RIP Ron Lyle.

Ron Lyle was supposed to be "Monk's" next opponent.

 

Irish, you're being a bit of a dink. Smarten up.

 

Maybe we should have a statue made for him...

 

Few boxers have happy biographies.

 

I was being sarcastic. I mean, do I have to spell it out?

 

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I wonder if Al and Jesse even know he is dead or who he was in any case.

 

I can't remember who it was, some journalist, writer or broadcaster, who asked Lyle an embarrassing question about why he, Lyle, a convicted felon, did not carry a firearm in the course of his duties at some Casino or other. Lyle pretended to call the journalist over to some part of the Casino on the pretext that he wanted to answer the journalists question in more detail. As he did this, Lyle deliberately lead the journalist straight into an area which was off-limits to everyone bar casino staff, whereupon the journalist was violently verbally abused by the Pit-Boss who screamed obscenities at him and told him to "get the fuck out of here". Lyle apparently howled with laughter throughout the entire scene.

 

He still is

 

RIP.