Archie Moore vs. Cocoa Kid
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Archie Moore 166 lbs beat Cocoa Kid 157 lbs by KO at 1:40 in round 8 of 10
- Date: 1945-09-17
- Location: Coliseum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
"Archie Moore, heavy-hitting light heavyweight contender, was back on the victory path today with an 8th round KO over Louis 'Kid' Cocoa, veteran Puerto Rican boxer. The pair met in a scheduled 10 round windup scrap at the Coliseum last night. Cocoa put on a fine boxing exhibition in the early stages and managed to avoid Moore's Sunday wallops until the 6th. He hit the resin for a nine-count in this round, took a heavy shellacking in the 7th and went down for keeps under a flurry of right hand smashes to the jaw at 1:40 of the 8th." -Associated Press