Floyd Patterson - Fastest Heavyweight Hand Speed
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Floyd Patterson - Was an American professional boxer who held the undisputed world heavyweight championship. At the age of 21, he became the youngest boxer to win the world heavyweight title, and was also the first heavyweight to regain the title after losing it. As an amateur he represented the United States at the 1952 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the middleweight division.
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haNZAgod
My father was laid up in a hospital recovering from a near death car accident in the late 70's. Floyd Patterson walks into his hospital room to shake his hand and give a word of encouragement. Patterson was walking the hospital visiting all the sick people. As a kid I thought it was so cool that someone famous would take time out of their life, go to a hospital and try and lift the spirits of the sick.
true or false I don't give a dame I like this story 😂
Floyd was visiting nursing homes and psycho words as often as possible at least every Sunday. Why because they had no one. I was picked up from the rough streets by him and he let me stay with his family for years. He used to take me to the places with him. It was so painful that I used to hate it. But as I get older I realized how meaningful it was.
Did your dad live
How can you hate Floyd? Dude fought weighing less and still fought the best and he was all class(yes, I know, he had such a beautiful hook)
That’s so nice
My dad met Patterson in the early 80s at a charity event. He was a total gentleman.
Floyd PattersonII there is no Floyd Patterson jr you fraud
@Floyd PattersonII ha!
@Floyd PattersonII It's so weird that people like you exist.
Why would you pretend to be Floyds son on CZcams?
So strange
@@ReservoirPunk 😂😂
@@lefez9015 Hahaha whaddup fam
Floyd is one of my all time heroes. Not too many people ever mention how fast his hands were and how accurate a puncher he was
He was class and dignity personified
Not to many people mention him at all. He was and still is way to underrated, def a top ten.
Floyd was the inventor of the Gazelle Punch.
@@kantovagrant3194 Floyd was inventor of Peekaboo style too. It was the result of the hard work between him and his trainer Frank Lavelle. Cus D'Amato had nothing to do with his boxing slills.
Floyd Patterson really knew how to let his hands go. very natural punching
man you know how to pick your music for these videos. So fitting!
Appreciate it bud :)
@@hanzagod song?
I was thinking the same thing...damn!!!
I remember Floyd's last fight, he was 37 years old and on the other side of the ring there was Muhammad Ali. And in my opinion that night Floyd won the first 5 rounds, however Ali needed only 2 to get the job done. The last photogram of the fight was Muhammad Ali shaking Floyd's hand, and I bet that he was thinking "Man! I hope to be that Sharp at 37."
I remember that one and totally agree, can you remember how biased the commentary was in favour of Ali though
Yes the cut in the eye cost him the match. I was rooting for Patterson to win.
Ali was going easy on him I think although Ali called him a Uncle Tom and The Rabbit and Patterson called him Clay they were actually friends there was respect there as fighters The first fight Ali punished Patterson and won by stoppage in twelve rounds but also built respect towards one another
Floyd was actually winning the second Ali fight on the scorecards until the ref stopped it due to Floyd’s eye.
@@impulse_xs Floyd went in to the fight with broken bone between his eye and his nose. He got it from the tune up fight with Pedoro Agosto right before the second fght with Ali. Floyd brew his nose without thinking in the between 5th and 6th interval and his eye got swollen instantly. It costed him the fight. Otherwise he was winning the second Ali fight. You can see it happened on the video tape if you look it very close. Floyd was almost 38 at the time and he was fighting professionally since he was 17. He was a natural middleweight fighting top heavyweights all through his pro career. and his last opponent was Ali. Ali was bigger than the most of his opponents and his last fights he did much worse. Ali lost to Leon Spinks who had only 6 pro wins behind him and just took beat from Holmes and Berbick. No one today realize that Floyd almost got to fight Ali for the third time in 1978. Ali fought Leon instead and lost bad. Ali didn't only ducked Ken Norton. Ali was a great fighter in his time, but there is no such thing as greatest.
It wasn't just his hand speed which made the difference, because his power was pivotal for creating his success and his size made those aspects essential!
The lack of appreciation for Floyd Patterson in the boxing community is appalling. He was an amazing boxer fighting much bigger men. If he had fought at light heavy where he belonged he would have been known as one of the greatest ever. The fact he was so small for a heavyweight and was dropping these bigger men with lightning quick power was just superhuman. Outside the ring the guy was a supreme gentleman.
I believe he was boxing at a crucial changing of the guard and played a pivotal role in defining Ali. He was destroyed by a much bigger man in Liston and then Ali, also a very large man beat Liston. After that Patterson became a footnote in Liston and Ali’s careers. Sad he fell thru the cracks.
