{"id":390007,"date":"2026-01-05T17:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390007\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:54:25","slug":"on-this-day-archie-moore-defeated-dynamite-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390007\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Archie Moore defeated Dynamite Payne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Archie Moore defeated Dynamite Payne<\/p>\n<p>January 5th, 1937<\/p>\n<p>Two years after debuting as professional, Archie Moore defeated Dynamite Payne by KO in the first round at the Saint Louis Coliseum in Missouri. In a wondrous future, Moore would become light heavyweight world champion, having to wait ten years for his chance. He is considered by many as one of the very best in history, as a light heavy. He built\u00a0 an extraordinary record of 185 victories with 142 KO\u00b4s, 23 defeats and 10 draws. Moore, who\u2019s original name was Archibald Lee Wright, also fought\u00a0 for the heavyweight crown without any success. His opponent\u2026.Rocky Marciano!<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_173239\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"173239\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On This Day, Archie Moore defeated Dynamite Payne January 5th, 1937 Two years after debuting as professional, Archie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-390007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}