If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker.By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. This looks like my show.”Ali would go on to fight one more bout, losing another 10-round decision later that year and taking another pounding. "..and the angel food cake was the white cake, and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake." British chat show host, Michael Parkinson provokes a reaction from Muhammad Ali by asking an unheard of question. Screenshot via YouTube. Michael Parkinson asks Muhammad Ali "What Happens If You Lose?" 20:34. Ali then goes in for the coup de grace, as he’d done in previous appearances.“Take this interview as an example. Super Fight II was a non-title boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.The second of the three Ali–Frazier bouts, it took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City on January 28, 1974.

)Finally, Parkinson interviewed Ali one last time in 1981 and the episode is full of the typical verve the men shared. Look how we’re talking and how I’m handling you.

And you'll never see this message again. 50+ videos Play all Mix - Muhammad Ali and Freddy Starr, The best clip on British Tv YouTube Peter Kay - The Last Parkinson - Duration: 9:02. His thought processes, he argues, are guided by opportunities that those who are questioning his choices never had and can’t possibly fathom. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company.Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. You are a wise man and [other] boxers can’t do this [sparring with you],” Ali says. Michael Parkinson's series of BBC interviews with Muhammad Ali, in 1971, January (a New York studio-based co-production with ABC that Parky himself is less than complimentary about) and December'74 and, finally, 1981 are some of the most famous in British TV history. (You can watch all of this in part three below. The first session occurred in 1971 and is difficult to find on YouTube because of apparent copyright issues, but you can watch it in its “Must have been a good question I asked you because you’ve been talking for about 15 minutes,” Parkinson responds.“I’ll talk for 20 more,” Ali retorts. MuhammadAli_GOAT 404,751 views. Join Slate Plus to continue reading, and you’ll get unlimited access to all our work—and support Slate’s independent journalism. ~ Muhammad Ali, excerpted from Parkinson interview (October…

| The Dick Cavett Show - Duration: 3:33. Muhammad Ali and Parkinson talking about racism, politics, religion and the truth. “You believe me don’t you,” Ali says to Parkinson after a typically cheeky comment.

“You’re smart,” Ali replies.This final episode is full of candor and sweetness and apparent affection, but one particularly prophetic and sad moment comes at the six-minute mark in the clip below.Parkinson essentially asks Ali why he is continuing to fight when he is clearly past the ability where it is any kind of safe to do so. "..and the angel food cake was the white cake, and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake."

Muhammad Ali and Michael Parkinson.

Muhammad Ali may have been the greatest fighter who ever lived, but some of his best sparring actually occurred outside of the ring.

Perhaps the verbal sparring partner who got the best out of him most often, though, was the British talk show host Michael Parkinson.The interviews are indeed entrancing. Less than three years later he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. *Even after his diagnosis, Ali was still an excellent interview subject, You’ve run out of free articles.

Ali was a slight favorite to win, and did by a unanimous decision albeit a controversial one, in which Ali clinched 133 times. Muhammad Ali - Wake Up And Apologize (1972) - … Tras los simbólicos Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona 1992 y el impacto mundial que generó en el olimpismo la organización de estos juegos y el gran papel de los deportistas españoles, llegó Atlanta 1996. Muhammad Ali may have been the greatest fighter who ever lived, but some of his best sparring actually occurred outside of the ring. BBC to show Michael Parkinson’s legendary interviews with Muhammad Ali A compilation of the classic conversations that took place between 1971 and 1981 will air on BBC4 on Thursday Share on Facebook “This is knowledge and wisdom, this is brains, look how we’re talking. You can cancel anytime. Make social videos in an instant: use custom templates to tell the right story for your business.Post jobs, find pros, and collaborate commission-free in our professional marketplace.Get your team aligned with all the tools you need on one secure, reliable video platform.Browse and buy exceptional, royalty-free stock clips, handpicked by the best.Please enable JavaScript to experience Vimeo in all of its glory.

El COI recuerda el recorrido personal y deportivo de Ali, un campeón del mundo que le tocó pelear contra el Parkinson.