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#EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY TV TROPES PROFESSIONAL#

Sell-Out: Jordan and Ali call each other out for selling their images to commercial enterprises.

One-Man Army: Jordan claims that he can drive through a whole team while Ali fights one guy.

Lightning Bruiser: Michael Jordan is a flying machine who drives through whole teams.

Ali brings up the death of Jordan's father just so he could say his baseball career was a bigger tragedy.

The Parkinson's thing was a low blow on MJ’s part.

Ali proves he can go for even lower blows.

Jerkass: Jordan initiates the personal attacks between himself and Ali by mocking the latter's Parkinson's Disease.

Then during his second verse, the music shouts "SWITCH!" and he refuses to hand the mic to an off-screen Pippen.

#EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY TV TROPES PROFESSIONAL#

It's All About Me: Ali brings up Jordan’s infamous ball-hogging by saying he should switch to professional golf so he can keep the ball all to himself.In a Single Bound: Jordan boasts his jumping ability as true flight.Michael turns it right around listing off his own endorsement deals. Hypocrite: Ali ends one of his verses by accusing Jordan of selling out.note This is a nod to Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals, where Jordan, crippled by stomach flu, managed to lead the Bulls to a close win over the Utah Jazz. Handicapped Badass: Jordan says he could school Ali even if he had the flu.Muhammad Ali: Messing with me is gambling you got a problem! Dirty Coward: Jordon accuses Ali of being a coward for being a draft dodger as mentioned below.Circling Monologue: Jordan’s last verse is a textbook example walking around Ali while proving his hypocrisy about "selling out".Ali says it makes him look like a big dumb goblin. Character Tic: Jordan is seen sticking his tongue out, just like in real life.Category Traitor: Ali accuses Jordan of selling out to white people.Boisterous Bruiser: Ali’s a boxer and is very aggressive in his raps.> The next one will be released shortly after, and will probably be the Wright Brothers vs. This actually was an easy way to set him off. A new rap battle will probably be uploaded tomorrow, and will be Leonidas vs. Ali gets noticeably more aggressive after Jordan calls him "Cassius".Jordan does not take kindly to being accused of selling out.

Badass Boast: Ali gets the awesome ”I’ll leave you like Liston, flat on your ass!".Afro Asskicker: Ali sports a relatively subdued 'fro, but it still counts because he is still an asskicker in boxing and rapping.Adaptational Nice Guy: This Ali's trash-talk is a lot cleaner and more politically correct than the kind he famously got up to in real life, notable considering that usually contestants in ERB are made more vulgar and crude rather than the opposite.

It’s another battle of the athletes as high-flying NBA superstar Michael Jordan ( Keegan-Michael Key) and boxing champ Muhammad Ali ( Jordan Peele) duke it out to see who’s the better athlete.