Michael Jai White Hated Lennox Lewis Until He Met Him, Why Boxing is Dying (Part 9) 

im loving this trend of youtube personalities and celebrities getting in the ring, its all trending towards vlad vs rick ross lets go

Vlad literally knows nothing about sports

I hated Lennox at first as well. Now I recognize him as one of the GOATS.

I don't think they follow boxing that deeply. Boxing is poppin if you follow it. Ain't huge mainstream, but from 130-160, it's young hungry lions.

Every year boxing is "Supposely" dying but here we are.

Pacquiao, Spence, Crawford, Chocolatito, Canelo, Teofimo, Fury, Joshua, Wilder, Stevenson, Ortiz, Charlo’s, Shields, Benavidez, Inoue, Usyk, and about 50 more top fighters...

That is very slick for Vlad not to mention Deontay Wilder him but he mention Andy Ruiz Jr

Boxing is not dying. It just doesn't have a megastar right now. The numbers are still tremendous for high level bouts.

With all that being said. UFC on a single event still doesn’t reach the pay per view numbers boxing does

He hates AB but when Adrian Broner came on the scene in 5-6 yrs ago... Everyone tuned in.. that’s the personality he’s talking about

Boxing politics is killing the sport. Boxing fans never get to see the fights they want to see, when they want to see it. Maybe you'll see your favorite fighters go at it, maybe you won't. Don't bother asking why you'll never see the fights because all you will find is a pile of BS. Great sport, trash business.

Now I know he knows nothing about boxing. Lennox wasn’t a killer? He was one of the best heavyweight finishers.

Lewis vs Klitschko was one of the best fights I've seen. Was so mad when they stopped it cuz of a bad cut (Even though they were right). Vitale took a shot in the 6th that would have floored the Hulk.

That drum set up in the back been holding it down for a min

There used to be boxing on ABC’s wide world of sports, Tuesday night fights on USA, pay-per-view events would have multiple championship fights, then it started getting political, nobody wanted to fight each other & pay-per-view prices skyrocketed for crappy cards.

Mayweather said there are too many belts.

I disagree. Boxing WAS a dying sport about 4/5 years ago, but it has resurged in recent years. MMA is what’s on the decline at this point. The biggest prize fighters outside of Jon Jones and McGregor, are all boxers. I do agree that boxing has way too many belts, but since the rule of PBC, and the up and coming fighters, boxing is top dog.

Boxing is dying because of casuals like Vlad and MJW give out misleading info. This guy thinks because he played Tyson in a shitty TV movie he is a boxing guru lol

Interview max kellerman. He will teach you something about boxing vlad

Lennox lewis was a destroyer of souls he layed out everyone in front of him. I have to put him top 4 alltime behind the great joe louis, muhammad ali,& forman. Lennox lewis ko's 95% of every heavyweight in any era besides the men i listed ahead of him thats just the facts.

Boxing has suffered over the last 20 years because there are more opportunities for black and latino youth now than before. 20+ years ago boxing was seen as a way out of the ghetto so it attracted men that clawed their way from the dirt. Same thing happened with Italian Americans before them. Why risk your well being getting punched in the face when you can make a decent living doing something better? UFC is an entirely different animal. It is a much more exciting sport where anything can happen and it attracts competitors from all walks of life, including women. So it reaches a much broader fanbase. Once the UFC starts paying its fighters NFL or NBA salaries it may become the biggest sport on earth.

I think boxing isn’t big for casuals esp in America is because they havent got that fighter that they can get behind, you have the spences/Crawfords and the Tanks etc but maybe its a personality thing that doesnt make people take to them on a massive scale; also lack of big fights happening for example; That Wilder Joshua fight should of happened 2 years ago but ot didnt; Spence and Crawford dont look like it’s happening and time soon either. I like Michael however to Call Wladmir just an athlete is disrespectful imo; say what you want about his style and outside the ring antics but these guys train hard and weve seen wladmir get dropped and get up lots of times and keep fighting, i didnt like that comment by Michael Glad also said Lennox lewis wasnt a killer? What is this guy talking about go and watch back his fights😭

Vlad calling UFC a sport. MMA is the sport and UFC is a promotion company and there's lots of others worldwide.

