Why did Archie Moore perform so poorly against Floyd Patterson ?

Patterson was just too quick, too accurate, a brilliant and flat out too good for him. I'm sure we'll hear lots of excuses, the age argument has the most merit, Moore had slowed which made Patterson all the moore dominant (couldn't resist), it wasn't just the speed but the pace of Patterson's workrate, Moore just couldn't slow the pace. Great win for Patterson and Archie for me gets overrated off his longevity and resume depth, against the very best he seemed to largely come up short, Patterson is P4P the better boxer

 

You know, PP, this was a lot more endearing when it went for Marvin Hagler against Jack Johnson.

 

Patterson likely did see Moore as much bigger threat than those other men so took less risks, focusing on not making mistakes. If you watch the fight Patterson's defence looks impregnable. Moore was missing nearly everything, then Patterson would pick his spots leaving no countering. There was no leaping left hook openings. So not only does he take away his jab but his countering opportunities, which were Moore's game. He also broke the older man down to the body

Some of those opponents are all likely better than given credit for. Rademacher having zero pro fights doesn't necessarily make him an easy opponent either, he's an Olympic champ, the next Olympic, Clay, would handle Johannsen in sparring with zero pro fights.

 

Ifeel Floyd just better!!! Plus arch had a lot of fights was said to bestale from insiders.

 

How many times is this quesiton going to be asked?

sigh..for ****'s sake this needs to be addressed.

he was falsely accused of assault and raping a 12 year old girl while in training for the Patterson fight and looking at a court apperance.

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As a cerebal fighter you think something like this might distract him and effect his performance?

Perhaps Patterson may have always had his number, but I think Moore deserves a fair shake at the very least.


Again, I find it hilarious that Tyson against Douglas is the only Heavyweight Fighter in history that gets a pass for this sort of the thing.

This ****ing board...

Moore doesn't get a pass for being accused of a bunch of bull**** and a court notice while training for the Patterson fight.

Fraizer doesn't get a pass for touring with a funk band instead of training for Foreman.

These are all just match up problems of course...

But that Mike Tyson...he would have crushed Douglas if he wasn't busy ****ing whores in Tokyo.

 

Tyson doesn't get a 'pass'. It's widely acknowledged he was a fighter with serious faults.

 

Douglas doesn't get the credit he's due either, that was a hell of a job he did on Tyson, Tyson faded but Douglas put a performance probably only he and Holyfield were capable of at that time. The gameplan and execution was flawless, the most underrated performance of all time

Moore was fighting for the HW title, the joint most important fight of his career alongside the Marciano fight, it's doubtful he wasn't at least near his best

 

What board have you been posting at?

 

urm, I thin k it was because he was nearly 50 and out of shape, coming off a KO loss to rocky at heavy as well as fighting a speedy, snappy punching 21 year old with great skills. Probably something to do with that...