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Lewis gives Ward edge over Kovalev

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By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis gives Andre Ward the slight edge over IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev on Saturday night. Lewis thinks Ward has to get off to a fast start against Kovalev, and to make sure he gets close to him so that he can get his shots off.

The closer the better for Ward, as he’s got a great inside game that he uses to dominate his opponents. Lewis sees Kovalev being tough on the outside where he can land his big power shots. That’s not good for Ward to let Kovalev stay outside. Ward needs to crowd Kovalev to keep him from getting his big shots off the way he likes to do.

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Lennox Lewis thinks Fury beats Joshua

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By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis is picking unbeaten IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to give IBF belt holder Anthony Joshua his first defeat of his career when/if the two of them face each other soon inside the ring. Lewis believes that the fight would need to happen soon for Fury to have a chance of beating the 6’6” Joshua, because the 2012 Olympic gold medalist is improving at a rapid pace and soon should be past Fury.

“Right now the No 1 is Tyson Fury because he beat the man that beat the man that beat the man,” Lewis said to the bbc.com. “But Anthony Joshua is growing, he’s knocking out everyone they put in front of him and he’s looking good.”

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Lennox Lewis doubts Brook can beat Golovkin

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By Dan Ambrose: Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis doubts that welterweight Kell Brook can make the jump to middleweight to beat Gennady GGG Golovkin on September 10. Lewis believes that the weight classes were designed for a reason, and he thinks there’s not too many fighters that can move up two divisions at a time and find success.

Lewis says he think Chris Eubank Jr. would have beaten Triple G if he’d fought him. The problem is, Eubank Jr. and/or his father Chris Eubank Sr. failed to agree to a fight against Golovkin when it was offered to them. They didn’t meet the deadline that was set by them from Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn. He offered the same deal to Brook, and he agreed to it.

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Lewis says Joshua shouldn’t fight Fury or Wladimir yet

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By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis thinks IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua lacks the experience to fight Tyson Fury or Wladimir Klitschko right now. Lewis wants to see Joshua get more fights under his belts before he looks to fight the likes of Fury or Wladimir.

Joshua doesn’t need to worry about Fury or Wladimir in 2016, because he’s not going to be fighting either of them this year. Fury is injured still, and there still isn’t a date for the rematch between him and Wladimir. It’s likely that the two giant heavyweights will fight in either late October or sometime in November.

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Lennox Lewis says Tyson Fury better than Anthony Joshua

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By Scott Gilfoid: While Matchroom Sport promoter Barry Hearn says he thinks IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is the No.1 heavyweight in the division, former world champion Lennox Lewis isn’t on board with that opinion. Until he sees Joshua fight in a 12 round contest and show some boxing ability, he feels that IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) is the best by virtue of his recent 12 round decision win over Wladimir Klitschko last November.

Lewis isn’t sure whether the heavily muscled 6’6”, 250lb Joshua can actually box, because he’s not shown it in the past. Joshua has shown that he can slug, and that’s all he’s shown since turning pro in 2013.

You can make an argument that Joshua showed a tiny bit of boxing in his fight against Dillian Whyte in 2015, when he backed off from him after getting knocked silly by a left hook in round two. However, Joshua didn’t use any movement to speak of in that fight. He just backed up and stayed on the outside and didn’t mix it up like he’d done in the first two rounds.

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Lennox Lewis questions Haye’s need for bulking up

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haye422By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis wonders whether David Haye (27-2, 25 KOs) needs to have focused so much on his strength and bulking up in his comeback to the sport. Lewis thinks the recent bulking up the 35-year-old Haye has done will come at a cost in effecting his speed.

Haye has added 17 pounds to his previously thin 210lb frame in his comeback. In his first fight since coming off a long 4-year layoff, the 227lb Haye used his new size to obliterate the over-matched Mark De Mori in one round last January.

Haye’s second fight of his comeback will be taking place this Saturday night against #14 WBO Arnold Gjergjaj (29-0, 21 KOs) at the O2 Arena in London, UK.

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Would a prime Lennox Lewis have beaten a prime Mike Tyson?

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lewis32By Gerardo Granados: Back on June 8 of 2002 at the Pyramid, Tennessee, USA; the anticipated fight between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis took place. The bout might have taken too much time to be arranged, and perhaps, at least, one of the fighters was no longer in his prime. It was a huge boxing event in which Showtime and HBO came to terms so the fight could be done. Does the reader remember the introduction of the fighters?

Yesterday I read a tweet from the former Heavyweight Champion Lennox Lewis replying to a fight fan who asked him: “do you think you would of beaten Mike Tyson when he was in his prime?” Lewis answer was: “do you think he would have beat me in my prime?” So, I had to reply to him: “YES – prime Iron Mike Tyson would have murdered you Mr. Lennox Lewis you only beat the shadow of him”

Before I continue I want to make clear that I don´t mean any disrespect to Lennox Lewis or any of his loyal fans. I acknowledge Lewis as one of the last great heavyweights on the last twenty years but Mike Tyson is a boxing icon that hardly will be forgotten.

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Lennox Lewis gives Povetkin advantage against Wilder

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1-deontay-wilder (12)By Scott Gilfoid: In what could be seen as a bad omen for #1 WBC challenger Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22 KOs); former heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis is giving him the advantage in his title fight against WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) in their fight on May 21 on Showtime Boxing.

Lewis likes the 36-year-old Povetkin’s experience in this fight, and he feels that the 6’7” Wilder has many flaws that have him worried. However, Lewis also feels that Deontay’s power could be the factor that ultimately saves him in this fight.

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Deontay: I’m going to whip Fury for Lennox Lewis

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wilder(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) says he doesn’t like the comments that IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) recently made about the 50-year-old Lennox Lewis, and he plans on giving Fury a real hiding when he eventually gets him inside the ring with him.

Just when that will happen is anyone’s guess. Heck, by the time Deontay faces Fury in the future, Fury will unlikely still be a world champion. Someone is going to get to Fury soon and take his scalp and his world titles at the same time.

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