敬礼，伟大的伦诺克斯•刘易斯

老唐

-----斯库普•马里诺夫斯基  

[写于2004年，2008年4月出版发行]
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刘易斯已经证明，他是这个时代具有统治力的重量级冠军。
他职业生涯的拳击造诣和荣誉，足以让他跻身历史上最伟大的重量级冠军行列。

“永远不要贻误自身。当念头产生时，首先想到它是否公道；当观点形成时，首先确认一切属实。” ----马库斯•奥尔琉斯

我确认。近来，“刘易斯是历史上最优秀的拳王之一”这一看法成为非主流观点。
普遍的看法是，刘易斯只是衰弱时代的一个很优秀的重量级冠军。

对这个问题，我想了很久，也想了很多。借用一点马库斯•奥尔琉斯的智慧，我想继续尝试证明自己的愚见：伦诺克斯•刘易斯确实是历史上最伟大的重量级冠军。

首先要说的是刘易斯记录中最显眼的两个过失----奥利夫•麦考尔和哈西姆•拉曼。当伦诺克斯•刘易斯被临时工一般的对手KO时，又如何能被称为“伟大”？

是的，一切都发生了。类似的事情，在所有体育界的伟人身上都发生了。伟人们不是一直取得胜利。
这只是证明，你并不是每次都是最好。泰戈•伍兹失去了今年的名人赛；1996年温网，皮特•桑普拉斯输给了理查德•克拉吉塞克。前两年，在温布登网球公开赛，他也输给了罗杰•费德勒和乔治•巴斯特。
塞丽娜•威廉姆斯最近两次输给嘉斯汀•海宁和阿米丽娅•毛瑞斯莫。湖人队被马刺打得一败涂地，无缘NBA季后赛。戴尔•伊恩哈德被公认是历史上最好的赛车手。将近20年来，他一直失败，直到最后赢得美国最大的赛车赛事----戴托纳500。

是的，在伦诺克斯•刘易斯糟糕的时刻，他不是一个如此伟大的战士。同样的，阿里也不是，路易斯也不是，泰森、约翰森或邓普西，他们都不是。

没有任何事情是绝对完美的，尤其是在这样残酷、危险而艰辛的职业拳击生涯中。所以，对刘易斯职业生涯糟糕的时刻过于苛刻，是不公平的。

让我们看看刘易斯的颠峰时刻。刘易斯取得如此完美的职业战绩，让著名的前拳王象乔治•福尔曼和穆哈默德•阿里都为之感动，两人都称他为“最伟大的”。

考虑到我们分析刘易斯时容易忽略的一些事实，我们能给刘易斯定位的是，一个甚至能在颠峰对决时吓跑最优秀对手的强力冠军。现在，泰森公开说，他不想和刘易斯复赛，因为他不能战胜刘了。这样的话，我们知道了，泰森—这个星球最坏的男人—承认他不想和刘易斯重赛了！这是不是让人感到惊奇呢？！
泰森有机会获得最丰厚的出场费，而他拒绝了这个机会。让最可怕的挑战者感到恐惧，你还能说出另外一个这样的拳王名字来吗？

或许，我说起“挑战者”，人们似乎忘记了刘易斯对里迪克•鲍和伊万德•霍利菲尔德曾经做过同样的事情。他俩都极不情愿和刘易斯比赛。鲍从来没这样做过（在职业拳赛中和刘比赛—译者注）---显然他知道不比赛强过再次重现1988年奥运金牌决战时在刘易斯手上两个回合完败的情形。

在肯•乔曼《伦诺克斯•刘易斯：冠军》一书中提到一些事实，刘易斯的团队在90年代中期仍然试图和鲍促成一场比赛。结果是，鲍的经纪人洛克•纽曼虚张声势而让比赛流产。纽曼以3200万美金总收入，推荐了一个“赢家通吃”的超级比赛方案，败者除了训练费用一无所获。刘易斯的前经纪人马洛尼和他商量，“伦诺克斯热切希望比赛继续推进，”马洛尼说。“第二天，我传真给纽曼的办公室，表示接受比赛。我再也没有得到一个回复的单词。 ”

