Ron Lyle, to me reminds me of a 1970s James ´Bonecrusher´ Smith: tall, rangy, durable (to a point), good power. He dropped prime George Foreman twice, survived Earnie Shavers' shots and showed absolutely zero intimidation in the ring. How would he do against Mike Tyson, circa ´86-88?
Bone-crusher performance against Tyson was a disgrace. Lyle would actually fight. And consequently, he would've been knocked out.
The Foreman of Lyle fight is not beating Tyson. And spare me. You know damn well Ron Lyle is not beating Mike.
Small, powerful heavyweight who, for the most part, releied purely on intimidation of an opponent. No-one is intimdating Ron Lyle. Who did Tyson convincingly beat who possessed big power, good chin and strength?
Ruddock is a great example. I re-watched both of those fights recently and they're great. Ruddock definately pushed Tyson in those fights.
Yeah...it's not like he took endless, huge amount of shots off Tyson or became gun-shy. But a pre-prime Lewis just blew him away...
Lewis was something like 22-0 at the time, which makes his victory over Ruddock even more impressive (given what I said about Ruddock coming out of the 2 fights with Tyson, relatively intact)
