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CU Chamberlain at basketball game.
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CU Clay speaking "Well, he challenged me......" SOF ENDS ".....timber!" SOF STARTS:
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TRANSCRIPT: Clay (SEQ. 2): "Yes, well he challenged me about a few years ago before they took my title back in 1967, (indistinct three words), and I thought he was joking, but I found out from other black basketball players that he's a good fighter. He's beat a few of them on the courts, much bigger than me, and he's strong. Milton Gross was telling me a story about how he held up a car while somebody was changing the tyre. He's got strong legs, a strong mid-section. I see him running up and down basketball courts all night which is a hard job. I've tried a couple of times, and it's rough, basketball. And he's strong, and one fellow said, 'Why are your picking on a basketball player for, he can't fight,' and my question was 'Have you ever seen any black man on the street that couldn't fight?' So, he's strong, he's heavy, he's got the reach, and I would say he's more skilful at boxing than Joe Frazier is."



Reporter: "Any predictions?"



Clay: "One prediction. Timber."




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WE REFER YOU TO VISNEWS PRODUCTION NUMBER 4464/71, serviced from London April 23, 1971, showing Chamberlain in action on the basketball court.
SPORT: BOXING
TELERECORDING original colour on 4671/71 220ft

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Background: Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali -- Cassius Clay is to fight Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, a seven-foot two-inch basketball star. Although Chamberlain has never fought in the ring professionally, he is a tough, powerful athlete eleven inches taller and sixty pounds (27 kilos) heavier than Ali. In Houston. Texas on Thursday (April 22), Ali talked about the fight.