Autographs of Ingemar Johansson
Jens Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson (Swedish: ; 22 September 1932 – 30 January 2009) was a Swedish professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1963. He held the world heavyweight title from 1959 to 1960 and was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. Johansson won the title by defeating Floyd Patterson via third-round stoppage, after flooring him seven times in that round. For this achievement, Johansson was awarded the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year—the only non-American in its entire 27-year first run—and was named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year and Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.
Johansson also held the EBU European Heavyweight Champion title twice, from 1956 to 1958 and from 1962 to 1963. As an amateur he won a silver medal in the heavyweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He affectionately named his right fist "toonder and lightning" for its concussive power (it was also called "Ingo's bingo" and the "Hammer of Thor"), and in 2003 he was ranked at No. 99 on The Ring magazine's list of the 100 greatest punchers of all time.
Johansson's introduction to the top rank of the sport was inauspicious. At age nineteen he was disqualified for passivity at the Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics in the heavyweight competition in a fight against eventual Olympic gold medalist Ed Sanders. Johansson maintained he was not evading Sanders (who also got a warning for passivity), but rather was trying to tire his opponent. Johansson said he had been limited to a 10-day training camp, had only trained with newcomers, and had been told by his coach to let Sanders be the aggressor. Nevertheless, his silver medal was withheld for poor performance and presented to him only in 1982.
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| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Ingemar Johansson Signed 8x10 BW Photo — Heavyweight Champion | £72.53 |  |
Traded items with a signature of Ingemar Johansson
The most expensive item with a signature of Ingemar Johansson (Ingemar Johansson/Floyd Patterson Signed 1959 Sports Illustrated Mag PSA/DNA) was sold in March 2026 for £888.72 while the cheapest item (Ingemar Johansson Autographed Boxing Photograph Print) found a new owner for £0.99 in November 2015. The month with the most items sold (21) was December 2025 with an average selling price of £54.03 for an autographed item of Ingemar Johansson. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2026 with £367.40 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £2.58 was May 2023. In average, an autographed item from Ingemar Johansson is worth £54.03.
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