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İngilizce - İngilizce
An English and Irish patronymic surname derived ultimately from the personal name Patrick
American prizefighter who held the world heavyweight title from 1956 to 1959 and 1960 to 1962

İlgili Terimler

Patterson's Curse
The plant echium plantagineum
Floyd Patterson
born Jan. 4, 1935, Waco, N.C., U.S. U.S. boxer. Patterson grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. As a middleweight amateur fighter, he won the N.Y. Golden Gloves championship in 1951 and '52 and won an Olympic gold medal in 1952. As a professional, he moved up to heavyweight and in 1956 succeeded Rocky Marciano as world heavyweight champion by knocking out Archie Moore. He lost the title to Ingemar Johansson in 1959, regained it in 1960 (becoming the first to hold the heavyweight championship twice), and lost it again in 1962 to Sonny Liston
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