Floyd almost became 3 time heavyweight champ was so close against Jimmy Ellis, many thought he won, wouldve been the first to do that also after becoming first heavyweight to regain title.
@Donald Quirk I agree totally
.I thought floyd won a unanimous decision
Donald Quirk oh he was definitely robbed. Floyd destroyed that man, and I love both fighters but it was obvious
We could've had Frazier vs Patterson after that, damn.
The only thing this guy had going against him was a rather suspect chin and a small size for a heavyweight. At cruiser or light-heavy, he'd have been a nightmare.
at light heavyweight he actually WAS!
Could have been one of the best light heavys
He was like Tyson, but he didnt bob, and weave quite as much.
@@HowardHughes33 Holyfield?
Noah stop trying to back up ur shit champ
A buffed up Super Middleweight giving it to the whole Heavyweight Division. P4P Greatest in my book, in style and class.
True! He gave Ali a better fight than Bob Foster, and they were both too small for HW.
@@CommKommando I think he had a good chance in his second fight with Ali. The cut in his eye was responsible for his loss.
P4P is SUGAR RAY ROBINSON
@@dappadondadda100 Why do you believe so? Because everyone say so ? Ezzard Charles and Floyd were physically not much bigger than Ray Robinson. Robinson lost to a small welterweight Carmen Basilio as a middleweight champion. He really didn't defeat Basilio in the rematch either. Ezzard and Floyd was a middleweights who ruled the heavyweight division and the heavyweight is the top of boxing world always.
Fantastic video, thankyou. Floyd Patterson was awesome, and people frequently forget he was really a lightheavy fighting much bigger men. Pure class and dignity and always the good guy.
Not only did Floyd have lightning fast hands,he could generate devastating power in his punches.2:45---he knockout of Ingo was scary...
Best KO of all time imo
That Gazelle punch was a thing of beauty. Devastating power.
patterson is deffo a legendary heavyweight boxer and his speed is 1 of the best, he would at the very least have a prime weight of 210 lbs if he was born into this generation of boxing.
Floyd was really giving Ali the business at 1:46... whew!
Floyd Patterson was a brilliant fighter! A great pressure fighter kind of like a skinny version of mike Tyson, Patterson is also underrated in terms of Resume, He would defiantly be in my top 20 heavyweights of all time.
same trainer! floyd is proto tyson, tyson was a mix of patterson and dempsey imo
Lol ur right he was a mix
That left hook is a thing of beauty too. Last of an era too of the smaller sized heavyweights before Liston/Ali took over. He's gotta be top 20 for the sheer fact he was the youngest heavyweight ever before Tyson (if you still count it, he still is since Tyson won A belt at 20 and not the lineal title), and the first ever to regain the title.
Almost identical records as well. Very similar resumes. The comparisons between the two are pretty striking. Both even had the same struggles with long fighters.
Tyson had more explosive, quick, killer instinct power.
Patterson was more sound in his fundamental game, and drag a dude through rounds, pressuring him until he cracked.
Two of the most well trained fighters in history.
@bulldog Brown i,m sure that Patterson is a skinny version of Tyson
This is the best Floyd Patterson video I've ever seen!! You've really captured and put together his absolute best moments. Bravo 👏👏
That left hook that boomed johannsen was straight out of robinsons locker.Beautiful
With Patterson there's a lot of good material for highlight reel. He was the fastest heavyweight ever indeed
Great job hanZAgod I've been looking for a highlight reel of Floyd for years. You did him proud with this
man I really love the way he fights
AND perfect music by the way....the right music REALLY makes highlight reel work and you seem to always catch the perfect sound. Never disappointed when haNZAgod does the reel. I really wish ESPN and 30 for 30 would do a doc on him and some of the other underrated boxers out there. If anything just to definitively end the myth that it was Patterson that Ali punished for not calling him Ali, it was Terrell. I like Ali too, but he's pretty much been covered. Or better yet a 30 for 30 on the Cus D'Mato fighters from Patterson to Torres to Tyson, because I can't think of another trainer whose style of boxing was so intertwined with his philosophy of not only the sport but also life. It was based on understanding fear and aggression and how to face those things head on without just running straight into it.
Did D'Mato ever make that into a book?
