Lennox Lewis: record, next fight and profile →
As 2024 gives way to 2025, we’re in an interesting place with these modern heavyweights – a place somewhat similar to where we were exactly 25 years ago, when 1999 became 2000 and all of our computers continued functioning despite great fears to the contrary.
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Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis defeated every man he faced – even if that meant fighting some of them twice. Lewis got revenge on both Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman after he was stopped by both.
Mourad Aliev secured a sixth-round stoppage over Davide Brito in Hamburg.
Former world heavyweight champion and one of the all-time great big men, Lennox Lewis is one of the lucky ones. Post-boxing, there have been few public struggles, no tabloid stings, no roller coaster of trauma and Lewis – a 2009 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee – banked fortune.
Heavyweight great Lennox Lewis was so inspired by the Rumble in the Jungle, he went about his own way trying to emulate it. Muhammad Ali famously toppled the previously-indestructible George Foreman in Zaire, Africa, 50 years ago today.
British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion, Fabio Wardley, is developing quite the collection of hardware. When the end of year awards is handed out, Wardley, 18-0-1 (17 KOs), may need to clear yet more space in his trophy cabinet.
From Lennox Lewis-Wladimir Klitschko, Prince Naseem Hamed-Juan Manuel Marquez, Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Kostya Tszyu, Mike Tyson-George Foreman, to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-David Benavidez, the list goes on and on.
It might be Manny Pacquiao – a living legend whose career speaks for itself – but after a layoff of three years, at 45 years old he should not be invited to bypass all of the contenders and walk straight into a world-title fight.
Want to feel old? A baby born the day Lennox Lewis fought Vitali Klitschko is, as of today, old enough to legally drink.