The Champ (Part I)

 

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[00:00.00]RazorticK - The Champ - Part I

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[00:10.73]...

[00:11.71]“Eh!”

[00:12.36]“Put your chin in yer left shoulder Mike;

[00:14.13]get your shoulders higher,

[00:16.38]get your left out.”

[00:17.51]“Ouch.”

[00:18.12]“farther, that's it. Keep away from that left.

[00:20.95]Keep jabbing Mike!

[00:22.84]Keep that left hand in his kisser!

[00:24.75]Get him off balance with it!

[00:25.97]Another right!

[00:27.09]Oh ok Mike, that's enough for today.”

[00:30.43]“Come over here, I wanna talk to ya.

[00:32.44]Let me have that glove, I'll take it off for ya.”

[00:33.86]“Ah, eh.”

[00:34.60]“That's it, there we are!”

[00:36.85]“Feeuew! It feels good to get that mouth piece out of my jaw and these gloves off Sam.

[00:41.75]How did I look in there today?”

[00:43.82]“Oh you'll do, throw these gloves on your shoulders eh, don't want to catch a cold right now;

[00:48.05]there you are. I can tell like hell that your working”

[00:50.85]“There you are.”

[00:51.69]“Put it away with the rest of the stuff.”

[00:53.14]“Got enough Sam, well what goes on now?”

[00:56.50]“Nothin'; you take a shower, and you go home, take it easy,

[00:59.57]No more workouts until the big fight tomorrow,

[01:01.87]then nobody will be calling you Mike anymore!

[01:03.86]They'll be calling you Champ!”

[01:05.84]“Think so?”

[01:06.73]“huh ha, Sure! What's the matter... Don't you like the idea?”

[01:10.12]“Are you kiddin'?”

[01:10.78]“huh ha ha; Mike Degard , heavyweight champion of the world!

[01:13.98]You've come along way kid; and I'm the guy that brought ya up there.”

[01:17.53]“Yeah I know Sam, Thanks a lot!”

[01:20.20]“Ah forget it.”

[01:20.76]“Oh look uh, I got to stop and see my girl; on the way home, that's ok isn't it?”

[01:25.47]“Well uh, it ain't ok Mike;

[01:27.86]I got nothing against Billy Stanely, she's a good kid. She's for you all the way,

[01:32.68]Well eh; fighters and females don't mix so good,

[01:36.01]at least not before a big fight. Look; call her up.”

[01:39.61]“Well, what you say goes Sam.

[01:43.02]So look; you really think I got a chance against the champ? This is, this isn't any pep talk.”

[01:48.06]“awe your a sinch Mike;

[01:49.69]The only thing that can stop you tomorrow is the referee counting ten over that cheese champ;

[01:53.72]his a push over Mike, a push over!”

[01:55.74]“You really think that, don't you Sam?”

[01:57.72]“Think it, I know it; by tomorrow night you'll be champion of the world.

[02:00.67]Think of that kid, Just think of it.”

[02:02.26]“I've been thinking of it Sam;

[02:04.20]right now it's the one thing in the world I'm afraid of.”

[02:08.57]...

[02:09.51][Knock on the door] “Yeah, who is it?”

[02:11.84][Door opening] “Me silk; Sam Billings.”

[02:14.88]“uh huh, come in, sit down, Sam I want to talk to ya.”

[02:17.56]“Ok!”

[02:18.94]“Huh huh. I sent for ya, so I came make a press for some easy cabbage,

[02:21.88]huh huh; sit down kid, sit down.”

[02:24.99]“Uh, I came over because it was near the gym, I just got watching Mike Degard workout.”

[02:29.93]“Uh huh.”

[02:30.55]“Not because you sent for me so.”

[02:32.42]“Well you won't be sorry,

[02:33.97]Sam I've been managing the champ for eight years now.”

[02:36.59]“Yeah, I know.”

[02:37.18]“We got a couple of more of easy go ahead of us, if;

[02:40.05]if your boy don't count The Duke tomorrow night.”

[02:42.66]“I ain't doubting that Silk; only my boy is a breeze to win!

[02:46.98]I know it, he knows it, and you know it or you wouldn't be sending for me!”

[02:51.34]“Maybe, maybe, I uh but I; Sam look we uh; we ain't in this business for love are we huh?”

[02:57.42]“No.”

[02:57.79]“No, so; now uh suppose I fix it so you and your boy make more dough by losing? Huh huh huh, you interested?”

[03:08.78]“You want Mike to lay down?”

[03:10.25]“That's right huh, on a golden pillow with an awful lot of cash for a blanket.

[03:14.67]Huh huh huh, aye where you goin'?”

[03:16.94]“Out, no dice on your deal Silk; Mike fights clean, fights honest. That's it.”

[03:22.24]“Not yet it ain't, You stand between me and fortune Sam!”

