Byline: Ed Schuyler Jr. Associated Press
A man who lives on boxing's fringe spotted the former fighter and said, "How are you Mr. Liston?"
"What?" the fighter responded, looking as if he had been struck.
"What did you say?" a bystander asked while glancing at the old boxer.
"I'm sorry Mr. Patterson," said the embarrassed man on the fringe.
Floyd Patterson laughed.
Two one-round knockout losses to the late Sonny Liston are 25 years in the past for Patterson, who is intimately involved with boxing's present through his adopted son, Tracy Harris Patterson, 23, a featherweight with a 26-1 record.
Patterson, 53, …
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