Lennox Lewis and George Foreman are two of the heavyweight division’s most celebrated names.
Foreman, who has been inducted into both the World Boxing Hall of Fame and International Boxing Hall of Fame, hails from the so-called golden generation of the seventies and eighties and was involved with some of the most iconic nights in boxing history.
Chief amongst them was the epic Rumble in the Jungle in 1974 with Muhammad Ali in which he lost the world heavyweight title he had previously won from Joe Frazier in 1973.
Foreman retired from boxing in 1977, only to come back a decade later and then, in 1994 aged 45, became the unified champion by stopping Michael Moorer. It made him the oldest man to ever hold a world heavyweight title, a record he holds to this day.
Lewis meanwhile was also an Olympic Gold Medalist who turned professional and went on to become the undisputed champion, though not without some hiccups along the way.
He eventually avenged shocking upset losses to Hasim Rahman and Oliver McCall and also beat the likes of Frank Bruno, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson and Vitali Klitschko before retiring in 2003.
Speaking to MailSportBoxing in a winner stays on feature, former multi-weight world champion Roy Jones Jr was asked to pick a winner between Lewis and Foreman had they ever fought and he went with ‘The Lion’.
“Lennox Lewis.”
The ‘pugilist specialist’, as he called himself, had 44 fights in all and won 41 of them, 32 by stoppage. Until very recently he was the last man to be undisputed in the division, though Oleksandr Usyk recently achieved that status with a win over Tyson Fury.
