Miguel Canto Appreciation Thread

Up there with my favourites aswell and I think I had him my no1 flyweight in the recent survey.

Among the greatest of the no nonsense pure boxers.

 

He drew the Tibetan color line?

 

Though past his prime, the vid you posted really gives you an idea of some of his short-comings in head to head matchups. Vibonchai was a relative nobody and was able to run Miguel very close using little more than height and reach. It's difficult to imagine him ever beating guys like Ohba or Zapata. Great fighter, though.

 

"All Mexicans have two left feet, with the exception of Miguel Canto." That may be my favorite bigoted quote from "Flash" Gordon.

I would like to see Canto-Takada on youtube, his one stoppage win in title competition, and the final one of his career. At one point he nailed a six hook combination. I haven't seen it since it aired on Bass and Lederman's syndicated Cavalcade of Boxing. It showed that even supposedly feather fisted greats have a killer instinct, and when he has Takada trapped in a corner at the end, he really cuts loose. Just an amazingly quick puncher, able to effortlessly throw throw every shot in the book.

 

He gave up height just about always though...against better fighters than this bloke...Giving away physical advantages was just another day in the office really. I reckon he was really getting past it by this stage, had lost a step in just about every department.

I think he would have loads of trouble with both those guys mentioned though...however I think they would have nearly as much trouble with Miguel.

 

that's pretty funny actually. was it for political reasons or did he think they were on some stuff?

 

alright the more you tell me about Canto, the more I wish there was a movie about him. He sounds absolutely hilarious!

 

Once upon a time in Tibet, some believe, around the year 1975, World Champion of the Flyweight division, Miguel Canto, was walking down the road, contemplating whatever it is that a man of Canto's infinite power contemplates - which is another way of saying "who knows?" - when a Tibetan monk appeared, traveling in the opposite direction. As the monk and the Mexican crossed paths, Canto, in a practically unfathomable display of generosity, gave the monk the slightest of nods. The nod was not returned.

Now was it the intention of the Tibetan monk to insult Miguel? Or did he just fail to see the generous social gesture? The motives of the monk remain unknown. What is known, are the consequences. The next morning the champ appeared at the Tibetan Temple and demanded of the Temple's head abbot that he offer Canto his neck to repay the insult. The Abbot at first tried to console Canto, only to find Canto was inconsolable.

So began the massacre of the Tibetan Temple and all sixty of the monks inside at the fists of the little Brady. And so began the legend of Miguel Canto's five-point-palm-exploding-heart technique.

 

..... cmon... i'm dying here. this guy gets so emotional.

 

Boxed Ears, there have been times when I've been smashed out of my skull on God knows what listening to Tom Waits and grinning vacantly at random paintings by Pollock or Dali (yes, I am an irredeemable sadsack), and the overall effect still isn't quite as wonderfully distorted as your world. Will you release some memoirs of that Russian midget bowling you once mentioned please? I can offer payment in the way of potatoes and ferrets in flat caps.

But in response to cobra, Canto was a miniature wizard. Sort of reminds of a fleeter-footed (if physically disadvantaged) incarnation of Locche in many ways. From the 70's era, I can think of only Duran, Napoles and Monzon when it comes to men who definitely deserve to be ranked above him in a p4p sense. And perhaps Zarate.