World heavyweight champion Lewis quits from professional boxing

Xinhua News Agency;  February 6, 2004 ;     415 words ...World heavyweight champion Lewis quits...Ruling world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis...reigning lineal heavyweight champion," the 38-year-o...reigning world heavyweight champion to quit after...was my last fight as a professional...a one-sided fight in ...

WBC heavyweight champion ends career

AP Worldstream;  November 9, 2005 ;     541 words ......Rahman in April. But the fight was postponed when Klitschko...has backed out of a fight with Rahman (41-5-1...American. Rahman, a former heavyweight champion, grew so tired of waiting to fight the Ukrainian that he...Klitschko is the second WBC heavyweight champion in a row to ...

Floyd Patterson; Heavyweight Champion Rose from Poverty

The Washington Post;  May 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ......who became the world heavyweight champion at age 21 after taking...victory over light heavyweight champion Archie Moore in a fight at Chicago Stadium made him the youngest heavyweight champion in history. (Mike Tyson...reporters after the fight. "This is easily ...

It's Lewis, by a Decision; Heavyweight Champion Retires With No Regrets

The Washington Post;  February 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Lewis knew how to fight, and when to quit...appreciated his reign as heavyweight champion of the world...century ago has a heavyweight champion gone out on top...have one more fight?" he said. "But...many ways the heavyweight champion rules the sport...ordered Lewis to ...

Walcott Stands Tall in Spinks' Corner; Former Heavyweight Champion Has...

The Washington Post;  June 14, 1987 ;     700+ words ......a heavyweight fight in New Jersey...spectators-and the former heavyweight champion will be rooting...leading up to the fight, Walcott has...eye in a 1950 fight, Walcott told...about becoming heavyweight champion. He made it...up from light heavyweight ...

Lewis finds the right balance The world heavyweight champion has taken...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  April 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ......knock. Home-from-home for the heavyweight champion of the world is a detached...shadow of Mike Tyson, the fight itself and above all, one...taking Rahman too lightly. The fight remains the absolute business...around the Big Top, where the fight will be held, and watched...

Former heavyweight champion's brother shot to death

AP Online;  December 15, 1998 ;     135 words ......younger brother of former heavyweight champion Buster Douglas was fatally shot in a fight with two other men in a...Tyson in the 10th round of a fight in Tokyo. He lost the title...Evander Holyfield in his next fight on a third-round knockout...

Vitalii Klitschko declares: "I will be world heavyweight champion again!"

Ukrainian Weekly, The;  November 16, 2003 ;     468 words ......defeat against World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. The venue for the fight will be Madison Square Garden in New...1 mandatory eliminator; Lewis must fight the winner of this fight in his next bout, or be stripped of...

The world will get a white heavyweight champion soon

New York Amsterdam News;  December 9, 1995 ;     700+ words ......down the line, the fight in Stuttgart will...become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. No question...heavyweight championship fight between native son...have its first white heavyweight champion since Gerrie Coetzee...

Lewis 'the last great heavyweight', WBC heavyweight champion will be...

Charleston Daily Mail;  June 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ......away, Lewis is the true heavyweight champion until somebody beats...first heavyweight title fight in Los Angeles in 45...Tyson. "He decided to fight again. In my opinion...Lewis was planning to fight Kirk Johnson in a bout...WBC title, Lewis had to fight Klitschko (32-1, 31 ...

Harrison stays on cautious route Mike Lewis hears that the Olympic...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  September 29, 2002 ;     517 words ......the former Olympic super-heavyweight champion who at the birth of his...goal of winning the world heavyweight title. "The last thing...could be pitched into a fight for the British crown...British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion who outpointed Harrison in his last fight ...

My Week: Frank Maloney Manager of Lennox Lewis, World Boxing Council...

The Independent - London;  November 13, 1999 ;     608 words ...Today's fight between Lennox Lewis...determine the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. The two...Boxing Federation World Heavyweight Champion] on Saturday...over the world title fight in Hull on Saturday...is in place for the fight in Hull. Then Lennox...

BOXING: Jones' triumph carries imprint of lost era of boxing greatness New...

The Independent - London;  March 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ......march from middleweight to heavyweight champion lurched wildly into comparisons...thing. If he said he wanted to fight me he'd have to wake up and...Las Vegas's idea of a dream fight was taking opportunistic shape...gold. They are demanding a fight with me, but I don't believe...

Box: Doping positive dethrones heavyweight champion Toney

AAP Sports News (Australia);  May 12, 2005 ;     479 words ......Doping positive dethrones heavyweight champion Toney NEW YORK, May 11 AFP...World Boxing Association heavyweight champion. The New York State Athletic...of Toney's positive post-fight doping test. Toney was also...to prepare myself for a fight," Toney said. "Being accused...state ...

Boxing: Tyson hopes to cage the rage within The former heavyweight...

The Independent - London;  October 23, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Tonight, the former world heavyweight champion and perennial public villain...comeback - marking his first fight since a three-and-a-half month...could not even get tonight's fight on pay-per-view television...Showtime instead. Interest in the fight is subdued by Tyson standards...