Is Lennox Lewis right?

[oogiebe]

we really are living in sad times if we don't even consider Lewis capturing the linear title from Briggs as a legacy fight

Briggs??? Wtf

[jamesmcdonnell]

Eh so what? He just wants to be relevant I guess. Found an outlet with PBC, so let him be a gadfly.

I just think he should be above such things. I love Lennox, he’s my favourite heavyweight, but the salty bitchy stuff isn’t really him.
I prefer to remember him as the laidback heavyweight beast with a very, very serious side when it comes down to business!

I can understand that. I kind of separate Lennox as a champ and as a commentator (which I find is not as good as I remembered from HBO). His disposition as champ was perfect.

He's absolutely useless as a commentator, he barely seems to even comprehend the questions asked of him at times, and just rambles the same platitudes over and over again - I always liked Lennox a lot, but he's really not nimble enough of mind to say anything even vaguely interesting.

[TheGman]

I just think he should be above such things. I love Lennox, he’s my favourite heavyweight, but the salty bitchy stuff isn’t really him.
I prefer to remember him as the laidback heavyweight beast with a very, very serious side when it comes down to business!

I can understand that. I kind of separate Lennox as a champ and as a commentator (which I find is not as good as I remembered from HBO). His disposition as champ was perfect.

He's absolutely useless as a commentator, he barely seems to even comprehend the questions asked of him at times, and just rambles the same platitudes over and over again - I always liked Lennox a lot, but he's really not nimble enough of mind to say anything even vaguely interesting.

He is like the heavyweight version of carl froch when it comes to commentating

[oogiebe]

I can understand that. I kind of separate Lennox as a champ and as a commentator (which I find is not as good as I remembered from HBO). His disposition as champ was perfect.

He's absolutely useless as a commentator, he barely seems to even comprehend the questions asked of him at times, and just rambles the same platitudes over and over again - I always liked Lennox a lot, but he's really not nimble enough of mind to say anything even vaguely interesting.

He is like the heavyweight version of carl froch when it comes to commentating

LMAO! Froch is a bit of a curiosity with his commenting to say the least.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Has Lewis ever been to an AJ fight?

Yet he was at Fury-Wilder..

[jamamb]

he works for pbc

[fanman]

i think lewis is a good guy, he had to chase unification himself, whilst aj is pricing himself out. ll always showed respect to fury since he won the lineal title.

[oogiebe]

i think lewis is a good guy, he had to chase unification himself, whilst aj is pricing himself out. ll always showed respect to fury since he won the lineal title.

Yeah, it seems AJ doesn't have the balance between career legacy and money. He seems willing to give up one for the other.

[jamamb]

hes been moved more ambitiously then any other hw around, 5 years less pro then wilder andfury remember, hell fight the biggest fights eventually , the huge ones usually take time

[oogiebe]

hes been moved more ambitiously then any other hw around, 5 years less pro then wilder andfury remember, hell fight the biggest fights eventually , the huge ones usually take time

Right now it seems his first concern is finances. I'm not talking about who he fights. He should shut up about all that deal making and let his management sort that out. If he did it would do wonders for his persona. He hurt his rep when he stepped onto the ring after Chisora/Whyte.

[TheGman]

hes been moved more ambitiously then any other hw around, 5 years less pro then wilder andfury remember, hell fight the biggest fights eventually , the huge ones usually take time

Right now it seems his first concern is finances. I'm not talking about who he fights. He should shut up about all that deal making and let his management sort that out. If he did it would do wonders for his persona. He hurt his rep when he stepped onto the ring after Chisora/Whyte.

Thats right,fighters should fight and managers should manage. If AJ wants to talk about money and finances then he needs to ditch his manager and promotor because he is wasting his money paying them. Just fight and shut up about money its not like he has none and everyone else has made the millions,he is the money man on the division so legacy should come now and forfeit a percentage of the pot to get the legacy.

[oogiebe]

hes been moved more ambitiously then any other hw around, 5 years less pro then wilder andfury remember, hell fight the biggest fights eventually , the huge ones usually take time

Right now it seems his first concern is finances. I'm not talking about who he fights. He should shut up about all that deal making and let his management sort that out. If he did it would do wonders for his persona. He hurt his rep when he stepped onto the ring after Chisora/Whyte.

Thats right,fighters should fight and managers should manage. If AJ wants to talk about money and finances then he needs to ditch his manager and promotor because he is wasting his money paying them. Just fight and shut up about money its not like he has none and everyone else has made the millions,he is the money man on the division so legacy should come now and forfeit a percentage of the pot to get the legacy.

[BroughtonRulesRefuge]

- Lenny a apex jerk with no more redeeming values.

Great talent coming up, but he never defended his unified title, instead selling them to DKing and ducking the Ks who unified collectively and defended while knocking King into part time work. Never any credit to them and now bitterly jealous of AJ who is so much further ahead in his career that he makes Lenny look like a bumbling oaf.

In short, he's just another bitter Fat Lar, but worse, after his lucre with King, he's gone in further to the dark side with Haymon is it now? To sabotage AJ?

The Queen should strip him of his honors posthaste and not a moment too soon.

[Tuan_Jim]

he never defended his unified title, instead selling them to DKing and ducking the Ks who unified collectively and defended while knocking King into part time work.

So, Lewis ducked the Klitschkos by fighting the one who didn't keep getting knocked out each time an opponent punched him back, and while he single-handedly unified the titles, the brothers Klitschko somehow emerge with more credit for "collectively" unifying it?

