“I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.”

— Lennox Lewis

On where his loyalty lies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/forum/566535.stm

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