I dont care how big you are, if you hit me Im going to hit you back.. Although three fighters have since repeated this feat (Herbie Hide, Tyson Fury, and Anthony Joshua), only Lewis also won the Lonsdale belt outright. He is also an avid chess player and has sponsored an after-school program for underprivileged youths. The documentary Lennox Lewis: The Untold Story appeared in 2020. After the doctor looked at the 4.8 kg (10 lb 10 oz), baby, he said, he looks like a Lennox and so he was named. [19] Lewis became the first Canadian to win boxing gold in 56 years. Of all the strange and often fiery encounters Tyson has had with reporters and fellow fighters, among the most awkward was his declaration that he wished to eat Lennox Lewis' children. [55] Thomas Hauser stated that the idea of Lewis having no chin was a myth, citing his rising from the powerful punch from Oliver McCall which floored Lewis for the first knockdown of his career, and suggesting that he was perhaps stopped prematurely. With both fighters looking tired before the start of round seven, the doctor advised that the fight should be stopped because of a severe cut above Klitschko's left eye, awarding Lewis victory by TKO. Klitschko's face required sixty stitches.[48][49][50]. Chang has been married to Lennox Lewis, a professional boxer since 2005. Some of my prior antics over the years could make him think that possibly I will eat his kids, as he revealed he used intimidation as a weapon because he was scared himself. Akin to Tyson vs Holyfield, Mike Tyson infused sheer bad-blood during the build-up of his fight against Lennox Lewis. Check out the film's stirring Lennox Claudius Lewis CM CBE (born 2 September 1965) is a boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. Lewis also out-jabbed Holyfield 137 to 52. He is known for his calculated fighting style and grace in the ring. In 1992, he became the number one ranked boxer in the World Boxing Council. In 1993, he became the WBC heavyweight champion. [21] HBO Boxing credited him with a shorter amateur record of 75 wins (58 by knockout) and 7 losses. Tyson had just beaten Lou Savarese in 38 seconds in 2000 when he produced the . Though he is well-known for guarding his privacy, Lennox recently opened up about how much he loves being a dad. 76% of the public money was riding on Paul. September 2 Horoscope More Sportsmen Jack Wilshere Hank Bauer Magic Johnson Terrell Owens Manny Ramirez Kapil Dev More People From London [5] At birth he weighed 4.8kg (10lb 10 oz), and was given the name Lennox by the doctor, who said "he looked like a Lennox. In the late 1990, he won the European heavyweight title by beating Frenchman Jean Maurice Chanet. It was because of this that the WBA instated its "Super Champion" title, giving unified titleholders who also hold a WBA belt more time to defend against mandatory challengers. He compiled a career record of 41-2-1 and won gold in the super heavyweight class at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Las Vegas, however, rejected the fight because of Tyson's licensing problems and several other states refused Tyson a licence before Memphis finally bid US$12million to land it. Im the same person now that I was when I was boxing. [20], Lewis, upon turning professional, had registered an amateur record of 859. It was Lewis's most impressive win to date and established him as one of the world's best heavyweights. Subsequently, he was ranked number one in the WBC world rankings. Lewis was born to Jamaican parents, spent his early childhood in England, and then moved with his mother to Canada. Prior to the event, Lewis was awarded the Ring magazine heavyweight title, which had been discontinued in the late 1980s. The raw statistics of the fight suggested the bout belonged to Lewis, who landed 348 punches compared to Holyfield's 130. In 1988 his adopted home of Canada awarded him a CM Member of the Order of Canada. He achieved what he had set out to do, and his hard work paid off when he defeated Riddick Bowe. Lewis was therefore to be stripped of his WBA belt if he fought Grant first. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. In the Games' closing ceremony, Lewis was Canada's flag bearer. At the 1986 World Championships, he lost in the preliminary round to Petar Stoimenov of Bulgaria. At four years, two months and fifteen days, Lewis has the twelfth-longest reign in heavyweight championship history. "[40], After Lewis defeated Holyfield the WBA ordered Lewis to defend the title against John Ruiz of Chelsea, Massachusetts, who was then an obscure Don King fighter who had been made the WBA's number one-ranked contender. As of August 2022, BoxRec ranks Lennox as the third greatest heavyweight fighter of all time.[54]. 