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Auction History Result 3p287 PATTERSON VS LISTON linen 1sh '62 world heavyweight championship boxing bout, Floyd vs Sonny! Date Sold 12/7/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Floyd Patterson vs Sonny Liston Fight Pictures, the 1962 boxing sports event ("Scoop!"; "World's Heavyweight Championship Bout!!!"; "World heavyweight championship"; "See it big, exclusively in this area on closed circuit screen theatre TV"; "Complete round-by-round blow-by-blow!!"; "Filmed at ringside"; "All the action!! All the thrills!!"; "See the highlights in slow motion!"; "Champion Floyd"; "Challenger Sonny"; "No home TV"; "Direct from ringside - Comiskey Park - Chicago") featuring Floyd Patterson, and Sonny Liston. This fight took place in Chicago on September 25th and Patterson (who was the reigning Heavyweight Champion) was the favorite to win. However, Patterson lost his title to Liston by a first-round knockout. This was the first fight between these two great fighters. They had a rematch, which occurred in Las Vegas on July 22, 1963, and there is a 1963 one-sheet advertising the filmed version of that fight (and on that poster, the images are the same, but they, and the fighters' names, are reversed). Note that from the 1910s through the 1960s, major heavyweight boxing matches were filmed, and then released to theaters soon afterwards, often taking in huge amounts at the box office. At some point, matches were broadcast "live" on pay-per-view, which ended this practice. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had minor fold and border wear. It had some writing on the back of the top that very slightly bled through to the front in the bottom of the "RSO" of "PATTERSON" in the title. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above, but they are really not very distracting (and a talented restorer could touch them up without re-backing the poster). Learn More about condition grades 
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