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...BOXING Lewis Weighs His Options The days of legendary heavyweight title fights seem like a rumble from the past, and the current champion, Lennox Lewis, appears to have been struck by the same apathy that has taken hold of the public in recent years. With Mike Tyson reduced to the sideshow ranks - decisively beaten by Lewis in June - there are few characters or worthy challengers to fire the imagination enough to justify those hefty pay-per-view fees. In fact, Lewis is so bored he may retire - unless of course the price is right. He told the London Observer: "What...
...which cost the champion a point when Tyson was shoved all the way down to the canvas in the fourth round. In a strange way, the roles had been reversed. Tyson, flat on his back and forlorn, looked like a fighter down on his luck, shove or no shove. Lennox Lewis, the bigger man, almost seemed an oversized bully. But, perversely enough, he started getting the crowd on his side...
...break from boxing tradition, his opponent, Lennox Lewis, had been weighed in three hours earlier in a separate event. Boxing promoters may like the hype, but even they are not taking chances before the opening bell. They learned their lesson at the fracas-cum-pre-fight press conference last January when an enraged Tyson suddenly threw down his hat and, during the ensuing melee, bit Lewis in the thigh. After that, everyone agreed the two men should be kept apart until they crawl into the padded ring at The Pyramid, the 10-year-old downtown arena normally reserved...
...politically correct for former heavyweight champ Hasim Rahman to question reigning champion Lennox Lewis’ sexual orientation, and perhaps less correct for Lewis to ask for Rahman’s sister to set the record straight. Nonetheless, when the two wrestled in a pre-fight meeting on ESPN, Rahman succeeded in doing something that no previous Lewis opponent had done: allowed the champ to show that he at least some of the personality required to be a fighter...
...right to compete." The cost for Phoenix to qualify in time for the next Formula One season? $48 million. No such participatory problems for Mike Tyson. In spite of the boxer's troubled past, authorities in Washington, D.C. voted to give Tyson a license to fight world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis on June 8. An April bout between the two had been called off after Tyson, apparently keen to fight anytime, anywhere, brawled with Lewis and his bodyguards at a press conference in January...