Season 5: #22 Colonel Bob Sheridan

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

One of the most famous boxing broadcasters of all time, the Colonel has been ringside at some of the biggest fights in history and has got to know many of the sport's biggest names.

As the man tasked with providing the words to go with the international feed of Don King fights, Sheridan talks about his decades working with King, covering fights from Zaire to Tokyo, the controversies, the great nights, the big names but he also reveals another side.

This is the first podcast where the former rodeo bull rider gets to right the 14 wrongs on his Wikipedia page and explains how you can tell if a cow is pregnant and what you need to feel for. It's the first time in more than 220 episodes that has been discussed in Boxing Life Stories!

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0:00.0	I wasn't a part time bull rider during those years for about 12 years. I was just doing
0:07.3	the boxing and riding bowls. And he gave Ali all he could handle that night. And he almost
0:14.5	got up and what a story that would have been. But the fact he was all cut up and all messed
0:20.6	up and struggling with him shows a couple of things about fighters. The guy is a street
0:27.1	guy like Webner. Tough, tough man. Tough man. We're gonna lose. You're gonna have a fight.
0:37.6	I wouldn't trade the life I've had for anything else in the world. Let's see ups and downs.
0:44.8	You know, you got to pay the pipe for sometimes in the Catholic church. We say you gotta carry
0:50.6	you a bit of the cross. And then my father, my mother, all my aunts and uncles, all my people
0:58.7	from Ireland, I IRA guys, I met over the years. I mean, it's just been an unbelievable life.
1:07.9	Hello and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Prystics. What happened in the ring after
1:13.2	he faced an only good with his child's play compared to that? Still they've caused fun to this day.
1:19.7	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, couldn't you?
1:24.0	I know. He's a boy and a baby and a baby look like Al Capone.
1:30.1	This is gonna be your night. There's a wedding and there's nothing else.
1:36.4	Hello and welcome back to Boxing Life Stories. This week I'm joined by the colorful Colonel Bob
1:41.7	Sheridan. Colonel Bob Sheridan has been the play by play announcer for Dong King fights for
1:47.7	decades. And he needs no introduction in the world over. He's worked obviously with all of the
1:53.2	colleagues I have in the UK, but also further afield obviously in the US. He's done international
1:59.2	broadcasts for King's pay-per-view arm covering the likes of his heart and over wed stop Felix Trinidad,
2:06.7	Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Larry Holmes, George Foreman, Joe Frazier and countless others.
2:13.1	He was there in Zaire at the Rumble in the Jungle. He was there in Tokyo when Buster Douglas
2:18.8	upset Mike Tyson. And he's been a constant at huge fights around the world for decades. And I
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