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Thompson (Canada) by split decision, 23, Defeated K. Hataway (Canada) by unanimous decision, 30, Defeated D. Walls (Canada) by unanimous decision, 30, Defeated Barry Forbes (Canada) by majority decision, 41, Defeated I. Lewis (Canada) by unanimous decision, 30, Defeated M. Rome (Canada) by unanimous decision, 30, Defeated J. Valleyfield (United States) by unanimous decision, 30, Finals: Defeated Claude Courchesne (Canada) RSCH 1, Defeated Larry Evans (Canada) by decision, 1/4: Defeated Vincent Jones (United States) by unanimous decision, 50, 1/2: Defeated Durin Rcaru (Romania) by unanimous decision, 50, Finals: Defeated Pedro Quesada (Cuba) by walkover, Defeated Jouni Kopola (Finland) by walkover, Defeated Bengt Cederquist (Sweden) by unanimous decision, 50, Defeated D. Mills (Canada) by unanimous decision, 30, 1/4: Defeated Don Stevenson (Canada) RSCH 1, 1/2: Defeated Barry Forbes (Canada) by unanimous decision, 50, Finals: Defeated Vernon Linklater (Canada) by unanimous decision, 50, Defeated Vernon Linklater (Canada) by walkover, Finals: Defeated Brian Lansing (Canada) RSCH 1, Defeated R. Garrison (United States) RSC 2, Finals: Defeated Milan Turek (Czech Republic) RET 1, 1/2: Defeated Kimmuel Odum (United States) by decision, 1/2: Defeated Juan Antonio Daz Nieves (Argentina) RET 1, Finals: Lost to Vyacheslav Yakovlev (Soviet Union) by unanimous decision, 05, Defeated A. [32] In spite of the Lewis camp protests, Boxing Monthly editor Glynn Leach pointed out that Lewis "only seemed to recover his senses once the fight was waved off", and that "in the opinions of everyone I spoke to at ringside, the decision was correct. I didn't think so at all. This was the highest-grossing event in pay-per-view history, generating US$106.9million from 1.95million buys in the US, until it was surpassed by De La Hoya-Mayweather in 2007. [38] Eight months later in Las Vegas (13 November 1999), the two men fought again in a more open and entertaining contest than the original fight, with the two boxers having some heavy exchanges from rounds six to nine. The two men are now friends and Lewis has even joked he used to use the threat from Iron Mike as a way to warn his kids to behave. In 2002 he was honored by his birth country of England when Queen Elizabeth II awarded him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Rahman was ordered to honour the clause and give Lewis a rematch in his first title defence. There are a lot of celebrity romances that blossom every year. Im the most brutal and vicious and ruthless champions thats ever been. Not surprisingly, Bowe and his manager chose to pursue lucrative fights against easier opponents. Omissions? By that time he was ranked #6 in the world by the AIBA. That same year Lewis went on to defeat Michael Grant, Franz Botha, and David Tua to retain his IBF and WBC heavyweight titles. Although most observers believed Lewis had clearly won the fight, the bout was declared a draw, to much controversy. He attended Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute for high school, where he excelled in Canadian football, soccer, and basketball. He also defeated Mike Dixon and Levi Billups. He was officially crowned the WBC Heavyweight Champion in January of 1993. Lewis was forced to vacate the IBF title in 2002 after refusing to face mandatory challenger Chris Byrd. Lewis was the first boxer to hold the British heavyweight title and subsequently win a world title. A unification bout in March 1999 at New York Citys Madison Square Garden against American Evander Holyfield, who held the heavyweight titles of the World Boxing Association (WBA) and the International Boxing Federation (IBF) ended in a controversial draw. Tyson, who was at one point the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, was beaten by Lewis, which was his last title fight before eventually retiring from boxing in 2005. In 1988 at the Seoul Olympics, he did as he said he would and brought home the Gold medal to Canada in the SuperHeavyweight division. I just wanted to go out there and prove it by knocking him out. The win over Ruddock made Lewis the mandatory challenger for Riddick Bowe's heavyweight championship. Lewis regained the title on 17 November by outclassing and then knocking out Hasim Rahman in the fourth round of their rematch. On 2-9-1965 Lennox Lewis (nickname: Lennox) was born in West Ham, London, England. In April 1992, he won the Commonwealth title against Derek Williams. Two fights against Evander Holyfield in 1999 (the first ending in a controversial draw) saw Lewis become undisputed heavyweight champion by unifying his WBC title with Holyfield's WBA and IBF titles, as well as the vacant IBO title. My defense is impregnable, and Im just ferocious. Lewis took Rahman to court to honour the rematch clause in their contract. In one of the strangest fights in boxing history, McCall, who had lost the first three rounds, refused to box in the fourth and fifth rounds. Lewis worked as a boxing analyst for HBO on Boxing After Dark from 2006 to 2010. I want your heart, I want to eat his children.. Im Jack Dempsey. Im the best ever. In 1999, he was named Fighter of the Year by the Boxing Writers Association of America, as well as BBC Sports Personality of the Year. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, Lewis beat American Riddick Bowe to earn the gold medal in the superheavyweight division. Lewis had the number 1 contender's slot in the WBC rankings when he knocked out Australian Justin Fortune, then defeated former WBO Champion Tommy Morrison in October 1995, followed by Olympic gold medallist and former WBO champion Ray Mercer in a close majority decision in May 1996. Lennox spent his early years in the East End of London and due to his familys economic situation his mother immigrated to Canada in search of better job opportunities and left him in the care of a family friend. Turning professional in 1989, he won 21 fights consecutively. Updates? In 2016, Lewis was honored by the WBC with his picture image permanently embedded in the WBC Heavyweight championship belt. Theres never been anybody as ruthless. In the fall of 2002, Lewis relinquished the IBF portion of his heavyweight title. 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