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Article: Sensitive fighter did not fit mold.(SPORTS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 12, 2006
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Byline: Dick Heller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
On the morning of Sept. 25, 1962, while preparing to defend his heavyweight championship that evening against menacing Sonny Liston in Chicago, Floyd Patterson carefully packed his gym bag. Included were the usual pugilistic accoutrements - shorts, socks, shoes, supporter - and one extremely unusual accessory: a disguise.
Into that bag Patterson tucked a fake beard and mustache, the better to escape Comiskey Park hopefully unnoticed if he lost. And he did lose, of course, succumbing to the first of two one-round knockouts by Liston that forever after labeled him as a chump rather than a champ.
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