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May 11, 2006 · Discover 16 Floyd Patterson Quotations: Floyd Patterson: 'The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step...'
Quotes. Floyd Patterson. They said I was the fighter who got knocked down the most, but I also got up the most. If it wasn't for boxing, I would probably be behind bars or dead. "I'm sorry, Mr. President. The title is not worth anything if the best fighters can't have a shot at it. And Liston deserves a shot."
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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.
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Floyd Patterson, boxing's first two-time world heavyweight champion, died of prostate cancer at 71. But for at least the last eight years, he suffered from Alzheimer's disease—the latest in a long line of ring legends to develop dementia .
May 12, 2006 · Nine, ten. It's all over. Floyd Patterson has knocked him unconscious. GORDON: But Patterson's victorious, unprecedented comeback was overshadowed in the 1960s with losses to Sonny Liston...
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.)
