Did Lennox Lewis kill boxing as a majority interest?

[GasPed]

The problem with Lennox Lewis was he wasn't a polarizing figure in the mold of say Ali or Tyson, nor a beloved one, like say Marciano, nor a sinister one, like Foreman I. He was a guy who was intelligent and pretty well-spoken, but when he talked trash he often came off as some sort of pissy prissy British schoolboy wannabe. As a result, no one really understood or related to him, much less loved/feared/loathed him. When you add the fact he was a non-American, his media quotient totaled to somewhere below zero.

I don't know if you can "blame" him for the decline of interest in the HW's, but he certainly didn't help it much either.

[Slipx]

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[+= El Jefe=+]

Lennox didnt do all the job

the heavy weight division
started loosing followers after the
Tyson Holyfield fiasco,
after that people started taking the division as a joke,
it didnt help that now days most of the true heavyweights
are soo slow and there is not a true champion.

[DiegoFuego]

that and the fact that there is absolutely no consistency whatsoever in the division. I think Chris Byrd actually has more straight wins than any of the other long-term heavyweights right now. That is sad.

[+= El Jefe=+]

Yeah

that and the fact that there is absolutely no consistency whatsoever in the division. I think Chris Byrd actually has more straight wins than any of the other long-term heavyweights right now. That is sad.

Yeah the heavyweigths need
another Ali or Tyson