Davey Moore

Davey Moore (June 9, 1959 – June 3, 1988) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 1988. He held the World Boxing Association (WBA) light middleweight title from 1982 to 1983. He is 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 S. 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 light middleweight ranks—perhaps too quickly, according to some boxing writers and critics.