Chuck Wepner made it exciting vs Ali, I give him that but his fights vs Randy Nuemann were among the worst I have seen, Johnny Ruiz is up there neck and neck and a fat Rahman is real garbage, Fat Tua slow and boring
Well that's to be expected. A lot of people enjoy watching Monzon's fights. For me, however, I am more intrigued by his personality outside of the squared arena.
Terrible indeed against Deleon (in arguable the most boring fight of the modern era) and Warring but he turn things round in the late 90s and showed some glimpses of what he could of been.
That's one of the things that intrigues me so much about Monzon. He could be terribly "dull" so to speak I guess compared to Duran, Leonard, Hearns, etc., but he would have beaten any of them in my opinion. He was utterly controlled and rather methodical in the ring, but the intrigueing part, as I was saying, is how could a guy, who was so out of control in his personal life, with that sinister, volcanic temperment that he had be so controlled, and "cold blooded" in the ring? I believe that if it were not for boxing, Carlos Monzon would have murdered someone and would have been imprisoned for life. I've always had an affinity for the guys who could box coldly, and dispassionately, and keep their emotions in check, like Monzon, Tunney, Harold Johnson and others.
He's not the most dull, but there've been more than a couple Bernard Hopkins fights I barely made it through.
Oh yeah, sure. He was indubitably great. I mean undefeated for over a decade, record-holder for the most championship defenses in a stacked, stacked weight division. His legacy in boxing history is secure. No one can take that away from him. However there are others, Joe Louis for example, who also fit the part of the cold-blooded, no-nonsense fighter, who do not completely sacrifice the thrill-factor in their boxing craft.
Neither do I, really. I am capable of being objective with this. At the end of the day, at the end of his fights, he would leave no one unconvinced of who the true victor was and that's what counted. For me, the style employed is really irrelevant so long as it is effective, but that is only in analyzing the merits of fighters objectively. Obviously, I have my own sentimental favorites; I would much rather watch other middleweight greats like Sugar Ray Robinson or Marvin Hagler, for instance.