i think there's a tendency to forgive fighters for their personal lives and recognize their professional accomplishments as more time passes.
i don't think it's appropriate, but that's what happens with monzon. lots of young boxing fans dont' know who he is. why shoudl we expect them to know he was an awufl dude and a killer?
monzon is on the short list of meanest fighters of all time, by all accounts. he broke a reporter's jaw, and beat the f#ck out of women. he's got well documented domestic issues with girlfriends, wives, and mistresses.
he killed his wife. she was choked fully unconscious and beaten before she fell off of a balcony, according to the autopsy. monzon fell with her.
that stuff isn't talk about much. i agree with you. people remember him primarily for being a great middleweight. he was a champion for 7 years, and he beat hall of famers. i think the passage of time is what lends us to forgive/ forget the transgressions of these guys in their personal lives.
i don't think it's appropriate, but that's what happens with monzon. lots of young boxing fans dont' know who he is. why shoudl we expect them to know he was an awufl dude and a killer?
monzon is on the short list of meanest fighters of all time, by all accounts. he broke a reporter's jaw, and beat the f#ck out of women. he's got well documented domestic issues with girlfriends, wives, and mistresses.
he killed his wife. she was choked fully unconscious and beaten before she fell off of a balcony, according to the autopsy. monzon fell with her.
that stuff isn't talk about much. i agree with you. people remember him primarily for being a great middleweight. he was a champion for 7 years, and he beat hall of famers. i think the passage of time is what lends us to forgive/ forget the transgressions of these guys in their personal lives.
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