Boxing: Rahman ready to dethrone Lennox

The newspaper billboard gummed on the wall of the downtown Johannesburg gymnasium would probably be enough to fire an extra degree of passion into the hearts of most heavyweight title contenders.

‘‘Lennox: I’ll whip the bum’’ it booms, but that bald statement is certainly not the usual style of rhetoric from champion Lewis, and is just taken as a form of words by his latest foe Hasim Rahman.