The mysterious saga of Fake Archie Moore

I think name appropriation is equally likely, or at least maybe he said he was from St. Louis (Archie’s stomping grounds) when he wasn’t really.

Look up how many guys adopted names like Dempsey and Sharkey after more famous namesakes had their heydays. Neither is such a common name that so many fighters with that last name should show up, the vast majority after the Jacks were well known — statistical improbability would put it mildly.

 

There was definitely some sort of bout — almost certainly an exhibition — scheduled between Archie Moore (not Fake Arch) and Superman actor George Reeves that was set to take place I think a few days or a week before Reeves died of an apparent suicide.

Reeves had reportedly gotten himself in the best shape he’d been in for years and had some background in boxing or martial arts and he was apparently good friends with Archie.

But the poster in the link has been outed as a fake.

 

Only if he calls himself the Young Mongoose and is from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.