Did Lennox Lewis kill boxing as a majority interest?

[simeraksou]

I'll never understand how people can like team sports and not like boxing as much. team sports are a joke. the competition is nowhere near the level of boxing. boxing is actually real competition where the loser has as lot to lose. in team sports, the team loses, so what. basically, the same players return the next season. no real consequence to losing. can't believe people pay to watch that over something real like boxing

[n14061981]

I'll never understand how people can like team sports and not like boxing as much. team sports are a joke. the competition is nowhere near the level of boxing. boxing is actually real competition where the loser has as lot to lose. in team sports, the team loses, so what. basically, the same players return the next season. no real consequence to losing. can't believe people pay to watch that over something real like boxing

Yeah its true. In no other sport than boxing can loss mean the end of your carreer.

[Hunna]

boxing is given hardly any publicity anymore, compared to 60s,70s and 80s. Netball, bowls, tennis and Golf get more mainstream publicity. Promoters and boxing managers need to get the fans back to boxing. The big heavyweight fights recently held in madison square garden are a prime example of a good marketing of boxing, and putting on a show fans want to see.

[TheGreat1]

i always enjoyed LL's fights he was a skilled big man. Like Holmes, plus when he fought u always knew there was a chance for an upset. His only problem was that he was so good, that he didn't make for competitive fights like Holyfield and ali, who had to go to war every fight in order to win.

[markosg19]

what are you talking about.......dull? you are confusing his quiet personality with his fights. Not many Lewis fights were dull. It's not his fault he was so superior to the competition (when he was focussed)

[realtim]

Lewis didnt kill boxing but he certainly didnt make it any better.
Ppl still looked to the lower weights like they did in the 80's with Hagler/Hearns/Duran/Leonard.
I enjoyed Holyfield in the 90's.
I found him boring but thats just my opinion.

[cmason]

There has been a lot of champs recently who fight once a year some even less and in my opinion that hurts boxing. And yes Lewis was one of them.

this is very true, he did alot of damage to the division while he decided if he wanted to retire or not. the heavyweight division was a virtual closed shop during this period.
but when he was younger, ahh the memories of singing god save the queen when he beat ruddock in london in 92 still bring a tear to this old cynics eye!

[foremanfan]

Mason, Ruddock, Bruno, Morrison, Golota, Briggs, Grant, Botha, Rahman, Tyson, and Klitscho all ended with ko's or tko's and in my opinion they were very watchable. Lewis gets a hard time yet Holyfield who I like a lot didn't produced as many stoppages as Lewis did in the same time span yet would never be considered boring yet like Lewis he did have a few boring fights Holmes, Byrd, Bean, Moorer1, Stewart2.

[cmason]

yeah but towards the end of his career he had like one fight a year, and gave up most of the belts cos he only wanted to fight certain people, not his no1 contenders.

[foremanfan]

yeah but towards the end of his career he had like one fight a year, and gave up most of the belts cos he only wanted to fight certain people, not his no1 contenders.

Yeah but do you think fights against Byrd or Ruiz would have been exciting ? I don't.