>> a champion who gave up perhaps the best years of his life by taking a stand, a personal stand saying he would not serve in the draft. he would not fight against the communists in vietnam, and he paid the price for that with some of the best years of his life. but he came back and became champion again. >> gary radnich is here now. and this is certainly somebody that just transcends sports. >> and with next time you see an athlete make a prediction, stick out his chest and tell you what he's going to do it all began with ali. his career began in lewisville kentucky where he won an olympic light heavy weight gold medal. and upon his return, he found that racism with a gold medal around his neck or not was still very prevalent in his native lewisville. the story goes he went to a bridge, threw his gold medal into the water never to retrieve it. and it went on to become the heavy weight champion. in the early 60s he was a 7-1 underdog when he took on sonny lipton and he said i'm going to beat this ugly bear. i'm going to take him out. and sure enough he did. and at age 21 he was the heavy weight champion of the world. he traveled the gold and in those days you fight all comers. and he went to fight henry cooper in london. he had the rumble in the jungle with george foreman. he was the man at all times. of course as steve said, it's an individual decision you're feeling on the vietnam war. but muhammad ali said i will not serve and indeed he was out for six of the prime years of his boxing career. came back to fight joe frazier after the six-year absence. lost the 15 round decision. and people still say the greatest, most anticipated boxing match in history. you see him here in his later days when health issues pretty much put him on the sidelines. but occasionally he would go out. they still talk about the time at the atlanta olympics the shaking ali holding the torch. he baby sat this young lady, and it looks like he was a ladies man. a lot of beautiful women in his life. but she met ali when she was ten. and he was king of the world. she wept on to marry -- she went on to marry him. she was his 4th wife and he took care of him in later life. he was the man, i can't say it enough. i love when i hear the stories about him, he spoke at harvard and said i'm the only guy who had a d - average to ever speak at harvard. and later in his career again i went to school in las vegas. we were lucky nah enough to get to see some of his fights. and late in his career he needed money. he was so generous and that's one people forget about these guys. he ended up broke, or here or there. while you're sitting on the couch hiding, he was helping millions on millions just with his attitude and he gave financial aid to all around him. he came back and on a night in las vegas was beaten to a pulp. it was a very sad occasion. and again after his retirement the parkinson's started to rear its ugly head. and from barry bonds to others that took strong political stances, everyone took their queue from muhammad ali. african american athletes and boxers in particular who were ripped off by their agents throughout the career saw ali come first and foremost to the head of the class. somebodies going to say babe ruth was the best athlete but this guy was the guy that carried the stature that nobody before or since has been able to maintain. he was a great boxer, but again it was his predictions. nicknamed the lewisville lip. and everybody's going to have a story about him. but living in las vegas. i had him on a little tv show when i was starting. he was filming in the mid-70s. not the will smith movie. but they did a quick version of the muhammad ali story where he played himself then he went on to play on nbc a roll called uncle buck. but he just couldn't translate to movies. because that's ali i don't believe him as anybody else. he was filming this role and somebody said you want to interview muhammad ali. so we go down there, it was a quite a thrill. again, not to make a big deal. but he said i like your car where's the station. so he got in my fancy car, drove down to the station with his dad who was a sign painter in lewisville, couldn't have been nicer, couldn't have been more charming. tv lights come on he starts yelling and screaming. i'm the greatest and this movie of mine is going to be the greatest. and as soon as the camera went off he said hey man, get me back to my hotel. he was just the greatest. and ha he did that nobody else again has done before or since is he brought a since of humanity. >> yeah. >> and there was a twinkle in his eye. i'm picking names out here. but bar ray bonds great -- barry bonds, great. great athletes but he didn't have the twinkle in his eyes. and there was a lot of people when he first arrived on the scene in the 60s there was a lot of just white people who did not like muhammad ali. they would go just to see him lose. i remember when he fought at the coliseum in los angeles. and what he did for so many young african american people, young white