"Archie! Archie obviously wasn't in shape for heavy work, but I decided to find something for him.
The couple was married till he passed away in 1998. In all my years as a fighter, I've been forced out of my pace only twice. He also had one of the longest professional careers in the sport. I've always wondered why that fellow wanted to kill me. Hardy Lee recently observed his first birthday. L’évènement draine une quantité considérable de fans. Moore paid no heed.
Archie Moore was born on December, 13 in Benoit, Mississippi, More, 131913BenoitDecemberMississippiSagittariusUnited States of AmericaUSA.
We waited.
Somehow, Moore jumped to his feet after a two count.
Moore's authority is unquestioned when he's in training, but Saddler's clowning relaxes him, and when he's relaxed, he willingly takes orders (Nevertheless, Moore insists on taping his own hands before a workout, or a fight—he is the only pugilist of stature to do so—and won't wear protective headgear while sparring in the gymnasium, lest he come to depend on it.) Marciano never fought again. "Archie wasn't going to let me have all that money." Durelle wilted completely in the 11th round, and as referee Jack Sharkey stood over him, completing the count of 10, Moore, according to Doc Kearns, was calling to the prostrate challenger, "Please get up, Yvon! Norman? He returned to US and defeated Pancho Ramirez by a knockout in a match. Eight months later, they would fight again with Moore emerging victorious after just three rounds. Furthermore, Rinaldi took the decision.
Archie Moore is known to have started boxing at the age of 15, but did not get a title challenge for his first 16 ½ years as a pro until 1952 at the age of 39 against Joey Maxim. They quickly administered first aid to Moore and revived Thurman, who was not seriously injured. Moore couldn't see her, but he waved anyway, and Durelle, across the ring, thought Moore was waving at him, disdainfully. He'd go up and down stairs on his hands, and sometimes around the block, or around several blocks. Fascinated by this time with the whole subject of weight removal, he issued an invitation to newspapermen: "Come to my home town a year from now and you won't find a fat man in San Diego. Then Moore and Kearns decided to go to the Ford Hospital, in Detroit, for an examination by Dr. John Keyes, of the cardiology department. ", In due course, the conversation got around to the current crop of fighters, and it developed that Moore has his own way of estimating their worth. Born in Benoit, Mississippi, he was raised in St Louis, Missouri, in US. Some months ago, when he was in New York with his lawyer on business, the two men shared a hotel room, and one night, a couple of hours after they had retired, following a seven-course dinner, the lawyer, awakened by a stealthy noise in the room, turned on the light just in time to see Moore walking in his sleep through the door. I remembered that I had left my baby, Rena, on the bed at the hotel. He is particularly attracted to starches and to fried foods, and between meals he finds an icebox irresistible.
When Moore took out his nominating papers, he listed Mississippi as his birthplace on one affidavit and Missouri on another. Moore got his deserts a short time later, when Durelle nearly slaughtered him in the first round.
Mais il doit s'incliner devant Rocky Marciano en 1955, puis face à Floyd Patterson en 1956. In September, back up to 188 pounds, Moore attempted to take the heavyweight title away from Rocky Marciano, at the Yankee Stadium, and succeeded in flooring him with a short right uppercut in the second round, but Marciano got up and pounded Moore down and out in the ninth.
By all the rules of the game, he should have faded into retirement long ago, like his contemporaries Joe Louis, Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, and Rocky Marciano, all of whom have settled into a sedentary life appropriate to their gray hairs and accumulating paunches. The film was a commercial success. Moore's best fighting weight is between 182 and 185 pounds, but he came into the ring at 196 pounds, looking like a Buddha in boxing gloves. Sa très grande connaissance du métier lui donna l'occasion de prodiguer ses conseils aux plus grands : entraîneur de Cassius Clay (1962) avant de l'affronter comme boxeur, mais l'expérience fut courte : Clay refusait les corvées de nettoyage après les entraînements. After having four fights in 1941, Moore suffered from stomach ulcers, and he announced his retirement from boxing. En outre, durant de nombreuses années, les tenants du titre des poids moyens et mi-lourds refuseront d'affronter Archie Moore car ils voient en lui un redoutable adversaire. It was fabulous. There Is, for instance, Redd Foxx, a sort of court jester, whose admiration for Moore is so extravagant that he once had his hair barbered to form the letter "M." There is a wizened little man in his late 70s known as Pappa Dee (his real name is Harry Johnson) whom Moore calls "the medicine man of boxing." « MOORE ARCHIE - (1913-1998) », Encyclopædia Universalis [en ligne], Marciano est donné favori à 4 contre 1.
Early in 1938, Moore headed for California, where he hoped to establish himself by fighting the prominent middleweights of the day—Bandit Romero, Eddie Booker, Swede Berglund, and others. ", The talk turned to the Valdes fight, and Moore was asked how long he thought he could get away with, in effect, using men as dangerous as that for sparring partners. Article réservé à nos abonnés.
