Description
Floyd Patterson
55-8-1
40 KOs 5 KOs
Division: Heavy
Bouts: 64
Career: 1952-1972
Debut: 1952-09-12
Nationality: USA
Residence: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birth place: Waco, North Carolina, USA
Born: 1935-01-04
Died: 2006-05-11 (Age:71)
Won the vacant World Heavyweight Championship with a fifth-round KO of Archie Moore on November 30, 1956. Patterson became the youngest ever World Heavyweight Champion at 21 years, 10 months and 26 days. His record was surpassed by Mike Tyson, who won the WBC Heavyweight Championship at 20 years, 4 months and 23 days in 1986.
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