people, is just give them a sense of hey, be proud of who you are and if you work hard enough you're not going to be muhammad ali but you can look in the mirror and say i'm not backing down from anybody. and he passes tonight. only he knows the pain that he has been in all these years. but he was a guy that you just look at him and you think to yourself, you know, for sports fans particularly, and whose even come close to him. there's babe ruth, willie mayes, michael jordan is fantastic at what he does, but outside of basketball what does he do? at least what he's known for he sells tennis shoes. this guy changed the world and made people around the world want to follow his lead. and to the day he died i still think he is the most famous athlete, there was many years he was the most famous man in the world. and there's a story about ali flying over new york and he goes to the pilot he says you know, you see all those lights down there there's not one house that i can't walk in knock on the door and say hey it's muhammad ali come on in. he was that famous. so that's it, muhammad ali passes tonight. but i can tell you for the next week or so, i hate to say it. donald trump, hillary clinton, see you later. we'll be talking about what this guy meant, and what this guy did. >> float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. >> there you go. what's real funny, he had an eye for the ladies. but also my wife loves, right when we heard the news tonight she's talking about she was, you know a million people have a story. she was on willshire boulevard and muhammad ali came down in la she said i didn't look very good but he winked at me. i was 10-years old at the time. and in las vegas i would come in. and i saw henry belfontain. and young people don't realize. you google his fights or google what he did and you'll appreciate it. for the third time, nobody before or since like that guy. >> quite a memory that you have there. this wonderful man. >> gary, stick around. let's talk more in a minute. we want to show people home a respectful look back. we've got a little bit we'd like to share with people at home a sense of some of the things gary's been talking about with perspective on muhammad aly. >> muhammad ali declared himself the greatest. he was introduced to boxing when he was 12. just six years later he brought home a gold medal from the 1960 summer olympics. he turned pro at age 18. and at 22 he stung the boxing world becoming heavyweight champion by defeating the champion. the 60s were his glory days but the civil rights era would become a controversial period in his life. he renounced his given name and joined the black separatist nation of islam. his heavyweight title was revoked when he refused to serve in the vietnam war. he began an exile from championship fights until the supreme court overturnened his conviction on a technicality. barely back in the ring his undefeated professional record came to an end in 1971 when he lost to joe frazier in a match dubbed the fight of the century. but he would get revenge in a rematch. the famous match ended in a technical knockout after the 14th round. >> on the last week --. >> his last fight was in 1981 when he lost his title to trevor burbick. he had been diagnosed with parkinson's disease. as his condition grew progressively worse his spirit remained strong. in 1996 he lit the olympic flame at the summer games in atlanta. in 2005ali was presented with the presidential medical of freedom award the nation's highest civilian honor. >> when you say the greatest of all time is in the room, everyone knows who you mean. [ cheers and applause . [ cheers and applause ] in his final years he penned a book, launched an online steer and even appealed to iranian officials for the release of two hikers. he was always the fighter who never backed down. i'm renee marsh reporting. >> muhammad ali died at the age of 74. he's been fighting with parkinson's disease for some time. and went into the hospital with a respiratory health challenge. so many memories flooding our conscious now. things we remember about him and now tweets coming in. >> this comes from mike tyson, god comes for his champion. muhammad ali the greatest, rest in peace. then from george foreman. we were one guy as part of me slipped away the greatest piece. and this from rd kelly. >> r kelly the singer? >> thank you. >> he who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. muhammad ali rest in peace. >> and tracking comments from people in the world and doing the reflection we're all doing here on the life of this great man. >> we looked at a lot of pictures when gary was putting him in some sort of context. want to just take you through the greatest life and we'll start when he was young and we'll have a series of these throughout the next hour going up to about 11:15 and he started as a young kid. hometown lewisville kentucky prior to his amateur boxing debut, 12-years old, and 85 pounds at the time when he was young he won 100 out of 108 fights. he won