Lewis was a great champ, I am agreed his two title stoppage title losses keep him out of the very top echelon of heavyweight greats, and his wins over a faded Tyson and Holyfield don't overcome that. But he did run the heavyweight division and even unify all the belts. An important accomplishment that seperates true champions from titlists.
He won a gold medal for Canada in the Olympics and he is a dual citizen, my friend, so he certainly is a Canadian. He learned to box in Kitchener, Ontario Canada and built a big place to live there, and still lives there a lot of the time. He owes his career in boxing to the training he got in Canada as even he will tell you.
He owes a lot to Canada but he's not Canadian at all.
The first fights prove that Lewis would always have trouble with any HW with a good chin and decent pop (that wasn't 5'9" of course.)
The second fights don't prove anything.
The first fight proved that Lewis didnt take it seriously enough. The second fight just confirmed that fact. In the biggest fights of his career, Lennox always delivered.
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