By Morris Dean
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (HBO October 5, 2013, directed by Stephen Frears) isn't about any of heavyweight boxing champion aka Cassius Clay's fights in the ring, or his struggle with Parkinson's Disease. And, in a way, it isn't even about Muhammad Ali exactly. It's about the 1971 fight inside the chambers of the United States Supreme Court Justices as they argue whether to hear the boxer's appeal of a lower-court ruling upholding his being stripped of his championship title and kicked out of boxing for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War by reason of his membership in the Nation of Islam (the Black Muslims). The case is Clay v. United States.
