The night boxer Emile Griffith answered gay taunts with deadly punches.

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  • mlac
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    The night boxer Emile Griffith answered gay taunts with deadly punches.

    In the early 1960s it was impossible to believe that any sporting hero could be a homosexual. This abridged extract of Donald McRae’s new book A Man’s World: The Double Life of Emile Griffith tells of a fight with terrible consequences


    good lil article.

    the fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur9F98LjcGQ

    (the rest of the fight is in the sidebar)

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    The ending was brutal

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    • SterlingStained
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      #3
      first the closet ****sexual accusations, now getting caught red handed doing lance armstrong masking agent things.....

      berto better watch out.

      floyd might take out his anger on him.

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        #4
        Griffith just did his job as a pro fighter. The ref did a horrible job by watching an unconscious boxer take punch after punch. No one was more sorry than Griffith over Paret's death. The ending would most likely have been the same even if Paret had never insulted him. Griffith was supposed to knock his opponent out if he got the chance and he was supposed to keep punching until the ref stopped the fight.

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          yeah the reff is definately to blame.

          he takes 15 uppercuts when he's already out ffs.

          the announcer tho, 'benny paret is fatigued here'

          err no mate he just took 20 flush haymakers and he's dying.

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            #6
            i haven't learned my lesson and still mock musclebound gays on the street

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              #7
              Originally posted by Cruisin'
              i haven't learned my lesson and still mock musclebound gays on the street
              i usually empty a clip on them......





              on grand theft auto 5




              or have chop maul them to death.



              no offense.

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