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Describing Cassius as, "a detriment to the boxing world," WBA president Ed Lassman announced yesterday that he had asked the WBA Executive Committee to remove Clay's title and drop him from the heavyweight ratings. A poll of the Commissioners will be completed by Friday and Lassman has already declared "I am certain the title will be vacated...
Lassman's action is a thinly-disguised political attack on Clay's Black Muslim affiliation. And if the 20 Boxing Commissioners have any common sense, or interest in the future of professional boxing, they would be well advised to leave Cassius his title, and to relieve Mr. Lassman...
...Lassman is not calling for an investigation of Cassias Clay's contract; he is demanding the dethronement of Cassius X. The heart of Lassman's case against Clay is the champion's personal behavior and its effect upon "the boxing world" and "the youth of the world," and here Lassman betrays himself as a fool and a bigot...
Some months before Cassius won his title there were rumors that he was a Black Muslim, and since becoming champion Clay has proudly advertised his new religion and his new name--Muhammed Ali. Most of us tend to view Cassius as a well meaning, but misled child, and as such it is disturbing to see Elijah Muhammed ministering to his spiritual needs...
...have every right and probably much reason to regret that Cassius has provided the Muslims with a public forum for their philosophy. We may hope like hell that Floyd Patterson can work his way up the heavyweight ladder, defeat Clay, and then quietly preach the Urban League doctrine from the throne. Or, we might wish for the good old days when fighters fought, kept their social and religious convictions to themselves, and left the civil rights movement for quicker minds to deal with...