Describe monzon as a fighter

I sure consider him in the top ten...maybe number one;the total package-height,brains , power-and Bernard Hopkins type awkwardness.

 

If you watch his fights on DVDs, you can see that in the exchanges he lands almost every punch, and hardly ever got hit.

The cumulative effect of his hard right hands rather than one-punch is what made him so formidable.

 

Monzon maximized his reach and height.

I don't remember seeing him in with fighters bigger than him....like a
Thomas Hearns......and wonder what he would have done then.

Nino Benvenuti was tall, but Monzon move him all around the ring,
and just beat him down in the 2nd fight.

 

Monzon's jab was a superb tool. Jab, move to the side, jab, move to the side. Technically sound, precise, accurate, persistent, measured with his approach when landing right hands.

 

Great jab, laser right hand, awareness, ability to study and figure out opponents, fundamentally sound and extremely effective

 

It takes some a while to really understand what theyre looking at when they watch him. You might see some fight of his and say well.......he's not all that fast, kind of paws with a lot of his punches, doesn't commit to destroying his opponent the way a lot of more well known fighters would, he wasn't in what most would call great exciting fights.

He was patient, calculating, very accurate with his punches, and knew how to control the action for very long stretches.

 

Opps double post

 

Monzon against Hopkins. Probably the two best techincally sound middleweights in history. That sure would have been captivating viewing. Points written all over it.

 

A very cool, calm, and collected fighter in the ring. His approach was nothing fancy, but it was very effective, a lot of it made so by his height, reach, and timing. He'd throw out the jab, time you, find the range, and follow up with the straight right, which was, while not being an exceptionally fast or explosive punch, very long and perfectly timed, thus very hard to escape. His height helped him on the defensive end as well. When he had you at the end of his reach, you were well outside of your range, but well within his, so when you decided to go on the offensive, you weren't effective, and he'd easily lean back to avoid your shots and tie you up. He was quite good on the inside as well, though he was undoubtedly at his best on the outside. Against Benvenuti, whenever Nino tried to get rough with him on the inside, Monzon would answer right back, on the break, rabbit punches, whatever, just to tell him he wasn't having any of that ****, even from the champion. He also seemed to have limitless stamina and durability. Quite a difficult fighter to figure out over 15 rounds. Hard to choose any MW to beat him.

 

Nino's listed as 5'11, Monzon as 5'11 1/2...

Is that not accurate?

 

Monzon had a cold, calculating style that didn't excite the masses or the casual fight fan, because they couldn't figure out what he was doing. He was an out of control monster outside of the ring, but had total control inside it. To have as many fights as he did, and never be kayoed, and with only three losses, all avenged, meant you had to have some special skills. The guy smoked while training (he cut down to a pack or less a day) and never indulged in gym wars while in training "only concentrating on certain things" to quote him from an interview, and to consider that he had a bullet lodged in arm or shoulder from 1973 onwards, is amazing. He had unreal confidence in himself, and was extremely patient in his fights. I suspect that he held back somewhat on his power punches a bit due to having arthritic hands. He utilized his height and reach to the max, and had as much ring generalship as ANYBODY period. Anyone who faults Monzon as being too stiff, or two slow or robotic, consider that it only appeared to be that way, and that his strengths defensively were of a subtle nature and not based on some flashy athletic gifts that too soon have deserted many great fighters in times past. You can't have a career like his, with all those fights (101) and retire at the top of your game with all those defenses against the type fighters he fought, with no stoppages chalked up against him, without being truly great, and those who see that are clearly missing something.

 

As boring as you think he was as a fighter, he was greater than Tyson. By a few hundered miles IMO.

 

:rasta You're a funny guy. Useless reply full of nonsene, as usual.

 

You're a newcomer to boxing, aren't you?