Footage Of Archie Moore!

[Southpaw16BF]

Footage of one of the best to ever lace them up ''The Monguse Archie Moore''

[warp1432]

I liked his style a lot. No one really uses it anymore, but I wish they did.

[TheGreatA]

http://megavideo.com/?v=WCADPP5F

http://megavideo.com/?v=NTTHGH06

Outboxing the HW champion Rocky Marciano in the early rounds.

Seems like megavideo.com isn't working, I'll upload those fights on youtube then...

[JulioCesaChavez]

And then the ref helps Slopianno out!!!!

At 2.59 the hype-job is exposed as Moore was hardly a natural heavy! brockton bumbuster would have got Ko'd for fun in any other era.

[TheGreatA]

Archie Moore was the number 1 ranked heavyweight contender having beaten the previous top ranked challenger 6'3, 210+ lb Nino Valdes.


One of Moore's best performances (at age 45!) in the rematch against Yvon Durelle.


Moore wins the light heavyweight world title from Joey Maxim.

[Clegg]

Nino Valdes was doing quite a bit of leaning in and bending at the wasit/ducking down, rather than 'fighting tall' as they say.

[ferocity]

And then the ref helps Slopianno out!!!!

At 2.59 the hype-job is exposed as Moore was hardly a natural heavy! brockton bumbuster would have got Ko'd for fun in any other era.

Todays journalist do over hype Rocky as he don't get the credit in his time as he does in todays time. But i'd still call hima great not just anybody could beat the guys he beat even if they were old greats. His #1 contender before he lost was Floyd Patterson if a recall reading from a book.

[Yogi]

His #1 contender before he lost was Floyd Patterson if a recall reading from a book.

Nah, Patterson wasn't even a rated heavyweight at the time of Marciano's retirement, my friend, and here's The Ring's then most current top ten contenders as compiled earlier in the month of April, and then reprinted in the papers upon his retirement (report dated Apr 28th, 1956);

1. Archie Moore
2. Tommy Jackson
3. Bob Baker
4. John Holman
5. Johnny Summerlin
6. Nino Valdes
7. Willie Pastrano
8. Harold Carter
9. Bob Satterfield
10. Heinz Neuhaus

As for the National Boxing Association's rankings at the time, this is the only thing I could find of them, and this coming from an Apr. 27th AP report written by Jack Hand in announcing Marciano's retirement;

"Ring Magazine's latest ratings show Moore as top contender followed by Jackson, Bob Baker of Pittsburgh, John Holman of Chicago and Johnny Summerlin of Detroit. The NBA quarterly ratings put Jackson behind Marciano, followed by Baker, Nino Valdes of Cuba, with 'honourable mention' to Holman, Summerlin and four others. They rate Moore only as a light-heavy."

Patterson, who was ranked as the top light heavyweight contender by The Ring in their rankings put out in April of 1956, didn't appear in the heavyweight ratings til the next month when his fight with Jackson was discussed and on the verge of being signed. The Ring placed him as the 5th ranked heavyweight contender at that point.