[03:25.35]“Fight ain't movin' another way.”

[03:27.46]“Uh, ok; ha ha, wanna play rough uh. Well toss you out of here out on your ears

[03:35.14][”aye back off me”]

[03:36.71]Jack. This is just a sample of what you'll get” [muffled...]

[03:39.17]“Chum. Uh; see I wouldn't say anything about our conversation if I were you Sam huh.”

[03:49.42]“If I didn't throw the fight, I'd be thrown out of your office?”

[03:51.38]“That's right, only that ain't all I'm going to do! Your boy is gonna lay down tomorrow night Sam.

[03:56.54]Huh ha. One way or an other.”

[04:04.09]“Look Billy I shouldn't even be here!

[04:06.58]Sam Told me to call you up, maybe promise I could ride home so I could be I shape to fight tomorrow night.”

[04:11.59]“Well I'm sorry Mike; I don't mean to quarrel only I can't help it. Why can't you see things my way? ”

[04:16.70]“I can't baby, and maybe you aren't wrong Billy; but give me a break!

[04:21.54]Look what I put into this fighting business!

[04:24.42]Years of boxing in small clubs for peanuts, weeks of training. Only getting a shot at the title!”

[04:28.93]“Well look what you'll take out of fighting Mike; cauliflower ears, your nose all twisted.

[04:33.43]Maybe your brain too, if you take one punch to many.

[04:35.70]It's all about to happen if you win tomorrow night.”

[04:38.60]“Now look, nobody's been talkin' to ya; and been tryin' to get me to quit tomorrow have they?”

[04:45.25]“Oh Mike.”

[04:46.76]“Nah, no, no baby I'm sorry I didn't mean that. Just that I'm all tight inside.

[04:52.49]I know how you feel. I know you hadn't had any pick nick,

[04:56.31]when I was scrappin' those penny anty clubs.

[04:58.37]But don't pack and leave now; not when I'm gonna grab the brass ring!”

[05:02.67]“You take the brass ring Mike, its the only ring that will ever be for you and me!”

[05:06.60]“But I need the dough the title's gonna give me.

[05:08.25]I need it so we can get married Billy. Baby,

[05:11.61]so that's what I've been plannin' on.”

[05:13.75]“Well it's no go Mike. I don't want that, any part of it. I'll go on making my own living.”

[05:19.85]“Sure, sure taking pictures of suckers in a night club; some job for my girl.”

[05:24.81]“I'm gonna keep that job, especially now that it looks like I'm gonna lose you.”

[05:28.32]“I'm not goin' anywhere baby!”

[05:29.43]” Yes you are; right out of my life!

[05:31.30]I won't have the guy that I love walking around on his heels.”

[05:34.50]“There's gotta be some way out of this Billy, there's gotta be!”

[05:37.20]“Alright, there is a way out.”

[05:40.05]“Hmm?”

[05:40.49]“You gotta fight tomorrow night, but you don't have to win!

[05:42.42]You did promise me you'd quit if you didn't win the title; didn't you Mike?”

[05:46.37]“Yeah, yeah I promised.”

[05:47.47]“Then don't win! It's so simple;

[05:49.82]will have enough money from your end of the purse to get married and start off with;

[05:53.95]it will last until you get a job. What about it?”

[05:57.28]“I don't know Billy, maybe I'd do it; if it wasn't for Sam.

[06:02.91]But, well he's had just as tough a time as we had. I owe him a clean fight.”

[06:07.43]“I don't like to hurt Sam either. This is for us Mike. For you and me.”

[06:12.98]“Huh, ok. Ok Billy baby you win. I'll take one tomorrow night.”

[06:19.90][Door opens] “Mike, I'm glad your here.” [Door closes]

[06:22.44]“I tried to getcha at your place, but you wren't there.”

[06:24.50]“Sam we got something to tell you.”

[06:25.97]“First I got something to tell Mike, now listen kid;

[06:27.71]I just came Silk Morgan's office, threw me out, this leg of mine still hurts from where I landed on it.”

[06:33.20]“He threw you out? Why I.”

[06:34.55]“Uh uh uh, don't do nothing to Silk; he just got swore cause I told 'em you wouldn't lay down for the champ tomorrow night.

[06:40.17]They got it all fixed for him to win, there betting there shirts on it.

[06:43.41]When I wouldn't go along; Silk tossed me out the door.”

[06:45.77]“Well he did didn't he; I'll get him!”

[06:47.32]“Not him Mike; get the champ. That will fix the whole crowd. Leave him to me Mike, leave him to me.”

[06:53.95]“Tomorrow night I knock the champ right into Silk Morgan's lap.”

[06:58.52]“Mike.”

[06:59.65]...

[07:02.22]“Excuse me a moment Sergeant Heath.”

