Harry Garside, Johnny Lewis, Tim Tszyu fight card, next fight, video, highlights

Johnny Lewis by no means desired to sail off into the sunset.

He just required the right particular person to return to the sport he was “worried” about.

The seventy seven-yr-previous, who took Jeff Fenech, Jeff Harding and Kostya Tsyzu to earth titles throughout his sixty-yr vocation in the sport, has come out of retirement mainly because he senses some thing in Olympic medallist Harry Garside.

All it took was a 5 minute assembly in Erskineville to seal the offer.

“I was anxious about the sport of boxing, but these two men right here now (Garside and boxing promoter George Rose) have the sport smelling like a rose,” Lewis instructed reporters at Bondi Beach on Thursday.

“I’m really very pleased to be right here.”

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Lewis may well have taken a back seat in latest yrs, but he has by no means been significantly from the sport.

Pick up the telephone and Lewis will communicate till the cows come house about the sport he is an international hall of fame member of.

In his days smelling the roses, just one youngster’s title was by no means significantly from the communicate of the town.

“I was asking a ton of thoughts about who was all over, but absolutely everyone was speaking to me about this child from Victoria, Harry,” Lewis claimed, with the sunlight shining down. “And right here I am standing at Bondi Beach and we’re heading to see how significantly we can go in this.

“I actually do consider in him.

“Like any other fighter, you seriously will need a very good promoter and you seriously will need a seriously very good supervisor, very well, he’s obtained them both.”

Garside, who received Australia’s 1st Olympic medal in boxing in 33 yrs in August, is hoping to make his experienced debut on the undercard for Tim Tszyu’s fight with Japan’s Takeshi Inoue at Sydney’s Qudos Lender Arena on November seventeen.

Lewis suggests the lightweight is “made” for boxing.

“He’s obtained great height, has a attractive get to and a ton of men and women think he does not punch really hard, so that’s a great asset for us to go into the ring with.

“He will then nail them.

“I’ve often thought you assess it to a sport of chess, a very good boxing celebration.

“With that, it is concerning the two ears where you gain the fight.

“This is some thing this child has very good.

“Even when he’s shadow sparring, he’s contemplating. He receives on the bags, he’s contemplating. He’s a very good thinker, and I think that’s a great asset in alone. He’s a contemplating boxer.”

Garside explained Lewis as a “wizard of experienced boxing”.

The growing boxing star claimed he would will need to modify to his style right after coming out of the amateur league of the sport.

“I just will need to sluggish things down a minimal bit,” he claimed.

“Amateur boxing’s really quick paced, sluggish point down, back myself a bit, consider I have the ability.

“In amateur you’re not wanting for ability, so just changing a handful of things.

“I’m psyched, it is a great journey.”