Despite his manager Cus D’Amato’s objections, Floyd Patterson agreed to fight Sonny Liston at Comiskey Park in Chicago on September 25, 1962. The hard-punching Liston was just an 8-5 betting favorite going in, which seems ridiculous to me. If I was a fight fan at the time, I’d have rustled up every […]

After knocking out Pete Rademacher in his pro debut on August 22, 1957, Floyd Patterson fought only once in 1958. The August 18, 1958 bout at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles saw Floyd defeat Roy Harris rather easily. Another nine months passed by before Patterson fought again, this time in Indianapolis against Brian London on

Floyd Patterson was born on January 4, 1935 in Waco, North Carolina. His family later moved to Brooklyn, New York, an entirely different world from the country world of the south. After a troubled youth of petty theft and minor crimes, Floyd found boxing at age 14. Just three years later, he won the gold

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After the nightmare of the fix with the second Ali bout, Sonny Liston went into hiding for awhile. He took 14 months off from boxing, before traveling to Stockholm to fight a guy named Gerhard Zech on July 1, 1966. Sonny finished Zech in the seventh, and was back in the win column. A month

     After losing to Cassius Clay on February 25, 1965, it was not long after that a rematch was planned. Clay also changed his name to Muhammad Ali in the interim, and announced he was officially a Muslim, and a follower of Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. This did not endear him