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History of USA
1952
Olympic Gold Medal
Winner a gold medal at the
1952
Olympics fighting as a middleweight
1956
World Champion
Floyd
Patterson
knocks out 42-year-old light heavyweight champion Archie
Moore
in the fifth round to win the vacant crown, 21 years and 10 months old, the youngest man to ever capture the heavyweight title
1959
World Champion
Patterson made four successful title defenses but his reign comes to an end when
Sweden
's Johansson knocked him out in the third round
1962
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Sonny
Liston
becomes world heavyweight champion by knocking out Floyd
Patterson
in the first round
1963
Victory Liston
22nd July
Sonny
Liston
knocks out Floyd
Patterson
in the first round for a
2nd
time in 1 year
1965
Victory Ali
22nd July
Patterson challenges for the crown again but is stopped in 12 rounds by
Muhammad
Ali
1972
Retirement
Patterson finally retires after a
1972
loss to Ali, 64 bouts, 55 wins, 8 defeats & 40 knockouts
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