Lewis changes his tune

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 24 Jan 2005, 06:30

It appears Lewis has thought better of his rash comments. Despite telling the Mirror he was coming back, he's now told fightnews that he isn't. I suspect he was goaded in the heat of the moment into saying he was coming back, and now he's talked to his mum and his missus, and they've given him a bollocking.....

nickd · Post by **nickd** » 24 Jan 2005, 07:10

Or he never said it in the first place or his words were twisted by the tabloids. Much more likely I think.

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 24 Jan 2005, 07:19

Possible I suppose. Hard to twist it to that extent though, I mean saying you spoke to Lewis and he said he was coming back in November is pretty bold.

BunglesFingers · Post by **BunglesFingers** » 24 Jan 2005, 09:44

The Daily/Sunday Mirror have been printing complete bullshit for a long time, especially when it comes to sport.

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 24 Jan 2005, 09:55

Isn't Oliver Holt their chief sports writer, he's usually pretty good.

BubiScholz · Post by **BubiScholz** » 24 Jan 2005, 10:06

he would look like Holyfield nowadays but much more fatter..

is life in Jamaica so expensive?

BunglesFingers · Post by **BunglesFingers** » 24 Jan 2005, 10:09

Maybe the Mirror just jumped the gun on this one, but when it comes to football, they do it far too often and get their facts wrong (as do most tabloids).

On the other hand it probably helped to shift a few more papers when there's not muchelse going on.

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 24 Jan 2005, 10:12

Lewis also has property in the UK and USA as well, and you can bet your arse he has a fat yard in, well, yard.

It's not like he's going to be living in some shack, plus I think he has bought places for his mother and brother.

I wonder what he has earned in his career, could probably work it out from reading his book, but I know it's not anything like Tyson's earnings.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 24 Jan 2005, 10:15

They were direct quotes, if it was all complete BS they'd take the "A source close to Lennox told us..." approach. Notice in his later statement he never denied making those statements to the Mirror. IMO he will come back for a Vitali fight, providing VK gets by Rahman that is. The later denial statement (IMO) is a smokescreen, maybe he was supposed to keep everything quiet and now he's covering up for blabbing to the tabloids. I guess theres only one guy anyway who really knows..

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 24 Jan 2005, 10:21

I suspect you may be right, perhaps Lewis just couldn't help himself bluring it out, or as I said earlier, he wants to make it clear he wants a fornicating whopping purse

Nobody else was ever bandying about the kind of money Lewis is talking about, it seems he plucked that figure out of the ether, or rather decided that's the amount which excites him. Perhaps it is now up to Klitchsko's people to try and get enough to get Lewis back, after all, Vitali needs this fight a hell of a lot more than Lewis. Lewis can just stay retired, knowing that Vitali will find it virtually impossible to outdo Lewis because there simply isn't the competition available out there. Perhaps he's threatening to pull out of the fight.

BunglesFingers · Post by **BunglesFingers** » 24 Jan 2005, 10:22

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Lewis also has property in the UK and USA as well, and you can bet your arse he has a fat yard in, well, yard.

It's not like he's going to be living in some shack, plus I think he has bought places for his mother and brother.

I wonder what he has earned in his career, could probably work it out from reading his book, but I know it's not anything like Tyson's earnings.

I seem to remember hearing figures over $100-$120 million from fights alone. Then you've got endorsements, tv, films etc etc. Ofcourse you have to take away taxes etc and the figures may have been hyped up a bit, but theres no doubt he's done extremely well.

Also, LL is not the type to blow the lot like Tyson or so many others boxers and unless he has a secret gambling or Faberge Egg addiction, I really doubt that he needs the money.

But if there really was £20m plus on offer, who knows.

mrbassie · Post by **mrbassie** » 24 Jan 2005, 10:30

I just don't think people should get so excited about a rumour scrawled on a piece of toilet paper

lirva33 · Post by **lirva33** » 24 Jan 2005, 10:34

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Isn't Oliver Holt their chief sports writer, he's usually pretty good.

