He is probably the best fighter, pound for pound, in the world—the perfect picture of destruction with his 42-in. chest, 26-in. waist, and smoothly lethal muscles. He can hit as hard as a drop hammer, ...

In sports, there’s the historical record: wins and losses, champions and MVPs, records and rosters. Then there’s what happened in the ring March 24, 1962, between Benny Paret and Emile Griffith, who ...

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 ...

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 ...

So accustomed have we become to a circus act at the weigh-in of human meat before an important prizefight—the trumped-up tantrum, the choreographed hysteria, the King Kong wig-out, chest-thump, and ...

It was a rough and dirty fight, but most boxing fans had seen them rougher and tougher. The difference was that seldom had a nationwide TV audience been treated to so shocking a reminder of boxing’s ...

Luz Selenia Paret never imagined that by falling in love with a boxer, at some point the blows would also fall on her heart. And how they did. The five years they lived together were unforgettable, ...

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