En novembre 1962, il dispute (et perd) l'un de ses derniers combats, contre Cassius Clay.
"Hasn't Harold always stood by?" The man who wrote the script was furious; his anger meant nothing to me. Pourtant, une droite de Moore envoie Marciano à terre au 2e round.
For the next several years, Moore moved around a great deal but moved upward in the boxing world only a little. It became obvious that Moore was using the bout as a training fight—that this was merely the first step in his preparations for bigger bouts later in the year, with Olson and Marciano. I hit him with punches that would have knocked out any other fighter, but he kept on coming.
Moore est destitué par la NBA (National Boxing Association) en octobre 1960 pour ne pas avoir remis sa ceinture en jeu dans le délai imparti, mais il reste champion de la NYSAC (New-York State Athlétic Commission).
The same year, he was seen in the TV film ‘The Hanged Man’. (This was after Johansson had won the heavyweight title from Patterson and then lost it in a rematch.)
It took the full nine counts by referee Jack Sharkey for Moore to get up.
Le 13 janvier 1948, il retrouve une 3e fois Ezzard Charles. After being arrested, he was sent to a reform school for three years.
They had gone to the fights separately, and met there by chance, whereupon Moore had insisted on driving his friend back to San Diego in his Cadillac. Mrs. Moore is also secretary of Archie Moore Enterprises, Inc., a firm that was established two years ago for the purpose of supervising the champion's investments and maintaining amicable relations with the Director of Internal Revenue.
Every man wants to be free in a different way.
It was at the age of 15 that Moore determined to become a fighter. "God bless you, Archie, you're wonderful!" "I am wealthy in terms of happiness, because I have a wonderful wife and fine children," he says, ''but I still must scratch for a living.".
He was also an occasional actor.
Thurman straightened the dented top with a mallet he had brought along in his tool chest, and the two resumed their journey. He later joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and worked for the forestry division at a camp. I wanted to box, but I had to slug it out to keep him from killing me. At my age and at this stage of the game, I just had to win!". Do you want to know Famous Birthdays & Ages from most popular Celebrities? Archibald Lee Wright voit le jour le 13 décembre 1913 à Benoit, dans le Mississippi. He had to know everything about me. Nevertheless, when the inquisition finally ended, he thanked the writers for their time and their company. His daughter, J’Marie, also pursued a career in boxing. In fact, I throw them away. Moore s’impose par décision unanime et remporte sa première ceinture mondiale[4]. "I'd rather use six little words than one big one," he says.
According to Moore, his toughest fight occurred on December 10, 1958 at the Forum in Montreal against a French Canadian named Yvon “The Fighting Fisherman” Durelle, not Rocky Marciano,a heavyweight champion for four years who retired without losing a fight in his professional career. Néanmoins, Moore accuse 22 ans de plus que son adversaire. His father’s name was Thomas Wright; he was a farm laborer and drifter. "We were driving around the property, looking for the owner, when we saw a watchman coming toward us. Archie Moore was born on December, 13 in Benoit, Mississippi, USA. A veteran of the boxing world, Kearns gives his age as 69, though 80 is probably closer to the mark. Néanmoins, le 8 mai 1943, il s’empare de cette ceinture en battant Jack Chase par décision unanime en 15 rounds.
The boy also developed his arms and shoulders by exercising phenomenally on a chinning bar. Then I'd have them do five miles of roadwork around the ranch. He said, 'If you wanted to, I guess you could get out of that car and knock me down.' According to my figures, that was around $2,500, and he was a rich man. "I enjoyed the fight very much," he said. Il publie son autobiographie, intitulée The Archie Moore Story, en 1960.
Il accordera deux revanches à Joey Maxim en 1953 et 1954, pour le même résultat. Moore won his first title fight by decision after 15 rounds of knocking Maxim around the ring senseless, but only walked away with $800.
The doctors held out little hope. The Wisp, the Sweet One, they both have the marks and have suffered the wounds of the club fighter.
Archie Moore fut champion du monde des poids mi-lourds de 1952 à 1962.Archibald Lee Wright voit le jour le 13 décembre 1913 à Benoit, dans le Mississippi. He can't even find the floor." Moore made the weight by two pounds and knocked out Olson in three rounds. "Yes I know," Moore said. If the deputy registrar had chosen to make a point of It, he might have questioned that capsule description as well, for although Moore is the recognized champion where it counts—in New York, Massachusetts, and California, and abroad—the National Boxing Association, which presides over the small-time, or remaining 47 states, decided late last year that he was not defending his championship often enough and declared the title vacant. The ceremony, which took place in the course of a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria, was, of course, one of the grander moments of his life. "When I was fighting as an amateur, I used to ride the freight trains, and once I had an experience I'll never forget," Moore recalls. Moore, disqualified for military service because of his two operations, returned to the ring early in 1942, and won his first five fights by knockout, but it was not until 11 years and 54 knockouts later that he got a chance at a world's title, and by this time he was officially a light-heavyweight and was occasionally taking on heavyweights. The boxing world was stunned. If they couldn't help Archie, I knew he was finished."
