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Carlos Roque Monzón (7 August 1942 – 8 January 1995), nicknamed Escopeta (Shotgun), was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight championship for 7 years.
Monzon is the greatest fighter ever produced in Argentina and one of the greatest middleweights of all time, perhaps second only to the great Sugar Ray Robinson.
Carlos Monzon was an Argentine professional boxer, world middleweight (160 pounds) champion from 1970 to 1977. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Monzon began his professional boxing career in Argentina in 1963.
Scoring 39-39, 39-39, 39-38 Monzon at time of stoppage. Benvenuti's manager throws in towel. Benvenuti was knocked down once in the 2nd and again in the 3rd. The towel was thrown in after he rose from the 2nd knockdown.
Jan 9, 1995 · Carlos Monzon, a former middleweight champion who was convicted of killing his girlfriend six years ago, died today in a car accident while returning to prison. He was 52.
Boxer Carlos Monzón was the exemplar of calculated aggression in the boxing ring and, at times, a blazing, uncontrollable menace out of it. He was Argentina’s über-celebrity of the 1970’s. He dated the most famous movie stars, even if he happened to be married to someone else at the time.
Monzon, 52, was pronounced dead on the spot. His final record was 87-3-9 with 59 stoppage wins. He was unbeaten in the last 80 bouts of his career, an accomplishment that has very few, if any, comparable instances in boxing history.
Mar 12, 2018 · There was never going to be a fairy tale end to the life, fights and crimes of Argentina’s finest boxer Carlos Monzon. In 1988 he fell from a second-floor balcony and injured his arm; he was...
CARLOS MONZON became middleweight champion in 1970 when he scored a 12th-round knockout of fellow Hall of Famer Nino Benvenuti. Monzon went on to make a division-record 14 title defenses.
Aug 7, 2022 · Eightieth Anniversary of Carlos Monzon. Nicknamed “Escopeta” which means shotgun in English, the life of Carlos Monzon, had a scatter impact and imprint in all directions.
