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...fight experts only grinned and shrugged off Challenger Johansson, 26, as a good, clean-cut Swedish kid, an import of blue-eyed, dimpled innocence who would be diced into smorgasbord by the flashing attack of Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson. Nobody was impressed by the fact that Johansson was undefeated in his 21 fights, last year had demolished No. 1 Contender Eddie Machen with the very same right. European heavyweights, however upright their intentions, traditionally have been horizontally inclined against American champions. And Patterson, 24, camping in a grubby New Jersey shack, grimly punishing himself in training with everything...
...fight time, Patterson was a solid 5-1 favorite despite the nagging fact that he had been open to right hands throughout his coddled career, had been decked by the powderpuff blows of Roy Harris and Pete Rademacher. In fact, since he won the title in 1956 by defeating Archie Moore, Patterson had fought no competent heavyweights...
...left jab, kept his right cocked to launch the big punch. He did not seem too heavily muscled, but the tip-off of his power came late in the first round when he threw his very first right hand. Though it was a glancing blow, the 182-lb. Patterson blinked...
...came in the third round. Johansson flicked a textbook left hand, then let loose the punch he had been talking about for months: a straight right hand backed up by all the power in his broad-shouldered, 196-lb. body. With devastating accuracy it found a small opening between Patterson's raised gloves, caught him squarely in the face (see cut). Patterson literally rose six inches into the air before thudding to the canvas on the seat of his white satin pants. He wobbled up at the count of nine, and stared bewildered in the direction of the Yankee...
...fathered a son and daughter and was later divorced. But Johansson has long since settled down, is now a shrewd investor of his fight earnings, owns profitable construction and fishing companies in Sweden. For working 8 min. 3 sec. last week, Entrepreneur Johansson earned an estimated $250,000 (v. Patterson...