What are ur fave Archie Moore stories?
here are my two favorites:
-The day that George Reeves died (tv's SUPERMAN), he was actually scheduled to have a boxing match with Archie Moore the next day. Now whether it was to be an exhibition or not, I do not know, but at the time Moore had faced at least 3 professional wrestlers, and Reeves often 'wrestled' as SUPERMAN to make a living since his show was cancelled. On another side note, it is written, that as a young man Reeves was an undefeated amateur boxer who won the Golden Gloves.
-Cus D'Amato had planned to train Jim Jacobs (who was an overall outstanding athlete and hand ball world champion at one time) in secret and put up a $100,000 challenge to Moore for the world light heavyweight championsip; a move that D'Amato had once made before when he handled Floyd Patterson when he fought gold medalist Pete Rademacher; in the attempt to make Jacobs the first 'amateur' to win a world title in his debut.