What are the #1 all time best boxers from the following

[Halfamill]

latino countries?

Argentina
Columbia
Cuba
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
Venezuela

[Martin Sosa Cameron]

Argentina:

Pascual Pérez
Nicolino Locche
Carlos Monzón
Luis Firpo
Justo Suárez
Horacio Accavallo
José Carattoli
Jorge Fernández
Julio Mocoroa
Eduardo Lausse

Santos Laciar
Gustavo Ballas
Francisco Magnelli
Ernesto Miranda
Luis Rayo
José Gatica
Alfredo Prada
Federico Thompson
Raúl Landini
Rafael Merentino
Hugo Corro
Raúl Rodríguez
Jorge Castro
Julio César Vázquez
Víctor Galíndez
Jorge Ahumada
Miguel Ángel Cuello
Oscar Bonavena
Gregorio Peralta

[Halfamill]

Thank You but which one would you say is #1 out of that list in Argentina?

[Martin Sosa Cameron]

1 - Pascual Pérez

[Borinken25]

Argentina – Carlos Monzon
Colombia – Antonio “Kid Pambele” Cervantes
Cuba – Kid “The Cuban Hawk” Gavilan
Dominican Republic – Joan Guzman
El Salvador –?
Mexico – Julio Cesar Chavez or Salvador Sanchez
Nicaragua – Alexis “El Flaco Explosivo” Arguello
Panama – Roberto “manos de piedra” Duran
Puerto Rico – Carlos Ortiz
Venezuela – Betulio Gonzalez

[Borinken25]

1 - Pascual Pérez

Sorry but for me it was Carlos Monzon

[Martin Sosa Cameron]

1 - Pascual Pérez
2 - Nicolino Locche
3 - Carlos Monzón

[p4p1]

australia?
brazil?
germany?
ghana?

[Tantum]

Peru?

[Broncano]

Peru?

Mauro, by a light year

[Broncano]

Argentina – Carlos Monzon
Colombia – Antonio “Kid Pambele” Cervantes
Cuba – Kid “The Cuban Hawk” Gavilan
Dominican Republic – Joan Guzman
El Salvador –?
Mexico – Julio Cesar Chavez or Salvador Sanchez
Nicaragua – Alexis “El Flaco Explosivo” Arguello
Panama – Roberto “manos de piedra” Duran
Puerto Rico – Carlos Ortiz
Venezuela – Betulio Gonzalez

Right on the money, except I'd take out Salvador Sanchez and leave JC Chavez.... and I'd also change Joan Guzman for Teo Cruz

[granberry]

Argentina – Carlos Monzon
Colombia – Antonio “Kid Pambele” Cervantes
Cuba – Kid “The Cuban Hawk” Gavilan
Dominican Republic – Joan Guzman
El Salvador –?
Mexico – Julio Cesar Chavez or Salvador Sanchez
Nicaragua – Alexis “El Flaco Explosivo” Arguello
Panama – Roberto “manos de piedra” Duran
Puerto Rico – Carlos Ortiz
Venezuela – Betulio Gonzalez

Right on the money, except I'd take out Salvador Sanchez and leave JC Chavez.... and I'd also change Joan Guzman for Teo Cruz

Broncano,

I am surprised.

In the WHOLE HISTORY of Mexican fighters only these more recent ones considered?

[BoxBuzz]

Argentina – Carlos Monzon
Colombia – Antonio “Kid Pambele” Cervantes
Cuba – Kid “The Cuban Hawk” Gavilan
Dominican Republic – Joan Guzman
El Salvador –?
Mexico – Julio Cesar Chavez or Salvador Sanchez
Nicaragua – Alexis “El Flaco Explosivo” Arguello
Panama – Roberto “manos de piedra” Duran
Puerto Rico – Carlos Ortiz
Venezuela – Betulio Gonzalez

Right on the money, except I'd take out Salvador Sanchez and leave JC Chavez.... and I'd also change Joan Guzman for Teo Cruz

Broncano,

I am surprised.

In the WHOLE HISTORY of Mexican fighters only these more recent ones considered?

