{"id":706970,"date":"2026-07-23T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:32:08","slug":"better-than-calzaghes-tony-bellew-says-only-one-british-fighter-can-match-lennox-lewis-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706970\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Better than Calzaghe&#8217;s&#8221;: Tony Bellew says only one British fighter can match Lennox Lewis&#8217; resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/lennox-lewis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lennox Lewis<\/a> is hailed by many as Britain\u2019s best ever fighter, but there is one man whose resume equals that of \u2018The Lion\u2019, in the eyes of former WBC cruiserweight world champion <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/tony-bellew\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Bellew<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lewis defeated every fighter that he faced, avenging his two career defeats to Oliver McCall and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/features\/on-this-day-lennox-lewis-gets-sweet-revenge-over-hasim-rahman-in-las-vegas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hasim Rahman with stoppage wins<\/a> and overcoming the likes of Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson and Vitali Klitschko during his legendary career.<\/p>\n<p>Others argue that super-middleweight legend Joe Calzaghe is the best Brit to ever lace up the gloves, having retired with an undefeated 46-fight record and trumped names such as Mikkel Kessler, Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thechillpodcast257\/video\/7664596002560544020?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fight Your Corner Podcast<\/a>, Bellew declared that Calzaghe\u2019s rival, Carl Froch, is the only Briton who has a resume as impressive as Lewis\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis [Froch\u2019s] resume is out of this world. Carl has got a better resume than \u2013 and people won\u2019t like this \u2013 but Carl has got a better resume than Naseem Hamed, and I am Naz\u2019s biggest fan by the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the only person whose resume stacks as much as Carl\u2019s is probably Lennox Lewis. Carl has got a better resume than Joe Calzaghe, he has. I don\u2019t think that he would have beaten Joe Calzaghe, but he has got a better resume than him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarl\u2019s career, on paper, is better than Joe Calzaghe\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Froch competed in an insanely competitive super-middleweight division and became a four-time world champion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2013\/may\/26\/carl-froch-mikkel-kessler-world-title-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">boasting wins over Kessler<\/a>, Arthur Abraham, Jean Pascal and Jermain Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>He retired from the sport following his last win in 2014, when he claimed a memorable knockout over George Groves in their historic battle at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis is hailed by many as Britain\u2019s best ever fighter, but there is one man whose resume&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706970","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=706970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}