Great vid as always and I had a real life lol when you mentioned the mufflers, I had forgotten about that imma think about big George and go make some burgers before Joyce Zhang today!
Great video. Crazy to think that "Big" George Forman and "Little' Joe Frazier weighed exactly the same, 224 pounds, for their second fight.
Good video, Rumspringa. Big George had a legendary career, that's for sure. One thought I'll leave you with, & it's only a speculative thought not an assertion, but one that's occurred to me in the past & that I wouldn't ever completely rule out. And that's whether the Ali v Big George Rumble in the Jungle was a fixed fight. I'm not suggesting it was, only that it could have been. It's been speculated that Ali v Sonny Liston was fixed (at least one of their fights was, I reckon. Possibly both). It's also been speculated that Big George v Michael Moorer was. I did like Big George's response to that suggestion - "I fixed it...with a right hand".
Great video Rummy. Foreman truly had an amazing career. The second career is a stunner. So many former champions who come back after years long retirements fight in the hopes of getting a title shot and then call it quits when they lose that last shot at glory. The fact that George kept fighting after his loss to Holyfield always impressed me.
Those muffler commercials were awesome! Such a brilliant advertising campaign. Hope you enjoyed your burgers and the fight.
It's truly incredible. Almost every instance of something like this ends in failure. George himself had seemingly ended in failure. By the time he lost to Morrison in 1993, he had already been beaten by Evander and looked less than stellar against Alex Stewart. He was seemingly finished after Morrison beat him. And then to do what he did at his age, off of a loss and 17 months of inactivity - it's amazing.