Herbie Hide yesterday repeated his attack on Lennox Lewis' title clash with Evander Holyfield on Saturday, saying "to call it a unification is a complete farce."

Holyfield, the WBA and IBF world champion, and Lewis, who holds the WBC version of the heavyweight title, will be watched by millions when they get it on in Madison Square Garden.

Hide defends his WBO title against Texan Orlin Norris at the Royal Albert Hall on April 3rd. "All those looking at New York this week thinking they are seeing the undisputed championship of the world have got it wrong. I am the WBO champion, so the winner has to fight me somewhere along the line," he said.

"To be honest, to call it a unification is a complete farce. When Lennox Lewis first retrieved his belt from the dustbin, he was desperate to unify with Tommy Morrison, then WBO champion, and then later on with Riddick Bowe, for both titles.

"So why is it now he chooses to ignore the belt he once craved for?"