Heavyweight champ Floyd Patterson, 71
Posted: Thursday, May 11th, 2006 2:18 pm
Floyd Patterson, an undersized champion who avenged an embarrassing loss to Ingemar Johansson by beating him a year later to become the first boxer to regain the heavyweight title, died Thursday. He was 71.
Patterson died at his home in New Paltz, N.Y. He had Alzheimer’s disease for about eight years and prostate cancer, nephew Sherman Patterson said. … Read full obituary
