Boxing Brief

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Twice, the doctors pronounced him dead. Twice, Ron Lyle clawed his way back.

His story doesn't start in a gym. It starts in a cell. One of nineteen children raised in hard poverty, Lyle was convicted of second-degree murder at 19 and sent to the Colorado State Penitentiary, staring down decades behind bars, a young man whose life already seemed over.

Then came the moment that should have ended it. In a prison fight, Lyle was stabbed by another inmate, a wound so catastrophic that surgeons needed 36 blood transfusions just to keep blood in his body. On the operating table, his heart stopped. Not once, but twice. Two times the medical staff pronounced him dead. And two times, against all odds, he came back.

It was inside those same prison walls that Lyle discovered boxing, through the penitentiary's athletic program. A man who had never laced up gloves as a kid found, behind bars, a brutal gift for violence, and a reason to live.

Paroled after roughly seven years, he turned pro in 1971, at around 30, an age when most boxers are already thinking about retirement. It didn't slow him down. He tore through the heavyweight division, beating the likes of Oscar Bonavena, Jimmy Ellis, Buster Mathis, Earnie Shavers and Joe Bugner.

In May 1975, the impossible: Ron Lyle, the ex-convict who had died twice, stood in the ring with Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight championship of the world. He was actually ahead on the scorecards when Ali stopped him in the 11th round.

Then came January 1976 and the fight that made him a legend. Against George Foreman, Lyle was knocked down, climbed back up, and floored the monstrous Foreman twice himself, before finally being stopped in the fifth. The sheer savagery earned Ring Magazine's Fight of the Year.

From a prison operating table to the biggest stage in boxing, Ron Lyle never won a world title, but few fighters ever lived a story this brutal, or this unkillable. He kept fighting into his forties, later trained young boxers, and passed away in 2011, a Denver legend.

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Héctor "Macho" Camacho, 1980s and 90s three-division world champion, was born Héctor Luís Camacho Matías in Bayamón, Puerto Rico in 1962.

Camacho was also a Golden Gloves champion who became known not only for his flashy style inside the ring and blinding hand speed, but his cocky attitude and unforgettable costumes, jewelry and antics. He was a somewhat controversial character, but clearly a talent fighter. Unfortunately Camacho was shot at killed in 2012 at only 50-years-old.

After a 30-year-career, Camacho retired at 79-6-3 with 38 KO.

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Roger Mayweather, a two-division world champion and the uncle and longtime trainer of Floyd Mayweather Jr., was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1961.

He won his first title in 1983, stopping Sammy Serrano to claim the WBA super-featherweight belt in Puerto Rico. After two defences, he suffered his first loss in 1984 to Rocky Lockridge.

Mayweather challenged the great Julio Cesar Chavez for the WBC super-featherweight title in 1985 but was stopped in the second round. He regained a title in 1987, stopping Rene Arredondo to win the WBC super-lightweight crown, and defended it four times before losing to Chavez in 1989 via 10th-round stoppage.

A fixture in Southern California, Mayweather fought 11 times in Los Angeles, headlining cards at the Olympic Auditorium, Hollywood Palladium and Reseda Country Club.

The self-styled “Black Mamba,” he defeated former champion Vinny Pazienza and lost decisions to Hall of Famers Pernell Whitaker and Kostya Tszyu.

“One day when I was flipping through channels and I came upon this channel showing different reptiles, and they were showing the black mamba,” Mayweather said in 2006. “I loved the way the mamba attacked so quietly, but when he hit you he just hit you one time and the poison was in you. That reminded me of myself right there.”

Mayweather died in 2020 at 58 after a prolonged battle with diabetes.

“Even to the end, he was still a fighter, so he responded to that stimulus,” Top Rank Hall of Fame matchmaker Bruce Trampler said. “You know that song, ‘The Boxer,’ when they say ‘the fighter still remains?’ That was the last time I saw him, and I can tell you, the fighter still remained.”