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00:00:25 #1 the greatest fight of the year.
00:00:27 #2 This Marchiano is another Dempsey.
00:00:28 #3 By the way, he felt that that Lewis was something to see.
00:00:32 #4 Lewis is true for real now.
00:00:34 #5 He should have quit while he was ahead.
00:00:37 #6 What are you doing here?
00:00:38 #7 I thought you were going home.
00:00:40 #8 Well, Rocky almost knocked him out of the ring.
00:00:41 #9 The kid's got to punch like a 10-ton truck.
00:00:44 #10 He'll be the next champ for sure.
00:00:46 #11 Well, I better go write my story.
00:00:49 #12 Well, I'll write the story.
00:00:53 #13 But you didn't see to fight.
00:00:56 #14 I'll write the real story.
00:00:58 #15 He goes like this, inflicting with the left.
00:03:19 #16 And then he threw a right and then a hook.
00:03:21 #17 And the other guy threw a right cross and missed the kid.
00:03:24 #18 And the kid hardly moves off stride,
00:03:26 #19 just like you didn't lose your balance when I shoved you then.
00:03:29 #20 You've got a good sense of balance.
00:03:31 #21 Ain't nobody can knock you off your feet.
00:03:33 #22 Man, you're too big.
00:03:35 #23 Wait a minute, Joe.
00:03:36 #24 I want to show you a picture of the kid.
00:03:39 #25 Just a skinny old boy, not a big boy like you.
00:03:42 #26 You could be a better fighter than him.
00:03:44 #27 You could even earn more money.
00:03:46 #28 And I know a guy that could teach you in hardly no time at all.
00:03:49 #29 And for only 50 cents a lesson.
00:03:51 #30 50 cents?
00:03:52 #31 I ain't got no 50 cents.
00:03:53 #32 You mean Professor Watkins teaches you for nothing?
00:03:56 #33 Mama gave me the money for him.
00:03:58 #34 Your mama wouldn't want to do nothing dishonest, would she?
00:04:01 #35 She wouldn't want the professor to get money
00:04:02 #36 he didn't earn, now would she?
00:04:04 #37 Trying to teach me?
00:04:06 #38 He earns it.
00:04:07 #39 Suppose you don't show up.
00:04:12 #40 He can't earn a thing, can he?
00:04:14 #41 Not sure.
00:04:14 #42 I'm going to now.
00:04:16 #43 Now hold up, Joseph.
00:04:18 #44 Ain't no reason you gotta go just because you started out.
00:04:21 #45 We can get derailed somewhere.
00:04:23 #46 No, come on, we'll be the best.
00:04:26 #47 Well, I guess a boy big as you that's scared of his mom
00:04:30 #48 will be scared to get hit by a man, all right?
00:04:32 #49 I ain't standing nobody.
00:04:33 #50 Well, come on then.
00:04:34 #51 Let me introduce you to the man.
00:04:36 #52 Come on, boy.
00:04:39 #53 I heard you want to be a fighter, huh?
00:04:41 #54 Yes, sir.
00:04:42 #55 Yeah.
00:04:43 #56 It's a tough game, you know.
00:04:44 #57 You think you can take it?
00:04:46 #58 I'm sorry?
00:04:46 #59 You see your hand.
00:04:47 #60 You see that one.
00:04:53 #61 Look pretty strong.
00:04:55 #62 Go on the back and put some stuff on it
00:04:56 #63 and see how you're looking at the floor.
00:04:58 #64 Put that fill over there, will you?
00:05:07 #65 Put your hand all the way down.
00:05:08 #66 Okay.
00:05:09 #67 Put your hand out, let me see how you do.
00:05:11 #68 Not like that, not like this.
00:05:12 #69 Bend over a little bit, just like that, see?
00:05:15 #70 Now, jab in this hand.
00:05:20 #71 It's this way, hold your hand and let me show you.
00:05:23 #72 See, snap it, you know what I mean?
00:05:25 #73 Do it again.
00:05:28 #74 Let me see this hand right behind it.
00:05:30 #75 Fast, right behind it.
00:05:31 #76 No, a little bit faster than that.
00:05:34 #77 No, no, like this.
00:05:36 #78 You see, you stick it.
00:05:41 #79 That's it. And then jab again.
00:05:43 #80 Let me see you jab again. Go ahead.
00:05:44 #81 Stick it. Couple times.
00:05:46 #82 Double up on it.
00:05:48 #83 That's good.
00:05:49 #84 See?
00:05:50 #85 Fast right hand behind you.
00:05:52 #86 I stick the left hand out.
00:05:53 #87 Stick it like you mean it.
00:05:54 #88 That's it.
00:05:57 #89 Stick couple times, fast right hand.
00:06:04 #90 Stick again.
00:06:07 #91 See if you can bring that hook back
00:06:08 #92 after the right hand.
00:06:10 #93 That's it.
00:06:10 #94 Right back sticking.
00:06:19 #95 Hey, Joe.
00:06:20 #96 You forgot that fiddle there, buddy.
00:06:22 #97 Let me jab now, you come with the right hand.
00:06:53 #98 Jab him again.
00:06:54 #99 As you see now, you gotta hit with that right hand.
00:06:55 #100 Now you bring the left, you drop the left hand,
00:06:57 #101 you gotta bring it up a little higher.
00:06:59 #102 See now, I see you jab again.
00:07:00 #103 Go ahead, jab.
00:07:01 #104 No, no, no.
00:07:02 #105 Well, you got to wait till after you jab,
00:07:04 #106 then you come with the punch.
00:07:05 #107 So you can't muck the punch right in the middle.
00:07:07 #108 Now jab again, Joe.
00:07:10 #109 See how you tip like this.
