{"id":2782,"date":"2013-07-23T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/boxing-hall-of-famer-griffith-dies\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T20:14:00","slug":"boxing-hall-of-famer-griffith-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/boxing-hall-of-famer-griffith-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Hall of Famer Griffith dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canastota, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; International Boxing Hall of Famer Emile Griffith, a two-division champion, died due to dementia pugilistica. He was 75.<\/p>\n<p>Griffith, who was a welterweight and middleweight champion, passed away early Tuesday morning at the Nassau County Extended Care Facility in Hempstead, New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emile Griffith was a gifted athlete and a truly great boxer,&#8221; said Hall of Fame executive director Edward Brophy. &#8220;Outside of the ring, he was as great a gentleman as he was a fighter. The Hall of Fame joins the boxing world in mourning his passing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A native of the Virgin Islands, Griffith was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1990. He finished with a record of 85-24-2 and 23 knockouts.<\/p>\n<p>One of his most memorable fights resulted in tragedy. He scored a 12th-round technical knockout of Benny &#8220;The Kid&#8221; Paret in a March 24, 1962 title fight. Paret was left unconscious and in a coma when the fight was halted. Paret was taken immediately to Roosevelt Hospital, and never regained consciousness before being pronounced dead on April 3, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Griffith won the welterweight title three times (1961, 1962-63, 1963-66) and the middleweight title twice (1966-67, 1967-68).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canastota, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; International Boxing Hall of Famer Emile Griffith, a two-division champion, died due to dementia pugilistica. He was 75. Griffith, who was a welterweight and middleweight champion, passed away early Tuesday morning at the Nassau County Extended Care Facility in Hempstead, New York. &#8220;Emile Griffith was a gifted athlete and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}