One of my all time favorite fighters...
Emile what an era he fought in.... Wow! simply amazing.
Starts off as a Welter while being the man, the World Champ as a Welter he moves up in weight and fights Wright for what was considered the Light Middleweight title and wins a lopsided decision. Completely shuts out Wright....
He then drops down to Welter after defending his Light Middle title once (he won that fight) to fight 'El Feo' Rodriguez who was considered a freaking beast then. Emile loses a decision but later avenges his loss by beating 'El Feo' twice... Somwhere there in between he was TKO'd in 1 by 'Hurricane' Carter in the way Rubin knew how his hurricane fashion. Emile also fought Dupas yet another World Class all time Welterweight fighter.
Emile or for that matter many fighters back them moved up and down in weight more often then Oprah Winfrey.
But never made excuses and always moved forward knowing that loosing didn't mean the end of the world or the end of their career all it ment is gotta move onto the next state/arena and hope to pull out a big win. Emile was either the champ or was #1 behind the champ from 61 to 65 loosinf his Welterweight crown once to 'El Feo' as I mentioned above.
He then moves up to Middleweight to take on Dick Tiger and wins defends twice to Joey Archer then loosing to Nino gets his revenge then loses to Nino again. Other fighters that Emile faced as if that weren't enough to solidifu his greatness:
'Mantequilla' Napoles, Boggs, Earnie Lopez, Armando Muniz, Tony Mundine, Bennie Briscoe, Antueformo, Hamani, Minter.
Also for those who haven't seen his documentary 'Ring Of Fire' it's a must see.
It gives you and takes you to what went on for the Paret fight what he had to live with the mistreatment of him by people.