{"id":495741,"date":"2025-10-02T06:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495741"},"modified":"2025-10-02T06:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:11:55","slug":"lennox-lewis-advice-usyk-to-retire-on-top-after-historic-reign-in-boxing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lennox-lewis-advice-usyk-to-retire-on-top-after-historic-reign-in-boxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis advice Usyk to \u201cRetire on top\u201d after historic reign in boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lennox Lewis encouraged Oleksandr Usyk to step away from boxing while still at the peak of his powers, advising the Ukrainian to \u201cretire on top, like I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Usyk last year became the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lewis in 1999, making his legacy as one of the sport\u2019s greats. The Olympic gold medallist, still unbeaten as a professional, has already hinted that he expects to have just one more fight before closing the book on his career.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis himself bowed out in 2003, defeating Vitali Klitschko in his final bout to remain widely recognized as the best heavyweight in the world. Reflecting on Usyk\u2019s next move, the British great told Sky Sports:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lennox Lewis has some advice for Oleksandr Usyk \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sOe1YVvUNg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sOe1YVvUNg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Boxing (@SkySportsBoxing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsBoxing\/status\/1973670631645585883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a guy retires, it\u2019s really down to him. He\u2019s got to feel that push that he wants to retire, but he can teach a lot of young boxers a lot of different things: dedication, hard work, sacrifice, because he\u2019s been through that. So I would say to him to retire at your own time, but retire on top. Like I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Usyk has already made history by becoming undisputed champion at both cruiserweight and heavyweight \u2014 something achieved only by Evander Holyfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he would have fared really good because he\u2019s doing something Evander Holyfield did [moving up from cruiserweight successfully],\u201d Lewis said. \u201cIn this era he\u2019s beaten all the big guys and all the guys that were in front of him. So he\u2019s done a great job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always other boxers out there that don\u2019t want you to achieve that. They\u2019re standing by, they want to beat you, they want to be the first boxer to beat you. That\u2019s why you\u2019ve got to make sure that you retire on top.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lennox Lewis encouraged Oleksandr Usyk to step away from boxing while still at the peak of his powers, advising the Ukrainian to \u201cretire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":494475,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18144,26838,17309],"news_category":[20045,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18146,26839,18145,26840],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"\"There\u2019s always other boxers out there, that\u2019s why you\u2019ve got to make sure that you retire on top\", Lewis said","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495742,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495741\/revisions\/495742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495741"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495741"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}