Legal Opinion
Duva v. World Boxing Ass'n
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided April 20, 1982No. Civ. A. 82-672PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STERN, District Judge.
Tony Ayala, Jr. is a prize fighter. He is currently the third-ranked junior middleweight in the world according to the rankings of the World Boxing Association (“WBA”). He and his managers, Louis Duva and Tony Ayala, Sr., bring this action against the WBA, challenging the lawfulness of a WBA-sanctioned championship fight scheduled for April 24,1982 which pits the WBA’s fourth-ranked junior middleweight contender, Charlie Weir, against the current WBA junior middleweight champion, Davey Moore.
Plaintiffs allege that the prospective fight is unlawful because the WBA has, in…
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