![]() Pick your favorite Lennox Lewis flaw: Hesitation, overthinking, passivity. “I don’t like that chess ,” Steward said. “I hope he’s not coming in here with his chessboard,” Steward said, referring not only to Lewis’ between-fights hobby, but his unfortunate in-ring habit of thinking first, punching later. Put it this way: If Holyfield treats Lewis as roughly, Steward will be looking for another job Sunday morning. Honesty doesn’t play as well in the dressing room as it does in the sports pages.Īnd when assessing the enigma that is Lennox Lewis, Steward is often brutally honest. If that sounds like less than a ringing endorsement, you are coming to understand why Emanuel Steward gets fired by so many fighters but remains beloved by so many fight writers. ![]() There’s no way I’m gonna work with anyone who’s going to lose a fight as a coward.” “But even if he loses, he’s gonna give a great fight. “I think he should win it,” Steward continued. “I just feel that if Lennox fights up to his potential, he’s too big and powerful for this guy.” “I’m happy with the fight, and with my fighter,” Steward said yesterday. Steward is training Lewis for his challenge – and even though his closet holds a heavyweight title belt, make no mistake, Lewis is the challenger in this one – to Holyfield in what some people believe will be the best title fight in the room since Ali and Frazier hashed things out 28 years ago this week. In any event, Holyfield and Steward, men of similar styles and similar tastes in everything but financial matters, will be on opposite sides of the big argument Saturday night at the Garden. Seems that Steward likes to get paid a percentage of his fighter’s purse and Holyfield prefers to negotiate what he considers a reasonable fee, but then, what do you expect from a guy who has his wedding reception at Shoney’s? Problem is, Steward and Evander Holyfield danced a few years ago but the partnership lasted only a couple of numbers before the two went their separate ways. In fact, it is Lewis’ opponent who is much more Steward’s type. “Lennox is a different kind of fighter,” Steward says. LENNOX Lewis is not Emanuel Steward’s kind of fighter.įor one thing, he plays chess in his spare time.įor another, he has to be coaxed to do what the prototypical Emanuel Steward considers businessas usual – jump all over an opponent until either the referee pulls him off or the paramedics carry him out. ![]()
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