Comments Thread For: Lennox Lewis Criticizes Joshua vs. Ngannou, Says Neither Fighter Deserves to Face Fury-Usyk Undisputed Winner

[pollywog]

With those paydays, who cares about belts and status. As long as Joshua is making $50m+ per fight, he could care less if he ever fights for any belt again.

Yeah nah. A-Side Joshy is all about taking the easy route to a trash belt so he can say he was 3 time champ and hopefully be remembered as such..

Mostly though he'll be remembered for failing to unify all the belts, getting splattered by Fat Andy in a cherry pick gone wrong and emoting all over the show in a meltdown after losing to Usyk a 2nd time while being unable to believe he was beaten by the better man and superior boxer.

That's Joshys legacy right there. And if he's lucky he might be remembered for beating a cross-over MMA fighter having his 2nd exhibition match. No guarantees that he'll even do that though as the MMA guy has a better then even chance of flattening his A-Side diva ass.

Money cant buy AJ's happiness but it can buy him a trash belt to hang on the wall and wank over when his career is over cos he'll never be undefeated, undisputed unified champ. That's gotta hurt his overly muscled butt no end!

He had his chance but chose the mirror over the smoke. What a sad cünt.

[The plunger man]

So all the big fights between AJ and someone failed, but not because of AJ. Yeah...

To the topic: Lennox probably criticizes AJ because there is too much noise around him, but not enough action - when you say big words, you do big things. Lennox himself showed some older posts on X where he expressed good feelings about AJ. But he has his reasons to like or dislike someone and it is not mandatory to fall into the "hate Fury, like AJ, praise Usyk" trend which became the lowest point of the fans' bottom.

Lennox is right that the winner of AJ-Francis does not deserve the shot for the winner of Fury-Usyk.

This exchange with Hearn shows once again what a piece of crap Eddie is.

what on earth are you talking about…….joshua is already in the top 2 of viable contenders for the world title so let’s not confuse that shall we lol……he’s already beaten Parker , he just demolished wallin who was ranked number 2 contender for the IBF.
wilder is now out the way as well so who else is above joshua besides Hrgovich.
just admit it you like lewis has some kind of green eyed monster lurking inside somewhere…..yeah Ngannou is unproven but its just a big money fight for both of them and adds excitement to the division while usyk and fury face off…..yiur be the first person to say joshua is ducking if never took an offer to fight Ngannou…….joshua should make about 80 million for the fight so I doubt he gives a F@ck what yiu think of this fight lol

[Jab jab boom]

Lennox sees Aj’s career for the fraud it is and probably got tired of morons trying to build Aj as the next coming of Lennox. Lennox is much more accomplished and all around better. Uk Fans probably wanted AJ to surpass Lennox because he’s raised in England, fought for them in the Olympics while Lennox learned to box in Canada, and represented Canada in the Olympics. Lennox is able to see through the BS that many British fans can’t.

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what on earth are you talking about…….joshua is already in the top 2 of viable contenders for the world title so let’s not confuse that shall we lol……he’s already beaten Parker , he just demolished wallin who was ranked number 2 contender for the IBF.
wilder is now out the way as well so who else is above joshua besides Hrgovich.
just admit it you like lewis has some kind of green eyed monster lurking inside somewhere…..yeah Ngannou is unproven but its just a big money fight for both of them and adds excitement to the division while usyk and fury face off…..yiur be the first person to say joshua is ducking if never took an offer to fight Ngannou…….joshua should make about 80 million for the fight so I doubt he gives a F@ck what yiu think of this fight lol

Drooling over AJ, I see...

Parker may deserve just as much of a shot at the winner of Fury-Usyk because he had better opposition recently. But let's say AJ is the better one, ok - how "on earth" can Francis be one of the two who will fight to determine the unified champion challenger?

In your world, it might be to "like" and "dislike" only, but I can only agree with Lewis who has holes in his resume.

I have one unpleasant surprise: AJ doesn't give a *uck if you like him or not.

[Toffee]

How do you earn a title fight?

Get ranked in the top 1 or 2 by an org? Yes, Joshua is there with every org.