甚至是被称为“勇士”的霍利菲尔德，当要和刘易斯比赛时，说一些无关紧要的回避托词。1997年，霍利菲尔德说他和刘易斯比赛的出场费是1500万美金。过了几个月，HBO正准备带这么多钱来。突然，霍利菲尔德将他的酬金提到2000万美金，说现在比赛的影响变得更大了---另一个欺诈。这让比赛更加推迟了。他们最终在1999年三月决战了。当他参加超级比赛时，刘易斯已经33岁了。

那么，回到1996年，泰森付给刘易斯400万美金“让路费”，这样就他能与塞尔顿开战而不是刘易斯。同时，协议的一部分是，泰森将在塞尔顿之后再与刘易斯开战。当然，泰森违背了他的誓言，下一战选择了他认为更加安全的对手---霍利菲尔德。
斯蒂文•布伦特，一个优秀的《多伦多全球邮报》专栏作家，总结了刘易斯在90年代是如何被冷藏排除在大赛之外，失却展示他卓越实力机会的。

“伦诺克斯•刘易斯是此刻的突出人物，也许最终被证明是同辈人中最棒的一个，然而，公众尤其是美国公众，并没有给予倾情的尖叫。”

有多方面因素导致刘易斯缺乏明星气质，要想清楚这些，你就必须回顾一系列的比赛，里迪克•鲍和伊万德•霍利菲尔德的三番战。这些赛事，鲍两胜霍利菲尔德一胜，确实是拳击运动值得记忆的时刻。它给两位冠军明确了历史地位，并赋予了他们崇高的声望。
他们也不经意地影响到拳台外看比赛的一个小伙子---刘易斯，他获得了WBC的世界冠军，而鲍此前将这个金腰带扔进了垃圾桶。
全情关注比赛的电视观众，并没有真正的兴趣让这个加拿大人或者英国人刘易斯加入成为“三重唱”中的一个。他们没有强烈要求刘易斯VS鲍，这场可能成为他职业生涯关键的两个奥运老对手的对决，或者对阵霍利菲尔德这个仅次于首选的目标。
公众接纳刘易斯，只是在鲍离去之后，只是在泰森自我堕落之后，只是在霍利菲尔德逐渐状态下滑之后。甚至，他们是如此的不情愿，他们的兴趣常常看来不是在塑造刘易斯，而是在寻找下一个票房收入的新热点---谁去打败刘易斯，是米切尔•格兰特，或者乌拉迪米尔•克里琴科，或者甚至是图阿。

“当一个天才出现在世人面前，你会发现一个现象：蠢材们全部在对立的阵营里。”-----乔纳森•斯维夫特

许多股力量似乎在阻止刘易斯的崛起，唐金，WBC，甚至媒体也发挥了这样一种职能，对刘易斯一直塑造一种负面形象。一些来自《新纽约时代》、《纽约邮报》、《同性恋》和《当今美国》的记者们经常重复写一些刘易斯缺乏勇气或者对拳击外行等报道。这些人到中年，并且大多数从未参加过一场最简单拳击比赛的记者们，竟然以缺乏勇气为借口，批评、质问这样一个男人，他17岁获得世界青少年冠军，23岁获得奥林匹克冠军，27岁获得WBC重量级冠军---想一想，这是多么荒谬和厚颜无耻吧。刘易斯获得了拳击运动每一个水平层次的冠军。这些媒体精英有时是多么地荒唐无知，并且误导了大众。

