{"id":472574,"date":"2026-02-13T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472574\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:04:06","slug":"lennox-lewis-names-the-2-heavyweights-who-stand-above-him-as-the-best-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472574\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis names the 2 heavyweights who stand above him as the best ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lennox Lewis<\/a> has revealed who he deems to be the two greatest heavyweights of all time.<\/p>\n

Lewis is often named in that conversation himself, after a stellar career which began with the a gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.<\/p>\n

He would go on to become a three-time world heavyweight champion<\/a>, along with earning undisputed honours after victories over fellow greats such as Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Vitali Klitschko.<\/p>\n

Lewis did suffer two defeats in his career to Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman, but he was able to avenge both of those losses, meaning the British-Canadian beat every fighter he went up against.<\/p>\n

Despite all of his success, Lewis thinks there are two men above him who deserve the right to be called the greatest, as he revealed in an appearance on Fox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cJack Johnson, Muhammad Ali.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson was the first black world heavyweight champion, and because of his success is widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers in history.<\/p>\n

He held his world title from 1908 to 1915, notably defending his belt against James J Jeffries in a bout dubbed as the \u2018Fight Of The Century.\u2019<\/p>\n

Another man that competed in a fight that was coined the \u2018Fight Of The Century\u2019 was Ali, who himself had a huge influence not only in boxing but to the wider society.<\/p>\n

He was a three-time world heavyweight champion, earning wins over legendary rivals like George Foreman and Joe Frazier<\/a>, and it is clear to see just why Lewis holds both Ali and Johnson in such high esteem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis has revealed who he deems to be the two greatest heavyweights of all time. Lewis is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-472574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}