Be active? Absolutely

Build your commercial profile to make a fight viable for the champion? Clearly

Take the fight that will get you the shot? Yes he has

What else does he have to do to earn a title fight? Why does Joshua need to clean out the rest of the division when no-one else has to do the same to deserve their shot more?

[Eff Pandas]

Idk if AJ fooked one of Lennox's girls or what but Lennox never seems to miss an opportunity to sh^t on AJ.

That said idk that I fully disagree with Lennox. Theres a line at HW to fight the Fury vs Usyk winner & idk that AJ is THAT high in it & while I'm enjoying this Francis experiment idek that hes in the line at all without this semifinals fight hes now in apparently.

[joseph5620]

Hates that AJ didnt fight Wilder for undisputed while both in their primes....yet held off on Mike Tyson until.Tyson was just a shell of himself.

Wrong. When Lewis was the WBC mandatory for Tyson's WBC belt, Tyson's team paid Lewis money to step aside and allow Tyson to fight Holyfield. Anytime before that Tyson was either in prison or there was no scenario in their careers for Lewis and Tyson to fight. Don't try to lie by rewriting history.

[Sparked_26]

I mean yeah.

Imagine going into a fight for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world with a record of 1-1. Lol.

Nothing against Francis. He's an inspirational man and he's put himself out there taken a risk and he's making generational wealth for him, his family, and community initiatives back in Cameroon.

It is difficult to find a top heavy with tearaway momentum.

Even the unbeaten guy in Hrgovic who was in a fight with Zhang which could have gone either way.

Has Zhang himself gained all this momentum of maybe just having a guy that was tailor made for him?

So you could imagine if Francis did splatter AJ he will be right up there currently.

So would the Parker and Zhang winner.

Hrgovic has no momentum. Fighting a gimme seems a bad choice.

[pollywog]

Hrgovic has no momentum. Fighting a gimme seems a bad choice.

That was a patsy to keep Hrgovic happy with a Saudi payday, so he could be fed to A-Side Joshy for a trash belt fight later.

Allgood when it looked like the IBF strap would be stripped after the Fury Usyk undisputed, unified, undefeated bout.

But since Opetaia dumped their trash belt they've lost any clout over boxers choices and have not confirmed they would strip it after Fury Usyk so its not in play anymore.

Meaning Hearn was never gonna put his prize A-Side poodle in with Parker. Or put Hrgy in with Parker despite both calling for the fight. Or put A-Side in with Hrgy to win or lose if there was nothing to fight for. And dont even mention Zhang to AJ. He packs his undies just thinking about him.

All options were too risky.

Instead Hearn chose an exhibition cross over fight with an MMA fighter that means nothing and for which the fight becomes a qualifier for another 'undisputed' trash belt that means even less

The last thing Hearn wanted was for Hrgy to lose or get into shape with a live body before facing A-Side.

As is, A-Side is still protected and gets his pandered diva ass primed and pimped to fight for a championship he hasnt earned by crushing 2 cans and his sparring partner in a year all for a boatload of blood money

Way to go Champ. Brave brave stuff...lol

[pollywog]

How do you earn a title fight?

Get ranked in the top 1 or 2 by an org? Yes, Joshua is there with every org.

Be active? Absolutely

Build your commercial profile to make a fight viable for the champion? Clearly

Take the fight that will get you the shot? Yes he has

What else does he have to do to earn a title fight? Why does Joshua need to clean out the rest of the division when no-one else has to do the same to deserve their shot more?

Clearing out the division is exactly what Parker has to do and is doing!

He deserved first dibs at any belt on offer and after beating Zhang it will be undisputable that he's earnt it more than A-Side Joshy.

The fault in your logic is that you seem to think getting ranked has anything to do with earning it.
It's about paying the most money in sanctioning fees to be ranked higher.

How else do you explain Dubois getting a title shot he never earnt or Wallin getting ranked No2 for doing sweet fück all ?

How about AJ call out and look to beat the best of the best to earn a title shot by fighting those who have earnt it like Parker, Zhang or Hrgovic ?