AthleteAmerican1935 – 2006
Floyd Patterson
Two-time heavyweight boxing champion, technical innovator
Biography
An American professional boxer and two-time heavyweight champion who was the youngest heavyweight champion at the time and known for his skilled defensive techniques.
Quick Facts
Category
Athlete
Nationality
American
Born
1935
Died
2006
Thinking about the name
Floyde
Welsh origin
“An archaic or dialectal spelling of Floyd, sometimes used in early American records and rural communities, Floyde represents an older orthographic convention. The -e ending gives it a faintly Old English flavor and appears occasionally in genealogical records from the 18th–19th centuries.”