Former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson died recently. Once the youngest man ever to win the coveted title, as well as the first to regain it upon losing, he was also the first of two champions-to-be street urchins adopted and groomed by the legendary trainer Cus D'Amato. Floyd was the good son; disciplined, retiring, and mild-mannered, easy to like and warm-up to owing to his soft-spoken, almost childlike vulnerability. By contrast, Mike Tyson's wheel turned in the opposite direction, entirely. Mike was the bad son. Make that the bad egg, the hardboiled bad egg, odor and all. Call them D'Amato's Jekyll and D'Amato's Hyde. [details]
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Great article!Originally posted by BIGPOPPAPUMP -
Great obit! Couldn't have been better written to speak of a man whose complex personality can scarcely be truly captured.
The late Howard Cossel, retired and imbittered, once wrote in one of his books lines that put Patterson down--undeservedly, I must add-- painting a pciture of a man whose was spineless and obsequious.
When once asked about Cossel's book, Floyd only had a smile for an answer. He knew much about Cossel; he knew himself even better.Comment
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Great stuff man. That was a brilliant article. I have nothing but respect for glass chin patterson
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