interview muhammad ali and chuck wepner part 1

[@trekkie1981]

Oh man, these clips just make you love Muhammad more! What a funny guy!

[@THEOLYMPIAGUY360]

Which part the phony racism Ali was trying to promote?

[@_____3751]

real funny that he's a draft dodger too I suppose...

[@mangoglounge7977]

@@_____3751 Ali was a great man. You’re a worm.

[@TiltyfishPoker]

He was a racist piece of garbage. The goat in boxing no doubt but terrible person

[@scott9180]

Lying about being called the n word...hilarious.

[@robertoacevedo3805]

The confidence in Wepner’s voice.

[@buddhudd1054]

1975 everything was a Hive ,now we in a dive, am a go take a Drive ,Ali I wish You were still Alive...... RIP.

[@danbaronfeld2817]

he was an amazing man. I miss him.

[@DaCake2]

Host: "The most dangerous fighters are the ones that are hungry. The man just said he's hungry." Ali: "You betta go getchu summin to eat." 😂 Smh...

[@danbaronfeld2817]

ali wanted to be serious,but he cant help making jokes. thats the ALI i love

[@therealc.t.7085]

Ali was such a troll lmfao “he called me another name”

[@danieltoft2116]

According to Chuck, Ali wanted him to start using racial slurs at him, makes you wonder how much of the drama for Ali's fights were real, and how much of it was manufactured to create hype for his fights? Never forget he ripped his ego and personality from a professional wrestler

[@AverageHuman7026]

I'm watching The Bleeder on Netflix right now and felt prompted to research a video like this....pretty cool.

[@1968spikey]

Same. Great film. It was retitled The Bleeder in the UK. The film's title was Chuck elsewhere. I like Chuck in the film but he does come over a bit dickish in reality.

[@dnzwill]

I'm doing the same thing! 😂😂

[@ezequielstepanenko3229]

Is it a movie about wepner?

[@renaissancemohit8351]

Life is full of surprises isn't it , when this interview was going on , a down and out actor was sleeping on the streets. This fight and a year later , sylvester stallone was born

[@Maverick25ish]

And whats more ironic is Joe frazier made a appearance at the end of the movie

[@thelevisullivan]

@@Maverick25ish They were originally considering him for Apollo Creed, but he was too real of a fighter for Sly Stallone to handle.

[@ppuh6tfrz646]

Sleeping on the streets? That's the first time I've heard that.

[@Alex-gn9px]

@@ppuh6tfrz646 Sly had serious financial difficulties He was forced to sell even his dog, which he bought back as soon as he signed the contract (and to be forgiven he made him act as Rocky's dog), but I don't think he even ended up sleeping on the street. He had financial difficulties because he refused to sell the script to the production despite offering him $ 200,000 because they didn't want him as a actor. He wanted to play Rocky at any cost. Anyone in his place, unable to imagine that Rocky would have entered the history of cinema, would have sold the script, but not Sly

[@ppuh6tfrz646]

@@Alex-gn9px I know he was having a hard time and ended up doing a porn film (hahahahaha!, sorry I've got to laugh at that!) but sleeping on the streets... I'm not so sure about that one.

[@anthonygratton422]

Damn Chuck was a big guy.

[@icelandiccubicle3418]

6 ft 6 and 225 lb, he had like a 25 percent ko ratio though.

[@Seinsmelled]

​@@icelandiccubicle3418 bros weaker than a 155 Mayweather ☠️

[@bradhuskers]

​@@icelandiccubicle3418 Foreman murdered this white dude in 1969. Ali lied to foreman and fought this OLD white dude instead. Ali realized that if he had fought foreman again, INSTEAD of this old dude, foreman would have KILLED him

[@carnut476]

Ali a Kentucky super star all ways in always .

[@NadeemHayek]

Is it me or Chuck looks more in shape than in the actual fight?

[@VinnieBoombatz374]

Good suit.

[@ecosby100]

He still was a pro fighter.