at 1960 olympics in rome. and this kid was bully and had got some lessons from muhammad ali. a lot of people say he was the best with the most vulnerable people among us the youngest and the oldest. here he is with the beatles and then after beating lifton. and this is when he declared i am the greatest. so certainly the greatest life cuts short. parkinson's had ailed him since the mid-80s. and people will debate what role that had in his, or what role boxing played in the role that he had parkinsons. it impacts motor skills and people who know knew m him in recent years saw him as a shell of his former self-. and beyond that he was afraid to be in the public eye. and he certainly wasn't afraid to continue to be a global ambassador and fight for the freedom of people, prisoners of war in different countries around the world. he was the guy that could broker deals that seemingly other world leaders couldn't. and muhammad ali was a world leader in a unique kind of way. so more picture, and we'll walk a timeline with muhammad ali as he goes through the years. right up until a couple months ago in april he was pictured. so we'll run the it there. >> and even though you talk about the frailty that came with parkinson's that twinkle in the eye was always there. >> and people loved that. >> we'll talk about what that meant, and gary is really on to something by saying at one time there was nobody on the face of the planet that was as well known. >> in san francisco talking to muhammad ali fans. we want to touch base with kate. >> reporter: good evening, as soon as we confirmed the news that muhammad ali had passed away i walked over to talk to people about him. and i was actually nervous that i was going to be breaking the news to people who are out on a friday night that he had passed away. but every single person that i approached within minutes of him passing away had not only heard about it but they had been following his progress, the news of him in the hospital this week. and people were very eager to talk about how muhammad ali had impacted their lives in the hope that they have that his legacy will impact our current athletes and sports heroes. >> he took a stance against the vietnam war and he didn't take it and run away he stood his ground and said this is what i believe. >> he's a great american hero stood for his beliefs. very entraining, so yeah, a lot of sadness. >> when i was a kid and he was a man of conscious and an amazing@lavement he was a world citizen. >> -- amazing athlete. and he was a world citizen. >> we'll take this and essentially try and move beyond the area of their own sport and essentially say this is what i believe and i'm prepared to take a stance no matter what the cost. >> and there you hear that man talking about the impact that an athlete can have and the fact that muhammad ali really epitomized that using your stature your power, your strength in your particular area is and your celebrity and that's something you don't see a lot with sports heroes these days. they tend to stick to their sport and that's it. but he thinks maybe that's something we need to see a little bit more. but with muhammad ali as gary mentioned his name guaranteed to be in the news over the next week or. so maybe we'll see some more of that. for now reporting live in san francisco, pam and steve, back to you. >> gathering feedback from the people. the conversations will go on over dinner tables and bars and at water coolers for the next week or more. >> one of my memories, and everybody has one. was the whole exchange between abc sports anchor at the time and muhammad ali made howard corcel. and they would banter back and forth. and gary i'd like to talk to you about this. how they would go back and forth, and you know just seeing this white sports caster and this star of a heavyweight boxeninging champ but -- boxing champ but play with one another. >> i'm going to talk corcel and and also joe frazier. and i keep referencing to you young folks looking at your phones and doing your thing, back in the time when ali was a king there were maybe 4 or 5 television stations so when he came on it was a big deal. today everybody's afraid of offending someone. the first thing i think of is if you had a black man and a white man in this society and east going i got the complex to make the connection there would be people tweeting out there would be nervous people, but back in the day, his presence so powerful and he and howard cocel would go back and forth. one of my favorite thing was he would grab his tupe and shift it around. and everybody is more robotic and has to follow the norm. but ali respected him so much when he refused to take that step in houston texas to be inducted into the service, so the story goes he was the one media person who defended his right to choose. everyone else turned on him. howard defended muhammad ali's right to say i will not go to vietnam or as ali would say on numerous occasions i ain't got nothing against those vietcons. and howard cocel