If VK did put the fear of God in him & force him into retirement, then yes, in his heart there has to be some annimosity, envy, fear, whatever...
Well, I'm not so convinced by what you see in Rahman. If it wasn't for the freak win against Lewis nobody would ever talk about him. Aside from Lewis, what are his best wins? Sanders, Meehan and Barrett. Every other half decent guy he's fought he's lost to or at best drawn with. If Rahman can land a big punch on Lewis (how many other fighters has he done that to?) then Haye, Peter or Ibragimov certainly could Peter- Lewis today versus Peter today... who knows? Peter is shot. I expect the Peter that fought Wlad would batter current Lewis, which doesn't say much, but I also think prime Peter had enough aggression and power to catch Lewis in South Africa like Rahman did Haye- his chin isn't actually that bad. Rahman was chinny too and he didn't get KO'd. I certainly think a motivated Haye has enough power and speed to catch Lewis Ibragimov- had the power too. Enough power and speed to land a big shot. Lewis never fought a southpaw so who knows how the worst version of Lewis would cope? Before anybody takes this post out of context, I'm talking about the Lewis that fought Rahman in South Africa
His best wins have got to be the 2 ATG's Ross Puritty and Corrie Sanders. On a serious note i know what you are saying. Rahman was never a great fighter. He was a decent fighter with a decent right hand but that was about it. Hence why Lewis turned up so grossly out of shape, to fight 5000ft above sea level in South Africa. (not his smartest move)
Lennox isn't jealous of the Klits- he just wishes he was 20 years younger and could still get in the ring himself. All atheletes go through it. Anyone else remember the little comments Terry Bradshaw used to make about Joe Montana?
****ing no way, has Wlad surpassed Lennox Lewis, and even if he keeps winning the next 3 years he wont either.. Theres a huuuge difference in class of opposition between these two, wlad must be happy to be champ in the worst era ever...
but who is more the fool, the fool or the fool who follows him? as some wise person once said. use der froch baby.
Umm, Lewis' success came at a time where people OFFLINE actually talked about the heavyweight division. Lennox Lewis was the undisputed heavyweight champion at a time, that 6 year old kids in America could still name the HW champion. Lennox Lewis was the undisputed heavyweight champion at a time when people in America still paid for heavyweight PPV fights. True, the Klitschko brothers began their careers in that same era but the second half of their careers are in the HW dark ages. Lennox left boxing before it began. And you're saying that someone who boxed his entire career during the years of HW relevance would be jealous of two brothers who fought the back half of their career when the country stopped caring?
if vitali had been good enough to beat an old shot lewis then lewis might feel a little peeved. but he wasnt. its vit and wlad who are jealous that they arent good enough to unify and be the real champ like lennox was. they can never be that.
Let's get some facts straight: - Lennox was never 'well-known' in the US in his own right, certainly not in mainstream sport fan circles. 6 year old kids used to know Frazier and Ali in the 60s, every 6 year old kid in the 90s knew Michael Jordan. However, no kids in the late 90s watched the Lewis - Holyfield I & II borefests. - The truth is Lennox was unloved in America. He was a foreigner that never touched base with the American fan. Fans saw him a touch too cocky, too educated and too far removed from a sterotype brawler. There never was a love affair between US fans and Lewis like there is with Pacquio -- a foreigner who gets a lot more attention in the US than Lewis as a HW champion ever did. - Lennox was involved in PPV bouts but these were on PPV mostly because of his opponents, not because of Lewis himself. Holyfield and Tyson were PPV material, not Lewis. When Lewis fought mediocre contenders like Mavrovich, Briggs, Vitali they weren't on PPV. The only exception was the highly hyped-up mandatory defense vs. David Tua got Lewis a laughable 400k PPV buys on HBO. That's how irrelevant Lewis was media-wise in the US.