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Les Woods is an established Toronto area business man and boxing promoter and is the President of Global Legacy Boxing Inc. based in Toronto. On July 15th, Les Woods announced his partnership with Lennox Lewis, the undisputed World Heavyweight Champion, in order to make Toronto a "Boxing City" with Global Legacy Boxing through the development of world championship boxing events promoted and staged in the city.

After winning a gold medal in the 1988 Olympics for Canada, Lennox Lewis left for the United Kingdom, where he also holds citizenship, in order to pursue a professional boxing career there.

Les Woods announced with Lennox Lewis that Global Legacy Boxing will be making a major announcement on July 21st 2015 with regard to a planned boxing event on September 12th at the Sony Centre in Toronto.

As a promoter, Les Woods has staged two events to date according to Box Rec., at the Olympia Theatre on March 27th, 2015 and with Global Legacy Boxing, a heavyweight match between Eric Martel, "The Hammer" Bahoeli and Dillon "Big Country" Carman on October 25th, 2014 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.

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