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Release year: 1977

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Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.

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Muhammad Ali — Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
Ernest Borgnine — Angelo Dundee
John Marley — Dr. Ferdie Pacheco
Lloyd Haynes — Herbert Muhammad

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Did you know

• Sharon Stone met Muhammad Ali when she was 17. She was in the Miss Pennsylvania pageant and Ali was in Hershey, Pennsylvania when Stone was there, and she met him. And then Ali called her father and offered her a part in this film. The boxing champ predicted movie stardom while her father was skeptical. Stone's father said ''She is not going to be in film.'' Ali told her father ''You may think that she is not, but she is. You cannot hide that girl under a bushel basket. Her light is too bright."

• Final theatrical feature film directed by Tom Gries. He passed away over four months before the movie's May 1977 release.

• Paul Winfield, who plays the draft lawyer, went on to play Muhammad Ali's promotion manager Don King in Tyson (1995).