Foreman may return to ring at 55 if Lewis loses

GEORGE FOREMAN will consider making a comeback to heavyweight boxing, at the age of 55, if Lennox Lewis loses his world championship at the weekend.

The very notion that a man that old, even one with Foreman's pedigree, should contemplate lacing up the gloves is preposterous. Yet the bald American, one of the most ferocious fighters of his time, insisted: "I'm very serious."

There is that important proviso. Foreman conceded he would only seek to win a world championship for the third time if Ukrainian outsider Vitali Klitschko springs a surprise by claiming Lewis's World Boxing Council belt at the Staples Centre in LA tomorrow.