2013年7月23日星期二

Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Former boxing champion Emile Griffith dies at 75 (Yahoo! Sports)

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Former boxing champion Emile Griffith dies at 75 (Yahoo! Sports)
Jul 23rd 2013, 18:06

FILE - In this March 24, 1962 file photo, welterweight champion Benny Paret, in white trunks, smiles as he reads the weight of challenger and former champion Emile Griffith during the weigh-in for their title fight in New York. In center is James A. Farley, Jr., a member of the New York State Athletic Commission. The International Boxing Hall of Fame says former world champion boxer Emile Griffith has died. He was 75. The hall said Tuesday, July 23, 2013, he died at an extended care facility in Hempstead, N.Y.(AP Photo/John Lindsay, File)

Emile Griffith, the elegant world champion whose career was overshadowed by the fatal beating he gave Bennie Paret in a 1962 title bout that darkened all of boxing, died Tuesday. He was 75.


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