{"id":208712,"date":"2025-10-12T21:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208712\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:36:07","slug":"alex-wallau-boxing-broadcasting-legend-dies-at-the-age-of-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208712\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Wallau, boxing broadcasting legend, dies at the age of 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Wallau, one of seven children, was born January 11, 1945 in Manhattan. He grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, after which he began working as a sports writer and editor, plus a public relations consultant on various political campaigns. Wallau joined ABC in 1976 as a producer and director before taking over the on-air boxing analyst job in a newly constructed, two-man broadcast set-up. Prior to taking over broadcast duties, Wallau had been the executive in charge of selecting, negotiating and purchasing the fights that aired on ABC Sports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallau, one of seven children, was born January 11, 1945 in Manhattan. He grew up in Connecticut and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[128702,64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-208712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-alex-wallau","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}