Floyd Patterson was knocked down 15+ times in his career.
He got dropped by Ingemar Johansson 7 times in the same round before getting the fight stopped against him in the THIRD round....
Skip to 8:00 to see a brutal 3rd round.. after the 1st KD Patterson didnt even know where he was and got hit with an unseen punch causing the second KD.... brutal round, just brutal.
Okay this isn't the beating adversity, but yknow what I was gettin at, he got heart and was a champion.
Dempsey, when he fought Willard for the heavyweight title, he was out weighted by almost 100 pounds and a height disadvantage of 6' + and yet destroyed Willard.
Of the near future, Bradley had shown tremendous heart and courage in the Provodnikov fight. Their where multiple times I felt the fight could have been called if Bradley wasn't fighting off of pure instinct.
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