0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R500 - R1,000 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments

Ingemar Johansson - Swedish Heavyweight Boxing Champion (Paperback): Ken Brooks Ingemar Johansson - Swedish Heavyweight Boxing Champion (Paperback)
Ken Brooks
R990 R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Save R255 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ingmar 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 brief 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 story-book romance with Birgit Lundgren and his post-career life and tragic early dementia.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Viral Replication Enzymes and their…
Craig E. Cameron, Jamie J. Arnold Hardcover R4,969 R4,165 Discovery Miles 41 650
Spinning Wheels and Accessories
Michael B. Taylor Hardcover R1,775 R1,367 Discovery Miles 13 670
Endings and Beginnings - Law, Medicine…
Larry Palmer Hardcover R3,165 Discovery Miles 31 650
One Small Step - The Definitive Account…
Paul Sinton-Hewitt Paperback R399 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190
The Challenge of Chance - A…
Klaas Landsman, Ellen Van Wolde Hardcover R2,051 Discovery Miles 20 510
Imtiaz Sooliman And The Gift Of The…
Shafiq Morton Paperback  (1)
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880
Nationalism, Globalization, and…
Victor Roudometof Hardcover R2,792 Discovery Miles 27 920
To the African American Hair and Beauty…
Haroon Rashid Hardcover R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740
High-Density Sequencing Applications in…
Agamemnon J. Carpousis Hardcover R4,600 Discovery Miles 46 000
The Subjunctive in the Age of…
Charles Jones Hardcover R1,516 Discovery Miles 15 160

 

Partners