Davey Moore, Ex-Champion, Dies in Accident

Former WBA junior middleweight champion Davey Moore was killed Friday when an unoccupied vehicle rolled down his driveway and ran over him as he tried to stop it, police said Saturday in Holmdel, N.J. Moore was 28.

Able Abel, Moore’s trainer the past few years, said Moore slipped on the wet ground while trying to stop the runaway vehicle after it broke loose. Moore was then dragged downhill under the vehicle, Abel said.

Holmdel police said Moore’s wife, Quadria, summoned them to the couple’s home at 7:45 p.m. Officers and emergency medical technicians found Moore, with no vital signs, pinned under a Dodge Raider.

Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Moore won five Golden Gloves titles in New York and made the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that never competed in Moscow because of the boycott.

Moore turned pro after the Olympics and won the title in just his ninth fight by stopping Tadashi Mihara of Japan in the sixth round of a 1982 fight in Tokyo. Moore retained his title three times before losing it to Roberto Duran on June 16, 1983 when he was stopped in the eighth round.