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Informationen zum Autor Ken Brooks is a freelance writer and retired educator. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Klappentext Ingemar Johansson's right hand--dubbed "The Hammer of Thor"--was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson's three fights with Floyd Patterson rank among the sport's classic rivalries. Yet most fans know little about the Swedish playboy who won the world heavyweight championship with a shocking third round knockout of Patterson and held it for six days short of a year (1959-1960). During his reign, the raffish "Ingo" hit fashionable nightspots on two continents, romanced Elizabeth Taylor, and refused to kowtow to the mobsters who controlled boxing. This first-ever biography of Johansson chronicles his fistic triumphs as a Goteborg teen prodigy, his humiliating disqualification for "cowardice" at the 1952 Olympics, his storybook romances with Birgit Lundgren and Edna Alsterlund and his post-career life and tragic early dementia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart1.¿Roots2.¿Breakthrough3.¿The 1952 Olympics4.¿Turning Pro5.¿Birgit6.¿Taking on Machen7.¿Edwin and CusPart8.¿Grossinger's9.¿No Longer a Dream10.¿Patterson-Johansson I11.¿Delirium12.¿Fighting the Fight Mob13.¿Pop Culture Ingo14.¿Back to Work15.¿Patterson-Johansson II16.¿After the Fall17.¿Dancin' with Johansson18.¿Patterson-Johansson III19.¿One More FightPart Three 20.¿Cutting Ties21.¿Edna22.¿Troubling Times23.¿Changes24.¿There Is Only One IngoEpilogue: The Hammer of ThorProfessional Boxing RecordBibliographyIndex
