Floyd Patterson

During this time, he claimed the World Heavyweight title three times (a record) and fought some of the sport's greatest fighters. Among his most dangerous opponents were Hall of Fame fighters like Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Floyd Patterson.

Name: Clevens Section ____ TITLE OF RESEARCH PAPER (should include Name of your Research Subject) INTRODUCTION (1 paragraph, ending in Thesis Statement) He was the great, the fastest, the most hard hitting, most loudmouth boxer...Muhammad Ali. Thesis: BACKGROUND (1 or 2 paragraphs) Muhammad was from Louisville, Kentucky. When he was a kid he left his bike outside of a place unlocked when he came back it was gone. When he saw that it was gone he wanted to beat up the person who took his bike

Muhammad Ali, a now retired heavyweight champion boxer, whos is Islamic, was born in 1942 and has been boxing since he was in high school. By the time he graduated he won two national Golden Gloves titles. Also he won one­hundred matches and only lost eight times which is a big achievement in itself. His trainer, a police officer named Joe Martin who was a former boxing trainer took Muhammad and taught him how to fight. It was because of him that Muhammad became a heavyweight boxing champion. Later

Fedor Emelianenko said this to a reporter before a fight, “Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I have more money and I see every opponent as a man that is trying to put me back into that poorer period. That man has to be eliminated. He was undefeated for twenty-seven fights in a row while fighting under the Pride Fighting Championship banner. Fedor gave his full potential in everything he did. So how far can you take your full potential like him? His career professionally started

Previous eight-division title holder Pacquiao, 37, had reported his retirement in the wake of beating Timothy Bradley in April. The judges scored the session 114-113, 118-109 and 118-109 for the veteran Filipino. His previous world title equal Floyd Mayweather Jr had a ringside situate. "Not terrible," Mayweather said, offering Pacquiao a go-ahead after the battle. Mayweather beat Pacquiao to end up the undisputed welterweight champion in May 2015 in what was charged as "the battle of the

Porter is coming off a huge unanimous decision victory over Adrien “The Problem” Broner in their June bout at the MGM Grand. Showtime dominated Broner during the entire match with his aggressiveness and pinpoint accuracy, with the latter mimicking Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s evasive techniques to no avail. The 27-year-old Porter was knocked down in the opening minutes of the last round with a wayward right, but that’s about the only shining moment for The Problem. SB Nation’s Bad Left Hook indicated

Boxing has a significant heavyweight title on the line this Saturday in Manchester, England, where rising young stars Joseph Parker and Hughie Fury will battle for Parker’s WBO heavyweight title. Parker, who’s 23-0 with 18 knockouts and making his second title defense, is a 25-year-old New Zealand native. Many consider Parker a representation of the next wave of great heavyweights. However, in his last two fights against a step-up in competition, he lacked the finishing ability he showed in previous

Sugar Ray Robinson was America’s greatest boxer, and one of the first celebrity athletes. The book Being Sugar Ray by Kenneth Shropshire is a fantastic book for sport fans and especially fans of boxing. If you are not into sports, much less boxing, then this book may be hard to get into and may drag on throughout. This book is a biography about Sugar Ray. It explains his life from beginning to end. I loved “Being Sugar Ray” and think it is an absolute great book because of it being motivational and

During the 1960’s, boxing went through noticeable changes with the rise of the heavyweight champion Cassius Clay who would later change his name to Muhammad Ali. In the midst of controversy and anger because of the Vietnam War, boxing was an escape from reality that many people desperately needed. Neil Leifer is credited with taking the photograph which is now remembered as The Greatest Photo of Muhammad Ali Ever Taken, and The Best Sports Photograph of the Twentieth Century. The photograph shows

Shane Mosley (48-9-1, 40 KOs) seems to be experiencing a kind of nostalgic episode in his life as the former three-division world champion recently declared that he wants to fight arguably the most popular but olden boxers of the moment: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs), Manny Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs), Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs), or Juan Manuel Marquez (56-7-1, 40 KOs), as reported by Boxing News 24. Merely hearing the names of these five great boxers felt like looking in a boxing museum, and