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...Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson shook his head ruefully and admitted that "118 kilos [259.6 lbs., on a 6-ft. frame] is not precisely fighting weight." Still, reporters had vivid memories of the "toonder and lightning" right hand that flattened Floyd Patterson in 1959, and they suppressed their laughter when Ingo, 37, announced that he may try a comeback. Addicted to the good life even in his prime, and a problem drinker in the years since, he claims that he has now given up smorgasbord and women-he was recently divorced from his wife -and is back in rigorous training. "Three...
...INGO WALTER Chairman
...Little Ingo," they call him, while Proud Father and former Heavyweight Champ Ingemar Johansson, 30, says of his three-week-old son: "The finest boy I ever saw. Look at his fists; he sure got them from me." Will the tyke go into the ring? "I wouldn't try to stop him." declared Ingemar in Stockholm. Of course, he would have to be christened first, on Easter Sunday, but Jens Patrik Johansson already looked like a comer...
...left hand to complement his crashing right-but there were doubts that his left would ever be very dangerous. Moreover, Johansson still has not corrected the basic mistake of dropping his right hand, which last time left him open to Patterson's left hook. But the way Ingo explains his defeat, he tried to lean back from Patterson's left instead of ducking under it. This time, he says, he will duck...
...than ever before. At 195 lbs., he was heavier than in the past, but had lost none of his speed. For the most part, he has learned to fight out of a stable stance instead of bouncing about like a kangaroo, as he did for years. When word of Ingo's "new left" reached him, Patterson took the news seriously. "Ingemar's real sneaky," he said. "He'll have something new for me. I'll have to do likewise...