I was reading about Ron Lyle & noticed that inspired by Foreman's comeback, he had 4 fights 14 years after he retired, at 54! He won them all by KO or TKO. Would have been something if he fought Big George ask then, although too much to ask when just coming back... They were not great boxers, but only one seemed abysmal. This guy always lost, 0-32-& was knocked out every time: [url]https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/5958[/url] But it is also wierd that in his very first fight, this Strickland was thrown to the wolves against a man who the best thing that could be expected is he could be "carried": by Marc Carrier! How do you make a pro fighters debut against a man who was 21-1-1? smh. Carrier ended up at 32-2-1. But except for 4 fighters near the end of his career-one of whom beat him-his competition was absolutely abysmal. [url]https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/16048[/url] For those wo know more about matchmaking than me---> Why does one guy get so set up for failure, & the next man does not get a decent challenge until near the end of a career? The latter extreme makes it difficult to progress to.
My guess is that Marc Carrier had some fans or a family and sold a few tickets and/or had some sort of manager. Boxrec says he;s from Bristol, Tennessee, and he fought several times there. As for Ed Strickland, I have no idea if he could box or not, at all, but his 'career' in professional boxing was not based on that. He's there to get knocked out or take a dive most likely.
The boxrec could be misleading. They may have not been on their debut. They could have had unlicensed fights, or ones just missing from the system.
