"Heavyweight Champion" Ingemar Johansson Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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"Heavyweight Champion" Ingemar Johansson Signed 3X5 Card.
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Jens Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson
(Swedish:
[ˈɪ̌ŋː(ɛ)mar ˈjûːanˌsɔn]
; 22 September 1932 – 30 January 2009) was a Swedish
professional boxer
who competed from 1952 to 1963. He held the world
heavyweight
title from 1959 to 1960, and was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. Johansson won the title by defeating
Floyd Patterson
via third-round
stoppage
, after flooring him seven times in that round. For this achievement, Johansson was awarded the
Hickok Belt
as top professional athlete of the year—the only non-American to do so in the belt's entire 27-year existence—and was named the
Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year
and
Sports Illustrated
Sportsman of the Year
. Johansson also held the
European
heavyweight title twice, from 1956 to 1958 and from 1962 to 1963. As an
amateur
he won a silver medal in the heavyweight division at the
1952 Summer Olympics
. He affectionately named his right fist "toonder and lightning" for its concussive power (it was also called "Ingo's bingo" and the "Hammer of Thor"), and in 2003 he was ranked at No. 99 on
The Ring
magazine
's list of the 100 greatest punchers of all time.
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