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Rover wrote:

giacomino wrote:

BoxBuzz wrote:I can not understand for the life of me, if you watch his fights, how you can not come away thinking there is something almost supernatural about the guy. Uncanny accuracy, with speed that deserves critical scrutiny, because I understand that it appears that he is not the fastest guy in the ring....and his stats totaly bely that.

I guess when you are dead on accurate, you can take your time to get there lol. But he manages this David Copperfield timing, in nearly all his fights.

Another thing, his era was NOT weak.

However, people say I have a blind spot regarding Pryor......I want to disagree, but it's definitely a popular stance I don't agree with. So it is what it is.

Maybe this is simply your blind spot. I remain of the opinion he is the best MW of all time. And Hopkins would not escape Monzon's ability. That is he would be figured out and deconstructed. Though I will say that Bernard will take his beating, know he was beaten, and deny it to his dying day.

Good post. There was nothing weak about Monzon's era or competition. Makes me think those who say that didn't actually see any of Monzon's opponents fight, other than against Monzon. Reminds me of TML's assessment that Sturm, admittedly TML's fantasy man, would have easily handled Monzon because he beat nothing but Argentine taxi drivers.

Did he think Molitow would've beaten Gomez, too?
Monzon outside the ring was a lowlife. Inside the ring, he was a master.