Saved-by-the-Bell Comebacks

[Ben Bolt]

Ron Lyle certainly looks like damaged goods at the end of round 2 in this 1975 encounter vs Earnie Shavers.

Shavers, quoted on wiki: "Nobody ever hit me that hard. No question about it. I'll remember that punch on my deathbed. Ron Lyle was a great puncher. Tremendous puncher, great guy, good-hearted guy. We became very good friends over the years."

[HOUDINI563]

Such a shame Lyle passed away too soon. He always trained even after retirement and kept in pretty good shape. I’ve read his best friend visited him in the hospital and he appeared fine. The next day he died due to septis from an stomach abscess.