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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.

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      Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/25/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780786498475, 978-0786498475
      ISBN10: 0786498471

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

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