Carlos Monzón

Carlos Monzón is one of those names that makes me reconsider what dominance in boxing really looks like. Seven years as undisputed middleweight champion with fourteen successful title defenses is the kind of stranglehold the sport almost never sees, and being named Fighter of the Year in 1972 only underlines how complete his reign was. What stays with me is the duality the record hints at: the nickname Escopeta, the Hall of Fame induction, and then the dark 1995 ending in Argentina. He fascinates me precisely because his greatness and his trouble were never far apart, and I find that tension impossible to look away from.

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Name (English)

Carlos Monzón

Name (Japanese)

カルロス・モンソン

Reading

かるろす・もんそん

Born

August 7, 1942 – January 8, 1995

Origin

Santa Fe, Santa Fe Province, Argentina

Height

182 cm

Occupation

boxer / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

Awards & achievements

• 1990 International Boxing Hall of Fame
• WBC World Middleweight Champion
• WBA World Middleweight Champion
• The Ring World Middleweight Champion
• 1972 Sugar Ray Robinson Award
• 1972 The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Monz%C3%B3n
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724670

Tags

• Santa Fe Province
• boxer
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.