By Ray Wheatley – World of Boxing
Hall of Fame broadcaster Colonel Bob Sheridan talks to Fightnews.com® about the famous Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle.”
Promoter of Rumble in the Jungle
“I wasn’t advised by Don King to work the Rumble in the Jungle. He wasn’t the promoter. Video Techniques, who did the Frankie Otero vs. Ken Buchanan fight in Miami, were the promoters. They were going to bring in some big name announcer from New York to do the fight because it was only going to England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
“Chris Dundee, the promoter who I did the weekly shows for here, said ‘We got a young kid here who can call boxing better than anybody.’ So they said they like my work. A guy by the name of Barry Bernstein and Hank Schwartz, they were the guys who were involved in rear screen projection in the early days, they were engineers. So they hired me and I did all their fights after that including “The Rumble in the Jungle.” Continue reading “The Colonel remembers The Rumble in the Jungle”