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Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1972, and twice reigned as the world heavyweight champion between 1956 and 1962. At the age of 21, he became the youngest boxer in history to win the title, and was also the first heavyweight to regain the title after losing it.
May 9, 2024 · Floyd Patterson (born Jan. 4, 1935, Waco, N.C., U.S.—died May 11, 2006, New Paltz, N.Y.) was an American professional boxer, the first to hold the world heavyweight championship twice. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.)
Patterson was knocked down twice in the 1st round, Johansson was then knocked down at the end of the 1st. Johansson was floored for an abbreviated count in the 6th from a punch to the back of the head. Rademacher, the 1956 Olympic Heavyweight Gold Medalist, was making his professional debut.
May 11, 2006 · Floyd Patterson, who turned his troubled young life around with boxing and became, despite a gentle disposition, the world heavyweight champion, died today in New Paltz, N.Y. He was 71.
May 11, 2006 · Floyd Patterson, who came back from an embarrassing loss to become the first boxer to regain the heavyweight title, died Thursday. He was 71.
Aug 12, 2023 · Floyd Patterson ranked 27th of all-time in Hamilton’s Historical Order of Merit published on December 31, 2013. Notes. Born in a cabin in Waco, North Carolina, on January 4, 1935. He was the third eldest of 11 children. Grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Patterson was a frequent truant who fell behind in school.
Hall Of Fame Bio. Floyd Patterson won the middleweight gold medal at the Olympic Games Helsinki 1952 and became the youngest heavyweight championship in history four years later at the age of 21. Patterson was born in Waco, North Carolina, as the third of 11 children.
May 12, 2006 · NEW YORK — Floyd Patterson, a gentleman boxer who emerged from a troubled boyhood to become the world heavyweight champion, died Thursday at his home in New Paltz, New York. He was 71.The cause...
May 11, 2006 · Floyd Patterson, a former heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medallist, died at his home in New York on Thursday at age 71. He had Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer, his...
May 12, 2006 · Ed Gordon remembers boxer Floyd Patterson, who died Thursday at his home in New Paltz, N.Y., after years of battling Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer. He was 71.