Many folks think that there is a slow but enevitable evolution toward better fighters. I like borinken's list. I would leave the "tie" in honor of the fact that we may never know Sanchez's potential but certainly when you compare his years next to Chavez's comparable years it's a very favorable comparison.

For those who think Perez should be given credit over Monzon could we hear why? I think I more clearly understand why Locche might be in the race.

[Broncano]

Argentina – Carlos Monzon
Colombia – Antonio “Kid Pambele” Cervantes
Cuba – Kid “The Cuban Hawk” Gavilan
Dominican Republic – Joan Guzman
El Salvador –?
Mexico – Julio Cesar Chavez or Salvador Sanchez
Nicaragua – Alexis “El Flaco Explosivo” Arguello
Panama – Roberto “manos de piedra” Duran
Puerto Rico – Carlos Ortiz
Venezuela – Betulio Gonzalez

Right on the money, except I'd take out Salvador Sanchez and leave JC Chavez.... and I'd also change Joan Guzman for Teo Cruz

Broncano,

I am surprised.

In the WHOLE HISTORY of Mexican fighters only these more recent ones considered?

Did you mean latin fighters?

Because as far as Mexico, I think Julio Cesar Chavez acomplishments are difficult to top.
Salvador Sanchez is out of the question, unless we step into the realm of what could have been. Even then, Sal Sanchez (as well as Chavez) had the luxury of dwelling in into the contemporary 16 division nonsense.

I know you would rather have someone mention a Kid Azteca, for instance. The hard nosed product of the toughest Mexico City neighborhood: 200 professional bouts , conqueror of Ceferino Garcia, Cocoa Kid (twice in one week!), Izzy Janazzaro among others and of course dropping razor sharp decisions to Fritzie Zivic and Sammy Angott

But the truth of the matter I believe Chavez was a phenomenon of other times, and he could have well fought in the Kid Azteca era and still have won a couple of world titles (135, 147)

It remains a matter of debate whether Azteca was a victim of boxing poiltics as he never did get the title shot he so deserved.

[elmersalsa]

latino countries?

Argentina
Columbia
Cuba
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
Venezuela

Argentina: Carlos Monzon, the greatest middleweight ever
Colombia: Antonio Cervantes
Cuba: Definately, Kid Gavilan
Dominican Republic: Carlos "Teo" Cruz...First fighter of that country to win a world title, and had to beat a great fighter like Carlos Ortiz to do it.
El Salvador: Carlos "El Famoso" Hernandez...First ever world champion from that coutry.
Mexico: Julio Cesar Chavez, hands down!!!
Nicaragua: Alexis Arguello...first champion of that country and the best ever
Panama: Everybody knows who...He is one of the top 5 greatest fighters of all-time
Puerto Rico: Wilfredo Gomez...unless Carlos Ortiz deserves a consideration
Venezuela: Betulio Gonzalez...Beat the great Miguel Canto and was a 3-time flyweight world champion

[Diamond WEAPON]

Right on the money, except I'd take out Salvador Sanchez and leave JC Chavez.... and I'd also change Joan Guzman for Teo Cruz

Broncano,

I am surprised.

In the WHOLE HISTORY of Mexican fighters only these more recent ones considered?

Did you mean latin fighters?

Because as far as Mexico, I think Julio Cesar Chavez acomplishments are difficult to top.
Salvador Sanchez is out of the question, unless we step into the realm of what could have been. Even then, Sal Sanchez (as well as Chavez) had the luxury of dwelling in into the contemporary 16 division nonsense.

I know you would rather have someone mention a Kid Azteca, for instance. The hard nosed product of the toughest Mexico City neighborhood: 200 professional bouts , conqueror of Ceferino Garcia, Cocoa Kid (twice in one week!), Izzy Janazzaro among others and of course dropping razor sharp decisions to Fritzie Zivic and Sammy Angott

But the truth of the matter I believe Chavez was a phenomenon of other times, and he could have well fought in the Kid Azteca era and still have won a couple of world titles (135, 147)

It remains a matter of debate whether Azteca was a victim of boxing poiltics as he never did get the title shot he so deserved.

Ruben Olivares could rival Chavez for the title of Greatest Mexican... here's a good article on it from HBO:

Any listing of the top 10 anything is as much a generational question as a historical one. Your father's champion is quite seldom your own, with the obvious exception of Sugar Ray Robinson, who is everyone's champion unless they simply have no idea what they are talking about.

Putting aside the nearly universal acceptance of Robinson as the all-time best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, there are many gray heads who will tell you, for example, that what Joe Louis would have done to Muhammad Ali would have been criminal assault, just as there is a generation today that believes Roy Jones, Jr. would have blasted out everyone in his path regardless of what era they came from or that Lennox Lewis would have destroyed Rocky Marciano despite the fact no one ever even beat Marciano let alone beat him down.

Regardless of who you like, once an all-time top 10 is established over time it becomes increasingly difficult for more recent practitioners to fight their way onto the list, a fate present super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera is wrestling with as a footnote to his preparations for a Sept. 16 rematch against Rocky Juarez. Barrera is without question one of the top Mexican fighters of his time and arguably of all-time, having won world titles at super featherweight, featherweight and super bantamweight while holding a 2-1 record against Erik Morales, his major challenger for modern day Mexican supremacy. But does he fit anywhere on a top 10 list of all-time Mexican fighters?

That is a debate that is likely to rage for some time, with devotees of Julio Cesar Chavez putting him atop any list of Mexico's all-time best fighters and then going from there. But even that point is debatable. Not for someone like six-time world champion Oscar De La Hoya perhaps, but ask his father, Joel, and you might get a different response. And if you put the question to one of De La Hoya's former trainers, Jesus Rivero, you'd get a different argument entirely, which is what makes these kind of debates fascinating fodder for a night of drinking tequila sunrises until sunrise.

Chavez? Olivares? Canto? Sanchez? Okay but what about Carlos Zarate or Kid Azteca or Vicente Saldivar? And what about perhaps the most under-rated Mexican fighter of all-time, the never defeated Ricardo Lopez.

"I would have to say Chavez,'' De La Hoya said when asked to name his top Mexican fighter of all-time. "He's been the best Mexican fighter in my time but "The Professor'' (as Rivero was called) would tell me Miguel Canto was the master. He was a tremendously crafty little boxer.

"My Dad would mention Salvador Sanchez to me all the time. He died so young (23) I never saw him but my father saw him live. He would tell me Sanchez had the potential to be much better than Chavez. He says Sanchez had something special. He was on his way up. It's hard to say what he would have done. And my father would always talk to me about Ruben Olivares. That was his all-time favorite."

Chavez? Olivares? Canto? Sanchez? Okay but what about Carlos Zarate or Kid Azteca or Vicente Saldivar? And what about perhaps the most under-rated Mexican fighter of all-time, the never defeated Ricardo Lopez.

"Finito'' was 50-0-1 when he said "finito'' on Nov. 28, 2002, retiring nearly a year after defeating Zolani Petelo to defend the IBF light flyweight title one last time after having successfully defended the WBC minimumweight championship a record 22 times before moving up to light flyweight and defending that title belt twice. Lopez, in fact, holds the record for most consecutive title fights without a loss (26), a streak that stretched over 11 years before his retirement and certainly argues strongly his case for a place in the Mexican top 10. So why does Lopez' name so often seem to come as an afterthought when the debate is greatest Mexican fighters?

"A lot of people overlook him because he was in the smallest weight classes and was always on the undercards of other fighters' like Chavez,'' De La Hoya theorizes. "People really didn't know him. He made so many defenses and he left the sport undefeated, which hardly anyone does. It's amazing he gets so overlooked. He should be on that top 10 list.''

So, then, other than those names who else belongs on such a list and would it include Barrera? His promoter thinks so.

"Barrera is right there with the top five of all-time from Mexico,'' insisted De La Hoya, whose Golden Boy Promotions will run the Barrera-Juarez rematch in Las Vegas. "Chavez is still on the top of the list for me but Barrera is not too far back. He's been down so many times and come back and proven he can be a champion again. He was dropped by Junior Jones and (Manny) Pacquiao but he's always come back.

"In talking with Barrera, he's a very proud man. He wants to be considered on top, like Chavez. He wants his name with those names. To secure his legacy he knows he has to beat Juarez again and then avenge his loss to Pacquiao. He wants the Pacquiao rematch so I was fairly surprised when he picked Rocky Jaurez to fight first but I can see why he chose that route. He wants any questions erased.''