[@rickhinojosa5455]

Yes

[@jansmith2048]

Ali was playing with Chuck and Wepner stepped on his foot a punch to the body Ali lost his balance and fell got straight up footage confirms my argument.

[@MOMOHAJI585]

Who is and wepner

[@DD-fm7xb]

All the referees and boxing experts call it a knock down, except the KZbin experts

[@NEWYORKSTATEOFMIND-e1s]

Well the KZbin experts she's a video by the name of Wepner steps on Ali's foot and it clearly shows he did and Ali lost his balance trying to retreat from a punch

[@JayseeKid]

This is what inspired the Rocky films

[@09bnunez]

i met chuck he told me he will beat ali, i told him ali is the greatest ! and hes my fav fighter..still chuck brought me a beer

[@hughjanus1733]

Eriberto Nunez he also called Ali an N word

[@janyahbrooks2609]

@@hughjanus1733 really???? Was it on tape???

[@hughjanus1733]

Janyah Brooks no I just took Ali’s word for it to be honest

[@ezekielwhite8443]

@@hughjanus1733 k...your point?

[@hughjanus1733]

@@ezekielwhite8443 I shouldn’t have to tell u the point it’s self explanatory stupid unless u think calling black guys the n word is ok

[@shurtugal3895]

I enjoyed the movie about this fella that just came out on Redbox. Had no idea this interview was just like the movie.

[@istartedajoke1704]

It um...it’s not

[@tyme4mike]

I use to play hooky from school and fake illness just so I could watch the Mike Douglas Show. When I found out Ali was a guest, I coughed and hacked and sniffled all night to make damn sure I didn't miss this episode and sure enough, Mom "made" me stay home. LOL I had a love/hate relationship with Ali and I clearly remember it becoming a love/love relationship that day because I was standing in front of the t.v. just praying that Muhammed Ali would get up and cream Wepner on the spot!

[@2242bzo]

Chuck says he's never been down. Ali put him down real good in the fifteenth round.

[@proavocado1806]

2242bzo was a technical knockout

[@raysierra4194]

Buster Mathis knocked down wepner.so either wepner is lying or in denial...or he got hit so many times he honestly doesn't remember it

[@yellowmarshmallow6353]

@@raysierra4194 it's an 11 year old comment. Its written in 2009. The dude probably lost this account.

[@Rob2068]

Wepner was getting up. The ref ended the fight. Just a few seconds left too.

[@christophermarfleet1342]

No he didn't the ref stopped it

[@Bobbyb732]

Met Chuck in a bar in Bayonne many years ago, helluva nice guy. 👍

[@ballsacman]

Ali is so awesome.

[@truebeliever786]

Wepner did really well against Ali in that fight, but no one can beat Ali, unless its Kenny Norton or Smokin' Joe Frazier (all the rest who beat him, beat him when he was old).

[@marcellisrobinson]

This way better than "Rocky". Stallone never gave Wepner the credit (or money) he deserved for giving him the idea for his movie

[@Acervoplaystation3]

Shut up.

[@rahmanmadison508]

" Just remember you've neva been on tha floor" CLASSIC 15TH RD KNOCKOUT..ALI IS THE GREATEST OF ALLLLTIIIME!

[@mohammedfasi2227]

18" inch neck got knock down in 15th round

[@averagecodm3866]

@TheGame oh yea...by fighting nobody

[@theradgegadgie6352]

@TheGame Those numbers are misleading. He faced nothing like the competition available in the next fifteen to twenty years. The best boxer he ever fought and beat was a decade past his best.

[@theradgegadgie6352]

@TheGame Nothing I said proved your point and everything you subsequently quoted was stuff YOU said. You are entitled to disagree with me, naturally, but I personally rate Foreman (at least later in his career, after he'd become smarter), Frazier, Liston and Norton as all being better than Marciano. Stronger, bigger, faster, more talented and better trained. That isn't Marciano's fault, of course. Also, Marciano wouldn't even make Cruiserweight now, let alone heavy. He was that small. The only true big man he ever fought was Abe Simons, who was pretty much a wildcard-carrying nobody, much like Valuev when David Haye fought him. And I didn't say he had easy fights at all. You're wilfully misquoting me. I said his opponents were not of the calibre of Ali's. That doesn't make them easy, it just makes Ali's greater. Nor did Marciano make opponents look like nothing. Several of his top guys gave him a hard run for his money before he won, or even floored him.

