George Edward Foreman (born January 10, 1949) [2][3] is an American former professional boxer, entrepreneur, minister, and author. In boxing, he competed between 1967 and 1997 and was nicknamed " Big George ". He is a two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medalist. As an entrepreneur, he is known for the George Foreman Grill.

GEORGE EDWARD FOREMAN was born to J.D. and Nancy Foreman on January 10, 1949, in the town of Marshall, Texas. An impoverished youth, Foreman often bullied younger children and didn't like getting up early for school. Foreman became a mugger and brawler on the hard streets of Houston's Fifth Ward by age 15. From Thug to

So began the George Foreman Youth and Community Center. Roy and I erected a fence around the place, with a gate, to give it the look of a club.

Aug 12, 2015 · At 66, Foreman — two-time world heavyweight champion and veteran of more than 80 scarring professional boxing bouts — might be graying, his card-topping pugilistic battles long over. But in his...

George Foreman grew up running the streets and corners in Houston’s Fifth Ward and dodging the police. The fifth of seven children raised by a single mother, he was an incorrigible kid and junior high dropout until one night in 1965 when he turned his life around.

Jan 13, 2020 · Today, George Foreman still lives in the Houston area. And looking back on his boxing legacy, Smith says Foreman helped "clean up" boxing's image in the '90s after another champion, Mike Tyson, was convicted and went to prison for rape in 1992.

Apr 18, 2023 · The two-time heavyweight champion of the World joined FOX 26's CoCo Dominguez exclusively to talk about his brand-new biopic -Big George Foreman - The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the …

Jun 20, 2016 · Former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman Wendell Champion, 13, after Foreman spoke to the more than 350 University of Houston Cougar student-athletes on Sunday at the annual Shasta...

Jan 28, 2020 · “No Way but to Fight” follows boxer George Foreman from a rough childhood in Houston to international sports stardom, peddling grills, and preaching.

Olympic gold medalist and boxing champion George Foreman has held the world heavyweight title twice, and became the oldest man ever to win it after making a comeback to regain the honor in 1994.