Patterson Floyd 1935 (3 results)

Frühes, großes s/w Portraitfoto (in ganzer Figur, in Boxpose, gr. 8°), mit Widmung, Empfehlung, Unterschrift schön eigenhändig signiert ".your friend FLOYD PATTERSON".

framed. Condition: near fine. First Day Cover celebrating boxing signed by heavyweight champion boxer Floyd Patterson. Please inquire for more information. Floyd Patterson was an American professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1972, and twice reigned as the world heavyweight champion between 1956 and 1962. At the age of 21, he became the youngest boxer in history to win the title, and was also the first heavyweight to regain the title after losing it. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He has been named among the top 15 heavyweights of all time.…

These five legendary African-American boxers held the world heavyweight championship title between them for much of the 1950s through most of the 1970s. Signed glossy heavy stock 7" X 5" card, n.p., n.y. Fine. Bearing a printed caption "Where Boxing Legends Live Forever" at top, circular logo of the Boxing Hall of Fame at left and "Canastota, New York" at bottom, the blank central portion bears the signatures of Spinks, Norton, Frazier and Patterson in thick black marker and that of Ali in black fineline. All are large and bold, while Ali's is of course small and somewhat tremulous. Almost certainly signed while together at a Boxing Hall of Fame annual induction, and research may show in which years these five pugilists were all present. Leon Spinks is the only non-Hall of Famer among them, but perhaps he attended his brother Michael Spinks' 1994 induction -- which may make this the year in which this quintet was signed. A provocative assemblage, in any case.…