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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

An elegant fighter and man ... he gave Benny Paret in a 1962 title bout. Inside the smaller theater at Madison Square Garden about five years ago, shortly before a world title fight, Emile ...

A boxing consultant helped keep it gritty. By Victor Mather Emile Griffith fought Benny Paret on March 24, 1962, in a highly anticipated welterweight championship bout at Madison Square Garden.

The squared circle comes to a storied stage Monday when composer Terence Blanchard's "Champion," about real-life bisexual boxer Emile Griffith ... Garden bout with Benny “The Kid” Paret ...

Ryan Speedo Green as Young Emile Griffith, Eric Owens as Emile Griffith, Latonia Moore as Emelda Griffith, and Eric Greene as Benny “Kid” Paret perform “Seventeen Blows” from Terence ...