The Tragedy of the Hogue Twins

[goose 5]

This is a good read; did anybody here read it? Can you imagine, Shorty beat Archie Moore and Lloyd Marshall seven days apart. He draws with Eddie Booker about a month later and then beats Booker later that same year.

[dagosd2000]

This is a good read; did anybody here read it? Can you imagine, Shorty beat Archie Moore and Lloyd Marshall seven days apart. He draws with Eddie Booker about a month later and then beats Booker later that same year.

Goose
When I was helping out at Moore's ABC Club for boys I heard him say that Shorty Hogue was a very tough guy,that he had a grudge(maybe a racist bent) to beat him. But when Hogue lost to Charley Burley,it took the life out of him. Many thought Hogue would win,but he took a beating. After that he lost 6 out of 8 including a KO loss to Moore at Lane Field. Shorty's bro ,Big Boy, who was scheduled to fight Moore,bumped his leg into a car's bumper in the parking lot the night of the fight and couldn't go on. Shorty was sitting ringside(probably a little drunk)and volunteered to fight Moore.It was Shorty's last fight. What old timers are left in San Diego still talk about the Hogue brothers and their fights with Archie Moore.