Boxing: GO OUT AT THE TOP, LEWIS

FRANK MALONEY has told Lennox Lewis: "It's time to quit!"

His former manager has told the heavyweight king that he should get out of the game while he is still world champion.

Maloney, who worked with Lewis for 12 years and took him to his first world title in 1992, believes Lewis was a chump against Vitali Klitschko last weekend. The pair split acrimoniously in 2001 because Lewis believed he no longer needed a manager - he even promoted the fight against Klitschko himself.

And Maloney, who is running for London Mayor next June, reckons Lewis is clinging on to former glories when he's got nothing left to prove. He said: "I'd like to see him go out at the top. He should go now - as a winner. As far as Lennox is concerned he's achieved everything. He's got nothing to prove to anyone.

"I believe Lennox thinks no one else can beat him. But he must realise the signs were there last Saturday that things are on the decline."

Roy Jones is ready to end Lewis's career, but he thinks the British-born champion will avoid him.

Jones won the WBA version of the heavyweight title in March when he out-pointed John Ruiz, and he has wanted Lewis ever since.

He said: "What I saw last week just proved to me Lennox is ready to be taken. He has dismissed me in the past but there is no way that he would have beaten me last week."

Lewis was lucky to keep his world heavyweight crowns when a cut eye and cheek ruled out Klitschko after six rounds.

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