| RIP Floyd Patterson [message #1024764] |
Sun, 14 May 2006 11:25 |
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The Greatest Boxer Ever.
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| Re: RIP Floyd Patterson [message #1024829 ] |
Sun, 14 May 2006 20:56 |
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George Orwell wrote:
> The Greatest Boxer Ever.
He was a class act. Maybe not the absolute best, but if boxer's were
to emulate him, the sport would be a 100% better.
CJ
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| Re: RIP Floyd Patterson [message #1024869 ] |
Mon, 15 May 2006 02:13 |
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Boxing is to sports what automobile racing is to......
"George Orwell" <nobody [at] mixmaster.it> wrote in message
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> The Greatest Boxer Ever.
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| Re: RIP Floyd Patterson [message #1025447 ] |
Wed, 17 May 2006 22:16 |
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On Sun, 14 May 2006 11:25:36 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell
<nobody [at] mixmaster.it> wrote:
>The Greatest Boxer Ever.
He seemed like a decent guy, but he would be far down the list of
greatest heavyweights, let alone greatest boxers. He might have spent
more time on the canvas than any champ in boxing history.
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| Re: RIP Floyd Patterson [message #1025448 ] |
Wed, 17 May 2006 22:23 |
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55 - 8 - 1 with 40 knockouts.
As points of reference - Muhammad Ali was 56 - 5 - 0 with 37 KOs, Joe
Frazier, 37 - 4 - 1 with 27 KOs.
"multi" <multi [at] asm.org> wrote in message
news:vg0n62df7tn1k69vcunvilivdlo4rbibk1 [at] 4ax.com...
> On Sun, 14 May 2006 11:25:36 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell
> <nobody [at] mixmaster.it> wrote:
>>The Greatest Boxer Ever.
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> He seemed like a decent guy, but he would be far down the list of
> greatest heavyweights, let alone greatest boxers. He might have spent
> more time on the canvas than any champ in boxing history.
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| Re: RIP Floyd Patterson [message #1025460 ] |
Wed, 17 May 2006 23:40 |
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multi wrote:
> On Sun, 14 May 2006 11:25:36 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell
> <nobody [at] mixmaster.it> wrote:
> >The Greatest Boxer Ever.
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> He seemed like a decent guy, but he would be far down the list of
> greatest heavyweights, let alone greatest boxers. He might have spent
> more time on the canvas than any champ in boxing history.
I think Patterson answered comments like that with the fact that he
"got up" more than any other boxer in history.
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| Re: RIP Floyd Patterson [message #1025472 ] |
Thu, 18 May 2006 01:21 |
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On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:23:03 -0400, "sfb" <sfb [at] spam.net> wrote:
>55 - 8 - 1 with 40 knockouts.
I guess his manager had a talent for picking easy opponents. The only
really good fighter Patterson ever beat was Archie Moore, who was
probably 43 at the time (and wasn't even a heavyweight). Liston
wasn't all that great, and Patterson lasted a total of about four
minutes in two fights with him. A few months later, Liston couldn't
lay a glove on Ali, even when he was blinded by liniment. So much for
Patterson's speed and agility. And those were his strong points.
>"multi" <multi [at] asm.org> wrote in message
>news:vg0n62df7tn1k69vcunvilivdlo4rbibk1 [at] 4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 14 May 2006 11:25:36 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell
>> <nobody [at] mixmaster.it> wrote:
>>>The Greatest Boxer Ever.
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>> He seemed like a decent guy, but he would be far down the list of
>> greatest heavyweights, let alone greatest boxers. He might have spent
>> more time on the canvas than any champ in boxing history.
>
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| Re: RIP Floyd Patterson [message #1025474 ] |
Thu, 18 May 2006 01:21 |
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On 17 May 2006 14:40:34 -0700, bigoldcat2 [at] yahoo.com wrote:
>multi wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 May 2006 11:25:36 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell
>> <nobody [at] mixmaster.it> wrote:
>> >The Greatest Boxer Ever.
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>> He seemed like a decent guy, but he would be far down the list of
>> greatest heavyweights, let alone greatest boxers. He might have spent
>> more time on the canvas than any champ in boxing history.
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>I think Patterson answered comments like that with the fact that he
>"got up" more than any other boxer in history.
He would have made a good Presidential spokesman.
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| Re: RIP Floyd Patterson [message #1035385 ] |
Mon, 29 May 2006 14:38 |
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He put Howard Cozell out of the boxing announcer business. I was watching
the fight back when the ref decided the fights. Patterson beat the crap
out of his opponent by using current day tactics of jabbing and moving.
You could hardly recognize his opponent from all the blood, but the ref
said Patterson was not boxing and awarded the fight to his opponent Jimmy
Ellis. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT ! Patterson gave Ellis a lesson in boxing that
day. I used to score all the fights round by round back in the old days. I
said the same thing Cozell said only before, "this is the biggest farce in
boxing history". It was at the time. I've seen some others since.
multi <multi [at] asm.org> wrote in news:vg0n62df7tn1k69vcunvilivdlo4rbibk1 [at]
4ax.com:
> On Sun, 14 May 2006 11:25:36 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell
> <nobody [at] mixmaster.it> wrote:
>>The Greatest Boxer Ever.
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> He seemed like a decent guy, but he would be far down the list of
> greatest heavyweights, let alone greatest boxers. He might have spent
> more time on the canvas than any champ in boxing history.
>
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