would say i made muhammad ali. and it was the greatest media guy, athlete relationship in the history of sports. there's never been anything closer because he was a spirit ha did not follow the guidelines and they would go back and forth with each other. and it was a great, great, great relationship until he passed howard passing in the late 80s. i want to mention they would show frazier, smoking joe frazier, and one of my favorite ali stories. he tells it so well. during his exile from boxing ali was living in new jersey he was broke trying to get back in there, get the courts to overturn the deal that banned him from boxing right? so he goes down to philadelphia and in those days again, no twitter, no social media. calls up one radio station saying i'm coming to kick joe frazier's you know what. they put it out over the air. and before you know it the streets of philadelphia are packed waiting for this. he said joe pick me up. he was broke. he asked joe frazier to loan him a thousand dollars. then they get down and said i'll make this fight happen for you. why don't you take 5 million and i'll take 5 million and we'll get it on. he says great thanks for the money. and a minute later he gets out in the street and starts yelling that ugly joe frazier. and that got the great fight in new york with frank sinatra ringside taking pictures. and it's the greatest sporting event in my life. that was back in 1970. there was an ugly side to ali that has to be pointed out. in regards to joe frazier. when they had their fight and joe frazier was a sharecropper's son from south carolina and ali for better or worse depending on how you look at things grew up middle class. his father was a house painter as we said. and ali had food on the table every night and joe frazier grew up dirt poor. but ali portrayed for their third fight they had split their first two and he portrayed him as an uncle tom because at those times the white syndicate backed joe frazier and he painted him as an uncle tom and held up a little gorilla and would pound the gorilla and it really hurt joe frazier they didn't speak for years. ali won in the and he said that was the closest he's ever been to death. fortunately the last maybe 16 months i think ability 16 months before joe passed they got back together and mended old fences. for years he would say who won those fights, look at the shape the champ is in now and look at me i'm still moving. pretty ugly dialling. but in the end -- dialogue. but in the end they know they are one in the same. joe frazier and muhammad ali. there was cocel and frazier. and ali's name will be in the first sentence, no question. >> thanks a lot. stick around. right now we leave for a break with a look at the hospital where muhammad ali breathed his last. she had to earn it.anded to cecilia aguiar-curry. built a business. became an expect in water policy. balanced budgets. and always solving problems. that's how she brought much-needed technology to local classrooms... so every child has an opportunity to learn. and worked to create more local jobs... so more families can get ahead. that's democrat cecilia aguiar-curry for assembly. welcome back we've been talking this evening about the passing of heavyweight champion muhammad ali at the age of 74 in phoenix arizona. he's been in the hospital with complications with respiratory problems. complicated also by the parkinson's disease he's been fighting for so many years now. >> he claimed the name the greatest he defended it in the ring then he went out and earned it every day as a human being, as an ambassador, as a leader, as an advocate. and including in ways with his health towards the very end. how many years did he have parkinson's disease 30 years. >> a when it first came to public life is the early 80s. that's been a long time. >> some people are holding out their expressing their fondness for them. this comes from the san francisco giants, simply muhammad ali the greatest, rest in peace. then from the nfl rest in peace muhammad ali. lots of tweets and facebook comments. >> from all around the world. we'll be back, much more ahead. ♪ give you the knowledge to adjust for the best sleep ever. it's the semi-annual sale! save $500 on the memorial day special edition mattress with sleepiq technology. only at a sleep number store. three time heavy weight champion of the world. he was the greatest, no one compared to muhammad ali dead tonight at the age of 74. >> gary radnich is here, we all have so many memories and things that stick out in our minds about this great human being who captivated the world. float like a butterfly sting like a bee because he was always riming. but -- rhyming. >> where he was fighting to george foreman. that is called the rumble in the jungle and george foreman at that time was king of the world and ali would step off that plane and immediately, all the african people he goes i love you, george foreman he's for the white man. and before you knew it the entire country was looking for ali. and look at