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The result at the time was the third-fastest knockout in boxing history. After the fight, questions were raised on whether the fight was fixed to set up a more lucrative rematch. Overnight, Patterson seemed to lose his public support as a result of his swift knockout. The rematch was set for April ; however, Liston injured his knee swinging a golf club and the fight was delayed three months to July In Las Vegas that night, Patterson attempted to become the first boxer to win the heavyweight title three times, but Liston once again knocked him out in the first round. Patterson lasted four seconds longer than in the first bout. Following these defeats, Patterson went through a depression. However, he eventually recovered and began winning fights again, including top victories over Eddie Machen and George Chuvalo ; the Chuvalo match won The Ring ' s " Fight of the Year " award. Patterson was now the number-one challenger for the title held by Muhammad Ali.

On November 22, , in Las Vegas, in yet another attempt to be the first to win the world heavyweight title three times, he went into the fight with an injured sacro­iliac joint in a bout in which Ali was clearly dominant. As a Catholic, I am fighting Clay as a patriotic duty. I am going to return the crown to America. Instead of scoring a quick knockout, Ali mocked, humiliated and punished Patterson throughout the fight but was unable to knock him out before the referee finally stopped the fight in the 12th round. Patterson remained a legitimate contender. When Ali was stripped of his title for refusing induction into the military, the World Boxing Association staged an eight-man tournament to determine his successor. Patterson fought Jerry Quarry to a draw in In a rematch four months later, Patterson lost a controversial round decision to Quarry. Subsequently, in a third and final attempt at winning the title a third time, Patterson lost a controversial round referee's decision to Jimmy Ellis in Stockholm, in , despite breaking Ellis's nose and scoring a disputed knockdown.

In September he divorced his first wife, Sandra Hicks Patterson, who wanted him to quit boxing, while he still had hopes for another title shot. Patterson continued on, defeating Oscar Bonavena in a close fight over ten rounds in early At age 37, Patterson was stopped after seven rounds with a cut eye while still competitive in a rematch with Muhammad Ali for the NABF heavyweight title on September 20, In retirement, he and Ingemar Johansson became good friends who flew across the Atlantic to visit each other every year and he served two terms as chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. His adopted son, Tracy Harris Patterson , was a world champion boxer in the s and was trained by Floyd during part of his career. They are the first father and son to win world titles in boxing. Patterson suffered from Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer in his final years. He died at home in New Paltz, on May 11, , at the age of Contents move to sidebar hide.

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OCLC Ebony : 44— November Stockholm Marathon. October 30, June 24, NYC Parks. Washington Post. Retrieved 18 May Floyd Patterson: A Boxer and a Gentleman. Retrieved on Playboy Press. ISBN X. Ingemar Johansson. Olympic boxing champions — men's middleweight. The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year. Sugar Ray Robinson Award. Leonard , Randolph , L. Spinks Norton Holmes S. Leonard Hearns S. James Edward Sullivan Frank S. O'Neil — Fred A. Wenck — William Muldoon — George E. Brower — James A. Farley — John J. Phelan — Eddie Eagan — Robert K. Dooley — James A. Farley Jr. In , he was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Having suffered from Alzheimer's disease and dementia since the mids, he lived in a nursing home in Kungsbacka while his health deteriorated. In the later stages of his illness, he was reunited with his second wife, Birgit, who was at his side when he died on 30 January , from complications following pneumonia. Johansson was married three times [14] and is survived by five children.

While his victory over Floyd Patterson was a huge upset at the time, Johansson's standing within heavyweight history is fairly poor. Considered to be an ordinary fighter with a very good right hand, the Swede was perhaps fortunate to have met Patterson, one of history's more vulnerable heavyweight champions, for the title. Patterson also likely took the challenge of Johansson lightly, given the Swede's apparently lackadaisical approach to training. This was also at a time when it was considered a virtual impossibility that a European heavyweight could inflict a defeat on an American champion on U. Furthermore, Patterson had defended the title just 56 days previously, against Britain's Brian London , and likely considered Johansson to be another inept challenger from Europe. Johansson's world title victory is still historically significant within European boxing, as he became only the fourth-ever European to become heavyweight champion, and the first since Primo Carnera in , who lost the title to Max Baer almost exactly 25 years before Johansson's triumph.

Johansson would be the last European to win the heavyweight title until Italy's Francesco Damiani became the inaugural WBO heavyweight champion in May As the WBO was a fledgling sanctioning body at the time and not considered a legitimate world title, it was not until Great Britain's Lennox Lewis was awarded the WBC title in , 33 years after Johansson's victory over Patterson, that a European again held a recognized version of the heavyweight title. It was also not until , when Lewis unified the titles against Evander Holyfield , that a European again held the undisputed heavyweight championship, as Johansson had 40 years earlier. Despite never successfully defending the title, Johansson can claim to have been a heavyweight champion in two decades the s and s. He was the first heavyweight champion to lose the title to the man whom he had beaten to become champion since Ezzard Charles 's loss to Jersey Joe Walcott in This would not happen again until September , when Leon Spinks dropped the title back to Muhammad Ali , having beaten him in February of that year to become champion.

Outside of Europe, Johansson is best remembered as the opponent whom Patterson beat to become the first man to regain the heavyweight championship. As this loss, and the one which he suffered to the American in their third fight, are his only defeats, Johansson is one of four heavyweight champions to have retired with victories over every opponent he faced as a professional. Although the win over Patterson to claim the heavyweight title is his most famous, Johansson's first-round victory over the undefeated American, Eddie Machen , in is also noteworthy and provides evidence of the power the Swede held in his right hand. Machen would go on to take Sonny Liston the twelve-round distance in and lasted into the tenth round against Joe Frazier in Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.

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