[@theradgegadgie6352]

@TheGame And now you're resorting to petty insults, which pretty much shows your level of argument. Plus you're ignoring legitimate points in favour of anything which reinforces your very blatant confirmation bias.

[@saadamiens]

RIP muhammad ali, I love you and I wish you paradise

[@mkum2141]

saadamiens Amin

[@JaxonSmithers]

He never called Ali the N word. Ali tried to get Chuck to say it but he wouldn't.

[@danieltoft2116]

Right? Makes one wonder about all the other times he had fights and the drama around it, like maybe he wanted other fighters to call him Cassius Clay so there could be more hype and drama for the build up to the fight. Knowing he wanted chuck to call him names, makes me think pretty much everything else was made up to cause drama. Makes him come off as a fake person.

[@Jeffy2387]

@@danieltoft2116it’s called entertainment and Ali was the best at it. Doesn’t mean he was fake, he talked completely different when he wasn’t promoting fights. If you did your research on Ali you would know that.

[@Markjayyyy305]

White people been doing this for 400 years

[@jaxsienplays9884]

​@danieltoft2116 that's his thing

[@lovemamahouse]

Ali said "last week" none of you were there anyway

[@DannyHuntley-bd8eg]

WoW,Chuck Wepner,the fugitive actor David Jansen and Muhammad Ali.Boy that crowd was blessed

[@werrrt0]

Excellent clip! Can you post more Muhammad Ali videos? I really enjoyed this one! The rare interviews from the late 1960s early 1970s are the best. Please post what ever video footage you have of Muhammad Ali. Thank you for posting your videos.

[@eren-494]

How old are you

[@aleech7931]

Chuck is way bigger than I thought, what a unit

[@swami1]

This show aired Thursday, February 27th, 1975.

[@truebeliever786]

Old fighters often lose to those who wouldn't stand a match against them when they were in their primes, it happens all the time.

[@LelandnSonya4eva]

Lmfaoo at the interviewer two all beef patties! Too funny.

[@bjkgkghkghkg22312313]

Welcome to pro boxing,this is called pre-fight self-promotion. Here in Brazil we see all the time pro's saying that they are 100 some fights undefeated and they've never been down, but when you do a lil' search about it, the records are like 6-20-14(2 KO) or something like that. And Wepner being the club fighter he was, wouldn't be no different.

[@CleanAlKey]

Two Great Sports!Mike too.

[@yellowmarshmallow6353]

Wow 13 year old comment. You still there dude??

[@DarKoGameplaysyMas]

@@yellowmarshmallow6353 he died

[@etcetc3800]

"so you've never been down?"

[@mlpackard]

Nice test pattern for the last minute and a half...............

[@chrisruth7057]

Almost nobody would mess with Chuck in a local bar cause he would be a scary legitimate.bar room brawler

[@Chemicalkinetics]

Reading the below comments, I am actually surprised that many were surprised that Ali spoke to Chuck this way. Ali spoke to almost all of his opponents this way. The way Ali spoke about Joe Frazier was far worse. Ali was nice to reporters and fans in fact very charming, and maybe that is why some people have this "Mr. Friendly" image of Ali. However, Ali was extremely cruel to his opponents. Some say he was arrogant. Some say he did this as part of his tactics to mess up his opponents' mind. Regardless why he did what did, he simply wasn't nice to his opponents.

