Lennox Lewis responds to criticism

made me laugh

 

I tweeted a reply to this and he ‘liked’ it. I appreciate it’s just a daft little thing but my boyhood hero giving me thumbs up to something I said is a nice feeling haha.

 

Did he throw his Canadian flag in the bin?..

 

Nobodies like Dave Coldwell and Eddie Hearn, who never boxed anywhere remotely near top level, speaking out against a legend of the game who fought everybody for real, is laughable. Lennox putting them in their place.

 

hmmmmmm....paid keyboard warriors you say Lennox?

Hearn is rattled for the first real time ...He is left covered in his own BS

 

The problem with Lennox talking like this is that he repeatedly makes comparisons with his own career, and I'm not sure they're always favourable. His 'at some point you need to stop milking the fans and give people the fights they want to see' comment for example.

Lennox didn't fight Mike Tyson until Tyson was nearly 36 and, in the eyes of many, a shell of his former self.

Lennox didn't fight Evander Holyfield until Holyfield was 36, and the second fight took place when he was 37. After the wars with Tyson and Bowe and the long career, nobody would say this was Holyfield in his prime.

Lennox didn't fight Riddick Bowe at all.

Before we got to see Lennox against any of the guys the fans really wanted to see, we did get to see him fight Mavrovic, Akinwande and Morrison.

I'm not making these points to dismiss what Lennox Lewis achieved. He's the greatest British boxer of his generation and an undisputed all time great. But I think it's a legitimate question to ask why there seems to be the need to rush the current crop when he didn't and still achieved greatness.

Lewis says his own view was Joshua Wilder should have happened in 2018. That's fine, but by the same token, that makes me think at least one of Lewis v Holyfield, Tyson or Bowe should have happened in 1996.

 

I have always said that Lewis is bitter over AJ, for what reason, I have no idea. He literally looks distraught when he has to edge towards giving him a compliment.

 

Lennox destroying Hearn with words and class. However, no doubt Eddie will just laugh it off in his next video with Kugan, make some crass and disrespectful jokes about 'Lenn-awks' and the idiotic lad banter, football supporting, casual Matchroom bumsquad will lap it up and disrespect an ATG British athlete themselves.

 

What happens if Hearn comes back and points out Lennox never fought a world class opponent until they were all past their best?

Do you just keep flapping your gums about casuals? Or accept Lennox looks slightly contradictory here?

 

Vitali says hi Tony.

 

Lennox Lewis is just moving the goalposts again and again.

His main argument seems to be because he accepted less as the B side vs Holyfield that means AJ as the A side should accept less. It makes no sense at all and if it was like for like shouldnt he be telling the B side fighter Wilder to take less.

 

So the basis of the article is that it's fine for Lewis to question Joshua's integrity, but no ok, for anyone to question why Lewis' regular criticisms of Joshua have coincided with his employment by PBC.

 

'idiotic lad banter' - I bet you're fun at parties.

 

Fair comment.

That said, it's not a fundamentally conclusive answer to the fact that Lewis, for whatever reason, appears to be suggesting that Joshua has to fight Wilder and Fury almost immediately, when he himself failed to fight Holyfield, Bowe and Tyson in their prime, if at all.

I've no doubt he would be very keen to point out that wasn't all his doing. But, that doesn't change the fact that even whilst he fought those opponents after their prime, his legacy hasn't suffered.