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A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But that’s complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that you’ve still got it, that it’s still getting better.

Lennox Lewis

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Lennox Lewis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 2
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Lennox Claudius Lewis
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