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One more review, from an admitted Ali fan:

http://boxoffice.com/reviews/2009/01...-in-manila.php

...To a life-long Ali fan, like myself, who knew next to nothing about Joe Frazier, this informative doc introduced me to a socio/cultural event that is now considered the greatest boxing match in history...

...It’s heartbreaking to think that in Philadelphia the greatest tribute to a prize-fighter (a statue at the foot of the art museum steps) belongs to the fictional boxer, Rocky Balboa. In fact, it was Frazier who worked in a Philly slaughterhouse, pounding huge sides of beef as practice, and trained by running up the museum steps. Perhaps Thriller in Manila will set the record straight. The 63-year-old Frazier still owns a training gym there and, like the Morgan Freeman character in Million Dollar Baby, lives in a single room upstairs. Asked about his current feelings toward Ali, Frazier responded: “Whatever you do as a young man comes back to bite you in the butt when you’re old.” To him, Ali’s suffering from Parkinson’s disease is plain and simple justice. Another interviewee speaks of the blood feud in mythic proportions: “Both men were Ahab and each was the black whale, but neither could catch the other.”