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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Who’s Your Daddy, Part II: Monzon vs Benvenuti
Nino Benvenuti may be considered among the best amateur boxers of all time.
He had a great professional career too. His first loss was on a highly disputed decision to Ki Soo Kim. He would win two out of three in a legendary middleweight trilogy with the highly respected Emile Griffith.
Eventually though his star would diminish.
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Friday, April 06, 2007
Why Carlos Is the “King”
I cut my teeth on the sport of boxing in the mid-1960’s. At that time the sport was just coming out of a somewhat dreary period of champions although talented, lacked charisma.
It was Cassius Clay, later to be Muhammad Ali that energized the sport and opened the door for a group of boxers who into the late 1970’s established themselves and that time as a truly “Golden Era” in boxing.
The boxers that molded my mentality of what boxing was all about. It was a who’s who of talent and solid mass of future Hall Of Famers.Jose Torres, Dick Tiger, Bob Foster, Emile Griffith, Jose Napoles, Carlos Ortiz, Ismael Laguna, Vincente Saldivar, Eder Jofre, Fighting Harada and Ruben Olivares. There were more, many more…
The one boxer that stands out for me in that era was in my humble opinion the best middleweight over the last forty years. I do not make this comment lightly. That takes into consideration the talents of Joey Giardello, Dick Tiger and more recent champions like Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Michael Nunn, James Toney and the champion of today, Bernard Hopkins.
I have the utmost respect for all the boxers I’ve mentioned but in retrospect, I must rate Carlos above them. Here is why…
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