Floyd Patterson

yeah,

that's a good one, because his mobbing ties, like, you talk about that stuff, you talk about how scary he was, you show the clips of him, you know, blitzing guys, and busting Floyd Patterson's head off, like, yeah, that's a great story to tell, I mean, it's gonna be dark, it's not gonna be like a Sugar Ray Leonard, you know, you know golden opportunity golden calf kind of guy but even though you know sugar had some dark times too but um yeah i don't know sunday this is a good one good good call

yeah it's not gonna get like the amazon amazon's not gonna go for that which is the ali uh miniseries and like netflix wants tyson they want big names they want things they know for it's going to be worth to go to production for and worth uh people are going to watch like

That's like an independent thing, the Sonny Liston stories.

Fought Ali for the heavyweight title.

Fought Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight title.

Right? One of the greats at light heavyweight.

You look at Whitaker and you think to yourself, you know what? He moves better than Benavides.

He was a great boxer.

He fought Floyd Patterson, also Muhammad Ali.

But then he went into nightclubs in Blackpool.

And his nickname was the Blackpool Rock.

Let's square up, mano y mano.

Let's introduce Sonny Liston to Floyd Patterson over here.

And so he started walking towards me.

I was like, what are you doing? I mean, Griff could kill me.

Just got to jump to one that has come up a few times.

um floyd patterson george chivalo uh patterson wins by ud over around over 12 rounds um in 1965 in madison square garden this fight again was actually named ring magazine of the year but just to throw this out as a little ad hoc if you like It's a fight to go back and have a look on.

Patterson, Chivalo, excellent 12-rounder.

No knockdowns, but a lot of energy.

Let's get into it.

There's a story about Floyd Patterson when he was trying to make it as a boxer.

He moved out on his own.

He was struggling in the way that teenagers and college students or kids that have just moved out often struggle.

And then, of course, she makes way more than a snack.

She cooks him this enormous meal.

And Floyd Patterson would write in his memoirs that he kept wondering if his mother knew that it wasn't a social call.

He says that I wasn't eating just to be polite.

Nobody would know.

Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in the first round at Comiskey Park to win the world heavyweight boxing title.

Sonny Liston, this is his first championship.

Moose.