If Barrera (62-4, 42 KO) can erase whatever questions some people might have of him, where might he fit, if at all, on such a list of best Mexican boxers of all-time? Here's one look which should surely spur debate.

1. Julio Cesar Chavez - Widely regarded as the greatest Mexican fighter of all-time, although old timers will debate you on that. They favor Olivares, Miguel Canto or maybe even Sanchez. Whatever they think, Chavez won world titles at 130, 135 and three times at 140 and retired with a record of 108-6-2 with 87 KOs. He was unbeaten in his first 91 fights (although a draw to Pernell Whitaker was a gift) before Frankie Randall beat him by well deserved split decision. One of his greatest performances was his last-second stoppage of Meldrick Taylor on March 17, 1990, a brilliant and brutal night in which Taylor administered a boxing lesson but took a beating from which he never fully recovered. Chavez used suffocating pressure, body punching and crushing right hands to wear men down and beat them up. He was 88-0 when he and Whitaker fought in San Antonio. He was a lesser fighter after that but he was also 31 and a veteran of an inordinate amount of ring wars. It will take a lot for someone to remove him out of this No. 1 ranking.

2. Ruben Olivares - One of the two or three best bantamweights ever to fight, Olivares held that title through two reigns between 1969-72 before moving up to twice win the WBC featherweight title. A powerful puncher, Olivares won his first 60 fights, 55 by knockout on the way to posting a record of 88-13-3 (78 KO). Perhaps no 118 pounder ever punched harder than Olivares. He could box but most often chose not to, relying instead on a shot to the liver and a menacing style that was all about coming forward. Classic Mexican brawler, Olivares was loved by Mexican fight fans. His three wars with Bobby Chacon are typical of why.

3. Salvador Sanchez - Sanchez (44-1-1) never lost a title fight and defeated a roster of top opponents like Danny Lopez (twice), Azumah Nelson, Wilfredo Gomez, Juan LaPorte and Ruben Castillo before dying at 23 in a car wreck. He had made nine successful defenses of the featherweight title at the time of his death. Sanchez was not the typical Mexican brawler but rather a defensive expert and sharp counter puncher. His greatest night was when he destroyed Gomez, who was 32-0-1 at the time, in eight technically perfect rounds.

4. Miguel Canto - A defensive master, he's the Mexican version of Willie Pep. He successfully defended the flyweight title a record 14 times, winning all but one of those fights by 15-round decision, a record that will never be approached for dominance by virtue of pure boxing skill.

Canto finished 61-9-4 with only 15 knockouts with four of those losses coming at the end of his career and most of the rest in the first two years of it. He was more difficult to hit than Sandy Koufax.

5. Carlos Zarate - Polar opposite of Canto, Zarate was a power puncher locked in a bantamweight's body. Zarate won his first 45 fights, 44 by KO, and retired with a record of 66-4 with 63 knockouts. That's punching power.

He made nine defenses of the bantamweight title in three years, stopping nearly all of the best opposition available to him, making him one of the greatest bantamweights of all-time. Perhaps his greatest moment was knocking out his nemesis of the '70s, Alfonso Zamora, who was 29-0 at the time with 29 knockouts himself, in an over the weight fight. Zarate dropped Zamora three times before stopping him in the fourth round in their April 23, 1977 showdown.

6. Ricardo Lopez - Grossly underrated as De La Hoya says because of his size and the fact promoter Don King kept him hidden behind Chavez for so long.

7. Marco Antonio Barrera - The best Mexican fighter of his era (unless you include Chavez in it). Erik Morales would like to prove otherwise but he's 1-2 against Barrera and the gap between them is widening. Barrera became a complete fighter, rather than just a warrior, after Junior Jones beat him twice. He still loves to brawl but he can box, too. What featherweight of his time was better? A match with Sanchez would have been a Mexican dream fight.

