What is Ron Lyle's record?

43–7–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 50 bouts individually.

Does a no contest change a record here?

No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.

What happens when sources disagree about a fight?

This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Ron Lyle — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

43–7–1

Ron Lyle has a reach of 76″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +1.31%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 20th percentile of the 317 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1971–1995

SOURCE·Ron Lyle — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

How this record is compiled

Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-07. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 317 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1995	W	Dave Slaughter	KO/TKO	2
1995	W	Ed Strickland	KO/TKO	2
1995	W	Tim Pollard	KO/TKO	2
1995	W	Bruce Johnson	KO/TKO	4
1980	L	Gerry Cooney	KO/TKO	1
1980	W	George O'Mara	KO/TKO	10
1980	W	Al Neumann	KO/TKO	10
1979	L	Lynn Ball	KO/TKO	2
1979	W	Scott LeDoux	Decision	10
1979	W	Fili Moala	KO/TKO	8
1978	W	Horace Robinson	—	8
1977	W	Stan Ward	—	10
1977	W	Joe Bugner	Decision	12
1976	L	Jimmy Young	Decision	12
1976	W	Kevin Isaac	KO/TKO	7
1976	L	George Foreman	KO/TKO	5
1975	W	Earnie Shavers	KO/TKO	6
1975	L	Muhammad Ali	KO/TKO	11
1975	L	Jimmy Young	Decision	10
1974	W	Al Jones	KO/TKO	5
1974	W	Boone Kirkman	KO/TKO	8
1974	W	Jimmy Ellis	Decision	12
1974	W	Oscar Bonavena	Decision	12
1973	D	Gregorio Peralta	Draw	10
1973	W	Larry Middleton	Decision	10
1973	W	Jürgen Blin	KO/TKO	2
1973	W	José Luis García	KO/TKO	3
1973	W	Lou Bailey	Decision	10
1973	W	Wendell Newton	—	10
1973	W	Bob Stallings	Decision	10
1973	L	Jerry Quarry	Decision	12
1972	W	Larry Middleton	KO/TKO	3
1972	W	Luis Faustino Pires	KO/TKO	3
1972	W	Buster Mathis	KO/TKO	2
1972	W	Vicente Rondón	KO/TKO	2
1972	W	Mike Boswell	KO/TKO	7
1972	W	Mel Turnbow	KO/TKO	4
1972	W	George Johnson	KO/TKO	3
1972	W	Chuck Leslie	KO/TKO	2
1971	W	Bill Drover	KO/TKO	2
1971	W	Jack O'Halloran	KO/TKO	4
1971	W	Joe E Lewis	KO/TKO	3
1971	W	Manuel Ramos	Decision	10
1971	W	Eddie Land	KO/TKO	7
1971	W	Frank Niblett	KO/TKO	9
1971	W	Leroy Caldwell	—	5
1971	W	Edmund Stewart	KO/TKO	2
1971	W	Gary Bates	KO/TKO	3
1971	W	Art Miller	—	5
1971	W	A J Staples	—	2

16 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Ron Lyle — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+1.31%

76″ reach on a 75″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	76″ (193 cm)	32nd pct
Height	75″ (190.5 cm)	57th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Most active decade	1970s — 43 of 50 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

43–7

51 bouts on record

Finish rate

72%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 59th percentile

By knockout 72%
By decision 28%

The career, bout by bout

50 recorded bouts from 1971 to 1995. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1971–1995

Career span

25y

1971–1995

Longest unbeaten run

25

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1971

11 bouts

Recorded bouts

50

50 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Ron Lyle's record?: 43–7–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 50 bouts individually.
Does a no contest change a record here?: No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?: This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Cross-references

Heavyweight boxing

The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Lyle sits inside.

605 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing

43 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

115 FIGHTERS George Foreman vs Ron Lyle

A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.

1976 Longest unbeaten runs

Ron Lyle went 25 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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