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Article: Lennox Lewis needs a better foil for the ring.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2003
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Byline: Steve Bisheff
LOS ANGELES _ Lennox Lewis has this pressing problem, although not everyone would choose to identify it as one.
He is simply too good.
Either that or his competition in the heavyweight division stinks.
Talk to most knowledgeable boxing people and they shrug their shoulders and say it's probably a little bit of both.
Lewis, with a useful jab, decent punching power and remarkable agility for a guy of his size, has come along at a time when he's the only quality heavyweight out there.
And while that allows him to cruise along without much pressure and with plenty of money in the bank, it doesn't do ...