Lennox Lewis advises Oleksandr Usyk to retire on top

Legendary boxer Lennox Lewis has sent a affable connection to 1 of the champion fighters of today. He believes that Oleksandr Usyk should decorativeness his vocation portion helium is inactive astatine the top.

The Ukrainian is presently the implicit heavyweight champion and has a bid of large victories down him. After defeating Daniel Dubois, helium regained the IBF loop and further confirmed his dominance. Many present see him astir invincible due to the fact that helium has already defeated astir each superior opponents successful the division.

The adjacent situation for the 37-year-old champion should beryllium Joseph Parker, the mandatory challenger according to the WBO version. However, owed to injury, that combat was postponed, portion Parker volition combat Fabio Wardley this week to enactment successful rhythm. Some fans are besides hoping for a 3rd combat betwixt Usyk and Tyson Fury, but it is inactive chartless whether this volition happen.

Lennox Lewis reacts

Lewis, who knows what it’s similar to beryllium astatine the top, told Sky Sports: 

“When idiosyncratic retires, it’s truly their decision. They person to consciousness that interior impulse to privation to retire. But they tin thatch young boxers a lot: dedication, hard work, sacrifice, due to the fact that they’ve been done it all.”

He added: 

“So I would counsel him to discontinue successful his ain time, but to discontinue connected top. Like I did. That’s decidedly the hardest happening due to the fact that successful boxing you privation to beryllium the best, to prime up each the belts and beryllium fig one. There are ever different boxers who privation to halt you. They’re waiting, they privation to bushed you and beryllium the archetypal to bushed you. So you person to marque definite you discontinue connected top.”

The British seasoned knows what he’s talking about. He ended his vocation successful 2003 aft defeating Vitali Klitschko arsenic unified satellite champion. He retired successful glory, dissimilar galore who near excessively late.

For Usik, the question present remains – to proceed oregon to travel the proposal of the legendary Lion and permission portion helium is undisputed.