In some ways, the prefight pattern was familiar. As he had twice before, U.S. Heavyweight Floyd Patterson stuck grimly to his job of clouting sparring partners in preparation for a championship bout ...

The Floyd Patterson who fought Johansson at the Polo Grounds in the summer of 1960 was arguably the coldest and most single-minded version of Patterson we ever saw. There was a bloody job to be done, ...

Ingemar Johansson, 76, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world, who fought Floyd Patterson in three of the most thrilling fights in boxing history, died Jan. 30 at a nursing home in Kungsbacka, ...

The contracts were signed, the tickets went on sale at $10 to $100 a seat, and the promotional drums began going rub-a-dub-dub. Off to a fancy Catskills resort last week went World Heavyweight ...

Floyd Patterson´s death gets big headlines in Swedish media and it´s not just because his career was closely linked to the career of Ingemar Johansson. Floyd became in the early sixties "Swedish Floyd ...

Everyone was always feeling sorry for Floyd Patterson, who died yesterday at 71, and if you had to pick someone to feel sorry for, Floyd had all the qualifications. He was the first heavyweight ...