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According to CBS information broadcast during fight with Ali at the Las Vegas Convention Center in 1975 Ron Lyle was age 33, weighed 219#, stood 6'3 with a 76 inch reach when he fought for the the Worl Heavyweight Championship. The fight was reported live by Howard Cosell who interviewed Lyle beforehand (and from which interview much of the following information derives). Lyle wrote a letter in support of a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson (the first black Heavyweight Champion) about whom Ken Burns directed the film 'Unforgivable Blackness'. Lyle spent 7 1/2 years in prison during which time he was stabbed in the abdomen - a wound that nearly claimed his life (the death certificate was actually signed when he was revived on the operating table in an operation that lasted over 7 hours) after which he was placed in solitary confinement. This entry: 02 January 2006 MatthewStevenCarlos.