GRABBED THE MAN, AND THEY

BUT I THOUGHT, THIS MAN HAS SHOW BIZ INSTINCT.

WAS HE CASSIUS CLAY AT THIS POINT OR WAS HE ALI?

I WROTE SOME POEMS FOR HIM TO READ, AND STRANGELY ENOUGH, AS

EACH SHOW OF HIS WAS ON, 10 TIMES, OR WHATEVER HE WAS ON MY

>> Stephen: WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY PERSON TO BECOME

WELL, IT'S NOT SO EXTRAORDINARY WHEN YOU THINK OF OUR

YOU ARE IN THE RING WITH ALI HERE IN THIS CLIP.

>> Stephen: DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

>> I DIDN'T KNOW THEN, AND I DON'T KNOW NOW.

>> Stephen: THIS IS RIGHT BEFORE HE'S GOING TO FACE

FRAZIER, EITHER FOR THE ORIGINAL OR THE REMATCH, ONE OF THE

>> I HAD HAD THE TWO OF THEM ON THE SAME SHOW, AND THAT WAS

>> AT ONE POINT THEY PICKED ME UP AND THE TWO-- ALI SAID TO

FRAZIER-- THEY WERE NOT GREAT FRIENDS-- "LET'S FORGET-- LET'S

AND THEY PICKED ME UP AND HELD ME IN THE AIR.

AND FORTUNATELY, I COULD THINK OF SOMETHING.

AND I SAID, "I JUST SAW I'M SQUEEZED BETWEEN YOU TWO AND IT

(  LAUGHTER  ) SOME PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN

>> Stephen: WELL, WE HAVE A CLIP RIGHT HERE OF YOU IN THE

>> I'M SURPRISED THAT YOU'RE IN SUCH GOOD SHAPE.

I DON'T SEE A BIT OF FAT, NOTHING BUT BONE.

>> YOU DIDN'T EVEN-- YOU DIDN'T EVEN BLINK.

>> NO, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE NOT THAT CRAZY.

>> YOU DO ANY OF THIS, KIND OF WARMING UP STUFF?

THEY DO THAT IN THE BOY SCOUTS AND OLYMPICS.

THE ONLY EXERCISE I DO IN THE RING, DICK, IS PUNCH.

>> I'VE BEEN WANTING TO DO THIS EVER SINCE I CAME ON YOUR SHOW.

YOU KNOW HOW THEY DO IN THE WRESTLING MATCHES?

( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: DICK, HERE'S TO

>> Stephen: "ALI & CAVETT: THE TALE OF THE TAPES" AIRS

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