8. Vicente Saldivar - Elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1999, Saldivar finished his career 37-3 with 27 KO, having won the featherweight title in 1964 by upsetting Sugar Ramos. He held that title for four years, including three wins over Howard Winstone during that stretch before retiring after their third fight in 1967. He returned to the ring 21 months later and won the featherweight title a second time in less than a year, although this reign was short-lived.

9. Kid Azteca - A tremendous body puncher whose liver shot Micky Ward would have loved, Azteca went a phenomenal 151-41-8 with 81 KOs during a 29-year career that went from 1932 to 1961, a span of four decades.

10. Jose Becerra - The most popular fighter in Mexico by July 8, 1959 when he stopped bantamweight champion Alphonse Halimi, conqueror of Becerra's idol Raul Macias 21 months earlier, for the first of two times to become world champion. Becerra retired at 24 however with a 71-5-2 record (42 KO) less than a year after killing Walt Ingram in the ring. Because he fought mostly in the '50s he is all but forgotten these days, overshadowed by fighters like Humberto "Chiquita'' Gonzalez or Pipino Cuevas. They were good but his skills exceeded theirs at their best.

Barrera, not surprisingly, has his own list of top Mexican fighters and does not include himself in the top five or Chavez at No. 1. The former was out of modesty because he places Morales, who he's beaten twice, on his list. The latter was out of the belief some fight fans hold that no one would have been better than what Sanchez promised to be had his life not been snuffed out at so young an age.

"To be a Mexican fighter you first have to be a warrior,'' says Barrera, which explains his exclusion of the slick-boxing Canto among his top five.

"Throw punches from the first bell to the last. It doesn't matter that you get hit as long as you land. That's why I put Olivares on my list. He was a typical Mexican fighter. He was always going forward looking for a knockouts. To me, the list is Salvador Sanchez, Chavez, Ruben Olivares, Vicente Saldivar and (Erik) Morales.''

One fighter likely to be on De La Hoya's top 10 Mexican fighters is one excluded here, former welterweight champion Pipino Cuevas. When De La Hoya was a young amateur his father used to take him to the dusty Main Street Gym in downtown L.A. when Cuevas would be there training for a title fight.

He was the first great fighter De La Hoya ever saw up close and it's a sight he's never forgotten.

"He was the first professional fighter I ever saw workout live at the old Main Street Gym,'' De La Hoya recalled fondly. "We paid $2 to see him train. He'd knock down or knock out his sparring partners. Back then they didn't wear any headgear! Oh, my god! He was pretty impressive. I was intrigued by his power. He really wasn't a technician but oh that left hook.''

Despite having twice faced down Chavez, in the end he remains atop De La Hoya's list however because he concedes what many Mexican fight fans will always argue about their two meetings.

"When I first watched him vs. (Edwin) Rosario I was a kid,'' De La Hoya said. "My father took me to a bar to watch him. He was loved by so many fans. He packed the bars and arenas when he fought. A Chavez fight was a big party.

"To this day, in my eyes, he's one of the best to come out of Mexico. If I faced Chavez in his prime it might have been a different outcome. It would have been a hell of a fight.''

If he could put on a few pounds and Chavez could take off a few years, Marco Antonio Barrera would probably feel the same way.

[Martin Sosa Cameron]

It's very difficult to say who is the number one in any countries, as Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Panamá or Puerto Rico because they are a lot of boxers who can be rated as greatest in world boxing history; from Luis Firpo to Pascual Pérez, from Kid Azteca or Ratón Macías to Rubén Olivares or Carlos Zárate, Kid Chocolate or José Nápoles, Al Brown or Ismael Laguna and Roberto Durán... Sixto Escobar, Pedro Montañés or Wilfredo Gómez or Benítez? In Brazil, it'easy: Eder Jofre; or from the first World Champion of Nicaragua, Eddie Gazo, to Alexis Argüello; in Colombia, who? Kid Pambelé or Rocky Valdez? And in Venezuela, Carlos "Morocho" Hernández or Betulio González or Luis Estaba? It is not simple

[Martin Sosa Cameron]

For those who think Perez should be given credit over Monzon could we hear why? I think I more clearly understand why Locche might be in the race.

