This content is protected He said that older boys would make him steal for them or they would beat him up. Imagine saying "I beat up Archie Moore"! Matthew Franklin would also beat up Archie Moore.
ABC stands for Any Boy Can, which was Archie’s own Boy’s Club type project to teach and influence youth to get them on the right path. My mom used to take me to the library and I would check out any boxing book I could find. He had one called ‘ABC: The Archie Moore Story’ that was one of the first I read. All I really knew was that he had been light heavyweight champ and lost to Marciano and Ali … but I became a lifelong fan reading that book.
