Editing Archie Moore (section)

==Post-retirement==
[[File:Archie Moore and Eddie Hodges 1960.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Archie Moore and [[Eddie Hodges]] in [[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960 film)|''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'']]]]
Despite retiring, Moore couldn't escape the limelight, and received numerous awards and dedications. In 1965, he was given the [[key to the city]] of [[San Diego]], [[California]]. In 1970, he was named "Man of The Year" by ''Listen Magazine'', and received the key to the city of [[Sandpoint, Idaho]]. He was elected in 1985 to the St. Louis city Boxing Hall of Fame and he received the Rocky Marciano Memorial Award in the city of [[New York City|New York]] in 1988. In 1990, he became a member of the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in Canastota, New York, being one of the original members of that institution.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

At one point the oldest boxer to win the World's [[Light Heavyweight]] Championship, he is believed to have been the only boxer who boxed professionally in the eras of [[Joe Louis]], [[Rocky Marciano]] and [[Muhammad Ali]]. He is one of only a handful of boxers whose careers spanned four decades, retiring with a final record of 185 wins, 23 losses, 11 draws and 1 no contest, with 131 official knockouts.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

However, at least three of Moore's 131 knockouts came in less-than-competitive matches against pro wrestlers: [[Roy Shire|"Professor" Roy Shire]] in 1956, [[Sterling Davis]] in 1959 and [[Michael DiBiase|Mike DiBiase]] in 1963 (Moore's 131st and final knockout).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=8995&cat=boxer |title=Archie Moore |publisher=Boxrec.com |date=1960-10-25 |access-date=2010-08-22}}</ref> All three matches are officially listed as third-round TKO stoppages. The second-highest amount of knockouts in boxing history is 128, which belongs to [[Sam Langford]] .<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fightbeat.com/article_detail.php?AT=390 |title=The Knockout- Boxing\'s Homerun &#124; Jose Corpas |publisher=Fightbeat.com |access-date=2010-08-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711001604/http://www.fightbeat.com/article_detail.php?AT=390 |archive-date=2011-07-11 }}</ref>

During the 1960s he founded an organization called Any Boy Can, which taught boxing to underprivileged youth in the San Diego area. In 1974 he helped train heavyweight boxer [[George Foreman]] for his famous "[[Rumble in the Jungle]]" title bout in Zaire against [[Muhammad Ali]]. In 1976 he served as an assistant coach for the Nigerian Olympic boxing team. Actively involved in efforts to teach children about the dangers of drug abuse, he worked during the 1980s as a youth boxing instructor for the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, assigned largely to ghettos in San Diego and Los Angeles. "I try to pass on the arts I know: self-control, self-reliance, self-defense," he told a reporter. In the early 1990s he again worked as a trainer for George Foreman.<ref>{{cite web|title=Archie Moore|website=American National Biography Online|author=Thomas W. Collins Jr. |date=February 2000|url=http://www.anb.org/articles/19/19-00885.html?from=../19/19-00998.html&from_nm=Patterson%2C%20Floyd|access-date=2015-02-26}}</ref>