Michael Moorer is one of the most offensively skilled HW champions of all time

Moorer gets severely underrated mainly because of his bad losses to Old Foreman, Holyfield, Tua but really was a gifted offensive fighter. Always liked watching him fight. Very good operator.

 

Watching Moorer demolish 6'8 Mike White was a sight to see

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Holyfield peak was vs. Buster Douglas. He wasn't going to fight down to the level of his opponent that time.. not when his first heavyweight title was within reach. He was also going to KO Tyson in their rematch.. he looked much better than he did in the first Tyson fight (when he fought down to Tyson's level).

But those are good Moorer videos posted in this thread. I watched them again today after work. Very little wasted motion on Moorer's punches.

 

When you’re posting videos from the archive to showcase how skilled a guy was and you end up with Levi Billips, Mike White, Bert Cooper and Alex Stewart, I think you’re making some kind of statement.

Moorer fought no one of note at 175 and the best you can say about him at heavyweight is that he nibbled around the edges.

Yeah, he fought Holyfield (winning when Evander basically went into cardiac arrest and losing the rematch) and George (it happened) but managed to miss Tyson and Lewis and Bowe, not to mention Ruddock and Morrison and Mercer and Ibeabuchi and Witherspoon and Briggs, the Klitschkos and so many more mainstays of his era … I don’t wanna hear about how everyone was ducking him.

He made his bones mostly on the Axel Shulzes and Frans Bothas and Vaughn Beans along with Cooper and Stewart — all a tier below the top. That’s the company he mostly kept. And I think that defines him as much as anything.