Swedish History: January 2 in Swedish History

The heavyweight champion of the world to be, Ingemar 'Ingo' Johansson becomes the Swedish junior heavy weight champion. 

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  On January 2, 1950, the 17-year-old Ingemar Johansson takes the title of heavy weight champion in junior-SM in boxing. Ingemar “Ingo” Johansson (1932-2009) was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States.

• Swedish History: January 2 in Swedish History
  1950: The 17-year-old Ingemar Johansson becomes the heavy weight champion in the junior Swedish Championship (junior-SM) in boxing. Two years later he competes in the Olympic Games in Helsinki, wins a silver medal and begins his career as a professional boxer later the same year, in December 1952.

• Six years later "Ingo" became the new heavyweight champion of the world; check an eyewitness report of the late Nordstjernan editor and contributor Lars H. Ottoson, who was there, even entered the ring after the KO: 'We'll never forget you!'

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