Lennart Risberg

Name: Lennart Risberg
Alias: Soders Dempsey
Birth Name: Kurt Lennart Risberg
Hometown: Eskilstuna, Sweden
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Died: 2013-09-04 (Age:78)
Stance: Orthodox
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

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• National champion 1956, 1958.
• Nordic champion in 1956.
• Partial amateur record [1]

Olympic games results

1956 (as a Light heavyweight)

• Lost to Andrzej Wojciechowski (Poland) KO by 3

• As a pro fought only two times at the light heavyweight limit.

Swedish Radio re-broadcasted a 1979 interview with Risberg after his death:

• "To be a good a boxer one must have a strong condition, a will to win and some punching power.I had all that"
• "The very best fighters brought out the best in me, while the mediocre ones sometimes made me look bad."
• "Ingemar Johansson was more famous than me, but I didn't mind at all. He was a great guy."
• "I felt I was winning all the way agains Bobo Olson and may have gotten a little careless."
• "I don't regret being a boxer. I learned how to take care of myself."
• "My eye injuries was more a problem to the press than to myself."
• "I'm still an early riser.5 days a week during my career I went up 4:30 and ran. And then off to work."
• "Still work out a little in my old club. But have no longing for the game anymore. It ment after all very hard work through the years."
• "My best fight was against the German Dieter Wemhoner in 1960. Favorite boxer: Rocky Marciano.

Best fighter I met was as an amateur, the Czech Julius Torma. Impossible to hit him."