NEW YORK:The ex-champ was a few inches shorter than I'd imagined, and he had put on a few pounds. At age 67, all of his hair and some of his memory were gone. Absorbing blows over several years from ...

How long does it take to kill a man with your hands? It took Emile Griffith about five seconds to land between 17 and 25 punches flush against the noggin of Benny "The Kid" Paret in a welterweight ...

Emile Griffith, a former world champion boxer, died earlier this week. Robert Siegel speaks with Ron Ross, author of Nine ...Ten ... and Out: The... Opponent Who Died ...

NEW YORK -- It was March 24, 1962. Emile Griffith and Benny "Kid" Paret were inside the ring at Madison Square Garden, waiting for the bell, ready to fight for the championship of the world. In their ...

Griffith said he was tentative in the ring after the death of Paret. After Paret I never wanted to hurt a guy again, Sports Illustrated quoted him as saying. I was so scared to hit someone, I was ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Terence Blanchard’s “Champion,” about the fighter Emile Griffith, is the rare opera to engage with sports. A boxing consultant helped keep it gritty.

Emile Griffith, a former world champion in the welterweight and middleweight divisions, and a member of the Hall of Fame - passed away on Tuesday at the age of 75. He fought from 1958 to 1977 and had ...

This spring, the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer and jazz musician Terence Blanchard is bringing his opera “Champion” to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The “opera in jazz,” as ...

Right hook, left hook, and then… hit ’em with that gorgeous baritone? Sports and opera don’t usually mix, but they find some common ground in the dramatic story of closeted bisexual boxer Emile ...

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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 Blanchard’s ...