Is there a Howard Cossell call of Foreman vs Norton?

[Riddick Bowie]

I've only ever heard the Bob Sheridan/Muhammad Ali call but watching extended footage on YouTube I noticed Cossell was there in the ring post fight and even interviewed Foreman.

If Cossell was there he surely called the fight for some outlet? Anyone ever heard it?

[oogiebe]

[Caractacus]

Those big fights in the 1960's and 1970's were usually shown LIVE on 'closed-Circuit" Theater
which meant you had to go downtown to a theater ,bar or race-track or somewhere
public that would recieve the signal.Of course you had to buy a ticket to watch it live.
( 10 dollars was the cheapest from what I remember)
then the following weekend the fight would be re-played on
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
on either the following Saturday or Sunday.
That where Howard Cosell comes in there in the National re-play of it
( see the Bob Foster thread where Ali fights Foster,
ABC did not replay the Norton vrs Clarke fight,
so that has the original live broadcast team covering it.

[Ambling Alp II]

Closed circuit was usually the case for quite a while. Then for whatever reason, the networks started showing a lot more big fights live in the mid-late 70s on national TV than they had the 1960s/early 1970s. Though Ali-Norton was only broadcast on network TV awhile after it happened.

[Riddick Bowie]

Thank you! Strange that all these years I only ever saw the Sheridan version. Even in high profile documentaries like Champions Forever they used Sheridan over the famous Cossell.

I wonder if there's another version of the Jungle without Sheridan? I don't think Cossell went over.

[Controversial]

"Foreman, a huge man, came in at 225lbs"

[evrenb]

Thank you! Strange that all these years I only ever saw the Sheridan version. Even in high profile documentaries like Champions Forever they used Sheridan over the famous Cossell.

I wonder if there's another version of the Jungle without Sheridan? I don't think Cossell went over.

There's a lovely BBC version

[Caractacus]

[Caractacus]

The Foreman vrs Norton fight was held on a Tuesday
and the fight was re-played on delayed tape on the following Saturday on ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS( with Howard Cossell)
at 5 pm (ET)

[Caractacus]