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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 871635">An interesting chapter in the Davis legacy is his participation in the Cleveland "Ali Summit" of 1967.<a href="https://theundefeated.com/features/the-cleveland-summit-muhammad-ali/" target="_blank">https://theundefeated.com/features/the-cleveland-summit-muhammad-ali/</a>It started out with a Bob Arum deal with the government that would have had Ali fulfill his military obligation  with boxing exhibitions for the troops while the participants in the summit would get a cut of local closed-captioned TV rights to the matches if they could persuade Ali to go along.  Ali refused.  Davis is quoted here as saying he believed Ali's refusal to be unpatriotic.But in the end, they all stood behind Ali's decision, including Davis."When they recognized that they were not going to change Ali’s mind and they were not going to see any money from a deal with Arum, they could have walked away. Instead, they used their collective power to support Ali. They sacrificed some of their own popularity to stand up for religious freedom and to stand up to a government that seemed to be singling Ali out for punishment because he was black and outspoken."</blockquote>

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