the most "transcendant" boxer of all

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  1. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    By that I mean which boxer has redefined himself OUTSIDE the ring more prominently than any other. My vote goes to the amazing George Foreman. From the sullen, hostile, noncommunicating brute that he was in the 70's all the way to the much loved grill selling entrpreneur that we know him to be today. Hell, people who wouldn't even sniff at the idea of lowering themselves to knowing anything about boxing or boxers know George Foreman...he completely and shrewdly reinvented himself like no one else I've ever known of.
     
  2. SLAKKA

    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Jack Dempsey is believed to have pimped his first wife and perhaps killed a guy or to in his hobo days.
     
  3. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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  4. Primadonna Kool

    Primadonna Kool Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    George Foreman.

    Hmmmm Oscar De La Hoya, was the first boxer to start all this promotions maddness.

    Now all the big guys are doing in, Ricky Hatton, Floyd Mayweather, Joe Calzaghe, Roy Jones............
     
  5. Caponecartels

    Caponecartels Maritime Lawyer Full Member

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    I know at least half my friends got Foreman Grills, my brother does, and my two sisters do too.

    Whenever I ask them to watch some old fights with me, they're amazed to see how prime Foreman looked like.
     
  6. PH|LLA

    PH|LLA VIP Member Full Member

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    i got a foreman grill

    so the answer must be foreman

    :deal
     
  7. Caponecartels

    Caponecartels Maritime Lawyer Full Member

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    Everybody got one (Americans anyway).
    What about you Cobra?
     
  8. Boxed Ears

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    I really think you guy's are forgetting about the Evander Holyfield grill here.
     
  9. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    I implied equally dark things about Dempsey that I'd read about and was almost lynched. :lol:
     
  10. Caponecartels

    Caponecartels Maritime Lawyer Full Member

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    I think I remember that thread.:lol:
    Do you recall what you learned about him?
     
  11. Boxed Ears

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  12. Caponecartels

    Caponecartels Maritime Lawyer Full Member

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    Couldn't even laugh at that.
    Too depressing...
     
  13. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    I know...I know. :-(...How about this?

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  14. Caponecartels

    Caponecartels Maritime Lawyer Full Member

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    Eh, not so much.
    He might not have his health, but at least he has his money.

    Holyfield has 154 kids, is boxing at age 75 , and can't even earn some cash on the side off a grill (never even knew he had one before you posted that pic)
     
  15. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Had no-so-kosher dealings with a whorehouse, underbelly of the business. Not even getting into it again, feel free to google it up however, more then a few sources where you can read about it and decide for yourself whether it was fictional or not.