Floyd Patterson The Fighting Life of Boxing’s Invisible Champion | 9.37 MB
Title: Floyd Patterson
Author: W. K. Stratton
Category: Nonfiction, Sports, Boxing, Biography & Memoir
Language: English | 323 Pages | ISBN: 178057620X
"A well-researched and overdue tribute. Like one of Patterson’s reliable left hooks, Stratton sharply recounts the life of an important, but often forgotten, two-time world heavyweight champion." – Gary Andrew Poole, author of PacMan: Behind the Scenes with Manny Pacquiao
In 1956, Floyd Patterson became, at age twenty-one, the youngest boxer to claim the title of world heavyweight champion. Later, he was the first ever to lose and regain that honor.
Here, the acclaimed author W. K. Stratton chronicles the life of "the Gentle Gladiator" – an athlete overshadowed by Ali’s theatrics and Liston’s fearsome reputation, and a civil rights activist overlooked in the Who’s Who of race politics. From the Gramercy Gym and wildcard manager Cus D’Amato to the final rematch against Ali in 1972, Patterson’s career spanned boxing’s golden age. He won an Olympic gold medal, had bouts with Moore and Johansson, and was interviewed by James Baldwin, Gay Talese, and Budd…
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