Moore won all six of his bouts during 1957. Survives a scare from the hard punching Henry Cooper in London on June 18th, 19… The bout took place in California, which had not yet withdrawn recognition from Moore at the time the Moore-Pastrano fight was signed. His praise for Moore include the following quotes: He won 11 bouts in a row before challenging again for the World Heavyweight Championship. Advice Sought: Researching Muhammad Ali vs. Archie Moore Maybe one of those with better memories can help me here. Johnson had reigned as the NBA (WBA) Champion since February 7, 1961. His 49-0 record, with 43 knockouts, remained pristine and unimpeachable. I recall reading in a large illustrated boxing history a note about Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin being in attendance for Ali (then Cassius Clay) fight with Archie Moore in Los Angeles. Born Archibald Lee Wright, the son of Thomas Wright, a farm laborer and drifter, and Lorena Wright. “I was praying, and in great sincerity, that George wouldn’t kill Ali,” recalled Moore in The Fight, Norman Mailer’s eyewitness account of the match. I'm talking big money. It looked like a dead cat. Many of his fights occurred in a racially charged atmosphere; he later described one of them, against a White boxer named Bill Richardson in Poplar Bluff: I knocked him down with a volley of head punches about one minute into round one. A fantasy radio boxing tournament to determine the best heavyweight of all time with a twist: the results would be calculated by a second-generation NCR 315 computer, packed with 5k of handmade core memory and the icy dispassion of an implacable neutral. Hitler's Germany against the Roman Empire! Moore joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church later in life. Willie Pep, the great featherweight and friend of Marciano, once told how he tried to buy a round while out with Rocky and some wealthy men in a Baltimore nightclub. Archie Moore with George Foreman, casual while playing ping pong before fight vs Muhammad Ali at InterContinental Hotel. In 2006, Moore was inducted into the California Boxing Hall of Fame. "I figured I'd take care of the next round," Pep told Marciano's biographer, Everett Skehan. Ali insisted he had no quarrel with the Viet Cong but much of white America, particularly in the south, did with him. Muhammad Ali beat more champions and top contenders than any heavyweight champion in history. "But I don't know whether I could have beaten him with his style of boxing. Pep remembers: 'Rocky was a tough guy with a buck. I heard a man at ringside say, "For two cents I'd shoot that nigger.". He later recalled of his stealing: "It was inevitable that I would be caught. [11], Archie Moore died of heart failure in 1998. Marciano, the bashful white man who served his country in the second world war, and Ali, the brash Afro-American draft dodger, found themselves getting on famously. They'll dig up the old heroes to say we had real red-blooded white men in those days that could handle niggers like this. His idea was simple. Its dimensions were uncertain, its boundaries unclear – perhaps using it to 'solve' sporting hypotheticals wasn't so far-fetched. In 1961, he defeated Turman again by decision in Manila, Philippines before defending his Lineal World Light Heavyweight Championship for what would be the last time, beating Rinaldi by a 15-round decision to retain the belt. This page was last edited on 15 April 2021, at 14:50. He needn't have worried: the result was exactly as his brother had forecast. After beating Johnson, heavyweight contenders Jimmy Slade, Bob Dunlap, and Clarence Henry and light heavyweight Clinton Bacon (knocked out in four in a rematch), Moore was finally given an opportunity at age 36 to fight for the title of World Light Heavyweight Champion against future IBHOF honoree Joey Maxim. Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) vs. Archie Moore poster. Kinshasa, Zaire - Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images He was furious at me and told me to keep my punches up. Of course the Super Fight didn't settle the debate. It was in this fight Archie came closest to wearing the belt. We talk fighter's talk in the way only friends can, blood talk, nitty-gritty talk. The first, prolific championship reign of Muhammad Ali, which saw him defend his title eight times in two years, had, regrettably, always been more about politics than sports.Shortly after becoming champion with an upset victory over Sonny Liston in 1964, the man the world knew as ‘Cassius Clay’ revealed his membership in The Nation of Islam and changed his name. Wars! He went 7–1 that year, his one loss being to Charles. Under the national heading, Project Build, Moore taught boxing to underprivileged youth in and around the housing projects in California. Archie Moore (born Archibald Lee Wright; December 13, 1913 – December 9, 1998)[1] was an American professional boxer and the longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion of all time (December 1952 – May 1962). Archie Moore: Moore was a great light heavyweight but lost to every heavyweight champion he faced. Cassius Clay (soon Muhammad Ali) and Archie Moore fought a boxing match on November 15, 1962 