George Foreman, a former heavy -weight boxing champion, who recovered the heavy boxing title at the age of 45, until Friday, at the age of 76.
“With deep sadness, we announce the death of the beloved George Edward Foreman, who left peace on March 21, 2025, surrounded by loved ones.”
“Big George”, “Big George”, was a fun figure, “Big George”, a frightening person, who lost his first title to Muhammad Ali in 1974, and he was a more wonderful character, when he came out of Michael Moor for his second stage after two decades.
Foreman’s return and wealth that made it sell electrical cooking grills that adhere to fat made him a symbol of self -improvement and success to generate children’s mutation.
He was born in Marshall, Texas, on January 10, 1949, the Foreman family soon moved to Houston, where he and his six brothers grew up by a single mother. I grew up poor in the separate American south, Foreman came out of the school’s high school and used its size and grip on street robbery.
“George’s journey was one of the streets of the fifth wing to boxing and the success of the work is an inspiration,” Houston John’s Mayor Witir said in a statement.
“He never forgot where he came from (…) Houston will be proud forever by contacting George Foreman one of our region.”
Foreman later wrote in the action weapon, which is part of President Lindon’s reforms, “The Great Society”, from the bottom. “Through the program, 16 -year -old Foreman moved from Texas and was encouraged to direct his anger and develop the largest part to boxing.
At the age of nineteenth and in his twenty -fifth amateur battle, Foreman seized the gold medal of the heavy boxing in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Turning Pro won 37 consecutive games on his way to face referee hero Joe Fraser in Kingston, Jamaica, and won the technical knockout in the second round.
Foreman defended the belt twice before an interview with Ali in Kinshasa, Zaire, who is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in one of the most famous boxing matches in history.
Ali was stripped of his argument seven years ago because he refused to be formulated in the Vietnam War and entered the match with a heavy weak against the older and younger champion. But for seven rounds, Ali was placed on the ropes and led the Foreman club strikes, a mirror for him before he expelled him in the eighth round.
Foreman told Foreman Reuters In 2007.
Foreman destroyed loss. He took a year of vacation before returning to the ring, and after a second professional loss, he retired in 1977 to become an educator in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
After a decade and largely heavier at 315 pounds (143 kg), Foreman has unlikely to the ring to raise funds for a youth center that established in Texas.
He continued to win 24 consecutive games, and gradually slimming along the way, before losing to Ivander Hoillefd in a 12 -round decision in 1991.
Foreman’s last match was in 1997, where he finished his career with a professional number of 76 wins and five losses.
Foreman married four times in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1985, he married for the fifth time to Mary Joan Martelli, with whom he remained for the rest of his life. He had five children – all of whom were called George – five biological daughters, and two adopted two daughters.
Throughout the nineties and after retirement, he was an enthusiastic man for various products, the most prominent of which is an electric grill from Salton Inc.
Foreman wrote in his autobiography, “What I do is falling in love with every product I sell.”
“This is what he sells. Just like preaching.”