Patterson probably should have gotten the award for Most Chances Given to No-Name Fighters. In '57, he fought Pete Rademacher, a former Olympian who never had a professional fight before he stepped into the ring with Floyd; in '58, Roy (Cut 'n Shoot) Harris, who had fought anyone of any substance previously. I think both of them knocked him down (Harris lasted more than 12 rounds). Then in '59, Johansen, who'd never fought in America before, knocked him out with the famous "t'oonder." The rematch was the only time I ever saw Patterson with the killer look.


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E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.