After his trilogy with Ingemar Johansson, Floyd Patterson defended his title on December 4th, 1961 in Toronto, Canada. Floyd easily disposed of Tom McNeeley in four rounds, but pressure was mounting on him to fight the number one contender, Sonny Liston. After a dispute between his managers Jimmy Jacobs and Cus D’Amato, Floyd removed D’Amato […]

Floyd entered the 1956 heavyweight elimination tournament to find a new champion since Rocky Marciano had retired. Patterson defeated ‘Hurricane Jackson’, setting up a fight with light heavyweight champ Archie Moore on November 30, 1956. Floyd knocked out Moore in five rounds at Chicago Stadium in Chicago, and became the youngest heavyweight champion ever at

Floyd Patterson was born on January 4, 1935 in Waco., North Carolina. His family moved to the Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Bed-Stuy. He was a thief at a young age, and wound up in reform school, which turned his life around. He returned home afterwards, and excelled in high school in many sports. Floyd

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After his loss to Muhammad Ali in October of 1970, Jerry took six months off from the ring. He put a string of six consecutive wins together, before agreeing to a rematch with Ali, set for June of 1972 in Las Vegas. This time the fight lasted seven rounds before being stopped by the referee.

  ‘Irish’ Jerry Quarry was born on May 15, 1945 in Bakersfield, California. He won he National Golden Gloves championship at age 19, and had over 200 fights in his amateur career. After turning professional in May of 1965, he fought fourteen times that same year. He suffered his first loss to Eddie Machen in

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     After his decision win over Wilfred Benitez on December 3, 1982, Thomas Hearns now was the WBC super welterweight champ. An injury to his right hand kept him out of the ring however, allowing him to only fight once in 1983. He fought contender Murray Sutherland on July 10th at Caesars in Atlantic

Earnie Dee Shaver was born on August 31, 1944 in Garland, Alabama . He did not start boxing until he was 22, and had a short amateur career, winning the 1969 National AAU heavyweight title. Shavers won 44 of his first 47 fights by knockout. After hiring Don King as his promoter, he began to