FLOYD PATTERSON - PROGRAM SIGNED CIRCA 1986 - HFSID 52652
Sale Price $144.00
Reg. $160.00
FLOYD PATTERSON
Floyd Patterson signs a program for the "Sixth Annual Thurman Munson Award
Dinner"
Program signed: "Floyd Patterson" on front cover, 12p, 8¼x10¾. New
York City, 1986 January 27. Program for the "Sixth Annual Thurman Munson Award
Dinner" to benefit the Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Ken
Venturi, Larry Holmes, Johnny Bench, Rusty Staub and John Cardinal O'Connor were
the 1986 honorees. Patterson was a past recipient of the Thurman Munson Award
and was one of the co-chairmen for this dinner. At age 21, Floyd
Patterson was, at the time (1956), the youngest fighter to win the world
heavyweight title. On November 22, 1986, ten months after Patterson signed this
program, Mike Tyson would break Patterson's record, becoming the youngest
heavyweight champion in history at the age of 20. Patterson lost his title
to Ingemar Johansson by a TKO in the third round on June 26, 1959. In the June
20, 1960 rematch, Patterson KOd Johansson in the fifth round to become the
first defeated World Heavyweight Champion to regain his title. Patterson
lost his title in 1962, when Sonny Liston KO'd him in the first round. He
retired in 1967 after losing for a second time to Ali, both by TKOs. Slightly
creased. Fine condition.
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