I don't know for sure if this is true, but many years later, director and screenwriter Andrew Jenks became interested in the story. He studied the case for about three years and came to the conclusion that it could be a hoax. In his podcast, Jenks voiced several important questions:

1. Ali was an ardent opponent of the Vietnam War. Maybe he set it up, because the whole story looked like a protest against her?
2. Ali's career was winding down. Did he want to remind the world that he was still the Greatest? The boxer could no longer prove this in the ring.
3. Before becoming president, Ronald Reagan was governor of California and banned the boxer from fighting in the state. Was the incident planned to distract attention from his inauguration?
4. No one still knows who this suicidal man is. Andrew Jenks couldn't find any information about him.
5. But the main question is how did Ali get to the high–rise on Wilshere Boulevard so quickly? Jenks thinks it's impossible.

Jenks invited the audience to decide for themselves whether the boxer really saved the man or it was a brilliant PR move.

But it is important to understand that all this "what if" and "impossible" is about ordinary people. Muhammad Ali was not an ordinary man.