Lennox Lewis just visited Ricky Hatton's Gym...

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Cachibatches, Nov 17, 2010.


  1. Eh we can dream can't we?

    It would be so ****in huge if it happened...
     
  2. MrWonderful

    MrWonderful Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It would be interesting. Not huge.

    Lennox is 46 and hasn't been in a boxing ring for 8 years.

    Suppose Foreman did it.
     
  3. MrWonderful

    MrWonderful Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I've met Lewis a couple of times.

    Honestly, if you ever meet him, the thing that you will notice the most is the length of his arms.

    I have no idea what his reach was, but it has to be one of the biggest of all time. Way bigger than either Klitschko

    He sort of walks like an Orangutan! hands not THAT far away from his knees!

    I swear his arms are more than 4 feet long
     
  4. MrWonderful

    MrWonderful Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He'd have been a pro football prodigy, Lennox Lewis, if he was brought up in the states from a very young age.

    He'd have been scouted out, and forced into football, as soon as he hit 16, if he hadn't been hooked on boxing first.

    His 6'5, 250 frame (he'd probably bulk up to 290 for football) is just prototypical. That's not the thing though. His freaky arm length?

    Honestly, if you're 6'5, and 280 naturally have have very long arms, you're a pro football/NFL prodigy

    What it's all about.

    He'd be like Bruce Smith
     
  5. MrWonderful

    MrWonderful Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Man, that's why there are no US heavyweights.

    Your prototypical NFL defensive line player is

    6-4, 250-300, with very long arms. The same as a heavyweight boxer.

    These kids are all getting scouted out by NFL teams. Put into pro football programmes.

    30 years ago this never happened. Football teams didn't have large scouting programmes, so way more boxers slipped by
     
  6. You kiddin me? Thats a HBO PPV fight for sure... Make the fight at MSG, MGM, or O2 in London and we've got a headlines on your world news kind of fight.

    I'll say it again... HUGE. :deal
     
  7. Jack

    Jack Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It's interesting listening to him talk though, because everything he says is in present tense. At the weigh-in for Haye/Harrison, he didn't say things like "When I used to weigh in, I'd stare at my opponent" or whatever, it was "When I weigh in". He did it all the time.

    I don't know how much you can look into that though.
     
  8. h13vyy

    h13vyy Well-Known Member Full Member

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    According to Boxrec it's 2 inches longer then PW arm length. I think PW is the biggest freak in boxing.
     
  9. Master Lewis

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    This fight would be a ****in JOKE.
     
  10. Overhill

    Overhill Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It would be huge. HBO and SKY could easily built it to be monster for N-America and Europe and ex-Soviet states wouldn't need even that.
     
  11. Bubby

    Bubby Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yea! remember Vitali said he will retire after this year! :D so Lewis will try a comback after Vitali's gone!:D
     
  12. freelaw

    freelaw Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It surely looks like he did loose some weight.

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  13. Cachibatches

    Cachibatches Boxing Junkie banned

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    I think a lot of us are dreaming the same dream...

    Lewis- Vitali 2?
    Lewis-Haye?
    Lewis-Wlad

    even...

    Lewis-Bowe. He always said he would still want this fight.
     
  14. billy boy balbo

    billy boy balbo New Member Full Member

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    bowe offered lewis the fight like 2 months ago with all the cash going to charity,lewis declined
     
  15. Cachibatches

    Cachibatches Boxing Junkie banned

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    Source?

    I don't doubt you persoanally, but frankly, these days, Bowe is charity, and he often complains that he would fight more if they would pay him more. So I doubt that this was a serious offer.