Ed Gordon remembers boxer Floyd Patterson, who died Thursday at his home in New Paltz, N.Y., after years of battling Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer. He was 71. Though never considered one ...

Two-time heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, one of the most honest, hard-working and sensitive men to ever lace on a glove for pay in the service of a brutal sport, died yesterday at his New ...

Heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson was a marvelous contradiction. He earned his living by beating men senseless in the ring, but he had an imagination for kindness.

After Floyd Patterson's death at 71, experts and historians were as keen to talk about his personality as his ring record, Kieran Mulvaney writes.

Floyd Patterson, the new heavyweight champion, was a shy man who never rested on his laurels. Weeks after he KO'd Archie Moore for the vacant title, Patterson was back in the gym doing heavy workouts.

Floyd Patterson, a heavyweight boxing champion with a heavyweight inferiority complex, died Thursday at his home in New Paltz, N.Y. He was 71. Patterson had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for ...

Floyd Patterson, a sweet-tempered boxer who rose from a troubled boyhood to become the heavyweight champion of the world, died early Thursday at his home in New Paltz, N.Y. He was 71. The cause ...

Floyd Patterson, who was the heavyweight boxing champion when people cared about such things, began to talk about himself in a way he never had before when he started losing. What followed his two ...

Floyd, a 1991 inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, operated a boxing gym in New Paltz where he trained Tracy. “It wasn’t designed that way. It just turned out that ...

Floyd Patterson was one of the most popular boxers of all-time. Sonny Liston one of the most unpopular.. But greatly feared. On this day, 50 years ago Patterson would lose his heavyweight title to ...

The Floyd Patterson Boxing Club is among businesses affected by COVID-19. The Highland gym is seeking local support to stay afloat until reopening.