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Ingemar Johansson

2415 KOs
22 KOs
0Draws
Last six: W-L-L-W-W-W
Career
division
Heavyweight
status
inactive
bouts
26
rounds
155
KO %
62.5%
KO wins
15
KO losses
2
career
1952–1963
debut
1952-12-05
last fight
1963-04-21
Profile
alias
Ingo
trainer
Nils Blomberg, Al Silvani
sex
M
stance
orthodox
height
6′ 1″ / 185cm
origin
Gothenburg, Sweden
dob
1932-09-22
age
93
death
2009-01-30

Latest news

A Brief History of Esquire's Best Boxing Stories
2015-09-21 · Esquire.com (blog)
That great theme, poet and pug, came to underlie much of the magazine's worst writing on boxing?Roger Kahn, in a piece about Ingemar Johansson's knockout of Floyd Patterson in 1960: "How can he be a fighter and a lover both? / the fight men asked…
More than 1,000 attend funeral of former boxing champ Johansson (The Canadian Press)
2009-02-13 · Yahoo! Canada
GOTEBORG, Sweden - Six members of Ingemar Johansson's amateur boxing club carried the former heavyweight champion's casket from a packed memorial on Friday, a sign on a garland of flowers reading 'Once a Champ, always a Champ.'More than 1,000 people…
With 'Toonder and Lightning,' Ingemar Johansson weathered Floyd Patterson bouts
2009-02-03 · Los Angeles Times
Former heavyweight world champion Ingemar Johansson, photographed outside his home in April 2001, died in Sweden last weekend at 76. Former heavyweight world champion, who died in Sweden at 76, knocked down Patterson seven times in their first fight for…
Obituary: Ingemar Johansson
2009-02-02 · Guardian Unlimited
The manager of the boxer Floyd Patterson, Gus D'Amato, the guru who went on to mastermind the career of the young Mike Tyson, rarely got his assessment of boxers hopelessly wrong. An exception to that rule came in 1959, when he decided Patterson should…
Boxing great Ingo dies
2009-02-01 · Electric New Paper
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 yesterday. He was 76. Johansson died at a nursing home in Kungsbacka, on the Swedish…

Fight history

date
w-l-d
last 6
result
Apr 21
Brian London
28 9 0
W-PTS
Johanneshov Ice Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden
12 of 12 · 201 / 207 lbs
Referee: Andrew Smyth
Event →
Jun 17
Dick Richardson
30 10 2
W-KO
Nya Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden
EBU (European) heavyweight title
8 of 15 · 201 / 203 lbs · 2:13
Referee: Pierre Verriere
Event →
Feb 9
Joe Bygraves
40 13 1
W-TKO
Maesshallen Sports Hall, Gothenburg, Sweden
7 of 12 · 200 / 209 lbs · 2:08
Referee: Andrew Smyth
Event →
Mar 13
Floyd Patterson
35 1 0
L-KO
Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
World Heavyweight Title
6 of 15 · 207 / 195 lbs · 2:45
Referee: Bill Regan
Event →
Jun 20
Floyd Patterson
34 1 0
L-KO
Polo Grounds, New York, New York, USA
World Heavyweight Title
5 of 15 · 195 / 190 lbs · 1:51
Judges: Artie Aidala | Leo Birnbaum
Referee: Arthur Mercante
Event →
Jun 26
Floyd Patterson
34 0 0
W-TKO
Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York, USA
World Heavyweight Title
3 of 15 · 196 / 182 lbs · 2:03
Judges: Bill Recht 1-1 | Frank Forbes 2-0
Referee: Ruby Goldstein (2-0)
Event →
Sep 14
Eddie Machen
24 0 0
W-KO
Nya Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden
1 of 12 · 198 / 194 lbs · 2:16
Referee: Andrew Smyth
Event →
Jul 13
Heinz Neuhaus
38 4 5
W-TKO
Nya Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden
4 of 12 · 198 / 217 lbs · 2:56
Event →
Feb 21
Joe Erskine
32 1 1
W-TKO
Masshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
EBU (European) heavyweight title
13 of 15 · 198 / 193 lbs
Referee: Herbert Tomser
Event →
Dec 13
Archie McBride
20 9 0
W-PTS
Masshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
10 of 10 · 203 / 188 lbs
Event →
May 19
Henry Cooper
14 4 0
W-KO
Johanneshov Ice Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden
5 of 15 · 200 / 194 lbs · 2:57
Referee: Barend Bergstroem
Event →
Dec 28
Peter Bates
22 6 1
W-KO
Masshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
2 of 10 · 204 / 202 lbs · 1:45
Event →
Apr 15
Hans Friedrich
18 10 5
W-PTS
Kungliga Tennishallen, Stockholm, Sweden
10 of 10 · 196 / 202 lbs
Event →
Feb 24
Joe Bygraves
30 6 0
W-PTS
Masshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
8 of 8 · 200 / 189 lbs
Event →
Aug 28
Hein Hoff
28 5 3
W-KO
Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden
1 of 8 · 195 / 224 lbs · 1:00
Referee: Andrew Smyth
Event →
Jun 12
Guenter Nurnberg
17 9 8
W-KO
Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
7 of 8 · 198 / 214 lbs
Event →
Apr 3
Uber Bacilieri
14 4 5
W-UD
Kungliga Tennishallen, Stockholm, Sweden
8 of 8 · 195 / 198 lbs
Referee: Arthur Koch
Event →
Mar 4
Aldo Pellegrini
12 3 0
W-DQ
Masshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
5 of 8 · 194 / 208 lbs
Event →
Feb 13
Kurt Schiegl
21 11 1
W-TKO
Kungliga Tennishallen, Stockholm, Sweden
5 of 8 · 191 / 207 lbs · 2:28
Event →
Jan 6
Ansell Adams
16 14 1
W-PTS
Masshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
8 of 8 · 200 / 196 lbs
Event →
Nov 5
Werner Wiegand
30 7 5
W-TKO
Masshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
5 of 8 · 198 / 223 lbs · 2:45
Event →
Dec 3
Raymond Degl'Innocenti
6 4 0
W-KO
Masshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
2 of 6 · 193 lbs
Referee: Carl Olsson
Event →
Mar 12
Erik Jensen
7 4 2
W-PTS
K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark
6 of 6
Event →
Mar 6
Lloyd Barnett
20 11 0
W-PTS
Masshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
8 of 8 · 199 / 189 lbs
Referee: Carl Olsson
Event →
Feb 6
Emile Bentz
24 12 0
W-KO
Masshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
2 of 6 · 197 / 196 lbs · 0:32
Referee: Carl Olsson
Event →
Dec 5
Robert Masson
2 3 0
W-KO
Masshallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
4 of 8 · 193 / 189 lbs · 1:30
Event →