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Lennox Claudius Lewis CM CBE (born 2 September 1965) is a boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time world heavyweight champion, a two-time lineal champion, and held the undisputed championship. Holding dual British and Canadian citizenship, [2] Lewis represented Canada as an amateur at ...
May 28, 2008 · Lennox Lewis, boxer (b at London, Eng 2 Sept 1965). Lewis had an outstanding amateur career and was a 6-time Canadian Amateur Champion. He won the gold medal in the super-heavyweight division at both the 1986 Commonwealth Games and the 1987 North American Championships. His amateur career was capped by winning the gold at the 1988 Olympic Games ...
Sep 18, 2011 · By 1983, Lewis became the world amateur junior champion and not long thereafter, the Canadian super heavyweight title holder. As a member of the Olympic team at Los Angeles 1984, he lost in the super heavyweight quarterfinals to Tyrell Biggs, who would go on to win gold. However, four years later at Seoul 1988, Lewis was able to redeem himself ...
Nov 17, 2001 · Canadians unimpressed by Lewis. After winning the super-heavyweight gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Lennox Lewis carried the Canadian flag in the closing ceremonies. Some 11 years later ...
Jul 26, 2012 · Lewis, a dual citizen of England and Canada who now lives with his wife and children in Miami, has long divided Canadian boxing fans. Many are fiercely proud of his time spent and feats ...
Biography. British-born boxer Lennox Lewis was sent to Canada as a young boy in the 1970s at the behest of his Jamaican-born mother, who was worried that her son would get into trouble with the law if he remained in London's dangerous East End. He soon took up boxing and, by the age of 15, found it difficult to be matched with competitors of ...
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May 18, 2024 · Lennox Lewis (born September 2, 1965, London, England) is the first British boxer to hold the undisputed heavyweight world championship since Bob Fitzsimmons held the title in 1899. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Lewis was born to Jamaican parents, spent his early childhood in England, and then moved with his mother to ...