[07:03.65]” [phone ringing] “oh sure” [ringing] “District attorney Markum speaking.”

[07:07.51]“Oh Mister Markum never mind who this is, you gotta listen to me.”

[07:10.17]“Alright if I must what is it?”

[07:11.76]“There's a big fight on tonight, Mike Degard against K.O. Colliny the Champ.”

[07:15.79]“Yes, I know.”

[07:16.31]“Well, Mister Markum, I've been up all night trying to figure out what to do. I just decided the best thing was to call your office.”

[07:22.65]“Well having decided that, having done that, suppose you tell me what's this all about?”

[07:27.64]“There's a mob in back of the champ, a tough mob; and there trying to see that Mike Degard doesn't win the title tonight.

[07:33.81]They'll do anything to see that Colliny keeps it, you have to protect Mike. You got to, promise me you will.”

[07:39.33]“Well, I promise you I'll try.”

[07:41.53]“Oh thanks Mister Markum, I'll never forget this. Goodbye!”

[07:46.09]“Goodbye.” [He hangs up the phone]

[07:47.53]“Well Heath, uh.”

[07:48.55]“I could hear that D.A. Huh huh, your not gonna let that call bother ya, are ya?

[07:53.64]Business have been knocking off the challenger bit in a hundred movies and a thousand stories,

[07:58.33]this just doesn't happen, not in real life it doesn't.”

[08:01.10]“Doesn't yet you mean, I promised this young lady this Mike Degard would have police protection Heath, see that he gets it.”

[08:06.33]“Sure D.A. the club will be loaded with cops tonight anyhow,

[08:09.35]we always have them on hand in a fight. Don't worry about anything, will handle anything that happens to 'em.”

[08:15.27]” [Dialing the phone] “Who you callin'?”

[08:17.49]“Philo Vance.”

[08:18.58]“Why? Cause some crackpot dame thinks the challenger is gonna get knocked off tonight?”

[08:23.37]“Hardly, I nearly want to invite him to the fight that's all.”

[08:25.98]“Oh.”

[08:26.41]“Hello, office of Philo Vance private investigator, Miss Woods speaking.”

[08:29.62]“Miss Woods, this is district attorney Markum, is Miss Jerrings still away?”

[08:32.65]“Yes she is, her mother is still sick. So Mister Vance keeps me on as his contemporary secretary.”

[08:37.23]“You probably mean temporary, but we won't bother about that now;

[08:41.16]is Vance there?”

[08:41.84]“Is he here? He's practically on pins and needles waiting to talk to you, just a minute;

[08:46.23]it's for you Mister Vance, here.”

[08:48.00]“Thank you, hello Markum, I was hoping you'd call.”

[08:50.83]“Well thank you Vance, that very complimentary. Uh, if you wanted to speak to me why didn't you call me?”

[08:56.29]“Well I might have except I have no murder to invite you to.”

[08:59.75]“This time Vance, I don't have any either. I just called to see if you'd like to be my guest at the big fight tonight? It so happens I have two extra tickets and it promises to be a great match.”

[09:09.79]“Well, thank you very much Markum;

[09:11.29]I like very much to go, you still have an extra ticket,

[09:14.65]but will think of somebody. Thanks again and I'll call you back anf arrange a meeting place.”

[09:19.28]“Oh I incidentally Vance, I'm not promising anything but there just might be a little unscheduled excitement at the fight.”

[09:24.70]“Rreally Markum, that sounds wonderful, I'll see you later, goodbye.”

[09:28.89]” “Bye.” [Vance hangs up the phone]

[09:30.54]“Mister Vance, I don't want to sound like I'm forward or anything like that but I understand Mister Markum had an extra ticket?”

[09:36.25]“Why yes he has Miss Woods.”

[09:37.72]” “Well gee if wouldn't put anybody out, I sure would like to see that fight Mister Vance.”

[09:42.41]“You like fights Miss Woods?”

[09:43.69]“In the neighborhood where I live, you say you don't like fights, right away your in one!”

[09:47.33]“huh huh ha, really; I would never have guessed? You like boxing matches Miss Woods?”

[09:52.16]“I never boxed any.”

[09:53.87]“Huh huh ha.”

[09:55.36]“But Mister Vance should we continue on the history of the last thing we were working on, the present murder case?”

[10:00.54]“I think we better Miss Woods. What disturbs me was that was last week. We haven't had a single killing this week to work on.”

[10:08.02]“Oh there's gonna be one tonight Mister Vance! I can tell you that without the slightest thought that I was a pre fabricator.”

[10:13.37]“I don't question your telling the truth; even though I think you mean prevaricator, Miss Woods. But your sure there will be a killing tonight?”

[10:20.79]“Match at the fight, when Mike Degard gets the Champ in the ring tonight; He'll murder the bum.”