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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. American boxer (born 1949) For the electric grill, see George Foreman Grill. For other people named George Foreman, see George Foreman (disambiguation). George Foreman Foreman in 2016 Born George Edward Foreman (1949-01-10) January 10, 1949 (age 76) Marshall, Texas, U.S. Other names Big ...
At 45 years and 360 days, Foreman beat Jersey Joe Walcott's old record by eight years, and he had also become the first man to regain a world boxing title twenty years after losing it - and on top of that, no heavyweight champion had beaten an opponent 19 years his junior to win a title. Boxing analysts and fans alike remarked on how Foreman ...
George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Rumble in the Jungle, was a heavyweight championship boxing match on October 30, 1974, at the 20th of May Stadium (now Stade Tata Raphaël) in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), between undefeated and undisputed heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali.
George Foreman: May 10, 1971 – July 20, 1971 1971 r: 0 4 Muhammad Ali (2) July 26, 1971 – March 31, 1973 5 5 Ken Norton: March 31, 1973 – September 10, 1973 0 6 Muhammad Ali (3) September 10, 1973 – October 30, 1974 r: 1 7 Ken Norton (2) March 24, 1975 – January 20, 1976 r: 0 8 George Foreman (2) January 24, 1976 – March 17, 1977 r ...
The IBF ordered that Foreman once again face Schulz in a rematch, but Foreman refused and instead vacated the title in order to pursue a rematch with Michael Moorer, whom he had defeated in 1994 to win the IBF and WBA heavyweight titles, with Foreman claiming that the fight would be his last. [2] [3] The Foreman–Moorer rematch, originally ...
Boxing legend. Grill guru. Ordained minister. George Foreman wears a lot of hats. But none fits better than Dad. A heavyweight boxer, Foreman won the world heavyweight championship title twice in ...
Frazier was 29–0 and had won 10 consecutive heavyweight title fights at the time of his match with Foreman, first winning the NYSAC heavyweight title in 1968 and defending that title four times before knocking out Jimmy Ellis to claim Ellis' WBA and the vacant WBC titles in 1970 that had been stripped from Muhammad Ali. Frazier's most notable ...
The fight proved to be the last of Foreman's career. However, shortly after his loss to Briggs, his promoters Jeff Wald and Irving Azoff, feeling that Foreman had clearly won, launched a protest in an effort to get the decision overturned which would allow Foreman to move on to face Lewis for his WBC heavyweight title; the decision, though, was ...