Carlos Monzon vs Nino Benvenuti II: Was Howard Cosell on something?

**Jimanuel Boogustus** · 02-23-2011 10:48 AM

Yeah Monzon has grown on me the last few months. He isn't easy to watch at first because his skills aren't all that easy to see, it's only when I realized he wasn't hardly missing punches that I started to take notice...

**brocktonblockbust** · 02-23-2011 01:13 PM

i never knew piss about monzon but now i'll start looking at fights. as for howard, he's not high, he was always a bizarre guy. you shouldve heard him in other fights, even worse.

**THE THIRD MAN** · 02-25-2011 05:41 AM

Originally Posted by Jimanuel Boogustus

Yeah Monzon has grown on me the last few months. He isn't easy to watch at first because his skills aren't all that easy to see, it's only when I realized he wasn't hardly missing punches that I started to take notice...

That's why they called him 'Shotgun'

Monzon is arguably the greatest Middleweight of all time, the difference in being recoginised as such universally is he only had one major fight in the United States. Hagler has his whole career well documented and is much more well known. Monzon was champ for 7 years, he fought the best out there at the time, his lifestyle was that of a cigar smoking, drinking womaniser and his reputation out of the ring is extremely dubious. Inside the ring he was a beast!