Well, he was changed inside - the outward persona followed. Shocking change really. If you see old videos of him, he would just have a cold, violent glare. People were rightly terrified of him. Difficult to correlate with the amiable gentle giant we see in this video.
I’ve always admired George Foreman!!! As a kid in the 70s, I loved him! But when he said he wouldn’t fight Mike Tyson because Tyson was associated with Don King…man he went to the top of my sports hero list!!!
Thank u. Glad u said that. That bugged. That was NOT meant to be funny at all. Thats the difference between Carson and Leno. Carson was classier, better and more polished host.
Coyote Rx 1988? Thats wrong. He has been hallily married since 85. All im saying is that through his first 4 wives, its possible that he has gained some experience figuring out what works and what doesnt in a marriage, because clearly, he found a woman that he clicked with for 34 years and counting. So something in that marriage must have worked out better.
Wow! He was absolutely floored when Jerry Mathews walked out. So was Billy Crystal. There is something special when you can bring someone’s childhood back to them. That’s a gift.
@@gilbertotabares8196 lol i cant really imagine him getting upset over his grill xD maybe the worst thing to do would be to whisper in his ear while fighting george in the ring "is that all u got george?"
George Foreman has the most incredible comeback story, uncanny… he got on top of the world winning the Olympic gold medal in the 1960’s, became HW Champion beating Joe Frazier, experienced the biggest humiliation losing from Muhammad Ali in front of the entire world, then soldiered on regardless, and after years of chosen obscurity he needed money for his Youth Center and thus re-invented himself as a boxer, as a businessman, and eventually became an Icon of sports, of business, of showmanship. Best thing of all is, he remains human and approachable, I even had a few interactions with him through Twitter in recent years, although I’m a complete unknown to him. A smart man, a tough man, but also a good man.
100 million is right only Tyson wanted no part of fighting Foreman ever . news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19950413&id=HZlaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YUsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6948,3016659&hl=en
mike should of not let don manage so much of his career I mean he shouldn't of even been involved with that piece of shit at all but don paid lewis not to fight Tyson and avoided foreman also, Tyson probably wouldn't of known all this but he should of been telling don who he was gonna fight not the other way round.
C'mon, Mike was for one year out of jail, he spend three years there. If he trained propaply one year later he could beat lewis. But then came the bite-fight with headbutting holyfield and the ban. Mike had since then never a good chance to win a title. And you dont really think a prime Tyson would lose tp old foreman, do you.
@@mosesblackhero3004 Absolutely. Styles make fights. Cus built Mike into an answer for Muhammad Ali, because he knew that would be the fighter everyone would imitate. That style feeds right into Foreman. If you think Buster Douglas could flatten Mike and George couldn't, you need your head checked.
@@skepchica If the Peekaboo was great for the Muhammad Ali fighting style, why did Tyson struggle so much against James Tillis who fought exactly like Ali and was trained by Dundee? If his style was made for Ali why did he struggle so much when facing boxers who jabbed well? Ali had one of the best jabs in boxing, you think Mike would've done well against that?
Trying to find the article but I remember reading that George was working out and a bunch of younger guys convinced him to spar for a bit. At 65 yrs old (at the time) none of them were able to last a single round!
God bless George Foreman. How does any person on the planet not love this man? I love him. Jesus loves him. My favorite food since I was a little kid has been and will always be a cheeseburger. I’d cook cheeseburgers for George.
Prices? Sure. Real estate value? Yeah. Lower rates of obesity in Americans? Fuck yeah! Medicine and medical procedures? Nah, we've made leaps and bounds in medical science, not to mention general access to most forms of information you want right at your fingertips, it's never been easier to be informed and despite what popular media wants you to believe, you're likelihood of falling victim to violent crime has never been lower
King Rat yeah he did but cus made joe Frazier style so much better cus studied joe for years and gave mike it mike would have won but it would have been a great fight
@@Jacob-nj5hg Mike would have been made into a temporary, if not permanent, vegetable by Big George. George would have made quick work of little Mikey, and Mike knew it.
i like George, hard not to....but, very evident he has both feet in the corporate and 'establishment' world....occupying such a platform for influence could have been made better use of, like eh, Ali did!
what a load of malarkey. Ali debased all sports with his taunting attitude. He almost single handed, turned athletes from role models into personalities to use as examples not to follow. Big George was a genuine human being, someone who came from 7 kids in one bed and single light bulb on the ceiling to someone who sold 50 million George Foreman Grills. His influence when on television was of a humble human being, not a boastful irritant clamoring to be noticed. Ali was a narcissist. His public personality was simply gross. George Foreman was a pastor. Big George was the bigger man and I'm not talking about size.
