End of last Griffith Paret fight with commentary

From the documentary Ring of Fire. Paret reportedly patted Griffith's behind at the weigh-in and called him a maricon - Spanish for faggot. This was in 1962, a less tolerant era than today. Paret never called anybody a maricon again. Griffith used his head as a speed bag and beat him into a coma. He died ten days later without regaining consciousness.

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[jonoderidder]

Wow. That's the most brutal fight I've ever seen, worse than any MMA bloodfest. I've noticed refs were a LOT slower to stop a fight in years gone by. Seemed like either his knees are on the canvass for a 10 count or the fight goes on. Bloody horrible when a guy gets held up by the ropes like here. Did they not have a 'can't defend himself' rule, or did they just interpret it differently?

Also obvious that boxing is less humane than MMA, IMO. You never get 5-10+ power shots to the head in MMA

[Strongboy1770]

@jonoderidder Exactly. But MMA gets all the bad press.

[MrBayrocks]

@ Strongboy 1770... you sound like you're pleased at the results of how this boxing match ended. If Paret did call Griffith a maricon, are you happy with how this match ended? You sound quite jubilant.

[Strongboy1770]

@MrBayrocks Pleased and jubilant, no. Did you read my other comments? But as the son of a Holocaust survivor I can identify with what Griffith presumably was going through. If I was a world class fighter (haha) and an opponent at a weigh-in made an anti-Semitic crack at me, I'd let him know that I intend to settle that in the ring. No quarter given or expected. The ref better do his job because I'll be doing mine.

[Strongboy1770]

@lildertygangsta

I'm glad you could step into the ref's mind and determine what's going on there and why. When a man is in a fight and the adrenaline's pumping, he's not thinking of the enemy's physical condition. He's trained to fight until the ref stops him. That's why the ref is there and, tragically, this one didn't do his job.

[EIDYEIGHT]

That incompetent ref is responsible for that Death. The fight should have been stopped long before the furry of punches

[brianallancobb]

@thedfl72

I noticed the same thing, the being able to stand over the guy you'd just knocked down.

[brianallancobb]

The ref was about four punches too slow jumping in there.

[thedfl72]

@jonoderidder The Dempsey-Willard fight was a brutal classic. Back then, you didn't have to go to a neutral corner after knocking a guy down, so Dempsey just stood over him waiting to knock him out as Willard got to his feet. Plus, it was something like 110 degrees in the ring that day. Just a crazy fight.

[jonoderidder]

@thedfl72 Right. Well as I say I don't know how things were conducted back then but it seems to me they were a lot slower to step in; cf the Depsey title fight

[thedfl72]

@jonoderidder Ruby Goldstein refereed this fight. He was actually known as a ref who stopped fights early, and, if I'm not mistaken, there was a fight a few months before this one--I forget who was fighting--that he got a lot of grief over for stopping too early.

[PhalangitePower]

@TheNickoda Or the ref could have feared for his life. Then again, if that were the case...HE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A REF THEN.

[PhalangitePower]

@havanakings He is a trained fighter. Taught to fight until the bell and until the ref stops him. If he did not knee anyone in the balls, or anything like that, to me, that is not a dirty fighter. Secondly, may I ask what you have against gay people? This so called maricon could have probably killed you with one punch. If it were not for the fact that he was nearly beaten to death, just because he was gay, he probably still could kill you with one punch. Boxers die in the ring. Here's proof.

[willkc8088]

That is how you kill a man in the ring. How many shots did Parets whole body lurch, and lurch , and lurch as Parets head went back. That is a real right.