Jens Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson was a Swedish professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1963.
16 Facts About Ingemar Johansson
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Ingemar Johansson held the world heavyweight title from 1959 to 1960, and was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States.
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Ingemar Johansson held the European heavyweight title twice, from 1956 to 1958 and from 1962 to 1963.
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Ingemar Johansson affectionately named his right fist "toonder and lightning" for its concussive power, and in 2003 he was ranked at No 99 on The Ring magazine's list of the 100 greatest punchers of all time.
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Ingemar Johansson had earned his spot in the Olympics by winning the Swedish National Championship earlier the same year, 1952, after he knocked out his opponent in the first round of the final.
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Ingemar Johansson took the Scandinavian heavyweight title in 1953 and, on 30 September 1956, he won the European Heavyweight Championship by scoring a 13th-round KO over Italy's Franco Cavicchi in Milan.
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Ingemar Johansson successfully defended his European crown against ranked heavyweights Henry Cooper and Joe Erskine, with a TKO in round 13 on 21 February 1958.
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Ingemar Johansson earned his shot at the world heavyweight crown when he knocked out top ranked contender Eddie Machen in the first round of their elimination match on 14 September 1958.
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Ingemar Johansson appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, as well as the cover of Life Magazine on 20 July 1959, alongside Birgit.
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Ingemar Johansson proposed to girlfriend Birgit in April 1960 after the champion visited Egypt.
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Patterson and Ingemar Johansson fought their final match on 13 March 1961.
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Ingemar Johansson fought journeyman heavyweight Brian London on 21 April 1963, in a non-title 12-round match.
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Ingemar Johansson ran in marathons all over the world until the mid-1980s.
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Ingemar Johansson would be the last European to win the heavyweight title until Italy's Francesco Damiani became the inaugural WBO heavyweight champion in May 1989.
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Ingemar Johansson was the last non-American to hold the heavyweight title until South Africa's Gerrie Coetzee won the WBA version in 1983.
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Ingemar Johansson was the first heavyweight champion to lose the title to the man whom he had beaten to become champion since Ezzard Charles's loss to Jersey Joe Walcott in 1951.