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Former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis said he is going to stay retired and will not fight a rematch with current champion Vitali Klitschko. In a ********* exclusive Lewis says he is enjoying retirement and will not be lured back into the ring for a huge payday against the Ukranian. "They want me to come back. I'm not coming back. Right now, whoever's at the top needs me to ****e up the division," he said. Klitschko, he feels has yet to have a defining moment and needs to step it up. "He has to really assert himself."
Next month at Madison Square Garden Lewis' last opponent, Klitschko and the last man to beat Lewis, Hasim Rahman, will fight one another in a 12-round battle for Klitschko's WBC belt. Perhaps no one is more qualified to pick a winner in the bout than Lewis. "Good fight. Rahman definitely wants to be champ. Evidently he's been training very hard. I like Rahman in the fight. Klitschko's very awkward."
But for now the accessible Brit has no plans to return to the ring. If he stays retired he would join only Gene Tunney and Rocky Marciano as the only heavyweight champions to retire while still holding their belts. "Boxing's definitely in my blood. If there was a reason, there would have to be a reason for me to come back." But retirement's "good, good. I'm just enjoying fatherhood. I just had a son and am taking care of the future champion."
********* caught up with Lewis at the Yuri Foreman fight on Thursday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. "These are the fights they need to have," he said. It was unusual for Lewis to be at such a fight since there were no big names on the card, not to mention the fact that Lewis doesn't even live in the United States let alone New York. Still he says he frequently visits the States though he wouldn't say how many times specifically in an effort "to avoid the tax man."
********** correspondent David Greene contributed to this report.
Next month at Madison Square Garden Lewis' last opponent, Klitschko and the last man to beat Lewis, Hasim Rahman, will fight one another in a 12-round battle for Klitschko's WBC belt. Perhaps no one is more qualified to pick a winner in the bout than Lewis. "Good fight. Rahman definitely wants to be champ. Evidently he's been training very hard. I like Rahman in the fight. Klitschko's very awkward."
But for now the accessible Brit has no plans to return to the ring. If he stays retired he would join only Gene Tunney and Rocky Marciano as the only heavyweight champions to retire while still holding their belts. "Boxing's definitely in my blood. If there was a reason, there would have to be a reason for me to come back." But retirement's "good, good. I'm just enjoying fatherhood. I just had a son and am taking care of the future champion."
********* caught up with Lewis at the Yuri Foreman fight on Thursday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. "These are the fights they need to have," he said. It was unusual for Lewis to be at such a fight since there were no big names on the card, not to mention the fact that Lewis doesn't even live in the United States let alone New York. Still he says he frequently visits the States though he wouldn't say how many times specifically in an effort "to avoid the tax man."
********** correspondent David Greene contributed to this report.
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