[@Naeem7222]

well said

[@Chemicalkinetics]

+Chaz Dadkhah "its a fight dude not therapy what do you expect? fighters today use the same tactic to throw off their opponents so its a tactic he perfected and has stood the test of time." Maybe you don't know that boxers didn't use to verbally disrespect opponents like this. Regardless boxing is a gentleman's sport or not, the way Ali treated Frazier was absolutely uncalled for. Just in case you don't know the boxing history, Ali was stripped off his Champion title for refusal to serve in the US Army. It was Joe who lent Ali money when Ali was in financial problem. It was Joe who petitioned to President Nixon for Ali's boxing right to be reinstated. After Ali got his boxing right reinstated -- in no small part of Joe's help, Ali called Joe Frazier a "Uncle Tom", and comparing Joe to an ape...etc leading to their match I don't know about you, but I think it is absolutely disgusting to treat the person who help you out when you are down (lent you money) and stood up for you (petitioned on your behalf) like this person is a piece of trash. *** "A few years later, it was Frazier who lent money to Ali, who had been imprisoned and stripped of his title for dodging the Vietnam War draft. Frazier later petitioned President Richard Nixon to get Ali reinstated into boxing." thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2011/11/08/363895/remembering-joe-frazier-for-who-he-was-not-who-he-wasnt/

[@Chemicalkinetics]

+Chaz Dadkhah Later in life, not later in fights. Joe Frazier never got over it, and resent it until his death. You don't know shit what happened, and started to make up stories and fairy tales about them being friends. They are not friends or family friends. Let's be honest about that. "Truth is, I'd like to rumble with that sucker again -- beat him up piece by piece and mail him back to Jesus. ... Now people ask me if I feel bad for him, now that things aren't going so well for him. Nope. I don't. Fact is, I don't give a damn. They want me to love him, but I'll open up the graveyard and bury his ass when the Lord chooses to take him." Friends? Being disrespect toward the person who lend you money and who gave you a second chance in your career -- surely is a great tactic, isn't it? The whole idea of "if you don't like it go watch something else" is intellectually-corrupt. So what next? If you don't like negative campaign, then don't vote? At least everything I wrote is factually correct. How about this? If you don't like what I write, then go read some comic books. How is that?

[@HaiderAli-tk6jq]

Atleast he didn't swear at them

[@joshuatraffanstedt2695]

He did it to sell his fights. Same reason people do it today.

[@babidada487]

You’ve never been down right? Then ali didn’t knock him down but he knocked him out for the first time in his career. RIP Both champ.

[@kingdarius1991]

@iSAW7, wepner got the reputation as another bum who didn't have a chance nor deserved to fight Ali. Ali got his religion, a descision victory over the U.S. government, saved a man from jumping to his death, never been knocked out, and had the priviledge to film a fight with the late great rocky marciano 3 weeks before his death. He beat every top heavyweight in his era, won the title 3 times, and his career will be remembered for decades to come, meanwhile wepner inspired a cheesy boxing movie

[@adelesimmonds3687]

lol hes a hungry fighter better get him something 2 eat :)

[@LelandnSonya4eva]

The 2 dislikes were from Wepner and his other account

[@exdus235]

Clever

[@coldmoney1000]

i love ali

[@salihkurtovic9747]

You will see what you will take legendary words of ali

[@nirianirar5298]

Who is that girl in red?

[@Cas82958]

0:25 o ho this gon b a real fight lol

[@jaxnean2663]

This guy get his ass whooped by the greatest fighter of all time

[@Darkassassin505]

but he lasted a long as time with ali. if anything, wepner if he had a good technique, he could've had an upset victory.

[@ianofliverpool7701]

That guy knocked Ali down and went 15 rounds with him. What have you ever done?

[@way2jannah48]

@Chris Warren hahaha its 2-1 baby are u nuts

[@swami1]

@@ianofliverpool7701 Technically he knocked him down. In reality, he stepped on his foot as Ali was trying to move backward.

[@feryarianto3944]

Ali legend

[@samebar]

Someone called Chuck a 'club fighter' here. Chuck faced...Foreman, Liston, Bugner, Terrell, Bobick, Mathis, Stallings, Ramos, Roman, Neumann, Pedro Agosto, Schutte. Ray Patterson...solid opposition for a club fighter. Nah Chucky was never someone who never had a prime like Rocky didn't. He had his shots... and still went down with flu.

[@Nellynoodlebums]

Vasantha Perera Why the spaces?

