| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
As it happened (Television program)
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| Summary |
"The final part of a four-part series which captures all the excitement of heavyweight championship fight night, negotiating 300 years of history to give the low-down on the greatest fighters, the most brutal bouts and all the headline-grabbing issues that surround the sport. The Fight tells the story of perhaps the greatest, and certainly the most gruelling, heavyweight fight of all time: the 1975 'Thrilla in Manilla' between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. It was the fight that, for many, was Ali's greatest moment. It was also, in Ali's own words, "the closest thing to dying". It was a fight set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights struggle and Black Power politics of the early 1970s. This was a world in which Ali had emerged as an unlikely crusader against the injustices of Vietnam while Frazier, the black Olympic hero, had to endure the scorn and derision of his own race fuelled by Ali's constant racial slurs. By 1975, Frazier's bitterness had become hate and, by the time the two entered the ring for the third and final duel, he wanted to kill Ali. Using the dramatic events of that evening as its central thread, The Fight traces the story of boxing's role as mass entertainment and spectacle and the moral problems this creates when the demands of the audience and the enmity between the fighters goes too far. (From the UK, in English) PG (FINAL) CC WS " -- website |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of SBS-TV broadcast February 4, 2006. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
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DVD |
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No rating given |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Ali, Muhammad, 1942-
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Frazier, Joe, 1944-
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Boxing -- History
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