The couple was married till he passed away in 1998. In all my years as a fighter, I've been forced out of my pace only twice. He also had one of the longest professional careers in the sport. I've always wondered why that fellow wanted to kill me. Hardy Lee recently observed his first birthday. L’évènement draine une quantité considérable de fans. Moore paid no heed.
Archie Moore was born on December, 13 in Benoit, Mississippi, More, 131913BenoitDecemberMississippiSagittariusUnited States of AmericaUSA.
We waited.
Somehow, Moore jumped to his feet after a two count.
Moore's authority is unquestioned when he's in training, but Saddler's clowning relaxes him, and when he's relaxed, he willingly takes orders (Nevertheless, Moore insists on taping his own hands before a workout, or a fight—he is the only pugilist of stature to do so—and won't wear protective headgear while sparring in the gymnasium, lest he come to depend on it.) Marciano never fought again. "Archie wasn't going to let me have all that money." Durelle wilted completely in the 11th round, and as referee Jack Sharkey stood over him, completing the count of 10, Moore, according to Doc Kearns, was calling to the prostrate challenger, "Please get up, Yvon! Norman? He returned to US and defeated Pancho Ramirez by a knockout in a match. Eight months later, they would fight again with Moore emerging victorious after just three rounds. Furthermore, Rinaldi took the decision.
Archie Moore is known to have started boxing at the age of 15, but did not get a title challenge for his first 16 ½ years as a pro until 1952 at the age of 39 against Joey Maxim. They quickly administered first aid to Moore and revived Thurman, who was not seriously injured. Moore couldn't see her, but he waved anyway, and Durelle, across the ring, thought Moore was waving at him, disdainfully. He'd go up and down stairs on his hands, and sometimes around the block, or around several blocks. Fascinated by this time with the whole subject of weight removal, he issued an invitation to newspapermen: "Come to my home town a year from now and you won't find a fat man in San Diego. Then Moore and Kearns decided to go to the Ford Hospital, in Detroit, for an examination by Dr. John Keyes, of the cardiology department. ", In due course, the conversation got around to the current crop of fighters, and it developed that Moore has his own way of estimating their worth. Born in Benoit, Mississippi, he was raised in St Louis, Missouri, in US. Some months ago, when he was in New York with his lawyer on business, the two men shared a hotel room, and one night, a couple of hours after they had retired, following a seven-course dinner, the lawyer, awakened by a stealthy noise in the room, turned on the light just in time to see Moore walking in his sleep through the door. I remembered that I had left my baby, Rena, on the bed at the hotel. He is particularly attracted to starches and to fried foods, and between meals he finds an icebox irresistible.
When Moore took out his nominating papers, he listed Mississippi as his birthplace on one affidavit and Missouri on another. Moore got his deserts a short time later, when Durelle nearly slaughtered him in the first round.
Mais il doit s'incliner devant Rocky Marciano en 1955, puis face à Floyd Patterson en 1956. In September, back up to 188 pounds, Moore attempted to take the heavyweight title away from Rocky Marciano, at the Yankee Stadium, and succeeded in flooring him with a short right uppercut in the second round, but Marciano got up and pounded Moore down and out in the ninth.
By all the rules of the game, he should have faded into retirement long ago, like his contemporaries Joe Louis, Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, and Rocky Marciano, all of whom have settled into a sedentary life appropriate to their gray hairs and accumulating paunches. The film was a commercial success. Moore's best fighting weight is between 182 and 185 pounds, but he came into the ring at 196 pounds, looking like a Buddha in boxing gloves. Sa très grande connaissance du métier lui donna l'occasion de prodiguer ses conseils aux plus grands : entraîneur de Cassius Clay (1962) avant de l'affronter comme boxeur, mais l'expérience fut courte : Clay refusait les corvées de nettoyage après les entraînements. After having four fights in 1941, Moore suffered from stomach ulcers, and he announced his retirement from boxing. En outre, durant de nombreuses années, les tenants du titre des poids moyens et mi-lourds refuseront d'affronter Archie Moore car ils voient en lui un redoutable adversaire. It was fabulous. There Is, for instance, Redd Foxx, a sort of court jester, whose admiration for Moore is so extravagant that he once had his hair barbered to form the letter "M." There is a wizened little man in his late 70s known as Pappa Dee (his real name is Harry Johnson) whom Moore calls "the medicine man of boxing." « MOORE ARCHIE - (1913-1998) », Encyclopædia Universalis [en ligne], Marciano est donné favori à 4 contre 1.
Early in 1938, Moore headed for California, where he hoped to establish himself by fighting the prominent middleweights of the day—Bandit Romero, Eddie Booker, Swede Berglund, and others. ", The talk turned to the Valdes fight, and Moore was asked how long he thought he could get away with, in effect, using men as dangerous as that for sparring partners. Article réservé à nos abonnés.
