James Scott vs. Matthew Saad Muhammad

InMemoryofJakeLamotta · Aug 8, 2018

Bob Hatrak said: ↑

Yes! The politics was intense. Jersey Joe Walcott told me he would not sanction a fight for the title in the prision but that he would, for example, sanction the fighgt if it were at the meadowlands for example. I almost has a Meadowloands fight arranged when politics came into play. My bosses at the department of corrd tions level were very concerned thatI was looking tto good and tht I might be after ossne of their jobs so that had a captain set James up. The setup included an allegation that James was involved in the prison's drug business. James was a Muslim and Muslims avoid drugs. Also he was making money fighting and why would he jeopardize that for the peanuts he could earn in prison drug trafficing. Anyway the setup happened and he was transferred to another prison which ended the boxing program. James never lied to me and when he told me, looking me square in my eyes, that he had nothing to do with drugs, I believed him. This is a good example of how prision poliics can ruin an inmates life especially when that inmate was doing everytig humanly possible to turn his life around
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Why wouldn't Walcott sanction it at the prison

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