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boxing broadcast Friday went off the rails. - Bob Sheridan insulted ring girls, talked about the n-word, and claimed to have killed eight men.
A boxing broadcast over the weekend went off the rails when 78-year-old commentator 'Colonel' Bob Sheridan called ring girls "bimbos," and then asked if that was politically incorrect.
It wasn't even the most inappropriate thing Sheridan said that night, as he also discussed the way he uses the n-word in private since he says he can't say it in public, and also claimed — while laughing — that he once killed eight men.
It is unclear if he was joking at the time, though a report from last year indicated that Sheridan was involved in a car accident and that there was "a death involved."
Sheridan did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Mexico promotion Bxstrs, which organized the Friday event in the city of Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, also did not immediately respond to a request for comment, though it is unclear if it was affiliated with the broadcast.
Sheridan and the former boxer Paulie Malignaggi commented on the show from a studio at a remote location.
The event was headlined by a bout between Eduardo Nunez and Adrian Pacheco. However, Sheridan's comments overshadowed the results.
While waiting for the announcement of a decision on one of the fights, Sheridan started talking about the ring girls. "Alright," he said. "We like the bimbos, right? Is that politically correct to say, 'Bimbos'?
"Okay. Sorry, ladies. You're two fine, young ladies. God bless you …. Sorry for the insult. But I come from the old days where you could actually say things that were funny. Nobody got their red neck up when you said stuff like that."
Video footage of the incident was seemingly on YouTube but the broadcast has since moved to private.
Mark Ortega, a former Fox
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On the subject of racial slurs, Sheridan said: "When we're off the air, we're talking about that all the time. We're not supposed to use the n-word — I know we can't use it on the air — and I'm not supposed to say it outside my room. So I don't."
—Mark Ortega (@MarkEOrtega) April 2, 2022
Sheridan also relayed a story, in which he claimed to have killed eight men. It is unclear if he is joking, but the incident may relate to a 2021 article that said Sheridan was injured in a robbery attempt.
In that story, Sheridan claimed eight men — "true criminals" — tried to box him in his Corvette vehicle while in Victorville, California. "There was a death involved," he said at the time, according to Fight Sports TV.
"The cops never told me how many of those guys were down."
Speaking during Friday's broadcast, he claimed:
—Mark Ortega (@MarkEOrtega) April 2, 2022
"I killed eight of them that night in my 'Vette. Here's what I did," he said, while individuals off-camera seemingly attempt to encourage him to change the subject.
"We can [talk about it], it's the truth. I killed eight of them that night and I wanted to get that in. I got to stop talking about that."
Laughing, he continued: "There's eight dead men," before awkward silence ensued. Malignaggi then changed the subject by bringing up Muhammad Ali's former trainer Angelo Dundee.
Sheridan was born in 1944, has provided commentary on more than 10,000 fight events, and received the 1998 award from the Boxing Writers Association of America for "Excellence in broadcasting journalism."