Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?

It was there that he masterminded the inspiration for the eccentricities that surround Media Day at the Super Bowl. He would later follow Breslin to the Long Island Press and New York Herald Tribune. After spending the 1970s with NBC as an NBC Nightly News and Today Show correspondent he moved to ABC World News Tonight and 20/20 at ABC in the 1980s.