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Athletes are artists whose artistry dies with their youth. For fighters, it tends to be worse, as the youth is literally beaten out of them. But George Foreman — erstwhile bully, seller of grill ...
Two-time boxing champion, George Foreman was remembered Monday in a memorial service in his hometown of Houston.
The boxing icon, businessman and longtime Houstonian died on March 21. On Monday, he was remembered at the Wortham Theater in ...
Family, friends and the public are set to remember boxing legend George Foreman at a memorial service in his hometown of ...
We look back on the stars who died this year, including Gene Hackman, Michelle Trachtenberg, Val Kilmer, Angie Stone, David ...
March also saw the death of boxing great George Foreman, who lost the “Rumble in the Jungle ... A basketball standout who led Louisville to a Final Four, starred for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and then ...
Born on Jan. 10, 1949, in Marshall, Texas, and raised in Houston’s rough-and-tumble Fifth Ward, George Edward Foreman didn’t start life with a silver spoon — or even a spatula. One of seven ...
He felt something tickling his feet, opened his eyes, and there was George Foreman, a few days shy of being known as the baddest man on the planet, looking down at him. The baleful stare that was ...
I was right-hooked. She was a devout Muhammad Ali fan, the sparkling poet-slash-prizefighter whose dramatic 1974 rope-a-dope comeback against George Foreman in Zaire was a story she told over and ...
HOUSTON — George Foreman is a name synonymous with boxing greatness, but in Houston’s Fifth Ward, he was something even bigger: family. Foreman died on Friday, March 21 at the age of 76.
When heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman signed a profit-sharing deal in 1994 on the kitchen appliance with which he would become synonymous, his expectations were modest. Foreman was ...
As a preteen, I was confused when my father told me about George Foreman because what I saw on television didn't quite match what he was trying to explain. "That guy?" I asked as ring announcer ...