Former heavyweight champion was always more complex and interesting than his contrasting personae suggestedBoxing seems a smaller and darker world now. George Foreman has gone and, with his death, he takes a little more of the fading light and lost glory of the ring with him. My own life in boxing, which stretches across 55 years, can be divided into stages and all of them carry markers Foreman left in the dirt and dust of the fight game.From the malevolent force he personified when he became heavyweight champion of the world to the lovable old grandad making hundreds of millions as the face of a food grill business, Foreman could be easily caricatured. But he was always more complex and interesting than his contrasting personae suggested. Continue reading...
George Foreman, a boxing legend who transitioned from a formidable heavyweight champion to a beloved pitchman, has died. His career, marked by his rise to prominence in the 1970s with a victory over Joe Frazier, his historic "Rumble in the Jungle" loss to Muhammad Ali, and later, his successful reinvention as a celebrity endorser, leaves a significant imprint on boxing history.
