R.I.P. Ingemar Johansson

Another big loss for boxing. R.I.P. Ingemar.

 

rip

 

Damn it! first jose torres and now ingemar?!
RIP.

 

R.I.P Ingo the way he destoyed Machen was scary.

 

Now Muhammad Ali is the oldest living ex-heavyweight champion.

 

RIP
Best fighter we swedes ever had. Nobody else ever came close. In a country like sweden who never really cared for boxing and even banned professional boxing in the sixties he was still generally considered the third greatest athlete to ever come from sweden. The two men considered greater than him was bjorn borg (one of the top four tennis players of all time) and Ingemar Stenmark (the greatest alpine skiier of all time). The actual win over Floyd is cinsidered the greatest single moment in swedish sports history. Thank you for being an inspiration and keeping your dignity to the very end.

*bows*

 

The best fighter ever from Sweden.

And it's not even close, Ingemar was unique in that sense.

Rest in peace champ.

 

Last of the old guard gone.

A fined fighter and a fine man outside the ring.

 

He's NOT considered a failure here in Sweden. His passing is front page news in all the evening papers (the news came to late for the morning papers, I suppose), by the way.

When it comes to sports icons it's him, Björn Borg and Ingemar Stenmark.

 

Not everybody agrees with me on this but I think his right hand was p[ossibly the best ever.

 

I think the Machen fight is proof of that, the first right hand he landed made Machens legs just disappear totally.

He had a true gift of a right hand.

 

im not saying he is still classed as an underachiever but after the olympics he was regarded as an under acheiver as many people thought he should have won more. but this has been realised as wrong in time rightfully.

Its a real tribute to a guy have his death on front page news when he is from a minority sport in a country that isnt really into the sport. just shows Ingos poularity

 

For a little nation that's not really into sport,they used to produce some world class tennis players-Borg, Wilander, Edberg...... :think

 

ingo's bingo...that right hand!!..i remember reading it was called odins thunder or something??? you swedish guys can maybe help me on this?....when ingo was asked about this he replied, when i throw the right, it lands like toonder.....genuine hw champ, genuine guy, sad loss....

 

Isn't Sweden into sports? What are you on about? Tennis players like Borg, Wilander and Edberg; football players like Gren, Lidholm, Norddahl, Brolin, Larsson and Zlatan Ibrahimovic... I could go on. These guys are all revered.

Don't know if any other country invests as much per capita into sports as Sweden.