1st Ever Big George Biography!!!

!!!Big George Foreman!!!

Here is the backdrop to that story with a publisher link to his bio at The University of Texas Press. My library already has it on order!

No Way but to Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing

By Sports historian and professor Andrew R. M. Smith

This immense boxing robe is from George’s earliest entry into boxing after being assigned to the Job Corps for rehabilitation due to a stint of juvenile delinquency during his wayward youth. George always credits that program for turning his life around.

The story goes as I recall it, that one of his San Marcos counselors, the San Marcos, Texas campus being where he was assigned, was quite astonished how quickly George demolished a rival stud in an impromptu fight that young men often found themselves in during the 1960s, and doubtless still do to this very day. The counselor got him enrolled in boxing that amazingly led to his 1968 Olympic gold medal at age 19 in spite of a spare amateur career of 18-4 entering the games.

He finished up in 1968 with a final amateur record of 22-4, 3 of those 4 losses being decisions to Clay Hodges who turned pro the year after George in 1970 for an abbreviated pro career, the other being a disqualification in Germany. George was never knocked out and dominated those 1968 Olympics with a 4-0, 3 KO record. The sole decision was a 4-1 score with 3 of those fights being against what amounted to Soviet trained professional fighters.

He turned pro a year later, June 23rd, 1969, at Madison Square Garden on the undercard of the savage Fight of the Year between Joe Frazier and Jerry Quarry A few weeks later NASA’s Apollo space capsule landed on the Moon for “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,”

Epic times for an epic big man, and here Big George is coming off his 71st Birthday just 5 days ago on January 10th, and so let’s additionally add to these ongoing festivities with a perusal of his amazing 76-5, 68 KO pro record here:

George Foreman

!!!Enjoy!!!