Former heavyweight champ Ingemar Johansson dies (AP)

By on January 31st, 2009

In this June 26, 1959, file photo, Floyd Patterson lies on the canvas after taking a knockout blow from Ingemar Johansson, of Sweden, in the third round of their heavyweight title bout in New York's Yankee Stadium, in New York. Johansson, the Swede who stunned the boxing world by knocking out Floyd Patterson to win the world heavyweight title in 1959, has died, a longtime friend said Saturday. He was 76. (AP Photo, File)

Ingemar Johansson, the Swede who stunned the boxing world by knocking out Floyd Patterson to win the heavyweight title in 1959, has died, a longtime friend said Saturday. He was 76. Johansson died at a nursing home in Kungsbacka on the Swedish west coast, said Stig Caldeborn, a close friend who sparred with Johansson when they were in their teens.

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