What Cristofer's Champion leaves out from Emile Griffith's deadly seven seconds in the ring by Tim Treanor

On the 24th of March, 1962, welterweight champion Benny Paret called former champ Emile Griffith a maricón at their weigh-in. The closest contemporary American-English equivalent to this word is faggot, but maricón means more, and worse. Griffith understood what it meant. He climbed into the ring with Paret that night, fought him, and killed him. […] The post What Cristofer’s Champion leaves out fro…

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