Archie Moore Will Be In Daughter’s Corner

Archibald Lee Wright, “The Mongoose” we came to know as Ancient Archie Moore, the world light-heavyweight champion of the ‘50s, is back in the ring at age 83.

With another mongoose.

Moore’s youngest daughter, J’Marie, a flight attendant, will make her professional debut tonight in the 2,200-seat showroom at the Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City, N.J., with her legendary father in her corner.

J’Marie, a 5-foot-10-1/2, 170-pounder, will fight in the women’s light-heavyweight division on a non-televised card.

As did her ageless father, J’Marie Moore refuses to reveal her age - “Nobody knows how old anybody is around here,” she said - but with a college degree and 10 years as a flight attendant, she figures to be in her early 30s. She took a leave of absence from her airline last fall to launch her boxing career.

“My brothers didn’t box,” she said by phone from San Diego, where she lives and trains with her father and older brother Billy. “My father has been trying to get me to box for the last three years. He kept saying stuff like, ‘Let me see that jab’ and ‘You should have been a boy.’

“My father taught all the children to box,” she said.