Shadowsnake 89 unfortunately he didn't What I know from him is just documentary footage and what Tyson has to say. Jose Torres wrote a Tyson biography so i'm sure a lot of Cus's philosophy is in it but its hard to find a copy. But anytime you hear Tyson talk and he says something REALLY smart that seems to blend philosophy and boxing he's repeating Cus's words. Check the footage of Cus and Ali watching boxing films, even Ali admitted Cus was a boxing scholar
Some have the gift to dig in to science and apply it in all aspects of their life. ... so wonderful. .. we are so much more then we could possibly know
Only issue is he left nobody to continue his legacy
@@seetsamolapo5600 Did Ray Robinson or Ali ? So many people tried to copy their style. They sure did and so did Floyd. Floyd was Marvin Hagler's childhood hero too. Where do you think Hagler got his signature jumping right lead from ? Aside from all that Floyd's adopted son was 2 time world champion as well and he does run a gym. Who knows in time?
Really a light heavyweight - 172 lbs - and fought two (in today's weights) divisions above his weight. Amazingly tough but seriously underweight for the division. This man fought Liston and Ali. Crazy to think it was legal for a 172-pound man to fight for the heavyweight titles. Seems reckless for today's standards.
Has anyone read an article written by Floyd about his opinion of boxing life in general. I have never encountered a more honest and eloquent account by a boxer. A very impressive man Floyd was.
Any link please?
Floyd arguably may have been the fastest. I think Dokes is right up there with him, though, as well as Ali, Tyson, and Page.
Louis was no slouch either when it came time to finish someone.
Man, after watching the Michael Dokes clip I'm tempted to say that Dokes had the faster, more explosive hand speed, but Floyd was a monster too.
@@TimeStrider I think even Tyson had slightly faster hands than Patterson. 4 power punches in under a second.
MY FAVORITE FIGHTER OF ALL TIME! THANK U VERY MUCH!!!!!!!
mine also!
clipperazi And also a great gentleman!
clipperazi Floyd Patterson was one of the greatest heavyweights who ever lived ! But he was an even greater human being !!!
clipperazi Gentleman Floyd Patterson the Mike Tyson of his day
The heavyweight with the fastest hands.
Nah, that's Ali, but Patterson is second, and after him Tyson.
@@matepavic6929 Ali was quicker due to having his hands down and not telegraphing but Floyd beats him out in pure hand speed
Mate Pavić who cares about that. Look at the footage. Floyd is obviously the fastest.
@@LeftHookLegend Relying on your eyes is not the best idea in the world when you want to determine facts. Modern heavyweights look faster than old boxers because the cameras are much better, case and point.
Mate Pavić no. Watch their fight. Floyd is faster even though Ali won
very nice music! hands up for your editing skill!
Call me crazy but I've always said that I felt that Patterson was on Ali's level in terms of hand speed. I'm not sure who to think was faster.
Patterson in his prime was a smallish heavyweight; about 180-190 give or take. So his hand speed was accentuated by that.
The only other guy ever in the division that that kind of speed. At least his hands
I would disagree. Check out Ali's fight with Brian London: czcams.com/video/jU2YPXghFkU/video.html. Ali was definitely the fastest. But the truth of the matter is that Patterson wasn't even a bona fide heavyweight fighter. He weighed only 190 lbs. and had he fought today he would have been a crusierweight. (That fight division had not yet been established in pro boxing.) That was why he was defeated so badly by Liston as well as Ali. He was too light.
joe jones, but don't forget, Dempsey and others beat men much larger or heavier than themselves. Frazier when he fought Buster Matthis, Frazier weighed near 200, at about 204 or so, and Matthis weighed in at 243 pounds. Matthis was actually a talented BIG guy, moved well for such a heavy guy. Deontay Wilder, although tall, his weight by modern standards would be considered on the lighter side. In his last fight with Ortiz, Wilder weighed in at 214. Lighter than what Foreman weighed in his fight with Ali.
Hand Speed Floyd, Foot Speed Ali!
Michael Dokes, Greg Page and Mike Tyson all have shouts.
HaNZ you gotta tell me where you got this tune.
Big fan of your vids
Great work. Fastest Heavy weight Champion I believe.
Great hand speed. A Legend
Those combinations Patterson threw were something special, really something to watch. Trying to think who the last heavyweight to be a really good combination puncher was, maybe a prime Holyfield?
Prime Tyson dumbass
Thank you, haNZAgod, for this compilation. Patterson's an unfortunately under-rated fighter; not nearly as appreciated as he should be. Most fight fans know him for his three Johansson fights and two Liston fights. Going up against really heavy-fisted punchers was not his thing. Even though he took two out of three from Johansson, I don't think those fights showcased him at his best, and if anything they gave him a "glass jaw" rap, which I think was not entirely accurate. He could actually take a decent punch. Of course he was tailor-made for Liston's style. That matchup was worse than Frazier-Foreman.
