LONDON (Reuters) - Ingemar Johansson provoked merriment rather than trepidation among the hard-bitten American sportswriters before his 1959 world heavyweight fight against Floyd Patterson at Yankee ...

Floyd Patterson, an undersized champion who avenged an embarrassing loss to Ingemar Johansson by beating him a year later to become the first boxer to regain the heavyweight title, died Thursday. He ...

The boxing world mourns as former heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson (September 22, 1932 - January 30, 2009) passed away on Friday. Johansson became famous when he stepped in the ring on June 26, ...

Somewhere within the dreadful fog that comes with Alzheimer’s, I hope that Floyd Patterson considered that he had finally beaten his toughest opponent. Not Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali or Ingemar ...

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In some ways, the prefight pattern was familiar. As he had twice before, U.S. Heavyweight Floyd Patterson stuck grimly to his job of clouting sparring partners in preparation for a championship bout ...

Everyone was always feeling sorry for Floyd Patterson, who died yesterday at 71, and if you had to pick someone to feel sorry for, Floyd had all the qualifications. He was the first heavyweight ...

Ingemar Johansson, 76, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world, who fought Floyd Patterson in three of the most thrilling fights in boxing history, died Jan. 30 at a nursing home in Kungsbacka, ...

Outside, the crowds quite literally were breaking down the Polo Grounds’ gates. In the seasick-green dressing room formerly inhabited by New York’s baseball Giants, Sweden’s Ingemar Johansson, ...

Floyd Patterson was small for a heavyweight, but that never stopped him from taking on the giants of his time. Good enough to become the first two-time heavyweight champion of the world, he wasn't big ...