00:07:12 #110 Can't you do like this?
00:07:13 #111 Bring it right back here.
00:07:14 #112 He can't hit you over this
00:07:15 #113 as long as you got this hand like this.
00:07:18 #114 Now jab again.
00:07:25 #115 You and I have a business conference to hold.
00:07:28 #116 Adjosa, these are hard times. You know that.
00:07:32 #117 You know what it means to pay fifty cents a lesson for violin lessons.
00:07:37 #118 You know how hard it was for you to get that job at the factory.
00:07:41 #119 Well, for six weeks now, you've been coming home with a black eye, a cutlet, or a popped-up hand.
00:07:49 #120 And today, Professor Watkins comes to tell me
00:07:52 #121 that you haven't been to him in all that time.
00:07:55 #122 And now, we find your name in the newspaper.
00:07:59 #123 As a prize fighter.
00:08:01 #124 Semi-finals Friday night.
00:08:04 #125 Joseph Lewis Barrow.
00:08:06 #126 Bear Prospect. Where's Joseph?
00:08:12 #127 Well, I didn't steal a money, Mom.
00:08:19 #128 I used it for a business, Mom.
00:08:21 #129 And I pay it all back.
00:08:23 #130 But I'm running something.
00:08:25 #131 I'm running something that'll make us all rich.
00:08:27 #132 You mean you have to learn to be a fighter?
00:08:29 #133 Yes.
00:08:30 #134 Where are you learning?
00:08:32 #135 In the gymnasium.
00:08:33 #136 I got from a motorbike beginner class in just two weeks.
00:08:37 #137 By short of learning, he's training himself.
00:08:39 #138 He says I'm as proud as people.
00:08:41 #139 Are you sure in your heart this is what you want to do, son?
00:08:44 #140 I know it's the thing I can do best.
00:08:46 #141 You must promise me that now that you're in this thing,
00:08:49 #142 you'll get it all your thought and strength.
00:08:53 #143 If you're going to be a fighter,
00:08:55 #144 ...thorough and strength.
00:08:57 #145 If you're going to do it, you've got to do it right.
00:09:01 #146 I did, ma'am.
00:09:02 #147 Y'all are thanks to you and everything.
00:09:10 #148 Or maybe that's when it really started with Joe's mother...
00:09:14 #149 ...on the porch, when she said, OK,
00:09:57 #150 and sent him along to Chicago for the Tribune's Glove Finals.
00:10:00 #151 He was carrying a cardboard suitcase, one change of clothes,
00:10:04 #152 in the Family Bible.
00:10:05 #153 Hi, Joe. Come in.
00:10:30 #154 Fine. How do you feel?
00:10:34 #155 I can tell you feel those efforts in the body.
00:10:36 #156 I guess it weren't hard enough.
00:10:38 #157 Well, I got lucky tonight, but you'll do better next time.
00:10:42 #158 There's not going to be a next time for me, Joe.
00:10:44 #159 What do you mean?
00:10:46 #160 No more fighting with my hands for me.
00:10:48 #161 I'm going into a different kind of fight game.
00:10:52 #162 I take my state bar exam next month.
00:10:55 #163 Joe, I'm going to be a lawyer.
00:10:57 #164 You're kidding.
00:10:58 #165 In life, Joe.
00:10:59 #166 But Arthur, I like to be the best fighter in the world.
00:11:05 #167 the world. You keep hitting the hard you did tonight you make it when you pass this
00:11:18 #168 law stuff become a lawyer I like to be my life all right Joe I'll consider myself
00:11:25 #169 retain Joe won the in the city amateur title then the national amateur
00:11:34 #170 light heavyweight championship. Now he was ready to turn pro the place was a
00:11:40 #171 Southside gym in Chicago. The year was 1934. His trainer Jack Blackburn pound for pound
00:11:47 #172 one of the greatest fighters I've ever lived.
00:11:50 #173 Blackburn, I'm your Louis. It's right for 73. I'm Mr. Blackburn.
00:11:54 #174 I'm Blackburn. That's Black over there. Hey, Julian. Yeah?
00:11:57 #175 Yeah.
00:12:04 #176 Your Louis. We've been expecting you. Come with me.
00:12:18 #177 Yes, Blackburn.
00:12:19 #178 Put your other hand. Pull your belt. Use two hands. Put the bag where it proposed
00:12:35 #179 Both hands.
00:12:36 #180 The bag is something heavy enough to exercise you.
00:12:38 #181 And if you're smart, you'll do what he tells you.
00:12:44 #182 In the ring and out.
00:12:52 #183 You know your balance.
00:13:06 #184 Push your balance.
00:13:07 #185 It's harder to knock your balance.
00:13:09 #186 Remember that secret of a great fight.
00:13:16 #187 Yes, sir.
00:13:17 #188 Balance.
00:13:38 #189 That's happy, but it needs work.
00:13:40 #190 That pretty good left hand, Tappy.
00:14:36 #191 Not good as your Gans, but pretty good for you.
00:14:39 #192 Gans do so great.
00:15:15 #193 Flies in the air with his left hand.
00:15:20 #194 hands. The Detroit eight months and sixteen KOs later. That night two men from New York
00:16:52 #195 also came to Detroit. Jimmy Johnston and Mike Jacobs. They both wanted to sign Joe. They
00:16:58 #196 found him in the Frog Club. And so did I.
00:17:02 #197 Captain again glad to see you.
00:17:07 #198 Joe Lewis. Is he going with you or Johnson and the God?
00:17:12 #199 That's what I came to find out.
00:17:30 #200 Jacobs or Johnston?
00:17:38 #201 I'll take Johnson, the garden guy. He's closer.
00:17:43 #202 You know what we're trying to do.