En novembre 1962, il dispute (et perd) l'un de ses derniers combats, contre Cassius Clay.
"Hasn't Harold always stood by?" The man who wrote the script was furious; his anger meant nothing to me. Pourtant, une droite de Moore envoie Marciano à terre au 2e round.
For the next several years, Moore moved around a great deal but moved upward in the boxing world only a little. It became obvious that Moore was using the bout as a training fight—that this was merely the first step in his preparations for bigger bouts later in the year, with Olson and Marciano. I hit him with punches that would have knocked out any other fighter, but he kept on coming.
Moore est destitué par la NBA (National Boxing Association) en octobre 1960 pour ne pas avoir remis sa ceinture en jeu dans le délai imparti, mais il reste champion de la NYSAC (New-York State Athlétic Commission).
The same year, he was seen in the TV film ‘The Hanged Man’. (This was after Johansson had won the heavyweight title from Patterson and then lost it in a rematch.)
It took the full nine counts by referee Jack Sharkey for Moore to get up.
Le 13 janvier 1948, il retrouve une 3e fois Ezzard Charles. After being arrested, he was sent to a reform school for three years.
They had gone to the fights separately, and met there by chance, whereupon Moore had insisted on driving his friend back to San Diego in his Cadillac. Mrs. Moore is also secretary of Archie Moore Enterprises, Inc., a firm that was established two years ago for the purpose of supervising the champion's investments and maintaining amicable relations with the Director of Internal Revenue.
Every man wants to be free in a different way.
It was at the age of 15 that Moore determined to become a fighter. "God bless you, Archie, you're wonderful!" "I am wealthy in terms of happiness, because I have a wonderful wife and fine children," he says, ''but I still must scratch for a living.".
He was also an occasional actor.
Thurman straightened the dented top with a mallet he had brought along in his tool chest, and the two resumed their journey. He later joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and worked for the forestry division at a camp. I wanted to box, but I had to slug it out to keep him from killing me. At my age and at this stage of the game, I just had to win!". Do you want to know Famous Birthdays & Ages from most popular Celebrities? Archibald Lee Wright voit le jour le 13 décembre 1913 à Benoit, dans le Mississippi. He had to know everything about me. Nevertheless, when the inquisition finally ended, he thanked the writers for their time and their company. His daughter, J’Marie, also pursued a career in boxing. In fact, I throw them away. Moore s’impose par décision unanime et remporte sa première ceinture mondiale[4]. "I'd rather use six little words than one big one," he says.
According to Moore, his toughest fight occurred on December 10, 1958 at the Forum in Montreal against a French Canadian named Yvon “The Fighting Fisherman” Durelle, not Rocky Marciano,a heavyweight champion for four years who retired without losing a fight in his professional career. Néanmoins, Moore accuse 22 ans de plus que son adversaire. His father’s name was Thomas Wright; he was a farm laborer and drifter. "We were driving around the property, looking for the owner, when we saw a watchman coming toward us. Archie Moore was born on December, 13 in Benoit, Mississippi, USA. A veteran of the boxing world, Kearns gives his age as 69, though 80 is probably closer to the mark. Néanmoins, le 8 mai 1943, il s’empare de cette ceinture en battant Jack Chase par décision unanime en 15 rounds.
The boy also developed his arms and shoulders by exercising phenomenally on a chinning bar. Then I'd have them do five miles of roadwork around the ranch. He said, 'If you wanted to, I guess you could get out of that car and knock me down.' According to my figures, that was around $2,500, and he was a rich man. "I enjoyed the fight very much," he said. Il publie son autobiographie, intitulée The Archie Moore Story, en 1960.
Il accordera deux revanches à Joey Maxim en 1953 et 1954, pour le même résultat. Moore won his first title fight by decision after 15 rounds of knocking Maxim around the ring senseless, but only walked away with $800.
The doctors held out little hope. The Wisp, the Sweet One, they both have the marks and have suffered the wounds of the club fighter.
Archie Moore fut champion du monde des poids mi-lourds de 1952 à 1962.Archibald Lee Wright voit le jour le 13 décembre 1913 à Benoit, dans le Mississippi. He can't even find the floor." Moore made the weight by two pounds and knocked out Olson in three rounds. "Yes I know," Moore said. If the deputy registrar had chosen to make a point of It, he might have questioned that capsule description as well, for although Moore is the recognized champion where it counts—in New York, Massachusetts, and California, and abroad—the National Boxing Association, which presides over the small-time, or remaining 47 states, decided late last year that he was not defending his championship often enough and declared the title vacant. The ceremony, which took place in the course of a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria, was, of course, one of the grander moments of his life. "When I was fighting as an amateur, I used to ride the freight trains, and once I had an experience I'll never forget," Moore recalls. Moore, disqualified for military service because of his two operations, returned to the ring early in 1942, and won his first five fights by knockout, but it was not until 11 years and 54 knockouts later that he got a chance at a world's title, and by this time he was officially a light-heavyweight and was occasionally taking on heavyweights. The boxing world was stunned. If they couldn't help Archie, I knew he was finished."
