The mysterious saga of Fake Archie Moore

My thoughts exactly. Interesting story, but maybe a bit of Occam's razor going on here.

 

I do think there is a good point being made here.

I tend to accept as more accurate the old Ring Record Books as the men who compiled them were there. For example, were the fights of a man named Savoldi back in the early 1930's really fights by Lee Savold? How can one tell at this point? Another example is the three supposedly "exhibition" fights Joe Louis had in 1935, one of which was against Roscoe Toles. Louis was high profile and observers at the time accepted these as legit pro fights. Don't forget that the term exhibition was not necessarily that well-defined under different state laws. I credit the guys actually on the ground at the time as knowing what was what more than someone trying to figure things out over 80 years later.

 

Strange, but I guess Boxrec is an ongoing project, and maybe it's only recently that the Shreveport newspapers have become easily accessible.

 

Plot twist - fake Achibald went on a tear in Australia.

But i think Solomon put things on the right track as Pat noted per a rich little vein of pro fights looking like they were never recorded. One wonders how much more is out there.

 

Archie Moore had a real name of Archibald Lee Wright,I think the st Louis guy might be an actual person with his real full name being Archie Moore.

Does that mean the old mongoose we all know and love is the faker then?

 

1 of these articles mentions that "Joe Domino and Thad Lee, lightweights, boxed eight rounds to a draw." Another mentions that "Thad Lee stopped Jimmy Lewis in the first round of a scheduled eight rounder." I found Joe Domino's record here, & there's no 8-rnd draw w/ any Thad Lee on it, & Thad Lee's record here only shows a 4-round loss to a "James" Lewis.

I think it's interesting that a pre-fight article touts "Moore" as a "St. Louis puncher" w/ "kayoes over some of the best in the Mid-West," yet the post-fight article simply says he's from Chicago. That suggests to me that the pre-fight article conflated a Chicagoan using the name "Moore" w/ the real 1 (who was already nationally known from being a ranked mw by this time), & the post-fight article rectified that mistake by (correctly) acknowledging him as a Chicagoan.

 

Archie Moore vs. Superman:
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