Is Lennox Lewis the greatest Canadian heavyweight of all time?

shame he never fought barely in the North of England (true england).

 

Here:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/grammar/

 

Its all irrelevant Canada, Jamaica, West Ham are all part of the British Empire so I have no idea why we even have this thread??

 

because theres no british empire grandad.

West Ham excluded.

 

Pretty sure Argentina thought that once to sonny!!! (Waves cane)

 

You can't really blame Lennox for wanting to be British, with all the prestige that comes along with it.

When you fight for Britain your name becomes synonymous with:

The Queen of England
The British Empire
Shakespeare
Henry VIII
Princess Diana
Sir Winston Churchill
The commonwealth
The Industrial Revolution
The invention of the computer
The invention of the WWW
The NHS
Buckingham Palace
Westminster Abbey
St Paul's Cathedral
Houses of Parliament
House of Lords
The home of modern democracy
The invention of antibiotics
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Charles Darwin
The Beatles
The invention of football, boxing, tennis, snooker, darts, rugby, cricket, rugby, even baseball.. the list is endless
Jeremy Corbyn
Frank Bruno
Bobby Charlton
Bobby Moore
James Bond
The battle of Hastings
The Magna Carta

The list is endless... this is what you are fighting for when you sign up to be British. What would he have been fighting for if he was Canadian? Celine Dion and some Moose?

 

I first met him in 1995 and again several times since so I probably know him better than you. so I'll resist calling you a hater OK huh ??

 

I rate Lewis as the best h2h heavy ever, how can I be a hater ???I see loads of times lennox never gave 2 shites for the UK. Checkout his after fight speech ringside after Rachman 2..Also I don't care how many times you met him, you never knew him personally.

 

I drove through Bradford the other week. You could be forgiven for thinking you were anywhere but "True England"...

 

Oh but Ive spent many hours in his company. He loves England, Jamaica & Canada. As he said himself " As wprld champion I represent the world"
If he was going purely fot the $$$ he'd have gone to the US
Shows what type of guy he is he could be in the directors box watching his beloved West Ham but you'll find him on the terraces with the real fans

 

What, with zero affiliation with the US he would find it very hard..At least with the UK he was born there

 

Willie De Witt.

 

first time
i have heard that name in a long time
i forgot all about him

i liked him /came to fight /all action fighter

beat by bert cooper who dropped him and busted his nose but cooper could bang / cant remember if de witt caried on after the loss dont remember him fighting anyone of note after / but he was popular with crowd pleasing tommy morrison type style.

 

His big fight after that was the rematch with Henry Tillman which he won, in Canada by decision. Unfortunately, boxing in Canada outside of Montreal was pretty much killed by De Witt and O'Sullivan, they were supposed to be saviors, but after Simon Brown and Cooper it was over.