Amateur boxing returned to Pittsfield as former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson coached the Huguenot Boxing Club, guiding his team to five victories over the Dewey ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — An interpretive panel celebrating “the life, work and athleticism” of New Paltz resident and World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson will be on display through the end of the month ...

Floyd Patterson, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali, and George Foreman each competed in the Olympic Games before turning professional ...

Miguel Matias got far more than he had bargained for in the ring, outclassed by the more experienced boxer. There was a massive disparity in skill and reach, a chasm separating them in status and, ...

Somewhere within the dreadful fog that comes with Alzheimer’s, I hope that Floyd Patterson considered that he had finally beaten his toughest opponent. Not Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali or Ingemar ...

Boxing champion Floyd Patterson has died after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 71. In 1956, Patterson became the youngest man... Former Heavyweight Champ Floyd Patterson Dies Former ...

It has been reported that former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson died earlier today at his home in New Paltz, N.Y. at the age of 71. Patterson is survived by his second wife and four children.

When Nivon Stufano first began training with Kariym Patterson, a few of the other club members laughed and scoffed when the coach predicted that his newest pupil would become a competitive boxer. But ...

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Norman Mailer died on Saturday in New York. He was 84 years old. Despite Mailer's Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Award, his written work, whether fiction or non-fiction, never received universal ...

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 ...