Simon Edwards, who lives with his adoptive parents in Hertfordshire, made the incredible discovery after tracking down his extended family in Galway, Ireland. They told him his mother Rosemary, who passed away in 1985, had a fling with Mr Sheridan while working at a hotel he was visiting in 1980.
The 40-year-old contacted Mr Sheridan, nicknamed ‘The Colonel’, through an agency the same day the journalist laid his wife of 26 years, Annie, to rest.
He now speaks with his famous father every day and is due to fly out to Las Vegas to stay with him at his £145 million mansion.
The famous boxing commentator told The Sun: ‘The first time I spoke to him I knew he was my boy. He sounds like me, he talks the same way as me.
‘It’s just been such a blessing, I can’t wait to meet him and take him to meet my brother’s family in Boston.
‘It is an inspiration in life for me. They took away my wife and the same day they gave me my long-lost son. I had no idea this boy existed.’
He has covered more than 10,000 bouts, including 100 heavyweight title fights.
Those include the Rumble in the Jungle and Thrilla in Manila where Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman and Joe Frazier respectively, as well as the notorious ‘Bite Fight’ between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield.
He was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004.
He told his local newspaper the Hitchin Comet he is blown away by what has happened, adding: ‘My adopted parents are from Irish and Liverpool backgrounds, and I grew up in Hitchin.
I hadn’t really looked at getting in touch with my birth parents. ‘I took a trip to Galway in 2019, and it was through a genealogy site I tracked some family down.
Source : Metro News
