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Emile Griffith
Emile Alphonse Griffith was a World Champion boxer in the welterweight, junior middleweight, and middleweight classes. Griffith was best established for his widely publicized 1962 title match with Benny “The Kid” Paret.
Griffith and Paret had fought in the past, though their previous bouts were always rife with tension. Before their third and final match, Paret antagonized Griffith by touching his buttocks and using homophobic slurs. Emile won the match by knockout — though after not regaining consciousness, Paret was taken to the hospital. As soon as Griffith realized the severity of his opponent's condition, he was gripped by deep remorse and sadness, and attempted to visit Paret in the hospital, but was unable to gain entry to his room. Unfortunately, Paret died 10 days later, never having woken up after the pair. Griffith felt guilty about Paret's death, and reportedly had nightmares for next to to four decades.
Griffith continued to compete until his retirement in 1977, but he never performed as well after Paret's death. Griffith has since come forward and admitted that he was gentler with his opponents after the incident in 1962, as he was terr
Inside the smaller theater at Madison Square Garden about five years ago, shortly before a world title fight, Emile Griffith was introduced one more period to the crowd. He rose shakily from his seat, waved ever so briefly and then sat down.
The applause kept going.
Revered in retirement perhaps more than during his fighting days, Griffith died Tuesday at 75 after a long battle with pugilistic dementia. The first fighter to be crowned planet champion from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Griffith required full-time care late in life and died at an extended care facility in Hempstead, N.Y.
"Emile was a gifted athlete and truly a great boxer," Hall of Fame director Ed Brophy said. "Outside the ring he was as great a gentleman as he was a fighter."
An elegant fighter with a quick jab, Griffith's brilliant career was overshadowed by the fatal beating he gave Benny "The Kid" Paret in a 1962 title bout. The outcome darkened the earth of boxing, even prompting some network television stations to stop showing dwell fights.
It also cast him as a pariah to many inside and outside the sport.
He went on to have a thriving career after that fatal fight, but Griffith accepted later in life th
Emile A. Griffith, Jr.
Legendary 6-Time Winning Worldwide
Welterweight and Middleweight Boxing Champion
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Subject of Televised Documentary "Ring of Fire"
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Emile Alphonse Griffith, Jr., was born in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands on the third of February in 1938. Though he does not look love it, his closest friends and all relatives knew him as "Junior". In the G.L.B.T. communities, he was simply known by his actual and more formal first name "Emile"!
Emile Griffith Inducted into New York Mention Boxing Hall-of-Fame
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Plot and Creation: Champion
The Composition of Champion
1945
Michael Procaccino, who will later gain fame as a playwright, actor, and director under the label Michael Cristofer, is born on January 22 in Trenton, New Jersey.
1962
Composer Terence Blanchard is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He begins piano lessons at age five before changing to the trumpet at age eight.
1977
Cristofer’s play The Shadow Box wins the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and a Tony Award for Best Play. Three years later, Cristofer also writes the screenplay for the film of The Shadow Box, which is directed by Paul Newman and stars Joanne Woodward and Christopher Plummer.
1978
Blanchard enrolls at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.
1988
Blanchard begins his long-term collaboration with filmmaker Spike Lee by playing on the soundtrack to the motion picture School Daze. Four years later, Blanchard composes the music for Lee’s clip Malcolm X, the soundtrack of which is subsequently arranged into a suite for Blanchard’s quintet.
2008
Blanchard’s album A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina), based on harmony he composed for the 2006
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