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To: MrLucky who wrote (3081)	4/17/2001 10:29:12 AM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10489

Lewis' approach to Rahman bout seems ominous Should Lennox Lewis lose his WBC and IBF heavyweight championships to 20-1 underdog Hasim Rahman this weekend, he can blame the defeat on his own smugness as much as on anything done by Rahman. From my perspective, it appears Lewis (38-1-1, 29 KOs) has forgotten the lessons he claims to have forever learned from his only professional defeat. He entered a London ring unprepared for his Sept. 24, 1994, bout with Oliver McCall - and exited a second-round technical-knockout victim. While Rahman (34-2, 28 KOs) trained at altitude in the Catskill Mountains, the better to condition himself for working in the thin air of Johannesburg, South Africa (5,748 feet above sea level), Lewis set up camp in Las Vegas. Rahman arrived in South Africa nearly a month before Saturday's bout, the better to acclimate himself to the even-higher elevation and 6-hour time difference, while Lewis remained in Las Vegas. He didn't arrive in Johannesburg until 10 days before fight night. "It's bizarre," the South African promoter, Rodney Berman, said when asked about Lewis' itinerary. "Pure crazy." Part of the reason Lewis lingered in Vegas was to shoot scenes for the remake of "Ocean's Eleven," the 1960 Frank Sinatra caper flick that is being filmed by Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh, with an all-star cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Matt Damon. A heavyweight title fight is the backdrop for the movie, with Lewis trading pretend punches with WBO heavyweight champ Wladimir Klitschko. Those scenes were filmed April 6. Klitschko's reasons for doing the movie are understandable. He is coming off a recent victory, a second-round knockout of Derrick Jefferson on March 24, and thus is not preparing for an upcoming bout. The Polish-born, German-based giant also wants to make a name for himself in America, as well as to lay the groundwork for a real matchup with Lewis. But what of Lewis? He is said to have been in the 260-pound range for his cinematic battle with Klitschko, 10 to 12 pounds heavier than his best fighting weight, and most of his recent comments concern two-time former champ Mike Tyson (48-3, 42 KOs). Lewis would prefer to face Tyson in a much-discussed megafight rather than meet the limited but dangerous Rahman. "The way Lewis and his trainer [Emanuel Steward] have been mentioning Tyson, Tyson, Tyson is not very healthy, in my opinion," said Rahman's manager, Stan Hoffman. "He should be thinking Rahman, Rahman, Rahman."