Floyd Patterson

Floyd Patterson moves me more than most champions. Becoming the youngest heavyweight titleholder at 21, then making history as the first to reclaim the crown after losing it, he embodied resilience over raw dominance. At only 183 cm he was small for the division, winning instead through speed and technique, an underdog's blueprint inside the sport's biggest weight class. Two Sugar Ray Robinson Awards and a Hall of Fame induction confirm the respect he earned. He passed in 2006, but to me he remains shorthand for the fighter who refuses to stay down. There is real nobility in that.

Name (English)

Floyd Patterson

Name (Japanese)

フロイド・パターソン

Reading

ふろいど・ぱたーそん

Born

January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Boar

Origin

Waco, Texas, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

boxer

High school

New Paltz High School

Awards & achievements

• 1991 International Boxing Hall of Fame
• WBA World Heavyweight Champion
• The Ring World Heavyweight Champion
• 1995 Barney Nagler Award
• 1956 Sugar Ray Robinson Award
• 1960 Sugar Ray Robinson Award

• Official sitehttp://www.cmgww.com/sports/patterso/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%20Patterson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314051

Tags

• Texas
• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.