What is Floyd Patterson's record?

55–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 62 bouts individually.

Does a no contest change a record here?

No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.

What happens when sources disagree about a fight?

This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Floyd Patterson — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

55–8–1

Floyd Patterson has a reach of 71″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of -1.48%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 3rd percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1952–1972

SOURCE·Floyd Patterson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-16

How this record is compiled

Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-16. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 317 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1972	L	Muhammad Ali	KO/TKO	7
1972	W	Pedro Agosto	KO/TKO	6
1972	W	Oscar Bonavena	Decision	10
1971	W	Charlie Harris	KO/TKO	6
1971	W	Vic Brown	Decision	10
1971	W	Charley Polite	Decision	10
1971	W	Terry Daniels	Decision	10
1971	W	Roger Russell	KO/TKO	9
1971	W	Levi Forte	KO/TKO	2
1970	W	Charley Green	KO/TKO	10
1968	L	Jimmy Ellis	Decision	15
1967	L	Jerry Quarry	—	12
1967	W	Bill McMurray	KO/TKO	1
1967	W	Willie Johnson	KO/TKO	3
1966	W	Henry Cooper	KO/TKO	4
1965	L	Muhammad Ali	KO/TKO	12
1965	W	Tod Herring	KO/TKO	3
1965	W	George Chuvalo	Decision	12
1964	W	Charlie Powell	KO/TKO	6
1964	W	Eddie Machen	—	12
1964	W	Santo Amonti	KO/TKO	8
1963	L	Sonny Liston	KO/TKO	1
1962	L	Sonny Liston	KO/TKO	1
1961	W	Tom McNeeley	KO/TKO	4
1961	W	Ingemar Johansson	KO/TKO	6
1960	W	Ingemar Johansson	KO/TKO	5
1959	L	Ingemar Johansson	KO/TKO	3
1959	W	Brian London	KO/TKO	11
1958	W	Roy Harris	KO/TKO	12
1957	W	Pete Rademacher	KO/TKO	6
1957	W	Tommy Jackson	KO/TKO	10
1956	W	Archie Moore	KO/TKO	5
1956	W	Tommy Jackson	Decision	12
1956	W	Alvin Williams	KO/TKO	3
1956	W	Jimmy Walls	KO/TKO	2
1955	W	Jimmy Slade	KO/TKO	7
1955	W	Calvin Brad	KO/TKO	1
1955	W	Dave Whitlock	KO/TKO	3
1955	W	Alvin Williams	KO/TKO	8
1955	W	Archie McBride	KO/TKO	7
1955	W	Yvon Durelle	—	5
1955	W	Esau Ferdinand	KO/TKO	10
1955	W	Don Grant	KO/TKO	5
1955	W	Willie Troy	KO/TKO	5
1954	W	Jimmy Slade	Decision	8
1954	W	Joe Gannon	Decision	8
1954	W	Esau Ferdinand	Decision	8
1954	W	Tommy Harrison	KO/TKO	1
1954	W	Jacques Royer Crecy	KO/TKO	7
1954	L	Joey Maxim	Decision	8
1954	W	Jesse Turner	Decision	8
1954	W	Alvin Williams	Decision	8
1954	W	Sammy Brown	KO/TKO	2
1954	W	Yvon Durelle	Decision	8
1953	W	Dick Wagner	KO/TKO	5
1953	W	Wes Bascom	—	8
1953	W	Gordon Wallace	KO/TKO	3
1953	W	Chester Mieszala	KO/TKO	5
1952	W	Lalu Sabotin	KO/TKO	5
1952	W	Lester Johnson	KO/TKO	3

Showing 60 of 62 recorded bouts, most recent first.

21 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Floyd Patterson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-16

Reach in context

Reach advantage

-1.48%

71″ reach on a 72″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	71″ (180.3 cm)	5th pct
Height	72″ (183 cm)	22nd pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1950s — 36 of 62 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

55–8

64 bouts on record

Finish rate

73%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 60th percentile

By knockout 73%
By decision 27%

The career, bout by bout

62 recorded bouts from 1952 to 1972. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1952–1972

Career span

21y

1952–1972

Longest unbeaten run

20

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1954

10 bouts

Recorded bouts

62

62 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Floyd Patterson's record?: 55–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 62 bouts individually.
Does a no contest change a record here?: No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?: This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Cross-references

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Patterson sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1950s boxing

36 of these bouts fall in the 1950s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

49 FIGHTERS Floyd Patterson vs Sonny Liston

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1962 Longest unbeaten runs

Floyd Patterson went 20 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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