Hardly trolling. It's like another poster said, if there was a comparable boxing scene in Canada at the time Lewis won gold, he would never have gone to the UK.
Yeah but he would still have been a Londoner. Doesn't really matter what you say slyk, you can't choose what country you were born in. Lennox is a Londoner :happy
I laugh when I see my fellow Brits getting all defensive and insistent about Lewis's "Britishness". If he'd have been a bust as a professional most of them would be saying he's not really British at all. To be fair to Lennox, he IS British and Canadian and Jamaican, he's multi-national, not that his nationality matters to me. But anyone who thinks Lennox's decision to RETURN to claim himself "British" after winning a gold medal for Canada wasn't completely motivated by the financial and media potential of being a "British hope" at that point in time, is completely deluded. It was 100% a career move. As far as I can make out, he's lived in Miami and Jamaica for years. And I don't blame him.
Maybe he just likes Canada? Do a Google image search of Khasavyurt, Russia (Beterbiev's hometown). Looks like a freaking nightmare.
His mom sent Lennox to Canada because he was getting into trouble on the streets in the UK, she was not into drugs or prostitution, why would you make something like that up wtf is wrong with you
What he said was not racist. Even if it was do you also call out black racists on this forum? Or just white ones?