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Jan 21, 2021
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5 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 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 cross-armed defence, bossed the fight. Maxim was dropped in the eighth from a right hand,
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