I don't know but that was a pretty heavy beating and his trainers/ref should be ashamed of themselves. It was clear early on that Duran was just on another level, at around round 5 or 6 it just stopped being competitive altogether and Moore just got pummelled. In terms of the physical punishment, I think it was pretty bad but it was more psychological. A young fighter isn't ready to be beat up like that in only his 12th fight. He was promising but that fight changed it all.
He should,t have fought in the first place ....his dentist told him a day before that his tooth was infected ....
Good summation. He was a fine, very promising fighter, but in stepping up in class against Duran it proved far too much to handle and practically ruined him (he beat a past prime Benitez afterwards, though Benitez was forced to 'retire', but lost most of his other fights). :good
Yes, it seemed a perfectly sound fight for Moore to have, a no brainer, a decent pay day, a good name on the resume, and little chance of an upset... Hindsight is beautiful thing.
Did he not also have a medical problem which today would have meant he would not have been allowed to fight?,was something about it in the boxing news a few weeks back,some new book on the guy
I took my nephew to see this fight on closed circuit. He told me beforehand that he didn't like boxing, but I said this will be a great fight....so he went. After Moore got mangled, he told me "That's why I don't like boxing". Moore was never the same...it was non-competitive.
That was what was good about boxing. It was meant to be non-competitve.... Duran was expected to lose and lose bad.
Exactly. Duran seemed washed up...he had lost to unranked Kirkland Laing just eight months earlier. I myself expected Moore to beat Duran handily. I was surprised not only that Duran won, but that he won in such devastating, one-sided fashion. Moore was never himself again psychologically after this loss.