The couple was married till he passed away in 1998. In all my years as a fighter, I've been forced out of my pace only twice. He also had one of the longest professional careers in the sport. I've always wondered why that fellow wanted to kill me. Hardy Lee recently observed his first birthday. L’évènement draine une quantité considérable de fans. Moore paid no heed.
Archie Moore was born on December, 13 in Benoit, Mississippi, More, 131913BenoitDecemberMississippiSagittariusUnited States of AmericaUSA.
We waited.
Somehow, Moore jumped to his feet after a two count.
Moore's authority is unquestioned when he's in training, but Saddler's clowning relaxes him, and when he's relaxed, he willingly takes orders (Nevertheless, Moore insists on taping his own hands before a workout, or a fight—he is the only pugilist of stature to do so—and won't wear protective headgear while sparring in the gymnasium, lest he come to depend on it.) Marciano never fought again. "Archie wasn't going to let me have all that money." Durelle wilted completely in the 11th round, and as referee Jack Sharkey stood over him, completing the count of 10, Moore, according to Doc Kearns, was calling to the prostrate challenger, "Please get up, Yvon! Norman? He returned to US and defeated Pancho Ramirez by a knockout in a match. Eight months later, they would fight again with Moore emerging victorious after just three rounds. Furthermore, Rinaldi took the decision.
Archie Moore is known to have started boxing at the age of 15, but did not get a title challenge for his first 16 ½ years as a pro until 1952 at the age of 39 against Joey Maxim. They quickly administered first aid to Moore and revived Thurman, who was not seriously injured. Moore couldn't see her, but he waved anyway, and Durelle, across the ring, thought Moore was waving at him, disdainfully. He'd go up and down stairs on his hands, and sometimes around the block, or around several blocks. Fascinated by this time with the whole subject of weight removal, he issued an invitation to newspapermen: "Come to my home town a year from now and you won't find a fat man in San Diego. Then Moore and Kearns decided to go to the Ford Hospital, in Detroit, for an examination by Dr. John Keyes, of the cardiology department. ", In due course, the conversation got around to the current crop of fighters, and it developed that Moore has his own way of estimating their worth. Born in Benoit, Mississippi, he was raised in St Louis, Missouri, in US. Some months ago, when he was in New York with his lawyer on business, the two men shared a hotel room, and one night, a couple of hours after they had retired, following a seven-course dinner, the lawyer, awakened by a stealthy noise in the room, turned on the light just in time to see Moore walking in his sleep through the door. I remembered that I had left my baby, Rena, on the bed at the hotel. He is particularly attracted to starches and to fried foods, and between meals he finds an icebox irresistible.
When Moore took out his nominating papers, he listed Mississippi as his birthplace on one affidavit and Missouri on another. Moore got his deserts a short time later, when Durelle nearly slaughtered him in the first round.
Mais il doit s'incliner devant Rocky Marciano en 1955, puis face à Floyd Patterson en 1956. In September, back up to 188 pounds, Moore attempted to take the heavyweight title away from Rocky Marciano, at the Yankee Stadium, and succeeded in flooring him with a short right uppercut in the second round, but Marciano got up and pounded Moore down and out in the ninth.
By all the rules of the game, he should have faded into retirement long ago, like his contemporaries Joe Louis, Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, and Rocky Marciano, all of whom have settled into a sedentary life appropriate to their gray hairs and accumulating paunches. The film was a commercial success. Moore's best fighting weight is between 182 and 185 pounds, but he came into the ring at 196 pounds, looking like a Buddha in boxing gloves. Sa très grande connaissance du métier lui donna l'occasion de prodiguer ses conseils aux plus grands : entraîneur de Cassius Clay (1962) avant de l'affronter comme boxeur, mais l'expérience fut courte : Clay refusait les corvées de nettoyage après les entraînements. After having four fights in 1941, Moore suffered from stomach ulcers, and he announced his retirement from boxing. En outre, durant de nombreuses années, les tenants du titre des poids moyens et mi-lourds refuseront d'affronter Archie Moore car ils voient en lui un redoutable adversaire. It was fabulous. There Is, for instance, Redd Foxx, a sort of court jester, whose admiration for Moore is so extravagant that he once had his hair barbered to form the letter "M." There is a wizened little man in his late 70s known as Pappa Dee (his real name is Harry Johnson) whom Moore calls "the medicine man of boxing." « MOORE ARCHIE - (1913-1998) », Encyclopædia Universalis [en ligne], Marciano est donné favori à 4 contre 1.
Early in 1938, Moore headed for California, where he hoped to establish himself by fighting the prominent middleweights of the day—Bandit Romero, Eddie Booker, Swede Berglund, and others. ", The talk turned to the Valdes fight, and Moore was asked how long he thought he could get away with, in effect, using men as dangerous as that for sparring partners. Article réservé à nos abonnés.
