Carlos Monzón

Carlos Monzón
Data
Birth Name	Carlos Roque Monzón
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	Argentinian
birthday	August 7, 1942
place of birth	Santa Fe
Date of death	January 8, 1995
style	Left delivery
size	1.88 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	100
Victories	87
Knockout victories	59
Defeats	3
draw	9
No value	1

Carlos Monzón (born August 7, 1942 in Santa Fe , Argentina , † January 8, 1995 ) was an Argentine middleweight boxing champion.

Professional career

Monzón became a professional middleweight in 1963 at the age of 21 and lost in the build-up phase three times, once in 1963, twice in 1964. However, it should remain the only (official) defeats of his career.

His style was that of a counter boxer, he was good at taking, especially on the chin (he never lost to a knockout, was only knocked to the ground once) and had a powerful leading hand. He was certified as having above-average punching power in his right hitting hand, which he often used strategically in order to achieve a knockout success towards the end of a fight .

World championship fights

In 1970 he competed for the middleweight world title in Italy against defending champion Nino Benvenuti . Carlos Monzón won by knockout in the fourteenth round.

In the following years he defended his title in a rematch against Benvenuti, Emile Griffith , Bennie Briscoe , the welterweight legend José Napoles and twice against Rodrigo Valdez and Jean Claude Bottier . The second defense against Griffith, which ended with a point win for Monzón, was not undisputed among the professional audience but unanimously among the judges .

In 1977 Monzón resigned without losing his title in the ring.

Awards

The " Ring Magazine ", a boxing magazine, voted him the second best middleweight of all time after Sugar Ray Robinson , but before Harry Greb , Stanley Ketchel and "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler . The Sports Journalists Association of Buenos Aires awarded Monzón 1972 with the Olimpia de Oro as Argentina's Sportsman of the Year . In 1990 Monzón was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame .

After retirement

After finishing his sporting career, he tried his hand at first as an actor in some films, including Italian ones; even later he got into trouble with the law. He killed his girlfriend in an argument and was then sentenced to a long prison term. While on leave, he crashed his car into a tree and died.

Filmography (selection)

• 1976: The last round (Il conto è chiuso)
• 1977: El Macho

Web links

• Carlos Monzón in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olimpias de oro www.cpd.com.ar. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
2. ^ Monzón filmography