Lennox Lewis - the Canadian who's a British ATG...

There weren't too many waiting for him at the airport when he'd just won the world title.
No doubt he's top ten of all time from the uk with a good shout at top 3

 

I think it's something to do with twice representing Canada in Olympic games, culminating in a gold medal.
Personally I don't put any stock in 'nationality' at all, but it is an interesting question for people who do :
How many times can a Brit represent another country in the Olympic games without forfeiting his Britishness ?

As far as I can tell, there's no sporting event on earth bigger, as global, or based more on all this patriotism stuff, than the Olympic games.
(rivalled only by the football world cup.)

 

there was folk waiting at the airport and a piper band salute. An open top car was also hired to drive down the main streets of edinburgh.were fans lined the streets and another pipe band followed. Id say thats a fairly decent welcome home!

 

So Mo Farrah isn`t British then?

What if you were born in Germany when one or both of your British parents were stationed there in the army? By your stupid logic you would be German.............

 

I'd say it was the least he deserved.I'm still at a loss as to how when he was the undisputed king of the lightweights, Princess Anne won sports personality of the year.
In the uk we hadn't had an undisputed world champion since randy turpin in 1951 I don't think.
He wasn't that well known when he won the title because of his manager, Eddie Thomas staging Buchanans fights in the small halls

 

Honeyghan was undisputed welter weight champion.

 

And now lives in Jamaica. :good

 

lewis was born in newham , and his parents took him to canada when he was 12
at 24 he represented the uk country of his birth and did so for his whole proffesional career.
i like many others on the board was born overseas and my parents moved me to england when i was 3 .
i have lived here since, i would ,if i was good enough at sport have represented england /uk, but many on here it would seem think i would not have been british enough.

 

He was British first, then he was Canadian, then it was back to British, after he retired he was Jamaican, and now he's an American citizen

 

Moved to Canada aged 9, learned to fight in Canada and represented them in the Olympics. He only started to embrace his British birth place when he became a pro to increase his fanbase. Lewis even admitted it himself this year “When I turned pro, I had to go to the United Kingdom in order to pursue my career. The infrastructure to develop boxers wasn’t in Canada then."

he was basically a Canadian at heart and a Briton for convenience.

 

I bumped the wrong lewis thread before.. keep it on this one.. Lewis dull boring personality, boring in the ring... But successful.. and CANADIAN

 

We get it. He's black hence your hatred for him.

Another case of council estate scum strikes again.

I feel like I've lose an IQ point every time I've read a post by you.

It's amazing how uneducated you are. Life must be great when you can't think for yourself I guess.

You are utter garbage & your worthless existence is filth at best. Your kind are a cancer to humanity. It's a shame my taxes pay for your worthless live to continue hence thank god the conservatives are cracking down on benefits so trash like you will finally end up homeless & die on the streets.

Please do NOT breed any more rats.

Anyway enjoy the ignore list you utter filth.

 

26 years in Britain, 11 years in Canada and apparently he should feel Canadian according to you. You are a moron.

 

hes overrated these days but hes the greatest ever canadian for sure.