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	IBHOF / International Boxing Hall of Fame, Emile Griffith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Griffith was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and moved to New York City and discovered boxing.
		Griffith unleashed a furious attack in round 12 and had Paret pinned in a corner.
		Griffith slowly overcame the emotional trauma of the Paret fight and went on to have a brilliant career.
	www.ibhof.com /griffith.htm (258 words)

	Emile Griffith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emile Griffith (born February 3, 1938) is a former boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who won world championships in both the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions.
		Griffith, who turned professional in 1958 and fought frequently in New York, is best remembered for his televised third fight against Benny "the Kid" Paret on March 24, 1962.
		In 1992, Griffith was viciously beaten and almost killed on a New York City street, allegedly after leaving a gay bar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emile_Griffith (669 words)

	Emile Griffith and Benny "Kid" Paret
		Emile Griffith was born on St. Thomas in 1938.
		Griffith was stunned and it looked like the fight would end right there, but the bell signaling the end of the round sounded and Griffith was spared.
		Emile Griffith was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990 and his name was recently engraved in gold letters on a plaque in Madison Square Garden along with the world's best boxers.
	www.stjohnbeachguide.com /Griffith%20and%20Paret.htm (1726 words)

	Griffith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederick Griffith who discovered a transforming principle, later shown to be DNA
		Sir Samuel Griffith, an Australian politician and jurist who had a large part in composing the Constitution of Australia
		Griffith, Indiana, a town in Northwest Indiana, and suburb of Chicago
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Griffith (170 words)

	An Exclusive interview with Emile Griffith - Boxing News
		Emile Griffith was a fighter that achieved the highest honors in his weight class winning the welterweight championship three times.
		Emile Griffith fought at a time when there was only one world champion and competition was tough.
		Griffith was as noted for his grin and friendly words to everybody as he was noted for his champion quality athletic ability.
	www.eastsideboxing.com /news.php?p=3366&more=1 (1264 words)

	SI.com - Magazine - Boxing: The Shadow Boxer - Tuesday April 12, 2005 11:00AM
		Griffith, 24, a Virgin Islander who never wished to be a fighter, who just happened to ask if he could take off his shirt on a sweaty summer day as a teenager working in a hat factory on West 39th Street owned by a former amateur boxer named Howie Albert.
		It gave Emile a release for something that just didn't fit with the ear-to-ear smile he always showed the world: a monstrous rage that he felt whenever his family was insulted or his manhood was challenged.
		Emile landed hardest: on his knees, on the bricks at Aunt Blanche's house, holding cinder blocks overhead as long as he could, knowing that when his arms dropped, her switch would rake his back.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2005/magazine/04/12/griffith0418 (5239 words)

	Living in the Shadows of Death: The Emile Griffith Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While Emile Griffith is not well known by many boxing fans, the legacy he left behind has been a tremendous stigma on his life.
		The issue of Griffith’s true sexuality was slipped by the champ more often than he dodged punches in the ring, yet to this day he has yet to admit to being either gay or straight.
		For Griffith, he was not only fighting against a well-known opponent, but he was fighting against every fan in the garden that night who silently questioned his sexuality.
	neovox.cortland.edu /oldsite/stadium/stadium_32/stadium_32.html (1023 words)

	Emile Griffith Boxing Memorabilia
		Griffith becomes the first man to put all-time great Dick Tiger on the canvas on the way to becoming the World's Middleweight Champ, April 25, 1966 at MSG in NYC.
		Griffith was the consummate boxer who combined speed, aggressiveness, determination and occasional power with superb defensive prowess and incredible stamina.
		Griffith, while snapping his double jab, with defensive guard always apparent together with his lateral movement, was a difficult target for any and all opponents.
	www.ringmemorabilia.com /emile_griffith_wing.htm (2187 words)

	Emile Griffith - Iron Life Forums
		Emile Griffith won two world titles and mixed in the highest class throughout a long and successful career, but will always be remembered for his fatal meeting with Cuban Benny “Kid” Paret.
		But in their rubber match in March 1962, Griffith won back the title with a 12th round knockout only for the win to be overshadowed by tragedy.
		Griffith stepped up in weight to outpoint Dick Tiger and seize the world middleweight crown in April 1966 and made two successful defences before engaging in a three fight series with Italian star Nino Benvenuti.
	www.ironlife.com /forum/showthread.php?t=46148 (359 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story
		Having left Paret's wife without a husband and her young son without a father, Griffith's biggest fear of his adult life was facing the people he affected most.
		Griffith's fear of confronting Paret's widow and son is partially resolved during the emotional conclusion, when the retired boxer tearfully asks for the young man's forgiveness.
		Emile Griffith's story of success, frustration, loneliness and redemption will strike a chord with any sports fan, no matter what year they were born in.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=17600 (1211 words)

	Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story
		The death of Benny "Kid" Paret at the lightning-fast hands of Emile Griffith in 1962 touches on themes ranging from violence in sports and the cult of machismo to media sensationalism, the role of fate and forgiveness and the taboo of homosexuality in virtually all sports.
		Paret, a Cuban exile, taunted Griffith at the second fight and the weigh-in for the third with the Spanish slur maricon, which in American lingo means "faggot." What impact this really had on what happened is hard to say.
		Griffith and his trainers still insist the fighter, a superb professional athlete, only followed orders to batter his opponent until the ref intervened.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000779306 (722 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005)
		Griffith went on to dominate the first few rounds of their fight, until Paret knocked down Griffith unexpectedly in the sixth round.
		Griffith cornered Paret and blitzed him with a horrific series of unblocked shots to the head, leaving him in a coma.
		Griffith, who frequented gay bars in New York City, was severely beaten leaving a gay bar in 1992, which resulted in permanent brain damage.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=7840 (1403 words)

	BraggingRightsCorner.com - " Emile Griffith and his Heavyweight Fighter (Circa 1994) "... by Danny Serratelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Emile Griffith is surely one of boxing's all time greats.
		I was about 19 or so and had heard a lot about the great Griffith, and maybe seen clips of him, but that was about it.
		He didn’t stay with Griffith long as his trainer, but since that time I’d say he has come a long way.
	www.braggingrightscorner.com /serratelligriffith042005.html (418 words)

	RING of FIRE: The Emile Griffith Story
		In the twelfth round Griffith caught Paret in the corner and began an onslaught of punishment that left the champion defenseless, and after twenty-three unanswered blows the limp Paret slipped down the ropes into a coma and this so called ‘brutality’ was witnessed by all.
		Griffith went on to win more titles including the World Lightweight title, WBA and WBC welterweight and middleweight titles, but for the ones who knew him personally they said he was never the same fighter, he was scarred and afraid to get his opposition in the corner and go for a knockout.
		After nineteen years as a professional Griffith ended his career in 1977 with a total record of 85-24-2 (23), he went on to train some fighters and to this day is haunted by the memory of that fateful night of 1961.
	www.doghouseboxing.com /Henderson/Henderson041905.htm (947 words)

	Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story - TV Reviews - TV & Radio - Entertainment
		Six-time world champion Griffith hailed from the Virgin Islands but was discovered as a promising young boxer in New York in the late 1950s, winning the 1960 world welterweight crown against Benny "Kid" Paret.
		During a rematch the Cuban Paret called Griffith a "maricon" (a derogatory Spanish word for gay): "He called me a faggot," says Griffith, now 68, "and I wasn't nobody's faggot." Griffith cornered Paret against the ropes and rained a succession of savage blows to his head before being pulled away by the referee.
		Interviews with Griffith, a gentle giant with brain damage after an attack in a gay bar, Paret's widow and son, the referee's son and boxing hangers-on combine to make this an affecting portrait of a man, a time and a place.
	www.theage.com.au /news/tv-reviews/ring-of-fire-the-emile-griffith-story/2006/06/16/1149964725106.html (445 words)

	Emile Griffith Goes the Distance \| TheSweetScience.com Boxing
		Griffith was born on February 3, 1938 in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and was athletic from the start.
		Emile Griffith moved to the New York when he was a teenager and “stayed with my grandmother in Harlem.” He also began working in midtown Manhattan.
		Emile lost his welterweight title to Luis Rodriguez via decision in Los Angeles on March 21, 1963, only to regain the crown three months later from Rodriguez at the Garden.
	www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/1497/emile-griffith-goes-distance (1599 words)

	Boxing - 10 Questions With 6x World Champion Emile Griffith
		Griffith is one of the greatest welterweight and middleweight champions ever.
		Emile held the welterweight title three times and the middleweight title twice and the Jr.
		Griffith retired with a record of 85 wins and 24 losses and one no contest.
	www.boxingscene.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1851 (609 words)

	The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Haunting of Emile Griffith
		Griffith punched and punched, the blows landing with tremendous force, one after another after another, on Paret's unprotected head.
		Griffith's feelings about his own sexuality, which is the other torment he's had to haul around all these years.
		Griffith if he was gay, and he told me no. But he looked as if he wanted to say more.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/04/14/opinion/14herbert.html?ex=1271131200&en=82decd5c0b2cb8ac&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (776 words)

