Floyd Patterson - Rating Skills

Defense: Good
Counter-Punches: Good
Power: Good/Excellent
Jab: Good
Speed: Excellent
Ring Generalship: Good/Excellent
Combinations: Excellent
Feints: Average
Footwork: Good
Body Punches: Good
Upper Body Movement: Excellent

 

Floyd Patterson was an amazingly complex and honest man regarding his own self assessment about his fighting skills...he was as harsh a critic of himself as any one else was, but the fact remains that he was the youngest man to win the title, was the first man to regain the title, and he was a talented, accomplished fighter in many aspects, with his lack of size and relative durability chinwise against the much bigger heavyweights he opposed being his chief deficit. At his best..which seemed to be after the two Liston debacles, I'd rate him like this:
Defense: Good
Counter-punches-excellent
Power: Good to excellent
Jab: good
Speed: Excellent
Ring generalship: Excellent
Combinations: Excellent
Feints: Good
Footwork: Good
Body punches: Good
Upper body movement: Good to excellent
Again, Patterson competed as an undersized heavy...a cruiserweight really, for all intents and purposes, in an era of big heavyweights..and that should always be brought into the equation when discussing him..I have a feeling that if he were a cruiser, he would have OWNED the division.

 

absolutely

 

patterson was a hell of fighter, just he needed a better chin

 

:-(

 

Great response! Floyd's jab wasn't his mainstay but when he doubled up on it in the second Ingo bout it was effective and good. I always thought he should have been trained to keep doing that during the rest of his career as his jab was mediocre otherwise.

 

I really don't think Floyd had that bad of a chin. He got dropped but he got up too.

 

at heavyweight he definitely did.

 

As bad as Louis´. :good

 

Yeah- Patterson was dropped the most out of all the heavyweight champs-

Second on the list: Joe Louis.

 

Wrong

 

Well, I don´t think Louis´ is worse. :bart

 

It's better. he took heavier shots and actually stood on his feet. Floyd got owned by a lot of lesser fighters and floored way more then louis

 

Yes and having a bad chin is the only reason to get floored. :good