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...Arabic name. He's stripped of his title by the boxing commission when he refuses the Vietnam draft ("No Viet Cong ever called me n_____"). Over the course of 2 1/2 hours, the film builds to its finale in 1974, when he takes the title back from George Foreman in Zaire's Rumble in the Jungle bout - a sequence that Mann shot in Mozambique with 2,000 paid extras and more than 20,000 volunteers. The cost of Mann's epic vision: at least $105 million...
...Almost half an hour of the movie takes place in boxing rings. Mann, a famous perfectionist, has meticulously restaged the actual fights, and Smith goes toe to toe with real fighters. Smith says the knockdown of Foreman (boxer Charles Shufford) was the most "grueling" sequence: "We did it over five days. Michael wanted everything, the angle of the bend in my wrist and the angle of my ankle and toe, to be perfect...
...McLean-Foreman held Dwyer off, but attributed his uneven performance to his inexperience at that distance...
...This was just my second race at that distance,” said McLean-Foreman, who traditionally ran the 800. “I learn something new every time I run it, and hope to put up better times...
...first 800 was at about 1:57, which is a little too fast,” McLean-Foreman said. “I lost focus at about 1,000 meters. I probably need to run the first half-mile in about two or two-plus minutes...