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You wouldn’t give a dog act the part on the bill that history gave Floyd Patterson.
Feb. 13, 1992
Floyd Patterson spent much of his youth avoiding the light. He loved the night, hated daytime.
Feb. 5, 1987
What a week, even for a world champion and his ex-world champion father.
July 5, 1992
Some of the biggest moments in sports that have occurred on June 26, starting with Ingemar Johansson of Sweden knocking out Floyd Patterson in 1959.
June 26, 2020
Floyd Patterson, a heavyweight boxing champion with a heavyweight inferiority complex, died Thursday at his home in New Paltz, N.Y.
May 12, 2006
Boxing: Tracy Harris Patterson, estranged from Floyd and attempting a comeback, fights tonight.
Dec. 20, 1997
The bob-and-weave style remains. So does the surname.
Tracy Harris Patterson, adopted son of former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, stopped champion Thierry Jacob of France in the second round to win the World Boxing Council super-bantamweight title Tuesday night.
June 24, 1992
Ingemar Johansson and Floyd Patterson, who fought three times for the heavyweight boxing championship, will team up in a Footlocker Partners 8 kilometer race to be held Oct. 25 in Griffith Park.
Sept. 10, 1986
Ingemar Johansson, 76, dies; Swedish boxer stunned world by knocking out Floyd Patterson
Jan. 31, 2009