By Scoop Malinowski Status: Former World Heavyweight Champion (1956-1960; 1961-1962). First man to regain the World Heavyweight title by KOing Ingemar Johansson in round five. Ht: 5-11 Wt: 190 DOB: January 4, 1935 In: Waco, North Carolina Childhood Heroes: Joe Louis. Sugar Ray Robinson. Rocky Marciano. I was more impressed ...
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By Scoop Malinowski Status: Long time boxing publicist will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in June. Owner/President Sternburg Communications. First memory of boxing: Watching the Floyd Patterson vs. Jimmy Ellis fight on TV with my dad in 1968. Ellis got the decision and it was a robbery. ...
Read More »By Scoop Malinowski I did a Biofile interview with Floyd Patterson in 1994 which was later published in the magazine Boxing 94. For a gesture of immense gratitude for a former world heavyweight champion giving me, an amateur reporter, a full page interview, I mailed Floyd a copy of the ...
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