Papers Patterson, Floyd (BBC News) "Former world heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson has died aged 71." "He became the youngest heavyweight champion in 1956 by stopping Archie Moore aged just 21. He was also the first fighter to regain the title." 05-06 Patterson, Floyd (IBHOF.com) "When Rocky Marciano retired in 1956, Patterson seized his opportunity. With the heavyweight title vacant, Patterson decisioned Tommy Jackson in a title elimination bout and then knocked out 42-year-old light heavyweight champion Archie Moore in the fifth round to win the vacant crown. He was 21 years and 10 months old, the youngest man to ever capture the heavyweight title. At the time, Moore was the oldest man to ever challenge for that title." "Again Patterson would find himself in the record books when he stopped Johansson in a rematch to become the first man in history to regain the heavyweight title." 6-05

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