{"id":224469,"date":"2025-10-25T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224469\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:08:11","slug":"lennox-lewis-didnt-hesitate-when-naming-the-greatest-heavyweight-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224469\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis Didn&#8217;t Hesitate When Naming The Greatest Heavyweight Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/lennox-lewis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lennox Lewis<\/a> has revealed who he believes is the greatest heavyweight to have ever graced the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The British-Canadian great had an outstanding boxing career of his own, entering the paid ranks back in 1989 after he walked away from the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul with a super heavyweight gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis would go on to reign as the world heavyweight champion on three separate occasions during his accomplished career, culminating in him becoming the undisputed champion back in 1999 when he defeated Evander Holyfield.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/relive-lennox-lewis-vs-mike-tyson-in-explosive-colour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">He also racked up victories over the likes of Vitali Klitschko, Oliver McCall and Mike Tyson before his retirement in 2003<\/a>, proving himself to be arguably the greatest British boxer of all time.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to determining who the greatest heavyweight of all time is though, there is always a hot debate within the boxing world, with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Larry Holmes all usually in the conversion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LennoxLewis\/status\/1980487942864019801?t=42wjhbMmMbvwZHIMdtb3Aw&amp;s=31\" rel=\"nofollow\">Speaking on social media<\/a>, Lewis didn\u2019t hesitate to reveal who he believes is the best ever, naming none other than the man they called \u2018The Greatest\u2019 \u2013 Muhammad Ali.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">Ali. \ud83d\udc4a\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lennox Lewis, CBE, CM (@LennoxLewis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LennoxLewis\/status\/1980487942864019801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ali, known for his unique fighting style and one of a kind personality, is considered to be not only the best heavyweight ever, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/legend-says-hed-have-been-greater-than-ali\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but the greatest overall fighter in boxing history.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Olympic Gold Medalist captured the world heavyweight championship on three occasions throughout the course of his storied professional career, defeating the likes of Joe Frazier, Sonny Liston and George Foreman to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis has revealed who he believes is the greatest heavyweight to have ever graced the sport. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-224469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}