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1988
Gold medal
super heavyweight
for Team Canada
during the Seoul
Olympics.
1989
Professional
debut on June 27.
October 31,1992
Defeats Razor ruddock in two rounds, then Riddick Bowe in December that
year and wins the belt.
May 8,1993
Defeats Tony Tucker in Las Vegas, then Frank Bruno on october 1st.
September 24, 1994,
Suffered his first
defeat by contender
Oliver McCall.
February 7, 1997
Re gaines WBC title from Oliver McCall.
July
12, 1997,
Lewis retained his WBC heavyweight
championship by
defeating the
intimidated,
overmatched Henry
Akinwande.
March 28, 1998
Retained WBC title by defeating Shannon Briggs and Zeljko Mavrovic in
September of that year.
November 13, 1999
Defeated Evander
Holyfield to capture
the undisputed
heavyweight crown.
April
29, 2000
Defeats Michael Grant in New York then Frans Botha
in London on July 15th. later that year on November 11th he goes on to
crush David tua.
April
21, 2001
Lost to Hasim Rahman in the fifth round to, as he
says " a lucky punch". Losing his WBC and IBF title.In November
that same year, Lennox wins the WBC and IBF title by defeating Rahman
in the 4th round.
June
8, 2002
Defeats
Mike Tyson with a knock down in the 8th round.
June 21, 2003
Defeats Vitali Klitschko in the 6th round.
February 6,2004
Lennox lewis retires
Heavyweight
Champion of the World
For the first time in more than a century, a British fighter had won the
(undisputed) heavyweight championship of the world. On November 13, 1999,
in Las Vegas, NV, WBC heavyweight champion and linear heavyweight champion
Lennox Lewis tattooed WBA/IBF heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield for
12 rounds to earn a unanimous decision victory and to capture the undisputed
heavyweight championship of the world.
Lennox
Lewis has been at the forefront of Heavyweight boxing for the past eight
years. He is also the first and only British born boxer to become undisputed
World Heavyweight Champion of the world when he defeated Evander Holyfield
in November 1999. Being part of a small group of Heavyweights to retain
the title three times, EvanderHolyfield and the great Muhammad Ali.
Born in the tough East End in London, September 2nd 1965, Lennox had a
traumatic childhood and immigrated at the age of 12 to Canada. Whilst
in Canada Lennox lived with his Mother Violet and discovered the art of
boxing and excelled under his first coach Arnie Boehm who guided him to
a brilliant amateur record of 85 wins, 52 knock outs and an Olympic Gold
medal title. After successfully winning the Olympic Heavyweight title
in 1988 Lennox decided to return to the United Kingdom and begin his reign
for boxing stardom.
He had his first professional fight in 1989 and by 1990 Lennox went onto win the European title by defeating Jean Chanet in 1990, and followed that by winning the British, Commonwealth by defeating Derek Williams in 1992.
Lennox was officially crowned Heavyweight champion of the world in 1993 when his arch rival Riddick Bowe refused to defend his title against him. Lennox defended his title successfully against the likes of Tony Tucker, Phil Jackson and Frank Bruno. However in September 1994, Lennox lost his WBC title when he was unexpectedly knocked out by Oliver McCall. Unperturbed from such a dramatic loss Lennox became the first British boxer to regain his heavyweight title when he defeated Oliver McCall in the rematch, February 7, 1997. For the next couple of years Lennox defended his title successfully against dangerous opponents Andrew Golota, Tommy Morrison, David Tua, and Frans Botha. Lennox lost his title again in a controversial decision against Evander Holyfield. Less than six month’s later Lennox was able to avenge that defeat and defeated Evander Holyfield to become the undisputed the first and only British boxer to become undisputed heavyweight champion wining the WBC, WBA, IBF.
Lennox second reign of heavyweight champion of the world was not to last very long as he was surprisingly knocked out in the fifth round of his title defence against Hasim Rahman. That defeat was later avenged, when Lennox knocked out Hasim Rahman in devastating fashion in the fourth round to retain his title.
Lennox is no longer undisputed heavyweight champion of the world though he has defeated the most dangerous opponents in the division Mike Tyson, Vitali Klitschko.
Lennox has been a true gentlemen outside of boxing and has been a positive role model to all members of the black Community and to Boxing. Since he has been totally dedicated to his sport and has given a lot of money to charities and he runs his own college in London. The year 2004 will probably be Lennox’s last year in boxing, where either a big money fight against Roy Jones Junior or Vitali Klitschko may well be his last fight.
Lennox announces his retirement from the ring on the 6th of February
2004.
Iam sure it won't be the end of the world for Lennox he may pursue a career
in acting or as a boxing promoter.
