Former heavyweight champion of the world Lennox Lewis has called TV network Showtime out today on something he believes they are trying to do to not just him, but many other boxing greats of the past.
Showtime are one of the leading US TV networks currently with professional boxing programming.
Lead by Stephen Espinoza, their major fights over recent years have revolved around one Floyd Mayweather but they have also branched out into many other world title fights with Premier Boxing Champions.
They’ve been showing boxing for decades now and Lennox Lewis has pointed out that he believes they are trying to claim he and other champions were not undisputed champions in their era.
It is a long series of claims, but Lewis goes into great detail about his point today:
So apparently @ShowtimeBoxing thinks they can rewrite history, by writing champions like myself, Bowe, Douglas and Holyfield out of it, by saying there hasn’t been an undisputed champion since @MikeTyson in 1999. I personally recall facing @holyfield for that honour TWICE. pic.twitter.com/zYbvwPlqeQ
— Lennox Lewis (@LennoxLewis) March 20, 2018
As a fighter, being the undisputed champion was my ONLY goal. Fight the best to be the best. That was the legacy I fought my whole career for. So don’t think I’ll take it lightly when @ShowtimeBoxing tries to take that away from me or anyone else who deserves that honour!
— Lennox Lewis (@LennoxLewis) March 20, 2018
And for @ShowtimeBoxing to try to defend their error instead of admitting ur mistake, only goes to show the lack of knowledge and willingness to do their homework. It’s almost as if there is some other agenda going on here. ??
— Lennox Lewis (@LennoxLewis) March 20, 2018
. @ShowtimeBoxing the WBO belt was not a major or coveted belt in my days. I could have lifted it from John Ruiz had i ever believed that my status as an undisputed champion would ever be called into question. If ppl covet that belt in 2018, so be it… but not in my day!
— Lennox Lewis (@LennoxLewis) March 20, 2018
.@ShowtimeBoxing The politricks of my era and the amount of Mickey Mouse belts made it difficult to impossible to own every single fringe belt there was at the time, so I only focused on fighting the best of the best and collecting the major belts of the time.
— Lennox Lewis (@LennoxLewis) March 20, 2018
