Emile "La Maricón Peligroso" Griffith

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  1. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA Full Member

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    :good

    He just did everything well.
     
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  2. FrankinDallas

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    And most likely your head would be rolling off your shoulders if you called him maricon to his face....
     
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  3. IntentionalButt

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    Yeah, he was a beast.

    I feel like it was just the pressures of contemporary society that made his reaction to Paret's epithets so volatile (that, and the fact that Paret was using them with blatant malice and disrespect). In today's somewhat more accepting world it might be different...although even now boxing culture is a little too buttoned-down with its archaic notions of what constitutes macho to not make far more of a circus than necessary of something like Orlando Cruz's public outing.
     
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  5. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    The mere thought of Emile Griffith banging another dude is incredibly repellant.:yuck The name and cover of that book made me think about him cruising all the leather bars in New York in the 70's.:patsch
     
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  6. IntentionalButt

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    Why you racist little homophobe! :reggie
     
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  7. pablinov

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    Benvenuti has a resemblance to Ponomarev.
     
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  8. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    I know to get you back for that.:think:p

    Nikolai Valuev, Tyson Fury, Sam Peter, Mariusz Wach, and Sergey Kuzmin in a daisy chain ....take that IB. That'll haunt you for days.:deal
     
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  9. IntentionalButt

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    You're confusing him with Hagler.
     
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  10. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    Maybe not, but I bet he could inhale large objects down his gullet like a Pelican.
     
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  11. IntentionalButt

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    Very rarely, behind closed doors.
     
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  12. Godlovkin

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    All I know is... GGG would have beaten him
     
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  13. Serge

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    I remember reading bits and pieces about him in my old boxing books many moons ago. Watched a little bit of footage about him back then too. I used to enjoy reading about the old timers in those books. A lot of those old timers were obviously great fighters but they were also interesting characters too. I'm sure there was a chapter in this one about Griffith that I read.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/In-This-Corner-Forty-Two-Champions/dp/0306806037

    If it wasn't that one it was a similar one. Excellent read that though.

    Don't know if this is true or not but I found it very amusing.

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  14. IntentionalButt

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    ...but even in those moments, he still wore the red War hat and the scowl.
     
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  15. SOUTHERMOST

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    Emile a classic guy always very private with his life he left everything in the ring winning and losing with the best I'm glad they did a movie about his whole life indeed a good human being for the sport of boxing.
     
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