Carlos Monzon vs Nigel Benn At MW

You think Nunn and Hearns would fight at a slow tempo? They threw A LOT of straight punches, at blinding speed.

 

Monzon was an original middleweight, they weighed in the same day of fight in boxing until post-Eubank/Watson II. Malinga was a 180lber in the ring. Do you understand basic physics? Is it too much for you to comprehend?

Clueless.

 

Post-McClellan, he had a shadow on the brain and was clearly falling over himself against Nardiello. A shadow of his former self.

 

Didn't train for Williams, he was coked up with Mickey Rourke in Miami.

The two times he trained properly in his whole career were DeWitt and Barkley, doing 150 rounds sparring for each and not going out partying during camp.

 

Didn't prepare right for Eubank either, he wouldn't of won anyway because Eubank was unknockoutable.

 

He feels the reason he beat McClellan was because he was the one more settled at the weight and who had grown comfortably into the weight over four years. McClellan was still a 180lber though, but not used to a strong super-middle in there.

 

And if you think Monzon or Hearns would get up from the perfect right hand counter that laid Malinga out, then you need your head tested. Last thing to leave a fighter is his power.

 

He was done before G-Man, same goes for Eubank.

 

Hearns was a failure as a middleweight, and Nunn is just a foot note, no legendary status. Fighters are supposed to fight, bo dancing the Cha Cha Cha, real men fight, not dance like they are in a Ball Room. Speed means nothing when a man cuts off the ring, and you are running into hard long left jabs, and a paralyzing right hand thrown by Monzon. watching too much Fantasy island, or you are just a hater?

 

Monzon actually offered Benn good luck before the Galvano fight in Rome, telling Benn to maintain focus on the fight like he did against Nino in '70 and not worry about the Italians trying to put him off. He called Benn the polar opposite of himself and so try to hurt Galvano early.

Benn apologized in being too young to see Monzon fight and saying Hagler was his hero (after seeing him fight Minter), but appreciated the good luck message.

 

do you speak English?

 

Manny believes Tommy was at his physical peak against Schuler, and would've beaten Hagler easily that night.

Nunn looked unbeatable at his best.

There were a huge bunch of super-talents (many Ali wannabes who were inspired to box as kids by Ali) fighting eachother, not just one guy picking off blown-up welters in the same Ali era.

 

(Nino B had no problem landing countless flush left hooks to Monzon's jaw..)

 

You are right in a sense, but that is a total turn off, there was only one Ali. I do not care for imitators, just like to see fighters take care of business in the ring, and be good sports about it afterwards. Are you old enough to remember Bruce Lee? There were a lot of imitators following his death, people laughed and got turned off by that. Boxing has regressed to a lot of Ali wanna be's.

 

But Nino still lost my friend, KO 12.