<b>EMILE GRIFFITH, 1938-2013</b>Ee Griffh went down boxg history as the champn who killed his opponent bee he had tnted him as gay. In New York's smoke-filled Madison Square Garn on March 24 1962, Griffh - an elegant fighter wh a lightng jab - knocked out the Cuban Benny “The Kid” Paret the 12th round, but Paret fell to a a and later died om his juri." name="scriptn
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- EE GRIFFH, WHO FAMOLY KILLED FELLOW BOXER AFTER GAY SLUR, DI AT 75
- EE GRIFFH: BOXER KILLED OPPONENT WHO LLED HIM GAY
- KILLER PUNCH OF A SECRETLY GAY BOXER
- THE NIGHT BOXER EE GRIFFH ANSWERED GAY TNTS WH A ADLY RTEGE OF PUNCH
EE GRIFFH, WHO FAMOLY KILLED FELLOW BOXER AFTER GAY SLUR, DI AT 75
Sports Illtrated reported 2005 that Griffh may have been fueled by an anti-gay slur directed at him by Paret durg the weigh-. Over the years, books and terviews, Griffh scribed himself at var tim as straight, gay and bisexual.
EE GRIFFH: BOXER KILLED OPPONENT WHO LLED HIM GAY
Griffh knocked out his opponent the 12th round, but Paret fell to a a and later died om his than 40 years on, 2005, the magaze Sports Illtrated reported that Griffh may have been revved up by a homophobic slight directed at him by Paret durg the weigh- for a prev enunter the rg. Acrdg to the magaze, Paret had “swished his limp wrist and hissed that word, marin [a pejorative Spanish term for homosexual]” make matters worse, Paret had won that earlier bout on a ntroversial spl cisn, regag the welterweight crown that Griffh had taken om him Miami April 1961. “I thk we jt saw a gay murr, ” someone murmured to Pete Hal, verg the fight for the New York Post.
KILLER PUNCH OF A SECRETLY GAY BOXER
Although Griffh, wh his flutg, high-pched voice and effemate manner, had been the subject of mours for years, would have been unthkable for him to e out as gay the ultra-macho world of profsnal boxg the early 1960s. In 1992 he was vicly beaten and almost killed on a New York street after leavg a gay bar, but was never clear if the attack had been motivated by Alphonse Griffh was born on Febary 3, 1938 on St Thomas the Amerin Virg Islands, one of eight children, and beme a boxer by accint. But I don't like that word: homosexual, gay or faggot.
THE NIGHT BOXER EE GRIFFH ANSWERED GAY TNTS WH A ADLY RTEGE OF PUNCH
In a 1962 tle match wh Benny Paret, Paret asslted Griffh by touchg his butt while makg homophobic remarks. He habed two worlds – the unrground gay scene New York the 60s and the macho world of boxg.
In “Champn, ” which premiered 2013, Blanchard reunts how an environment of hyper-masculy and homophobia led to that fatal night at Madison Square Garn and how Griffh was hnted by for the rt of his life.