FLOYD PATTERSON RUMORS
Rocky Marciano vs. Floyd Patterson fantasy fight
Rocky Marciano retired 49-0 in April 1956, the only heavyweight champion to hang up the gloves with both the title around his waist and a perfect record. In the decades that followed, many revisionist critics would deride Marciano as a crude slugger who fought only old guys and little guys. The latter point ignores the undeniable fact that Marciano himself never tipped the scales...
Patrick Hyland working with Tracy Patterson
Unbeaten Irish super featherweight prospect Patrick "The Punisher" Hyland (25-0, 11 KOs) wants to get where his trainer, two-time world champion Tracy Harris Patterson, has already been.
Patterson, who lives in nearby New Paltz, was trained by his father, the late Floyd Patterson, two-time world heavyweight champion and 1952 Olympic gold medal winner. Tracy (63-8-2,...
Jerry Jones bids $1 million for Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves
Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday celebration drew heavy hitters from several industries– not just professional sports– to Las Vegas this past weekend.
One of these heavy hitters was omnipresent Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who went toe-to-toe with Lorenzo Ferttita, co-owner of the UFC, in a bidding war for a pair of Ali’s boxing gloves. As initial bidding wound down,...
Jimmy’s Corner Bar in New York City
140W 44th St (between Broadway & 7th Ave in the Theater District) New York, NY 10036 (212) 221-9510 The Big Apple is known for many things, Rockefeller Center, Central Park, etc. but it is the little places that make New York unlike no other place. I stumbled onto Jimmy’s Corner just off of Times Square and just fell in love with it. The owner, Jimmy Glenn has worked...
Hoping Frazier found peace before passing
"There is so much hate, so much contempt inside people," Floyd Patterson once said, "that they hire prizefighters to do their hating for them."
What occasioned these remarks was a merciless and hateful beating at the hands of Muhammad Ali, whom Patterson had made a point of calling Cassius Clay.
"What's my name?" asked Ali, who exceeded Patterson...
Via Fox Sports
November 08, 2011
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Boxer who took on Patterson dead at 74
Thomas McNeeley Jr., a boxer who battled heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson and raised a son who took on Mike Tyson, has died of complications from a seizure. He was 74.
McNeely of Hanover died Oct. 25 at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth with his family by his bedside, according to his son, Thomas McNeeley III.
McNeeley was 23-0 when he took on Patterson, who stopped him in the...
Via AP on Fox
November 01, 2011
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Tom McNeeley, Contender For Heavyweight Title, Dies at 74
McNeeley fought professionally from 1958 to 1966, compiling a respectable 37-14 record with 28 knockouts, but became known for his losses, including a knockout loss to Floyd Patterson.
Via New York Times Sports
October 31, 2011
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