This is the fight where Ali had somehow collected a grand total of 54 in a swollen entourage, all staying at the exclusive and expensive, Bayerischer Hof. Gene Kilroy, Ali’s devoted friend and business manager, had to call a meeting of everybody to, in theory, read the riot act on spending. It backfired, Ali laughed and the indiscriminate spending continued. “He could never say no,” said Kilroy.
On the night, as predicted, Dunn was stupidly brave and dropped five times and stopped in the fifth. They are the last knockdowns of Ali’s career.
There was a bit of real magic at the end, but even that is confusing. Ali had promised to donate his gloves to a fundraiser for Chris Finnegan, who had been forced to retire with eye injuries. Ali gave the gloves to Giller. He possibly gave the gloves to Duff. Inside the gloves on a piece of paper was written: Ali wins, round five. The other version is that the prediction was written inside the gloves, not on a slip of paper. Ali did pick the round– part of the Ali magic.
And Romark? Well, he had one final wonderful cameo in Dunn’s dressing room after the fight. Romark was in tears, Dunn had a beer, he is looking at his bruised face and thinking about ways to spend his money. Romark grabs him by the shoulders, there is silence. It’s a big moment.
And then, Dunn added to the mayhem when he insisted that Dundee had sent spies to watch him train. “They know, they know they have a fight on their hands,” he insisted.
Richard Dunn is right, I can exclusively reveal: Dundee had no idea who Dunn was, how he fought and he had to send a spy or two to find out. The fight had all happened so fast. Ali did spy on Dunn. Romark had placed a spell on Dunn’s fists. It would have been a carnival to cover.
“Richard, I let you down,” Romark tells him. “I’m sorry. I made your fists turn into iron – but I forgot about your chin.”
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That will do. A magical story from a heavyweight title fight. There needs to be more tales like it.