En novembre 1962, il dispute (et perd) l'un de ses derniers combats, contre Cassius Clay.
"Hasn't Harold always stood by?" The man who wrote the script was furious; his anger meant nothing to me. Pourtant, une droite de Moore envoie Marciano à terre au 2e round.
For the next several years, Moore moved around a great deal but moved upward in the boxing world only a little. It became obvious that Moore was using the bout as a training fight—that this was merely the first step in his preparations for bigger bouts later in the year, with Olson and Marciano. I hit him with punches that would have knocked out any other fighter, but he kept on coming.
Moore est destitué par la NBA (National Boxing Association) en octobre 1960 pour ne pas avoir remis sa ceinture en jeu dans le délai imparti, mais il reste champion de la NYSAC (New-York State Athlétic Commission).
The same year, he was seen in the TV film ‘The Hanged Man’. (This was after Johansson had won the heavyweight title from Patterson and then lost it in a rematch.)
It took the full nine counts by referee Jack Sharkey for Moore to get up.
Le 13 janvier 1948, il retrouve une 3e fois Ezzard Charles. After being arrested, he was sent to a reform school for three years.
They had gone to the fights separately, and met there by chance, whereupon Moore had insisted on driving his friend back to San Diego in his Cadillac. Mrs. Moore is also secretary of Archie Moore Enterprises, Inc., a firm that was established two years ago for the purpose of supervising the champion's investments and maintaining amicable relations with the Director of Internal Revenue.
Every man wants to be free in a different way.
It was at the age of 15 that Moore determined to become a fighter. "God bless you, Archie, you're wonderful!" "I am wealthy in terms of happiness, because I have a wonderful wife and fine children," he says, ''but I still must scratch for a living.".
He was also an occasional actor.
Thurman straightened the dented top with a mallet he had brought along in his tool chest, and the two resumed their journey. He later joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and worked for the forestry division at a camp. I wanted to box, but I had to slug it out to keep him from killing me. At my age and at this stage of the game, I just had to win!". Do you want to know Famous Birthdays & Ages from most popular Celebrities? Archibald Lee Wright voit le jour le 13 décembre 1913 à Benoit, dans le Mississippi. He had to know everything about me. Nevertheless, when the inquisition finally ended, he thanked the writers for their time and their company. His daughter, J’Marie, also pursued a career in boxing. In fact, I throw them away. Moore s’impose par décision unanime et remporte sa première ceinture mondiale[4]. "I'd rather use six little words than one big one," he says.
According to Moore, his toughest fight occurred on December 10, 1958 at the Forum in Montreal against a French Canadian named Yvon “The Fighting Fisherman” Durelle, not Rocky Marciano,a heavyweight champion for four years who retired without losing a fight in his professional career. Néanmoins, Moore accuse 22 ans de plus que son adversaire. His father’s name was Thomas Wright; he was a farm laborer and drifter. "We were driving around the property, looking for the owner, when we saw a watchman coming toward us. Archie Moore was born on December, 13 in Benoit, Mississippi, USA. A veteran of the boxing world, Kearns gives his age as 69, though 80 is probably closer to the mark. Néanmoins, le 8 mai 1943, il s’empare de cette ceinture en battant Jack Chase par décision unanime en 15 rounds.
The boy also developed his arms and shoulders by exercising phenomenally on a chinning bar. Then I'd have them do five miles of roadwork around the ranch. He said, 'If you wanted to, I guess you could get out of that car and knock me down.' According to my figures, that was around $2,500, and he was a rich man. "I enjoyed the fight very much," he said. Il publie son autobiographie, intitulée The Archie Moore Story, en 1960.
Il accordera deux revanches à Joey Maxim en 1953 et 1954, pour le même résultat. Moore won his first title fight by decision after 15 rounds of knocking Maxim around the ring senseless, but only walked away with $800.
The doctors held out little hope. The Wisp, the Sweet One, they both have the marks and have suffered the wounds of the club fighter.
Archie Moore fut champion du monde des poids mi-lourds de 1952 à 1962.Archibald Lee Wright voit le jour le 13 décembre 1913 à Benoit, dans le Mississippi. He can't even find the floor." Moore made the weight by two pounds and knocked out Olson in three rounds. "Yes I know," Moore said. If the deputy registrar had chosen to make a point of It, he might have questioned that capsule description as well, for although Moore is the recognized champion where it counts—in New York, Massachusetts, and California, and abroad—the National Boxing Association, which presides over the small-time, or remaining 47 states, decided late last year that he was not defending his championship often enough and declared the title vacant. The ceremony, which took place in the course of a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria, was, of course, one of the grander moments of his life. "When I was fighting as an amateur, I used to ride the freight trains, and once I had an experience I'll never forget," Moore recalls. Moore, disqualified for military service because of his two operations, returned to the ring early in 1942, and won his first five fights by knockout, but it was not until 11 years and 54 knockouts later that he got a chance at a world's title, and by this time he was officially a light-heavyweight and was occasionally taking on heavyweights. The boxing world was stunned. If they couldn't help Archie, I knew he was finished."
