Carlos Monzon - Defensive Skills of the Legend

Good writing. You make Monzon sound like a Serial Killer in a sense. I can see what your saying though.

 

I completely get it too.

 

Great posts by you and Red. A fighter that reminded me a lot of the Great Monzon in both demeanor nd supremacy in fight was Salvador SANCHEZ

 

Eli wallach? great posts Red!

 

Jack Palance as Wilson from Shane!

 

From all the reading about Carlos since he became champ, he had a volcanic temper. THAT is what made him great. he knew how bad his temper was. Towards the end of his life, he admitted, "me and my terrible temper are responsible for this", when talking about how he ended up in prison. HE was remorseful.! As I've said before Carlos Monzon and Roberto Duran r the two greatest Fighters I've ever seen in any way in my lifetime!

 

yes Also Palance in "Sign of the Pagan" as Atilla the Hun

 

You cannot expect fighters who pull themselves up through the sustained and all natural violence of the Latino ghettos to get to the top and then be milquetoasts. One of my favorite lines was about the savage Dempsey. People who knew him said he was the kindest man yet had a casual feeling about physical violence. Dempsey always said that hobo jungle camp brawls made him the savage fighter he became and that three rds with gloves and referreess was not real fighting. Monzon and Duran likewise. THIS casual attitude towards violence and the distance to go with the violence is what made each great. Thier very lives when young depended on it too survive. It becomes first nature. Monzon admitted his mistakes and hopefully made amends to the Lord. He wasn't performing planned violence like going into elevator s and knocking out and robbing old women. His was a reaction crime. Dead wrong, pun intended, but reactions nonetheless.