The way George talks about his hardships, childhood poverty is a thing of admiration. Definitely a happy ending story.
Seems he never forgot where he came from. Seems something that is rare within Boxing.
Richard Smith medium rare
Rare trait ANYWHERE, not just boxing!!!
The look on his face when Jerry walked out....
Priceless.... like he was a little kid still. Great to see the humanity of a man like George.
What an absolute Gentleman...
Om nope
@@pauldinero8915 wtf hes the perfect gentleman outside the ring what u talkin about bruh?
Big George, my second favorite fighter after Ali, a great human!
Hey...mine too...
me too
Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis are my GOATS
After George Foreman got saved he totally reinvented himself.
Well, he was changed inside - the outward persona followed.
Shocking change really. If you see old videos of him, he would just have a cold, violent glare. People were rightly terrified of him. Difficult to correlate with the amiable gentle giant we see in this video.
George is one chunk a man. He dwarfed everybody when he stood up.
He's a gorilla in a suit. Damn.
He's 6'4 tho
Gotta love George, he such a good guy…..
The Gentle Giant! Humble Respectful! Long live the Champ!
I’ve always admired George Foreman!!! As a kid in the 70s, I loved him! But when he said he wouldn’t fight Mike Tyson because Tyson was associated with Don King…man he went to the top of my sports hero list!!!
happy 71th birthday george foreman !!!!
Hey, it's 71st bud, not 71th. Just for heads up man.
George is such a good guy…..
4:39 He's absolutely star struck!
The laugh from Jay Leno when he heard George's mom dividing a hamburger between seven kids is disturbing.
Thank u. Glad u said that. That bugged. That was NOT meant to be funny at all. Thats the difference between Carson and Leno. Carson was classier, better and more polished host.
I don’t think we should consider marriage advice from a guy who was married 5 times.
Hes been married since 1985 so maybe he might know what works and what doesnt work in a marriage.
Nick Skrable Yeah? Mike Tyson has been married 3 time since 1988. You willing to take marital advice from him too?
Coyote Rx 1988? Thats wrong. He has been hallily married since 85. All im saying is that through his first 4 wives, its possible that he has gained some experience figuring out what works and what doesnt in a marriage, because clearly, he found a woman that he clicked with for 34 years and counting. So something in that marriage must have worked out better.
@@nickskrable6473 Sensible answer
Just dont get married and raise your kids the same way ! Remember where you heard it .Downtown Bobby Brown
Love the old George
I came from King of the Hill when Hank Hill compared his grill to one used for little girls and dieters.
Same with me
Same lol
2:16 this part is hilarious
I love watching him fight - had no clue I was missing so much watching him talk
Wow! He was absolutely floored when Jerry Mathews walked out. So was Billy Crystal. There is something special when you can bring someone’s childhood back to them. That’s a gift.
A nice guy. just don't get in a ring with him.
Or talk smack about his grill.
@@gilbertotabares8196 lol i cant really imagine him getting upset over his grill xD maybe the worst thing to do would be to whisper in his ear while fighting george in the ring "is that all u got george?"
I love George,and for me the best fighter ever👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
I have him as the best heavyweight ever. Even though Ali beat him, Ali outsmarted him. A rematch would have been all George
Billy Crystal and George Foreman. One grew up rich, the other, poor. There they stood, on the same floor.
You haven't moved past a stressful situation until you can joke about it.
George Foreman has the most incredible comeback story, uncanny… he got on top of the world winning the Olympic gold medal in the 1960’s, became HW Champion beating Joe Frazier, experienced the biggest humiliation losing from Muhammad Ali in front of the entire world, then soldiered on regardless, and after years of chosen obscurity he needed money for his Youth Center and thus re-invented himself as a boxer, as a businessman, and eventually became an Icon of sports, of business, of showmanship. Best thing of all is, he remains human and approachable, I even had a few interactions with him through Twitter in recent years, although I’m a complete unknown to him. A smart man, a tough man, but also a good man.
George is so blasted likable.
$100 million purse back then for fighting Tyson? I don't believe that.
I could, George Foreman and Tyson were two of the biggest boxers in the world, they would've sold a lot of PPVs.