00:17:45 #203 Both of these men have made offers.
00:17:47 #204 All we can do is get both offers and try to decide what's best.
00:17:52 #205 They both have good stories, too.
00:17:55 #206 But maybe it's you who ought to decide.
00:17:59 #207 Anyway...
00:18:00 #208 Johnson says you'll open Madison Square Garden to us.
00:18:35 #209 And he makes a condition.
00:18:37 #210 Jacob says he has the ball parks all tied up and can do more for us as an independent.
00:18:43 #211 What's the condition?
00:18:44 #212 We have to do things his way.
00:18:46 #213 You'll make the matches with Joe.
00:18:47 #214 The matches he sees fit to make.
00:18:49 #215 Does that mean handcuffs?
00:18:51 #216 I don't think so.
00:18:55 #217 How'd this sound so far, chappy?
00:19:25 #218 Say that was a real nice fight tonight.
00:19:27 #219 Thank you, Bob. We got lucky.
00:19:29 #220 You trying me?
00:19:30 #221 No, thanks. We're leaving right away.
00:19:32 #222 Joe, this is my cousin, Marva Trotter.
00:19:35 #223 Marva, this is the Joe Lewis.
00:19:37 #224 I'm happy to meet you, Mr. Lewis.
00:19:39 #225 We've heard such wonderful things about you. Thank you.
00:19:42 #226 Are you the Trot girl?
00:19:44 #227 No. I live in Chicago. I'm just here for a visit.
00:19:48 #228 Where about in Chicago?
00:19:50 #229 I'm in the book.
00:20:16 #230 Johnson says he'll make us a million dollars.
00:20:23 #231 Something one of the boys said.
00:20:26 #232 But we got to remember Joe's a colored fighter.
00:20:29 #233 And as a colored fighter, he's got two strikes against him
00:20:31 #234 already.
00:20:36 #235 What did Jacob say?
00:20:37 #236 Jacob says he'll make Joe champion.
00:20:41 #237 Can he do it without the garden?
00:20:42 #238 I don't know.
00:20:48 #239 Well, which one do we go with, Tappy?
00:20:52 #240 We'll go with the man that'll make us champion. Champion?
00:20:58 #241 Joe, meet Mr. Jacobs.
00:21:02 #242 We're with him, Mr. Jacobs, all the way.
00:21:04 #243 You made a good choice, Joe.
00:21:05 #244 Tab him again. Newspaper, man. Nice guy. How are you? Fine, Tab.
00:21:09 #245 Joe, something, Tabby?
00:21:24 #246 We're gonna have a lot of fun with that dirt strike.
00:21:26 #247 Joe was already a drawing card.
00:21:33 #248 They got him five fights in 25 days.
00:21:36 #249 Then sent him on to New York for his first big time fight with Primo Canaro.
00:21:41 #250 We all came down to cover him at Penn Station and went along when he delivered a letter from Mayor Kelly of Chicago to Mayor Lagardia
00:21:49 #251 Was a big day for Joe, but not so big he forgot a girl back in Chicago
00:21:55 #252 Miss Margaret Trotter 5220 Concord Street Chicago, Illinois
00:22:00 #253 arrived New York to fight Carnera next week going to Jim to work out have to box six rounds today
00:22:06 #254 day no road work tomorrow rainy miss you Joe now have your last name and your
00:22:11 #255 address for reference so Louis Pompelix New Jersey Joe found out what they meant
00:22:18 #256 by this saying the bigger they are the harder they fall primo was big and he was
00:22:22 #257 game but Joe got to him by the sixth and it was all over Marvin I elicit me no
00:22:52 #258 say what I'm finished we've been going together not for quite a bit it's about
00:22:58 #259 time you know how I feel about you. I mean I can't always live in training camps and hotels.
00:23:08 #260 He's got to get out and be other people. Not fighting people. People like you.
00:23:15 #261 I live and I want to marry you. If you don't love me, you tell me so. Do you love me?
00:23:26 #262 Like I only said like that.
00:23:27 #263 Congratulations!
00:23:39 #264 Congratulations, yes.
00:23:41 #265 He will be very happy.
00:23:43 #266 Happy birthday.
00:23:46 #267 So I know.
00:24:00 #268 You're leaving to fight Max Baer.
00:24:02 #269 Good job you're at, Max.
00:24:11 #270 What did he weigh?
00:24:25 #271 196.
00:24:27 #272 Hey Joe, did you read where Demssey will be in Baer's corner?
00:24:29 #273 Mmhmm.
00:24:31 #274 Well, Demssey being in Baer's corner bothering you.
00:24:33 #275 Can Demssey hit me from there?
00:24:38 #276 No.
00:24:41 #277 Then you won't bother me.
00:24:42 #278 Maybe those IOUs you've signed.
00:27:55 #279 What on earth did you need with all that money?
00:27:58 #280 Some fellows in Detroit.
00:28:00 #281 We got a business... business...
00:28:03 #282 Do you mean a business project?
00:28:04 #283 Yeah. That's the word.
00:28:06 #284 Several million people live in Detroit.
00:28:11 #285 Sometimes I think every one of them is barred money from you, Joe.
00:28:14 #286 I told you. It's a business project.
00:28:17 #287 But I've done the impression you're going to check some of these projects with us.
00:28:20 #288 But it's friendly business.
00:28:22 #289 You're getting rid of money pretty fast, son.
00:28:25 #290 You can't keep it up at this rate.
00:28:27 #291 Don't worry, Arthur.
00:28:29 #292 I need some more money. I'll get it from Uncle Mike.
00:28:32 #293 Goodbye now, two-party.
00:28:34 #294 26 starts at 26 wins.
00:28:45 #295 Maybe you couldn't blame him
00:28:47 #296 before you wrapped oranges for a dollar a day.
