Research

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of transcripts of a hearing conducted by the Joint Legislative Committee on Professional Boxing on February 4-5, 1963, in the Assembly Chambers, Albany. The committee had made a rough draft of a proposed bill that would, in effect, have outlawed professional boxing in the State of New York. The stated intent of the hearings was to help the committee arrive at a decision as to whether or not the bill or a more refined bill would be submitted to the Legislature or whether the abolition of boxing would be recommended. Notable persons testifying include Howard Cosell and Cassius Clay (later Mohammed Ali).