I am reading Adeyinka Makinde's Dick Tiger bio, and this fight was mentioned as being pencilled in for June 1959 in New York, with Tiger fighting on the undercard. Obviously the match did not happen, but assuming it did, in the time-frame, with Moore's title on the line (so Archie had to get down to 175), who wins?
I read about this, I think in a book about Marciano. I guess Ray and Archie were both too business savvy to arrive at a deal for it. I say Moore takes it. It's his weight. He owns it.
Yes, he owns that weight, he's too strong for the Sugar Man...and, critically, he adapted better to his own creaking bones than Ray.
By 59 i'd give robinson no real chance of beating moore. Chuck them together around about 50 or 51 and its more intresting. I'd still favour moore but would give robinson a good chance of outboxing him to a decision at this stage
ray wasnt a massive middleweight either. archie is too big and too savy to get outboxed. he would create some traps that i think even a prime ray wouldnt see coming. robinson might do fantasticly in the first opening stanzas to the slower more paced moore. by the mid rounds moore is well under way able to bully robinson and keep him impotent. moore ud
Robinson actually wanted Floyd Patterson at this time. Cus D'Amato's response: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i70vgJM0Qs[/ame]