缺乏敌手，再高超的技艺也将枯萎。   -------塞内卡人

年复一年等待最好的对手确实损耗了刘易斯。当他的身心准备对决鲍、泰森和霍利菲尔德的时候，他不得不对上马夫洛维奇、麦考尔、布里奇斯、布特勒。集中精力和能量，去赢一场所有人都认为你能轻易取胜的比赛，并不是一件容易的事情。
所以，刘易斯被麦考尔和拉曼击倒失败。但是，刘易斯在复赛中回敬给了对手，这说明刘易斯在他状态良好的时候，是不可战胜的。刘易斯战胜了所有他的比赛对手。只有洛奇•马西阿诺平了这项成绩。刘易斯赢得了他职业生涯里的每一场重大比赛。
甚至这么多年来，刘易斯不得不克服了如此多针对他的密谋，他一直是一位绅士。他总是以自尊和高尚来规范自己，就象拳击这项运动最终的冠军一样。没有刑事犯罪记录，没有绳圈外的口水战，没有公开无情地嘲弄对手。刘易斯已经成为一个不可思议的优秀冠军和典范，足以让年青人去效仿。他从沉重打击中站起来并再登颠峰的经历•••这一切难道不足以成为传奇吗？！

“一个君子的过失就象日食和月食。如果他做错了，每个人都看到了。当他纠正错误，每一道凝视的目光又重新仰视。”  -------- 孔子

象某人那样去度过每一天：从不惊慌失措，从不冷漠无情，从不装腔作势------这是一种完美的品质。 ------ 马库斯•奥尔琉斯

刘易斯以一种明智的风格施展各种火力去打好他曾经面对的每个对手。他有着完美的混合风格，足够强壮并懂得如何应对。他是一个善于控制形势的拳手，同时具备控制对手的刺拳和KO对手的力量。他能利用身高控制距离，伸出手臂和对手交锋，这让他可以控制比赛的节奏。没有人能穿透刘易斯的防线并迫使他近战。大卫•图阿，迈克•泰森和安德鲁•格洛塔都不能KO刘易斯。他们赤裸裸地向他挥拳。刘易斯在这些比赛中做到了自己应尽的一切。当他感觉到一个危险的对手发出的预兆时，他就变成了不同风格的战士。
最让人印象深刻的是，刘易斯从未在一场比赛中让自己陷入对手持续的进攻之中•••他只是太优秀，太精明，太强势地控制着这一切，不让它发生。

刘易斯已经站在了这项运动的顶点（并成为历史上最优秀的拳手之一）------- 伊曼纽尔•斯图沃德
斯图沃德在将近三个时代里，将有才能的年青人打造成为冠军。当他在1994年接受训练刘易斯时，他这样说：“我想将他带进一个更大的拳击视野，就象舒格•雷•罗宾逊那样，而不是默哈穆德•阿里。因为我相信刘易斯能比阿里做的更好。他能做阿里不能做的事情。刘易斯能打，他具备巨大的能量，却依然骨瘦如柴。”
在培养刘易斯取得著名成就的过程中，斯图沃德扮演了指挥官的角色。

一个堪称楷模的人影响久远的是：他从不告诉你，何处才是他影响力的终点。------- 亨利•亚当斯

我知道，去分析每个人之间的交手，象刘易斯VS阿里，邓普西，马西亚诺，路易斯和霍姆斯，是一件不可能的事情。他们在最佳时期都占据统治地位，并且不可战胜。没有人能确切的说，谁是所有人中最棒的一个。或者谁可能在假设的战斗中赢得这个人或哪个人，或者战斗将如何进行。并且没有人能说这个时代胜过那个时代。你凭什么这么判断呢？最优秀的就是最优秀的。当今最优秀的，等同于任何时期最优秀的。最优秀的仅仅是最优秀的。
同样，可以想象，刘易斯在他最佳状态时，或许能控制打败任何人的风格。也许甚至阿里的风格也能打败。阿里比刘易斯体重轻35磅，身高矮3英寸。可以想象，刘易斯能控制和阿里的比赛距离。阿里不得不冒着风险去勉强战斗。由于阿里无法击打到身体部位，不难想象刘易斯控制着阿里，甚至让他沮丧。阿里被众所周知，是因为打败了象弗雷泽和福尔曼这样更强有力的对手。他从未面对一个象刘易斯这样同时具备一颗冠军的心脏和KO力量的对手。

