Which Middle weight has the best chance of beating Monzon?

Jones would be hitting Monzon with big power shots from the start while not getting hit. Arguably the hardest hitter Monzon faced, but certainly the quickest and most accurate by a long way. How long could Monzon take those punches?

 

I think Monzon's ability to make a man over reach wouldn't mean much against Lamotta given Lamotta's reach and style. Lamotta didn't fire shots from long range he was always looking to close the distance and bore in with a barrage of punches to the body and head.

Robinson was landing at will during the closing stages because Lamotta was having trouble making weight and gassed out by about the 11th round. In any case Lamotta taking a heap of punishment wouldn't bother him, it's to be expected his enourmous head is a sweet target and Monzon's super accurate straight punching would mean he is going to be getting hit a shitload. Like i said to mcvey and in my original post i think Lamotta could be given the nod due to his constant aggression and i could see him outwork Monzon to a descision IMO

 

Im surprised no-ones called my Luis Manuel Rodriguez shout, I think he has the style and speed to give Monzon hell, I'm just not 100% on his durability and/or stamina to do it.

 

If Benvenuti could catch him, Monzon would catch him for sure.

 

As I was saying, depending on the length of the fight, Monzon would have adjusted his strategy. He was a "sit and wait" type in the 15 round fights. he would turn up the heat typically late in a fight, or on some occasions, fight as though he wanted to go home earlier. He usually controlled the pace of a fight. I think that if time were running out, or if a shorter distance would preclude "waiting it out" then he would have fought with more of a sense of urgency. The "four round fight" scenario would have hurt many a great, slow starting fighter. Marciano would have lost to many a second rater, to give an example. With Monzon and Jones, it would have been a stylistic pattern of the faster, more spectacular Jones getting off to a great start, but getting taken out to the deep water of the 12, 13, 14 round zone where he would have been mugged.

 

Harry Greb

 

Good analysis, what about Fullmer? Very awkward, unpredictable, rough and insane stamina.

 

Yes, by a stoppage. a right finds that chin.

 

Over ten I wouldn´t be that confident. Jones will get hit but he will be able to mitigate quite alot of the power behind those punches. Monzon will beat him over 12 or 15 but 10 is about 50/50 I think.

 

Monzon, as proven by his record of 100 fights with no stoppage losses, was aan understated, yet profoundly intelligent, resilient clever fighter in his own right. I think he would avoid a ko by Jones and ultimately capitalize on reaching Jone's chin with a right hand similar to the one that ko'ed Nino. Monzon was a very special cat, as Jones woul,d find out..a master ring general. His fighting brain is his key to winning as much as if not more than any nphysical attributes.Winning ugly is still winning.

 

Why Monzon's defence, while good and underrated, is much more penetrable than Toney or Hopkins who were hit at will. Who exactly does Jones have a problem landing on? This isn't a 34yo lightweight Napoles. Monzon's jab is his only real strength to get him into this match up, but it looks too slow here