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Lennox Lewis vs Shannon Briggs: Ringside takes us back to 1998

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With Shannon Briggs currently calling out the best of Britain’s heavyweight crop Ringside rewinds to March 1998 to see how Britain’s only undisputed heavy

Ringside Rewind takes us back to 1998, when Lennox Lewis put his WBC world heavyweight title on the line against Shannon Briggs.

Former world champion Briggs is still making headlines at the age of 44 as he continues to call out the UK's leading heavyweights - most recently gate-crashing a David Haye press conference.

Back then, Briggs earned his shot at Britain's Lewis by beating the legendary George Foreman via majority decision and the pair went at it in Atlantic City.

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