Mfers been saying boxing has been dying since Tyson retired. Boxing is doing well with Canelo, Spence, Crawford, Lopez, Fury, AJ, and Wilder. The new prospects Edgar Belenga, Virgil Ortiz, Tank Davis, Ryan Garcia, and Shakur Stevenson are looking great, too. The Charlo Bro’s are great to watch also.

Vlad was definitely reading those heavyweights names off a website but played it like he knew them off the dome

What is this dude talking about? boxing is not dead, this year alone boxing put the best against each other, Boxing has had new rising stars, and new champions. Say what you want about Lennox he was the last Undisputed champion in the heavyweight division.

“I’m having problems with names today” aka I don’t know what I’m talking about

Boxers earn much more than UFC fighters, so I don't know how it's dead. It just appeals to a different audience.

Boxing is alive and well!

How anyone can hate anyone else without ever meeting them or knowing them personally is beyond me.

Boxing dead? Tyson v Jones Jr broke broke the bank. And who hasnt watched Wilder sleep a ton of people

Boxing needs to have a game and they will be just fine

Casual fans and people who never taken place in combat sports will always call shit boring, they want to see Knock outs Only. They don’t care about the technique, footwork,conditioning, head movement. Hence why people call Floyd boring while he actually displayed every aspect of a real fighter in every match

Saying Lennox is not a killer let’s me know everything I need to know about your boxing knowledge. You are SUPER BUGGIN.

Great interviews!!!

UFC is almost like a street fight that's why people love it more then Boxing imo

I’m tired of Vlad speaking up on fighting and fighters cause he talks like he knows what he’s talking about but really has no clue. Lennox Lewis wasn’t a killer. He thinks all killers have a Mike Tyson persona which isn’t true. Calm down

I love boxing over mma. Though younger people didn't grow up with Tyson Holyfield Roy Jones etc. Viewers numbers and fans are two different things.

Boxing is dying because there are no personalities, they fight once a year, never take chances and the scorecards are either rigged or the judges are stupid

I met Lennox Lewis in club in Long Island back in 03. He was a cool dude.

The heavyweight boxers are now being raised to be NFL players

If Vlad wants to know who Lennox Lewis was he is the guy Tyson ducked many times until he had to fight him for money when he was past his prime. I’m not saying he would have beat prime Tyson but he is legit one of the greats and it’s foolish to dismiss him because he wasn’t someone who just swung punches.

Good content

Nothing makes more money than a big boxing fight. UFC doesn't even come close. If boxing was just one league and one belt for the different weight classes, we would finally get to watch the best fighters in their primes go at it. It would be bigger than the NFL without a doubt.

Wilder is still popping, Errol spence, gervonta davis, the charlo brothers

Boxing is only a dying sport if your American. The rest of the world doesn’t see it as a dying sport.

To put Lennox with the group of ‘athletes that were taught to box’ isn’t fitting. Each boxer is going to have a different mindset, different motivations, different level of drive etc. Lennox started boxing young, and had an amateur record of around 80 fights , fought in 2 Olympic Games and showed all indications that he was aiming to cement himself as one of the greats. He even continued to work on his style after turning pro and implemented very good strategic skills and game plans for fights.

People been saying that boxing is "dying" for the past 50 yrs or more.

Soooooo we just gonna skip over Wilder..?? I mean we are talking about personality right? In and outside the ring.. that's what we doing?? Okay..

That's not wtf Steward taught Lewis. He wanted to make Lennox more fundamentally sound, improve his balance and more aggressive. The only fighters that survived against Lewis had phenomenal chins. MJW should watch Lewis's thriller when he bombed out Briggs. I remember Lewis intentionally dropping his hands and letting Briggs hit him, then knocks him down. Lewis was a killer.

Lennox Lewis might have been a boring talker, but he wasn't a boring boxer. One if not THE heavyweight goat.

