My George Foreman tribute

[evrenb]

Hello All,

I have put together my tribute to George Foreman - A Boxer.
My first memories of boxing from childhood was my father talking about Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman. He used to regale me with stories of their legendary fights...I had no books or videos so had to imagine what the fights were like or in fact what they even looked like (except Ali). One day while walking in Willesden , North West London I passed a shop selling video tapes and they had 'Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fights'. It was the first boxing footage I ever got. I must have worn it out I watched it so many times - I was captivated.
When George made his amazing comeback in 1987 I was entranced and I purchased the Boxing News every week to keep track of his fights and as a child I made scrapbooks on every clipping of him. The first fight I ever saw of his comeback was against Qawi, which was shown late on ITV. I still have the recording I made all those years ago on VHS. In 1990 I saw him fight in the flesh in London against the poor Terry Anderson.
When Dad died in 2003 I was very distraught and was having real trouble coming to terms with my loss, and dealing with life in general. I didn't have many close friends I could open up to, so one night while I was on the internet and feeling so low I decided to email George.
Now I cannot for the life of me remember where I got his email address from. But back then there was no Twitter or Facebook etc. To make contact with your hero was unheard of...
So late in the night I emailed him telling him about my Dad. It was one of those experiences where just writing it has a cathartic effect. You don't necessarily expect anything back. I was on the internet all night into the morning...then a reply from George came through...I felt so nervous , as if I had crossed a line by making contact with him...after all who am I?

The words he wrote and the time he took responding just blew me away and I was in floods of tears of sadness and joy. His words were so heartfelt and resonated so deeply in me that it gave me a strength to deal with life again. I will never forget this. To see him finally become champion again meant the world to me...

I intended to make this videography around 30 minutes long total but got far too carried away with adding this clip and that clip. It has ended up around 65 minutes and its only career one. I am very new to editing so I have done my best. I realise I have been over indulgent with the footage and it is too long but that's the way it turned out. A lot of the footage you will have seen before but some maybe you haven't. I hope you enjoy it. I will work on part 2 over the next few months as it is extremely time consuming and challenging. i done my best. If you subscribe to the channel it will greatly support the channel and there are generally updates once per week.

Thank you

[SteveO]

Very good.
I enjoyed watching that.

[evrenb]

Very good.
I enjoyed watching that.

Thank you!

[bwu]

Thank you. This was great.

Over the years, I’ve wondered if Foreman’s conversion was real or if he was pulling the longest of cons. I shouldn’t have doubted him.

[evrenb]

Thank you. This was great.

Over the years, I’ve wondered if Foreman’s conversion was real or if he was pulling the longest of cons. I shouldn’t have doubted him.

Thanks for the comments, yes George was a mean dude back then. However, I always feel when watching the footage that George was a nice guy underneath. He had this mean persona, but it was if sometimes he would remember his mum might be watching ....
When he got older of course he knew he didnt have to be the 'monster'

I will do part 2 career in a few months....

[margaret thatcher]

Was George being legit in Montreal with all those post bout shoves and punches, or was it a bit of wwe for the event

[evrenb]

Was George being legit in Montreal with all those post bout shoves and punches, or was it a bit of wwe for the event

It was a bit of both. He wanted an event to prove himself to the world and himself. Ali being ringside absolutely ruined it for him and was annoying as hell. And Cosell was so negative. So George was reacting off of Ali and also the events weren't that well run so things occasionally played up and George played to his bad guy image in the style of wrestling I suppose.
It wasn't as bad as it was made out. I quite enjoyed it but as said Ali and Cosell ruined it for him....

[Duran1970]

Was George being legit in Montreal with all those post bout shoves and punches, or was it a bit of wwe for the event

Toronto

[margaret thatcher]

[BoxBuzz]

top shelf!

[evrenb]

top shelf!

Thanks BoxBuzz