00:28:49 #297 Hi, Dad. Hi, Joe. Hi, Javi.
00:28:53 #298 Who is in the minute?
00:28:54 #299 Don't worry. Where are you going?
00:28:56 #300 I'm going to the hospital.
00:28:58 #301 Where are you going?
00:29:00 #302 I'm going to Mr. McGinn to play golf.
00:29:03 #303 You don't watch out that old son's going to boil his strength right out of you.
00:29:07 #304 You're losing weight too fast now.
00:29:09 #305 I like golf. Come on, Dad.
00:29:11 #306 We can call again off of this bad form, Chappy.
00:29:14 #307 As you know, you've been chosen by Ring Magazine as the boxer of the year.
00:29:29 #308 You've been selected not only because of your accomplishments inside the ring,
00:29:34 #309 but also because of the fine sportsmanship and conduct you displayed at all times.
00:29:39 #310 Congratulations Joe and good luck.
00:29:46 #311 Thank you George, and I'll do my best to live up to this.
00:29:54 #312 Well I guess it's time to cut the cake Joe. Remember you get the first piece.
00:30:01 #313 You're too good to the rest, Jabber. You get there.
00:31:27 #314 You ain't never thought of your first class counterpart before.
00:31:30 #315 It's always the first time.
00:31:32 #316 Drop that club and get to that bit.
00:31:34 #317 You're no Jabber. You're already done.
00:34:16 #318 a job. Coming up. Right and the right. He beat me.
00:36:32 #319 Did you do your best I didn't do my best before the fight Joe punchy hit you with
00:36:47 #320 them the fifth the foul was at the big punch. He beat me fair there was a lot
00:37:11 #321 of trouble in Harlem tonight. Gangs to confide doing over taxicabs. I always
00:37:22 #322 I just said that if I ever did anything to make anybody ashamed of me.
00:37:31 #323 Well, one thing I can say about Chape, he never makes the same mistake twice.
00:37:40 #324 Look, nobody got killed. We just got to sit back a little. That's all.
00:37:52 #325 What we got to do now is start afresh. Make up for that time we just lost.
00:38:01 #326 So you all got to sit back a little. Now you got to make up for lost time.
00:38:07 #327 I don't know the meaning of the word.
00:38:13 #328 Look at him.
00:38:14 #329 Nobody got killed, you say?
00:38:16 #330 Was it your face on the floor?
00:38:23 #331 Joe was my husband.
00:38:25 #332 He belongs to me.
00:38:27 #333 He's not going to end up like everybody else.
00:38:29 #334 Cotton, bruise, a few more easy fights.
00:38:34 #335 That's what you said.
00:38:36 #336 An old fighter like Schmeling.
00:38:38 #337 Joe, can't you see what's happening?
00:38:42 #338 I mean, I've got to make it good
00:38:45 #339 for the people that count it on me.
00:38:47 #340 Can't it on you? Look about our future, Joe.
00:39:00 #341 I listened to town and thought about that.
00:39:02 #342 What better town than now?
00:39:05 #343 Look at yourself.
00:39:07 #344 What do these people mean to you when all this is over?
00:39:10 #345 Don't you leave me alone?
00:39:17 #346 There's still why don't you leave us alone?
00:39:21 #347 How much of them do you want?
00:39:23 #348 Whatever it was we had.
00:39:31 #349 It isn't just this fight.
00:39:40 #350 It's us taking you home.
00:39:56 #351 arrived here late this afternoon on the Zeppelin Hindenburg.
00:40:00 #352 The German boxer who knocked out Joe Lewis last June informed reporters that German track
00:40:06 #353 and field stars in the recent Olympics all told him that they had been inspired to greater
00:40:11 #354 efforts by his victory over Lewis.
00:40:14 #355 Schmeling said, quote, the furor's heartiest best wishes accompany me to America, unquote.
00:40:20 #356 The former champion also said that...
00:40:26 #357 I offered smelling 300,000 dollars for a return fight and he refused it.
00:40:30 #358 Of course, you'll only fight Braddock for the championship.
00:40:33 #359 So then, you don't have to fight me afterwards?
00:40:36 #360 But the thing is, Joe, we don't believe that he'll hold still long enough for another shot.
00:40:40 #361 He's got to turn fair.
00:40:42 #362 Joe, it's not a question of being fair.
00:40:44 #363 Smelling can't take a chance of losing to you.
00:40:47 #364 Hitler couldn't go for that.
00:40:50 #365 If he wins the championship, they'll never stop yelling about Aryan supremacy.
00:40:54 #366 They'll freeze that title so cold nobody will get a crack at it.
00:40:58 #367 Unless some bum of their own.
00:41:00 #368 I have to be away.
00:41:08 #369 I've got to have one more chance at him.
00:41:12 #370 I came at one mistake during my whole life.
00:41:23 #371 I won't let my people down.
00:41:26 #372 You heard what you said.
00:41:28 #373 Calm down, Chappie.
00:41:30 #374 There's got to be a way.
00:41:32 #375 There is.
00:41:34 #376 I'll call my lawyers and then we'll talk with Jimmy Braddock.
00:41:37 #377 Happy birthday to you.
00:42:43 #378 Happy birthday.
00:42:44 #379 Thanks, Mama Slick.
00:42:45 #380 Happy birthday, Joe.
00:42:48 #381 Thanks, Chef.
00:42:49 #382 Happy birthday, Joe.
00:42:50 #383 Birthday, Jeffery.
00:42:51 #384 Smellin'.
00:43:04 #385 Happy birthday, Joe.
00:43:05 #386 Sonny, you bought a roof rack.
00:43:13 #387 I sure have.
