RIP George Foreman

[Webster]

Always liked is weird defensive stance during Act 2, where he had his arms almost folded instead of straight up and down like most fighters. Never seen anything like it. Made him look like King Hippo from Punch-Out.

The whole idea behind the comeback was to beat Tyson, who had trouble with bigger fighters. But then Tyson went off the rails before he was ready to fight anyone decent.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

I used a Foreman grill to cook too many dinners in my first apartment.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Actually it was Michael Moorer. Knocking out the Michael Moore we all know of would have been a much less impressive achievement.

Damn auto correct.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Talk about someone who re-invented public perception of himself. He was the ugly American when he first broke in ... and turned into everyone's grand-dad.

RIP.

 

[nickp]

The air fryer is cool but the George Foreman grill was the real game changer for us millennials

 

[Cosmo]

That time Michael Scott toasted his foot in a Foreman grill...

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

No better bacon than bacon made on a George Foreman grill

 

[Webster]

Talk about someone who re-invented public perception of himself. He was the ugly American when he first broke in ... and turned into everyone's grand-dad.

RIP.

He always struck me as a bad dude who knew how to smile

 

[John]

If you've never watched When We Were Kings, try to find it streaming somewhere.

 

[Huggy]

Time for another watch of When We Were Kings, an incredible documentary.

 

[Huggy]

Back in the late 1980s a boxing gym opened in my town, among those who trained there was a young Lennox Lewis and a badass Olympic silver medalist named Egerton Marcus. One of the coaches there had fought in the 1968 Olympics for (I think) Kenya. He said when he got to the area where the boxers were being checked in he saw Foreman leaning against a wall waiting for his turn. He said he was huge, nasty and thoroughly unapproachable. He said if he'd been told that Foreman was holding up that wall merely by leaning against it he would have believed it.

 

[Huggy]

And while the Thrilla in Manila will always be the best, most brutal heavyweight championship fight in my eyes, Foreman's fight against Ron Lyle was the wildest, most fun heavyweight fight I've ever seen.

 

[garrow]

 

[Smallpotatoes]

And while the Thrilla in Manila will always be the best, most brutal heavyweight championship fight in my eyes, Foreman's fight against Ron Lyle was the wildest, most fun heavyweight fight I've ever seen.

@Huggy , do you remember anything about when he fought five different guys in Maple Leaf Gardens?

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Nice work from Kevin Iole.

https://www.keviniole.com/2025/03/21/ex-heavyweight-champion-george-foreman-dead-at-76

 

[playthrough]

I used a Foreman grill to cook too many dinners in my first apartment.

Same. After I got married my wife guilted me into getting rid of it. But I was a five-star chef on that thing.

 

[Huggy]

@Huggy , do you remember anything about when he fought five different guys in Maple Leaf Gardens?

I do, it was on ABC, as I recall, and I believe Ali was ringside with Howard Cosell. The sort of thing that would be unthinkable today.

 

[jr/shotglass]

 

[HanSenSE]

I do, it was on ABC, as I recall, and I believe Ali was ringside with Howard Cosell. The sort of thing that would be unthinkable today.

Hell, I can't remember the last time I saw any boxing outside the Olympics on a U.S. network. CBS carried an undercard fight for a Showtime show about 10 years ago, and that's all I got.

 

[Huggy]

Fox was showing boxing for a while but hasn't in a couple years now.