Comments Thread For: Lennox Lewis Rejects $50 Mill For Klitschko, Wants Double

[Simurgh]

LOL @people who think that 300lb 48 year lennox would have a chance against either Ks.

[MDPopescu]

hahaha might as well give them both cattle prods too

... Good one!
(I didn't know what cattle prods are -- because in my country they still use shepherd dogs for that...)

[MDPopescu]

Hahahaha and people complained about Ward thinking to face Joe Calzaghe. How pathetic of the Klits.

I think it was Calzaghe's idea, not Ward's...

[SirTomJones]

I think Lewis would get knocked out.

I like both boxers but I don't you can take that time off at his age and face the number one in the division.

[Mick Higgs]

It sounds to me like a $75,Million deal could come off.

[vitali1999]

The only reason Lewis wants to come back is because his fortune is running out. Now he wants 100 mil so he can stay rich. Wlad should turn it down. Offer him 20 mil and nothing more.100 million after the way he punked out in the rematch with Vitali the great. Hell no, he doesn't deserve it.

[Szef]

This is sad on multiple levels:
1. Klitschko trying to fight an old retired Lewis
2. The fact that Lewis has good chance of winning after being retired for so long
3. Lewis is clearly trying to price himself out by asking for $100million

The Klitschko's need to retire so the younger fighters like Jennings or Wilder can have their shine or at least give them a shot.

Hey they should be ashamed for even trying to fight a 48 year old retired for 10 years

I don't have words to describe myself.

wlad already showed his actual "class" last Saturday

Wlad makes me sick, first we see his dirty fighting with Povetkin, a glorified street fight. Now he's calling out 50 year old men, he's the most classless fighter in boxing.

The klits need to stop cherry picking

Hahahaha and people complained about Ward thinking to face Joe Calzaghe. How pathetic of the Klits.

Have any of you idiots actually read the article?

100Mill to save the HW division is worth it

All Lewis would need to do is land one uppercut and its lights out Wlad

Anyone who believes that Lewis would at this stage beat Wlad is a delusional moron and hater. "All Lewis would need to do" Pathetic.

[Kilrain]

Ha, I'm a fan of Lewis but asking for 100 mill is ridiculous. Who does he think he is?! No-one wants to see your old, slow, grey-haired ass getting outjabbed and outboxed by a fighter in his athletic prime. At his best, Lewis would have beaten Wlad, but he hasn't fought in over a decade. His time has past.

[MDPopescu]

The only reason Lewis wants to come back is because his fortune is running out. Now he wants 100 mil so he can stay rich. Wlad should turn it down. Offer him 20 mil and nothing more.100 million after the way he punked out in the rematch with Vitali the great. Hell no, he doesn't deserve it.

$20 million for what? Embarrassment for each fighter and anyone involved?

[taansend]

Yes it does, because contrary to what you say, Klitschko won the last round, and until he got that cut he was winning that round. The score was 4-2. And...the cut was NOT serious enough to stop such a fight. You seem unaware of the actual facts. The cut was diagonally across the fleshy part of his eyebrow, it had NO EFFECT on his vision at all, nor did it impede him from opening his eye as wide as he wanted to.

Furthermore, the doctor gave 3 different and equally weak explanations as to why he stopped a fight because of a cut, when the cut had been controlled and had not been bleeding since the 4th round. These are facts not opinions.

And again furthermore, that fight was in June of 2003 and Lewis shamefacedly, after a diatribe against theklitschkos, confirmed that he was giving him a return. This is what happened. the return was accepted as being agreed on. But then..... Lewis made a stipulation that Klitschko would have to travel to London to be examined by his, Lewis's eye surgeon so as to make sure that his eye wasn't going to open up in the first round and cheat the fans out of a fight (very public spirited...). 10 days exactly, after the fight, Klitschko appeared on a special TV interview just to show that, not only had his eye been attended to, but that the damage was invisible. It just couldn't be seen even with closeups.

Then Klitschko travelled to London and was examined and got an OK. The fight was to have been held on Dec 10th 2003, but Lewis had dragged his feet so much, with evasions that Klitschko eventually fought Kirk Johnson on that night, KOing him in the 2nd rd. Johnson was Lewis's original fight for which Klitschko stepped in at 9 days notice. Lewis, very clever over money, negotiated a mentioned $4 mill extra.

And finally....The WBC gave Lewis until end of March (I think) to rematch Klitschko, or he'd be stripped. Lewis waited until the very morning of the day he was to have been stripped and announced his retirement.

These are the facts, I don't care if they are pro or con Klitschko or Lewis, I liked both of them but i have a lot more respect for the Klitschkos, and their doings OUTSIDE the ring.... As far as i am concerned, Lewis behaved with pure spite and malice.

We'll have to completely disagree then. I'll deal with my view & you can deal with your histrionics.