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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.
Floyd Patterson 55: 8: 1: 40 KOs 5 KOs; 76 followers Box-pro Box-am All Bouts referee division: heavy status: inactive bouts: 64: rounds: 419 KOs: 72. ... Patterson was knocked down twice in the 1st round, Johansson was then knocked down at the end of the 1st.
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.
Floyd Patterson was an American professional boxer, the first to hold the world heavyweight championship twice. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Born into poverty in North Carolina, Patterson grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He learned to box while in a school for emotionally
May 11, 2006 · Floyd Patterson was born Jan. 4, 1935, in a cabin in Waco, N.C., the third eldest of 11 children. His father, Thomas, was a manual laborer and his mother, Annabelle, was a domestic who later ...
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. Patterson died at his home, having suffered from ...
May 12, 2006 · Floyd Patterson (he had no middle name) was born Jan. 4, 1935, in a cabin in North Carolina, the third of 11 children. His father, Thomas, was a manual laborer.
TIMING, AS much as talent, played an important part in Floyd Patterson's career. Patterson won a gold medal at the 1952 Olympics while fighting as a middleweight. When he turned pro, he began fighting as a light heavyweight. The first loss of his career was a controversial decision to former 175-pound champ Joey Maxim.
Floyd Patterson was born on January 4, 1935 in Waco, North Carolina—the third of 11 children. He grew up in abject poverty and would become the youngest heavyweight champion until Mike Tyson came along. The family moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1936 so that Patterson’s father Thomas could look for work. He worked in construction, as a longshoreman, in sanitation, and in a fish market.
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 family said.
