Trainer expects Klitschko or no go for Lewis

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2004

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, (AFP) — Emanuel Steward, the trainer for World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, said Vitali Klitschko is the only foe that interests the British fighter who is pondering retirement.

Lewis has another week to decide whether or not he wants to defend his crown or end his career, the deadline imposed by the WBC as it waits to see what the highest-regarded heavyweight champion will choose.

"I don't think even Lennox knows," Steward said here Saturday while working as a television boxing commentator. "But he will know and make a decision by the end of next week.

"If he is going to fight again, I expect it will be against Vitali Klitschko. That's the only fight he really wants, to clean up the sitution."

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