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...figured to be the most savage middleweight rematch since Zale and Graziano. Emile Griffith, the tough ex-street fighter from the Virgin Islands, had an elaborate revenge planned for Nino Benvenuti, the Italian fishmonger's son who took away his 160-lb. title last April. For starters, he was going to reshape Nino's roamin' nose. "I'm going to hit it and hit it and hit it," vowed Griffith. "I'm going to bend it. Then I'm going to knock him out." Bene, sighed Benvenuti, quaffing his Chianti...
Promises, promises. The 20,000 fans who plunked $200,000 into the till at New York's Shea Stadium hardly got the battle they expected. To be sure, Griffith did bloody Nino's nose-by rubbing it with the laces of his gloves. He also speared Benvenuti in the ribs with his shoulders, butted him on the chin and belted him in the kidneys; Nino, who fights without a mouthpiece, retaliated by biting Emile's neck. But the only knockdown came in the 14th round, when Benvenuti collided with Griffith in mid-ring and fell...
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...
...Nino and the Ebb Tides
According to Nino Pirrotta, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, the Department hopes to raise the required funds through a nationwide campaign directed at music-lovers and alumni with a special interest in music. The membership of the fund-raising committee has not yet been announced...