Archie Moore - very good interview 1998

good find...200+ fights and over 80 but still sharp...a solid guy

 

Moore starred in the Movie "Huckleberry Finn" in the early 1960's and did a great job with very little acting training.

 

Thanks for posting, Vic! I'll watch soon. It's not often somebody posts a thread that nearly matches my avatar.

It doesn't seem very likely, does it? I still marvel a little bit at the condition Foreman is in when I think of his peers at the moment. Those are some powerful genes. I think he's a good candidate to be in good shape like Archie in his eighties too.

 

Great interview.

 

Thank you for the very interesting interview.


As for Curtis Sheppard--I remain slightly skeptical of these "he hit harder than anyone statements." Other than Marciano, mentioned by the interviewer, Moore did not bring up men who ko'd him, like Charles and Patterson, nor Len Marshall, who stopped him in one. Instead Moore mentions a man who failed to knock him out in two tries. Well, he certainly was the one who was hit, but one wonders how much the normal human failing of ego has to do with which opponent is picked as the hardest puncher.

 

I agree with you for the most part. But there are many accounts of the murderous power that Curtis Sheppard carried. He did what no one else could do when he stopped Joey Maxim.

 

Not sure about him being a "gangster", but he did do a long stretch in an Illinois state Penitentiary. I'm still researching him (he's tough to track). I'll let y'all know what I exhume.

 

I don't know about gangster however he murdered his wife's lover and possibly his wife (tho he denies it) and killed a man in prison who tryed to stab him.

 

Cheers for the awesome find

 

Now let's just hope we can "find" Curtis Sheppard! Or at least what became of him :smoke

 

I thought it was really interesting what he said about Billy Conn and Tyson.