[@exdus235]

@@Nellynoodlebums The spaces make it easier to read.

[@cschnei08]

Aw man, don't call him "Cassius"

[@moonbentley7412]

Netflix got me here....great to see film and history collide!

[@chillthegreat6708]

Netflix got me here too..😂😂😂..good ass movie

[@marygoodwin2333]

What was on netflix

[@A1ex01]

wa did he call him?

[@RandomLevitation]

Ali never liked to see his fighters before the fight which is a fact. They probably didn't tell him he was gonna be there.

[@geejae4243]

I believe this fight was rigged from the get go lol- Then again I believe they always were and still are. Winners get the fame, losers get the money. They really did get along lol. They were just actors for the show. Btw I live near to Chuck. He's an awesome guy and quite the local celeb. Still works hard

[@alexgallardo9149]

The fight between Muhammad Ali vs chuck wepner inspired Sylvester Stallone to do Rocky

[@stawmtroopa1968]

But Rocky WAS a whitewashed Joe Frazier

[@johnadams2063]

Chuck was a straight gangster boy. I'm sure ali did expect to win and he did. But man oh man what a gangster boy. Shizzzam

[@ზურაბგოგიშვილი]

who's woman in red

[@martpast1]

i think it was staged --but without special details. Ali made all the show, Wepner made raw unstoppable boxer=which he naturally was himself. Ali is great as boxer and as an actor. he is generally great. who had better face than him? i dont remember anybody.

[@13strange67]

Is that the lovely Cybil Shepherd to the left of Ali ?

[@BoverGreenstreet]

remember u never been down!!!! hahaha he knockt out in the last round

[@J_Business]

@PUNISHERUltra The ESPN documentary "The real rocky" shows how the racial tension was the idea of Ali to pump up the fight. 1 thing's for sure, Wepner is a old fashioned tough SOB

[@shareschannel]

@208STROKER you feel ali wasnt arogant?

[@akaDScott]

Never been down on the floor until Ali showed him who's boss. lol There was like 20 seconds to go in the last round and Ali gave him the death blow.

[@klassickingz9094]

Facts ali saw something to go after and that was to make chuck taste defeat on the canvas lol

[@Alltimeboxing]

1975.. and you can see his first difficulties to speak..

[@davidechiappetta]

Cybill Shepherd, Muhammad Ali, Chuck Wepner and David Janssen

[@joelro79]

Chuck Wepner is the real Rocky!!

[@kingdarius1991]

@iSAW7, That "hate" you talk about is to promote hype leading upto a boxing match. He didn't mean anything he said, he even states it in a 1977 interview that he didnt mean anything he said about his opponents.

[@VAD6909]

@ThatUJohnWayne Its the name of the game bro, how do you expect two people to get in the ring and fight eachother for no reason? having this little insentive by talking trash helps make 2 strangers fight hard... but frazier-ali 2 could have gone either way but it happened to land in ali's hands, the third time joe definitly lost, he got beaten for 14 rounds and almost died in the hospital after

[@Dorkeydaze]

Chuck is such a chad

[@trcsonic]

Chuck is the real Rocky Balboa

[@jasonkeys5940]

RIP champ.

[@oullahtakanebghikawilihbib9305]

the guy pointed his fingers to people he should shake their hands ... he was between ali and wepner so chuck couldn t at all shake ali s hands first

[@liquidpaint2648]

Check it out who's getting knocked out ? The goddamn is still alive and won't die cuz Mickey loves ya

[@DDarkoBR]

I'm not sure if this is fully accurate, I just saw the fight and wasn't easy for Ali, Chuck went the distance by his own methods

[@raysierra4194]

Wepner got knocked down by buster Mathis.....so he's full of it....

[@mirzaadnan4328]

Ali refused to shake hand coz Wepner tried him in last. The greatest ALI

[@mmister727]

weber was a ASS HOLE THAT WHY HE GOT HIS ass kicked HE DIDN'T DESERVE THAT RESPECT he was a piece of shit.

[@MrCrucialThought]

explain how he was a piece of shit?

