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==Kehidupan awal==
Patterson lahir pada tanggal 4 Januari 1935<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/04/UPI-Almanac-for-Friday-Jan-4-2019/5471546221584/|title=UPI Almanac for Friday, Jan. 4, 2019|work=[[United Press International]]|date=January 4, 2019|access-date=September 4, 2019|archive-date=January 5, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190105012355/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/04/UPI-Almanac-for-Friday-Jan-4-2019/5471546221584/|url-status=live|quote=former heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson in 1935}}</ref>
Patterson mulai bertinju pada umur 13 tahun dan berlatih dengan Bedford-Stuyvesant Boxing Association Gym.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/486008310/ Big Apple rates edge vs. Chicago], By Tom Hanrahan, ''Daily News from New York'', April 24, 1981, p. 46.</ref> Tiga tahun kemudian dia memenangkan medali emas di divisi kelas menengah pada Olimpiade Helsinki 1952. Pada tahun yang sama dia juga memenangkan Kejuaraan Amatir Nasional Kelas Menengah dan Kejuaraan [[New York Golden Gloves]] Kelas Menengah.<ref>{{cite news |last=Litsky |first=Frank |date=May 11, 2006 |title=Floyd Patterson, Boxing Champion, Dies at 71 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/sports/othersports/11cnd-patterson.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 16, 2018}}</ref> Pada saat itu dia dilihat oleh [[Cus D'Amato]], dan berlatih di Gramercy Gym.
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Patterson kini menjadi penantang nomor satu bagi [[Muhammad Ali]] yang berstatus juara dunia. Pada tanggal 22 November 1965 di Las Vegas dia kembali berusaha menjadi petinju pertama yang memenangkan gelar juara dunia sebanyak tiga kali. Patterson bertanding dalam keadaan sendinya mengalami ''sacro-iliac'' dalam pertandingan yang didominasi oleh Ali.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2006-05-11-floyd-patterson-obit_x.htm |work=USA Today |title=Ex-heavyweight boxer Floyd Patterson, 71, dies |first=Chuck |last=Johnson |date=2006-05-11 |access-date=2010-05-02}}</ref> Ali menyebut Patterson sebagai "Paman Tom" karena menolak memanggilnya Muhammad Ali (Patterson terus memanggil Ali sebagai Cassius Clay) dan sikapnya yang blak-blakan terhadap muslim kulit hitam.<ref>Hauser, Thomas (November 2, 2003) [https://web.archive.org/web/20070316002449/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1072751,00.html Ali: The Legacy]. ''The Guardian''</ref> Sebelum pertandingan, Patterson telah berkata:
<blockquote>"Pertandingan ini adalah perang salib untuk merebut kembali gelar dari muslim kulit hitam. Sebagai penganut
Bukannya mencari kemenangan cepat, Ali justru mengolok-olok dan menyiksa Patterson sepanjang pertandingan itu the fight but was unable to knock him out before the referee finally stopped the fight in the 12th round.<ref>Schwartz, Larry [http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00242468.html A Great Champion]. ESPN.com.</ref><ref>[https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Muhammad_Ali_vs._Floyd_Patterson Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson]. Boxrec</ref>
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Patterson
[[File:Floyd Patterson Wild Wild West 1968.JPG|thumb|upright=1.15|Patterson tried his hand at acting. He is seen in this 1968 ''[[The Wild Wild West]]'' episode as a landowner who is in danger of losing his property.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0748555/ |title="The Wild Wild West" The Night of the Juggernaut |publisher=IMDb |access-date=July 16, 2018}}</ref>]]
In September 1969 he divorced his first wife, Sandra Hicks Patterson, who wanted him to quit boxing, while he still had hopes for another title shot.
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