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Entries tagged with "Emile+Griffith":

• Looking Back: Part Two – May 4th, 2013

  A new bravado begins. Muhammad Ali’s sociopolitical defiance is in sync with the times. He begins to transcend boxing…
  
  

• Emile Griffith Documentary—“Ring of Fire” – April 26th, 2013

  Emile Griffith was born on Feb. 3, 1938 and was the first fighter from the U.S. Virgin Islands ever to become a world champion. He turned pro in 1958 and was a favorite in New York City. Griffith won the welterweight title from Benny "The Kid" Paret on April 1, 1961. Six months later Griffith lost the…
  
  

• Looking Back: Part One – April 24th, 2013

  If there was one fighter who best typified what boxing was all about in the ‘50s moving into the ‘60s, it was Ralph “Tiger” Jones (52-32-5)...
  
  

• The 100 Greatest Fighters of All Time Part Seven: 40-31 – April 3rd, 2013

  These men can be “argued” higher, but can the men still to come be seen to be lower? Welcome to the annals of the forty greatest boxers in history...
  
  

• Teddy Atlas on Rios-Alvarado II – March 28th, 2013

  “I live in a boxing world my whole life where it’s pretty much absolutes. You better be able to handle tangible facts if you’re going to be in boxing…”
  
  

• The 100 Greatest Fighters of All Time Part Four: 70-61 – March 18th, 2013

  This is a good time to confess that Billy Graham, Midget Wolgast, and Sammy Angott didn't make it. They are GREAT fighters and it hurt me to exclude them...
  
  

• The Time Warp That Is Gleason’s Gym – March 16th, 2013

  During the 1940s a lot of champions came out of Gleason’s Gym. Jake LaMotta trained there, as did three-time world champion Carlos Ortiz…
  
  

• NY Hall of Fame Inducts Dempsey – March 6th, 2013

  
  
  

• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (Brain Damage) – February 17th, 2013

  “Shadowy ex-champion Beau Jack sat in his dusty office hearing bells and fighting old fights over and over, throwing jabs in the dusty air…”
  
  

• Boxing’s Five Greatest Moments: 1990-1999 – February 13th, 2013

  Here are my picks of the five most heart-wrenching, stomach-churning, adrenaline-pumping, air-punching, on-the-edge-of-your-seat moments...
  
  

• Remember Florentino Fernández – January 28th, 2013

  
  
  

• Nearly Great: Irish Joey Archer – January 24th, 2013

  Even back in the mid-sixties, the cuties of the game like Joey Archer were beginning to become unfashionable...
  
  

• Emile Griffith vs. Joey Archer – January 23rd, 2013

  On January 23, 1967 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, WBC/WBA middleweight champion Emile Griffith, originally from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, fought the second of two fights with Joey Archer, from Bronx, New York. Their first bout was five months earlier, also at the Garden, and it was ruled…
  
  

• Boxing.com All Time Welterweight Poll: Robbie Still the One and Only – January 13th, 2013

  His record stood at a near fictitious 120-1-2 by the time he had finished with the welterweight division and went on his middleweight raid...
  
  

• Dick Tiger vs. Henry Hank: A Golden Era of Middleweight Boxers – December 17th, 2012

  For Tiger, the bout with Hank proved to be the final eliminator before challenging and defeating Gene Fullmer for the world middleweight championship...
  
  

• Contenders—Then and Now – November 21st, 2012

  There is so much more to be said about what has been lost. That is why I spent five years researching and writing an entire book devoted to the subject…
  
  

• My Two Days with Vito Antuofermo – November 17th, 2012

  “I tried pickle brine,” says Vito, “but it smells like you’re in urine.” A weightlifter looks up, “What’s urine urine?” Vito ignores him...
  