see http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/w ... meron.html

PASCUAL PÉREZ — (“Pascualito”, “El león mendocino”, The Lion of Mendoza) Born in May 4, 1926, in Tupungato, Mendoza, Argentina, was Olympic Champion in London, 1948; as amateur he won nearly 20 titles, the most in Argentinean history (besides the Olympic title, he won five Argentinean and three Latin American championships). As a pro, he was Argentinean champion from 1953 to 1957, and undisputed world flyweight Champion 1954-1960, as well as the unified champion of his weight with most consecutive title defenses, mainly in the country of his challengers. Many noteworthy critics and historians considered him the best flyweight of all time. From the opening of his pro career, battling with bantamweights and featherweights, he won his first 18 bouts by K.O., and was unbeaten for 52 fights, with 51 victories, 1 draw and 37 K.O. Like a good number one, he was the first Argentinean Olympic and World Champion, the first protagonist (and winner) of the first world title fight in different nations, as Argentina (1956), Uruguay (1956), or Venezuela (1958), against Ramón Arias (in the first world championship battle between two South Americans). Little of weight and stature, Pascual never surpassed 48 kg (106 lbs), giving, nearly always, advantage of weight and physical height to his rivals, but he was the most complete, the most perfect Argentine boxer; he wasn’t a mixture or a synthesis between a “stylist” or a “puncher”: he was the addition of both characteristics; he is, along with Eder Jofre and Roberto Durán, perhaps, one of the three best Latin American fighters. He had the capacity and precision of attack of Monzón, and he could also simultaneously defend as an expert like Locche, and, when his oppenent was most difficult, he was at his most extraordinary. Along his exceptional career, he faced and defeated the best of all in his time: the world champion Yoshio Shirai (on points and by K.O. 5), Danny Kid (Points 10), Leo Espinosa (Points 15), Oscar Suárez (TKO 11), the British Empire champion Dai Dower (KO 1), the European champion Young Martín (KO 3), Ramón Arias (Points 15), Dommy Ursúa (Points 15), Kenji Yonekura (Points in 10 and in 15) and took revenge on the first man to beat him, Sadao Yaoita (winning by K.O.), until he lost his title to Pone Kingpetch. Only once in his career, he was knocked out, by Efrén Torres, “Alacrán” (Scorpion), in 1963; in the following year, after a rout against Eugenio Hurtado, he retired. In total between 1952-64, he fought 93 bouts, won 85 (KO’s: 59), drew 1 and lost only 7.

Five most important fights:

W PTS 15 Yoshio Shirai (November 26, 1954)

W KO 1 Dai Dower (March 30, 1957)

W KO 3 Young Martín (December 7, 1957)

W PTS 15 Ramón Arias (April 19, 1958)

W KO 13 Sadao Yaoita (November 5, 1959)



NICOLINO LOCCHE — (“Intocable”, Untouchable) Born September 2, 1939, in Mendoza, Argentina. Was lightweight champion of Argentina (1961-64; 1965-66) and South America (1963-66); junior welterweight champion of Argentina (1966-68), South America (1966-68) and world champion (after 1968). From 1958 to 1964, made 55 bouts without a loss (winning 45 and drawing 10), and between 1964 to 1972, when lost his title to Alfonso Frazer, he was unbeaten in 57 fights (won 54 and drew 3); through 1973 to 1976, he won his last seven fights. He faced the best men of his weight in their primes; among his most important wins are Joe Brown (1963), Sandro Lopopolo (1966), Eddie Perkins (1967), Paul Fujii (1968), Carlos Hernández (1969), Antonio Cervantes (1971) and Pedro Adigue (1973); he also drew with Ismael Laguna (1965) and Carlos Ortíz (1966), all world champions; Laguna, Ortíz and Lopopolo was holders of the belt in non-title bouts, and against of Fujii he obtained the championship. He also scored notable victories over Jaime Giné, Vicente Derado, Eulogio Caballero, Manuel Álvarez, Tony Padrón, Sebastiao Nascimento, Raúl Villalba, Roberto Palavecino, Abel Laudonio, Hugo Rambaldi, Everaldo Costa Azevedo, L.C. Morgan (who previously beat José Nápoles), Abel Cachazú, Al Urbina, Juan Salinas, Juan Aranda, Joao Henrique, Adolph Pruitt, Benny Huertas and Jimmy Heair (!!!) When Locche stopped Paul Fujii, all the enthusiasts of the world could see him in action and were dazzled with his impeccable defense style, his perfect jab, his precise avoids, his exceptional reflex and velocity, and many compared him, without doubt, to Benny Leonard... Only the lack of a power punch prevented him from being considered the most complete Argentinian fighter, although by studying his record, it is very easy to see in Locche an extraordinary boxer. Total bouts (1958-1976): 136, win 118 (KO’s: 14), lost 4, drew 14.

