How many rounds did Monzon lose to Napoles before stopping him?

4? I had it 4-2 after 6 iirc

 

I had Monzon 5-1 easy cheesy.

 

According to the Associated Press, Monzon was up on the official cards by margins of 5, 4 and 3 rounds, which presumably means scores of 5-0-1, 5-1-0 and 4-1-1. The AP themselves had it as 4-1-1.

 

Naploes was a blown up welter weight,( 153 pounds for the weigh in ) and very short at 5'7" 1/2. If a guy this short could counter Monzon, so could many others. The slower handed you are, the easier it is to be countered.

Monzon finished well. Napoles claimed he was thumbed in the eye.

• "Monzon sure knew how to use the thumb. The way Jose's eye looked, there was not much else we could do." -Phil Silver, cornerman of Napoles.

• "He did it with his left hand, pushing my arm aside and shoving his thumb in my eye. It blinded me for the rest of the round." -Jose Napoles, claiming the thumbing happened in the 6th round.

What does the video show?

There was some controversy at the end of this fight.

• Immediately after this bout Monzon, still in his boxing gear, hopped in a car and left for his hotel. The President of the French Boxing Federation, Bernard Restout, stated he would be filing a protest with the WBC for disciplinary action due to this action as Monzon was to immediately submit to the required post fight urinalysis. Monzon's camp claimed that the trailer, provided to the fighters, hadn't water or facilities and that Monzon preferred not to stop there for the test.

Hmmmm...I'm always suspicious of a guy who fled the scene.

 

Yeah, me too.

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2 at the most.

 

Who

 

FYI. Monzon was a significant underdog coming in to the fight vs Napoles

 

He always fought the same way. Kind of like Salvador Sanchez.

 

No he wasn't.

 

I had the score on Carlos Monzon vs Jose Mantequilla Napoles, on Feb 9 1974, in Paris, France, Monzon 5-1, before the stoppage by Angelo Dundee in the corner. Monzon retained his World Middleweight Title. Monzon wore down the smaller Napoles, who weighed 153 lbs, to Monzon's 159. But Napoles was the reigning World Welterweight Champion.