Editing Michael Moorer (section)

{{short description|American boxer}}
{{distinguish|Michael Moore}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2013}}
{{Infobox boxer
| name = Michael Moorer
| image = Michael Moorer in 2009.jpg
| caption = Moorer in 2009
| nickname = Double M
| height = 6 ft 2 in<ref name=moorerforeman>''[[HBO Sports]]'' tale of the tape prior to the [[Michael Moorer vs. George Foreman|George Foreman fight]].</ref>
| reach = 76 in<ref name=moorerforeman/>
| weight = {{plainlist|
*[[Light heavyweight]]
*[[Heavyweight]]
}}
| nationality = American
| birth_name = Michael Lee Moorer
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|11|12}}
| birth_place = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
| style = [[Southpaw stance|Southpaw]]
| total = 57
| wins = 52
| KO = 40
| losses = 4
| draws = 1
}}

'''Michael Lee Moorer''' (born November 12, 1967) is an American former [[professional boxer]] who competed from 1988 to 2008. He won a world championship on four occasions in two [[weight class (boxing)|weight classes]], having held the [[WBO]] [[light heavyweight]] title from 1988 to 1991; compiling 22 straight KOs in 22 fights and the WBO [[heavyweight]] title from 1992 to 1993; the unified [[World Boxing Association|WBA]], [[IBF]] and [[lineal championship|lineal]] heavyweight titles in 1994; and regained the IBF heavyweight title again from 1996 to 1997 becoming a three-time heavyweight world champion.<ref name=CBZ>{{cite web|title=Michael Moorer|url=http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/moorer.htm|publisher=Cyber Boxing Zone|access-date=20 November 2016}}</ref>

Michael Moorer was an undefeated southpaw in his first 35 professional bouts. He captured the [[WBO]] [[light heavyweight]] title in 1988 which he defended 9 times. In 1991, Moorer moved up to Heavyweight winning the vacant [[WBO]] [[heavyweight]] title from [[Bert Cooper]] via TKO in 1992. He went on to beat [[Evander Holyfield]] for the unified [[World Boxing Association|WBA]], [[IBF]] and [[lineal championship|lineal]] heavyweight titles in 1994. He remains one of only two southpaws to win the lineal world championship at heavyweight, being joined by Oleksandr Usyk, and the only light heavyweight world champion to win a heavyweight world title on more than one occasion.

Moorer is only one of four boxers over the last century that has ever won a version of a world title at both light heavyweight and heavyweight along with [[Roy Jones Jr.]], [[Michael Spinks]], and [[James Toney]].

Since retiring from the sport, Moorer has worked as a boxing trainer and private investigator. In 2009, he worked alongside [[Freddie Roach (boxing)|Freddie Roach]] at the Wild Card gym in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/06/22/09/roach-fires-moorer-report |title=Roach fires Moorer--report |work=[[ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs]]| date=June 22, 2009 |access-date=October 6, 2016}}</ref>

Moorer was inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] as part of the class of 2024.<ref>{{cite news|author=Joseph Santoliquito |url=https://www.ringtv.com/662024-diego-corrales-and-ricky-hatton-top-the-list-of-2024-hall-of-fame-inductee/ |title=Diego Corrales and Ricky Hatton top the 2024 Hall of Fame Class |publisher=[[The Ring magazine|The Ring]] |date=2023-12-07 |access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref>