Jeff Wald

Name: Jeff Wald
Promoter: Record

Jeff Wald was a former Hollywood and boxing executive. He died in November 2021 at the age of 77 in Los Angeles. Wald was the man behind The Contender TV series. He was the show's producer, and he brought in Sylvester Stallone as a host for season one, which helped establish the reality show as a crossover hit. Wald was also the manager of his wife Helen Reddy, a popular singer in the 1970s. Wald overcame an admitted cocaine addiction in the 1980s and reinvented himself in the boxing world with The Contender reality series, a competition vehicle that launched several successful boxers, including Sergio Mora who went on to win a world title.

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