Don King set to offer Lewis £25 MILLION to face Vitali

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What a decision to make. I.e what's more important to you, your legacy as an all time great or £25 Million. I can't see Lennox coming out of retirement. I don't think he had much left to give when he fought Klitchko, whereas Klitchko was probably at his peak. I haven't seen the fight from Saturday yet, but from what I hear it doesn't look like the lay off has hurt Klitchko too much. Too risky for Big Len

See my lenghty reply above but in a nutshell why would Lewis's legacy as an all time great be at all at risk if he came back? He's 43. B Hop has lost to Taylor twice and Calzaghe and will probably lose to Pavlik but none of these losses are to the detriment of his legacy, In some ways he's even enhanced it with these losses proving that even at 43 he is a force to be reckoned with.

Legacy is soooooooooooooooo overated. If Lewis loses to Vitali it doesn't diminish his legacy one bit, it just adds a loss to his record, at age 43 after 5 years out of the sport.

In exchange for £25,000,000.

Now that's a gamble I'd be more than happy to risk.

Furthermore his legacy is actually damaged if he doesn't take the fight anyway. Critics are always murmouring about how he got lucky against Vitali and then got run out of the sport by him. If he turns down a £25,000,000 offer to prove fight him now some could argue he's just a chicken shit.

At least if he came out of retirement he would be manning up.

Its not about the money for Lewis, he achieved his goals made a shed full of money and beat the best around at the time. So why would he want to come back.....thats the bottom line. Personnally I would love Lewis to come back but I don't think it will happen because Lewis is happily retired knowing the fact he is mega rich and his legacy is intact.