00:43:14 #388 Federal judges ruled the Braddock fight is on.
00:43:17 #389 Dig right in, Chef.
00:43:24 #390 Every train at home starts until the morning.
00:43:26 #391 You need it, Chefery.
00:43:58 #392 What did I tell you?
00:44:02 #393 That chap would make the same mistake twice.
00:44:05 #394 This was it for Joe. He'd come a long way for a 23-year-old, a crack at the champ.
00:44:14 #395 50,000 fans turned out to pack Camiskey Park. Radick was a popular champion.
00:44:20 #396 It was the first heavyweight title match in Chicago since Tony and Dempsey had fought it out 10 years earlier.
00:44:25 #397 We got lucky. You're the heavyweight champion of the world.
00:47:28 #398 Not yet, I'm not.
00:47:29 #399 What'd you need?
00:47:41 #400 An Angela Beats melon.
00:47:43 #401 Hey, don't you know I like that little guy?
00:48:10 #402 Show me your internet.
00:48:12 #403 Now, ladies and gentlemen, we come to the highlight of the evening.
00:48:21 #404 Accompanied by the Ellis Larkins trio,
00:48:23 #405 the internationally famous songstress, Miss Anita Ellis.
00:48:26 #406 He's a Hitler in the figure-dine finishing Joe
00:51:15 #407 no later than the fifth round.
00:51:17 #408 And so that's what's commanding Seaman to help you with.
00:51:40 #409 Let's have a talk with Seaman.
00:51:41 #410 He tells Roxy there's one thing about Shatty.
00:51:52 #411 We don't have to worry.
00:51:54 #412 He knows what he's doing.
00:51:58 #413 Mr. Rothberg, Mr. Black, Mr. Mandy Seaman.
00:52:01 #414 How do you do?
00:52:02 #415 Nice to know you. Have a seat, please.
00:52:04 #416 The chappy here seems to think you can build some help to us with Joe.
00:52:12 #417 We know you trained Benny Leonard, five other world champions.
00:52:16 #418 I can do you some good with the big...
00:52:22 #419 See what you can do. Lots of luck.
00:52:32 #420 I've been having one of my bad spells lately, and...
00:52:35 #421 I sometimes don't feel up to work, and I...
00:52:48 #422 I don't know if I can pull Jack out of box.
00:52:50 #423 The wobble is too tight. Too tense.
00:53:17 #424 Yeah.
00:53:18 #425 If he keeps going like this, he's gonna sweat himself out and leave the real fight here in the gym.
00:53:23 #426 He's pressing too hard. He's too anxious.
00:53:26 #427 Manly, I wish there was some way we could loosen him up. Relax him.
00:53:31 #428 But when he's always young, it's hard for him to relax before a big fight.
00:53:34 #429 I remember my first fight with old Sam Langford.
00:53:39 #430 I was training hard and lying for him.
00:53:41 #431 Maybe that's how rad's.
00:53:47 #432 Old Sam.
00:53:49 #433 How'd you get in here?
00:54:22 #434 I'm just an old fighter.
00:54:23 #435 Nobody but reporters allowed in this camp.
00:54:25 #436 How'd you get in?
00:54:26 #437 Oh, Jack Blackburn brought me in.
00:54:28 #438 Oh, well, I got things to do. So long.
00:54:30 #439 I said sit down, boy.
00:54:32 #440 If you don't sit down, I'll have to get up.
00:54:35 #441 And if I get up, I'll have to go lick that old Jack Blackburn again.
00:54:38 #442 You lick Chappy? That's something I gotta see.
00:54:41 #443 I can lick him all right.
00:54:43 #444 Licked him four times?
00:54:45 #445 Sit down, son.
00:54:47 #446 Nobody ever licked Chappy four times?
00:54:49 #447 You're waiting to not tell him what you said.
00:54:51 #448 Nobody has to tell him he's right there now, listening.
00:54:56 #449 I don't see him. He's not there.
00:54:57 #450 He's there, all right.
00:54:59 #451 You don't have to see him.
00:55:00 #452 I can feel that skinny old trick.
00:55:03 #453 How to be able to?
00:55:12 #454 Good day, Mr. Blackburn.
00:55:15 #455 Chappy, you listen good to what old Sam Reifer
00:55:18 #456 has to tell you.
00:55:20 #457 Sam Reifer?
00:55:21 #458 But, Chappy, he says he licked you four times.
00:55:30 #459 Sam?
00:55:32 #460 You know you never licked me.
00:55:34 #461 Four times you tried it and four times it was a draw.
00:55:36 #462 Now, three of those times I...
00:55:38 #463 You don't know I licked your chaffy four times.
00:55:42 #464 Don't go lying to this young boy chaffy.
00:55:45 #465 Sam, you know you never really licked me.
00:55:46 #466 No.
00:55:47 #467 You want me to get up and lick you again?
00:55:50 #468 I say good day to you.
00:55:55 #469 There you go, chaffy.
00:56:03 #470 How'd you lick chaffy?
00:56:05 #471 Huh? First time was in New Orleans, see.
00:56:13 #472 Then I hit him with a suit.
00:56:15 #473 What did he do?
00:56:16 #474 Then...
00:56:17 #475 Heh heh.
00:56:18 #476 Then he knocked me flat down.
00:56:19 #477 You knock me out.
00:56:20 #478 No, not me. Never.
00:56:22 #479 You knock me down.
00:56:23 #480 I sat there a minute.
00:56:25 #481 I looked up and Mary was standing right there over me.
00:56:28 #482 I said to him, calm.
00:56:30 #483 Don't go away, young man.
00:56:32 #484 I'll be up there to see you a minute.
00:56:34 #485 But you'd be the...
00:56:35 #486 Of course I'd be to you.
