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  1. Moorer had a fast rise through the professional boxing ranks. He debuted on March 4, 1988, knocking out Adrian Riggs in the first round. Before the year's end, he was undefeated in eleven bouts (winning all by way of early round knockouts) and fighting for the world title for the first time.

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  3. Jun 6, 2024 · Moorer recently spoke to BoxingScene about making his way as a teenager from a small steel mill town outside Pittsburgh to Emanuel Steward’s Kronk Gym in Detroit, launching a career in which he...

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  4. He found his boxing stride between Olympic cycles, and in 1985 he was the runner-up to Tim Littles at the American Boxing Federation tournament. The following year, he won a national title and a bronze medal at the inaugural Goodwill Games in Moscow.

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  5. Box-pro 57 bouts. Fields lost a point for holding in both the 5th & 10th rds. Technical Draw when ringside doctor stops bout due to Crowe cut caused by accidental head-butt. Moorer down 5 times in the fight. Moorer down in 2nd. Televised on HBO. Fight stopped on cuts.

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  6. Apr 27, 2005 · On April 22, 2005, exactly eleven years after winning the lineal heavyweight title from Evander Holyfield, Teddy Atlas informed the boxing public of Michael Moorer’s retirement on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights.

  7. Jun 4, 2024 · On May 15, 1992, Moorer knocked out Bert Cooper (27-8) in five rounds to win the vacant WBO Heavyweight Championship, becoming the first southpaw world heavyweight champion in boxing history. Both fighters were floored twice in the slugfest. Moorer's tutelage under Steward ended following the Cooper fight.

  8. Michael Lee Moorer (born November 12, 1967) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2008. He won a world championship on four separate occasions in two weight classes, having held the WBO light heavyweight title from 1988 to 1991; compiling 22 straight KOs in 22 fights and the WBO heavyweight title from 1992 to 1993 ...

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