carlos monzon best fights

First Benvenutti fight.

 

Benvenuti I
Valdes II
Briscoe II...which is my personal choice as his best. Totally outboxes and outclasses a rampaging bull. Only problem i think the only copy is the silent 8mm version I have.


Bogs is a solid performance, the first Valdes fight, Griffith I is pretty good, the rematch not so. It was difficult at the best of times for anyone to look good vs Emile of course. That 2nd fight and Moyer are his worst.

 

The thrashing of Jose Napoles impressed Angelo Dundee, who was in Napoles' corner for the fight, and he deemed Monzon a 'super champion". It was very impressive, when you condider that Napoles was an invincible terror as welterweight champion at the time, and it was thought by many, including the boxing writers of Sports Illustrated (who were more boxing friendly and savvy unlike today) that Napoles was too quick and good a boxer for Monzon, especially the 1973 version of Monzon, who had a bullet lodged in his arm or shoulder from a domestic confrontation with his wife, and had had a sub-par year in '73 against two former victims in rematches. The Briscoe title defense would be his truly epic performance, along with the two defenses against Rodrigo Valdez and the title winning bout against Nino Benvenuti, when he pole-axed the Italian with that big right in 12 after a great 11 rounds of action.

 

.............I recently got an abridged copy of the second Briscoe fight, and that would be my pick too. He looked super sharp there.

 

Any chance it's not the silent 8mm one?

 

Jose was still regarded as the pfp #1 at the time too, many people forget this. After the fight BI were asking was Monzon the best ever at 160? He was very highly rated in his pomp by Boxing news and B.Illustrated (post-74), regarded as one of the all-time best, an honour which many great middleweights weren't afforded.

 

I have the 8mm with sound. Very rare indeed.

 

...........Nope. :rasta Plenty of sound on this one.

 

Monzon was rated by several of the top boxing mags of the seventies as the #1 champion of the world, and nearly flawless at that. When you consider the end result of his career and the undeniable class victories over Briscoe, Napoles and Valdez, there is an argument for that.

 

Apparently Sports Illustrated was impressed by Monzon's second victory over Valdez, as their issue following that fight was headlined "Monzon the Magnificent". with a shot of Monzon-Valdez on the cover, something which rarely happens nowadays, having a top fight on the cover of what has become, by the way, a second rate magazine.

 

Not to interrupt, but let's not act like Monzon beating Napoles was any more than an extreme case of a great big man vs a great little man. The size difference was very apparent.

 

I have that issue. :good

 

Does it have commentary?

 

It was really. Monzon let Napoles do as he pleased for 4 rounds then decided he would easily mash him. He hardly misses the target in round 5.