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George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who lost the “Rumble in the Jungle” to Muhammad Ali before his inspiring second act as a 45-year-old champion and a successful businessman, died Friday. He was 76.

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fun fact: he named all five of his sons George Edward Foreman.

I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield, you're not going to remember many names.’

🤣

RIP man. You’ve earned it.

Edit: one more quote ❤️

"He has 10 kids, but growing up he made sure that we all had our special time," Georgetta told CBN of her dad. "There was even a time when we all had our own days. There was a Georgetta day, or George the second day, or whatever. And he took that time out to make sure that that day you had whatever you wanted to eat, whatever you wanted to do and he took out time to get to know who we were and who we are now.”

Damn, that is awesome!

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have days like that with my children. They're called every day. I feel bad for his kids if he's making specific days for it because he can't do it the rest of the year. An aunt, uncle, grandparent, fine--make a day of it. They don't have the responsibility usually.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I misunderstood what she said, but my take is that they each got a day to themselves; one-on-one. The rest of the time was for everybody like a normal day.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Perhaps I misinterpreted.

[–] wiLD0@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for all the grills 🫡 🥹

[–] TheGreyGhost@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

So long and thanks for all the ~~fish~~ grills

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 year ago

Big George’s championship win in his 40s was no fluke. It was a masterpiece of strategy. He completely changed his fighting style to favor defense and deliberately held back his power. He unleashed his power late in the fight and ultimately won.

[–] madcat451@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Pour one out (from your George Foreman Grill drip tray)

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Damn. I really liked him a lot. He was a really good guy and his story was inspirational.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't realize he was that old but when you think of who he fought.. RIP.