Lennox

Great value for money from the last GREAT heavyweight (and he's BRITISH!) Hardback copy that will be read and re read for many years to come!

This book was a gift to my partner as he is in to anything to do with boxing, he is really enjoying the book, great seller, would buy more from.

Great value for money, and many great photos of possible the best technical heavyweight boxer of all his time. The one thing that lets this book down for me is Melissa's writing. In some cases it is like she is sending him a love letter, saying how beautiful he is shadow boxing and he is the best man we have got. Also it does keep jumping back and forward, the last couple of chapters the talk about he second Rahman fight, the the next chapter is the interview set a month before the fight, surely it would make more sense to have these the other way around. Buy this for the photos, and some great insight from Lennox Lewis on the mental side of boxing, the rest of the text is just fluff.

very stange way of writeing a book.

Excellant reading, great delivery.

'Lennox' is a compilation of interviews, articles and superb photographs. Melissa Mathison was given privileged access to Lewis's training camps and even to his pre-fight dressing room. 'Lennox' gave me a great insight into the sheer scale of work that takes place in a training camp and the mind-set of Lennox Lewis. The 6 interviews begin in October 2000 and cover a twelve month period. Interviewees include Lewis himself together with his trainer, Emmanual Steward. Mathison's account of the build up to Lewis's fight with Hasim Rahman in April 2001 is extremely detailed, beginning with Lewis's cameo in 'Oceans 11' in Las Vegas and including comprehensive descriptions of the pre-fight build-up and atmosphere. I almost felt as though I was part of ther Lewis camp myself and was aware of the tensions within Lewis's dressing room. The photographs, by Blaise Hart, supplement the writing perfectly but, although they are the largest part of the book, never dominate Mathison's powerful writing. An added bonus, which I found strangely fascinating, is the photo of the high profile bite on Lewis's leg by Mike Tyson. In all, a must for all boxing fans who have wondered what it is like behing the scenes of a big fight and what it takes to get a man into a physical and mental state to dominate all other fighters. A follow up to this is eagerly anticipated if it catalogues the Lewis-Tyson fight and what Lewis's career now holds.

Good condition hubby enjoyed the book - met his expectations thanks

More like a picture book, very deceiving from the product description and the book is mostly made up of interviews and reports of a few fights, not a broad scope of his whole life. Nevertheless it has shows some intriguing insight into this great champions life, views, morals and spirit. Just lacked depth and proper writing.