I didn't realise two seperate people could be the unified heavyweight champion.

As always, your contributions are moronic.

[J]

Not sure he was ever embraced to be honest. He signed to Sky when 2% of British homes had a Sky dish and thus boxed mostly in obscurity. He was terrified of being booed versus Bruno in London and so they boxed in a half-empty stadium in Wales. He couldn't fill up the 5,000-seat Wembley Arena for title defences versus McCall and Botha, and he could hardly win over the public with his chat show appearances, having a Canadian-Jamaican accent, no charisma, no sense of humour, and a penchant for talking about himself in the third person. He was celebrated in the press for beating Holyfield and Tyson, but never truly crossed over.

I don't think Joshua is a likeable man on any level, in fact he's I find him detestable, but he's very much a right place, right time type of boxer, with so many planets aligning for him at exactly the right moment. Perhaps had Lennox been born 20 years later his hip hop raggamuffin persona would have appealed to the same dullards who are infatuated with Joshua. Ya get me blud.

Lennox’s hip hop raggamuffin persona?
You’re such a nob

I take it you're not familiar with Lennox Lewis?

If you were you would know he is more Rasta than Hip hop. One love.

[J]

I just think he should be above such things. I love Lennox, he’s my favourite heavyweight, but the salty bitchy stuff isn’t really him.
I prefer to remember him as the laidback heavyweight beast with a very, very serious side when it comes down to business!

I can understand that. I kind of separate Lennox as a champ and as a commentator (which I find is not as good as I remembered from HBO). His disposition as champ was perfect.

He's absolutely useless as a commentator, he barely seems to even comprehend the questions asked of him at times, and just rambles the same platitudes over and over again - I always liked Lennox a lot, but he's really not nimble enough of mind to say anything even vaguely interesting.

yes me sensei! as I am sure you are aware.

[jamesmcdonnell]

I can understand that. I kind of separate Lennox as a champ and as a commentator (which I find is not as good as I remembered from HBO). His disposition as champ was perfect.

He's absolutely useless as a commentator, he barely seems to even comprehend the questions asked of him at times, and just rambles the same platitudes over and over again - I always liked Lennox a lot, but he's really not nimble enough of mind to say anything even vaguely interesting.

yes me sensei! as I am sure you are aware.

good point, hes probably stoned as a coot.

[jamesmcdonnell]

- Lenny a apex jerk with no more redeeming values.

Great talent coming up, but he never defended his unified title, instead selling them to DKing and ducking the Ks who unified collectively and defended while knocking King into part time work. Never any credit to them and now bitterly jealous of AJ who is so much further ahead in his career that he makes Lenny look like a bumbling oaf.

In short, he's just another bitter Fat Lar, but worse, after his lucre with King, he's gone in further to the dark side with Haymon is it now? To sabotage AJ?

The Queen should strip him of his honors posthaste and not a moment too soon.

definitely one of the top 5 morons on boxrec.

[Flump]

- Lenny a apex jerk with no more redeeming values.

Great talent coming up, but he never defended his unified title, instead selling them to DKing and ducking the Ks who unified collectively and defended while knocking King into part time work. Never any credit to them and now bitterly jealous of AJ who is so much further ahead in his career that he makes Lenny look like a bumbling oaf.

In short, he's just another bitter Fat Lar, but worse, after his lucre with King, he's gone in further to the dark side with Haymon is it now? To sabotage AJ?

The Queen should strip him of his honors posthaste and not a moment too soon.

definitely one of the top 5 morons on boxrec.

It's one thing typing ill informed banalities, it's the illiteracy masquerading as wit that momentarily amuses me.

[jamesmcdonnell]

An "Apex fuckwit."

[Tuan_Jim]

Lennox’s hip hop raggamuffin persona?
You’re such a nob

I take it you're not familiar with Lennox Lewis?

If you were you would know he is more Rasta than Hip hop. One love.

Can he not be both, like the erstwhile New York rap group Heltah Skeltah?

[BroughtonRulesRefuge]

- My o my, the Klitschko generation of neutered US/UK fans and fighters still squealin' in soprano is it?

Bottomline is AJ don't need Haymon and his fields of daisies to make his money or legacy. So far he's aced every test as you daily compete to disgrace yours.

[J]

I take it you're not familiar with Lennox Lewis?

If you were you would know he is more Rasta than Hip hop. One love.

Can he not be both, like the erstwhile New York rap group Heltah Skeltah?

possible mate but going back to his Jamaican roots brother big lenn "the lion" lewis is an out and out Rastaman.

reference his entrance music "jah is by my side and crazy baldheads"

[oogiebe]

If you were you would know he is more Rasta than Hip hop. One love.

Can he not be both, like the erstwhile New York rap group Heltah Skeltah?

possible mate but going back to his Jamaican roots brother big lenn "the lion" lewis is an out and out Rastaman.

Seemed rather obvious to me, yes.

[moogie101]

Im always thinking is Lewis just stickin up for the American to gain brownie points with the American people because although he didnt connect with the british public,the American public hated him(it seemed this way anyway) plusdidnt he duck(not fight) bowe because of pay too? Also why didnt he give vitali the rematch he promised him? Its easy placing blame when you dont know the full story.

As I recall Bowe literally through his title in a bin during a press conference rather than face Lennox.

Lewis is right in regards to his era of boxing, but its a different world nowadays.