Former heavyweight champ Johansson dies at 76 (AP)

By on January 31st, 2009

Swedish world heavyweight boxing champion Ingemar Johansson pictured during the Swedish Sports Award gala at the Stockholm City Hall in 2000. Johansson, who stunned the boxing world by knocking out Floyd Patterson to win the world heavyweight title in 1959, has died late Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, aged 76, a longtime friend said Saturday Jan. 31. (AP Photo / Tobias Röstlund, SCANPIX)

Ingemar Johansson, the Swede who stunned the boxing world by knocking out Floyd Patterson to win the heavyweight title in 1959, has died. He was 76. Johansson died Friday at a nursing home in Kungsbacka on the Swedish west coast, his daughter Maria Gregner said Saturday. Johansson was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia more than 10 years ago when he lived in Stockholm.

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