Dumb question (pls don’t shame me)

I heard the same thing, he shook all of our hands after we watched the fights on film. He told us about the Boys Neighborhood Center he had the construction company build for us. All the advise he gave us stuck with me, like furthering my education, be law obedient, be civic minded, a great example to us. It is funny because I had just seen him on an episode of a weekly television sitcom, Family Affair which aired from 1966-1971.

 

He did not give us advise on training methods but he said, Be Helpful In Your Community, and Obedient at school, Also With The Law. Further Your Education, Knowledge Is Priceless.

 

A myth. One direct bite from the cobra and the mongoose is dead. It ain't venom proof.

 

Patterson was called the rabbit by Ali. Maybe it was because he looked like he was hopping around the ring trying land his leaping left hook?

 

I can't prove that it was the first time it was used, but the way the press reported Moore's mongoose analogy, it certainly didn't seem like they'd heard it before.

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Archie Moore devoted a good bit of his life to helping troubled and at-risk youth.

He had an organization in San Diego called ABC — Any Boy Can. I think it still lives on as the ABC Foundation.

His autobiography was also titled “Any Boy Can.” When I was young my mom would take me to the library every week and I read literally every boxing book they had. That was one of them. I was a fan of the Ol’ Mongoose before I ever saw him fight.

I don’t know of a better boxing role model, in and out of the ring, than Archie Mooe.

 

Great Post.

 

No, Ali said that Floyd was scared like a rabbit.
A bit of his cruel side before he really deployed it heavily against the man who gave him money when he could not fight & interceded at the highest levels to help get him a boxing license again (Frazier).

 

Understandable, & if your opponent is so bad, how good can your victory over him even be?
Although Ali also had a great deal of redeeming qualities. Great charisma & charm, while he was not some sociopath who just shucked & jived people-he ha a big heart, did Good Works Great & small, was a creative thinker, leader in civil rights with his draft case, really tough when he needed to be to remain on top, inspirational to black folks especially & finally the whole world.

Yet his flaws involved an unintergrated personality re: his cruelty in some cases.

 

Archie Moore:
It is not my intention to expound on how I will dispose of this brash youth, however, I would like to remind you of an occurrence in my light heavyweight title defense last June against Yolande Pompey at London. The first good right cross I threw, according to ringside scribes, drove Pompey back a full four feet, cutting his eye. The force of the blow was so great that it also caused his nose to bleed, even though the punch didn't land on his proboscis.
Can you imagine what will happen when I counter as Patterson comes in with one of his highly publicized and unbelievably amateurish feet-off-the-floor right hand leads?
After my London fight I compared myself to a mongoose. As you know, a mongoose becomes more deadly with each contest. Sports writers have likened Patterson's punching to a snake striking. That's just about how our fight will be, an old mongoose against a very young snake. When I get through with him, D'Amato's kid will be a very sick serpent!

 

There will never be another Archie Moore.