Five most important fights:

D PTS 10 Ismael Laguna (July 17, 1965)*

D PTS 10 Carlos Ortíz (April 7, 1966)*

W PTS 10 Sandro Lopopolo (September 10, 1966)*

W TKO 10 Paul Fujii (December 12, 1968)

W PTS 15 Antonio Cervantes (December 12, 1971)

* Non title bout with a world champion



CARLOS MONZÓN — Born on August 7, 1942, in Santa Fe, Argentina. Middleweight champion of Argentina (1966-70), South America (1967-70) and world champion (1970-77). Like Pascual Pérez among the flyweights, he is too considered, among the bests middleweights of all time, one of the “Great Five” (with Stanley Ketchel, Harry Greb, Mickey Walker, and Ray Sugar Robinson). Tall, thin, cool, imperturbable, attacking with exact and mighty blows, he could win with only one impact of his right hand or by slowly demolishing his opponents. His style didn’t attract as much attention as his struggles did, so his nearly perfect career offers a curiosity: he vanquished rivals who previously were considered better than him, so his ascent was one surprise after another. The first time he truly attracted attention was when, opposite the unbeaten Celedonio Lima, who was considered large favorite, Monzón got an unforeseen victory with only one blow of his dread right hand (KO 5); another triumph against all foresight, out of any calculation, was when he won very controversially to Jorge Fernández and snatched the Argentinean middleweight title (Points 12); the result was more convincing and more surprising when Carlos won a rematch (Points, 12); with this achievement, he acceded to international consideration. Proceeding victories, among others, over Antonio Aguilar (KO 9 and KO 6), Doug Huntley (KO 4), Charlie Austin and Johnny Brooks (both on points), Harold Richardson (KO 3), Tom Bethea and Eddie Pace (both on points in 10), took him to confront the extraordinary and more or less invincible Italian idol Nino Benvenutti, Olympic champion and triple world champion, who, as an amateur and professional, surpassed 200 consecutive triumphs, and incredibly, Monzón won spectacularly to prove he was much better than the European (KO 12); in the return bout, with marvelous facility, Carlos repeated his triumph (TKO 3). Already world champion, he retained his title 14 times, beating the best and most powerful challengers. During his seven year reign, until he retired, men dropped under his fists like Emile Griffith (TKO 14 and on points 15), Denny Moyer (TKO 5), Jean-Claude Bouttier (TKO 13 and on points 15), Tom Bogs (TKO 5), Tony Mundine (KO 7), Tony Licata (KO 10), Rodrigo Valdez (twice on points 15) and, contrary to many reports, José Nápoles (TKO 7), the fabulous world welterweight champion. From 1964 until his retirement, he stayed unbeaten through 82 bouts (winning 73, of this, 57 by K.O., and drawing 9). Total fights (1963-1977): 102, win 89, (KO’s: 61), lost 3, drew 9 and had 1 NC.

Five most important fights:

W PTS 12 Jorge Fernández (September 3, 1966)

W KO 12 Nino Benvenutti (November 7, 1970)

W TKO 14 Emile Griffith (September 25, 1971)

W TKO 7 José Nápoles (February 9, 1974)

W PTS 15 Rodrigo Valdés (July 30, 1977)

[Borinken25]

latino countries?

