Muhammad Ali vs. Jerry Quarry was billed as, "The Return of the Champion," and was a professional boxing match contested on October 26, 1970 at the Atlanta City Auditorium, for the Lineal heavyweight championship. This was Ali's first fight since his suspension from boxing in 1967. Ali was suspended for refusing to enlist in the United States Active Duty Services[Draft] to participate in the Vietnam War. This was a protest due to his Islamic beliefs, and against the racial bias, discrimination, and treatment towards African Americans at that time in The United States. Ali did not believe in fighting the Vietnam war stating, "My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me 'ni**er,' they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail."
The Clermont Lounge featuresd in the series is a real strip club in Atlanta, Georgia. It's Atlanta's first and longest continually operating strip club, opened in 1965 and boasts a completely female ownership today. Located in the basement of the Clermont Motor Hotel at 789 Ponce De Leon Avenue, in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood. The club has survived multiple attempts at being closed by the Atlanta city government, and has established a nationwide reputation for its kitschy atmosphere and unusual dancers.
This series features a few Academy Award nominees: Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Samuel L. Jackson and Don Cheadle.
Both Terrence Howard and Don Cheadle are in this series. Howard played James Rhodes (War Machine) in Iron Man (2008) before he was replaced by Cheadle for all other Marvel Studios' movies and TV series.
This series functions as a reunion of sorts for director Craig Brewer. Brewer previously worked with Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson in Hustle & Flow (2005) and Empire (2015) and with Samuel L. Jackson in Black Snake Moan (2006).