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Author: Melissa Matheson
Hardcover · April 1, 2002
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Lennox Lewis was born in East London of Jamaican parents but from the age of eight was raised in Canada. Indeed, it was for Canada as an amateur boxer that he won the gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
Now living in England again, he is the first world heavyweight boxing champion Britain has "produced" in over a hundred years. This lavishly illustrated book (with images by the Jamaican photographer Blaise Hart) is the first to commemorate Lennox in his own words since he became a champion, and has his full support in terms of the book's promotion. Only the notorious 'Iron Mike' Tyson appears to be left as a credible challenger and their much-anticipated fight could crown an extraordinary sporting career.
Lennox tracks Britain's biggest boxing superstar from the night in Las Vegas he was crowned champion in 1999 by beating the legendary Evander Holyfield. Two colossal championship years saw Lennox reach the depths of sporting disappointment when he was unexpectedly KO'd by the journeyman Hasim Rahman, before his redemptive 4th round victory over Rahman in November 2001.
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