Ingemar Johansson

Swedish Heavyweight Boxing Champion

Ken Brooks (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2015
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9847-5 (ISBN)

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Ingemar Johansson's right hand--dubbed "The Hammer of Thor"--was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson's three fights with Floyd Patterson rank among the sport's classic rivalries. Yet most fans know little about the Swedish playboy who won the world heavyweight championship with a shocking third round knockout of Patterson and held it for six days short of a year (1959-1960).

During his reign, the raffish "Ingo" hit fashionable nightspots on two continents, romanced Elizabeth Taylor, and refused to kowtow to the mobsters who controlled boxing.

This first-ever biography of Johansson chronicles his fistic triumphs as a Goteborg teen prodigy, his humiliating disqualification for "cowardice" at the 1952 Olympics, his storybook romances with Birgit Lundgren and Edna Alsterlund and his post-career life and tragic early dementia.

Ken Brooks is a freelance writer and retired educator. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part

1. Roots

2. Breakthrough

3. The 1952 Olympics

4. Turning Pro

5. Birgit

6. Taking on Machen

7. Edwin and Cus

Part

8. Grossinger’s

9. No Longer a Dream

10. Patterson-Johansson I

11. Delirium

12. Fighting the Fight Mob

13. Pop Culture Ingo

14. Back to Work

15. Patterson-Johansson II

16. After the Fall

17. Dancin’ with Johansson

18. Patterson-Johansson III

19. One More Fight

Part Three

20. Cutting Ties

21. Edna

22. Troubling Times

23. Changes

24. There Is Only One Ingo

Epilogue: The Hammer of Thor

Professional Boxing Record

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.12.2015
Zusatzinfo	74 photos, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	381 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
ISBN-10	0-7864-9847-1 / 0786498471
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-9847-5 / 9780786498475
Zustand	Neuware