Griffith, Emile

LC control no.	no2005117091
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Griffith, Emile *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Biography/History note	Individual was an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1938-02-03
Death date	2013-07-23
Place of birth	Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island)
Place of death	Hempstead (N.Y.)
Profession or occupation	Boxers (Sports)
Found in	Ring of fire : the Emile Griffith story [VR] c2005: container (Emile Griffith, professional boxer) Wikipedia, Oct. 24, 2005 (Emile Griffith; former boxer who won world championships in both the Welterweight and Junior Middleweight divisions ; born Feb. 3, 1938 in the US Virgin Islands) New York times (online), viewed July 24, 2013 (in obituary published July 23: Emile Griffith; b. Emile Alphonse Griffith, Feb. 3, 1938, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; d. Tuesday [July 23, 2013], Hempstead, N.Y., aged 75; welterweight and middleweight champion; fought professionally for 20 years; won a 1962 bout in which his opponent died 10 days later) African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Griffith, Emile; boxer; born 03 February 1938 in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; won the Golden Gloves (1956); first professional fight (1958); Cuban prize fighter Benny “Kid” Paret died as a result of a beating he took from him in the third fight (1962); quit fighting; got back into boxing (1962); only the third fighter in history to hold both the welterweight and middleweight championships; first won the welterweight crown (1961); obtained the middleweight championship when he beat Dick Tiger Ihetu (1966); won eighty-five professional fights, twenty-three by knockout; was a six time champion; fought a total of twenty-four world championship bouts and his 339 rounds in world title fights were more than any other boxer in history; inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (1990); became a trainer of professional boxers (1979); died 23 July 2013 in Hempstead, New York, United States)