On This Day: Middleweight Great Carlos Monzon Died In A Car Smash
How do we best remember former middleweight king Carlos Monzon? The Argentine ring warrior was a great, great fighter, for sure.
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On This Day In 1970: The Great But Tortured Carlos Monzon Becomes Middleweight King
Although we can never forget the tragic end to Carlos Monzon’s life – drink and drugs, murder, prison, his own life lost in a car crash – nobody who saw Monzon fight came away without thinking how no man was able to put a dent in him in the ring.
Happy Halloween! Some Of The Scariest Fighters In History
What makes a fighter, a boxer, scary? Wicked punching power? A genuinely nasty personality and demeanor? Thoroughly intimidating stare-down abilities that frighten not only the other guy in the ring, but us fans looking on also?
50 Years Ago Today: A Classic ‘Big Man Vs. Little Man’ Encounter As Monzon Stops Napoles
Not all welterweight kings can make the jump up to middleweight to defrock the bigger king. Not every fighter can do what the two Sugars, Robinson and Leonard, managed (the former, and for so many the only real Sugar, beating Jake Lamotta to become 160-pound ruler, the latter, who might have been as fast as his ring idol, upsetting Marvelous Marvin Hagler in a fight that so many people still get mighty upset about; its decision, at least).
On This Day In 1970 – When Monzon Wrecked An Italian Superstar And Began A Middleweight Reign Of Terror
It really is a crying shame that legendary middleweight Carlos Monzon was as much a terror outside of the ring as he was inside it.
The Great But Tortured Carlos Monzon – 100 And Never Out
100 pro fights, some of them comprising of early, fledgling career defeats, with nine draws and a no-contest. But never, ever a stoppage loss suffered.
Fifty Years Ago Today: When Carlos Monzon Beat “Bad” Bennie Briscoe
50 years ago today at Luna Park Stadium in Argentina, reigning middleweight king Carlos Monzon was making the sixth defence of the title.
45 Years Ago: When The Great Carlos Monzon Retired As An Untouchable Middleweight King
How great was Carlos Monzon? How much more revered would “Escopeta” be today had he not allowed his inner demons to overwhelm him?