你清楚了吗？如果你真正考虑过这些，伦诺克斯•刘易斯是一个真正伟大的战士。或许是历史上最伟大的之一，或许更强...

yhx

先顶~~~

鹞子

沙发顶~~~~~~~~

王者胜

怀念--重量级--刘易斯--时代

老唐

（附原文）非专业翻译，水平有限，欢迎指正

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Scoop Classic: Saluting The Great Lennox Lewis
Published by on April 20th, 2008

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(from 2004)
By Scoop Malinowski

Lennox Lewis has proven he is the dominant heavyweight champion of this era.
His career accomplishments and distinctions are sufficient enough to have elevated him to a status among the elite pantheon of the all-time great heavyweight champions.

“Never allow yourself to be swept off your feet. When an impulse stars, see first that it will meet the claims of justice; when an impression forms, assure yourself first of its certainty.” – Marcus Aurelius

I am sure.
It is not a very popular assertion these days, to say Lennox Lewis is one of the best ever.
The general consensus is that Lennox Lewis is “just a very good heavyweight in a weak era.”
I have thought long and hard on this subject. And with that bit of Marcus Aurelius wisdom
in mind, I will proceed with the attempt to prove this humble opinion: that Lennox Lewis is truly one of the finest champions in heavyweight history.

First to be addressed are the two most glaring errors on Lewis’ record – Oliver McCall and
Hasim Rahman. How can Lennox Lewis be called “great” when he lost by KO to journeyman opposition?

Well, It happens. It happens to all the greats of sport. The greats don’t always win. It’s
just about impossible to be at your very best every time out. Tiger Woods lost at The Masters。this year. Pete Sampras lost to Richard Krajicek at Wimbledon in 1996. He also lost Roger Federer and George Bastl at Wimbledon the last two years. Serena Williams lost twice recently
to Justine Henin Hardenne and Amelie Mauresmo. The Lakers went crashing out of the NBA Playoffs to the Spurs. Dale Earnhardt is considered the best racer in NASCAR history. It took him almost 20 years of losing until he finally won the biggest stock car race in America – The Daytona 500.
Sure, Lennox Lewis at his worst was not such a great fighter. Neither was Ali, Louis, Tyson, Holmes, Johnson or Dempsey.

There is no such thing as absolute perfection in anything, and especially not in such a brutal and dangerous and difficult endeavor as a career in boxing. So it’s unfair to put too much emphasis on the worst moments of Lewis’ career.

Let’s look at the highpoints of Lennox Lewis. Lewis has achieved a career which has moved
such former greats as George Foreman and Muhammad Ali to both recently call him “the greatest.” They would know, wouldn’t they? Foreman said after Lewis beat Tyson last year, “Lennox is beyond doubt the greatest heavyweight of all-time. He is not second any more. He is there at the top of the tree. He reminded me of a young George Foreman and an elusive Muhammad Ali. He has everything you want in a fighter.”

Also consider these credible facts which are often overlooked or ignored altogether when analyzing Lewis. What we have in Lennox Lewis is a champion so supremely dominant that he has even scared away all his top competition. Today Mike Tyson says publically he doesn’t want a rematch with Lewis because he can’t beat him now. Think about that. You have Iron Mike Tyson – The Baddest Man on the Planet – confessing to the world he doesn’t want to fight Lennox Lewis again! Is that not amazing evidence in itself?!
Tyson has been offered another chance to win the richest prize in sport…and he declines the opportunity. Can you name one other heavyweight champion who has so intimidated his most formidable challenger?
Or should I say “challengers.” People seem to forget (or never knew) that Lewis did the same to Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield. They both showed great reluctance to fight Lewis. Bowe never did – apparently he knew better than to re-live his two-round thrashing at the hands of Lewis in the 1988 Olympic gold medal match.

