Emile Griffith, a former world welterweight and middleweight boxing champion who spent decades haunted by his fatal beating of then-champion Benny Paret in the ring and bothered by the public’s ...

But in 1962, Griffith was angered by Paret’s slur. “Whether Benny was urged to do it by one of his corner men, we’ll never know. But Emile was shocked,” Ross said. “He was filled with rage.

In the 43 years since boxers Emile Griffith and Benny "The Kid" Paret faced off for their third and final bout, the fight is often pared down by selective memory to that single word. Paret ...

Emile Griffith died this week at age 75. He was a world champion boxer, but he's best known for one of the sport's lowest moments. In 1962, at Madison Square Garden, Griffith was fighting Benny ...

Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story is a new documentary dealing with the death of Benny "Kid" Paret at the hands of Griffith during their middleweight boxing championship in 1962. Griffith's ...

Inside the smaller theater at Madison Square Garden about five years ago, shortly before a world title fight, Emile Griffith was introduced ... fatal beating he gave Benny “The Kid” Paret ...

Then there’s what happened in the ring March 24, 1962, between Benny Paret and Emile Griffith, who died in his sleep Tuesday at age 75. It was the third championship fight between Griffith ...

Griffith told Benny to "shut up." Paret laid a gratuitous, slighting hand on Emile's back. "Keep your hands off me, Paret," snarled Griffith. The fires Paret had lit in Griffith were banked as he ...

told him about Emile Griffith, Blanchard was captivated by the story of the world welter- and middleweight champion who accidentally killed an opponent, Benny Paret, in the ring during a 1962 ...

That’s because, on March 24, 1962 at Madison Square Garden, Emile Griffith and Benny ‘Kid’ Paret touched gloves for the final time in a trilogy which had seen both hold the Welterweight ...