George Foreman talks about almost being mauled by lion

Holy **** Foreman scared a Lion off with a missed punch.

 

George is really quite a strange guy and even though he always smiling when you see him, you can still sense there a still a mean streak beneath that outer smile.

Still, at him age, he's seems to have really done well out of life. No danger of him ever ending up a penniless destitute ex-champion.

 

I hope ol' Larry Holmes didn't watch that documentary. He's always had a chip on his shoulder about been overlooked in the ring compared to Ali and the rest and whiles he's not done too badly with his money, he won't be too please to see how much richer George has become since he's retired.

 

Ive also sensed that mean streak. I also remember a british boxing magazine mentioning that in the 90's

 

George Foreman is a great salesman. His work as a minister probably helped him with that. Here in Britain, no one knows who Larry Holmes is, even boxing fans rarely mention his name when they are talking about the great heavyweights. George Foreman meanwhile went round the world selling his 'Lean Mean Grilling Machine', plugging it in the most shameless way on chatshows and the like, you knew what he was doing, but it worked! Must have made him a fortune. Larry Holmes could have never done that. Probably not his fault, but I've never seen him interviewed except on very specialist shows, and his peak really came in the period known as "the lost generation of heavyweights".

 

Daaamn, ol' Foreman is loaded.