The couple was married till he passed away in 1998. In all my years as a fighter, I've been forced out of my pace only twice. He also had one of the longest professional careers in the sport. I've always wondered why that fellow wanted to kill me. Hardy Lee recently observed his first birthday. L’évènement draine une quantité considérable de fans. Moore paid no heed.
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We waited.
Somehow, Moore jumped to his feet after a two count.
Moore's authority is unquestioned when he's in training, but Saddler's clowning relaxes him, and when he's relaxed, he willingly takes orders (Nevertheless, Moore insists on taping his own hands before a workout, or a fight—he is the only pugilist of stature to do so—and won't wear protective headgear while sparring in the gymnasium, lest he come to depend on it.) Marciano never fought again. "Archie wasn't going to let me have all that money." Durelle wilted completely in the 11th round, and as referee Jack Sharkey stood over him, completing the count of 10, Moore, according to Doc Kearns, was calling to the prostrate challenger, "Please get up, Yvon! Norman? He returned to US and defeated Pancho Ramirez by a knockout in a match. Eight months later, they would fight again with Moore emerging victorious after just three rounds. Furthermore, Rinaldi took the decision.
Archie Moore is known to have started boxing at the age of 15, but did not get a title challenge for his first 16 ½ years as a pro until 1952 at the age of 39 against Joey Maxim. They quickly administered first aid to Moore and revived Thurman, who was not seriously injured. Moore couldn't see her, but he waved anyway, and Durelle, across the ring, thought Moore was waving at him, disdainfully. He'd go up and down stairs on his hands, and sometimes around the block, or around several blocks. Fascinated by this time with the whole subject of weight removal, he issued an invitation to newspapermen: "Come to my home town a year from now and you won't find a fat man in San Diego. Then Moore and Kearns decided to go to the Ford Hospital, in Detroit, for an examination by Dr. John Keyes, of the cardiology department. ", In due course, the conversation got around to the current crop of fighters, and it developed that Moore has his own way of estimating their worth. Born in Benoit, Mississippi, he was raised in St Louis, Missouri, in US. Some months ago, when he was in New York with his lawyer on business, the two men shared a hotel room, and one night, a couple of hours after they had retired, following a seven-course dinner, the lawyer, awakened by a stealthy noise in the room, turned on the light just in time to see Moore walking in his sleep through the door. I remembered that I had left my baby, Rena, on the bed at the hotel. He is particularly attracted to starches and to fried foods, and between meals he finds an icebox irresistible.
When Moore took out his nominating papers, he listed Mississippi as his birthplace on one affidavit and Missouri on another. Moore got his deserts a short time later, when Durelle nearly slaughtered him in the first round.
Mais il doit s'incliner devant Rocky Marciano en 1955, puis face à Floyd Patterson en 1956. In September, back up to 188 pounds, Moore attempted to take the heavyweight title away from Rocky Marciano, at the Yankee Stadium, and succeeded in flooring him with a short right uppercut in the second round, but Marciano got up and pounded Moore down and out in the ninth.
By all the rules of the game, he should have faded into retirement long ago, like his contemporaries Joe Louis, Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, and Rocky Marciano, all of whom have settled into a sedentary life appropriate to their gray hairs and accumulating paunches. The film was a commercial success. Moore's best fighting weight is between 182 and 185 pounds, but he came into the ring at 196 pounds, looking like a Buddha in boxing gloves. Sa très grande connaissance du métier lui donna l'occasion de prodiguer ses conseils aux plus grands : entraîneur de Cassius Clay (1962) avant de l'affronter comme boxeur, mais l'expérience fut courte : Clay refusait les corvées de nettoyage après les entraînements. After having four fights in 1941, Moore suffered from stomach ulcers, and he announced his retirement from boxing. En outre, durant de nombreuses années, les tenants du titre des poids moyens et mi-lourds refuseront d'affronter Archie Moore car ils voient en lui un redoutable adversaire. It was fabulous. There Is, for instance, Redd Foxx, a sort of court jester, whose admiration for Moore is so extravagant that he once had his hair barbered to form the letter "M." There is a wizened little man in his late 70s known as Pappa Dee (his real name is Harry Johnson) whom Moore calls "the medicine man of boxing." « MOORE ARCHIE - (1913-1998) », Encyclopædia Universalis [en ligne], Marciano est donné favori à 4 contre 1.
Early in 1938, Moore headed for California, where he hoped to establish himself by fighting the prominent middleweights of the day—Bandit Romero, Eddie Booker, Swede Berglund, and others. ", The talk turned to the Valdes fight, and Moore was asked how long he thought he could get away with, in effect, using men as dangerous as that for sparring partners. Article réservé à nos abonnés.
En novembre 1962, il dispute (et perd) l'un de ses derniers combats, contre Cassius Clay.
