Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then called Floyd Patterson into th ring with him, declaring "As soon as we got the contract ready, I'm ready for the rabbit...
Sonny's performance in Miami was somewhat pathetic, but anyone who saw either of his two knockouts of Floyd Patterson cannot underestimate the man. If Liston went into the ring on crutches, he would still be a potent threat...
...only fighter in the world who won the heavyweight championship twice. He's also the only fighter in the world who lost the heavyweight championship twice. Floyd Patterson, 30, broods about it. What do the folks out there think of him? He got some idea 21 years ago when his neighbor in Scarsdale built a 6-ft. spite fence between their houses. Floyd had an even better notion. He built a fence between his face and the world. Ever since, he has paid his own personal exterior decorators $3,000 a year to camouflage his phiz whenever he mingles...
...King himself left in mid-march to make a speech in Cleveland, returned to the procession a few miles outside Montgomery. He walked about 27 miles in all. That night, a batch of high-priced and highly diversified entertainers-such as Sammy Davis Jr., Nipsey Russell, Shelley Winters, Floyd Patterson, Harry Belafonte, Leonard Bernstein-performed for thousands packed in a muddy field in Montgomery...
...small inability; it is the lack of a sense of proportion. All of his ideas seem equally good to him, all fights equally worth fighting. He is in danger, also, of becoming less a private sensibility than a public act. His very long essay on the first Liston-Patterson fight contains a detailed description of how he had gone to pieces that weekend; hung over and distracted at a press conference after the fight, he shouted insults at Liston, got himself carried bodily from the room...