Seeking an Answer - Boxer Who Used to Run Security at Tropicana in Las Vegas

My dad and I were talking about when we went to Vegas when I was really young and he said a former boxer used to run security there. He said it was a pretty big name, perhaps a guy who fought Ali, definitely a heavyweight.

This would have been about the year 2000, give or take.

Thank you for your help! I google it a ton and couldn't find anything.

 

Carl Williams..who died earlier this year...may well be your answer.
Fought Holmes not Ali.

 

We aren't sure Williams is the answer. It seems he did his security work in NYC.

 

Im not saying deffo right..may be...he did work in vegas..read an article where he said 'i once was flown in here as top of the bill,now i have to kiss peoples ass, when they used to kiss mine' he was deffo talking about vegas...although spent most time in new york.

 

Thank you, this could very well be the answer. Like to see it kept open in case someone else has another name.

 

Ron Lyle. He worked either there or at the Frontier. But I'm pretty sure he is the guy.

 

That's the one my pops was thinking of. He thanks you!

This thread can be closed, unless we want to turn it into a discussion of what fighters do after retiring...or something, lol.

Thanks again!

 

Joey maxim used to work at the Silver Slipper. he ran this big spinning wheel thing right at the entrance back in the early 80s.

 

I think that's called Big 6, interesting. Of course Joe Louis was a greeter at MGM, I recall. His statue is still in there, got a pic with it a few years back.

 

Believe it was Joey Giambra

 

Pretty sure that was where I met Earnie Shavers who was working either as a greeter or security.

 

Definitely Lyle.

 

I know that Lyle worked security in Vegas early-to-mid 1990s.

 

Julius Francis who fought Mike Tyson & lost via 2nd-round TKO knocked somebody out while working as a bouncer in 2022!

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FYI Francis was ~58 at the time of the incident!