Two superb films, The Greatest and Academy Award Winner, When We Were Kings, featuring the legendary Muhammad Ali on DVD, from the Sky Sports DVD Shop.
Muhammad Ali - The Greatest DVD
The incredible career of perhaps the greatest boxer of all time - Muhammad Ali - is dramatised in this exciting film staring Ali himself.
Fresh from his gold medal victory at the Olympic Games, 18 year-old Cassius Clay is ready to seek the heavyweight championship. Under the masterful guidance of trainer Angelo Dundee (Ernest Borgnine), Clay snatches the title form Sonny Liston.
Soon afterwards, Clay converts to the Islam religion and changes his name to Muhammad Ali. When he is suddenly classified 1A by the Draft Board that earlier rejected him, Ali refuses the draft on religious grounds. His hard one title is taken from him. Winning a three-and-a-half-year long court battle, Ali returns to the ring for what may have been some of his greatest fights of all time.
Muhammad Ali - When We Were Kings DVD
The true story, and Academy Award Winner, Best Feature Documentary, of the Rumble in the Jungle.
This is a legend of Cassius Clay,
the most beautiful fighter
in the world today.
He talks a great deal
and brags indeedy,
Of a muscular punch
that is incredibly speedy.
The fistic world
was dull and weary,
With a champion like Liston
Things had to be dreary.
Then someone with colour,
Someone with dash,
Brought fight fans
All running
with cash.
This brash young boxer
Is something to see,
And the Heavy Weight
Championship
Is his destiny.
Muhammad Ali, 1963
This is a real treat for anyone who appreciates the greatest boxer of all time - Muhammad Ali.