00:56:38 #487 You called her to draw, huh?
00:56:40 #488 What happened the next time?
00:56:41 #489 Well, he, uh, next time was when they moved
00:56:44 #490 time to finish fights.
00:56:46 #491 I wanted to figure some way to get old Jack mad
00:56:48 #492 before the fight.
00:56:50 #493 That's why I come into the rain carrying a big lunch basket.
00:56:55 #494 Sure double jack sent a referee and some second old...
00:56:58 #495 ...finally what I was doing bring all that stuff into the rain.
00:57:01 #496 I said, well, it's a finish fight, see.
00:57:04 #497 Don't know when I'm gonna finish, so I brought my lunch.
00:57:09 #498 That old blackbird getting mad at that.
00:57:12 #499 But I fought all day, another draw.
00:57:16 #500 But you licked it, of course, l licked it.
00:57:18 #501 Licked him again.
00:57:19 #502 They called it a roll.
00:57:20 #503 What happened the last time?
00:57:22 #504 Oh, yeah.
00:57:23 #505 Well, uh, nothing much happened that time.
00:57:26 #506 But how did it come out?
00:57:28 #507 Well, it was one of them no-decision fights, see, and, uh...
00:57:32 #508 Heh.
00:57:33 #509 Well, that's Tater the true son.
00:57:35 #510 That's the one fight that, uh, he might have won.
00:57:39 #511 You're a good boy, son.
00:57:45 #512 You got nothing to worry about.
00:58:00 #513 Go right to the mark.
00:58:01 #514 Chap, he could tell you.
00:58:02 #515 I'm working with our right.
00:58:08 #516 I just came from Spelling's camp at Nepodak.
00:58:12 #517 He gave me quite a statement.
00:58:15 #518 Sit down, Ter, have some coffee.
00:58:17 #519 Yes, I had a very interesting conversation with him.
00:58:20 #520 Yeah?
00:58:22 #521 Tell him what he said.
00:58:24 #522 He said, having beaten you once,
00:58:27 #523 you'll have an inferiority complex
00:58:29 #524 that you'll never be able to shake off.
00:58:32 #525 You will see him again?
00:58:33 #526 Yeah, I'll be seeing him.
00:58:35 #527 I'm going to find you men now of the terrific responsibility you have in this ring tonight.
00:58:53 #528 Not besides the uncene audience that is listening to this hunt, but this great and enthusiastic crowd that have come out here
00:59:02 #529 and expect to see one of the greatest fights they've ever witnessed.
01:01:20 #530 I'm going to be in ship for the flight in less than a month.
01:01:27 #531 Well why can't I come up to the training camp with you?
01:01:30 #532 No honey, Chappie wouldn't stand for that.
01:01:32 #533 Chappie, Chappie, Chappie. Always Chappie.
01:01:35 #534 Anyone could come and get it.
01:01:38 #535 They came, and they got it.
01:01:42 #536 But every fight separated them from Marla.
01:01:48 #537 Training camps, his handlers, time, disk.
01:01:51 #538 And the demands of an awestruck public came between them.
01:01:54 #539 Since four hours ago,
01:02:30 #540 you're coming back to take me to dinner.
01:02:32 #541 I'm sorry, honey. I couldn't help it.
01:02:34 #542 It seemed like no matter what I want to do, there's always something I've got to do.
01:02:38 #543 Joel, how long can we go on like this?
01:02:41 #544 It won't be long, honey.
01:02:42 #545 We'll be together, and with half smith's money
01:02:44 #546 we'll be set for life.
01:02:46 #547 I'll fight again last forever.
01:02:48 #548 I want to make sure I've got a few good-sounding investments
01:02:51 #549 so you can have what you want.
01:02:53 #550 The other things mean anything.
01:03:15 #551 Days when you know what it takes to do what you're doing.
01:03:20 #552 It's not easy, and I'm proud of you.
01:03:24 #553 After six years of loneliness, Marla sued for divorce.
01:03:49 #554 Joe didn't know about the courts or subpoenas,
01:03:52 #555 But he did instinctively what more husbands might do to subtle arguments.
01:03:56 #556 Judge, I...
01:04:31 #557 You better take Chappie up in there tonight.
01:04:34 #558 What's that?
01:04:35 #559 Right, it's working on me again.
01:04:41 #560 Get up there and bring the steps.
01:04:56 #561 Thank you, Promise.
01:05:01 #562 You'd only have to walk a little steps once.
01:05:03 #563 How'd Chappie do it?
01:05:34 #564 No. You talked to him lately?
01:05:37 #565 Yeah.
01:05:41 #566 I talked to him on the phone yesterday.
01:05:42 #567 It sounds pretty weak.
01:05:45 #568 But he'll be all right.
01:05:47 #569 He's gotta be.
01:05:54 #570 Well, might as well get sick.
01:05:56 #571 Congratulations, Joe. It was a great fight.
01:06:00 #572 How do you feel?
01:06:01 #573 Feel pretty good. We had another good night.
01:06:04 #574 Were you in trouble at any time?
01:06:06 #575 Well, at times, these are good fighters.
01:06:08 #576 Joe, this is being short-waved to our troops all over the world.
01:06:12 #577 And since you've donated your first Army relief,
01:06:14 #578 I'm sure all the boys in uniform would like to hear a word from you.
01:06:18 #579 But I'm glad I was able to do what I could.
01:06:20 #580 Can I say something, President?
01:06:22 #581 This microphone is yours, champ.
01:06:25 #582 I hope you're satisfied.
01:06:26 #583 In 42, Joe left Uncle Mike and signed with Uncle Sam for $21 a month.
01:06:48 #584 And he made a new kind of appearance at Madison Square Garden.
