Monday Sweet Science - Johnny Lewis 65th birthday special

[DaSweetScience]

Monday Night FightZone - Monday March 23, 2009

1. 6-8pm AEST- The Sweet Science National Boxing Program

Program #139 - This week's Sweet Science boxing program is broadcast from Koori Radio in Sydney and features the following:

News with Paul Upham and then:

In studio with the master trainer for the Johnny Lewis 65th birthday special.

We look at the yeoman career of one of Australia's greatest ever trainers with 5 world champions including Fenech, Harding, Tszyu and St Clair including highlights, low moments and his favourite characters in the game.

Including Interviews with:

- Bobby Hammond : Johnnys best mate with some tales of the man behind the man

- Peter Mitrevski Sr : Three weight class & former Australian flyweight, super flyweight and bantamweight champion

- Graham "Changa" Langlands : One of the greatest rugby league players ever and good friend of Johnny to explore his rugby league connection.

Radio: The Sweet Science Australian National boxing radio program is broadcast live to over 50 stations on the National Indigenous Radio Service including:

Sydney: Koori Radio: 93.7 FM
Melbourne: 3KND: 1503 AM
Townsville: 4K1G: 107.1 FM

Internet: Listen live on – http://www.gadigal.org.au click on Koori Radio Live at the top of the page.

2. 11-11.30pm - KOTV on Foxtel Channel 519 (Sky Racing Service)

KOTV is a half hour international weekly boxing news program courtesy of Sky Ringside that previews all the big upcoming fights, highlights of recent fights from across the globe, as well as interviews with legends both past and present.

Tonights show features:

- Interview with all time great heavyweight Larry Holmes
- Heavyweight War with George Foreman and Ken Norton
- A super middleweight bloodbath between Joey Gilbert and Jesse Brinkley

Note : KOTV is repeated at 9am AEST on Wednesday morning

3. 11.30 pm - 12.30am Canvas Classics on Foxtel Channel 519 (Sky Racing Channel)

Freddie Steele vs Carlos Monzon / Jorge " El Maromero" Paez vs Troy Dorsey

[Brute]

Johnny Lewis was 61 when he was awarded the OAM on Australia Day, 2006.

I think you will find this birthday is his 65th. Ray Warren was talking about it on the Friday Night Rugby League broadcast.

[DaSweetScience]

Thanks brute.
Corrected

[Brute]

Thanks brute.
Corrected

You are welcome.

[patron]

happy birthday to maybe our best conditioner, lewis,s champions had everything when johnny got hold of them and then a couple of them were hand fed to get a share of a title or a nothing title

[Contendo]

You might want to correct the article/interview - For the record, Johnny Lewis has trained 6 individual World Champions.

Jeff Fenech
Kostya Tszyu
Jeff Harding
Virgil Hill
Gairy St. Clair
Billy Dib

Happy Birthday to the legend and one of the nicest people you'll ever meet - congrats Johnny.