@@triplehernan5155 Who wouldn't have watched that fight
1981lashlarue easily everyone would have watched that
100 million is right only Tyson wanted no part of fighting Foreman ever . news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19950413&id=HZlaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YUsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6948,3016659&hl=en
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mike should of not let don manage so much of his career I mean he shouldn't of even been involved with that piece of shit at all but don paid lewis not to fight Tyson and avoided foreman also, Tyson probably wouldn't of known all this but he should of been telling don who he was gonna fight not the other way round.
Mike ducked him, Cus D'Amato to mike: *"there is no man who goes after George and wins that fight"*
C'mon, Mike was for one year out of jail, he spend three years there. If he trained propaply one year later he could beat lewis. But then came the bite-fight with headbutting holyfield and the ban. Mike had since then never a good chance to win a title. And you dont really think a prime Tyson would lose tp old foreman, do you.
@@mosesblackhero3004 Absolutely. Styles make fights. Cus built Mike into an answer for Muhammad Ali, because he knew that would be the fighter everyone would imitate. That style feeds right into Foreman. If you think Buster Douglas could flatten Mike and George couldn't, you need your head checked.
I agree. I think Don screwed over everybody he dealt with.
@@skepchica If the Peekaboo was great for the Muhammad Ali fighting style, why did Tyson struggle so much against James Tillis who fought exactly like Ali and was trained by Dundee?
If his style was made for Ali why did he struggle so much when facing boxers who jabbed well?
Ali had one of the best jabs in boxing, you think Mike would've done well against that?
The way george was looking at the beeve he went right back to 1960
Trying to find the article but I remember reading that George was working out and a bunch of younger guys convinced him to spar for a bit. At 65 yrs old (at the time) none of them were able to last a single round!
George even made these two comics look good - LOVE YOU GEORGE
God bless George Foreman. How does any person on the planet not love this man? I love him. Jesus loves him. My favorite food since I was a little kid has been and will always be a cheeseburger. I’d cook cheeseburgers for George.
Bruh i did the math and She woulda been making 520 bucks a week for 8 mouths to feed. Holy shit
anybody know what year this was?
A 25 cent hamburger?!?!
Damn. Things really were better back in the day.
No, no they weren't lmao
They'd also get paid a lot less probably about 30 dollars a week for working 40 hours.
Prices? Sure.
Real estate value? Yeah.
Lower rates of obesity in Americans? Fuck yeah!
Medicine and medical procedures? Nah, we've made leaps and bounds in medical science, not to mention general access to most forms of information you want right at your fingertips, it's never been easier to be informed and despite what popular media wants you to believe, you're likelihood of falling victim to violent crime has never been lower
@@javierruiz8576 And yet for the first time in history our future generations can expect a shorter lifespan then the previous.
@@bUwUmer1260 where are you getting that info from?
BIG GEORGE WOULD HAVE KILLED TYSON! GEORGE WAS HILARIOUS!
No he would not have
@Mr. Fireman Tyson fought a LOT like Frazier. And George beat Frazier with ease and quickly
King Rat yeah he did but cus made joe Frazier style so much better cus studied joe for years and gave mike it mike would have won but it would have been a great fight
@@Jacob-nj5hg Mike would have been made into a temporary, if not permanent, vegetable by Big George.
George would have made quick work of little Mikey, and Mike knew it.
What about Earnie Shavers?
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My favorite boxer
MADtv brought me here!
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Jay is just painful to watch here
H.Dumpty/Humpty’s cousin.😁 jay is just painful to watch anywhere
Jay was never a good host in my opinion but at least he isn’t James Corden
They laugh but they never lived it.
Something wrong with a person who names all his kids after himself. Even has 2 sons called George...what the fuck is that about!
Do some research and find out. I know why but I'm not going to bottle feed you.
i like George, hard not to....but, very evident he has both feet in the corporate and 'establishment' world....occupying such a platform for influence could have been made better use of, like eh, Ali did!
what a load of malarkey. Ali debased all sports with his taunting attitude. He almost single handed, turned athletes from role models into personalities to use as examples not to follow. Big George was a genuine human being, someone who came from 7 kids in one bed and single light bulb on the ceiling to someone who sold 50 million George Foreman Grills. His influence when on television was of a humble human being, not a boastful irritant clamoring to be noticed.
Ali was a narcissist. His public personality was simply gross.
George Foreman was a pastor.
Big George was the bigger man and I'm not talking about size.
Don't talk about the George.
@@t00by00zer liar
Wow you have to lay of the booze .
@@downtownbobbybrown6237 stating facts that should be obvious to anyone with at least 2 functioning brain cells...T-TOTAL too