Sport 13-11-2000 Lennox Lewis Demands Tyson Fight who: Lennox Lewis what: Says he wants to fight Mike Tyson next where: Las Vegas, Nevada when: Saturday night snippet: "Lennox Lewis completed a crushing 12-round defeat of David Tua in Las Vegas," reports Martin Samuel in Express Sport Live, "then called on Mike Tyson to come out of retirement to give boxing the heavyweight title clash it demands." On Saturday night, Lewis turned Tua "into a shambling symbol of impotence," writes Oliver Holt in The Times, "by thudding a left jab into his face every time the diminutive Samoan-born New Zealander tried to get close enough to launch his trademark left hook". Lewis unanimously won on points and said later that he had made a conscious decision not to go for a knockout. "There was absolutely no point in going for broke," he told the press. "In my mind I had won every round, and it would have been crazy to risk a fight which was already won. It would have been to play a mug`s game." Boxing`s next big battle will be between America`s pay-per-view cable TV networks Showtime and Home Box Office, who will be competing for the estimated $60million to be made from a Tyson-Lewis showdown, reports Paul Hayward in The Telegraph. [... more]

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