Editing Carlos Monzón (section)

==Early life==
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Monzón was born in the city of [[San Javier, Santa Fe|San Javier]], [[Argentina]], to a family of [[Mocoví]] descent. His parents were Roque Monzón and Amalia Ledesma. Monzón was raised in poverty with his twelve siblings. When Monzón was six years old, his family moved to Barranquitas Oeste, a poor neighborhood of [[Santa Fe, Argentina|Santa Fe]], the capital of [[Santa Fe Province]]. To help out his family, he quit school in the third grade, working different jobs, such as shoeshiner, paperboy and milkman. As a youngster, he showed an interest in boxing.

When he was sixteen, he met Zulema Encarnación Torres, with whom he had his first son. Later, on 11 May 1962, he married Mercedes Beatriz García, nicknamed 'Pelusa'. They were so poor that they did not have enough money to buy the marriage license. They had three kids, one of whom was adopted.