It is 50 years today since the heavyweight match between Ingemar Johansson and Floyd Patterson when Ingemar became Champion. No white man has become champion after that.
Ingemar and Floyd were very good friends, and Floyd was very popular in Sweden.
I heard the match on the radio, and later there was a film about a lazy boxer who didn't like the training, Swedish Floyd. My Aunt Karin's husband Åke was a big man with hands like toilet seats. A journalist at the magazine 'Se' was in their house, I was there too and the journalist, Gits Olsson made him 'Sweden's most man'. He got a small role in the film as a boxer who was carried out. It was exciting when he was filming, one of Sweden's most popular artists, Lill-Babs was in the film too. When Beatles came to Sweden the first time, she gave them autographs,and they warmed up the audience for her. When we saw the movie at the cinema we looked for Åke, I think I missed him. Lill-Babs is still very popular, now mostly called by her real name Barbro Svensson. They show the match on TV tonight.
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