As for heavyweight hand speed . . . I'd say Patterson and Ali were very close, but Ali was that quick in spite of being a much bigger man. Having said that, though, Ali was at his quickest with those mostly harmless pit-a-pat flurries. Patterson was throwing knockout combinations at that speed. No question that Ali was the superior fighter, though. Ali at his best--or any version of his "best"--versus any version of Patterson, and Ali would come out on top every time. A great fantasy matchup would be Frazier in his prime vs Patterson in his prime. I think Joe would knock Floyd out, eventually, but it would be exciting in the meantime.
a true champion
Floyd could reel off some combos
tru
Thank you for this channel)may God bless you)
Love watching his fights
love your channel brother, appreciate the great music and love the videos.
Fight fans across the world, will always appreciate & respect the former champ Floyd Patterson.. He was a great fighter, even though he was a smaller heavywight.. But always loved his old quote," I mighta been knocked down the most as a heavyweight, but also got back up the most." hahaha Classic! He is highly missed.. RIP champ!
Great video bro .yes Patterson had the fastest hands. I'd put Ali second in that category
Ali actually said that in an interview that Patterson might have the faster hands, but he isn't fast than him overall,.
in terms of footspeed and reflexes, also Ali could hit very fast at long range.
+dave d That would probably mostly come down to how they fought, Ali being a dancing master who could jab circles around you all day, while Patterson was slightly more at midrange with hooks and other stuff
ali weighed bigger but ali was faster
Chill Ali fans, we know he is faster, but he doesn't punch as fast as Patterson and that's totaly OK since he was almost 20 pounds lighter and had a shorter reach, no heavyweight not even Ali punched as fast as Patterson, deal with it
I think patterson has the faster hands as well
Patterson is so underrated.
Great!
Very fast hands for a heavyweight
He's handspeed is like Camacho. Headmovement like Tyson. Punch like Robinson. Gentleman as his own.
One of the cus sons
I love Floyd. If he'd have stayed a light heavy, he could have easily been champ for 10 years.
Favorite Heavyweight of all time. Makes me wonder how much better he would have done at middle and light heavyweight.
Olympic gold medal at middleweight
marvingardens
I know. What I meant was i wonder what he could have achieved if he'd decided to fight strictly in the middleweight division. He and Jimmy Ellis were both more natural middle to light heavy and yet they were able to claim the heavyweight title and defeat some top tier fighters.
Great nights in the fifties and early sixties aside his best win was his 1972 late career victory against Oscar Bonavena.
I love watching Patterson fights.
Picked up many good wins post Liston loss. Robbed vs Quarry
Patterson rocking that hairstyle
Somehow the greatness of Ali overshadowed Floyd's greatness!What raw talent and speed!
Patterson's so cool man. He knew what to do at what time
Awesome
song: Katalyst - Showtime
Great video.
Patterson alwais faced amazing oposition
Patterson always gets the funkiest music on his compilations & rightly so...
Quick, accurate with a mean left hook
I hope you bot more music from this kind and old 60 music
Most all rabbits are fast, but they are afraid of their own shadow. According to Ali Floyd was "the rabbit."
Floyd Patterson would make a great Cruiserweight.
What a phenomenal talent, speed, power, skill, reflexes just his chin that was the missing piece of the jigsaw and meeting a prime Sonny Liston.
Hey...if you could create a 6'3" 230lb version of Patterson with a GOOD jaw we're talkin' about a real monster. Such a class act
Speed is power ... I didn't know Floyd was the Fastest Heavyweight ever?? Is that a fact
Henry cooper said that floyd patterson had faster hand speed than ali.
he'd have won the light heavy title from.... archie moore!
Beautiful.
The most entertaining fighter of all time!
Great video.What's the name,of this instrumental?
Can't remember I made this a long time ago.
I agree about the hand speed claim.
Sick Combos!!
I see Mr. Patterson's fight with Clay coming up "I didn't ever expect to see that" 😄👀💬Yup❗ G~G.
Floyd Patterson was more skilled than tyson, much better combinations!
He would be a light heavyweight today imo a great one fast very fast
He'd be a Cruiserweight today. Patterson did campaign at Light-Heavyweight when he was boxing but lost a controversial decision to Joey Maxim and decided to move up.
perfect music for the video...not some dumb ass rap song.. perfect..🇺🇸😎👊
I think Tyson had faster hands and hit much harder Though their styles were similar A style developed by Cus Dmato one of the greatest trainers in history Ali even said this
I agree. I think Tyson had quicker hands than both Ali and Patterson. 4 power punches in under a second. It was crazy
Faster than Andy Ruiz j.
