There’s a certain brutal inevitability about boxing that we take for granted. Fighters will pound each other into submission. There will be blood. And one will be beaten, whose trauma of defeat ...

Inside the smaller theatre at Madison Square Garden about five years ago, shortly before a world title fight, Emile ... Griffith's brilliant career was overshadowed by the fatal beating he gave ...

Naya Rosalia James, who plays Little Emile ... Garden in 1962 when Griffith, a champion boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands, fought the 25-year-old Cuban boxer Benny “The Kid” Paret.

And then, with Emile Griffith, the same thing. I mean, look at what he went through, and he carried that pain for generations, until he met with Benny Paret Jr., and that kind of absolved him of ...

In 1962 his opponent Benny “Kid” Paret whispers homophobic slurs to him. Emile Griffith knocks him into a coma and he dies shortly after. He was haunted by guilt for the rest of his life.

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 ...

The subject of this story is Emile Griffith ... In 1962 Griffith was seeking to recapture the crown he had once taken from fellow fighter Benny “Kid” Paret and then lost back to him.

Emile Morel, a Ubisoft game designer and creative director for Beyond Good and Evil 2, has passed away at age 40. The announcement was originally spotted by IGN on LinkedIn, where two individuals ...

Sports and opera don’t usually mix, but they find some common ground in the dramatic story of closeted bisexual boxer Emile ... against Benny Paret at Madison Square Garden, where Griffith ...

I always favored the lighter weight divisions, middleweight on down. One of my favorite fighters was Emile Griffith , who won championships in three different categories. I saw Griffith fight ...

Both boxers were fearful as the weigh-in approached. Emile Griffith, who was trying to regain his welterweight crown from Benny “Kid” Paret in their nationally-televised title fight at Madison ...

The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD season continues Saturday with “Champion,” the operatic, jazz-infused, telling of the tragic life and redemption of boxer Emile ... Griffith is set to fight ...