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Originally posted by butterfly1964
i always thought this was obvious, but unlike what i hear on this forum alot, Patterson is an all-time great! he became the youngest hw champion and still is the youngest undisputed champ, he never ducked a fighter in his life (or sonny liston never would have became champ), and he had the most guts probably of any fighter. the fact that he wanted to fight liston again after he lost the title is proof enough, but he actually wanted to fight liston a third time, but never got a chance to 'cause he fell out of the mainstream of top contenders after his loss to ali in '65. he was the first to regain the title, doing so by a savage beat down of johannson, and had the title for a total of 5 years and had six title defenses. but like joe frazier, he is underrated cause he unfortunately fought at the same time two other all-time greats were, muhammad ali and sonny liston (frazier's were ali and george foreman) and is only remembered as getting beat by both of them. patterson is a great champion, and probably the second fastest hw under ali. he never ran from an opponent and faced all-comers. you don't see much of that today, or from people like tyson, jeffries and marciano. he should get the credit he deserves!
Yes Floyd Patterson did duck Marciano because Marciano wanted to fight him but Patterson didn't except. When Marciano retired Floyd took the title. So thats false
Also incorrect, Floyd Patterson was 21 years old when he won the title Mike Tyson was 20 years old and continued wto win the rest of the belts to make him undsiputed.
your bashing aside Floyd Patterson was great and always will be. The boxing community mourns at the loss of such a great fighter.
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