By Dan Ambrose: Former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis believes it’s time that the aging heavyweights Hasim Rahman, Evander Holyfield and Shannon Briggs all should hang up their gloves and retire from boxing.

Lewis isn’t the only one that thinks these guys should retire. There are many fans out there that wonder why those guys are still fighting.

Speaking with Sky Sports Ringside, Lewis said “Holyfield should call it a day, he thinks he can do what he did at 23, at 46 or 47 years-old and he has no chance. The likes of Holyfield, Shannon Briggs and Hasim Rahman should retire. When they fight, I think I could still beat them now and I don’t train as much, they should get out of there.”

Holyfield, 48, hasn’t a fight against a top tier fighter since beating Hasim Rahman in 2002. Holyfield has beaten some fringe contenders since them like Vinny Maddalone and Fres Oquendo but no one that I would consider a top tier fighter.
Briggs, 39, had his last big win against Siarhei Liakhovich in 2006. Since then, Briggs has mostly dined on 2nd tier opposition to get his wins, while losing to Sultan Ibragimov and Vitali Klitschko. Recently, Briggs took a bad beating in a failed attempt to capture the World Boxing Council title against Vitali. It’s doubtful that Briggs would have any luck against Vitali’s brother IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko or against WBA heavyweight champ David Haye.

The 38-year-old Rahman’s last big win was seven years ago in 2004 when he beat Kali Meehan. I don’t really consider Meehan as a big win. You have to go back all the way to 2001 when Rahman pulled off a huge upset of Lennox Lewis to find Rahman’s last big win. He’s fought a lot of B level fighters since then. When he’s stepped it up against fighters like Oleg Maskaev, Wladimir Klitschko, David Tua and James Toney, Rahman has lost in many occasions, fought to a draw and a no contest in the past 10 years. He’s had bad luck and it seem as if Rahman will be getting another title shot any time soon.