Your bad day at the office: irritating. Davey Moore's bad day at the office...

Moore was a face first guy and was easy to hit & would just brawl his way to victories. He didn't have very much experience and nobody ever thought he was going to hold onto a belt for very long.

That was the perfect style for a 154 version of Duran and a guy he would get in top shape for because it was such a winnable fight. He sure didn't have to worry about his legs or having to work a ton just to get into position to land a punch against this opponent. And with multiple belts around, what we boxing fans get is a guy taking on the weakest champion in order to get a belt.

 

Duran was evil in that fight.

 

Still say Duran thumbed Moore-maybe not on purpose but he did thumb him.

 

Easy, man! This constitutes a miserly dismissal of the drama and real gravity of that fight. Moore was younger, bigger, stronger, faster, and he hit harder. Every physical advantage was his. Duran was only recently rising from the ashes of "No Mas" and had noticably slowed down at precisely the time he was beginning to challenge bigger, younger champions. He one thing going for him: experience. Moore, if I recall correctly, was a 7-5 favorite.

Dismissing this choice is hollow when you remember who he stepped into the ring with next. Hagler, at 8lbs north. And then perhaps to quiet critics like you who questioned why he chose Moore over Hearns for equivalent belts, he faced Hearns after the Hagler loss, and gave up a belt to do it!

 

Not many people I knew where picking Moore, and it'd be easy to say that fight was a gamblers dream. The problem with Moore was & always has been defense. He got hit by everyone he ever fought.

 

My memory recalls about 90% of experts going with Moore. Duran's form had been most ordinary for ages, and tho he looked good against Cuevas, Pipino himself was coming off a most embarrassing loss to Roger Stafford.

Duran was thought to be pretty much over the hill.

 

Moore was a 5-2 betting favorite over Duran by my knowledge. Roberto was of course far, far more experienced, but nearly everyone felt as though Duran was close to retirement by this time, he was 19lbs above his best weight and clearly past his prime.

 

what were the odds on Duran?

I would of put money on him based on the cuevas fight

 

Duran damn near killed the guy. One of the most brutal fights I have ever seen.

Iran Barkley, when asked about fighting Duran, said that he would try to avenge the loss of his best friend. Duran, hearing this, went ballistic: "Mother****er acts like I killed Davey Moore".

 

You would be hardpressed to find anyone who had a worse day at the office than poor Davey Moore did against Duran on that summer night in 1983. Not only did the odds on favorite Moore get brutalized, it happened in his hometown. To add insult to injury, the soldout crowd at Madison Square Garden was for the most part rooting for Duran instead of Moore, a Bronx native and multiple NYC Golden GLove Champion. The ironic thing is that Davey Moore won all those Golden Glove finals in the very same arena that he got thrashed by Duran.

 

It wasn't really like nowadays, with 4 more or less recognized titles, "super-champs", and crap like that.

There were two champs @ 154 in 1983. Duran got schooled by the other one a year earlier (and then almost killed by his conqueror), but beat the weaker of the two champs.

Not like nowadays where you can pick the weakest out of 4.