Muhammed And Larry

Year: 2009

Grade: B

Country: USA

Director: Kaplan/Maysles

Review

interviews and footage of the training before ali fought larry holmes (his penultimate fight i believe). it’s shocking that people let the fight go as long as it did or that it ever happened in the first place. you look at the guy and he looks like a mess, even when training. (what the documentary didn’t cover is that the ref was richard green. he’s the same guy who let duk koo kim get literally killed in the ring 2 years after this fight). when foreman came back in his 40s, he was big and certainly not in great shape, but he was still relatively spry. ali is relatively dim-witted at this point in his life, yet those around him looked the other way. people are real good at convincing themselves everything is ok and looking the other way. call them an enabler or whatever and they’ll get all defensive. rationality doesn’t work with some people. hopefully i surround myself with people of better moral character and judgment than ali did. you should think about doing the same in your life. or you could just repeat the mistakes of others and try to reinvent the wheel. it’s your grave.

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