Ken Norton versus Ron Lyle happened for three minutes? (sparring)

IntentionalButt · Apr 18, 2016

This was posted five years ago on a different forum:

Ken Norton and Ron Lyle once sparred a round.
That was around early February 1971 just after Lyle was released from the
the Colorado State Prision and the tv show 60 minutes was doing a profile on him.
They took him down to the Fifth St gym in Miami to spar 2 rounds with Ali
who was training to fight Frazier in March for the Fight of the Century.
then took him to the Concord hotel in the Catskills to spar with Joe Frazier,
but Yank Durham decided against him sparring with Frazier because he thought
Lyle may get hurt so he sparred one round with Frazier's main sparring partner
Ken Norton.
This sparring session with Norton may or may not be on the tape of the original 1971 60 Minutes
broadcast.
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Can anyone confirm it true?

Better yet - anyone have a dusty old video cassette with that gold mine on it? :hey

LXEX55 · Apr 18, 2016

i know it happened because I remember Lyle saying that he would like to revenge Norton for the beating Norton gave to an inexperienced Lyle. Lyle said that now that he had experience, he would love to get back in the ring with Norton. Lyle said that Norton took a lot of cheap shots in front of the cameras.

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