RIP Ingemar Johansson

[silverscreenselect]

Swedish heavyweight boxer who won the World Heavyweight Championship from Floyd Patterson in 1959 only to lose it back to Patterson a year later. His only two career losses were to Patterson, both by knockout. In his first loss, he was actually unconscious for about ten minutes.

Age 76.

[mellytu74]

My parents were both boxing fans so I grew watching boxing on TV.

But the 1959 Patterson-Johansson fight is the first one I really REMEMBER. I also remember thinking that Inemar Johansson was cute.

But I was seven, so it's all relative, I guess.

[TheConfessor]

In his first loss, he was actually unconscious for about ten minutes.

That's impressive. Almost anyone would have lost under those circumstances!

[etaoin22]

Now this is someone I did not think was still alive. At age 76, even if this is "dementia puglistica"-related, outlived many of his contemporaries in all sports