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KEEGAN
"I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord. I've been waiting for this moment all my life, oh lord."
The lyrics of Phil Collins were accompanied by Keegan emerging to a tremendous reception in Sydney in April of 2012, ready to do battle with Superstar Vince Jacobs at nbW Legacy with two titles and his career at stake.
For a moment, we're taken away from that scene. Lawrence Dallaglio, a linchpin of England's all-conquering Rugby union side at the turn of this century, is shown lecturing a group of British Lions players while away on tour: "In this part of the world, they do not respect you."
(Mitchell Johnson glaring and shouting at Kevin Pietersen, during a session of sledging in the Ashes in Australia is followed by 'Superstar' Vince Jacobs goading the Geordie Genius as they come together for what was then perhaps the most important match in nbW history: "Too bad after tonight you will be working in coffee houses back in Newcastle as an invalid.")
"They do not think you're good enough."
(A brave David Campese jumps up for a long ball in between two white shirts to register an unlikely try for Australia against England at the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Vince slaps a fallen Keegan and slags the supporters with slurs I won't repeat here.)
"They do not think you're skillful enough."
(Shane Warne's 'Ball of the century' outfoxes Mike Gatting at Old Trafford, spinning wickedly and deceptively, taking the wicket of the experienced English batsman in the 1993 Ashes series.)
"They do not think you're strong enough."
(During a Rugby league international, Willie Mason of Australia drops Stuart Fielden of Great Britain with a shot square on the nose and we also see Michael Katsidis bludgeoning British boxer Kevin Mitchell at Upton Park in emphatic fashion.
"You hit like a pussy, Keegan. I see why your nickname is special," joked Jacobs after eating a barrage of big-time rights.)
We see Keegan, a white training t-shirt, being interviewed: "When I left England for the States over twenty years ago, I came with a load of dreams and I've achieved all, but one - I've never lifted a World title."
While Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn hyped their upcoming clash on Jonathan Ross's chat show in the early 90s, both were left seething by the brash James Toney's damning comments: "No fighters in England. They're all bums. Bunch of women over there."
This is complemented by Mike Tyson brutally decimating Frank Bruno not once but twice, Floyd Mayweather sending Ricky Hatton head-first into the corner and to his first defeat as a result and Dan Henderson 'making history' on UFC 100 with an outstanding overhand right to knock Michael Bisping clean out.
Back with our resident Brit, he smiles: "I've heard that a lot, on both sides of the world, and if you want to be World champion, you've got to be able to beat ANYONE."
A classic clip of Muhammad Ali on Michael Parkinson's show on British shores is quoted: "The champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan and every man in Europe."
Various clips of Keegan are shown training in preparation for that showdown with SVJ in Sydney three years ago.
"Mike Patterson and Brian Williams are the future - they are our tomorrow, but not our today. Hank and I have watched them, scouted them, dreamt about them, analysed them, depicted them, dissected them and we're fixed to dismantle them. You see, we're not going in there just to use our experience - we're going in there to fight fire with fire and we're going to take these two lads to difficult places. They'll be no passing of the guard next Sunday."
Special K is now seen chucking several bags at a heavy bag in the gym: "I've been down, out, written off, slagged off, had a broken foot, a broken back and still come back - I'm not going anywhere until either me or Hank meets Jeremy Ryan in the middle of the ring and hands him his arse, yes I said ARSE, to him. Simple as."
Running up the steps in an arena, a breathless Brit shows women everywhere that someone with a set of bollocks, balls for you who are of American-English persuasion, can in fact multi-task: "Step by step...it starts with Patterson and Williams. They're not baby steps either. We're going in there with future champions, singles and tags, no question. We're going in at the deep end, but me and the big man wouldn't have it any other way. We're not here to make up numbers or have a game of Monopoly. We're here to brawl, claw and crawl all the way to the top," Keegan says before motoring to the summit of the steps, effectively symbolising his hopeful journey of making it to the very top of his chosen profession.
In a total contrast to the British failures seen earlier in this package, Johnny Wilkinson's last-gasp drop goal to clinch the 2003 Rugby World Cup deep in enemy territory down under cost jOlt £6000 to show, Linford Christie powering towards the finishing line to scoop 100m gold in Catalonia in 1992, and then Lennox Lewis's 'punch of the year' that effectively ended Mike Tyson's tenure as an elite fighter a decade on.
"Hank and I have travelled all over the world..."
A shot of the two in the ring, shaking hands in Mexico City, and a personal photograph of the pair living the life outside of it illustrates how close they are.
"We've wrestled everywhere from America to Australia, and everywhere in between. We want this more than ever before."
Keegan is shown running in the pissing rain from years ago in his native Britain and then a clip of both veterans pushing each other in the ring on the other side of the world in a sparring session, for which Hank completed a 35-hour journey to be there for his best buddy's moment in the sun.
"Hank, myself, Patterson and Williams are all bad guys trying to be good. Next Sunday, we'll find out who's better at being bad."
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