The former US Army sergeant revealed: “Before boxing I was a car salesman but I was horrible at it and had to make a living elsewhere.
“For quite a while I was a model and then aged 38 I started as a ring announcer – but at the beginning if you said I was horrible at that as well, it would have been a compliment.
Buffer will be ring announcer when Joshua faces Klitschko at Wembley StadiumNews Group Newspapers Ltd
“Back in those days the scorecards were written in a very strange way so that didn’t help and some of the fighter’s names were unpronounceable.
“I was pretty dreadful on my first night as an announcer as back in those days the scorecards were written in a very strange way so that didn’t help and some of the fighter’s names were unpronounceable.
Buffer has banked over £350million from his famous catchphraseReuters
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“If I was to be judged solely on that fight in October 1982, I might never have made it as I had to wait until March of 83 for my next chance!”
Some 500 plus world title fights later and being MC on every continent apart from Alaska, Buffer is the Ring King of announcers.
Buffer after being inducted into the Boxing hall of Fame in 2012AP:Associated Press
Buffer’s famous phrase has been trade marked so no one can use it without prior agreement and it has earned him in the region of £320million.
He added: “This will be the 26th time I have done a Wladimir fight, nearly all of those have been for world titles.”
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