American sports announcer
Boxing announcer.
Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, 1993.
Don Dunphy was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.
Inducted into the American Sportscasters Hall of Fame in 1984 (inaugural class, along with Red Barber , Ted Husing , Graham McNamee , and Bill Stern.
Americas foremost announcer of boxing matches on radio and TV, Don Dunphy announced more than 2,000 fights. Among them were the legendary Joe Louis-Billy Conn title bout in 1941 and the famous Muhammad Ali-George Foreman match in Zaire in 1974. He announced hundreds of championship fights between.
