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Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story 

Year: 2005
Country: USA
Director: Dan Klores and Ron Berger
Starring: Emile Griffith
Synopsis: Documentary explores the first live telecast of a championship boxing match that ended with the death of one of the boxers. Before the fight, one of boxers had called the other a faggot.
Quick review: Benny Kid Paret had called his rival Emile Griffith a maricón during the weigh in for their 1962 bout. That's the Spanish equivalent to faggot. It was the third fight between the two men. Griffith won the first, claiming a world title for the first time. Paret won the second match, taking back his title. In the third match, Griffith unleashed a flurry of punches at Paret, who was stuck in a corner and held up only by the ropes. The referee had trouble getting between the two men to stop it. Some estimate Griffith threw between 17 to 25 punches that were all on target and unanswered by Paret. The match was over. Griffith had his title back, and Paret lay on the ground slipping into a coma. He would die 10 days later. This is an excellent documentary and I had only one criticism: It completely glossed over Griffith's sexual orientation. If you watch the film you can read between the lines that he's a gay man. He went to gay bars; he had gay friends; when he finally married a woman it was a sham of a marriage with him continuing to live in New York while he shipped his wife off to the Virgin Islands moments after the honeymoon. It's easy to understand why Griffith doesn't talk about it. He's a black man who came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He's tied to boxing, where no one is allowed to be gay. Still, it's 2005 and it's time to come out of the closet. Instead, we get Griffith saying twice he's no maricón and only once saying if people want to think he's gay, so be it. The most touching scene is the end when the producers brought together Griffith and Paret's son for their first meeting. It's a little forced having the cameras along, but the emotions of the two men are so powerful you're happy to be there.
 

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