Michael Lee Moorer He was born in 1967, November 12, and is a native of the Pittsburgh suburbs.
For the longest period of his career, he was trained under the tutelage of Emmanuel steward in Detroit.In those years of training, in Steward’s gym, he was lucky enough to share the ring and equipment with boxers of the level of Thomas Hearnsy Gerald McClellan.
Within professional boxing, he debuted in 1988, fighting against Adrian riggs, whom he knocked out in the first round of the fight. Moorer He continued that year accumulating fights in quantity and, before the end of the year, he had won 11 fights without being beaten once, almost all by knockout, in addition to going for his first world title.
The title of the WBO, had to fight him against the boxer Ramzi Hassan of whom they spoke very well. However, in the fifth round, he succumbed to the fists of Moorer.
With the title in his hands, he only had to retain it the following year. In 1989 he fought to defend the title six times, winning among others, Frankie swindell, Leslie stewars Y Mike sedillo.
In 1990, he had to defend his title three times before the end of the year, defeating Mario melo Y Michael Spinks.
The next year Moorer began training for his campaign in pursuit of obtaining the title of the Heavyweight division. I enter the competition in search of the safe opportunity to fight for the vacancy of WBO, World Heavyweight Championship, the next year.
Beat Evander Holyfield to fight the final with Bert cooper, whom he won in the fifth round, thus becoming the first left-hander to pass, in one move, the title of Light Heavyweight to Heavyweight title. Also that night, he became the first southpaw to win the title as a heavyweight.
Eventually, he joined the team of Lou Duva’s and was trained by Georgia Benton for three fights in 1993, including a decisive fight, in the 10th round, against the champion James smith.
In the same way that it happened with his old coach, he also broke the relationship with Benton Y Duva, and hired the New York coach Teddy atlas at the end of that year. Moorer closed that period with a fight against Mike evans.
The following year he fought again against Holyfield for the belts IBF Y WBA, who he beat in the second round.
In November 1994, he defended the belts against George ForemanHowever, he received a blow to the pear in the tenth round, which is why he ended up losing.
The following year he won a defining fight against Melvin foster, while Foreman still retained the title. The latter, however, would lose the title due to political problems and the latter would remain vacant.
In this way, Moorer went after that title on June 22, 1996, and won it against Schultz after 12 rounds, regaining the belt IBF heavyweight.
Until March 1997 he retained his title, and, again, broke relationship with his coach, replacing him with Freddie roach. Once again he fought against Holyfield but this time he lost.
After this, he retired from boxing for three years. He won three more fights, but retired again after being knocked out early in the first round of his fight against David tua In 2002.
In 2003, he would return to fight against Otis Tisdale Who would win, then fighting against the Brazilian Rodolfo Lobo, whom he won in a matter of seconds.
After fighting in 2004 with Eliseo Castillo, and lose by knockout against Vassily Jirov, Moorer He decided to become a coach, permanently retiring from boxing.