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  Ingemar Johansson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ingemar Johansson (born 22 September 1932 -) was a Swedish heavyweight boxer.
Johansson was a colorful figure in New York as he trained for the fight.
Johansson then returned to Europe, and recaptured the European crown from Dick Richardson by an eight round KO on June 17, 1962.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ingemar_Johansson   (744 words)

  
 IBHOF / Ingemar Johansson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Johansson was born in Gothenburg, Sweden and won a silver medal in the heavyweight division at the 1952 Olympics.
Johansson astounded the boxing world by knocking Patterson down seven times in three rounds to claim the title on June 26, 1959.
Johansson remains a national hero in his native land.
www.ibhof.com /ingemar.htm   (164 words)

  
 ESPN.com: BOXING - Johansson's epic battles with Patterson land him in Hall
Johansson affectionately called his most fearsome punch "Toonder and lightning'', and it catapulted him to the pinnacle of boxing on June 27, 1959, when the lightly regarded Swede knocked out heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson at Yankee Stadium.
But Johansson never unleashed it in the first two rounds against Patterson, giving the fight a feeling that was eerily reminiscent of Johansson's darkest moment in the ring.
Johansson went into the rematch on June 20, 1960 confident he would retain the title, and history was on his side because a heavyweight champion had never regained the title after losing it.
espn.go.com /boxing/news/2002/0608/1392490.html   (769 words)

  
 Ingemar Johansson: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Ingemar Johansson (born 22 September 1932) was a Swedish (Swedish: A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland) heavyweight (heavyweight: A professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds) boxer (boxer: Someone who fights with his fists for sport).
As a result, Johansson won the Hickok Belt (Hickok Belt: more facts about this subject) as top professional athlete of the year in 1959 and was named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year (Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year: associated press athlete of the year...
Johansson was a colorful figure in New York (New York: A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) as he trained for the fight.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/ingemar_johansson   (899 words)

  
 The Cyber Boxing Zone
Press coverage of the Floyd Patterson-Ingemar Johansson match of 1959 focused on Johansson's training methods primarily because Patterson, the defending champion and prohibitive favorite, was often uncomfortable around the press and provided little in the way of exciting copy.
Johansson indicated to Patterson that this was not so by slamming a hook into the back of his head, dropping him a second time.
Johansson recovered from the beating and engaged Patterson in a third fight on March 13th, 1961, in Miami Beach, something promised to him by the new champion while unconscious on the floor.
www.cyberboxingzone.com /boxing/ingo.htm   (1599 words)

  
 The New York Times: This Day In Sports
Johansson, 27, who weighed 1943/4 pounds to Patterson's 190, had been the 8-to-5 choice to retain his crown.
Johansson was completely out, and he remained out for several minutes after his handlers had helped him to his corner.
Johansson's setback was the first in his professional career of twenty-three fights.
www.nytimes.com /packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/06.20.html   (716 words)

  
 Johansson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ingemar Johansson boxer, heavy weight world champion
Lennart Johansson — president of UEFA, the European Football Federation.
Olof Johansson — former president of the political party Centerpartiet
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johansson   (162 words)

  
 Ingemar Johansson: Ingo's A No-No
Johansson rose from the canvas, was hurt by another left hook, this time to the body, before Patterson's trademark leaping left hook connected with his jaw.
Johansson knocked Patterson down twice and was sent to the canvas once himself by a Patterson left hook in a wild first round shootout.
It was a meeting that Johansson was winning on points quite comfortably, until in the very last moments of the fight, London unleashed a flurry of big punches to the head and Johansson fell flat on his back.
www.eastsideboxing.com /news/day0507.php   (1803 words)

  
 Northern Express
Group members Michael Sullivan (guitar), Lisa Johansson (flute), Ingemar Johansson (guitar/Swedish nickleharp), and Rick Jones (percussion), will celebrate the dawn of their 20th year together in a Jan. 18 concert at Central Michigan University, which will be broadcast on CMU public radio's "Our Front Porch" series.
Ingemar Johansson brings a Scandinavian dimension to the band, most recently with the introduction of the Swedish nickleharp, an exotic instrument which combines the qualities of a hammered dulcimer and a harp with a mandolin.
Once, Ingemar notes, the band decided to paddle the Pigeon River prior to a concert at a campground in Harrisville, not knowing that the river was full of logjams.
www.northernexpress.com /editorial/music.asp?id=572   (1193 words)

