Archie Moore's views on the best fighters around/of all time

ahh..think i have it now...here..

[ame]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Archie-Moore-story/dp/B0000CKU72/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287436580&sr=1-2[/ame]


good man greg.
love to sit and have a few drinks with you some night greg, its great to see someone so young yet so knowledgeable about the history of the sport...i admire you a lot fella :good

 

I hope you like milk.

 

hard book to get it seems, expensive on amazon sellers...got me bid on an ebay one now...3 days left...here's hoping i get it handy

 

Thanks for posting this, very intruiging stuff .:good

 

aye

 

How familiar are you with his interviews and manner of speaking? Ali said Archie was the one opponent who gave better than he got in the trash talking department. (Muhammad made this admission on camera during an interview he gave for some obscure kid's show in the States during the late 1970s-early 1980s. I was flipping channels and stumbled across it.)

Judging by the way Moore talked, it certainly seems highly possible he did write it. He was a highly media savvy master of self promotion who executed an impressive media blitz to build up for a challenge of Marciano, publishing articles with titles like, "Rocky won't hit me!" Ali credited Gorgeous George for inspiring his manner of braggadocio, but it seems highly probable to me that an element of Archie's influence was there as well.

 

here's a great piece with him speaking and he speaks about the upcoming marciano fight, although the interview is about the bobo olson fight...from theGreatA's youtube channel...fantastic collection he has uploaded..

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMYnbBY0nAI[/ame]

 

I've read that he said Burley was the best he ever fought ...

 

Same here.

 

Pretty amazing your posting from Russia ... impressive !

 

I'm envisioning sort of a more technical Hamed? I don't think it would be distraction but it seems to go against his mentality. Mentality makes a fighter just as easily as attributes do. Interesting to ponder.

 

Chewing steak and then spitting it out?