Floyd Patterson delivered a number of knockout punches during his
Hall of Fame career, but it might have been the fights he won
beyond the boxing ring that made him great. Born in 1935, he
overcame poverty and prejudice to become the youngest world
heavyweight championship in history. He would later became the
first man to regain the crown after losing it. Boxing legend
Muhammad Ali called Patterson the most skillful fighter he ever
faced.In the first biography of the former heavyweight, Alan Levy
covers Patterson's meteoric rise as boxer while giving equal
attention to the boxer's life away from sport, including
Patterson's work as an activist for civil rights causes in the
1960s. Joining Ali and George Frazier as boxers who used their
celebrity to bring attention to social issues, he became an icon of
the movement.
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