Carl Johanneson (born 1 August 1978) is a British former

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. He held the British super featherweight title from 2006 to 2008. His nickname, "Ingemar" is a nod to the famous Swedish boxer

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and is the nephew of former

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player Albert Johanneson. He served for four years in the

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of the

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Career

Born in

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, Johanneson began his career in the

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, for coach John Durkin fighting a variety of journeyman-level competition with two exceptions; He lost a split decision to Koba Gogoladze in 2003, and ended

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's career with a TKO in the 5th of 8. Johanneson began fighting out of England less than a year later, beginning the British phase of his career by TKO'ing Carl Greaves in 3 rounds at

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for the World Boxing Foundation (WBFo)

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title. In 2006, he beat Billy Corcoran to win the British super featherweight title. On Friday 13 July 2007 Johanneson lost to Leva Kirakosayan in a fight for Kirakosayan's European (EBU) Super-Featherweight title. Johanneson returned to winning ways with a 6th round stoppage win over

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in a fight for his British Title. On Saturday 8 March Carl lost his British Title to Kevin Mitchell in a 9th-round TKO. Johanneson returned to the ring in 2010 and scored routine six round points wins over Youssef Al Hamidi, Arek Malek, and George Watson. On 5 March 2011 he fought for the British title once more, losing to

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at the Huddersfield Sports Centre. In September 2012 he faced Martin Gethin for the vacant IBF International lightweight title, Gethin stopping him in the eleventh round. His final fight was a points defeat to Craig Woodruff three months later.Penman, Andrew (2012)
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References

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