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Bent and Art Miller. Clay Granted New York Ring License NEW YORK (AP) - Cassius Clay won a decision over the New York State Athletic Commission yesterday when a federal judge granted him the right to fight i in New York. Clay was defrocked as world heavyweight boxing champion by New York and most other states in 1967 when he refused to accept military service. When Clay applied for a renewal of his New York boxing license he was turned down last Oct. 14. The Commission argued that, although it had licensed boxers convicted of felonies, those fighters had served time. Clay, who had brought the suit under his Muslim name, Muhammad Ali, is preparing for an Oct. 26 bout with Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, the only place he is licensed to fight. "I'm just glad t to hear it," said Clay in Philadelphia. "I'm not thinking about that now. I'm busy getting ready for Quarry. I can't have too many things on my mind." Clay, 28, hasn't had a real fight since March 22, 1967 when he defended his title against Zora Folley in New York's Madison Square Garden. He boxed a couple of exhibitions that year and then managed to get a license for an eight-round exhibition against three little-known fighters in Atlanta Sept. 2. "Every effort will be made to arrange a fight with a suitable opponent in New York State," said Clay's lawyer, Michael Meltsner, a Columbia law professor. The Commission refused any comment on the ruling until its staff had time to study the court decision. An appeal is possible. It was another chapter in the trials and tribulations of Clay who came out of the 1960 Olympics and won the heavyweight title i in a tremendous upset by knocking out Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Feb. 25, 1964. Clay stopped Liston in one round in a 1965 rematch in Lewiston, Maine, then made successful defenses against exchamp Floyd Patterson, George Chuvalo, Henry Cooper, Brian London, Karl Mildenberg, Cleveland Williams, Ernie Terrell and Folley before he went on the inactive list. After he was denied a temporary injunction against the government in an attempt to restrain it from taking criminal action if he refused military service, April 27, 1967, New York and the World Boxing Association deprived him of title recognition. Other states and nations went along. Clay was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison, June 20, 1967, in Houston. Judge Walter R. Mansfield, in a written opinion, said, "the commission's contention that the recentness of Ali's conviction provides an adequate basis for denying him a license is without merit. ... .The commission's own records revealed it had not made such a distinction in its disposition of other applications.'
Article from 15 Sep 1970The Palm Beach Post(West Palm Beach, FL)
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