in Los Angeles. It left me ashamed of what I had been doing. He made two more bouts in Argentina before the end of the year. Ali has a point with the knockout sequences, which are realistic enough. They were instructed to look a person in the eye and give them a firm handshake. He earned it the hard way and was determined to keep it'. "I try to pass on the arts I know: self-control, self-reliance, self-defense," he told a reporter. In his time, though, he was accepted as one of the greats. Speaking to Howard Cossell on the Wild World of Sports in 1976, Ali paid his friend and acting partner a generous tribute, saying: "Ooh he hit hard … But I truly think on my best day and his best day I would have beaten him, probably not knocked him out. In 1955, Moore again beat Valdez, who by that time was the no. Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, California, U.S. Ginásio Gilberto Cardoso, Río de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ginásio Estadual do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Clay won the fight through a technical knockout in the fourth round, as he had predicted in a stanza before the bout. A friendship was forged outside the ring. As Ali later admitted in his autobiography, "there was no computer telling us what to do". A flattering 1968 Sports Illustrated piece, entitled 'And In This Corner .... NCR 315', hailed the tournament as "one of the most astonishing marketing successes in radio history". Others did more than smell the result in advance; they knew it. He later recalled that the other boys constantly kidded him about one daily exercise—standing upright in the bed of a truck as it drove along primitive forest roads, waiting until the last possible moment before ducking or weaving away from tree branches. The government had stolen his title, he fumed, and now Woroner was taking his good name. Examination of the original, uncut closed circuit broadcast from 1955, shows no excesses in referee involvement. And he certainly was a puncher. It was largely spin. Our work is phoney but out friendship has become real.". Moore had four fights in 1941, during which he went 2–1–1, with the draw against Eddie Booker. In 1956, Moore fought mostly as a heavyweight but did retain his Light Heavyweight title with a ten-round knockout over Yolande Pompey in London. In harmony with Archie's further 1960 description, Marciano has moved to the ropes and rests an elbow. [citation needed], At one point the oldest boxer to win the World's Light Heavyweight Championship, he is believed to have been the only boxer who boxed professionally in the eras of Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali is one of the most recognized faces on planet Earth; known not just for being one of the best fighters in the history of boxing, but for being one of the most knowledgeable persons of the twentieth century. Moore is rated the number sixth pound for pound fighter of all time by Boxrec. He could have outpointed me, he could have knocked me down. But Marciano would have had a puncher's chance. Restaurant chain business. St. Nicholas Arena, New York City, New York, U.S. Estadio Luna Park, Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina. The thing might get up and run away.". During a few feverish months in 1967 Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title, slung into jail and had his boxing license ripped up; all for the crime of refusing to take a single forward step – the step that signalled willing induction into the US army. "Rock was really upright about the toupee," Ali's trainer, Angelo Dundee, said. 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It merely reset it. Marciano had remained active in other ways following his final fight against Archie Moore in 1956. Muhammad Ali vs. Archie Moore took place Thursday, November 15, 1962 with 4 fights at Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. This is notable because it was Clay's first professional fight in the Heavyweight division. [6] All three matches are officially listed as third-round TKO stoppages. Around 1933 Moore joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, working for the forestry division at a camp in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. He always insisted that he was born in 1916 in Collinsville, Illinois, but his mother told reporters that he was actually born in 1913 in Benoit, Mississippi. "But some people thought it was real. Moore landed numerous light blows and an occasional solid wallop. Muhammad Ali (/ ɑː ˈ l iː /; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, entertainer and philanthropist.Nicknamed The Greatest, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated figures of the 20th century and as one of the greatest boxers of all time.. Ali was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1990, he became a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York, being one of the original members of that institution. And in his autobiography he wrote: "Rocky was quiet, peaceful, humble, not cocky or boastful" adding that he "deserves his place as one of the greatest of the great heavyweights. Ali watched the fight in a crowded Philadelphia picture house; saw his left arm sagging