Tale of two Brit boxers

BBC Sport Online columnist Nigel Benn looks ahead to the prospects of two of Britain's former world title holders regaining their belts.

After losing a big fight I recovered by winning the world title and Lennox Lewis will do the same.

Naseem Hamed will not.

Lennox paid the price for a big, big mistake against Hasim Rahman but he will come back no problem in the proposed rematch.

He was embarrassed more than anything after everything went wrong.

Lewis will not be as lacklustre again

He was too heavy and he did not understand the altitude - you cannot just give it a week or two, you've got to give it as much as six weeks to acclimatise and prepare.

Although if I had his money in the bank I would have rather gone and shot a film with Julia Roberts and George Clooney!

However that's all in the past now and he will recover because he knows it was a mistake.

In my career I was in a lot of wars - in fact most of my fights were wars.

But Lennox has not been in any and although he's getting on a bit he still has a lot left in the tank.

Lennox is also a naturally gifted fighter - look at the time he fought Razor Ruddock.

He went out there and did a number on him, and he was a guy who I thought was going to give Lennox a hard time.

So with his own natural ability and with the right physical and mental preparation he will bounce back.

The other key aspect in coming back from defeat and returning to the top is the trainer.

Ingle was a key component

Late in my career I went through five or six trainers and I kept changing as I wanted to get the best out of myself, and I wanted someone to bring the best out of me.

Naseem has changed his trainer a couple of times but things have not worked out.

And I believe that things have not been right since he split from Brendan Ingle in 1998, to my mind a bigger mistake than any Lennox committed against Rahman.

They were a team and they had an aura about them.

But Naseem broke up a successful partnership that had not lost a fight because he thought he was bigger than the trainer.

Ingle is the only one who knows Naseem outside boxing and they should have worked something out.

If they can somehow get back together I can guarantee that Naseem will get that buzz back again.

But in the meantime all eyes are on Lennox's Rahman rematch and I'm sure he will get his title back with a stoppage.