Comments Thread For: Lennox Lewis Believes Alexander Povetkin Should Retire

[P4Pdunny]

Due to his drug-use you mean? He's certainly in the top bracket skill-wise. I'd pick him against Whyte and Parker and would probably edge towards Povetkin against Ortiz on account of his greater big-fight experience.

Yeah, thats it.

I have full confidence in him v Parker/Whyte and would lean against him to best Ortiz also.

[Redgloveman]

Yeah, thats it.

I have full confidence in him v Parker/Whyte and would lean against him to best Ortiz also.

Fair enough, I have no problem with your scepticism

[doom_specialist]

No, I'm not biased. I give Lewis his due respect for what he did in his career.

If anything, my sentence was an indication of his wisdom; as soon as he started declining - the Klitschko fight being the ultimate evidence - he quit. Just in time, and if you ask me he made the right choice.

What I really could never stand of Lewis is his ongoing bragging about his so-called destruction of Tyson. I find strange that an articulate man like he is still needs to aggrandize that cheap win over a D-level version of Iron Mike, full of psychotropic drugs and with his mind and guts not there anymore for the sport.

I guess it comes down to pride, since a lot of the time these guys spend years circling each other. When you finally get the win, it probably feels good enough to gloat about. Another good example is Jones-Hopkins 2. Hopkins truly believes that his win means something, after what we saw the first time.

My fault for seeing bias in your comment, but as I said in my own, it felt that way reading yours because most guys go as long as they can, and end up getting retired. Felt like you were singling him out (because BScene posters definitely don't do that), but I see that wasn't the case. Cheers.