Boxing legend George Foreman passes away at 76

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Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion and Olympic Gold Medal Winning Gold George Farman, who won heavyweight boxing at the age of 45, passed through Ovi at the age of 76 on Friday.

His family said in an Instagram post, “With deep grief, we announce the death of our beloved George Edward Forman SR, who left peacefully on March 21, 2025, peacefully surrounded by his loved ones.”

In 1974, his first title losing to Muhammad Ali in his famous “Rimble in the Jungle”, “Big George” was another rotating figure when he knocked Michael Moore two decades later for his second crown.

Forman’s return and fortunately that he sold a fat -powered electric cooking girl, made it an icon for Baby Boom Generation and make it a success.

Born on January 10, 1949 in the city of Marshal, Texas, the foreman’s family soon moved to Houston, where he and his six siblings were raised by a single mother. Raising the poor in separate American South, Farman went out of the junior high school and used his size and fists in street robberies.

Houston Mayor John White Mayer said in a statement, “The journey from George’s fifth ward to boxing and business success was an inspiration.”

“He never forgot where he came from […] Houston will be proud to call George Foreman forever. “

“Job Corps saved me from the gutter, a part of President London B. Johnson’s” Great Society “reforms”, “Farimon later wrote. Through this program, the 16 -year -old Foreman went out of Texas and was encouraged to convert his anger and bulk into boxing.

At the age of 19 and in his 25th amateur fighting, foreman occupied the heavyweight boxing gold medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. While turning to Pro, he won 37 straight matches on the way to Kingston, Jamaica Joe Farazir, who won the technical knockout in Round Two.

Formens, one of the most famous boxing matches in history, defended the ballot twice before meeting Ali in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kansasa.

Ali was stripped of his crown seven years ago for refusing to draft the Vietnam in the Vietnam war, and he came into the match against a large, small champion in a heavy under -dug. But for seven cycles, Ali laid against the ropes and prevented him from walking in the foreman’s foreman before knocking in the eighth round.

Forman told Reuters in 2007, “I was a strong heavyweight battered fighter.”

Damage to destructive foremen. He took a one -year leave before returning to the color and then, after another professional loss, retired in 1977 and retired to become a fixed minister in the Church of Lord Jesus Christ.

After a decade and a heavy heavy in 315 pounds (143kg), foreman did not have the possibility of returning to collect money for a Texas youth center.

Before losing to the Auner Holy Field in the 12 -round decision in 1991, he gradually won 24 straight matches.

Forman’s last match was in 1997, ending his career with a professional record of 76 wins and five losses.

Forman was married four times in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1985, she married Mary John Martley for the fifth time, with which she lived the rest of her life. He had five sons. All these say George – five biological daughters, and two adoption daughters.

During the 1990s and after retirement, he was a passionate pitch for various products, especially the Electric Girl of the Salton Inc., the domestic appliance company, in 1999, the company paid $ 137.5 million to the foremen and its partners to keep their name on grill and other goods.

“I love whatever I do,” Farman wrote in his biography. “

“This is what is sold. As with preaching.”