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Cold Calculation. But Rosensohn was proving even more embarrassing in his explanation than in his promotion. Testifying before District Attorney Frank Hogan's grand jury ("I have nothing to hide''), he finally admitted that the real power behind the Patterson-Johansson fight was Harlem's Anthony ("Tony Fat") Salerno, 48, according to Hogan "a known gambler, bookmaker and policy operator," and a friend of Frankie Carbo, leading light in boxing's dim underworld. Rosensohn said that Velella was only a front man for Tony Fat (who had found it convenient to disappear), later went...
...Liston also has links to boxing's underworld; e.g.. Blinky Palermo of Philadelphia's gangland was once arrested carrying some of Liston's receipted bills. Whatever his connections, many boxing buffs see Liston as the U.S.'s most promising challenger for Sweden's Johansson, even though Liston has so far fought only second-raters. With future title fights snarled by legal difficulties. Liston has no assurance when-if ever-he will meet Johansson, or, for that matter, Floyd Patterson. But Liston is properly confident. "I don't think Johansson can punch," says...
...Back home in Goteborg, Sweden's new Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson was whisked from the airport to a local stadium by helicopter, emerged with a boyish grin to walk on a red carpet and display his mighty right hand for 20,000 cheering fans, who paid 40? apiece to greet...
...first European to be world heavyweight boxing champion in 25 years, Sweden's Ingemar Johansson was soundly lionized last week. Vacationing in Florida before returning to Goteborg to enjoy the biggest and loudest victory celebration ever given a homecoming Swede, he drew hordes of females straining for a glimpse of his rugged Scandinavian features. "Ingo" went deep-sea fishing and just missed catching a sailfish, frolicked in a saltwater pool with pretty Birgit Lundgren. She squelched talk that she is Ingo's fiancee, characterized herself as just a good friend who travels with Johansson to take care...
With an even rosier future in the boxing business, Johansson was understandably in high good humor after the fight. "You see, it is a right hand," he cried. "It was no fantasy." Fantasy or no, Johansson's tremendous punch against Patterson had already become as much a part of boxing lore as "the long count" that saved the championship for Gene Tunney in his 1927 fight with Jack Dempsey. And by any standard, Johansson's right hand is the biggest thing to hit boxing in years...