  
 Movie Reviews by Edwin Jahiel
Ingemar, separated from his dog, goes to his uncle's house, in a small, provincial, unpaved nowheretown where time seems to have stood still for decades.
Through him Ingemar meets a collection of oddballs and eccentrics that could easily have become too picturesque or corny, were it not for the film's ability to stop in time and to avoid heavy-handedness.
Ingemar is a collector of odd facts, mostly about accidents through which he ponders the mysteries of life and fate.
www.prairienet.org /ejahiel/mylifeas.htm   (1293 words)

  
 My Life as a Dog (1985)
The transition to puberty is tough enough without complications, and there are plenty for young Ingemar Johansson (Anton Glanzelius), who is visibly, psychologically scarred.
Ingemar is one curious lad when it comes to sex.
He briefly plays house with a young girl who lives in his mother's neighborhood, and when he relocates to his uncle's village he experiences a curious first love with tomboy Saga (Melinda Kinnaman), who hides the fact that she's a girl so she can play soccer.
www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=1001&buy=closed&PID=10108301&Tab=reviews&CID=18   (960 words)

  
 mylifeasadog
Ingemar is much concerned about the Soviet dog Laika being sent up in space to die for a mission the dog had no choice in undertaking and compares that event with his own pet dog who is taken from him when he is uprooted to live in the country.
Ingemar's father is not heard from being somewhere in the tropics working on a banana boat; his mother is very sick and dying from TB, and his older brother Erik is always fighting with him.
Ingemar's summer tales involve meeting a tomboy called Saga (Melinda Kinnaman) who boxes with him, dresses like a boy to play soccer on their team, gets him to tape her growing breasts so that they won't be noticeable, and she also yearns to have him as a boyfriend.
www.sover.net /~ozus/mylifeasadog.htm   (1012 words)

  
 rediff.com: ATP Insider
At a press conference in the SAS VIP lounge, Johansson told the large delegation of Swedish press that his achievement in Melbourne was starting to dawn on him.
That was Ingemar Johansson, astounding knocker-outer of world heavyweight champ Floyd Patterson, a New Yorker, in 1959 to assume the crown.
Ingemar did it with a right hand he called 'toonder and lightning.' 'No,' laughed the latest exported Johansson, a 26-year-old from Linkoping who visits his money in Monte Carlo where he has an apartment.
www.rediff.com /sports/2002/feb/01atp.htm   (979 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Johansson headlines corps of 18 Hall inductees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Johansson's deadly right hand was no secret — it had destroyed Eddie Machen.
INGEMAR JOHANSSON — Born Oct. 16, 1932, Goteborg, Sweden.
Johansson astounded the boxing world on June 26, 1959, by knocking champion Floyd Patterson to the canvas seven times in a three-round victory.
www.usatoday.com /sports/boxing/stories/2002-06-08-hall.htm   (1627 words)

  
 IBHOF / The Class of 2002
Ingemar was a very powerful right cross puncher and he was always in excellent shape.
Among the inductees bringing an international flavor to the new class are Sweden's Ingemar Johansson, Australia's Jeff Fenech, England's Reg Gutteridge, and Argentina's Victor Galindez.
Ingemar Johansson, born in Sweden, becomes the first Hall of Fame inductee from that country.
www.ibhof.com /ibhf2002.htm   (1612 words)

  
 INGEMAR JOHANSSON - BOXING GLOVE SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY:PATRIC JOHANSSON
Ingemar beat Fann, the winner of the 1951 Golden Gloves tournament, by a KO in the third round.
Thirty years later, Johansson, who had been disqualified for what judges deemed a tepid performance, was presented with the Silver medal by the International Olympic Committee.
In 1959, Johansson became the first Swede to win the World Heavyweight Championship, defeating Floyd Patterson with a KO in the third round.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/9_2003/sports/INGEMAR_JOHANSSON.htm   (353 words)

  
 Scar Tissue Part 7: Brutality borrowed
Ridiculed in the media for his heavyweight title losing knockout at the hands of hard punching Swede Ingemar Johansson just a year earlier, his rapid fire combinations had an extra edge on them at the Polo Grounds in New York City for the rematch.
Johansson bounced off the ropes and Floyd put all his momentum into a sweeping left hook that nearly removed Ingemar’s head from his shoulders.
Ingemar Johansson got a third fight with Patterson, and was stopped in six.
www.doghouseboxing.com /DHB/Jess022505.htm   (700 words)

  
 1959 Boxing
Johansson's last previous ring appearance had taken place in September 1958 in his home town, where he knocked out the American, Eddie Machen, in one round.
Several weeks after Johansson won the title, the office of the New York County District Attorney undertook an investigation of alleged irregularities in the pro-motion and uncovered several violations of the laws governing boxing in New York state.
Johansson, who made several trips from Sweden to the United States after acquiring the title, stated often that he was willing to give Patterson a return match if the proper promoter could be found.
www.paperpast.com /html/1959_boxing.html   (881 words)

