George Foreman vs. Ron Lyle
By Boxing News on December 22, 2012
It's sometimes easy to forget how great a really, really great heavyweight fight can be.
Although it was a long time ago, January 24, 1976, to be exact, when George Foreman fought Ron Lyle at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for the vacant NABF heavyweight title, these two giants punched their way into the record books. It wasn’t the number of punches thrown or anything so prosaic which made the fight memorable. It was that Foreman and Lyle went at it, really went at it, the way heavyweights go at it no longer…
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