“On that humid June evening in 1959 at Yankee Stadium in New York, lightning and thunder shook the skies. The “Hammer of Thor” found it’s way and downed Floyd Patterson seven times in the third round, making Ingemar Johansson from Sweden the new heavyweight boxing Champion of the world. For the first time the
A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO BOXING REFEREE MITCH HALPERN Halpern was a referree with men and women’s boxing. WBAN covered a fight in Las Vegas, Nevada for the Karen Bill vs. Maria Johannson fight where he reffed their four-round bout. A few weeks later Halpern committed suicide. WBAN reported the following: On Sunday, August 20, 2000, Boxing referee
Photo by Mary Ann Owen On Father’s Day, June 18, 2000, at the Regent Hotel, in Las Vegas, Nevada there were two daughters, 23-year-old Freeda Foreman and 34 year-old Maria Johansson, who made their pro debut, along with some male bouts that were sons of famous boxing fathers. The fights were televised on Fox Sports