Lets settle this today. Do you consider Lennox Lewis Canadian or British?

[HitmanTommy]

Parents are Jamaician
Lived in the UK for the first 12 years of his life
Lived in Canada for his teen years
Now lives in the US

He's from everywhere. That's why his accent is so damn weird.

Interesting.

[Shadoww702]

He's definitely Canadian. Just look at his teeth! Brits still don't even know the toothbrush has been invented.

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[Shadoww702]

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[TMLT87]

Most good "Canadian" boxers werent born in Canada.

[KingGilgamesh]

This thread is just gonna be full of Brits claiming him because he's the only "British Boxer" to not be constantly embarrassed on the global stage.

Same Brit fans whos parents claimed he was a fake brit

Exactly.

British people are losers. That loser mentality permeates a lot of fighters here. Fury bucks the trend actually but I do question whether his fighting, gypsy roots play a role in that. If you want to compare a quintessentially british fighter to Lewis then look at Bruno and just how inferior he was.

Lewis has only really been British on paper. He doesn't live here, left here when he was twelve and spent a good chunk of his peak fighting in Las Vegas.

[KingGilgamesh]

Lewis to me is a quintessential Jamaican of duel heritage. You can literally see that in every aspect of his personality. Tough as nails, proud and doesn't take any bull****. That side of him comes out way more than the British side does.

[HitmanTommy]

This thread is just gonna be full of Brits claiming him because he's the only "British Boxer" to not be constantly embarrassed on the global stage.

Same Brit fans whos parents claimed he was a fake brit

Looking at the poll, it's not looking all that good at the moment.....

[ShoulderRoll]

In which of those countries did he learn his boxing?

[Theuklion]

I have always considered him a British fighter, he was born here & he lived just up the road in crayford for a while in a boozer called the crayford Arms.

[REDEEMER]

He’s obviously British . You can’t tell another man what he is ,little kids do that .

In a 1999 BBC interview, he addressed the forever thorny citizenship issue: “I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of 12 for having an East London ****ney accent. I thank them for the ****ney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note, Canada has been kind to me.”