Emile Griffith, a former world champion boxer, died earlier this week. Robert Siegel speaks with Ron Ross, author of Nine ...Ten ... and Out: The... Opponent Who Died ...

Emile Griffith's audition to become a fighter took place in a bustling New York street when a couple of boxing insiders asked him to strip to his trousers, turn and flex his muscles. At the time ...

NEW YORK -- It was March 24, 1962. Emile Griffith and Benny "Kid" Paret were inside the ring at Madison Square Garden, waiting for the bell, ready to fight for the championship of the world. In their ...

"Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story" has all the elements of a good yarn: love, hate, success, tragedy and redemption. It also has the added advantage of being true. The documentary on Griffith, ...

Some of the details are fuzzy, but one of my childhood memories occurred on a Friday night in 1962. I was in bed sleeping when I heard my father screaming at the television set. "Stop it, stop it, ...