Lennox Lewis says $100 million would get him out of retirement to fight

By Boxing News - 03/21/2012 - Comments

Image: Lennox Lewis says $100 million would get him out of retirement to fightBy Dan Ambrose: 46-year-old Lennox Lewis (41-2-1, 32 KO’s) says he’d come out of his nine-year retirement if he was offered $100 million to fight one of the Klitschko brothers. Lewis hasn’t fought since beating Vitali Klitschko by a 6th round stoppage in 2003, and he’s ignored countless offers for him to come back out of retirement to fight Vitali or his brother Wladimir Klitschko again.

Lewis told German news paper Stern “For $100 million, I’d come back. For that, I would take my pajamas off and go to the gym.”

Unfortunately, there’s not a demand out there that would pay Lewis that kind of money or likely even half. My guess is Lewis would be lucky to get one-fifth of that. He’s been out of commission for too long and the younger boxing fans don’t know him too well other than a guy that once held the heavyweight titles many years ago and who worked for HBO Sports as a boxing analyst for a number of years. Lewis’ high money request is pretty much his way of saying he’s not interested in making a comeback to fight a still dangerous Vitali or his brother.

Lewis isn’t too impressed with what he’s seeing from the Klitschko brothers, saying “At some point the referee steps in and stops the fight. They are boring. If you are looking to decide on the best boxer in the world it must be decided by an epic fight. Not this circus.”

The Klitschko are dominating their limited opposition but there’s no one talented enough to compete with them. The best that the Klischkos have to face are guys like Tyson Fury, David Price, Robert Helenius, David Haye, Denis Boytsov, and Dereck Chisora. Those guys just aren’t good enough to compete with them and will have to wait until they’re gone to try and pick up a title.



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