{"id":210188,"date":"2025-10-13T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/210188\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:40:10","slug":"former-abc-exec-boxing-voice-alex-wallau-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/210188\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ABC exec, boxing voice Alex Wallau dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">Boxing commentator, producer and director at ABC Sports and former president Alex Wallau has died at 80. Wallau was a \u201cboxing staple\u201d in the late 1970s and \u201980s, working in commentary along with Jim Lampley before he later became a fixture on HBO Boxing telecasts for three decades. Wallau began his career in 1976 as a temp at ABC as head of on-air promotion for the sports division. He also would serve as VP, EVP, and president of network operations and administration at ABC. Wallau \u201creluctantly\u201d became an on-air commentator for boxing in 1986 because the network \u201cwasn\u2019t happy with its replacements\u201d for Howard Cosell. Wallau was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. He lost 45 pounds, \u201ccame back to call fights again and lasted almost another 40 years\u201d before passing away Oct. 10 (<a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/legendary-boxing-voice-advocate-alex-wallau-dead-at-80-ABC-Television\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/legendary-boxing-voice-advocate-alex-wallau-dead-at-80-ABC-Television\">RINGMAGAZINE.com, 10\/12<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing commentator, producer and director at ABC Sports and former president Alex Wallau has died at 80. Wallau&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,18577,134,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-210188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-combat-sports","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210188","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=210188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}