Davey Moore (boxer, 1933)

Davey Moore
Data
Birth Name	David Schultz Moore
Fight name	Springfield Rifle
Weight class	Featherweight
nationality	United States
birthday	November 1, 1933
place of birth	Lexington, Kentucky
Date of death	March 25, 1963
size	159 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles	68
Victories	59
Knockout victories	30th
Defeats	7th
draw	1
No value	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Dave Schultz "Davey" Moore (* 1 November 1933 in Lexington , Kentucky , USA ; † 25. March 1963 ) was an American champion in boxing , professionally fought from 1953 to 1963. He lived in Springfield , Ohio .

Moore died from injuries that Sugar Ramos had inflicted on him in a protracted competition.

Career

Davey Moore first appeared professionally on May 11, 1953, at the age of 20, when he appeared in a six round fight against Willie Reece . This was followed by another seven fights, where he set his record of six wins, one loss and one ceased fight. From the beginning of his career to 1956, Moore fought a total of 39 rounds.

Starting with his fight against Gil Cadilli on April 10, 1957, he had an ongoing winning streak of 18 wins, which only ended with his technical knockout on March 7, 1960 against Carlos Hernández . On March 18, 1959, Moore won the featherweight world title. Moore retained that title for the rest of his career. On March 14, 1960 he won the fight against Bob Gassey in the first round after this was knocked out. Gassey lost all but two teeth. In 1960 Moore had a victory in Venezuela because of a knockout in addition to the lost fight against Carlos Hernández . He also fought three times in Mexico that year . In 1961 he had three fights, one each in Paris , Madrid and Rome . He successfully defended his title against Danny Valdez , who was knocked out in the first round, and then won three more fights in Mexico before returning to Tokyo to defend his title against Katsunari Takayama . In 1962 he won after two weeks in Finland against Olli Mäki .

Moore lost his world title to Sugar Ramos on March 21, 1963 . In this fight he sustained his fatal injuries. He achieved 59 wins and one draw in his short career, and one fight was stopped. 30 of his victories were brought about by knockout.

death

Moore was scheduled to fight Sugar Ramos at Dodger Stadium in July 1962 , but a typhoon rainstorm hit Los Angeles that night and the fight was postponed to March 21, 1963.

In the tenth round of the fight, Ramos hit Moore's head hard with his right fist. This then fell on the back against the lower line of the boxing ring and hit the base of the neck, which injured the brain stem . Moore lost the fight by knockout, but the severity of the injury was not immediately recognized. He even gave interviews . He fell into a coma in the locker room and died a few days later. Moore's death rekindled the public debate that had sparked the previous year with the death of Benny "Kid" Paret . He also died after a long fight from serious injuries in the boxing ring.

Trivia

• Moore's death was featured in the song Who Killed Davey Moore? picked up by Bob Dylan .

Web links

• Davey Moore in the BoxRec database
• Davey Moore in the database of Find a Grave (English)