Monzon vs Hearns (at MW)

Monzon by a 9th round knockout.

 

One of the most exciting fighters of all time vs one of the most boring fighters of all time lol. Monzon by ko or Hearns by decision. 50/50

 

Monzon is the best ring general ive ever seen

 

Not pretty to look at, but supremely, brutally and coldly effective.

 

Which middleweight gives Monzon the most problems stylistically? Robinson? Golovkin ? Kalambay? Greb?

 

Monzon by KO. Hearns' usual height and reach advantages would be nullified by Monzon and at this weight, Hearns' power would be less effective. Monzon had a better chin and defense so I think he'd take Hearns out by the 8th.

 

I think Hearns would give Monzon his toughest moments as champ in the early going. I would favor Monzon to ride them out and outlast Tommy. It could go 3 or 4 it could go a bit longer. I think this would be a spectacular fight tbh. Hearns sheer speed and power would be on display early and Monzon tested. Monzon takes it a lot better so he should be favored to come thru after the early excitement.

 

I believe Greb, but I'm not 100% sure...Greb was the "X" factor without having any visual documentation on him.

 

Sounds likely to me.

 

So what was Monzon's achilles heel? Pressure ( Briscoe) ?

 

Look at the rematch with BB...he did very well with the pressure, didn't he? Don't know what his weakness was...see, nobody beat him...anyone who wants to nitpick Monzon has to point to a sub par winning performance, lol. You could say the second Griffith fight was sub par, but hell, that fight was his first after when he was shot by his wife..he had a bullet lodged in his shoulder (not his leg like some erroneous reports told of)...the rematch with Bouttier was somewhat sub par, but he ended up handling the Frenchman like a rag doll at the end.
There's been a determined push to downgrade Monzon by ignorant posters with agendas, but truth is, Monzon was sort of a weird phenomena of some kind. He won all his damned fights...plain and simple, period....and against all the challengers who were available at the time..what more can you expect of a fighter. He may not have had all the flashy gifts that other greats had, but he had something that they didn't have...a cold blooded, almost criminal psychopath's mental make up and a painfully underrated genius ring IQ that allowed him to figure out how to survive defensively, and how to figure out how to beat the opponent at hand. I don't know, Harry Greb may have been able to beat him, but Greb's an "X" factor, and I'll be damned if I can figure out anyone else who could.
After he destroyed Napoles,..well, he was beginning to destroy Napoles..one more round would have done it...Angelo Dundee said "Monzon is a super champion"...see, it wasn't a thumb in the eye that did it, just watch the damned fight...if it was from a thumb, Dundee and all the other "experts"of the time would have shouted "foul" from the roof tops.

 

Monzon smoked 2 packs of cigs a day, get he had no breathing difficulties, no stamina issues at all,...could go 15 rounds like a virtuoso. He was a physical phenom that no one at the time and all the boxing morons today couldn't and can't figure out.