Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story

you'd pick golf over emile griffith?? that hurts. but seriously, if you're still interested, they'll prob be like 800 repeats on tv

i want to watch it but iam going golfing and drinks after so ill prob miss it. btw dont hate the golf its funner in person than watching it.

Anyone else watching this tonight?

Yeah, this seems to be getting quite a bit of press recently -- a great article in SI featured on the cover this month and some stuff in Page 6. I missed the dateline thingie -- wish i would have known about it. ::sigh:: and Ring of Fire premieres April 20th, not the 30th. So, its not too far away.

A ha ha ha ha. I can't believe you just admited that outloud. Thanks for hijacking my thread, btw (jk). No one has any thoughts on the documentary though? I saw a piece on lastnight's Dateline(closest thing to boxing)and they showed clips of the actual fight between Emile Griffith and Benny 'kid' Paret. Griffith caught Paret on the ropes in the 12th round and literally beat the life out of him before the referee stopped it. Griffith was just going for the knockout but the referee should have stopped the bout way earlier. The fight was televised and Paret fell into a coma dying 10 days later. It was a tragic story but I'm looking forward to watching the documentary which I think airs april 30 on USA. :(

A ha ha ha ha. I can't believe you just admited that outloud. Thanks for hijacking my thread, btw (jk). No one has any thoughts on the documentary though? it's not a documentary.

A ha ha ha ha. I can't believe you just admited that outloud. Thanks for hijacking my thread, btw (jk). No one has any thoughts on the documentary though?

Ok, I'm going to admit this, but I'm probably making a mistake: When I read the thread title, I thought it was off-topic, and possibly about a vulcanologist who'd recently contributed something of fair importance to the science. Doh!

I'm usually not big on TV movies, but I'll probably check this one out. Warning: be prepared for a bunch of idiots to jump on this thread and start spewing anti-gay stuff rather than answering your question. (this is where I would insert a smilie if I did that sort of thing)