  

• Here Comes the Judge – November 6th, 2012

  This 72-year-old sweetheart of a man (some might call him a Mensch) provides one of the continuing high spots in a business that deals mostly in lows…
  
  

• Emile Griffith vs. Jose Napoles – October 17th, 2012

  On October 17, 1969 at the Forum, Inglewood, California, former welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith, originally from the Virgin Islands, challenged welterweight champion Jose Napoles from Santiago de Cuba for his WBC/WBA titles. Griffith was 60-10 going in. His best years were behind…
  
  

• Boxing.com All Time Middleweight Poll – October 8th, 2012

  This will embrace all fighters who have made a significant impact on the middleweight division during its long and fabulous history...
  
  

• Cruz Control: Orlando Comes Out – October 4th, 2012

  "Boxing is a celebration of the lost art of masculinity all the more trenchant for being lost."—Joyce Carol Oates...
  
  

• Los Vatos of Southern California – September 17th, 2012

  The California boxing connection is a strong one and the ex-boxers (like those in many other locales) meet regularly traveling on their own unique roadway…
  
  

• Free Shots – August 21st, 2012

  The first time I saw it happen was while reviewing films shortly after Ingemar Johansson’s demolition of crafty Eddie Machen in 1958…
  
  

• First-Class Traveler: Carlos Ortiz – August 16th, 2012

  Carlos knew fear like any other fighter, but constantly challenged that most formidable of emotions by meeting it square on…
  
  

• Don't Blame Ruby: A Boxing Tragedy Revisited – July 30th, 2012

  Boxing history (and medical opinion) has shown that it is the damage sustained in a previous fight that often leads to a fatal outcome in a subsequent fight...
  
  

• Boxing in Cuba: “A Fighting Chance” Part 2 – July 1st, 2012

  Boxing.com is pleased to present part two of a five-part documentary on Boxing in Cuba titled "A Fighting Chance." Originally shot in Feb. 2008, this segment explores the boxing machine under the regime of Fidel Castro, in addition to spotlighting all-time great welterweights Jose Napoles, Benny Paret…
  
  

• Skill: Subject to Gradation – June 14th, 2012

  To avoid being vague, three middleweights have been selected to help illustrate how easily the finer details can get lost in reputations...
  
  

• The Memory Bank: Part Nine – June 13th, 2012

  We had watched this one from the safe confines of our living room and it was my first scary experience witnessing a ring fatality…
  
  

• Emile Griffith Opera: "Champion" – May 16th, 2012

  
  
  

• Old School – May 14th, 2012

  Old school was a behavior influenced by the mores and values of another era. If someone calls me a throwback, I kind of like it…
  
  

• Instant Recall: Griffith-Paret III – April 1st, 2012

  
  
  

• Roger, Floyd, and Sugar Ray Robinson – March 14th, 2012

  Roger Mayweather the boxing historian should have stopped while he was ahead. But stopping while he’s ahead is not Roger’s style…
  
  

• Emile Griffith: The Natural – January 12th, 2012

  The death of Benny Kid Paret was a great tragedy, not only for those involved but for boxing as well...
  
  

• Steve Smoger: Master of an Art Form – December 25th, 2011

  Smoger, the real article, speaks for itself, and by action, for himself. There is no need to draw attention...
  
  

• Young, Gifted And Italian: Nino Benvenuti – November 17th, 2011

  Benvenuti was a warmer and more engaging Gene Tunney of his generation, a thinking man who appreciated art and literature...
  
  

• Manny Pacquiao? Calm Down, Dear! – November 10th, 2011

  Lord, how we need him. Take away Manny and our battered old sport would be depressingly lacking in vintage talent...
  
  

• New York Boxing Hall of Fame – October 25th, 2011

  
  
  

• Why Old Gold Beats New Glitter – September 20th, 2011

  Keeping the faith in what we have today becomes ever tougher when so many of boxing’s wounds are cynically and greedily self-inflicted...
  
  

• Bronson, Haye, and Tyson Fury – June 23rd, 2011

  We shall see if Haye is a little big man. Does he have The Great Spirit? Will he attack or slowly be worn down?
  
  

• Write on the Money – May 18th, 2011

  “With each punch, the glove did something different, as if the fist and wrist within the glove were also speaking...”