	More Emile Griffith Memorabilia
		Emile Griffith was always received a special welcome from fans in the United Kingdom.
		Here is Emile at the Concord Hotel in 1966, with the hotel mascot "Woof Woof", while training for his defense of the World Middleweight crown against Joey Archer in 1966.
		Emile was in training to regain the middleweight crown from Nino Benvenuti.
	www.ringmemorabilia.com /more_emile.htm (622 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The fight, between Emile Griffith and Benny "The Kid" Paret, left Paret dead and Griffith's career forever tainted for being a murderer.
		Griffith and Paret had met twice before, the first a successful welterweight title defense for Griffith and the second a victory for Paret.
		The events leading up to their third fight, the tragedy itself and the aftermath in the world of boxing are the subject of Klores' new documentary, Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story.
	www.free-times.com /reviews/artsbeat/artsbeat_110304.html (434 words)

	Ring Of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005)
		The sport of boxing, the life of Emile Griffith, and the innocence of America would be changed forever.
		Through startling archival footage and revealing new interviews with journalists, historians, champion boxers, Paret's widow, and Griffith himself, experience the Sundance sensation that begins with one tragic night nearly 45 years ago whose impact is still being felt today.
		The film looks at boxer Emile Griffith, with a particular emphasis on his March 24, 1962 bout with Benny Paret.
	www.dvdmg.com /ringoffire.shtml (1436 words)

	Movie Review - Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story - eFilmCritic
		Emile was a great little American success story: a quiet and unassuming young man, Emile was introduced to the world of boxing because of his massive size and his admirable work ethic.
		Emile, you see, is a gay man. And back in 1962, a man's homosexuality was simply something you did NOT mention in a public forum.
		Benny and Emile battled for the welterweight title several times, but during their final bout together, Emile was understandably quite furious at Benny for calling him "maricon".
	www.efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=11208 (644 words)

	Emile Griffith: Champagne On Ice - Boxing News
		Emile Griffith and his adopted son Luis had called me about 10:AM and told me that they were leaving Hempstead, NY and were on their way to my house.
		I showed it to Emile and it is the exact one he is wearing on the cover of “The Ring Magazine” with that famous photo of him and Luis Rodriguez battling it out.
		Emile got out of the car slowly, he was wearing a fl track suit and fl sneakers and a fl baseball cap.
	www.eastsideboxing.com /news.php?p=7356&more=1 (4181 words)

	Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The movie opens the fatal night of March 24, 1962 with Don Dunphy announcing the fight between Emile Griffith and Benny "Kid" Paret with the title at stake.
		Griffith had to be restrained from attacking him at the weigh in.
		Griffith's personal life is his own business, but its heartbreaking watching this film and how the tragedy basically ruined this poor man. Griffith fought another fifteen years and became a six time champ.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0436720 (736 words)

	Boxing Emile Griffith \| TheSweetScience.com Boxing
		In the interest of full disclosure, let me first say this: I think Emile Griffith is perhaps the best welterweight in the history of boxing.
		The first time I boxed with Emile was in preparation for his welterweight title defense against London’s Brian Curvis.
		That is why I am left feeling empty when I watch Emile Griffith struggle with his emotions on television.
	www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/1952/boxing-emile-griffith (1281 words)

	Emile Griffith
		Emile usually kept his 1974 Lincoln Town Car (at this time) in the garage of The Victoria.
		Emile enjoyed entering the building privately from a garage elevator directly up to the 8th floor residence of WLH.
		Champion boxer Emile Griffith "E.G." is shown wearing fl boxing trunx and going down in the white trunx with his butt sticking out at us and part of his white jockstrap hangin' out is Benny Paret.
	www.stonewallvets.org /EmileGriffith.htm (272 words)

	Amazon.com: Ring of Fire - The Emile Griffith Story: DVD: Dan Klores,Ron Berger,Emile Griffith,Howie Albert,Bill ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Ring of Fire" follows the surviving fighter, Emile Griffith, into and through his fight career and into a career as a trainer, and then picks him up in the present as a prison guard (or is he retired?) living a simple and modest life in Queens, New York.
		I asked my mom if she was aware of the Emile Griffith controversy, and if she knew of the documentary that was made.
		The filmmakers explore the impact of this accidental death on the lives of Emile Griffith, Benny Paret's widow and son, the referee, trainers, promoters and sportswriters who witnessed the event, and the millions of Americans who watched it on TV.
	www.amazon.com /Ring-Fire-Emile-Griffith-Story/dp/B0009UC7NE (1762 words)

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