Lennox Lewis
Career Snapshot
Born September 2, 1965
Total Fights 44
Won 41
Lost 2
Drew 1
Knockouts 32
Titles Won Heavyweight (WBC, WBA, IBF,
IBO, IBC, British championship, Commonwealth championship, European championship, Olympic gold, Commonwealth gold)

Lennox Claudius Lewis (born 2 September 1965 in West Ham, London, England) is an English former boxer, who represented Canada in the Olympics and is the former undisputed heavyweight champion. He is 6ft 5in or 195.5cm tall and at his boxing prime, weighed 247lbs, which is 112kg

Lewis moved to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada in 1977 at the age of 12 and excelled in the sports of football and basketball in high school; he eventually decided that his favorite sport was boxing. Future events proved him right, as he became a dominant amateur boxer and won the world amateur junior title in 1982.

Two years later, Lewis represented Canada as a super-heavyweight in the Olympic Games held in Los Angeles. He advanced to the quarterfinals, where he lost a controversial decision to American Tyrell Biggs and settled for a fifth-place finish.

Surprisingly, Lewis chose not to turn professional after the Olympics, and instead fought four more years as an amateur, hoping for a second chance to win a gold medal. After winning several more amateur titles over those years, he traveled to Seoul, South Korea for the 1988 Olympics and achieved his goal. In the gold medal match, Lewis defeated future world champion Riddick Bowe by a second-round technical knockout. This decision was also controversial because the referee stopped the fight after two standing eight counts, and Bowe showed no signs of being in trouble.

Having achieved one goal, Lewis now declared himself a professional boxer and moved back to England, having always considered himself a British national. The early part of his pro career was filled with knockouts of journeymen, and he quickly shot up the world rankings.