If they were not such good friends who takes Monzon vs Galindez

I was always very intrigued whwn watching Glaindez, i really think he was a unique fighter.

I just wanted to share that.

 

Well Galindez is the bigger man, height or no. Galindez is weird, he can be very inactive in spots, then he can be dynamic all of a sudden. The way he drops his right hand to his side then whacks his opponents with it like a sort of roundhouse is legendary. But would Monzon dictate the tempo? He's not going to follow Galindez to the ropes much. The style match-up might favour him.

Thoughts yourself?

 

Yeah that's fair. I like Galindez though, as you can probably tell.

 

I think Victor beats him down.

 

Galindez hands Monzon the smackdown, bigtime.

 

Galindez was too rugged and powerful at 175 pounds for Monzon....... Monzon could fight at 175 with ease, but I'm not sure Monzon could handle Galindez' strength and bullish tactics as a light-heavy..........

MR.BILL

 

Galindez's nickname was "El Animal", and before he began to get cuts, he fought very aggressively.

Victor fought & beat most of the top lightheavies of the 70's.

Monzon, if he had moved up....was not any better than the top light heavies that were already there.

Galindez by split decision....mostly because he is the bigger man.

 

Galindez by a comfortable points win.

 

I'll go reverse here and say a prime Monzon outpoints him. Monzon was a HUGE middleweight with an iron chin and great authority in the ring. He really dictated his matches with pace, distance and timing. These are attributes that size (which Galindez didn't possess a whole lot more of) could not overcome.

 

How can we be so sure that Monzon could have competed successfully against the very best LH's of his era? Where's the evidence? Monzon never fought any lightheavies, period.

Sure, Monzon was a great middleweight, but would his virtuoso athletic/fighting abilities remain untainted if he put on another 15 lbs.? Sometimes the extra weight just makes a great fighter sluggish.

Monzon was basically a strong but thin sinewy middleweight. Can we be certain that he would have had the upper-body strenght -- even with 15 extra pounds -- to hang in there with Galindez?

As analogies just look what happened to welterweight Jose Napoles when he put on some weight to challenge Monzon at 160 lbs. Napoles wasn't even competitive at the higher weight. Consider also Victor Galindez's failed attempt to campaign as a cruiserweight in 1980: Galindez's legendary physical strength at 175 lbs. simply didn't show at the 190 lbs. weight limit.

I'm not saying Monzon couldn't have succeeded at LH....I'm just saying it may be impossible to know for sure.

 

The other huge factor was a lack of title belts. You couldn't cherry pick your way to a title by fighting the least formidable of the 4 title claimants. Plus, no 168 pound division to get a shot against another 4 titlists.

 

Teeto, I'm a fan of Galindez too..part of my thing for Argentine fighters, like Locche, Lausse, Corro, Ahumada, and of course, Monzon (you might not have guessed, lol). Galindez had a unique style, not the 100% brawler that he may have looked like, but with that canny, cautious almost at times patient counterpunching style, which he sticked with that earned him some razor-close decisions. One observation on this..in the defense against Ahumada, after the bell of the 3rd (I believe), a split second after the bell, Ahumada was dropping his guard, when Galindez caught him with a beauty of a left that tossed Jorge across the ring for an unofficial knockdown...after the minute rest and in the 4th, Galindez didn't push his advantage and go after Ahumada, who had to be still feeling the effects of that kd, instead, he sort of went in to that counterpunching mode of his and the fight more or less took it's turn going the limit. I don't know if it was maybe a bit of sportsmanship on Galindez's part not to take advantage of his after the bell transgression against his countryman or not, but it certainly seemed to charactarize a certain aspect of Galindez's style.