Holt is a terrible writer. He really is terrible. I just cant read his articles because they're so bad.

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 24 Jan 2005, 10:52

Blimey people have some high standards, I've never noticed him being that bad, though I don't read the mirror too often.

One thing that people don't realise with newspaper journalists is that they write to extremely tight deadlines, so don't have the time for finessing their pieces in the way that non-deadline journalists do.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:27

I wonder what he has earned in his career, could probably work it out from reading his book, but I know it's not anything like Tyson's earnings.

he's in the 2004 Times rich list as having £100m ($187m) banked...

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 24 Jan 2005, 12:37

mrbassie wrote:I just don't think people should get so excited about a rumour scrawled on a piece of toilet paper

We get the tabloids we deserve, that's why I have not bought one in well over 10 years. They are all a waste of time and money in my opinion.

Glad to hear Big Lennox has seen sence and stayed retired as I believe he has nothing left to prove.

stujones · Post by **stujones** » 24 Jan 2005, 13:48

lirva33 wrote:
jamesmcdonnell wrote:Isn't Oliver Holt their chief sports writer, he's usually pretty good.
Holt is a terrible writer. He really is terrible. I just cant read his articles because they're so bad.

I like Holt on the TV, he's the only one that I really listen to on that Jimmy Hill sunday show on Sky.

Goz · Post by **Goz** » 24 Jan 2005, 15:27

KOJOE90 wrote:
mrbassie wrote:I just don't think people should get so excited about a rumour scrawled on a piece of toilet paper

We get the tabloids we deserve, that's why I have not bought one in well over 10 years. They are all a waste of time and money in my opinion.

Glad to hear Big Lennox has seen sence and stayed retired as I believe he has nothing left to prove.

Well said guys, let that be a punctuation mark on the matter!

overhand_right · Post by **overhand_right** » 24 Jan 2005, 15:50

jamesmcdonnell wrote:It appears Lewis has thought better of his rash comments. Despite telling the Mirror he was coming back, he's now told fightnews that he isn't. I suspect he was goaded in the heat of the moment into saying he was coming back, and now he's talked to his mum and his missus, and they've given him a bollocking.....

He never said that shit in the first place genius.

Can you imagine Lewis talking like he did in those "quotes"

"I need the money, i cant turn down 21 mil" etc as soon as i read that i knew it was bullshit.

Please children, dont be reeled in so easily...

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 24 Jan 2005, 17:41

as was said earlier, if it had said, 'A source close to the Lewis camp' rather than direct quotes, I would be inclined to think that, however, although I can't be sure, i am inclined to think that Lewis is capable of saying that. Who knows though.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 25 Jan 2005, 05:43

the quote you refer to was "I need the money just like everyone else and it's just too good to be turned down."

When its printed in full like that it sounds quite different to just "I need the money".

Again, notice LL didn't Deny making the quotes, he just 're-iterated' he won't be returning to the ring. Same thing Tito Trinidad told us for the past 2 years.

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 25 Jan 2005, 05:51

overhand_right wrote:
jamesmcdonnell wrote:It appears Lewis has thought better of his rash comments. Despite telling the Mirror he was coming back, he's now told fightnews that he isn't. I suspect he was goaded in the heat of the moment into saying he was coming back, and now he's talked to his mum and his missus, and they've given him a bollocking.....

He never said that shit in the first place genius.

Can you imagine Lewis talking like he did in those "quotes"

"I need the money, i cant turn down 21 mil" etc as soon as i read that i knew it was bullshit.

Oh, and how the hell do you know, are you Lennox's girlfriend? You've no idea whether he said that or not, no more than any of us do.

Please children, dont be reeled in so easily...

ILikeBeer · Post by **ILikeBeer** » 25 Jan 2005, 15:21

Lewis aint backed out of nothing. The newspapers put some jibber jabber untrue story in, and he's just denied it.

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