Has anyone here ever met Michael Moorer?
Has anyone here ever met Michael Moorer?
Just interested in any tid bits of information anyone may have on this intriguing fighter.
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Re: Has anyone here ever met Michael Moorer?
Tantum,Tantum wrote:Just interested in any tid bits of information anyone may have on this intriguing fighter.
I’ve met Michael Moorer at the Wild Card Gym. I guess it was about 8-9 months ago. He was working with Freddie Roach, who introduced us and told him I wanted to do an interview with him.
Moorer sat hunched on the floor, with his back to the mirror, expressionless, taking a breather, with people shadow boxing, doing floor work and skipping rope all around him.
I had about a 10-page story with me that I was going to file, and when Freddie introduced me as a writer, Moorer just lifted his eyes and pointed to it with one finger: “You write that? I nodded. He just opened his hand, as if to say, let me see it.
He sat there for, what seemed, half an hour, pouring sweat, intently reading every word while machines clanked, weights dropped, and fighters came within inches of us.
When he was done, he looked up with his eyes, and with just his wrist, handed the soggy pages back to me. “What do you want to know? he said evenly.
We did the interview, with him hunched against the mirror and me crouched down in the traffic of bodies for, maybe, another half hour.
He was polite, very soft spoken, down to earth, contemplative and guarded-- yet candid at the same time—if that’s possible-- with every question, as if he’d been the victim of hatchet jobs before.
When I finished the interview, I said thank you. He nodded, and just turned his eyes straight ahead and continued to sit there, while I walked away.
He came across, as a man keeping a tight reign on his temper, but a regular guy—albeit wary—but genuine, not a public face.
I saw Michael a couple of weeks ago at the Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek, Florida.
John Garfield's description seems to go along the overall impression he left on me the few minutes that I was near him. He carries an enigmatic and maybe somber expression on his face that many people might easily mistake for bitterness.
Some fans approached him asking for autographs and he signed them with that same expressionless manner of his. One guy even congratulated him on the words he had for George Foreman on The HBO documentary when he said that George's claim that he had planned the whole fight and foreseen the KO was nothing but "Bullshit".
Not one muscle of his face moved and he kept his eyes on the ring. Then I heard his response, the only words I heard from him:
"It was alright"
John Garfield's description seems to go along the overall impression he left on me the few minutes that I was near him. He carries an enigmatic and maybe somber expression on his face that many people might easily mistake for bitterness.
Some fans approached him asking for autographs and he signed them with that same expressionless manner of his. One guy even congratulated him on the words he had for George Foreman on The HBO documentary when he said that George's claim that he had planned the whole fight and foreseen the KO was nothing but "Bullshit".
Not one muscle of his face moved and he kept his eyes on the ring. Then I heard his response, the only words I heard from him:
"It was alright"