• Lennox Lewis vs. Francois Botha, billed as The Homecoming, was a heavyweight professional boxing match contested between WBC, IBF, and IBO champion Lennox...
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  • Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis, billed as Undisputed, was a professional boxing match contested on March 13, 1999 for the WBA, WBC, and IBF heavyweight...
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  • Champion in 1999, Lennox Lewis successfully defended his crown twice in easy second round knockout victories over Michael Grant and Francois Botha. Following...
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    titles in 2000 and 2002. Botha has competed against former Heavyweight Champions Mike Tyson, Wladimir Klitschko, Lennox Lewis, Michael Moorer and Evander...
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  • Lennox Lewis vs. Michael Grant, billed as Two Big, was a professional boxing match contested on April 29, 2000 for the WBC, IBF, and IBO heavyweight championships...
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  • Mike Tyson vs. Francois Botha was a professional boxing match on January 16, 1999. Tyson won the match by knocking out Botha in the fifth round. After...
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  • Holyfield tells SLTV how he feels about Mike Tyson today "Michael Moorer vs. Francois Botha". boxrec.com. BoxRec. Retrieved 19 March 2024. "Holyfield win has...
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  • Lennox Lewis vs. Hasim Rahman, billed as "Thunder in Africa", was a heavyweight professional boxing match contested between unified WBC, IBF, IBO, and...
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  • Benn vs. Gerald McClellan boxing match. It hosted the Lennox Lewis vs. Francois Botha heavyweight boxing fight in 2000, and the Naseem Hamed vs. Manuel...
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    Lennox Claudius Lewis CM CBE (born 2 September 1965) is a boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time...
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    Gray, Tom. Best I Faced: Lennox Lewis. The Ring. May 4, 2018. Крутые Кадры (January 6, 2014), 34 Shannon Briggs Francois Botha 1999 08 07, retrieved May...
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    loss to Michael Moorer and reclaimed the IBF title. In 1999 he faced Lennox Lewis in a unification fight for the undisputed WBA, WBC and IBF titles, which...
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    of his boxing career came in 2000 when he unsuccessfully challenged Lennox Lewis for the IBF, WBC and IBO heavyweight titles. He came in undefeated but...
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    Ring champion, a second common opponent (along with Francois Botha) and a bout comparable to Lewis vs. Tyson. During the build-up to the bout, Mercer referred...
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  • had fought between 1999 and 2000, notching three knockout wins over Francois Botha, Julius Francis and Lou Savarese, and fighting two no-contests with...
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  • January 16, 1999, when he knocked out former IBF Heavyweight champion Francois Botha in the fifth round. Following this, Tyson faced former WBA Cruiserweight...
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    African Francois Botha. This match also ended in controversy. While Botha initially controlled the fight, Tyson allegedly attempted to break Botha's arms...
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  • since Lennox Lewis stopped Francois Botha in 2000 and the first ever in Manchester. Ruiz was aiming to join Muhammad Ali, Evander Holyfield, and Lennox Lewis...
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  • There were talks about Moorer possibly meeting WBC Heavyweight Champion Lennox Lewis in a match that would once again unify the three major heavyweight titles...
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  • Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II, the latter of which ended with Tyson disqualified for biting off part of Holyfield's right ear. Mike Tyson vs. Francois Botha Mike...
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    match between Francois Botha and Axel Schulz for its championship. Botha won the bout by split decision, but the bout result and Botha's championship title...
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  • conditioning programme given to him by Joe Dunbar who had worked with Lennox Lewis. After he had watched the tape of his fight with Gammer, Williams decided...
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  • or retiring. Joe Louis Muhammad Ali Larry Holmes Wladimir Klitschko Lennox Lewis Vitali Klitschko Keys:   Active title reign   Reign has ended Note: Secondary...
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  • MMA Fighting. Vox Media. Retrieved 24 January 2020. "Hasim Rahman vs. Lennox Lewis (2nd meeting)". BoxRec. 3 January 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2016. "Holyfield...
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    fashion. After Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield for the undisputed (WBA, WBC, and IBF) heavyweight title in late 1999, the WBA ordered Lewis to defend...
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