Lennox Lewis says boxing is waiting for a new heavyweight superstar

Lennox Lewis says boxing is waiting for a new heavyweight superstar

Lennox ‘the Lion’ Lewis, who is the most recent undisputed world heavyweight champion, has admitted that boxing is in a poor stated at this point in time and people are waiting for a new superstar.

“You could say the division is in a poor state now. We are waiting for that new eruption of a great super star out there to really take up the pace of boxing and put it right back up there,” stated Lewis.

Meanwhile, Lennox also discussed the much-awaited upcoming fight between the current WBC heavyweight champion, Vitali Klitschko, and former British heavyweight champion, Dereck Chisora, which is all set to take place at the Olympiahalle, Munich in Bayern on February 18, 2012.

Vitali will enter the fight as a red-hot favorite but the 46-year-old Lennox, who defeated Vitali during his career back in 2003, reckons Chisora has a chance against 6 ft 7in Ukrainian giant. Former three-time heavyweight champion insisted to win a fight a boxer needs to deliver only one good punch and Chisora is pretty much capable of delivering it.

“Vitali is very good but Chisora has a chance. He is a heavyweight. All it takes is one punch on the chin to win,” Lewis stated at the Laureus Awards on Monday night.

“If he (Klitschko) is in the fight, in the ring and he gets punched, there is a chance that he might get hurt or knocked out. It will be an interesting fight.”

Well, all said and done, Lennox’s statement about the sport is very much true. There used to be time when people were crazy about boxing but now they are not into it much.

The main reason is that they are not getting the fights they want to see. The fight between the pound-for-pound kings, Floyd Mayweather Jnr and Manny Pacquiao, is what everyone out there desperately wants to see but it has not been made as of yet. It looked as if this year finally the two will meet in the ring but once again they failed to agree to fight.

Though the rumours revolving around suggest that Mayweather and Pacquiao will fight in November, nothing is confirmed.

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