Great hand-speed a tight one in terms of handspeed with a prime Muhammed ali
How about a highlight of Tony Ayla jnr? Fantastic yet such wasted talent!
Sure
haNZAgod
Cheers that be awesome!
Here you go: czcams.com/video/jMPqWNN0HWE/video.html
haNZAgod
cheers mate.
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Floyd Patterson was definitely a great fighter in his boxing heyday. But when he had to fight the bigger heavyweights with great left jabs (Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston in particular), that was his true downfall as was the case with Joe Frazier where when he fought Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, he had a very difficult time get past their smooth left jabs and bigger sizes in general.
MY FAVORITE heavyweight ever. Don't know exactly why he just was and I love watching clips of him, definitely the most underrated heavyweight champ ever.......but I think Tyson was faster
Tyson seemed faster because he threw close hooks which had less distance to cover than straight punches.
Yeh man... hes very good to watch.
I don't know, Tyson seems to throw faster combinations and straight punches too. Tommy Morrison, before he packed the muscle, might have been more explosive. Michael Dokes might have been faster as well.
Escariot Nah potentially... but patterson was a full package of speeds...
Patterson and Tyson are about the same. Camera in close will also change up how the speed of punches look.
To my eyes at times, Patterson looks the fastest but its probably near the same. I think Tyson was more agressive and like
metal shadow hedgehog mentioned, shorter hooks would look quicker as Patterson varied his punches more.
Love floyd second youngest heavyweight champ of all time 21 the quiet champion
Floyd still is the youngest "Undisputed "heavyweight champion to this day.
What's the name of the song, damn gotta get my 70s collection up!!!
I think he'd have beaten Cleveland Williams.
Man they used to try to kill each other back then
Despite being a small Heavyweight and having a glass chin he was a great boxer should he have fought at Light Heavyweight probably but regardless he did well as a Heavyweight being the youngest to win the long before Tyson The first former HW Champion to win back the title after losing to Liston twice Patterson fought on remaining a contender until 1969 He should of won the title a third time but was robbed during the Jimmy Ellis fight his last fight was a rematch against Ali which he lost in 1972 he never officially retired What is sad is in the 1970s-80s-90s Floyd Patterson was considered one of the Greatest Heavyweights OF ALL TIME around the beginning of the early 21 century you didn't hear much about Patterson being a great anymore We heard about his flaws and losses Floyd Is Still a Heavyweight great in my book
Oh man
What the name song
I like this
It seems to me that other than say Tyson, Holyfield or maybe Lewis. Possibly even Morrison in his prime. Boxing just isn't what it used to be in the old days!!! These others I named all came at basically the same time. And today the heavyweight division is a joke in my book!!!!
I think the last of the great old time heavyweights was Holmes.
Now for me I still think that big George Foreman was probably the baddest in my book. And he was still around fairly recently. But He is a once in a lifetime type fighter. He could probably still get in shape and get in the ring and win the title on any given day!!!!
But overall, boxing might be the only sport I know of. That today's heavyweights simply don't compare to the old days!!!! Anyone feel the same???
Negan
I agree with that assessment Negan.
1:35 fast
2:17 on
Song please
muitos movimentos parecidos com os característicos movimentos de mike tyson, grande lutador
I turned this up to double speed and Floyd didn't get any faster!
He was like a relentless little terrier in the ring.
Proto-Mike Tyson
What song is this
He was not really a heavy weight. its just the weight limits were different back then. he was more cruiser weight or light weight.
You mean he wouldn't be a Heavyweight by today's standards. He was a legitimate Heavyweight back then.
@@hanzagod yes true. but you cant say he moved faster than any other heavy weight. you cant compare his hand speed to someone much heavier and bigger. he was not a legit heavy weight. He competed mostly at 176-185 pounds Thats NOT heavy weight so hence faster hands and feet.
Not true. His best weight was around 190 lbs which was enough for a Heavyweight back then. Same goes for Walcott, Ezzard Charles guys like that.
Ali was bigger than Patterson yet chuvalo who fought both of them said Ali was a lil bit faster in terms of handspeed or jab cant remember.
Thats crazy
Henry Cooper said in his book that Floyd had the fastest hands. He said "It might going to surprise you, but yes, much faster even than Ali's. Ali might be faster on his foot, but no one was faster than Floyd getting punches in."
@@himawalincat9350 he significantly weighed less than Ali too
I love good ol' henry, but don't forget he was biased. Heavily.