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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.)
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.
Rademacher, the 1956 Olympic Heavyweight Gold Medalist, was making his professional debut. Rademacher was knocked down six times, Patterson was knocked down in the 2nd round. Walls was down once in the 1st and twice in the 2nd. Brad was knocked down twice.
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 · Patterson became the youngest ever World Heavyweight Champion at 21 years, 10 months and 26 days. His record was surpassed by Mike Tyson, who won the WBC Heavyweight Championship at 20 years, 4 months and 23 days in 1986. In his fifth title defense, Patterson lost the championship to Ingemar Johansson by a third-round TKO on June 26, 1959.
Floyd Patterson. 1935–2006. Boxer. Floyd Patterson rose to the highest level of professional boxing, becoming the youngest world heavyweight champion and then the first man to ever regain a world heavyweight championship.
Dec 13, 2023 · Patterson logged five knockouts in five bouts for his gold medal, and began Boxing professionally after the Games as a light heavyweight boxer. He finished his career with a record of 55-8-1, including 40 knockouts. Patterson was also the first to hold the world heavyweight championship twice.
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 · 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...
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