Carlos Monzon V. Ray Leanard.

[elmersalsa]

You folks need to go back and watch Monzon. I'd take him 7 of 10 times vs Ray.

X2

[Brian Seneca]

I also take Monzon over Leonard. What I don’t get is people picking Carlos over Marvin. I was too young to see Monzon live. But I do have an extensive fight collection and I believe I have everything from Benvenutti on. Not doubting his ability or his HOF credentials. He is big and strong with long arms. But he almost looks mechanical to me. I am not saying in a three fight series he doesn’t win one but Marvin looks much more fluid and adaptable. I certainly don’t think he ko’s Marvin. Like I have said before being there to witness something can change a perspective. So maybe this is the case. I know Briscoe gave him troubles so I think Hagler beats him.

[elmersalsa]

I also take Monzon over Leonard. What I don’t get is people picking Carlos over Marvin. I was too young to see Monzon live. But I do have an extensive fight collection and I believe I have everything from Benvenutti on. Not doubting his ability or his HOF credentials. He is big and strong with long arms. But he almost looks mechanical to me. I am not saying in a three fight series he doesn’t win one but Marvin looks much more fluid and adaptable. I certainly don’t think he ko’s Marvin. Like I have said before being there to witness something can change a perspective. So maybe this is the case. I know Briscoe gave him troubles so I think Hagler beats him.

I know for a fact that King Carlos ain't knocking out Marvelous.

[BoxBuzz]

I also take Monzon over Leonard. What I don’t get is people picking Carlos over Marvin. I was too young to see Monzon live. But I do have an extensive fight collection and I believe I have everything from Benvenutti on. Not doubting his ability or his HOF credentials. He is big and strong with long arms. But he almost looks mechanical to me. I am not saying in a three fight series he doesn’t win one but Marvin looks much more fluid and adaptable. I certainly don’t think he ko’s Marvin. Like I have said before being there to witness something can change a perspective. So maybe this is the case. I know Briscoe gave him troubles so I think Hagler beats him.

I know for a fact that King Carlos ain't knocking out Marvelous.

Which is just the way Monzon would like it...…..no one loved a fight like Monzon…...and he would win solidly on points. I'm not sure he ever really thought that a KO was the point, what he longed for was a full 15 rounds of "sharpening the saw". Monzon would beat Hagler, and he didn't have as much problem with some of these fighters as is insinuated here. In retrospect, anyone who still had some fight left in them upon the last bell with Monzon, gets a lot of credit, deservedly so. But Monzon never lost his cool, and ALWAYS did what it took to let his opponent know he had beaten them. Briscoe did not take exception to the loss. He knew what took place between them was not ambiguous.

[Ambling Alp II]

You folks need to go back and watch Monzon. I'd take him 7 of 10 times vs Ray.

Carlos Monzon was out of this world. Like, Sugar Ray, he was a thinking man's fighter. That's comes to show that boxing is also mental as is physical.

Sugar Ray was a thinking man's fighter. Maybe that is why you don't like him.

[elmersalsa]

Carlos Monzon was out of this world. Like, Sugar Ray, he was a thinking man's fighter. That's comes to show that boxing is also mental as is physical.

Sugar Ray was a thinking man's fighter. Maybe that is why you don't like him.

I love Sugar Ray Leonard. That's a fact. But, I know for a fact that you hate the great Roberto Duran!

[Yuzo]

He was the opposite of flashy in the ring. Monzon never wasted a calorie. Everything he did was about being efficient and effective. He was as close to a robot in the ring as you will ever see. He was so fast mentally, that he didn't need to be faster than you to beat you to the punch. He threw punches that upon being triggered appeared they were going nowhere, only to find the target when his opponent ended up moving in the precise way he seemed to "intuit" his opponent would move.

Watching his fights in slow motion, is like watching an episode of the twilight zone. He's like Nostradamus in the "nanosecond" world. Predicting where a chin will be before the chin arrives.

[elmersalsa]

He was the opposite of flashy in the ring. Monzon never wasted a calorie. Everything he did was about being efficient and effective. He was as close to a robot in the ring as you will ever see. He was so fast mentally, that he didn't need to be faster than you to beat you to the punch. He threw punches that upon being triggered appeared they were going nowhere, only to find the target when his opponent ended up moving in the precise way he seemed to "intuit" his opponent would move.

Watching his fights in slow motion, is like watching an episode of the twilight zone. He's like Nostradamus in the "nanosecond" world. Predicting where a chin will be before the chin arrives.

That's very true, BoxBuzz

[freddy73]

Leonard didn't have anything to stop Spence with... Spence is too big, tough, and powerful... No Tommy Hearns chin is infecting this savage young thug.. Errol hasn't shown a single weakness.. Leonard showed us a ton of problems.

Leonard got knocked on his can by 3rd rate Welterweight Kevin Howard, -- who most fans had never heard of... Ray got riddled with combinations by the chinny-chin-chinned Terry Norris and battered to the canvas twice more... SRL also got beaten up by Lightweight Roberto Duran... And battered with right hands by Tommy Hearns until he was seeing spots in front of his meat hammered eye -- on a night when Hearns was the skinniest and most undernourished of his life -- looking like a fighting dog of Michael Vick's who he forgot all about when he went on vacation for 2 months...

Spence would climb into Leonard's left shoulder with crushing right hooks and ripping 45 left handers.. Like he did to Kell Brook, Leonard Bundu, and Lamont PEDerman when he beat the living fuk out of those boys.

Spence lost at least 3 or 4 rounds to Kell Brook, and Kell Brook is no Sugar Ray Leonard.

[Ambling Alp II]

Sugar Ray was a thinking man's fighter. Maybe that is why you don't like him.

I love Sugar Ray Leonard. That's a fact. But, I know for a fact that you hate the great Roberto Duran!

No you don't love Leonard. That is simply a lie. You rail at him routinely. Once you said he wasn't a "real fighter".
I don't like Duran because he was a terrible person. I don't pretend to like him so that I sound like I'm objective.

I'm not a phony about it like you are.

[elmersalsa]

I love Sugar Ray Leonard. That's a fact. But, I know for a fact that you hate the great Roberto Duran!

No you don't love Leonard. That is simply a lie. You rail at him routinely. Once you said he wasn't a "real fighter".
I don't like Duran because he was a terrible person. I don't pretend to like him so that I sound like I'm objective.

I'm not a phony about it like you are.

I ain't a phony. Duran is not a terrible person. At least, there are no reports that Duran beat his wife like both Sugar Rays did.

Leonard was a very great talent. But, the media and the public adulation has him way up there like a god. With that, he could manipulate everything about his fights: make a larger ring. Don't give a rematch if I win. Get a rematch as fast as you can if he loses. Get thumbless gloves. Everything was "his way" or no way. I understand, he was the cash cow like Ali. Other fighters didn't had that LUXURY. You dig?

[Ambling Alp II]

Yes, you after reading this, how could I question that you loved Leonard and think that you were being a phony?

[oogiebe]

WOULD A MODERATOR MIND MOVING THIS INSANITY TO MYSTICAL MATCHES PLEASE?

[ClivePatrickLyons]

SRL beats King Carlos

[oogiebe]

WOULD A MODERATOR MIND MOVING THIS INSANITY TO MYSTICAL MATCHES PLEASE?

Thank you whoever moved it!