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Despite a chance of scattered showers and more publicized television clashes between the Red Sox and Twins, Damascus and Dr. Fager, Benvenuti and Griffith, and Dartmouth and Massachusetts, a crowd of 12,000 is expected to show up for the debut of the 1967 Crimson...
Saturday, September 30 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). The tape of the Sept. 28th return match in New York City for the World Middleweight championship between Titleholder Nino Benvenuti and ex-Champion Emile Griffith...
...Benvenuti had size going for him: at 5 ft. 11 in. and 159 lbs., he was 3½ in. taller and 5½ lbs. heavier than Griffith. He had solid credentials: an Olympic welterweight championship in 1960, only one loss in 192 amateur and professional bouts. And he also had the crowd. Madison Square Garden was awash with Italian flags and posters pleading DAGLIELA ALLA PANZZA! (Freely: Paste him in the belly!) But Griffith, 29, was the tough ex-street fighter from the Virgin Islands who had killed Benny Paret in the ring, won the welterweight championship three times before...
...Many Butts. And maybe the dirtiest. Angered by Benvenuti's prefight predictions of victory, Griffith hit on the break and after the bell, repeatedly rubbed the laces of his gloves in Nino's face, butted open a gash on Nino's nose-and managed one legitimate looping right that knocked him down for a five count. Benvenuti still made good his boast. Ignoring the blood that was streaming from his nose, he decked Griffith with a right uppercut in the second round. Counterpunching beautifully, making full use of his 3-in. advantage in reach, he kept Emile...
...decision was not even close-two judges scored it 10-5 for Benvenuti, the third had it 9-6-and the grubby sport of boxing had a hopeful new star. Temporarily, anyway. "Even Sandy Koufax got knocked out of the box sometimes," growled Griffith, vowing to win the title back "if I get another shot at him." He will get it on July...