is remembered as a great heavyweight champion but there is one man he always avoided. Until Oleksandr Usyk came along and repeated the feat in 2024, Lewis was the last undisputed heavyweight ruler when he beat Evander Holyfield to add…
Former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis revealed to The Ring that he deliberately avoided fighting George Foreman during his career. Lewis described a potential matchup against Foreman as a "lose-lose situation," explaining that defeating the widely loved veteran would cause fans to hate him, while losing would bring harsh criticism.
Foreman famously regained the world heavyweight championship in 1994 at age 45 by knocking out Michael Moorer, two decades after his first title victory over Joe Frazier. Lewis went on to conquer prominent contemporaries like Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, but chose never to step into the ring against Foreman.
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