What former middleweight champion could of went up to lighheavy and heavyweight

It's not like Monzon had it easy with Briscoe who was basically a poor man's 40 lbs smaller Joe Frazier.

It would have been a mismatch.

 

yeh great point forgot about Bennie atsch

Monzon would struggle at LHW let alone HW

 

No freaking way Monzon beats on Frazier without Frazier allowing it to happen for publicity reasons, ect..................... Frazier could and would steamroll Monzon rather quickly and rapidly............... Even an aging Frazier (Frazier is 2 yrs younger than Monzon) in 1976 would ice Monzon.............

MR.BILL

 

Frazier is getting sold verry far short on this site these days.

People can't look beyond his loss to Foreman and assume that any big fighter with a punch copuld take him.

Personaly I don't think that Monzon matches up well with bigger fighters. He relied on his physical advantages to win fights and when you take those away what exactly is left?

Perhaps there is a good reason why he never stepped up to light heavyweight.

 

Anyone remember what Frazier did to Foster.

 

No.

They just remember what Foreman did to Frazier.

 

Monzon was great but OVERRATED as all hell........... Ol' Carlito was HUGE at 160 pounds.......... Christ, even 'til this day rumors surface that he had members of his team tamper with the scales so he could weigh 160.......... He also hammered several dudes who were naturally smaller than him as well......... Monzon was great, but he really needed a 168 pound division back in the 70s........ I think he'd get KO'd by 175 pounders like Bob Foster or a young Victor Galindez.......... Cheers..........

MR.BILL

 

Could Ray Robinson have done it?:think










PS: Just asking. Don't actually know. Just thinking that he could have beat Maxim at LHW under the right conditions. Would HW have been too far though?

 

D-MAC i dont think he could of, but he did have talks with Floyd Patterson at 1 point

 

If only Archie Moore won the MW title

 

NO!!! Robinson was fit at 157 to 160 pounds at roughly ages 29 to 37..... After age 37, SRR went downhill, but hung on for several yrs to come...... At best, Ray Robinson would've bulked up to 165 to 168 pounds.... I believe SRR was 164 for Joseph Maxim in 100 degree heat.......... Ray Robinson was the greatest P-4-P fighter in my book, but dudes like "Moore and Patterson" were just too big for SRR........ I cannot see Robinson handling 180+ dudes with skills very well.......

MR.BILL

 

Cheers boys.:good

I didn't think so, but thought I'd ask anyway.

 

You need to go drown yourself and stop ruining boards like this one.

 

Even if he was tailor made, the size difference and power would allow Frazier to easily KO Monzon. I am pretty sure Monzon's power isn't going to mean much at HW against Frazier. It's not even debateable, just stop.

 

..when there was talk...mostly by dumb sportswriters...of matching sugar ray robinson against ezzard charles, srr scotched it by saying 'hey...you want to get me killed?"