When Ali Performed A Knockout on Film
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/23/sports/when-ali-performed-a-knockout-on-film.html By Dave Anderson The New York Times - Feb. 23, 1997 See the article in its original context from February 23, 1997, Section 8, Page 2 - Buy Reprints View on times machine WHEN you see him now, he's Muhammad Ali in name only. As he held the Olympic torch in Atlanta, the right hand that battered so many opponents shook with Parkinson's syndrome. In his rare television appearances, the voice that shouted amusing rhymes now mumbles. His eyes still twinkle, but his toes don't. Millions weren't even born when he was a three-time heavyweight champion. Millions of others have forgotten the flames and the fun of his reign. But the opportunity is there now for all those millions to see and appreciate Ali at the top of his game, and at the top of his lungs, in the days surrounding what he considered his proudest moment -- his eighth-round knockout of George Foreman in Zaire in 1974. ''Wi