Let’s go way way way back for Sunday Punch for the first time in this series. I believe every fight I’ve featured is from the 1980s to present day, but one of the greatest heavyweight swangin’ and bangin’ fights ever occurred on January 24th, 1976.
George Foreman returned to the ring for the first time since his Rumble in the Jungle loss to Muhammad Ali in Zaire. His opponent at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas was ex-convict turned contender Ron Lyle, who’d been somewhat controversially stopped by Ali as well but followed that up with a TKO win over the legendary hitter Earnie Shavers.