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| Ex-champ Floyd Patterson dies at 71 |
 Ex-champ Floyd Patterson dies at 71 NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) -- Floyd Patterson, who came back from an embarrassing loss to become the first boxer to regain the heavyweight title, died Thursday. He was 71. Patterson died at his home, having suffered from Alzheimer's disease for about eight years, according to nephew Sherman Patterson. Patterson also had prostate cancer. Patterson's career was marked by historic highs and humiliating lows. He emerged from a troubled childhood in Brooklyn to win the Olympic middleweight championship in 1952. In 1956, the undersized heavyweight became at age 21 the youngest man to win the title with a fifth-round knockout of Archie Moore. |
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