The last heavyweight to retire from boxing as undisputed world champion may soon be un-retired. Reports from Britain suggest that Lennox Lewis is in talks to arrange a bout against current heavyweight champ Wladimir Klitschko.
“($100m) is my price tag and it is under discussion,” Lewis told the UK’s The Daily Mail.
Lewis beat Kitchsko’s older brother, Vitali, during a 42-2-1 pro career that followed his Olympic gold medal for Canada at the 1988 summer Olmypics.
Whatever the years have done to the 48-year-old’s skills, his trash talking hasn’t missed a beat. Lewis reportedly claimed it would take just six months to get in fight shape. The six-foot-five fighter already dismissed current contender Tyson Fury, telling The Telegraph he’d be able to knock Fury out “in one round.”
Fury, true to his name, fired back with a wild—and largely unpublishable—Twitter tirade aimed at Lewis and fellow British fighter David Haye.
If Lewis does step back in the ring, it will mark the return of the fighter many in the sport consider to be the last great heavyweight. Lewis himself didn’t shy away from what he might bring to the sport that has been in decline since the rise of MMA.
“I want to bring back the Sweet Science to heavyweight boxing,” he said.