Lyle Blain

Name: Lyle Blain
Hometown: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Birthplace: Michigan, USA
Died: 1992-11-26 (Age:84)
Pro Boxer: Record

Blain was born October 27, 1908 at Mill two, Wexsford county, Cadillac, Michigan, and died November 26, 1992 in Wayland, Michigan.

Blain first entered the ring as an amateur Jan 22, 1926. He wa crowned Allegan County middleweight Champion twice and in Dec 1928, he won the Grand Rapids middleweight Championship. Blain turned professional on Jan 30, 1929, and over the next three years plus, he engaged in 24 bouts. He won 17 fights, ten by knock out, and lost seven. Three of the loses came in his last three fights. Lyle was striken at the height of his career with appendicitis and was out of the ring for nine months. He never returned to his old form and retired after his last fight on April 29, 1932.

The renowned sports writer for the Grand Rapids Press, Heinie Martin, wrote in 1933: "Lyle ranks as one of the most colorful, crowd pleasing fighters we ever had around here and how he could poke with that right hand....we could stand several Lyle Blains around here any time."