Consider this fact published in the book “Lennox Lewis: Champion” by Ken Gorman. Team Lewis was still trying to make a Bowe fight happen in the mid ’90s. As it turned out, Bowe’s manager Rock Newman got caught in one of the worst boxing bluffs ever made. Newman proposed a “winner-take-all” superfight with an estimated $32 million gross. The loser would get nothing but training expenses. Former manager Frank Maloney consulted with his man Lennox. “Lennox was eager to go ahead with it,” said Maloney. “The next day I faxed an acceptance to Newman’s office. I never heard a word back from him.”

Even Holyfield, “The Warrior” himself, demonstrated some uncharacteristic evasiveness when it came time for him to fight Lewis. Back in 1997 Holyfield said his price was $15 million to fight Lewis. Months passed, then finally HBO came up with the money. Suddenly, Holyfield then raised his fee to $20 million, saying the fight was bigger now. Another bluff. This delayed the fight even longer. They finally fought in March of 1999. Lewis was 33 when he finally got to take part in a Superfight.
And of course, back in 1996 Tyson paid Lewis $4 million (still the boxing record) in step-aside money so he could fight Bruce Seldon instead of Lennox. Also part of the agreement was that Tyson would fight Lewis next after Seldon. Of course, Tyson renegged on that promise and next fought a man who he deemed a safer opponent – Holyfield.

Steve Brunt, a fine columnist at the Toronto Globe & Mail, summed up how Lewis was frozen out of the big fights in the 90’s era, frozen out of having the chance to demonstrate his extraordinary powers.
“Lennox Lewis is the dominant heavyweight of the moment, perhaps eventually to be recognized as the best of his generation, and yet the paying public – especially the American paying public – doesn’t really give a hoot.
There are a variety of reasons for Lewis’s lack of star quality, but to understand it fully, you have to go all the way back to a series of fights, the Riddick Bowe-Evander Holyfield trilogy. Those bouts, two won by Bowe and one by Holyfield, were indeed memorable moments for the sport. They defined both champions and made their reputations.

They also, inadvertently, had an effect on the guy left looking on from the outside – Lewis, who won the World Boxing Council portion of the world title after Bowe had discarded that belt in a trash can.
The television people, who for all intents and purposes run boxing, weren’t really interested in having the Canadian/English Lewis as part of the mix. They didn’t push for what would have been his own career-defining fight against his old Olympic rival, Bowe, or against a Holyfield closer to his prime.
They accepted Lewis as their primary meal ticket only after Bowe was gone, only after Tyson had self-destructed and after Holyfield had begun to slide. And even then, they did so reluctantly: it has seemed often that the interest wasn’t in building Lewis, but in finding the next box-office attraction, the guy to beat Lewis, whether that was going to be Michael Grant or Wladimir Klitschko, or even David Tua.”
（待续）

yhx

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老唐

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” – Jonathan Swift

Many forces seemed to conspire to block Lewis’ ascent. Don King. The WBC. Even the media played a role as they created and perpetuated a negative stigma against Lewis. Reporters from the New York Times, N.Y. Post, Boston Globe and USA Today used to repeatedly write that Lewis had no heart and that he was amateurish. Imagine the absolute absurd audacity of middle-aged journalists – most who probably never once competed in a single fight in their lives – criticizing and questioning the heart of a man who was junior world champion at age 17, Olympic champion at 23 and WBC Heavyweight champion at 27. Lewis became champion at every level of the sport. It’s ridiculous and yet disturbing how misleading and ignorant the media elite can sometimes be.