george foreman he's got to walk around with that big ugly dog of his. and pam's referring to on the ropes. and he went for the first five rounds just lay there and let george foreman go in his words he would describe it [ inaudible ] . >>. >> and it was looking like he wasn't doing anything he proceeded to knock out george foreman and get the heavyweight championship. and he was like the first heavyweight to dance. and back in the day there was a sugar ray robinson and he would dance. that was his idol, sugar ray robinson and informant ray le leon leonard. >> and joe lewis; it was great too. but not like this guy. this guy would dance around and his line was, why am i dancing? you can't hit this pretty face. i don't want to get my pretty face mess up. so where it used to be before ali came along, wow i'll punch you, you punch me, and the survivor will stand tall at the end, he said no, no, no. you're not going to hit me and he would dance around. that's where float like a butterfly sting like a bee came from. he did not want his pretty face messed up. and it actually, the phrase came from 11 of his hangers on -- one of his entourage would yell float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, you're the champ of. it's it was not that bad, but who can equal muhammad ali. but you'll see drew brown who would hawk some of his trophies to earn a few bucks. and it's a great scene to show yo you the heart of ali. he gave away his championship belt so he could buy drugs. and he led him back in the camp because he felt sorry for him. and he hung around with ali for a few more years. but that was the thing about him. he did have a heart, he has the managers and the handlers like any athlete does. that's how bob aaron, his promoter of many fights started out as the guy who represented a lurks. but he had a -- represented ali. but he had a heart. like sammy davis jr. here we go telling old stories. but he died broke and everybody said too bad. you realize how much money he gave away to help people. >> i know. and grants going to join you. he's been trying to get some additional information. >> what do you got? >> i actually have scripts, and. >> that's all right. >> i know we're talking about a lurks. but it's quite -- ali but it's quite impressive your recollection. but we're basically going to show more pictures. >> you show them and i'll, yeah. >> this is when he's relaxing just after beating lifton. >> he beat him in miami beach the first time then they came back to maine and people still to this day say he was represented by the mob, that's the way the legend goes, informant here we go again, mr. been there done that. my sponsor is in las vegas was a guy who gave me money under the table he was sonny's attorney. he did not want to fight this guy a second time. and the main reason was that anybody can fight a tough guy, but you don't want to fight a crazy guy. because you don't know what the crazy guy is going to do. that was pretty much the end of his career. so two fights with him, and he basically quit in the second one. >> this is 1966 the third round knockout. >> henry cooper. >> and the power he had. not only the ability to move but the power. and he liked himself too. >> if there was a mirror he would check himself out. >> and pause this one. >> this is a great one. when ali again refused to take that step in houston texas to enter the service. >> this is '67. >> we'll go right across the screen right. he was at ucla, that's gym brown the football player, there's ali, and then there's bill russel, the legendary basketball player at the height of their powers. they all came together to again, the story goes gym brown said i want to -- jim brown said i want to see if this guy is real. is he doing this because he wants more attention. is he doing this to promote his next fight. and they brought the heavyweights from the african american sporting world and the world in generalal and they said this guy is very sincere and we're backing muhammad ali. >> all these guys refused to fight in vietnam. and we'll pick this up after a quick break. >> i'd like to ask you about his influence on the great muhammad ali. >> he was right front and center. >> we'll be back to continue our conversation in a moment. welcome back. tonight we're mourning the loss of muhammad ali. died at the aiming of 74 today. >> -- died at the age of 74 today. >> and one of the more memorable moments of his life was at the atlanta olympics in 1996 and nobody knew who would light the torch. >> it was a complete secret, that was the conversation who would be the person nobody guessed it would be him. and it was revealed and you see him shaking ten years into his parkinson's and i think 3 billion people watching the olympics had goose bumps because they wondered would he falter, would he make it. and didn't he carry that off. he had his powers, he had his powers of engagement and communication and humor, and humanity. >> the way they managed to keep that a secret and to see him come out publicly like