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largely overlooked

their second fight was a toe to toe war

Ali planting his feet and trading massive bombs with Patterson...dont know how old floyd was but ..what a classic fight

Collins do you have this fight? I would love to watch it on YOUTUBE if you happen to ever have the time. It gets a lot of discussion but it's one that's missing from YOUTUBE's inventory.

I notice the Holmes-Ruddock sparring match was pulled from view.

BoxBuzz wrote:Collins do you have this fight? I would love to watch it on YOUTUBE if you happen to ever have the time. It gets a lot of discussion but it's one that's missing from YOUTUBE's inventory.

I notice the Holmes-Ruddock sparring match was pulled from view.

I saw part of it on youtube.

This is a pretty good fight. Patterson showed how effective he
still was in this, his last fight.

I wonder why the Ruddock-Holmes was taken off...

The Patterson-Ali 2 fight was on YouTube from two
sources. It's ashame that it's not up on there.

I really enjoyed their second fight. Except off course
that Floyd did not win it.

i watched it on youtube yesturday

i think its one of floyds best performances

It was Patterson's last fight.

I think I have it on DVD at home so if it's still not on youtube, let me know and I'll try and work out how to get it onto it for you. Might have to wait until the weekend, though.

funso could you post the link? Maybe I'm just missing it.

BoxBuzz wrote:funso could you post the link? Maybe I'm just missing it.

I gave it a quick search Buzz and found tons of Ali Patterson I videos.

This is the only one I could find from Ali Patterson II, it is titled Round 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE39_6Tz2O8

My guess is that the rest of the fight is out there somewhere, if I wasn't at work I'd give it a further search. I'll see if I can track the rest down later.

thats the one i was looking at in part

the entire fight was def up a short while back

get it

I'll try and upload it.

I shall have it up by the end of the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGaC5Ing7Yo
Here is the first part.

The second one should be up any minute
the third part I shall have up tomorow as I have
to leave the office now.

Enjoy lads.

Part three will be uploaded today.

Well in the first three rounds there is no doubting who the boss is. Terms of this fight are fully dicated by Ali. Might be able to argue the first round for Patterson I suppose but Ali is just in charge regardless of tech points. IMHO. Nobody has suffered much of any consequence. But Floyd is just missing the target too much. Still he's fast for his age in this fight.

When's the last time you saw two heavyweights move this much? Looks like middleweight action.

Patterson however you view it looks very good
for a man of 20 years pro fighting behind him and
in his last fight.

I really enjoyed this fight...except for the outcome :(

Robinson wrote:=I really enjoyed this fight...except for the outcome :(

Well put!

BoxBuzz wrote: When's the last time you saw two heavyweights move this much? Looks like middleweight action.

Good point.

Totally different attitude to Patterson from Ali than in their first fight too, no clowning, just respect.

Ali said that Patterson was the most skilled boxer he ever fought.

Patterson looks and fights like a smaller Tyson...You can see the D'Amato influence all over him...

"Feet of a ballerina and chin of a poet".

Good fight and good call by the ref. The eye was a bit of a mess.

In my happy land in my heart Floyd Patterson never lost.

Terry D wrote:

Robinson wrote:In my happy land in my heart Floyd Patterson never lost.

Best avoid Liston fights then!

I have two versions of this. One perfectly fine and one where Gutteridge and Carpenter interrupt the action to talk complete shite for a few minutes at a time.

Was that where he wore disguises after the fight so he wouldn't be recognized...

Floyd was a fundamentally decent man...It's just that certain fighters had his number...

And it didn't help Floyd to have President Kennedy tell him he was rooting for him to win to vindicate all that is right against the "thug" Sonny Liston... I don't think all that pressure helped...

thats the thing about different styles...frazier and patterson would always be beaten by foreman and liston no matter what they did....and liston and foreman would always be beaten by Ali....

but frazier beat ali...wooooaa