on the middle rope as Marciano lifted his hands in celebration as the computer delivered its verdict: "Rocky Marciano wins by KO in 57 seconds. I remember when he got the first one. The Man had taken his title, his liberty and his livelihood. "He'd reach in his pocket and pull out checks that were all tattered. As opposed to any blind rage, Kessler states that "Archie hesitated a couple of seconds before he came in." Ali and Marciano were filmed sparring for 75 one-minute rounds producing several possible scenarios for a genuine fight, with the … "We could do more than sports," he told Sports Illustrated. Despite retiring, Moore couldn't escape the limelight, and received numerous awards and dedications. He is perpendicular to Marciano's chest, and his right hand waves rapidly near Rocky's left glove. Moore was also a trainer for a short time after retirement, training Muhammad Ali, George Foreman and James Tillis. [2] Moore has won 32 professional fights rated by BoxRec as 5-Star, the most in boxing history. It cost me the heavyweight title. He also defeated Burt Lytell, by a decision in ten. He died on December 9, 1998 in San Diego, California, USA. They were married until his death in 1998. It helped that he also embodied the post-war American dream: if an undersized son of a poor Italian-American shoemaker could make it, anyone could. Professional Debut on October 29th, 1960 vs. Tunney Hunsaker, wins by Unanimous Decision after 6 rounds 2. No one else did, for Frazier was 21lbs heavier and swarming towards his prime. He defeated light-heavyweight champs Archie Moore and Bob Foster. In the second round I dropped him with a left hook that spun his head like a top. You won't submit to White America's old image of black fighters, you won't even submit to White America's army. Joe Louis: They fought twice when Louis was past his best, once Louis won a controversial SD and once won by KO. Socrates takes on Karl Marx! Thoreau against Jean-Paul Sartre! His left hook was almost as crushing, and one sparring partner described getting hit by a single Marciano blow as equivalent to four from Joe Louis, no mean puncher himself. He went on an Argentinian tour, fighting seven times there, winning six and drawing one. By Moore's standards, 1950 was a vacation year for him: he only had two fights, winning both, including a 10-round decision in a rematch with Lydell. [citation needed], However, at least three of Moore's 131 knockouts came in less-than-competitive matches against pro wrestlers: "Professor" Roy Shire in 1956, Sterling Davis in 1959 and Mike DiBiase in 1963 (Moore's 131st and final knockout). In 1990, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. But if he had $40,000 in $10 bills, there was no way he'd give any of that away. Round by round scores, judging, and ratings. By the time the bout took place, the California commission, like New York, Massachusetts, the EBU and Ring Magazine, had recognized Harold Johnson, who had beaten Doug Jones 16 days earlier, as the new Light Heavyweight Champion. He never tried to outguess you. He returned to the Eastern Seaboard to fight five more times before that year was over. Maxim had just defeated the great Sugar Ray Robinson by a technical knockout in 14 rounds, forcing Robinson to quit in his corner due to heat exhaustion. I said, 'Rocky, watch out. He was married to Joan Hardy and Elizabeth A. Thorton. "I think it was Marciano who threw the first real punch," Woroner said later. A half-decade on, in Archie's autobiography, The Archie Moore Story (1960), he describes in detail the referee, though Rocky arose at "two", continuing a superfluous mandatory eight-count: "...Kessler went on, three, four. Moore is the only man to have faced both Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali. Moore is already moving toward him. 1 heavyweight contender, and defended against Bobo Olson, the World Middleweight Champion and future Hall of Famer who was coming off a decision victory over Joey Maxim, by a knockout in three. Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, U.S. Araneta Coliseum, Barangay Cubao, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, Palazzetto dello Sport, Roma, Lazio, Italy. Mostly, though, the action was sloppy and forgettable. Some segments we fake so good they are left untouched by the editors.". Muhammad Ali vs Archie Moore #Legendary Night# HD - YouTube Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, U.S. Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Killesberghalle, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Dubois-Arena, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Maple Leaf Stadium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Harringay Arena, Harringay, London, England, Edmonton Gardens, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In 1951, Moore boxed 18 times, winning 16, losing one, and drawing one. At one point the pair were exchanging blows when Ali's jab flicked the back of Marciano's head and scooped up his toupee. Unable to provide for him and his older sister, his mother gave them into the care of an uncle and aunt, Cleveland and Willie Pearl Moore, who lived in St. Louis. [8], In 1960, Moore was chosen to play the role of the runaway slave Jim in Michael Curtiz's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, based on Mark Twain's book of the same title, opposite Eddie Hodges as Huck. He had as much determination as any fighter ever. "I saw myself on the ropes being destroyed by Marciano, in one of the 'artistic' endings few actors could equal," he wrote. [10], In 1997, J'Marie Moore became the first daughter of a famous boxer to herself become a professional boxer. In 1976 he served as an assistant coach for the Nigerian Olympic boxing team. Photograph: Corbis, Muhammad Ali was still barred from the ring when the film was screened in 1970. The second-highest amount of knockouts in boxing history is 128, which belongs to Sam Langford . Walcott KO10. Rocky was amazed and said: "I never seen a fighter with hands that fast.". Sausage company owner. Marciano will beat you bloody. Muhammed Ali. Moore had been Clay's trainer for a time, but Clay became dissatisfied and left Moore because of Moore's attempts to change his style and his insistence that Clay do dishes and help clean gym floors. He beat Chase by a knockout in nine, Sheppard by a decision in ten and Bivins by a knockout in nine. He also lost a decision to Aaron Wade that year. See more ideas about muhammad ali, muhammad, muhammad ali quotes. He won and then lost the California State Middleweight title against Chase, both by 15-round decisions, and beat Chase again in his last bout of that year, in a ten-round decision. Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier, billed as the "Fight of the Century" (also known as The Fight), was the boxing match between WBC/WBA heavyweight champion Joe Frazier (26–0, 23 KOs) and The Ring/lineal heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali (31–0, 25 KOs), held on Monday, March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.. In September 1970, the NCR 315 predicted that Joe Frazier would suffer a six-round defeat to Bob Foster in their forthcoming heavyweight title fight. Madison Square Garden, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Plaza de Toros, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Like the Fantasy Heavyweight Tournament two years' earlier, the outcome of the Marciano v Ali contest would apparently be based on data collected from 250 boxing experts, who – according to Sports Illustrated – had filled in sheets that took "58 rating 'factors,' ranging from the obvious (speed, susceptibility to cuts, ability to throw a left) to the sublime (hardness of punch, killer instinct, courage)." He campaigned exclusively as a heavyweight from then on, and beat Alejandro Lavorante by a knockout in 10 and Howard King by a knockout in one round in Tijuana. A month later Marciano was dead when the three-seater plane he was travelling in from Chicago to Des Moines crashed into an oak tree in the middle of a cornfield. Napoleon versus Alexander the Great! Then, in his last fight of note, Moore faced a young heavyweight out of Louisville named Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali). It was the evening before his 46th birthday. Since I had been hitting Bill in the head I would have missed him altogether if I threw my punches any higher. He won his first eight bouts of 1945, impressing Atlantic coast boxing experts and earning a fight with future IBHOF enshrinee Jimmy Bivins, who defeated Moore by a knockout in six at Cleveland. In 1974 he helped train heavyweight boxer George Foreman for his famous "Rumble in the Jungle" title bout in Zaire against Muhammad Ali. Apr 22, 2015 - Archie Moore vs Cassius Clay original onsite poster. I think he was better than Joe Frazier, put it that way. He then drew against future World Light Heavyweight Champion Willie Pastrano in a 10-round heavyweight contest. He wouldn't even take a phone call during the 10 days before a fight. Cut the camera," shouted Marciano, "Watch the piece! Ector County Coliseum, Odessa, Texas, U.S. Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California, U.S. Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, California, U.S. Exhibition Gardens, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In 1980, he was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame. He was elected in 1985 to the St. Louis city Boxing Hall of Fame and he received the Rocky Marciano Memorial Award in the city of New York in 1988. A duvet of flab embraced Ali's mid-section, and his jabs contained the spite of a well-fed labrador. Word traveled fast about Moore's ABC program. After sixteen long years, he had finally achieved his dream. [7], During the 1960s he founded an organization called Any Boy Can, which taught boxing to underprivileged youth in the San Diego area. Woroner, it added, "brought to our wondering ears, via radio and computer, the All-Time Heavyweight Tournament and Championship Fight. Moore won three of his four bouts in 1960, one by decision against Buddy Turman in Dallas, his lone loss coming in a ten-round decision versus Giulio Rinaldi in Rome. And afterwards, Ali commented that Marciano had surprised him.". This recognition is one of many. He also appeared in the critically aclaimed TV movie My Sweet Charlie. Based on his work with the youth, in 1981, Moore became the