Ex Heavyweight Champ Ingemar Johansson Dies

[Cryozombie]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Jan. 31) - Ingemar Johansson, the Swede who stunned the boxing world by knocking out Floyd Patterson to win the world heavyweight title in 1959, has died, a longtime friend said Saturday. He was 76. Johansson knocked out Patterson in the third round at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 26, 1959, to win the world heavyweight title. He floored the American seven times before referee Ruby Goldstein stopped the fight 2:03 into the round.
"What he did was the biggest feat ever in Swedish sporting history," Caldeborn said. It earned him The Associated Press' Male Athlete of the Year honors in 1959, only the second Swede to earn the award.

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Rest well, Ingo. You earned it.

 

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