The Best 12 fighters Archie Moore faced

Muhammad Ali, Lost 1

Rocky Marciano, Lost 1

Floyd Patterson, Lost 1

Lloyd Marshall, Won 2

Ezzard Charles, Lost 3

Jimmy Bivins, Won 3, Lost 1

Harold Johnson, Won 3, Lost 1

Charley Burley, Lost 1

Cocoa Kid, Won 1

Holman Williams, Won 1, Lost 1

Eddie Booker, Won 1, Drew 2

Jack Chase, Won 4, Lost 1


This give Moore 15-12 & 2 versus the best he ever took up against. Respectable, but not totally dominant. What can be said is that this is an astounding line up of p4p talent, some of the very best fighters who have ever breathed are in this line up. Moore really did take on an extraordinary array of fighters.

Intersting that he could never beat the incredible Booker.

Can anything be learned about Moore from this list?

Anyone brave enough to organise these men into a pound for pound list, first to last?

 

Very special.

Fitz can't come anywhere near this level of competition though.

 

I meant that the twelve best fighters that Fitz faced would not be anything like as good as the twleve best fighters that Moore faced.

 

I got a beef with that guy, I consider him heavily overated. But name names - who?

 

In as much as it is possible, yeah.

 

Stick to the beer John, Marijuana will result in many other posts just like this.

 

Bare in mind that most of these fights were conducted in the kind of schedule that would have sent Spinks scurrying back to bar management quick smart. He'd be waring that Tyson face 2 nights out of 3.