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for getting together is that we're appearing before the State Athletic Commission tomorrow at two o'clock to petition the commission. You mentioned the name of Floyd Patterson as being the gentleman you think would be the most worthy opponent for such a fight here in Oakland. What about

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some of the other men? Would you accept any worthy contender? Well, yes, I said, Mr Patterson, because he's anxious to have another fight. Uh, he was in Vietnam, making a few statements that he would like another shot, but you don't think it be possible. And he's

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fast. And he's, uh, got up off the floor twice with Jerry Quarry for the drawer. He's young and strong and not Paterson, but anybody who will accept the challenge anybody, any of the contenders. I would just hate to start calling names and put them on spots

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are forcing them to say that they will accept it or they will not accept it. But I just mentioned Patterson because I know he's one of them. Sure wouldn't turn in the fight because he knows that if he beats me, he will be the legal riel

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champion. And not just a homemade paper made champion you mentioned. You want to fight in the Coliseum in Oakland on outdoor fight rather than indoors? Is that correct? Yes, we'd like to have it outdoors. And we've contacted the Honorable Martin Luther King and Christian Southern Leadership

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Association, and they all will be handling the funds made from the fight. I'll fight for $100. I want more money and, uh, medical facts and doctors. It was a big right. I'm not long ago in the thousands of people black and white, that are starving and

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actually hungry through the South. And if we can get up a fight and make a good million or $500 and turn as much of it is possible, if not all of it over to these people, I'll be real happy. Mohammed. Right now you stand convicted of

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refusing to be inducted into the armed forces and face a five year prison term. How does it stand? You have appealed. Is that correct? Yes, we have appealed. That's all I could say on that. My lawyer was handling a legal partner. Well, you actually feel you

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can beat this rap or are you concerned about possibly going to jail for five years. Well, I don't feel that. It's a wrap. I'm out to just beat nothing. But the reason I'm not worried, as you say, is because I'm just living up to my religious

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beliefs on the will of Allah. My God. And I know I'm not wrong. Are guilty of nothing. So I have nothing to worry about. Whatever happens is just the will of God. So I have no reason to feel guilty or feel criminal. I'll be hiding my

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face because as far as I'm concerned, I'm right. I know I'm right.