01:06:52 #585 It was a Navy relief show, a night of stars with celebrities from Broadway and Hollywood.
01:06:59 #586 Walter Winshill called Joe up from the audience and presented him to the people.
01:07:04 #587 I guess none of us will ever forget the short, simple speech he made.
01:07:08 #588 I'm only doing what any red-bedded America would do.
01:07:16 #589 We are going to do our part,
01:07:19 #590 and we will win, because we're on guard side.
01:07:42 #591 Joe, I've got bad news.
01:07:45 #592 Just got a call from Chicago.
01:07:48 #593 Jack Blackburn's dead.
01:07:50 #594 In the next three years, Joe traveled more than 50,000 miles
01:08:10 #595 doing the row work, talking to other GIs,
01:08:13 #596 fighting and refereeing for them and putting on exhibitions.
01:08:16 #597 With the 48 states, England, France, Italy, Alaska,
01:08:24 #598 then like several million other men, he came home to stay.
01:08:45 #599 And to see his daughter, Jackie, already grown into a little lady.
01:08:48 #600 Now, dear, later, did you have a good trip?
01:09:18 #601 Oh, wonderful.
01:09:20 #602 Hello, Danny.
01:09:21 #603 How much?
01:09:22 #604 It's going to be all right.
01:09:46 #605 No more fights, no more separation.
01:09:49 #606 Just you and me and Jackie.
01:09:52 #607 Yeah, darling, just like you say.
01:09:53 #608 How do I stand in the mud department?
01:10:05 #609 The story is, Joe, that most of the money is gone.
01:10:10 #610 You'll never be in want, of course.
01:10:11 #611 There'll always be enough for you and your children.
01:10:15 #612 But the big money is gone with the big years.
01:10:25 #613 You mean I'm broke?
01:10:26 #614 Not in the true sense of the word, Joe,
01:10:29 #615 but for you, the way you're used to living and spending money
01:10:33 #616 and giving it away.
01:10:35 #617 That day is over.
01:10:36 #618 You've got to settle down and realize...
01:10:38 #619 We've been through all that before.
01:10:42 #620 Tell me about this tax money I owe.
01:11:43 #621 We thought we'd surprise you and drive down today
01:11:45 #622 so you can ride back tomorrow
01:11:47 #623 with us for Jackie's birthday party.
01:11:49 #624 Honey, I didn't call you about that.
01:11:51 #625 You say I have too much time before the fight.
01:11:53 #626 You wouldn't dare disappoint Jack.
01:11:55 #627 But honey, if I don't get any shape,
01:11:56 #628 I'll disappoint a lot of people.
01:12:00 #629 Joe, what if we sold everything?
01:12:03 #630 Could we meet the tax then?
01:12:05 #631 Would you cancel your fight?
01:12:06 #632 No.
01:12:08 #633 Then we'd have nothing not.
01:12:10 #634 We'd have each other.
01:12:11 #635 We can't have them now. Have we?
01:12:14 #636 Joe, I don't understand you anymore.
01:12:16 #637 It isn't just me.
01:12:17 #638 You have a daughter now.
01:12:19 #639 She'll never be three years old again.
01:12:21 #640 I mean, I can't beg to come to a party with a bunch of kids.
01:12:25 #641 This is your daughter.
01:12:26 #642 But I'm a fighter.
01:12:28 #643 You're a father too.
01:12:33 #644 Now let's go, Joe.
01:12:39 #645 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
01:12:40 #646 Here we are at ringside waiting for the main event,
01:12:42 #647 which you all know is for the heavyweight championship of the world.
01:12:45 #648 The butch-discussed return match between the challenger Billy Tom and the champion Joe Lewis.
01:12:52 #649 Say, Manny.
01:12:54 #650 Yeah, Joe?
01:12:55 #651 He even thought what it's like to be the best.
01:12:58 #652 How many times have I thought about it?
01:13:06 #653 Like two hands.
01:13:14 #654 Oh, still, man. What you're talking about?
01:13:15 #655 That's what I mean, Manny. Champ.
01:13:17 #656 On the elevator, you get watched.
01:13:27 #657 You step on a line, they don't understand.
01:13:31 #658 Not when you're the best, they don't.
01:13:33 #659 Too many people counting on you.
01:13:35 #660 Been the best a long time, Joe.
01:13:40 #661 Yeah.
01:13:42 #662 A long time doing the things you sometimes don't want to do.
01:13:45 #663 And then again, not being able to do the things you do want to do.
01:13:50 #664 Like me electing your wife.
01:13:53 #665 Because she can have part in a way that makes you the best.
01:13:57 #666 I think of not everything you say before you say it.
01:14:00 #667 So nobody can call you big headed.
01:14:02 #668 Long time now, Joe.
01:14:06 #669 I'm not going to go.
01:14:07 #670 No complaints.
01:14:10 #671 No nights all I'm on my.
01:14:24 #672 That's it, man. I can't.
01:14:27 #673 You and Chappity are the one I was sitting with, Mr. Outside of Marvel.
01:14:32 #674 There's something I got inside.
01:14:34 #675 Something I can't let out about.
01:14:38 #676 Have a look, son.
01:14:40 #677 You've been away a long time.
01:14:43 #678 You get a chance to look at things from the outside.
01:14:48 #679 The pieces together right away.
01:14:51 #680 The back champ.
01:14:54 #681 Back to state.
01:14:56 #682 There's stuff about two strikes.
01:15:05 #683 That makes it even tougher, man.
01:15:06 #684 It'll be the best.
01:15:07 #685 Because if I make one bad move, you're
01:15:09 #686 going to hurt me.
01:15:11 #687 You hurt lots of people.
01:15:16 #688 I'll mad you.
