Word: johansson
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Floyd Patterson, 43, gained the championship by winning a tournament after Marciano retired in 1956. Patterson lost the title to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 and then won it back in 1960, making him the first man ever to regain the championship. After two first-round knockouts by Sonny Liston, he retired in 1972. Patterson now operates an amateur boxing club and is New York's acting athletic commissioner. After he lost his title, Patterson was so humiliated that he sometimes wore disguises. Now he says: "What I've been looking for throughout my whole life I have found...
...Ingemar Johansson, 45, was driven out of Sweden by high taxes after the Patterson fights. Retiring in 1963, he dabbled in real estate and the restaurant business in Europe before moving to Lighthouse Point, Fla., two years ago. Johansson is now divorced: his ex-wife Birgit and their four children live in Sweden. A paunchy 240 Ibs., Johansson, plays some tennis and a lot of golf and admits he is still looking for a post-boxing career. Says he: "I haven't done anything, really. I am like a used-car dealer; I stick my nose in everything...
...best part of the book deals with the heavyweight boxing champions since 1956--Patterson, Johansson, Liston, Ali, Frazier, Foreman--and their biggest fights. Cosell offers inside information and for once lets athletes, rather than himself, dominate the action. He recalls a visit to Sonny Liston's training camp during which Liston and Liston's wife danced in the ring to the song "Night Train." He discusses Ali's poor conditioning before his 1972 title fight with Joe Frazier and before his bout last spring with Kenny Norton...
Died. Eddie Machen, 40, ranking heavyweight contender during the 1950s and '60s; of injuries suffered when he fell or jumped from his apartment window; in San Francisco. A convict turned fighter, Machen seemed headed for the championship until Sweden's Ingemar Johansson kayoed him in the first round of a 1958 fight. After a bout with mental illness, he tried a comeback that soon fizzled, and later worked part time as a longshoreman...
...Floyd Patterson v. Ingemar Johansson...