Davey Moore

Who was Davey Moore?

Davey Moore was an American world junior middleweight champion boxer, the second of two professional champions who shared the name in the second half of the 20th century. Each died around the age of thirty, the first Davey Moore as a result of punishment in a fight, the second in an accident at his home.

The latter was born in New York during the championship reign of the first. As a boxer, he rose quickly through the junior middleweight ranks—perhaps too quickly, according to some boxing writers and critics.