Boxing will never die.

Vlad brings up Tyson fury then seconds later says "I don't know much about him." Lame.

I agree with MJW. I think it’s dying because the heavyweight division lacks an Ali, Frazier, Jack Johnson or Tyson. Fury, Joshua and Wilder are great fighters but don’t draw people in like the legends before them. People like drama, stories and strong personalities. Floyd is blockbuster but that weight class doesn’t bring the crowds like the big boys do. Plus his fighting style is too technical for the average fan to enjoy

The Lennox Lewis era of boxing was the greatest heavy weight era of all time. Just based on the high levels of talent in the division. Holyfield, Bowe, Lewis, Tua, Bird, Ibeabuchi, Briggs, Grant, Moore, The Klitschkos, Sam Peter, Foreman, Rahman, Mercer all are from around that era more or less. And every fight felt like an event because anybody could beat anybody on any given night. Yeah there was always a "favorite" in terms of odds but upsets could and did happen frequently and that made it exciting. The early 90s to the early 2000s was an epic era in Heavyweight boxing.

Let's get Michael J White in one of these celebrity fights

Vlad need to keep his mouth close on fighting. He press charges on Rozay

Lewis could fight, he would knock out Wilder in the first round

Boxing been dying since Sly Stallone had that Contender show in 06

For me personally I like the fighters more who don't talk that much.

"How you gone love a robot?" Quote of the year 😂😂

Lenox Lewis is a gentleman outside of the ring, everyone I know here in vegas that ever ran into him had great things to say.

How can these two sit there and say nobody knew who Lennox Lewis was? He is one of the greatest and well known heavyweights of all time. Also you may have that Wladimir Klitschko was boring, but he had one of the most dominant runs in the history of the heavyweight division.

Gamesmanship , standing out , promotion and Vegas/Atlantic City allure is missing from boxing IMO Should be like 4 good major fights a year UFC seems to make more fights

Wladimir Klitschko was a perfect technician, just like MJW says it should be in other interviews... Now he says he was an athlete who happened to fight, not a real fighter.... The guy can't make up his mind.

You're talking about you want a fighter with personality, and one that KOs his opponents and you don't even mention Deontay Wilder 🤔🤨

Aye, Glad knows his boxing. Didn’t expect him to. Jaja. Good shit. Aye, Glad, you should interview Gabe Rosado. I think he would make for a great interview.

the problem is each Organization has like 3 diff belts for each weight class like champion, interim champion, diamond champion...its ridiculous. so with there being 4 organizations these days, you can have 12 diff people that are heavyweight champions!

Plenty stars in boxing .. canelo , mayweather , spence , crawford , joshua , fury , ruiz , mikey garcia , pacman , ggg , gervonta davis , amir khan etc..

White should spar Klitschko and then tell how athletes are different from fighters.

It's funny how much this dude criticizes all these fighters but he's never made the walk

Vlad called Bellator "back yard stuff" lol

Lennox was one of my favorite boxers! That dude plays chess when he boxes!

Michael Jai White is supposed to be a martial artist and he's talking like a casual boxing fan. I expect that from Glad.

Lennox was knocking guys out. What are they talking about.

It's rare to find 2 people talking about boxing that actually know so little about the sport. The casual nature of their interest is blatant.

Is UFC really that big? I can't tell you anyone there except "Bones", McGregor and Stipe. Boxers make more money. Stars in boxing are bigger stars than UFC stars...except for personalities like McGregor. Boxing has stars like Canelo, Spence, Crawford, Lomachenko, Tank, Fury with young stars like Stevenson, Haney, Lopez, Ortiz, Benavidez, Beterbiev out there. I think Stipe is a star and Khabib is a star and "Bones" is a star but who else? They are alienating Cejudo. Another thing. I watched both Klitchko's careers and they were far from boring.

