Archie Moore vs. Cassius Clay
1962 boxing match
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Archie Moore vs. Cassius Clay was a professional boxing match contested on November 15, 1962.[1]
Archie Moore Archie Moore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | November 15, 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tale of the tape | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Clay won by TKO in the 4th round (1:35) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The fight is notable for being Clay's first professional fight in the modern heavyweight division, and featured two iconic fighters at different ends of their careers.[2]
Background
Clay had previously trained under Moore for a short time before leaving his camp and joining Angelo Dundee. Moore had just recently been stripped of his light heavyweight title (a title he had held since 1952), and was nearing 49 years old. The age disparity between the two fighters was so great that Archie began fighting professionally 7 years before Clay was born. The then 20 year old Clay was given 3-1 odds of defeating Moore. In the days before the fight, Clay had rhymed that "Archie Moore...Must fall in four."
The fight
Clay won the fight through a technical knockout in the fourth round, as he had predicted in his stanza before the bout, having knocked down Moore three times in the round before it was stopped.[3][4]
Aftermath
Undercard
Confirmed bouts:[10]
