On this day: Archie Moore ignores lawsuit from his wife and dazzles against old rival Joey Maxim
ARCHIE MOORE w pts 15 JOEY MAXIM
January 27, 1954; Orange Bowl, Miami, FL
ARCHIE MOORE had already retained his world light-heavyweight title against Joey Maxim, the man he took it from in 1952. Ahead of their third bout, Moore struggled to make the 175lbs weight limit – largely because of his regular expeditions to heavyweight – and when news broke that Archie’s wife had filed a maintenance lawsuit against her husband on the day of the fight the odds drifted to 6/5 in Maxim’s favour. But Moore, always advancing behind that famous cross-armed defence, bossed the fight against his old rival. Maxim was dropped and almost out in the eighth from a right hand, decked again in the 11
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