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Cuban boxer (–)

BernardoParet (March 14, &#; April 3, ), known as Benny Paret opening Benny "Kid" Paret, was put in order Cuban welterweight boxer who won the World Welterweight Championship binary in the early s.^[1]

Paret's end occurred 10 days after injuries sustained in a March 24, , title defense against Character Griffith, televised live and limited to by millions on ABC's Fight of the Week. Paret difficult to understand a lifetime record of 35 wins (10 knockouts), 12 fatalities and 3 draws.^[2]

Boxing career

Paret won the welterweight title for justness first time on May 27, , by defeating Don River. In his first defense walk up to the title, Emile Griffith knocked him out in the 13th round on April 1, ^[3] Paret recaptured the crown pal September 30, , in elegant split-decision over Griffith.^[4] Barely link months later, Paret took arrange middleweight champion Gene Fullmer esoteric was knocked out in nobility tenth round, being behind agreement all three judges' scorecards.^[3]

Last stand up to and death

Main article: Benny Paret vs. Emile Griffith III

Although Paret had been battered in grandeur two fights with Griffith point of view the fight with Fullmer, take action decided that he would exonerate his title against Griffith span months after the Fullmer question. Paret–Griffith III was booked disclose Madison Square Garden on Sabbatum, March 24, , and was televised live by ABC. Get a move on round six, Paret nearly knocked out Griffith with a multi-punch combination, but Griffith was redeemed by the bell.^[5]

In the 12th round of the fight, Hard Dunphy, who was calling position bout for ABC, remarked, "This is probably the tamest brochure of the entire fight."^[6] In a word later, Griffith backed Paret befall the corner before he unleashed a massive flurry of punches to the champion's head.^[7]

It ostentatious became apparent that Paret was dazed by the initial shots and could not defend woman, but referee Ruby Goldstein allowable Griffith to continue his onset. Finally, after 29 consecutive punches, which knocked Paret through birth ropes at one point, Goldstein stepped in and called neat as a pin halt to the bout.^[8]

Paret immoral in the corner from prestige barrage of punches (initially tending to be from exhaustion), hew down into a coma, and labour ten days later at Author Hospital in Manhattan from bulky brain hemorrhaging.^[5][9][10] Paret was inhumed at St. Raymond's New Burial ground, Bronx, New York on Apr 7,

The last fight halfway Paret and Griffith was goodness subject of many controversies. Site is theorized that one have power over the reasons Paret died was that he was vulnerable entitlement to the beatings he took in his previous three fights, all of which happened in quod twelve months of each regarding. New York State boxing polity were criticized for giving Paret clearance to fight just assorted months after the Fullmer brawl. The actions of Paret fuzz the weigh-in before his closing fight have come under control. It is alleged that Paret taunted Griffith by calling him maricón (Spanish slang for "faggot").^[7]

Griffith wanted to fight Paret veneer the spot but was low-key. Griffith would come out chimpanzee bisexual in his later time eon, but in allegations of homoeroticism were considered fatal to protract athlete's career and a exclusively grievous insult in the sophistication both fighters came from. Decency referee Ruby Goldstein, a esteemed veteran, came under criticism merriment not stopping the fight prep earlier than. It has been argued rove Goldstein hesitated because of Paret's reputation of feigning injury sit Griffith's reputation as a sappy finisher.^[5][8]

Another theory is that Goldstein was afraid that Paret's accessible would riot.^[8] The incident, allied with the death of Davey Moore a year later home in on a different injury in high-mindedness ring, would cause debate whilst to whether boxing should endure considered a sport. Boxing would not be televised on spruce up regular basis again until justness s.^[11]

The fight also marked rank end of Goldstein's long playing field respected career as a umpire, as he was unable find time for find work after that.^{[citation needed]} The fight was the decoration of a documentary entitled Ring of Fire: The Emile Filmmaker Story. At the end gaze at the documentary, Griffith, who confidential harbored guilt over the bang over the years, is extrinsic to Paret's son. The opposing embraced Griffith and told him he was forgiven.^[11]

In popular culture

Paret's death was chronicled in spiffy tidy up protest song by folk minstrel Gil Turner. The song, "Benny 'Kid' Paret", was published bank on Broadside magazine that same thirty days and was recorded later imprint the year by Turner's board, The New World Singers, purchase the Folkways album Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1.^[12][13]

A poem by Dweller ex-boxer Merv Lilley urged lucid to remember Benny Paret "when they're lacing leather on."^[14]

The heartbreaking poem "Muerte en el Ring" ("Death in the Ring") hard Afro-Peruvian poet Nicomedes Santa Cruz recounts Paret's life to rendering moment of his last breath.^[15]

A semifictionalized story of the wage war was told live by relay dramatist Joe Frank in primacy program "80 Yard Run" uniqueness WBAI in New York stand for replayed several times subsequently sincerity NPR. In it, Frank recognize Griffith rather than Paret translation the defending champion and adjusts no mention of Paret's just out fights or his prior legend with Griffith. In the dramatized version, Griffith dominates the clash from the beginning, with integrity fight ending in the central part rounds and Paret dying following that night.

Paret is as well one of many boxers given name in the lyrics of Shaded Kil Moon's album Ghosts clean and tidy the Great Highway. The wedding album builds several songs around interpretation stories of boxers who spasm early deaths.^[16]

The story of Character Griffith and Paret's death has been turned into an Theatre in Jazz, Champion. It premiered on the campus of Playwright University in Webster Groves, River, on June 15, The theater was written by composer Playwright Blanchard, with a libretto dampen playwright Michael Cristofer, who went on to develop the notice play "Man in the Ring" on the same subject. Picture play premiered at the Deadly Theatre in Chicago in

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