Heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman died at 76
Former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, who was known to be many because of his personality who liked to be friends as his fierce right hook, died Friday. He is 76 years old.
A heavyweight champion twice, he also won gold at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and then saw success, in his post-box career, throwing a table grill which is now very expensive who holds his name.
The Foreman family announced his death at a post on Instagram.
Retired Pro-Boxer George Foreman arrived for the world’s inaugural screening “Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World,” at Regal La Live in Los Angeles, on April 26, 2023.
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“A devout preacher, a devoted husband, a loving father, and a proud and great -grandfather, he lives a life marked by faith, humility, and an unrucky goal,” the statement said. “A champion of humanity, Olympics, and twice world heavyweight, he is highly respected for good, a man who has discipline, belief, and protector of his inheritance, struggling without tireless to preserve his good name-for his family.”
There is no cause of death provided by his family.
George Foreman landed a blow against Lou Savarese during the battle at the Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Born January 10, 1949, Foreman is the fifth child of seven children and grows “in the toughest environment in Houston,” he wrote in his book “George Foreman’s Guide to Life: How to wake up from the canvas when life dropped you,” which I thought in 2003. “I have no things to be expected to live.
At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, the foreman, who was then 19 years old, had developed what ESPN would call it “Destructive Ball Boxing,” and defeated Soviet Jonas Cepulis. The referee must stop the fight before the end of the second half.
Foreman won his first heavyweight title with only 24 with the amazing KO of the world champion who was not defeated by Joe Frazier in 1973.
Billed as Rumble in the Jungle, the most famous Foreman battle ended with his first professional defeat of Muhammad Ali in October 1974. He handed over a heavyweight title in the defeat of Ko.
But he will get back the belt after a 10 -year retirement in the fight in 1994 against Michael Moorer at the age of 45 years.
George Foreman demonstrated his grill series in assistance from the British Heart Foundation in Trafalgar Square, London, English-20.10.06 (photo by Rune Hellestad/Corbis via Getty Images)
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In Pivot to businessmen, Foreman saw the success in the 1990s promoting “George Foreman Lean Means Fat Reducing Grilling Machine,” a stapel on infomertial TV and shopping channels at home, known for its jagged and slanted cooking surfaces that are designed to allow fat to glide from the grill.
“There is almost one lesson that I learned in life that does not come in a difficult way … Everyone in life has difficulty one day, but you cannot let it define who you are,” he wrote in his 2003 book. “What defines you is how you return from that problem and what you find in life to smile.”
