LONDON (Reuters) - Ingemar Johansson provoked merriment rather than trepidation among the hard-bitten American sportswriters before his 1959 world heavyweight fight against Floyd Patterson at Yankee ...

The boxing world mourns as former heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson (September 22, 1932 - January 30, 2009) passed away on Friday. Johansson became famous when he stepped in the ring on June 26, ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's former world heavyweight boxing champion Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson died late on Friday at the age of 76, the Swedish Boxing Federation said on Saturday. Johansson won the ...

Somewhere within the dreadful fog that comes with Alzheimer’s, I hope that Floyd Patterson considered that he had finally beaten his toughest opponent. Not Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali or Ingemar ...

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Outside, the crowds quite literally were breaking down the Polo Grounds’ gates. In the seasick-green dressing room formerly inhabited by New York’s baseball Giants, Sweden’s Ingemar Johansson, ...