According to International Boxing Hall of Fame, six-time world champion Emile Griffith passed away after a long battle with pugilistic dementia. He died in an extended care facility in Hempstead, N.Y.
Griffith was best known as the first boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands to become world champion. His career was soon over overshadowed by the fatal beating he gave Bennie Paret in a 1962.
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