“Prowess without an adversary shrivels.” –Seneca

All the years of waiting to fight the best indeed took a toll on Lewis. When his heart and soul were set on competing against Bowe, Tyson and Holyfield, he instead had to fight against the likes of Mavrovic, McCall, Briggs, Butler. It is hard to get all your spirit and energy up for a fight everyone expects you to win easily. Imagine if Ali did not get to fight his best oppostion – Liston, Frazier or Foreman – until he was 33? It could change perceptions a lot. The greats want to fight the best. You only become great by beating the best.
So Lewis lost by knockout to McCall and Rahman. But how Lewis responded in those rematches leaves little doubt that Lewis – at his highly motivated best – is just about unbeatable. He has conquered every man he has ever fought. Only Rocky Marciano equalled that achievement. Lewis has won every big fight of his career.
And even though Lennox had to overcome so much conspiracy against him for so many years, he has always been a gentleman. He’s always conducted himself with class and dignity, like the ultimate champion of the sport would. No criminal record, no out-of-the-ring controversies, no cruel public tauntings of his opponents. Lewis has been a wonderful, class champion and example for the youth of the world to emulate. And how he bounced back from shock defeat to reach triumph again…Is that not the stuff that legends are made?

“The faults of a gentleman are like eclipses of the sun and moon. If he does wrong, everyone sees it. When he corrects his fault, every gaze is turned up towards him.” – Confucius

“To live each day as though one’s last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is the perfection of character.” – Marcus Aurelius

Style-wise, Lewis has the arsenal to match up well with anyone in history. He has the perfect hybrid style…size, strength and smarts. He’s a masterful boxer with a dominating jab plus knockout power in both fists. He’s able to control range with his height, reach and athleticism, which permits him to control a fight’s pace. No man has ever been able to penetrate Lewis’s defenses and force him to fight inside (well maybe Ray Mercer did). David Tua, Mike Tyson and Andrew Golota could not knockout Lewis. They barely hurt him. Lewis was at his best in those fights. He’s a different fighter when he feels threatened by a dangerous rival.

Most impressive may be the fact that Lewis has never had to suffer a prolonged beating in a fight…he is just too good, too smart and too dominant to allow that to happen.

Lewis has in his corner the top trainer in the sport today (and one of the best of all time) – Emanuel Steward.

Steward has been turning talented young men into champions for almost three decades. When he took over training Lewis in 1994, he had this to say: “My idea is to make him into a larger version of Sugar Ray Robinson, not Muhammad Ali. Because I truly believe Lennox can be better than him. He can do things Ali couldn’t do. Lennox can box. But he still has that tremendous, raw-boned punch power.”
Steward has played a commanding role in nurturing the greatness inside Lewis to bloom to its fruition.

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams

I know it is an impossible task to analyze person-to-person matchups like Lewis against Ali, Dempsey, Marciano, Louis and Holmes. They all were dominant and unbeatable at their best. No one can say with any certainty who is the best of all, or who would have won this or that hypothetical fight, or how the fights would have played out. And no one can say this era was stronger than that era. How do you measure so? The best is the best. The best in the world of today is equal to the best of any time period. The best is simply the best.
Also, it is imaginable that Lewis – at his very best – may actually possess all the elements to possibly beat any man’s style. Perhaps even Ali’s style could have been defeated. Ali was 35 pounds smaller and three inches shorter than Lewis. It is conceivable that Lewis could control the range with Ali. Ali would have had to force the fight, take the risks. And since Ali never punched to the body, it is not hard to envision Lewis controlling Ali, even frustrating him. Ali was known for besting power puncher types like Frazier and Foreman. He never had to deal with such a complete boxer with a champion’s heart and KO power like Lewis possesses.

You see? If you really think about it, Lennox Lewis really is a great fighter. Maybe one of the greatest ever. Maybe even…

拳魂1996

八十年代重量级属于霍姆斯和泰森的时代！

九十年代重量级属于刘易斯与老霍。。

我也很喜欢刘易斯，顶一下楼主！

Rambo

不管你是不是喜欢老刘 老刘实力还是很强大的 并且足够聪明和自律 。所以退役后生活的很好，呵呵。

老魔怔

俺也向老刘敬礼。。
泰森开创了属于自己的拳击时代，而老刘称霸拳坛时没有一位拳手能够真正的打败他。。