Boxing still very popular tho ..numbers are down because ufc and illegal streams tho lol boxers still selling out arenas easy tho

boxing is dying because the biggest fights just aren't gettin made. with UFC there are huge events every month where guys in the top 10 HAVE to fight each other and the champ MUST defend his belts or else he'll be stripped. with boxing no one HAS to do anything and so big fights rarely happen.

100% the brother Jai is right ! This my favorite Interview on Vlad!

What Vlad and casuals want to watch is first round knoccouts and worldstar brawls boxing is an art and when 2 people are evenly matched it becomes a chess match. The reason Mike Tyson and Deontay Wilder are knoccing out people in the 1st or 2nd round is because they picced and chose Taxi Drivers. When they faced fierce competition all those 1 round knoccouts went out the window.

Did he really skip deontay wilder

I keep hearing boxing is dying, yet boxers are making 400 million deals with streaming services, some of the top boxers in weight divisions have faced each other this year (vasyl lomachenko vs tefimo lopez, tyson fury vs deontaye wilder, and canelo vs. Callum Smith). 2 old veterans who haven't been in their prime in decades(tyson and jones) just did over 1.6 million ppv buys for an exhibition, and to get a 100 million dollar fight the biggest MMA star had to leave his sport and go over to boxing. For a dead sport it still seems like there's interest and alot of money in it.

Vlad saying Lennox Lewis wasn't a killer...Got to be the dumbest comment he's ever made...

Boxing is just boring as shit.

Ask dude his thoughts on the hoodie awards when meet the browns roasted lavell crowford, and interrupted him and Tracy Ellis Ross from presenting the award.

90s had the best boxing personalities Tyson , Robinson , Duran, Morrison

The top boxer will always make more than the top UFC fighter, because UFC fights are short + guys with cauliflower ear aren't pleasant to look at which takes down their marketability

Lol how did they not mention deontay wilder he's the most outspoken with alot of personality a well known boxing warrior

Boxing has been doing fine... the top boxers get paid far more than the top MMA fighters. Also, the top events in boxing have more viewership... This is fact, people just don't do their research.

The lack of a heavyweight/super heavyweight division is why boxing is dying people want to see heavyweight bouts

I like Michael jai white as a actor and martial artist

How did he not mention BOOOOOOMMMMMBBBB SSSQQQQUUUAAAAAADDD

Boxing dying ? Vlad dont even know who Anthony Joshua Is, so can't blame him...... Heavyweight is the most exciting it's been for over a decade..... . AJ carried that division on his back the minute he turned pro, uniting all the belts. Fury came back from depression and took the WBC belt straight away from Wilder . Not to mention the others , Usyk, Ruiz n more.

True There is Not Enough Boxing Training Camps For Boxing as there is for UFC

Boxing isn't dead, it's just a new generation.

“I was actually there when Michael Jai White meet Lennox Lewis, a lot of people don’t know that.” -TK Kirkland

Lennox Lewis wasnt a killer? He has some of the best Kos in heavyweight history. Not to mention some of the most entertaining fights his war with Ray Mercer and Vitali Klitschko. Him and Vitali went to war Lennox was undertrained and flabby and still found a way to dig deep and get that fight won. He showed tremendous character in the ring showed more heart than Mike Tyson ever did. Its not easy to retire saying u beat every man u ever faced. Very select few people on that list in history of boxing. Lennox was the most underappreciated champion. Only reason he didnt catch on in USA is because USA is Tyson mania and Lewis was a brit. Lewis was a masterful boxer with the all time great intangibles he was most talented big man to grace the sport.

Middle weight era was on point, Vlad don't know wat he talking bout as usual . The Mosley, Trinidad De La Hoya, Quartey era. Leanord, Hagler, Hearns. Jones, Toney, Nunn, McCollum , boxing slowed down in Klitschkos reign admittedly but who wasn't feeling Ward v Gatti or Pacman arrival...Corrales vs Castillo, Tua vs Izon and Ibeabuchi cmon Vlad

Lennox was a disciplined Boxer, very intelligent, probably didn't let anger get to him during a fight, that's why Floyd has been successfully doesn't let the adrenaline get to him, just fights