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Archie Moore Boxing
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An 8x10 Color Photo signed by Light Heavyweight
Boxing Legend Archie Moore. Now Sadly deceased this is a
tough autograph to obtain for any boxing collector. One
of the true Greats of Boxing!
Archie Moore
£75.00
Moore was a clever and crafty boxer who knew
how to fight; His boxing "savvy" was uncanny;
He could box and punch and was game beyond belief; During
his career, he won the Light Heavyweight Championship of
the World and challenged Rocky Marciano for the Heavyweight
Championship
He is most famous for his many bouts against
Jack Chase (6), Howard King (6), Harold Johnson (5), Jimmy
Bivins (5), "Oakland" Billy Smith (4), Ezzard
Charles (3), Joey Maxim (3) and Eddie Booker (3); He also
had two bout series with a number of other men
He defeated such men as Chase, King, Johnson,
Bivins, Smith, Maxim, Clarence Henry, Jimmy Slade, Bob Baker,
Nino Valdes, Carl "Bobo" Olson, Holman Williams,
Lloyd Marshall, Albert Lovell, Yolande Pompey, Eddie Cotton,
Yvon Durelle, Alabama Kid (Clarence Reeves), Cocoa Kid (Louis
Hardwick), Bert Lytell, Jack "Buddy" Walker, George
Kochan, Nate Bolden, Kenny LaSalle and Johnny "Bandit"
Romero
Herb Goldman ranked Moore as the #5 All-Time
Light Heavyweight; Charley Rose ranked him as the #7 All-Time
Light Heavyweight; He was inducted into the Ring Boxing
Hall of Fame in 1966, the St. Louis Boxing Hall of Fame
in 1985, the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1900 and
the California Boxing Hall of Fame in 2006
ARCHIE MOORE fought for an incredible 27 years
and knocked out more opponents -- 141 victims -- than anyone
else in the history of boxing. He became the light heavyweight
champion at the age of 39 and is the only man to have fought
both Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali.
Moore, who turned pro in 1936, debuted in the world rankings
as a middleweight in the early 1940s. By 1945, Moore moved
up to light heavyweight and although he was continually
passed over for a title shot, he remained a fixture in the
175-pound rankings. Finally, in 1952, four days after his
39th birthday, Moore secured a shot against light heavyweight
champion Joey Maxim. He won the title by decision and held
onto it for nearly a decade.
In 1955, Moore attempted to win the heavyweight
title from Rocky Marciano. Although he dropped Marciano
early in the fight, Marciano rallied and stopped Moore in
the ninth round. A year later, after Marciano retired, Moore
met Floyd Patterson for the vacant heavyweight crown but
was stopped in five.
Although he fell to bigger men, Moore was
nearly unbeatable at light heavyweight. He made nine title
defenses and engaged in memorable contests with Maxim, Yvon
Durelle and Harold Johnson. In his first fight with Durelle,
the Canadian challenger dropped more three times in the
first round and once in the fifth round. But Archie responded
by dropping Durelle in the seventh and knocking him out
in the 11th round.
Moore would eventually be stripped of the
light heavyweight title by the NBA and the New York State
Athletic Commission. So he simply continued to battle bigger
men. He knocked out former Olympic heavyweight champion
Pete Rademacher in 1961 and was stopped by Ali in 1962.
Moore's age is listed as 49 at the time of the Ali fight,
but some ring experts insist he was actually older since
his date of birth has been disputed. Moore retired after
one fight -- a third-round TKO of Mike DiBiase -- in 1963.
All totaled, Moore fought nine world champions
and seven Hall-of-Famers. He had multi-fight series with
some of the game's top fighters. He won four of five fights
from Jimmy Bivins and Harold Johnson, he won all three fights
against Maxim and lost all three of his fights against Ezzard
Charles.
Moore remained active in boxing as a trainer.
He once worked with a young Ali and later with heavyweight
champion George Foreman.