  
 Floyd Patterson
After defending his title four times, a 1959 championship match against Swedish slugger Ingemar Johansson was widely considered a puffcake fight that Patterson would win easily.
Patterson has said that John Wayne had front-row seats for that fight, and as the ref awarded Johansson the crown, the battered Patterson looked over the ropes directly into the Duke's eyes.
Johansson, dubbed "The Hammer of Thor," met Patterson again the following year, and with a fifth-round KO, Patterson became the first heavyweight to regain the title.
www.nndb.com /people/826/000023757   (557 words)

  
 Song of the Lakes - Ingemar Johansson
Born and raised in his native Sweden, Ingemar studied music from a young age, leading him from percussion, horn and classical guitar to his current multitude of stringed instruments such as guitars, mandolin, swedish nyckelharpa (keyfiddle), as well as percussion and vocals.
A number of the songs on the repertoire are written by him.
Since, he has been in a number of musical groups and was a founding member of Song of the Lakes.
www.songofthelakes.com /band?id=10   (96 words)

  
 Heavyweight Boxing Championship History (3/5)
Ingemar, little known to most Americans, was a favorite of Europeans.
June 26, 1959 in New York: The 182 lb Patterson fought the 198 lb Johansson.
In the 5th round, a hard left put Johansson on the canvas for the first time of his career.
www.geocities.com /Colosseum/1008/hwb3.html   (6762 words)

  
 Is Jason Estrada the Ingemar Johansson Of 2004?
Bos brought up the example of Ingemar Johansson, who displayed cowardly tendencies in the 1952 Helsinki Games.
Johansson was disqualified in the second round, Sanders won the gold and the Swede was not given the silver.
In the He Who Laughs Last Dept., though, it was Johansson who knocked out Floyd Patterson on June 29, 1959 to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
www.maxboxing.com /News/Woods082504.asp   (879 words)

  
 My Life As a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) (1985): Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén - PopMatters Film Review
Ingemar finds himself drawn into the family of his uncle (Tomas von Brömssen), who works in the glass factory that serves as the central employer in his small rural town.
Gradually, Ingemar begins to understand the fact that his own passage through life is no less hazardous but equally marvelous as this animal's exploration of the heavens.
Ingemar is one of those cinematic figures who remain in one's mind long after the story ends.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/m/my-life-as-a-dog.shtml?NF=1   (920 words)

  
 Northern Express
Johansson, flute and whistle player; her husband Ingemar on the mandolin and Swedish nyckelharpa; Michael Sullivan on guitars and the bouzouki, and Jones squaring off the quartet.
For the Johansson’s, they see the fact that the members have interests and careers outside of the band as a contributing factor in the group’s longevity.
Ingemar and Michael work in the world of social work/counseling, while Rick considers himself a “Benzie County Boy” working as a laborer, sculptor, sawmill hand and whatever else to keep “the ebb and flow of the green coming in.”
www.northernexpress.com /editorial/music.asp?id=862   (1694 words)

  
 My Life as a Dog [Mitt liv som hund]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Throughout this, Ingemar maintains his sense of perspective by comparing his own situation to the tragedies he reads in the newspaper.
Ingemar expresses his intense isolation through the stories he narrates when he is by himself, which, he says, give him "perspective."
This warmth makes Ingemar's loss all the more poignant, as if even the film itself wanted to reassure the boy that everything would be alright: how Anton Glanzelius resists this warmth is an extraordinary study in suffering.
endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webfilms/my.life.as.a.dog.202-film-.html   (501 words)

  
 Movie Database - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Ingemar's life has begun to spin out of control, and, like Laika, there's little he can do to stop it.
When Ingemar is sent away for the summer to stay with relations, he meets a menage of eccentric--and sexually intimidating--villagers; eventually, these experiences give him a sustaining inner strength.
Writer-director Lasse Hallstrom's tale is an episodic rite of passage, a story in which the emotions are touching but never sappy, the main character has the integrity and complexity of a real child with real troubles, and the glimpses of village life are rich and engaging.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=7985   (236 words)

  
 JS Online: Johansson Leads the Hall of Fame
Johansson's deadly right hand was no secret - it had destroyed Eddie Machen.
Johansson slamed a hook into the back of the champ's head and dropping him a second time.
It took five more knockdowns - ``He was up and down like a window shade,'' Dundee said - before Goldstein stopped the fight, making Johansson the first European heavyweight champion since Primo Carnera two decades earlier.
www.jsonline.com /sports/etc/ap/jun02/ap-box-hall-induct060802.asp?format=print   (757 words)

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