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Moore looks like a mix of lazy defensive-minded Roy Jones Jr with Thomas Hearns' jab (which he throws too seldom to pile up points). There are short highlights of two Ron Richards fights from 1940, 1 and 2 min respectively.
It should be clear also to anyone who's seen this fight, that young Moore was better than his old version from technical point of view, more versatile, better agility, better reflexes, better defense, better jab. Same as it is with Bernard Hopkins, B-Hop of the 1990's looked better than B-Hop of the 2000s.
Ture. But Hopkins gained a great deal of wisdom as he aged. He became a smarter fighter. In a way, the 2000's Hopkins could be viewed as a better fighter than the 1990's version.
Coming into Trinidad fight (at this point B-Hop was already a true master), Hopkins fought 3 more fights in the 2000s - Syd Vanderpool, Antwun Echols II and Keith Holmes. These are not the fighters that could have taught him something he didn't know. By mid-to-late 1990's B-Hop had already reached his peak as a fighter, he didn't improve after that.