Argentina
Columbia
Cuba
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
Venezuela

Argentina: Carlos Monzon, the greatest middleweight ever
Colombia: Antonio Cervantes
Cuba: Definately, Kid Gavilan
Dominican Republic: Carlos "Teo" Cruz...First fighter of that country to win a world title, and had to beat a great fighter like Carlos Ortiz to do it.
El Salvador: Carlos "El Famoso" Hernandez...First ever world champion from that coutry.
Mexico: Julio Cesar Chavez, hands down!!!
Nicaragua: Alexis Arguello...first champion of that country and the best ever
Panama: Everybody knows who...He is one of the top 5 greatest fighters of all-time
Puerto Rico: Wilfredo Gomez...unless Carlos Ortiz deserves a considerationVenezuela: Betulio Gonzalez...Beat the great Miguel Canto and was a 3-time flyweight world champion

Thank you elmerfudd for showing your true ignorance. Please don’t lose you day time job.

Let’s see why Carlos Ortiz does not deserve consideration:

1. He was born in Australia
2. His parents were from Pakistan
3. At the age of 10 he went to live in New York and like we all know there are no Puerto Rican’s in New York.
4. When people ask him where he is from? his response, I’m from Uganda.
5. He never fought in Puerto Rico.
6. No credible magazine or boxing expert considers him Puerto Rican.


I just want to ask you one question; who did you acquire your boxing knowledge, from Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck?

[pundit]

australia?
brazil?
germany?
ghana?

These ones seem rather straightforward:

australia -- Jeff Fenech
brazil -- Eder Jofre
germany -- Max Schmeling
ghana -- Azumah Nelson

[elmersalsa]

latino countries?

Argentina
Columbia
Cuba
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
Venezuela

Argentina: Carlos Monzon, the greatest middleweight ever
Colombia: Antonio Cervantes
Cuba: Definately, Kid Gavilan
Dominican Republic: Carlos "Teo" Cruz...First fighter of that country to win a world title, and had to beat a great fighter like Carlos Ortiz to do it.
El Salvador: Carlos "El Famoso" Hernandez...First ever world champion from that coutry.
Mexico: Julio Cesar Chavez, hands down!!!
Nicaragua: Alexis Arguello...first champion of that country and the best ever
Panama: Everybody knows who...He is one of the top 5 greatest fighters of all-time
Puerto Rico: Wilfredo Gomez...unless Carlos Ortiz deserves a considerationVenezuela: Betulio Gonzalez...Beat the great Miguel Canto and was a 3-time flyweight world champion

Thank you elmerfudd for showing your true ignorance. Please don’t lose you day time job.

Let’s see why Carlos Ortiz does not deserve consideration:

1. He was born in Australia
2. His parents were from Pakistan
3. At the age of 10 he went to live in New York and like we all know there are no Puerto Rican’s in New York.
4. When people ask him where he is from? his response, I’m from Uganda.
5. He never fought in Puerto Rico.
6. No credible magazine or boxing expert considers him Puerto Rican.


I just want to ask you one question; who did you acquire your boxing knowledge, from Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck?

What is this guy talking about? I do not get it....

[pundit]

Argentina: Carlos Monzon, the greatest middleweight ever
Colombia: Antonio Cervantes
Cuba: Definately, Kid Gavilan
Dominican Republic: Carlos "Teo" Cruz...First fighter of that country to win a world title, and had to beat a great fighter like Carlos Ortiz to do it.
El Salvador: Carlos "El Famoso" Hernandez...First ever world champion from that coutry.
Mexico: Julio Cesar Chavez, hands down!!!
Nicaragua: Alexis Arguello...first champion of that country and the best ever
Panama: Everybody knows who...He is one of the top 5 greatest fighters of all-time
Puerto Rico: Wilfredo Gomez...unless Carlos Ortiz deserves a considerationVenezuela: Betulio Gonzalez...Beat the great Miguel Canto and was a 3-time flyweight world champion

Thank you elmerfudd for showing your true ignorance. Please don’t lose you day time job.

Let’s see why Carlos Ortiz does not deserve consideration:

1. He was born in Australia
2. His parents were from Pakistan
3. At the age of 10 he went to live in New York and like we all know there are no Puerto Rican’s in New York.
4. When people ask him where he is from? his response, I’m from Uganda.
5. He never fought in Puerto Rico.
6. No credible magazine or boxing expert considers him Puerto Rican.


I just want to ask you one question; who did you acquire your boxing knowledge, from Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck?

What is this guy talking about? I do not get it....

I guess he tried to be sarcastic.