LAS VEGAS -- Chuck Hull, the ring announcer for most of the big Las Vegas fights of the 1980s, has died. He was 75.

Hull died Tuesday at his Las Vegas home. His wife, Mary, said he had been having heart problems.

Hull, who estimated he was the ring announcer for at least 130 world title fights until he retired in 1995, worked such fights as the first Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns bout and the Larry Holmes-Muhammad Ali and Holmes-Gerry Cooney fights.

Hull was also the boxing ring announcer for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

"In the 1980s, he personified the sport of boxing in Las Vegas," said Marc Ratner, the Nevada Athletic Commission executive director. "Almost every big fight, he was the ring announcer for. He had a resonant voice and a classy manner, understated in the way he introduced the fighters."

Hull worked in the casino business for more than 44 years. He was also the first sportscaster for KLAS-TV, a Las Vegas television station.

Services are set for Saturday.