Pretty sad. Monzon... too smart, too long, too strong, too conditioned, and takes a punch too well for me to think Golovkin has more than a punchers chance early.
Monzon is underrated on these forums. A true great with countless relevant victories and few or no weaknesses.
No prob pal. I thought that as someone who's seen 'em both and lived through both eras, I'd throw in my 2 cents worth, thats all. :thumbsup The only question mark I have against GGG is his engine in a long tough fast-paced fight. But Carlos was fairly one-paced, predictable and perhaps GGG might have too much all-round prowess for him???....GGG may be a better-schooled all round puncher IMO.....hard to say.....both are great IMO.
Feel like that's equaling the ante. But it's still an untouchable one to me. No point discussing it right now.
GGG loses to both Hagler, Monson and Leonard GGG hasn't prove **** and His hardcore fans hasn't convince me yet.
Monzon was an 'arm puncher'. His languid style, accuracy and toughness combined with his height, reach, deceptively good foot movement made him formidable. Golovkin hits a tad harder, tho has a relatively short reach for his height. Moves and punches a tad stiffer tho like Monzon very accurate. Monzon had very high level of competition. I don't see Golovkin as versatile enough. There is a comparison vid on youtube that may be instructive.
In his early days in Argentina he was fighting very frequently. Learning his trade as he went along. Not being primed for a big fight.
Monzon picked on fighters moving up to middleweights, and in some cases past their prime names. He never fought anyone like GGG.
sidenote: where does golovkin stand on the consecutive middleweight title defenses record? second to hagler? or is that the consecutive middleweight champion ko's record? i'm still holding out for golovkin vs. ? - what middleweight is worthy to gauge golovkin vs the greats? right now, they all seem so cowardly. jacobs, saunders- where is his competition? who is he fighting next?