So what is the OFFICIAL reason that Lennox Lewis decided to retire instead of Rematching Vitali?

His mother told him under no certain terms
You must you ever never fight that man again
And made him retire

 

No. That isn't it. That's just looking at results without context and you know it.

 

No Im actually looking at the facts.

He was stopped due to brutal damage done to his face by punches.

Its not really any different than the few good rounds Khan had against Canelo before he was knocked unconscious.

Should Lewis have to fight into middle age to satisfy some Klitschko fans?

 

It was either his mother or his wife or both that vetoed him fighting Vitali.

Lame excuse but there it is.

 

Also, his then-fiancée and future wife Violet told him that she would leave him if he was to give a rematch to Vitali. Since Lennox has always been a proper mama's boy, the two most important women in his life telling him to stop or else meant it was the end of his professional career - even though he wanted to give the rematch and even a year later, he kept telling Manny Steward how they should think about that rematch. But eventually, it never happened, and given the fact that Lewis has been married to Violet for 17 or so year now and they have kids as well, he made the right decision not to upset Violet and make her leave him by continue fighting.

 

And nobody believes it to be true
It's TRUE I tell people

 

Perfectly summed up.