Presidential Appointee of Ronald Reagan to work under Samuel R. Pierce, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Product endorsements. Muhammad Ali could talk and jive all he liked: his opponent, far bigger than any he had faced in the ring, was pulverising him. I did a computer fight with him when he was an old man and just pretending and my arms were sore just from joking with him.". Yet, the third man is evenhanded in his praise, taking time over most of a chapter on the bout, to laud Moore. He knew what his limitations were and he made up for them by working as hard as any fighter who ever lived. "From all this they compiled as encyclopaedic an accumulation of boxing trivia and technicalities as anyone had ever put together. He met Booker in a rematch, and reached the same conclusion as their first meeting had: another 10-round draw. Woroner offered Ali $9,999 to film a fantasy fight against Marciano and he accepted. He won his first six bouts that year, including a second-round knockout of Hogue in a rematch, and a ten-round decision over Jack Chase. On fight night, former light heavyweight champion Archie Moore worried about Ali’s health. [12], American professional boxer (1913–1998); longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion. Pelea por posicion de Ranking en los Pesos Pesados. In 1956, he married Joan Hardy and had five children: Reena, J'Marie, Hardy, Anthony and D'Angelo. He fought a solid 14 fights in 1948, losing again to Charles by a knockout in nine, losing to Leonard Morrow by a knockout in the first, to Henry Hall by a decision in ten and to Lloyd Gibson by a disqualification in four. Out of the thousand or so days that he was champion, I'll bet he was in the gym and working hard for all but 150 of them. By 1942 he was back in the ring. He was 45, balding, and had a bad back. Don't make me look bad, Willie.' Moore beat Rademacher by a knockout in nine. Moore turned professional seven years before Clay was born. His uncle and aunt provided him with a stable upbringing, but after his uncle died in a freak accident around 1928, Moore began running with a street gang. Still, he missed the spotlight and loved risk, which is why the idea of a 'fight' with Ali might have appealed – especially when he knew the dice were loaded. He didn't know what to do...He grabbed Marciano's gloves and began to wipe Marciano's gloves and look over his shoulder...I'll never forget it. After the plane crash, Peter phoned Woroner, concerned that the end would be changed. He also established himself as a successful character actor in television and film. "I feel closer to him than any white fighter in the trade. "Cut! At the age of 21, he became the youngest boxer in history to win the title, and was also the first heavyweight to regain the title after losing it. Knockout came on a combination of two rights and a left hook. The students were taught good sportsmanship, respect, and confidence. Time has not been kind to Marciano's reputation. Retirement had been better for his wallet than his waistline: the energy burnt with women other than his wife a timid counter to his binges on rich Italian food and lack of exercise. ", Later he asked his friends: "You don't think he's doing it on purpose? He arrived in Argentina in June 1951 for a rematch with the champion Abel Cestac. By 1946, Moore had moved to the light heavyweight division and he went 5–2–1 that year, beating contender Curtis Sheppard, but losing to future World Heavyweight Champion and Hall of Famer Ezzard Charles by a decision in ten, and drawing with old nemesis Chase. But some sniffed the future in the prevailing wind. He reduced 16 magnificent fighters (from John L. Sullivan to Muhammad Ali) to keypunch perforations, fed them into a National Cash Register 315 computer and let them fight: the bareknucklers v the gloved sluggers, the rigid standers v the dodging dancers, the quick v the dead. "Well, he'd better start aiming those punches better," Rocky said. In 1957, Moore founded Any Boy Can, a non-profit organization based in San Diego, California. If there was a problem in training camp, it was that they had trouble getting sparring partners because Marciano hit them so hard. He kissed the cheeks of made men and did deals with spaccones, who saw him coming from blocks way. ", "No Rock," his friends assured him. Moore is Foreman's assistant trainer. Even so, Woroner responded with a $2m lawsuit, claiming that another computer fight – this time involving Sugar Ray Robinson and the Frenchman Marcel Cerdan – had fallen through because Sugar Ray had lost faith in the computer. He lost to Clinton Bacon by a disqualification in six. 1952 was one of the most important years in Moore's life. The fight was a mismatch: Frazier stalked his prey, before connecting with a left hook of such velocity that it twisted Foster's body like a spinning top and injured his ankle, before knocking him out 49 seconds into the second round. His later film appearances included the crime film The Outfit (1973), as a chef in Breakheart Pass (1975) with Charles Bronson, and a cameo role as himself in the 1982 film Penitentiary II, along with Leon Isaac Kennedy and Mr. T. 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