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 ...

Even before the bout started, the young pretender to the heavyweight title assumed the prerogatives of a champion. Floyd Patterson, 21, made Archie Moore, the fading patriarch (39, going on 43) of the ...

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.

In London last week ancient (42) Archie Moore peered curiously for nine sparring rounds at a raw West Indian named Yolande Pompey before calmly knocking him kicking in the tenth to hold on to his ...