Thursday Boxing trivia

[Mars_ax]

Not entirely sure on these, but I'll have a guess anyway without looking at anyone else's answers.

Liston successfully defended the title once (Patterson rematch) and lost it in 1964 (?) to Cassius Clay.

And was the first man to win the title twice Patterson?

Good job, Liston won the HW title from Patterson on Sepember 25th 1962, successfully defended it once against Patterson on July 1963, and then lost it to Clay/Ali, February 25th 1964. So Liston was only a HW champion for about 17 months.

Amazingly, Patterson was the very first HW Champion to win the title twice, but not until 1960. After losing the HW title to Ingemar Johansson by a 3rd round TKO in June 1959, Patterson regained the HW crown a year later in June 1960, by flattening (literally) Johansson in the 5th round.