Lennox Lewis on JRE

Just look at Vitali's face and tell me the fight would have gone another two rounds with momentum still in Vitali's favour......

Sycophantism is a mental disease.

 

And Dempsey-Carpentier, not Dempsey-Tunney, was the first million dollar gate.

 

Yes, it is. Without the cut Vitali would have knocked out Lewis.

 

Can't fault them there. Dempsey-Tunney was still the first million dollar purse. They were asking what that would be today and I already ran the numbers years ago: about 12.5 million dollars.

 

If my uncle had a vagina he would be my aunty.

 

Lennox is Grandmaster level, he was beating GM's left and right in the early 2000's.

 

Lewis didn’t want that work again. He knew what would have happened.

 

When bringing up the Tyson fight Lennox will always first say he fought prime Tyson, as if to test the water, if no one questions it great. Then if someone questions that and says Tyson was on the slide, Lennox will say they peaked at different time but met in the middle. What middle is that? When Mike was a crack headed pot smoking headcase. he needed to get Mike at least by 96 to say this. To be fair Lennox was actually giving him some credit here and there, more than usual for him but he will always try getting away with making out Tyson was better than he was that night and add value to the fight, when the reality is the win was pointless really.

I also don't like it when Lennox really adds emphasis to saying he was "at his absolute worse" when fighting Vitali, its pretty disrespectful. I have had issue with the way he down plays other heavyweights for a while, he really put Bruno down a while back, I guess he is bolsterign his legacy but it goes against his "humble" image. I will say he came across a lot more likeable despite his little re writing history attempts.

 

Yeah, it's definitely 'off' the way Lennox talks about other heavyweights. It's like he's still fighting to push his legacy even further. But instead he just makes himself come across as bitter and a bit deluded. It's a shame for someone who did indeed achieve greatness.

I think you've just got to take it as an aspect of his personality. If you stripped away the part that compels him to make these comments, you would probably lose the part that pushed him to such heights in the first place. With a lot of elite level boxers I think you just have to take stuff like this as part of the package.

 

I heard most of it and I don’t think they even talked about McCalls meltdown, would have been interesting to hear about the reasons he had a meltdown.

 

Likely because he never got the credit he deserved during his career and seldom does now.
It was always "yeah but what about …?" etc etc.

Best heavyweight of the 90s and ATG top 3 IMO

 

Interesting....did Lemux state that Tyson was at his worse and he was at his BEST when he beat him?