His family said the legendary boxer George Foreman died at the age of 76.
The sports symbol, a world heavyweight champion, died twice surrounded by his family on Friday.
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Foreman's Battle with Muhammad Ali in Al -Dammamah in the forest is one of the most famous seizures in the history of sport.
Later on, George Foreman Grill's name and name became a work that has earned him hundreds of millions of dollars after retiring from sport.
“Our hearts are broken,” said a statement issued by the George family on Instagram.
“A religious preacher, a loyal husband, a loving father, a great and proud found, lived a life characterized by fixed faith, humility and purpose.
“Humanity, Olympic, and twice the heavyweight hero in the world, was a deep respect – strength for good, a man of discipline, condemnation, and the protector of his legacy, fighting tirelessly to preserve his good name – to his family.
“We are grateful for the flow of love and prayers, and we hope to ask for privacy because we honor the exceptional life of a man we were working to call us.”
Mike Tyson led a greeting after the news of his death, as he shared two pictures of himself alongside Foreman.
Tyson wrote: “The George Foreman family condolences. His contribution to boxing and beyond will not forget.”
“Lick in peace, George Foreman. Your legacy lives on the hero.”
Foreman is in the Hall of Boxing Celebrities and one of the most dangerous pierced on the ground.
Big George has a decorated profession that he saw becoming a heavy hero in the world twice in a 30 -year profession.
It is also the oldest heavy weight hero ever.
Foreman came out of Michael Morner in November 1994 to win the WBA and IBF belts between the ages of 45 and 299 days.
This came 20 years after the last time in the last heavyweight championship in 1974.
Foreman was one of the largest hole who ever had a lace, and he suffered only five losses in his 81 -year -old career.
One of these few defeats was for Muhammad Ali, which many consider to be greater in all ages, at the destruction in the forest.
I am the last British correspondent alive and was in Rumble in the woods … It was the 10 most strange days of my life
3024 October 2024 The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Dammuma in the forest, when Muhammad Ali Kholoud confirmed by directed by George Foreman to restore the World Heavyweight Championship, wrote Colin Hart.
This amazing, amazing battle that took place before the outbreak of African dawn on Kinshasa was described as the greatest sporting event in the twentieth century.
Unfortunately, I am the only British journalist who was in Ringside that night and who is still alive to tell the story – from ten days of my working life.
The first bell looked at Zayer at four in the morning, and each of the two men was paying each of $ 5 million – as President Moboto Sis Siko made money.
Mobutu may have been the most terrifying, fatal dictator who ever spent a nation on the African continent – and with IDI Amin in Uganda as a competitor, he says something.
The giraffes were afraid to death, for a good reason – such as twentyY From the walls of the stadium in a stadium with holes from the shooting teams, the dissidents are implemented.
He even threatened to shoot the TELEX operators who were arrested when journalists wanted to send their stories to the editors at home.
This is before the battle begins, with its wrong tribal barrels, 60,000 profitable fans … and for the first time on the rope of Ali.
Read the Fleet Street Boxing Legend Colin Hart legend in The Rumble in the Jungle …
Foreman, 25 years old at the time, was a clear favorite with a 100 percent record of 40 wins and 37 cos.
The two met before a crowd of 60,000 people in Zayer, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, before it was used on a new Ali Tactics “Rabb” Earn the knockout exit in the eighth floor.
About a billion viewers are watched from home.
After the fighting, Ali – who died in 2016 at the age of 74 – put Foreman to set aside and became the most friends.
The final battle of Foreman came in November 1997 – at the age of 48 and 316 days – against the rising star Shannon Briggs.
But he lost a controversial medium decision as many spectators believed that he had won the battle.
Foreman will retire shortly after – and later became the face and name of the George Foreman barbecue, which earned him hundreds of millions of dollars.
The very common electronic grill continued to sell more than 100 million units worldwide.
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