Layne had the better chin but he was wild and open. Lyle was a fair counterpuncher and could have capitalised on Laynes suceptibility to counters. I think this would be a sizler with both fighters getting shaken or dropped. I would be inclined to pick Lyle.
a good fight. layne had beter scalps on his record 2 world champs, satterfield and turkey thompson. lyle best wins were- shavers, bugner an old ellis and bonavena. I dont like saying it but I dont think either charles or walcot had the same fire in them when they fought rex & he only edgd them, thats not rex's fault he could argue with justification that either side of him beating these two they had great wins. charles kod him one time. No way was lyle beter than walcott or charles. maybe lyle wins but both were unreliable against top class. they could fight each other a bunch of times and both would win as many times against the other.