Directed by Antoine Fuqua   Written by Steven Leckart   Cast Jim Brown ... Self (archive footage) Ossie Davis ... Self (voice), (archive footage) Bill Cosby ... Self (archive footage) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ... Self (archive footage) (as Lew Alcindor) Diana Ross ... Self (archive footage) Stephen Stanton ... Announcer (voice) Dick Cavett ... Self (archive footage) Aretha Franklin ... Self (archive footage) Muhammad Ali ... Self (archive footage) Steve Allen ... Self (archive footage) Ken Norton ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Jackie Robinson ... Self (archive footage) George Foreman ... Self (archive footage) Berry Gordy ... Self (archive footage) Jimmy Carter ... Self (archive footage) Floyd Patterson ... Self (archive footage) Howard Cosell ... Self (archive footage) Joe Bugner ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Joe Frazier ... Self (archive footage) Jack Paar ... Self (archive footage) Jerry Quarry ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Rocky Marciano ... Self (archive footage) Tip O'Neill ... Self (archive footage) (as Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill) Sonny Liston ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Chuck Wepner ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Ed Bradley ... Self (archive footage) Drew Bundini Brown ... Self (archive footage) Gorgeous George ... Self (archive footage) Larry Holmes ... Self (archive footage) Angelo Dundee ... Self (archive footage) Earnie Shavers ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Nikki Giovanni ... Self (archive footage) Leon Spinks ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Larry J. Kolb ... Self Trevor Berbick ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Jimmy Ellis ... Self (archive footage) Ernie Terrell ... Self (archive footage) Zbigniew Pietrzykowski ... Self - Olympic Opponent (archive footage) (as Ziggy Pietrezykowski) Yank Durham ... Self - Frazier Manager (archive footage) (as Yancey Durham) Wayne Bethea ... Self - Liston Opponent (archive footage) Bob Foster ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Joe E. Martin ... Self - Louisville Boxing Coach (archive footage) Jürgen Blin ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Mac Foster ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Alfredo Evangelista ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Jimmy Jones ... Self - Amateur Opponent (archive footage) Oscar Bonavena ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Richard Dunn ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Buster Mathis ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Alan Hudson ... Self - Amateur Opponent (archive footage) Tunney Hunsaker ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Bill Haverman ... Self - Louisville backer (archive footage) Uncredited Cast Bill Clinton ... Self - At Olympics (archive footage) Henry Cooper ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Jean-Pierre Coopman ... Self - Ali Opponent (archive footage) Sammy Davis Jr. ... Self (archive footage) Jackie Gleason ... Maish Rennick in Requiem for a Heavyweight (archive footage) Merv Griffin ... Self (archive footage) Arsenio Hall ... Self (archive footage) Dustin Hoffman ... Self (archive footage) Saddam Hussein ... Self (archive footage) Lyndon B. Johnson ... Self (archive footage) Robert F. Kennedy ... Self (archive footage) Don King ... Self (archive footage) Martin Luther King ... Self (archive footage) Sugar Ray Leonard ... Self - On Arsenio Hall Show (archive footage) Joe Louis ... Self (archive footage) Malcolm X ... Self (archive footage) Arthur Mercante ... Self - Referee (archive footage) Elijah Muhammad ... Self (archive footage) Richard Nixon ... Self (archive footage) Tony Perez ... Self - Referee (archive footage) Sugar Ray Robinson ... Self (archive footage) Bill Russell ... Self (archive footage) Dinah Shore ... Self (archive footage) Mike Tyson ... Self - On Arsenio Hall Show (archive footage) Jersey Joe Walcott ... Self (archive footage) Dick Young ... Self - Referee (archive footage) Produced by Maverick Carter   Maren Domzalski   Antoine Fuqua   Bill Gerber   Noor Haydar   LeBron James   Sarah Khan   Jim McDonnell   Marc Rosen   Corey Salter   Jamie Salter   Kat Samick   Sean M. Stuart   Paul Wachter   Glen Zipper   Original Music by Marcelo Zarvos

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