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It’s another battle of the athletes as high-flying NBA superstar UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan (Creator/KeeganMichaelKey) and boxing champ UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli (Creator/JordanPeele) duke it out to see who’s the better athlete.
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!!TROPES
* AbsenteeActor: Peter and Lloyd are completely absent from this battle (unless one counts Peter’s role as the Announcer.)
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: 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.
* AfroAsskicker: Ali sports a relatively subdued 'fro, but it still counts because he is still an asskicker in boxing and rapping.
* BadassBaritone: Jordan’s voice is quite deep.
* BadassBoast: Ali gets the awesome ”I’ll leave you like Liston, flat on your ass!"
* BaldOfAwesome: Jordan’s bald and is a legendary basketball player.
* BerserkButton:
** Jordan does not take kindly to being accused of selling out.
** Ali gets noticeably more aggressive after Jordan calls him "Cassius". [[TruthInTelevision This actually was an easy way to set him off]].
* BoisterousBruiser: Ali’s a boxer and is very aggressive in his raps.
* CategoryTraitor: Ali accuses Jordan of selling out to white people.
* CharacterTic: Jordan is seen sticking his tongue out, just like in real life. Ali says it makes him look like a big dumb goblin.
* CirclingMonologue: Jordan’s last verse is a textbook example; walking around Ali while proving his hypocrisy about "selling out".
* DirtyCoward: Jordon accuses Ali of being a coward for being a draft dodger as mentioned below.
--> ''Why don't you dodge this battle like you did Vietnam?''
* DraftDodging: Ali was a conscientious objector who said that UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, among other things, went against his Islamic beliefs, though [[DirtyCoward Jordan claims he was just a coward]].
* ExtremityExtremist: Ali’s fists and dope rhymes are the only weapons he needs.
* TheGamblingAddict: Jordan’s betting woes are referenced by Ali.
--> '''Muhammad Ali:''' Messing with me is gambling; you got a problem!
* HandicappedBadass: Jordan says he could school Ali even if he had the flu. [[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.[[/note]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Ali ends one of his verses by accusing Jordan of selling out. Michael turns it right around listing off his own endorsement deals.
* InASingleBound: Jordan boasts his jumping ability as true flight.
* ItsAllAboutMe: 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. Then during his second verse, the music shouts "SWITCH!" and he refuses to hand the mic to an off-screen Pippen.
* {{Jerkass}}: Jordan initiates the personal attacks between himself and Ali by mocking the latter's Parkinson's Disease. Ali proves he can go for even lower blows.
* KickTheDog:
** The Parkinson's thing was a low blow on MJ’s part.
** Ali brings up the death of Jordan's father just so he could say his baseball career was a bigger tragedy.
* LightningBruiser: Michael Jordan is a flying machine who drives through whole teams.
* OneManArmy: Jordan claims that he can drive through a whole team while Ali fights one guy, .
* SellOut: Jordan and Ali call each other out for selling their images to commercial enterprises.
-->'''Muhammad Ali:''' UsefulNotes/McDonalds and underpants as corporate backers?\\
You stay at the Ritz 'cuz you sold out to crackers!\\
'''Michael Jordan:''' Oh, so Cassius wants to talk about cashing checks?\\
I'll school you through your bug spray, off your Broadway play,\\
Over the Japanese dude sitting on your face!
* SpecialGuest: Series/KeyAndPeele make their triumphant return to ERB as Jordan and Ali, respectively.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Justified in that it's basically standard boxing protocol.
* YourMom: Ali brings up Michael Jordan’s father to set up a diss.
-->'''Muhammad Ali:''' Now, your daddy got killed and I feel for your family\\
But your baseball career? Now ''that'' was a tragedy!
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!!TROPES
* AbsenteeActor: Peter and Lloyd are completely absent from this battle (unless one counts Peter’s role as the Announcer.)
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: 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.
* AfroAsskicker: Ali sports a relatively subdued 'fro, but it still counts because he is still an asskicker in boxing and rapping.
* BadassBaritone: Jordan’s voice is quite deep.
* BadassBoast: Ali gets the awesome ”I’ll leave you like Liston, flat on your ass!"
* BaldOfAwesome: Jordan’s bald and is a legendary basketball player.
* BerserkButton:
** Jordan does not take kindly to being accused of selling out.
** Ali gets noticeably more aggressive after Jordan calls him "Cassius". [[TruthInTelevision This actually was an easy way to set him off]].
* BoisterousBruiser: Ali’s a boxer and is very aggressive in his raps.
* CategoryTraitor: Ali accuses Jordan of selling out to white people.
* CharacterTic: Jordan is seen sticking his tongue out, just like in real life. Ali says it makes him look like a big dumb goblin.
* CirclingMonologue: Jordan’s last verse is a textbook example; walking around Ali while proving his hypocrisy about "selling out".
* DirtyCoward: Jordon accuses Ali of being a coward for being a draft dodger as mentioned below.
--> ''Why don't you dodge this battle like you did Vietnam?''
* DraftDodging: Ali was a conscientious objector who said that UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, among other things, went against his Islamic beliefs, though [[DirtyCoward Jordan claims he was just a coward]].
* ExtremityExtremist: Ali’s fists and dope rhymes are the only weapons he needs.
* TheGamblingAddict: Jordan’s betting woes are referenced by Ali.
--> '''Muhammad Ali:''' Messing with me is gambling; you got a problem!
* HandicappedBadass: Jordan says he could school Ali even if he had the flu. [[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.[[/note]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Ali ends one of his verses by accusing Jordan of selling out. Michael turns it right around listing off his own endorsement deals.
* InASingleBound: Jordan boasts his jumping ability as true flight.
* ItsAllAboutMe: 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. Then during his second verse, the music shouts "SWITCH!" and he refuses to hand the mic to an off-screen Pippen.
* {{Jerkass}}: Jordan initiates the personal attacks between himself and Ali by mocking the latter's Parkinson's Disease. Ali proves he can go for even lower blows.
* KickTheDog:
** The Parkinson's thing was a low blow on MJ’s part.
** Ali brings up the death of Jordan's father just so he could say his baseball career was a bigger tragedy.
* LightningBruiser: Michael Jordan is a flying machine who drives through whole teams.
* OneManArmy: Jordan claims that he can drive through a whole team while Ali fights one guy, .
* SellOut: Jordan and Ali call each other out for selling their images to commercial enterprises.
-->'''Muhammad Ali:''' UsefulNotes/McDonalds and underpants as corporate backers?\\
You stay at the Ritz 'cuz you sold out to crackers!\\
'''Michael Jordan:''' Oh, so Cassius wants to talk about cashing checks?\\
I'll school you through your bug spray, off your Broadway play,\\
Over the Japanese dude sitting on your face!
* SpecialGuest: Series/KeyAndPeele make their triumphant return to ERB as Jordan and Ali, respectively.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Justified in that it's basically standard boxing protocol.
* YourMom: Ali brings up Michael Jordan’s father to set up a diss.
-->'''Muhammad Ali:''' Now, your daddy got killed and I feel for your family\\
But your baseball career? Now ''that'' was a tragedy!
