Ingemar Johansson
Subtitle: Swedish Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780786498475
Subjects: Boxers (sports); Sweden, biography
Description: "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 and held it for six days short of a year (1959-1960)"--