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...render the opponent temporarily unconscious by a simple concussion, which usually leaves no permanent damage. But a hard blow can also bruise the brain, breaking some of its blood vessels and destroying nerve cells. This kind of damage can kill. The death in Manhattan last week of Benny ("Kid") Paret, 25, after nine days in a coma, from brain injuries suffered in his world championship bout with Emile Griffith, underscored the charge that "in boxing, the aim is to maim...
Broken Vessels. The worst injuries in boxing occur when a fighter's neck muscles are relaxed, so his head can bounce like a punching bag on a spring. Such was the case with the groggy Paret on the ropes in the twelfth. With a trip-hammer succession of alternating right uppercuts and left hooks, Griffith slammed Paret's head from side to side. Different parts of Paret's brain were hit by the overlying skull with enough force to break blood vessels between the middle (arachnoid) and outermost (dura mater) layers of the brain's covering...
...Manhattan, fans, friends and relatives of ex-Champion Paret fanned the controversy with excited comment. Paret's hysterial wife, three months pregnant, called Griffith an "inhuman monster...
...Paret's manager, Manuel Alfaro, assailed Referee Goldstein for failing to stop the bout sooner. "I was screaming 'Stop it! Stop it!'" said Alfaro. -"But he let the fight go on." Ringsiders, positioned near Paret's corner, could recall no such shouts...
...should get the chance to lose his title on his back, not on his feet." Top Shape. Ringwise observers were more concerned over the fact that New York authorities allowed the fight to start in the first place. Dr. Alexander Schiff of the New York Athletic Commission insisted that "Paret entered the ring in top physical shape." But he had been knocked out twice in his three previous fights. A year ago, when he lost the welterweight title to Griffith in a 13-round knockout, it took his handlers several minutes to get him in condition to leave the ring...