Date:02/05/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/05/02/stories/2004050207351800.htm

Sport - Boxing

Come back Lennox, one last time

SEATTLE, MAY 1. The boos Lennox Lewis hears these days hurt more than most of the punches he took. The fighters he sees claiming pieces of the heavyweight title he held seem like impostors.

For those and maybe 35 million other reasons, Lewis ought to reconsider retirement and fight a rematch against new WBC champion Vitali Klitschko.

Unless he does, Lewis may never get the full measure of respect and peace of mind he deserves.

He sensed it when he was in Los Angeles recently, hearing the crowd boo him before the title fight between Klitschko and Corrie Sanders.

Lewis felt it the week before when he went to Madison Square Garden in New York to see Chris Byrd and Andrew Golota fight for another slice of the splintered heavyweight title. — AP