[@mirzaadnan4328]

no need to explain though

[@MrCrucialThought]

No need or u cant? I wanna know what he did

[@Drriven]

MrCrucialThought In his fight with Ali he threw illegal punches and the ref. did nothing and also the commentators did not say anything about it. see the whole fight (the analysed version.)

[@veeseee128]

Ali beat his ass. ali wouldve beat his ass on the show if he messed with him. Ali made wepner eat his words. hahaha

[@RandomLevitation]

I'm not sure about you guys saying it's fake. Muhammad Ali was known, KNOWN, On most occasions during serious fights, to not want to see or talk to certain fighters before the match. He didn't even look at Foreman when he trained in Zaire. Here, I don't think he honestly wanted to see Chuck on the same show because Ali didn't like to share the spotlight.

[@РомчикБойка]

и мой ПАПА КРУТ!

[@THEOLYMPIAGUY360]

Muhammad Smollett Ali!!!

[@carnut476]

Had Ali been born in the north he'd never neen hated half as much .

[@StrangelyFamilliar]

chuck wepner was the inspiration of rocky just on that ring just for a very short period of time,he's so far away of being the real rocky balboa .

[@LinFahrenheit2]

keep steppin

[@DopeFlavour]

why give ali not his hand him? chuck wepner fight good vs him

[@hulleciiibowsz1214]

And he got sat down as a bag of potatoes in the ring.

[@danbaronfeld2817]

chuck couldve made some bucks being a blood donor.. seriously a great man as well.

[@arealmench]

I'm pretty sure the blonde is Cybill Shepherd.

[@РомчикБойка]

Муххамед Али ТЫ КРУТ.

[@amaank]

hahaha, ali kicked wepner's ass!

[@yellowmarshmallow6353]

Comment written in 2007. You still there dude???.

[@jameslang1367]

You can't take it away from Muhammad Ali he was a once in a lifetime fighter but a big cry baby and poor sportsmanship. Ali loved the milk and honey of our country but wouldn't fight for our country or go to the military for our nation. So to me he was nothing but a big mouth cry baby

[@Charger333]

Ali gave him a terrible beating made him eat those words guess he not so hungry after that fight

[@Joetheshow445]

So heart breaking bc Ali is already starting to show signs of Parkinson’s

[@fmbighair]

Yeah, I thought chick made a comment about Ali fumbling some words?

[@cathygaudet8240]

Chuck never said that. Ali was a liar.

[@finnytricky2gule]

@208STROKER true that

[@UT5000]

tripped*, soccer*

[@Rasclot222]

That average joe also fought a washed up Ali and still got served cold

[@korayhalavurt5584]

İ want to celebrate Chuck for this match can not down to floor 15 rounds.i coulnt watch any Real match like this .his fighting power is unbelieveable

[@oscaryanez455]

Y a ese tipejo lo ponen como ejemplo???

[@Ztnarf1985]

Sly said the character of rocky was based on Rocky Marciano 1. the name of the character Rocky Balboa 2. In one of the scenes of rocky a picture of Rocky Marciano was on the wall of "Rocky" not a picture of Chuck Wepner hhmmm...

[@bartosx]

Better get yourself something to eat.

[@truemansparks]

What happened to Ali this is so unlike him to be like this?is it an act or is he seriously pissed off.

[@YESiiLLzMUSIC]

i dont kno… didnt he say "lets be serious"..?

[@bugsymoloneful]

He always talks shit to his opponents he is the king of trash talking

[@ianofliverpool7701]

Nation of Islam happened to him.

[@MrDuds1984]

Cybil Shepard next to Ali

[@stilllaughing3959]

And who had the last laugh at the Cleveland Arena?..Ali TKO 15th round.Wepner who had never been on the canvas actually met the canvas that night ..Yes Ali was also put down but as history showed Ali went down because Wepner stood on his Ali's toe,which knocked him off balance a dirty but brave fighter coz he got knocked to hell in the last 2 rounds.

[@trashboat2687]

Finally someone who actually watched the real thing.