While promoting the rematch with Rahman on ESPN's Up Close, the fighters got into a brawl[43] similar to the one between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in front of Howard Cosell on Wide World of Sports. Lennox Lewis with cool, beautiful, cute, Wife Violet Chang. This time the three judges scored the fight unanimously (115113, 116112 & 117111) in favour of Lewis, who became undisputed heavyweight champion of the World. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. He had these lots of unusuals! Lewis also out-jabbed Holyfield 137 to 52. Lewis opened a cut above Klitschko's eye with a right cross in the third round and gave a better showing from the fourth round onwards. The two boxing behemoths fought in June 2002 with Lewis securing a stunning eight-round KO. Upon retiring from boxing, Lewis moved to Miami Beach with his wife, Violet Chang, a former Miss Jamaica runner-up. He successfully defended the WBC title three times and had a 25-0 record when he faced Oliver McCall at Wembley in September 1994. [11] At age 18, Lewis represented Canada in the super-heavyweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In May 2003, Lewis sued boxing promoter Don King for US$385million, claiming that King used threats and bribery to have Tyson pull out of a rematch with Lewis and a fight on the card of a Lewis title defence. There is no cure. [35], On 13 March 1999, Lewis faced WBA and IBF title holder Evander Holyfield in New York City in what was supposed to be a heavyweight unification bout. My husband and I immediately understood the gravity of this diagnosis it is one of those rare conditions we expected to encounter on a medical board exam, not in real life. Las Vegas, however, rejected the fight because of Tyson's licensing problems and several other states refused Tyson a licence before Memphis finally bid US$12million to land it. Lewis was born in London in 1965 and raised by his mother Violet, admitting to only seeing his father Carlton once when he was a child. These (offers) coming to me after the Olympics are mainly because I won the gold. By signing up, I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from POPSUGAR. Lewis defended the belt three times, defeating Tony Tucker, whom he knocked down for the first time in Tucker's career, and Frank Bruno and Phil Jackson by knockout. Feet in stirrups, she received a comfort shot an extra $60 which I later learned meant an injection of fentanyl, a powerful narcotic. Lennox Claudius Lewis CM CBE (born 2 September 1965) is a boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003.