"Hasn't Harold always stood by?" The man who wrote the script was furious; his anger meant nothing to me. Pourtant, une droite de Moore envoie Marciano à terre au 2e round.
For the next several years, Moore moved around a great deal but moved upward in the boxing world only a little. It became obvious that Moore was using the bout as a training fight—that this was merely the first step in his preparations for bigger bouts later in the year, with Olson and Marciano. I hit him with punches that would have knocked out any other fighter, but he kept on coming.
Moore est destitué par la NBA (National Boxing Association) en octobre 1960 pour ne pas avoir remis sa ceinture en jeu dans le délai imparti, mais il reste champion de la NYSAC (New-York State Athlétic Commission).
The same year, he was seen in the TV film ‘The Hanged Man’. (This was after Johansson had won the heavyweight title from Patterson and then lost it in a rematch.)
It took the full nine counts by referee Jack Sharkey for Moore to get up.
Le 13 janvier 1948, il retrouve une 3e fois Ezzard Charles. After being arrested, he was sent to a reform school for three years.
They had gone to the fights separately, and met there by chance, whereupon Moore had insisted on driving his friend back to San Diego in his Cadillac. Mrs. Moore is also secretary of Archie Moore Enterprises, Inc., a firm that was established two years ago for the purpose of supervising the champion's investments and maintaining amicable relations with the Director of Internal Revenue.
Every man wants to be free in a different way.
It was at the age of 15 that Moore determined to become a fighter. "God bless you, Archie, you're wonderful!" "I am wealthy in terms of happiness, because I have a wonderful wife and fine children," he says, ''but I still must scratch for a living.".
He was also an occasional actor.
Thurman straightened the dented top with a mallet he had brought along in his tool chest, and the two resumed their journey. He later joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and worked for the forestry division at a camp. I wanted to box, but I had to slug it out to keep him from killing me. At my age and at this stage of the game, I just had to win!". Do you want to know Famous Birthdays & Ages from most popular Celebrities? Archibald Lee Wright voit le jour le 13 décembre 1913 à Benoit, dans le Mississippi. He had to know everything about me. Nevertheless, when the inquisition finally ended, he thanked the writers for their time and their company. His daughter, J’Marie, also pursued a career in boxing. In fact, I throw them away. Moore s’impose par décision unanime et remporte sa première ceinture mondiale[4]. "I'd rather use six little words than one big one," he says.
According to Moore, his toughest fight occurred on December 10, 1958 at the Forum in Montreal against a French Canadian named Yvon “The Fighting Fisherman” Durelle, not Rocky Marciano,a heavyweight champion for four years who retired without losing a fight in his professional career. Néanmoins, Moore accuse 22 ans de plus que son adversaire. His father’s name was Thomas Wright; he was a farm laborer and drifter. "We were driving around the property, looking for the owner, when we saw a watchman coming toward us. Archie Moore was born on December, 13 in Benoit, Mississippi, USA. A veteran of the boxing world, Kearns gives his age as 69, though 80 is probably closer to the mark. Néanmoins, le 8 mai 1943, il s’empare de cette ceinture en battant Jack Chase par décision unanime en 15 rounds.
The boy also developed his arms and shoulders by exercising phenomenally on a chinning bar. Then I'd have them do five miles of roadwork around the ranch. He said, 'If you wanted to, I guess you could get out of that car and knock me down.' According to my figures, that was around $2,500, and he was a rich man. "I enjoyed the fight very much," he said. Il publie son autobiographie, intitulée The Archie Moore Story, en 1960.
Il accordera deux revanches à Joey Maxim en 1953 et 1954, pour le même résultat. Moore won his first title fight by decision after 15 rounds of knocking Maxim around the ring senseless, but only walked away with $800.
The doctors held out little hope. The Wisp, the Sweet One, they both have the marks and have suffered the wounds of the club fighter.
Archie Moore fut champion du monde des poids mi-lourds de 1952 à 1962.Archibald Lee Wright voit le jour le 13 décembre 1913 à Benoit, dans le Mississippi. He can't even find the floor." Moore made the weight by two pounds and knocked out Olson in three rounds. "Yes I know," Moore said. If the deputy registrar had chosen to make a point of It, he might have questioned that capsule description as well, for although Moore is the recognized champion where it counts—in New York, Massachusetts, and California, and abroad—the National Boxing Association, which presides over the small-time, or remaining 47 states, decided late last year that he was not defending his championship often enough and declared the title vacant. The ceremony, which took place in the course of a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria, was, of course, one of the grander moments of his life. "When I was fighting as an amateur, I used to ride the freight trains, and once I had an experience I'll never forget," Moore recalls. Moore, disqualified for military service because of his two operations, returned to the ring early in 1942, and won his first five fights by knockout, but it was not until 11 years and 54 knockouts later that he got a chance at a world's title, and by this time he was officially a light-heavyweight and was occasionally taking on heavyweights. The boxing world was stunned. If they couldn't help Archie, I knew he was finished."
