He nodded some more as if he was looking into the eyes of his maker. Really got to get it together and you are going to get it together. Do you have the guts?’ He kind of nodded to himself. Ali looked as if he looked into himself…’Alright this is the moment.This is what you’ve been waiting for. It’s the only time I saw fear in Ali’s eyes.
And Ali had a look on his face that I’ll never forget. Who was going to try to knock him out and punched harder than Ali could punch. He was in the ring with a man he could not dominate. The nightmare he’d been awaiting in the ring had finally come to visit him. ‘ It’s now or never‘.Īli went back to the corner. A surreal occasion of sanctuary, sobriety, perfectionism and creativity. Muhammad Ali in his fight against Foreman in Zaire had a similar glare to Perri discussed here. As I described above, this event appears to me as though Perri is confronting her musical maker. The version of Perri singing this below in The Live Room is in my humble estimation one of the best live music performances I have ever seen.
