Carlos Monzon - Help

I thought that I would paste up the S.I. article on the Monzon-Napoles fight, even though this isn't exactly the thread for it...


http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1088283/index.htm

 

The Monzon-Napoles article by S.I. is just too good to pass up.

 

The old Boxing Illustrated mag in the 70's had some excellent articles and interviews on Monzon, as did some long defunct magazines I can't even remember the names of, that did p4p rankings of all the champions of the time periodically, and nearly always had Monzon at #1...ahhh, the 70's..what a decade.

 

This is Monzon-Valdez 2 from the vault.

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1092673/index.htm

 

Interesting trivia; Alicia Muniz, the one he threw off the balcony, was topless when she died.

 

And she was topless whether she wanted to be or not, I bet.

 

You got it!! Best of luck with it..again, I'm looking forward to it.

 

Probably. Not a very nice man.

But still one of my very favourite boxers nonetheless. A real scary fighter, not like Mike Tyson. This one was a pimp, a hooligan, a swatter of reporters, a murderer, a gunshot victim and the best middleweight of all time. And he wouldn't knock you out quick; he'd blankly stare at you as you were broken down round-by-round.

 

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn....os_Monzon/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm

enjoy .

 

Always thought that there was something almost reptilian about Monzon's style,,,without a doubt the greatest middleweight of history. A murderer, a cruel s.o.b., but one of the greatest fighters of all time, easily.

 

Look forward to an enjoyable read, Gpater.

Here's a nice little exert of info from NY times following the crash that killed him.

"Before he became a boxer, Monzon rose from humble beginnings as one of 12 children in Santa Fe. He shined shoes, sold newspapers and lugged sides of beef in a meat-packing plant."

 

Thanks for this SLAKKA!

 

Whatever happened to GPater? One of the best posters ever IMO.