that at that particular moment in olympic history and american history and sports history. the world was captivated and people were crying. even those watching on television, it was a moment that brought tears to peoples eyes. >> one of the founders of saturday night live, he was the guy, and he tells the story, it was only he, and ali knew. he said you can't tell your wife, your dad, anybody. and dick eversaw it was just the two of them. >> and so many people try to protect their image, and their reputation, here he is ten years into the parkinsons and he i'm on the stage who could do this better than me. >> how many of us, you know, would want to show. >> somebody who had been that powerful and great >>a >> that you want to show -- great. >> that you want to show you're in poor health. and run the risk of even getting the torch lit. he was even to many people even more impressive at his boxing career ended. >> this is live picture from los angeles where fans are gathering to take a picture with his star. where is this can you tell us? >> this is in hollywood, his star is posted here. we're not sure exactly where this is at this moment. it looks like one of the stars that's always found on the hollywood walk of fame. but the fans there are gathering to take a picture with his star. >> remembering the greatest tonight. gary radnich and pam moore, coming up with your weather. don't go anywhere, we'll be right back. we are remembering the life of the greatest, muhammad ali and our meteorologist brittany ship who moved here from phoenix had the opportunity to meet the greatest in person. >> as soon as it happened i called my mom and i said i met muhammad ali. just so awesome. and so gracious on this night. we went to a movie screening, and he founded celebrity fight night and they raised $118 million for parkinson's. and he would have all of the media people come up to him and give him a kiss on the cheek. so he loves the ladies. >> gary said he was there, he was present for people. what kind of guy was he? >> it's hard to take it all in. he was warm and welcoming. meeting such a huge legend it's hard to process it. it's a fantastic memory. and you know, just remembering him today. >> and you have a picture with you and muhammad ali. that's pretty amazing. we're going to let you take one break and give us a look at our weather forecast and then we'll come back and have more memories. >> as we go into the rest of the weekend we'll cool things down. our satellite radar shot showing us that we won't see any rainfall. so more details on that poor air quality. take transit if you can. and our highs heading into tomorrow no more triple digits but still warm in pleasanton and livermore. 68 in dally city and 68 in half-moon bay. and by monday back to the low 80s. we will stay close to average as we head into next week. a beautiful dry weekend the only exception is that we are going to see a chance of a few thunderstorms in the sierra both saturday night and sunday night. but again our temperatures are slowly cooling down so we'll keep dropping down as we head into both saturday and sunday, you'll notice a bigger difference on the second half of the weekend on sunday. so send it back to you guys. >> thanks brittany. we continue to remember muhammad ali tonight. and we'll get back to gary and grant. and this guy was fearless, he was unafraid of anyone. he was influenced by people though, and i wanted to pick up on that. >> you always here dundey was his trainer for all these great fights. he was in the corner and there's a number of great stories how his humanity, don king. that's a great one. don king, no matter what you think about him, but he was at the forefront. >> a boxing promoter. >> and a great shot of the press conference at the front of the table is ali, don king, and i believe he was fighting earny shavers at the time. and out pops dundey who was talking in the back conversing and don king turned around and said hey shut up, just sit back there. and ali said you want this fight to go on don't you ever disrespect him. and king all the sudden said i'm making a lot of money on this fight. and it's a great, great story. and he would nickname everybody. he nicknamed earny shavers he had a bald head and he nicknamed him acorn head. and every guy had a little something going. and grants thrown together some pictures here, huh? >> just taking a walk down memory lane. this is 1970 in new york where he's marching with the black panthers this is during the time he was out of boxing, protesting the war, sentenced to five years in prison, stripped of his title. but the supreme court overturned the conviction in '71. and it was howard cosell and he had a training camp in michigan. and the legend goes it was howard cosell who got the news called ali and said you're a free man. that's the legend, anyway. and i believe that's jerry cory. and i remember seeing that fight in las vegas, back when we were playing ball, that was the thing you go see a muhammad ali fight. and jerry cory