Lennox Lewis argues SHOWTIME in Twitter for dissing his Undisputed Status!

[DaaamnSon]

If AJ were to become undisputed by beating Parker and Wilder he'll have been the first to unify it in the same manner as Tyson did in the late 80's by defeating each and every one of the other individual belt holders one by one to unify the division. Where as Douglas, Holyfield, Bowe and Lewis for the most part just beat the man holding all the marbles for that recognition. Tyson and potentially Joshua should get more credit for doing it the hard way in my opinion.

[True That]

I did a bit of research last night. And I discovered that, by Steve Farhood's reasoning, Mike Tyson didn't lose the undisputed world HW crown when he got KO'd by Buster Douglas in 1990.

Tyson's reign as undisputed HW champ actually ended on May 6th 1989, when Francesco Damiani beat Johnuy Du Plooy to become the first WBO HW champion of the world!

Francesco Damiani, Lol, never heard of him until now.

Lol, those guys at Showtime are ridiculous. SMH

[Pigeons]

The WBA recognized the WBO in 2001, the WBC recognized the WBO in 2004, the IBF recognized the WBO in 2007.

So the definition of undisputed didn't include the WBO until 2007. The WBO wasn't even recognized as a major world title until 2001. That means any boxer with a pre-2001 WBO title to his name owned the equivalent of today's IBO title.

[kafkod]

Francesco Damiani, Lol, never heard of him until now.

Lol, those guys at Showtime are ridiculous. SMH

How about Michael Bentt, Herbie Hyde (2 times) and Henry Akinwande?

They all held the WBO HW title during Lennox's undisputed reign.

Akinwande relinquished it to fight Lennox for the WBA, WBC and IBF .. and he got KO'd.

[True That]

The WBA recognized the WBO in 2001, the WBC recognized the WBO in 2004, the IBF recognized the WBO in 2007.

So the definition of undisputed didn't include the WBO until 2007. The WBO wasn't even recognized as a major world title until 2001. That means any boxer with a pre-2001 WBO title to his name owned the equivalent of today's IBO title.

Thank you sir, it's not hard to understand or comprehend really.

[True That]

How about Michael Bentt, Herbie Hyde (2 times) and Henry Akinwande?

They all held the WBO HW title during Lennox's undisputed reign.

Akinwande relinquished it to fight Lennox for the WBA, WBC and IBF .. and he got KO'd.

Lol, oh yeah. The fight where Akinwande hugged Lennox to no end.

Lol, Akinwande was scared to death.