Editing Ron Lyle (section)

==Early life, family and education==
Lyle was born the third of 19 children<ref name= past /> to William and Nellie Lyle of [[Dayton, Ohio]]. In 1954, they moved to [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], where his father (a part-time minister<ref name= repay />) had a job as a [[sandblasting|sandblaster]] at [[Buckley Air Force Base]]. Nellie had been a [[missionary]].<ref name= repay /> The family resided in [[housing projects]] on Denver's northeast side. 

Lyle associated with [[street gang]]s in his [[Whittier, Denver, Colorado|Whittier]] neighborhood.<ref name= repay>{{cite web| url= http://www.fighthype.com/pages/content6993.html |title= Ron Lyle: 'Ali Just Transcended the Sport and I Don't Ever Think We Could Repay Him' |website= fighthype.com| accessdate=December 10, 2018}}</ref> He dropped out of [[Manual High School (Denver)|Manual High School]] at age 17 after the school basketball coach told him he would not be on the team.<ref name= past>{{cite news| url= https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/452043250/| title= New Heavyweight KO's Past| agency= Associated Press| work= [[The Sunday Oklahoman]]| date= February 28, 1971| page= A19 | access-date= March 14, 2025| url-access= subscription | via= Newspapers.com}}</ref>