H ow lucky were we to have had not one but two George Foremans? No one would’ve predicted that the brooding destroyer of the 1970s would return in the late 1980s as a jolly, lovable media sensation. With an Olympic gold medal and a series of important fights that helped define an era, the early Foreman had already done enough to be a historically significant fighter. Yet it was the later Foreman, jogging to the ring in his ragged red robe, making jokes about his love of cheeseburgers, who became a sort of folk hero. Along with staging perhaps the greatest sports comeback of all time, Foreman II marketed his fun-loving personality into a $300 million empire. »
WITH HIS CAREER SPLIT IN HALF BY A 10-YEAR HIATUS, GEORGE FOREMAN SHOWED THE WORLD TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF HIMSELF – AND BOTH WERE REMARKABLE by Don Stradley
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