was nickname it had big white dope. that's what he nicknamed him out of bell flower california. and of course the great white hope. and ali nicknamed him the great white dope. and proceeded to knock him out as well at the las vegas convention center. >> and the fight of the century in '71 joe frazier and ali. and frazier wins by unanimous decision. >> they both came in undefeated that's what made this special. and as i said about a half hour ago. this fight was so big, and i'll say this and everybody take this in the right way, they called it and history will show you it was like a pimp fashion show. everybody decked out, you know. you know what i mean in the finest threads, diana ross was there. and frank sinatra was taking pictures for life magazine, he was ringside. it's the greatest fashion show you've ever seen. and i didn't call it the pimp fashion show, that's what the history books will tell you. they call it the greatest fashion night in the history of entertainment. you see this stuff now, where beyonce has got a long train and this and that and this was back in the day. that's how they were dressed. collide frazier had the -- klyde frazier had the hat tilted over. and cosell went on to do many things and because of the influence of ali saturday night live with howard cosell. he would jiggle the piece. and only ali could do it. you don't touch another man's hairpiece. we went over this pam and i. but that's the best relationship. and i can't say it enough. today if to you did any of that stuff. if i touched your hair, oh my gosh, people would go nuts. but back in the day before everybody became politically correct. they could do it. >> this is '74 gorge foreman. ali was a big underdog here and he wins regains the title that was stripped of him. >> and his concentration level. he was married his second wife was named belinda. and he was a devout muslim. but he's over there getting ready to fight and he falls in love, or meets this young lady veronica porsche who's the mother of the young boxer we see now. the young ali fighter lady. laila ali that's her mother. so here he is ready to fight foreman. and i remember as a kid i'm thinking he's got woman troubles and he's going to fight george foreman. who in the heck can concentration. but he broke up with belinda and became romantically involved with veronica and knocked out george foreman. that was a busy week, but he was that great. he could compartment lies his troubles. and i believe that's belinda next to him, screen left. >> '74 addressing the nation of islam. the next year he left the nation and became sort of more mainstream. >> i believe the foreman fight was '75. you see him there with belinda and then the next one was the next portion of his life. >> this is in new orleans, and once again lost the title. and got it back. >> i'll tell you back story there. he fought leon pinks. and -- michael spings, and leonspinks. he lost, he didn't train and he grew a mustache. he called himself dark gable. for clark gable. he was out of shape, and he grew a mustache. and leon spinks beat him. he came back in february of '78 he comes back in september in the super dome in new orleans and regained his title from spinks and very very sad story what became of him. i understand he's slowly trying to get his life back in order. but that was the highlight, he beat a lurks. and everybody -- ali and everybody said said why don't you quit. >> the next picture will be his aforementioned daughter who became a boxing great herself. this will be in 1978, there they are in hannah that's his other daughter. and then he retired the next year briefly. >> that's it. he moved to los angeles. i was talking about where my wife saw him on melrose avenue. so throughout his wife it was lewisville, cherry hill new york, for a time he michigan. and then then he moved to los angeles. and you'll hear the stories he was enjoying his life but then the money got tight and he had to come back and fight larry him or her pals and by the time -- hohmes. and -- holmes. and a lot of people will wonder, how has he lived the last few years. a group of businessmen and correct me if i'm wrong but i believe the figure was they paid $50 million for all the rights to the his likeness to anything with his name on it. >> you think it could be more? >> yeah. >> really? >> they paid him $50 million and because of his parkinson's it was better to move ah a warm weather area so he finished his life in phoenix and that's how he lived. >> we're going to do one more of these. and it'll take us through the end of his life. >> we're going to take a quick break. and we'll be right back. a new gym bag. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time. 2% back at grocery stores and now at wholesale clubs. and 3% back on gas. kenny used his bankamericard cash rewards credit card to join the wednesday night league. because he loves to play hoops. not jump through them. that's the excitement of rewarding connections. apply online or at a bank of america near you.