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Oh-ya. The part I love the most is he was beaten by a Brit/Canadian.
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I believe he is Brit/Jamaican.
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[blue]I said Brit/Canadian because he lived in and represented Canada in the Olympics.[/blue]
This biography is from his website.
LENNOX LEWIS
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MAN WHO HAS MADE HISTORY
* Lennox Lewis was born in London, on 2nd September 1965. At the age of 12 he moved with his family to Kitchener Ontario, Canada
* At High School, Lennox excelled at many sports basketball, volleyball, track and field, American football, soccer and of course boxing.
* Despite attractive offers to play college basketball and football, Lennox focused on developing a career in amateur boxing. Five years after taking up boxing, he became World Junior Champion at the age of 17.
* At 18, Lennox joined the adult ranks of amateur boxing and represented
Canada in the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles. Despite giving away age and experience to older opponents, he reached the quarter finals of the 1984 Games - losing to the eventual Gold Medalist, Tyrell Biggsof the USA.
He returned to Canada a national hero at the age of 18.
* Four years later at the Seoul Olympic Games boxing final in 1988, Lennox stopped Riddick Bowe of the USA in the 2nd round to win his coveted Olympic Gold Medal.
* Lennox returned to England in 1989 and signed a professional contract and then went on to win the British Heavyweight, Commonwealth and European Title. Then on 31st October 1992, in only two rounds and in front of a full house at London's Earl's Court, Lennox sensationally knocked out Razor Ruddock, who was widely recognised as the most dangerous heavyweight in the world ratings after Mike Tyson.