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Lennox Lewis Boxing Trunks Autograph
A fabulous pair of custom made Boxing Trunks signed
by the former undisputed Heavweight Champion and Boxing Legend, Lennox Lewis. Signed at a recent
private signing this great piece of sports memorabilia comes
with a photo from the signing. Backed up by our lifetime
certificate of authenticity.
Lennox Lewis
£95.00
Lennox Lewis made his professional debut in
June 1989 and KO'd Al Malcome in the second round. He went
on and scored 20 straight victories, 17 by knockout and
10 of his opponents could not endure more than three rounds.
He challenged Donovan "Razor" Ruddock
on October 31, 1992. The winner was expected to battle the
winner of the Holyfield-Bowe bout in a heavyweight elimination
tournament. Lewis moved to the top of the heavyweight division
by flooring Ruddock three times to earn a second-round stoppage.It
seemed he was assured of a shot at the undisputed heavyweight
championship of the world. However. After Bowe defeated
Holyfield in November 1992 to capture the undisputed heavyweight
championship, he refused to honor the agreement. and the
WBC stripped Bowe of their title and announced that Lewis
would be crowned the WBC heavyweight champion.
In September 1994, Lewis incurred his first
professional loss to WBC's No. 1 contender, Oliver McCall,
when he received a crushing right hand sending him to the
canvass in the second round. He rose to his feet but the
referee called a halt to the bout. Many ringside spectators
thought the stoppage to be premature and that he should
have been allowed to continue. He vowed to regain the title.
In May 1995, he destroyed Lionel Butler in
a fifth round TKO. He was assured by WBC President, Jose
Sulaiman, during the post-fight press conference of facing
the winner of the Oliver McCall-Frank Bruno bout. However,
he was skipped over again for a title shot, this time for
Mike Tyson.He continued trying to obtain a championship
fight, with TKO victories being added to his record (Justin
Fortune and Tommy Morrison), en route to battling one of
the fiercest warriors in the heavyweight division: Ray Mercer.
In May 1996, he outboxed and outpunched Mercer
at Madison Square Garden to win a unanimous decision. Lewis
was given an opportunity to fight McCall for the vacant
WBC title after Tyson declined $45 million to defend the
title and gave up his title in response to a court order
to defend his crown against him.
In February 1997, he challenged McCall and
regained the WBC heavyweight championship and avenged the
only blemish on his record. He was awarded a fifth-round
TKO when McCall sobbed and refused to fight.
Later in July 1997, Lewis retained his WBC
heavyweight championship defeating overmatched Henry Akinwande.
Akinwande clutched him from the onset of the bout and referee
disqualified Akinwande in round five after several warnings
and a point deduction.
In October 1997, he floored Andrew Golota
midway through round one. Golota rose to his feet only to
be punished further by Lewis, forcing the referee to halt
the bout.
In March 1998, he successfully defended his
crown for the third time in a TKO in the fifth round against
Shannon Briggs and capture the Linear Heavyweight Championship
in a bout that received consideration as 1998's "Fight
of the Year.
In September 1998, he fulfilled his mandatory
defense requirement by dominating WBC's No. 1 heavyweight
contender, Zeljko Mavrovic. In March 1999, he outboxed WBA/IBF
champion, Evander Holyfield, but was robbed of the undisputed
heavyweight crown when the judges scored the bout a draw.
Then on November 13, 1999, World boxing Council (WBC) Heavyweight
champion and Linear Heavyweight champion Lewis defeated
World boxing Association (WBA)/International Boxing Federation
(IBF) Heavyweight Champion Evander Holyfield for 12 rounds
to earn a unanimous decision victory and capture the undisputed
heavyweight championship of the world. For the first time
in more than a century a British fighter had won the (undisputed)
heavyweight championship of the world.
He outpunched the three-time world heavyweight
champion to become professional boxing's first undisputed
heavyweight champion since Riddick Bowe in 1992, helping
to eraise his bitter memory of their March bout in which
the three ringside judges scored the bout a draw. He pumelled
Holyfield throughout the bout with right uppercuts and thunderous
overhand rights. In round nine, He landed a right uppercut
causing Holyfield to buckle and return to his corner at
the end of the round on unsteady legs.On April 12, 2000
following a lawsuit by Don King Productions, a federal judge
ruled that the WBA could not sanction the bout with Michael
Grant scheduled for April 29 when he was to defend his undisputed
heavyweight crown. He refused to cancel the fight and surrendered
his WBA crown when he entered the ring on April 29th. He
did however floor the 6'7" Grant four times in two
rounds to successfully defend his IBF/WBC crowns and his
Linear Heavyweight Championship.Three months later he blasted
Francois Botha with a three-punch combination late in round
two sending Botha through the ropes and nearly onto the
laps of ringside observers. This was his 13th straight victory.
In April 2001, he relinquished his world heavyweight
crown when he was caught by an overhand right late in round
5 by Hasim Rahman and he dropped to the canvas and unable
to beat the 10 count. In November 2001 in a rematch, he
caught Rahman with a single punch to regain his world heavyweight
crown.
In June 2002, he defeated Tyson before a sellout
crowd in Memphis, Tenn. by knocking out the former undisputed
champion in the eighth round.
In June 2003, Lewis was to face Canada's Kirk
Johnson for the WBC Heavyweight Championship, but instead,
Vitali Klitschko was pulled in as a substitute when Johnson
tore a pectoral muscle during training just weeks before
the scheduled bout. He retained his title although Klitschko
fought valiantly despite cuts and bruises, in particular,a
nasty gash on his eye. The fight was stopped before the
start of the 7th round when the ring doctor felt Vitali
was unable to continue.
That bout, proved to be the last fight of
his professional career as he announced his retirement from
the ring at a press conference on February 6, 2004. Although
speculation suggested a rematch with Klitschko was in the
offing, he said,
"I will definitely be the third heavyweight
boxer to retire as heavyweight champion. I can promise you
that. I am proud of being heavyweight champion. It's not
easy being heavyweight champion of the world. It's very
hard to achieve. It's even harder to keep, to stay at the
top. I am a person who believes if you can't give 110% you
shouldn't do it. I've given a 110% in my sport ... It is
time for the younger generation of boxers to make their
own route to become heavyweight champion. The challenge
is there for them to achieve what I have achieved over the
last 12 years."
Afterwards, he closed the press conference with,
"Let the next era begin."
