UNDISPUTED WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION LENNOX LEWIS VOWS TO COME OUT OF RETIREMENT AGED 53 TO FIGHT MIKE TYSON 52 FOR $100M PURSE

53-year-old Undisputed world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has vowed to come out of retirement to fight his biggest rival Mike Tyson one more time – for a staggering $100million purse.

Lewis and Tyson last met in the ring 17 years ago in Tennessee, with the British boxer knocking out a less-than-prime Tyson in the eighth round.

Speaking on the Joe Rogan podcast, the 53-year-old said: “Well you know, I told people that I’d take my pyjamas off for a hundred mill (£76m).

“So if you’re serious – come with it baby, show me the paper.”

Former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has said he would come out of retirement aged 53 to fight Mike Tyson for $100million.

Would anyone pay to watch that? 👀 pic.twitter.com/oiXuTqQ3d9— Oddschanger (@Oddschanger) March 8, 2019

Acknowledging his American opponent’s troubled past, Lewis added: “I looked at Tyson’s history, he’s coming from the same history that I’m coming from and he spent some time incarceration.

“While he was incarceration I’m still out there fighting and training hard, he didn’t have that in there so when he came out it was like training again doing what he knows not what he loves, that’s going to make him some money – that’s going to put some food on the table.

“They’re not going to be no singer or dancer or whatever they only know boxing and this is where they get their money from so that’s what forces them back into the ring.”

Considered one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, Lennox fought off Tyson to bag the WBC, IBF, The Ring Magazine and Lineal heavyweight titles in 2002.

Mike Tyson is now retired but could find the proposal hard to resist [Courtesy]

That last encounter between the two boxers was the highest-grossing event in pay-per-view history generating just under $107million before being surpassed by the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight in 2007.

After beating Tyson, Lewis defended his crown against Vitali Klitschko before retiring as the king of his sport in 2004.

‘Iron Mike’ went on to have three more fights – a win against Clifford Etienne followed by two consecutive losses against Danny Williams and Kevin McBride – before retiring in 2005 aged 37.

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