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George Foreman

George Foreman is known for American professional boxer. George Foreman was born on 10 January 1949.

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George Foreman is best known for American professional boxer. George Foreman is an American public figure. George Foreman was born on 10 January 1949, which places George Foreman among the people in the Dead or Alive catalog born in the 1940s. On Dead or Alive, George Foreman is listed in the Sports Legends category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for George Foreman is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

Facts

Known for: American professional boxer
Nationality: American
Born: 10 January 1949
Listed under: Sports Legends

About George Foreman

In boxing, he competed between 1967 and 1997, and was nicknamed "Big George". He was a two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medalist. After a troubled childhood, Foreman took up amateur boxing and won a gold medal in the heavyweight division at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Having turned professional the next year, he won the undisputed world heavyweight title with a stunning second-round knockout of the then-undefeated Joe Frazier in 1973. He defended the belt twice before suffering his first professional loss to Muhammad Ali in "The Rumble in the Jungle" in 1974. Ten years later he announced a comeback, and in 1994, at age 45, won the unified WBA, IBF, and lineal heavyweight championship titles by knocking out 26-year-old Michael Moorer, earning Associated Press Athlete of the Year honors. He dropped the WBA belt rather than face his mandatory title defense soon after, and following a single successful title defense against Axel Schulz, Foreman relinquished his IBF title as well on June 28, 1995. At 46 years and 169 days old, he became the oldest world heavyweight champion in history, as well as the second-oldest boxer to win a world title in any weight class after Bernard Hopkins at light heavyweight.

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George Foreman is known for American professional boxer.

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George Foreman was born on 10 January 1949.

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George Foreman's nationality is American.

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