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Bill Drover vs Ron Lyle — record, stats and common opponents compared

Bill Drover

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Ron Lyle

Bill Drover (0-7-1 across 8 tracked bouts) and Ron Lyle (43-7-1) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 3 common opponents.

Drover

Tracked record

0–7–1

counted from 8 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Lyle

43

Wins31 KO · 72%

7

Losses

1

Draw51 tracked bouts

Heads up: at least one of these records is a tracked record — the wins and losses Kill The Body has ingested so far, not an independently verified career total. Treat the comparison as a read on the bouts we hold, not a settled ledger.

Head to Head

Lyle leads 1–0

Bill Drover and Ron Lyle have met 1 time; Lyle leads 1–0.

Bill Drover and Ron Lyle have met 1 time; Lyle leads 1–0.
Met1971Dec 18Series
Bill DroverFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Ron LyleFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultKOR21Meeting

The Numbers

Drover 1 · Lyle 4 of 5 measurable rows
DroverLyle
Record†
0-7-143-7-1 (edge)
Win %0–100%
6.3%
85.3% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 31
0
31 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—72.09%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—72%
Times stopped‡max 6
6
4 (edge)
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 3.6
3.6 (edge)
2.1
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 51
8
51

† One or both records are tracked, not career-verified. · ‡ Counted from bouts Kill The Body has ingested, not a career total. · § Across each fighter's tracked career span. · Bars are scaled per row — percentages on 0–100, counts against the larger of the two. Every figure is also printed as text.

Tale of the Tape

Heightnot held
Bill Drover: No height on file
Ron Lyle: 6′3″
Reachnot held
Bill Drover: No reach on file
Ron Lyle: 76″
Agenot held
Bill Drover: No date of birth
Ron Lyle: Died aged 70
Stance
Bill Drover: Not recorded
Ron Lyle: Orthodox

Bill Drover left, Ron Lyle right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Bill Drover0 wins · from 8 tracked bouts

Bill Drover: no tracked wins in the 8 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Drover yet.

Ron Lyle43 wins · from 51 tracked bouts

Ron Lyle: 43 tracked wins — 31 by KO/TKO (72%) and 12 on the cards (28%). Counted from 51 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

31 by KO/TKO 72%12 on the cards 28%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Bill Drover 8, Ron Lyle 51 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

3 shared

3 shared · Lyle better on 3

Drover

Opponent

Lyle

  • Bill Drover

    Draw, PTS

    1971

    BugnerLyle better

    Ron Lyle

    Win, SD

    1977

  • Bill Drover

    Loss, KO

    1973

    KirkmanLyle better

    Ron Lyle

    Win, TKO 8

    1974

  • Bill Drover

    Loss, TKO 6

    1972

    PeraltaLyle better

    Ron Lyle

    1–0–1 against

    Draw, PTS

    1973

    Win, PTS

    1973

Both sides are set at the same size on purpose. Kill The Body does not score a second-round knockout above a split decision — the edge counts losses first and wins as the tiebreak, and the rest is yours to argue. Shared opponents are matched on fighter identity, not on name, so two different fighters with the same name never merge into one row.

Current Form

Oldest left · newest right

Bill Drover last boxed on Apr 28, 1973 — 19,531 days ago. Drover had lost seven straight.LLLLL

Lyle Dec 1971Peralta Sep 1972Conteh Oct 1972Terrell Feb 1973Kirkman Apr 19733.6 tracked bouts per year

Ron Lyle has won four straight since losing by stoppage to Gerry Cooney. Lyle last boxed on Aug 18, 1995.LWWWW

Cooney Oct 1980Johnson Apr 1995Pollard May 1995Strickland Jun 1995Slaughter Aug 19952.1 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Bill Drover and Ron Lyle ever fought each other?
Yes. Bill Drover and Ron Lyle met once on December 18, 1971, and Ron Lyle won by KO in round 2.
The meeting

LDec 18, 1971 · Lyle · KO R2

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Drover or Lyle?
Bill Drover is 0-7-1 across the 8 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Ron Lyle is 43-7-1. Ron Lyle has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Drover0–7–16.3%

Lyle43–7–185.3%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Drover or Lyle?
Bill Drover has 0 knockout wins and Ron Lyle has 31. Ron Lyle has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Drover0

Lyle3172.1%

The Numbers ↓
Do Drover and Lyle have any common opponents?
Bill Drover and Ron Lyle share 3 common opponents: Joe Bugner, Boone Kirkman and Gregorio Peralta. Ron Lyle fared better against 3 of them.
3 shared opponents

Joe BugnerDW

Boone KirkmanLW

Gregorio PeraltaL1–0–1

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Drover and Lyle?
This comparison is drawn from 8 bouts tracked for Bill Drover and 51 bouts tracked for Ron Lyle. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Drover8bouts

Lyle51bouts

How They Win ↓

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