Floyd Patterson vs Ingemar Johansson III
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Floyd Patterson defends the Heavyweight Championship of the World for the first time after regaining it against Ingemar Johansson, the very man who took it and from whom he won it back. This was the last of their three historic fights. Johansson went on to regain the European Championship that was vacaned before winning the World Championship from Patterson in their first fight, he then retired in 1963. Patterson would loose the championship again to Sonny Liston in 1962, he tried to regain it three times before retireing for good in 1972.
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Their records at the time
Floyd Patterson: 36-2
Ingemar Johansson: 22-1