By Sean McDaniel: Something about seeing WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko struggle and go life and death with a very average Dereck Chisora last month has seemingly planted some ideas into the head of 46-year-old Lennox Lewis, who now fancies himself as the only guy out there that can take on and beat Vitali.

Lewis said to the Sun Sport “When you see some of the fights out there, or a champion without a real test, I can’t help but thinking I’m still his [Vitali] only competition, but I’m retired.”

It’s sounds nice that Lewis feels he’s the only competition for Vitali but then he has to go and wreck it all by saying he’s retired. It’s pretty pointless for Lewis to even talk about this when he’s not willing to step in the ring to prove his opinion in real life. It’s like a fan sitting at ringside saying to himself that he could step in and beat so and so, but then he never does.

Lewis’ last fight came against Vitali nine years ago when Lewis stopped Vitali on cuts in the 6th round. Lewis struggled through most of the fight but was able to rock Vitali with two big uppercuts in the 6th round that cut up his lip badly and a right hand that opened up a big cut on the left eye of Vitali. Shortly after that fight, Lewis retired from boxing and never fought Vitali again despite the huge interest in seeing the two fighters get back in the ring. Vitali tried for many years to coax Lewis back into the ring but with zero luck.

Lewis also said this before Britain’s Got Talent show on ITV: “Can the Klitschkos be beaten? Of course they can. I always tell people there’s a guy out there who can beat them, and they quickly cotton on that it’s me.”

This is funny. Lewis seems to enjoy this for some reason. He needs to agree to make a come back and try his luck against Vitali. Vitali is 40, and Lewis is 46. Lewis can’t be any slower than Vitali, because he’s glacial slow. Even a 46-year-old Lewis would likely have better hand speed than Vitali.