Noah talks with Marc Ratner, president of the Association of Boxing Commissions, about boxer Tommy Morrison, who publicly announced he has the AIDS virus. Ratner says Morrison's career is essentially over, that it is illegal for him to fight in Nevada, and that he hopes other states will follow suit. Boxing, he says, is a bloodsport, unlike other sports, and that HIV-positive athletes have no place in the ring if there is a chance, no matter how small, of transmission of the virus to another boxer or a ringside observer.
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