01:15:18 #689 I keep thinking I use up my three strikes by now.
01:15:22 #690 Yeah, I know.
01:15:25 #691 I've been told me about that a long, long time ago.
01:15:30 #692 There's one thing you never heard him tell.
01:15:34 #693 Tabitha, are you some secret?
01:15:37 #694 So he figured the way you acted, two strikes back.
01:15:44 #695 That's right, man.
01:15:45 #696 You never lie to me for mistakes.
01:15:47 #697 You know many built me hard, all is right.
01:16:29 #698 You're not so late.
01:16:30 #699 Marva's asleep.
01:16:31 #700 Are you all right?
01:16:32 #701 Sure.
01:16:33 #702 Let me see.
01:16:42 #703 Over the radio.
01:16:44 #704 Oh, it sounded.
01:16:45 #705 I thought you were hurt.
01:16:47 #706 Billy wasn't pulled in.
01:16:49 #707 Sure you're all right?
01:16:50 #708 Sure, darling.
01:16:52 #709 Stop worrying.
01:16:53 #710 Go to bed.
01:17:13 #711 Marva isn't inside.
01:17:15 #712 She went out?
01:17:16 #713 She's gone home.
01:17:43 #714 Unless you have some objections.
01:18:13 #715 Joe fought exhibitions from coast to coast through Central and South America for the next two and a half years.
01:18:19 #716 He made the announcement all his friends had been waiting to hear.
01:18:23 #717 No, I've got news for you.
01:18:26 #718 You listen too, Arthur. I promised my mother tonight.
01:18:29 #719 When loser draw, after tonight this is my last fight.
01:18:32 #720 So as of now, I'm retired.
01:18:35 #721 Well that is a good thing.
01:18:36 #722 Get out of here.
01:18:40 #723 Gee, Joe, you don't know how great I am.
01:18:44 #724 Hey, man.
01:18:45 #725 I'm sorry I'm late. How are you, champ?
01:18:47 #726 a cat I say I'm I did you and I just cut up a few jackpot.
01:18:54 #727 I just got game I was still slicing and can't break 90. What do you want to
01:18:59 #728 see about that. Well it's something I wanted to talk to you about I thought Sam
01:19:04 #729 might like to hear it too thank you to it. There's a lot of talk around Joe
01:19:10 #730 talk what kind of talk about you coming out of retirement. Word that they're
01:19:16 #731 going to match you with as a child's people always talking to you know my well I'd
01:19:22 #732 rather say it to you than have you read it in my column I don't write it somebody
01:19:27 #733 else will if you're thinking of coming back Joe don't do it maybe I got a good
01:19:35 #734 reason to come back and the boys wouldn't like to see you try I'm not worried
01:19:39 #735 why should they because they're your friends and because they don't think
01:19:43 #736 you can win the people want to see you stay up on top where you belong Joe
01:19:48 #737 There's lots of things you could do as the retired and undefeated champion.
01:19:53 #738 Keep it that way, I said it.
01:20:05 #739 Govion.
01:20:10 #740 You know what the champions say to you now?
01:20:13 #741 But I'm a fighter, Sam.
01:20:15 #742 The only way I know how to make money is to fight.
01:20:17 #743 The man's giving you good advice.
01:20:19 #744 Better advice than most fighters get.
01:20:22 #745 Better advice than I ever got.
01:20:24 #746 You won't pay no mind.
01:20:26 #747 How do you know?
01:20:27 #748 I know you, son.
01:20:32 #749 Sam was right.
01:20:33 #750 was right. Joe tried to come back. They matched him with as a Charles. It was Charles all the
01:20:40 #751 way. We sat at ringside watching the remembered precision of Joe's fists fail and go. Then
01:20:48 #752 was October. Joe was to meet a 28 year old from Brockton, Massachusetts, and beaten in
01:20:54 #753 37 fights. A kid named Rocky Masciano.
01:20:58 #754 Sir, how come you were signed me to cover the fight at the Garden tonight? You haven't
01:21:21 #755 Mr. Lewis fighting years.
01:21:23 #756 I don't feel so good.
01:21:25 #757 virus after all it's only another heavyweight fight.
01:21:31 #758 And this kid couldn't last two rounds with Lewis in his prime.
01:21:35 #759 Joe's passed out tonight.
01:22:01 #760 Mr. McGinn, this is Grounds.
01:22:08 #761 You're a good friend of Lewis.
01:22:09 #762 Mr. McGinn, he's in shape.
01:22:13 #763 One of these up when you take good for a guy his age.
01:23:15 #764 Kid with his right.
01:23:16 #765 You look out.
01:23:17 #766 Louis got a catch first.
01:23:21 #767 Looks real good.
01:23:25 #768 Joe's down.
01:23:57 #769 Right, I saw the last fight in the career of one of the greatest fighters of all time.
01:25:31 #770 There are none among us who will not write finnors to the end of an era.
01:25:34 #771 Those of us who have come the full road with Joe Louis.
01:25:38 #772 From an open-faced cabin in an Alabama cotton patch.
01:25:41 #773 From the early days in Detroit.
01:25:44 #774 Through the years when no man but Schmeling ever stood over him for the long count.
01:25:49 #775 Those who watched him grow a taciturn boy into a man who'd he made rich with his
01:25:54 #776 great good, those among us who saw in his rise a bright and permanent hope for all
01:26:01 #777 kids who start on back streets, those who love him, those who know him as a
01:26:06 #778 creditor to the human race. Joe lost his wife, lost his title, lost his money, lost
01:26:14 #779 his beloved chappy, but out of it all he found himself. And from me who knows
01:26:21 #780 and better than most. I can see a beginning not an end. And from all of us tonight champ,
01:26:29 #781 good luck.