Editing Carlos Monzón (section)

==Boxing beginnings==
[[File:Nino Benvenuti vs Carlos Monzón 1970.jpg|thumb|right|Monzón (right) fighting [[Nino Benvenuti]] in 1970]]
Monzón had his first amateur fight on 2 October 1959. This first fight ended in a draw. Three years later, after a 73-6-8 amateur record, he became a professional. His first professional bout was held on 6 February 1963. He knocked out his opponent in the second round. In 1966, he won the Argentine [[middleweight]] title. In 1967, he won the South American middleweight title. After this success, Argentine boxing promoter [[Juan Carlos Lectoure]] pushed him into the international boxing scene by organizing fights with foreign boxers such as Douglas Huntley, Charles Austin, Johnny Brooks, Harold Richardson, Tommy Bethea, Bennie Briscoe (a ten-round tie) Manoel Severino and Eddy Pace.

World [[middleweight]] champion [[Nino Benvenuti]] had long had a distinguished career that included championships in 2 divisions and 2 wins in 3 bouts vs all-time great [[Emile Griffith]]. He had lost the year before to [[United States|American]] [[Tom Bethea]] in [[Australia]], but in an actual title fight in [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], he avenged that loss.

Nobody expected Monzón to beat Benvenuti in their title match (very few knew of him). Yet Monzón applied pressure from the start, and in the 12th, a right hand landed perfectly on Benvenuti's chin, and the title changed hands. Monzón also beat Benvenuti in a rematch, this time in only three rounds in [[Monte Carlo]] when Benvenuti's seconds threw in the towel.