Archie Moore vs. Cassius Clay
Date | November 15, 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Clay won by TKO in the 4th round (1:35) |
Archie Moore vs. Cassius Clay was a professional boxing match contested on November 15, 1962.[1]
The fight is notable for being Clay's first professional fight in the modern heavyweight division, and featured two iconic fighters at different ends of their careers.[2]
Background
Clay had previously trained under Moore for a short time before leaving his camp and joining Angelo Dundee. Moore had just recently been stripped of his light heavyweight title (a title he had held since 1952), and was nearing 49 years old. The age disparity between the two fighters was so great that Archie began fighting professionally 7 years before Clay was born. The then 20 year old Clay was given 3-1 odds of defeating Moore. In the days before the fight, Clay had rhymed that "Archie Moore...Must fall in four."
The fight
Clay won the fight through a technical knockout in the fourth round, as he had predicted in his stanza before the bout, having knocked down Moore three times in the round before it was stopped.[3][4]
Aftermath
Moore would fight one more time, four months later when he stopped Iron Mike DiBiase in the 3rd round.[5][6][7][8][9]
Undercard
Confirmed bouts:[10]
References
- ^ "Muhammad Ali vs. Archie Moore". boxrec.com. BoxRec. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ "Muhammad Ali's ring record". ESPN. 19 November 2003. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
- ^ "CAMPAIGN'S END FOR AN ANCIENT WARRIOR". Sports Illustrated. 26 November 1962. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ Bob Myers (16 November 1962). "Cassius Becomes Boxing's Prince". google.com. Ocala Star-Banner (Associated Press). Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ "American Hunger". The New Yorker. 12 October 1998. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ^ Michael Ezra (2009). Muhammad Ali:The Making of an Icon. Temple University Press. pp. 43–6.
- ^ Felix Dennis & Don Atyeo (2003). Muhammad Ali: The Glory Years. miramax books. pp. 64–6.
- ^ David Remnick (1998). King of the World. Random House. pp. 121–4.
- ^ Thomas Hauser (1991). Muhammad Ali:His Life and Times. Simon & Schuster. pp. 48–9.
- ^ "BoxRec - event".
Preceded by vs. Willie Pastrano | Archie Moore's bouts 15 November 1962 | Succeeded by vs. Mike DiBiase |
Preceded by | Cassius Clay's bouts 15 November 1962 | Succeeded by |
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associates
- Chuck Bodak (trainer, cutman)
- Angelo Dundee (cornerman)
- Drew Bundini Brown (trainer, cornerman)
- Ferdie Pacheco (personal physician, cornerman)
- Joe E. Martin (first trainer)
- Archie Moore (trainer)
- George Dillman (instructor)
- Jabir Herbert Muhammad (manager)
- Luis Sarria (trainer, cutman, masseur)
- Joe Frazier (opponent, friend)
- Richard Durham (autobiography co-writer)
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