A native Texan, Foreman began his boxing career as an Olympic gold medalist who inspired fear as he climbed to the peak of the heavyweight division by stopping Joe Frazier in 1973. His formidable ...

George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who lost the “Rumble in the Jungle” to Muhammad Ali before his second act as a ...

He was swept up in the swirl of decade-defining events surrounding Muhammad Ali as well as Joe Frazier and other high-wattage pugilists of the 1970s. In the 1980s, Foreman took advantage of the ...

He was light on his feet, but slugged his way through the professional ranks, to earn a heavyweight title shot against champion Joe Frazier, demolishing the champion in two rounds. By the time he ...

And he was a great fighter. “He was part of that holy trinity of heavyweight boxers, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. The great fights they had between them were special times for boxing and ...