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George Foreman has died
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- monksy 2y agoI loved his participation in "Better Late than never" with henry winkler, shatner, and terry bradshaw. RIP
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoNYT obit https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/sports/george-foreman-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.504.OJYt.C0-yterGaa7q&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/sports/george-foreman-dea...
- artursapek 2y agoRIP legend
- momoschili 2y agothe foreman grills gets a lot of flack but it's a damn good cooking utensil and if not for him I'm not sure it would have been as publicized as it was. also a great dad, christian, and boxer RIP
- fibonachos 2y agoThat little grill got me through many years of apartment living where I couldn’t have a propane grill.
- Fezzik 2y ago5 marriages… 100% Christian. No way to say it better.
- rsyring 2y agoI don't know what 100% Christian is intended to imply here, although it's obviously critical. Biblical christianity isn't for the perfect or righteous, but for sinners. Christ rejoices more over the one sinner that repents than the 99 who need no repentance (John 15). I don't know much about Foreman. But, his fifth marriage did last 40 years. Seems like, at some point, his perspective on marriage/commitment got more aligned with biblical wisdom.
- orthoxerox 2y agoDo you think Jacob had his twelve sons with the same woman?
- washadjeffmad 2y agoWhat we do today is totally moral and normal, and cultural practices prior to what we grew up with are sinful barbarism.
- kubb 2y agoBeing a Christian celebrity doesn't require you to stick to Christian values. It's much more important to proclaim your membership than to live it. It's like wearing a team jersey without playing the game. The appearance matters more than the practice. Christianity in America is like a brand - more about identity and affiliation than discipleship or doctrine.
- tenacious_tuna 2y agoA lot of the replies to this comment seem to assume that the "5 marriages" component is meant to cast Foreman's christianity as hypocritical, when I think it's more a commentary on how christian values affect relationship stability. I say this also as someone who's left the church, and whose religious parents and inlaws are multiply-divorced.
- MrMcCall 2y ago> also a great dad, christian, and boxer Indeed. Very much so. You can learn more about him in this conversation one of his sons has with comedian Daniel Tosh, who's his neighbor and friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itWm0ZLwcus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itWm0ZLwcus George Foreman III demonstrates how deserving GF was of all his success. He and GF3 are the best of humanity. And Tosh being a very kind and open-hearted human being, too, makes the conversation not only interesting but simply enjoyable, especially for its insights into his legendary father's life.
- ycombinatrix 2y agoWhat made him a great christian?
- silisili 2y agoRIP. Was a big fan of Foreman growing up, even though his initial heyday was before my time. Which is one of the reasons I'm fond of him today - he was 48 years old when he was last heavyweight boxing champ. Every time I'm feeling "too old" to do something physical, I try to remember the baddest man on the planet was older than I am now - a fact that is still crazy to achy 'old' me now.
- MrMcCall 2y agoSame here, and well said, friend. If you're interested in seeing an interesting conversation one of his sons has with brilliant comedian Daniel Tosh, where they talk about his legendary father, check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itWm0ZLwcus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itWm0ZLwcus What a cultured man, raised by a true man of God. George Foreman is a testament to the best of humanity, and this one son (at least) is a testament to that humanity. What a life, what a legacy!
- silisili 2y agoThanks! It's getting late so I only watched the first 20 mins for now, but agreed. He obviously had a great upbringing. I'll check out the rest tomorrow. That aside, I used to love Tosh.0, and didn't even know he was still around. I'm a little sad to see him becoming and even sounding like Bill Maher. The old edge pusher is gone, understandably. We all got old and I hate it :).
- MrMcCall 2y agoHe's no Bill Maher, friend. Tosh despises Trump, because Tosh has that surfer chill and believes in being kind. And I still think he's super funny, if not quite so edgy. His "WWJD rubber bracelet" bit has one of my favorite punchlines ever. If you want to see a great (IMO) younger comedian, check out Greer Barnes. I discovered him yesterday and I've not laughed that hard at a comedian in quite a while. He is next-level brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alpJV1V9pM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alpJV1V9pM Peace be with you, friend.
- bedhead 2y agoWhat a life.
- owlninja 2y agoYou said it, what a legend. Highly recommend the documentary "When We Were Kings". RIP Big George.
- racl101 2y agoGeorge was a beast. Dominant Boxer. One of the greats. Also, I loved, loved my Foreman grill. Made so many good meals in college.
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- cyanbane 2y ago"Although Foreman never confirmed exactly how much he has earned from the endorsement, Salton paid him $138 million in 1999 for the right to use his name. Prior to that, he was paid about 40% of the profits on each grill sold (earning him $4.5 million a month in payouts at its peak), yielding an estimated total of over $200 million just from the endorsement through 2011, substantially more than he earned as a boxer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foreman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foreman Not sure if luck or stars just aligned. But that is some legit naming rights. Kudos to maybe, and I mean it... one of the best at it.
- DoesntMatter22 2y agoHulk Hogan told the story of how this was brought to him first to endorse but she insisted it was stupid and that instead he endorse the Hulk Hogan Thunder Mixer, a handheld blender. He rolled his eye the whole time he told the story.
- gojomo 2y agoWho's the 'she' in this story?
- ffhhj 2y agoShehulk
- wyldfire 2y agoMaybe his talent agent?
- DoesntMatter22 2y agoSorry, his wife. I missed a word or two there lol
- dkarl 2y agoI mean... I consider myself a versatile home cook, and I've owned and used more products similar to the Thunder Mixer than products similar to the George Foreman grill. Sometimes it's a mystery what people buy. Why would you buy a separate appliance rather than a ridged grill pan for your stove top?
- tomrod 2y agoRIP man. You did some great things!
- roflchoppa 2y agoTime to pull out Jack LaLanne power juicer, and some chicken thighs. RIP.
- orionblastar 2y agoOne of the greatest boxers, rest in peace!
- hannasm 2y agoMy condolences to everyone affected. In a gerontological context: It would interesting to understand more about his genealogy. Does the age of 76 mark an above or below average age in his family and their historical lifespan? As someone who has experienced great success in life, and also been (at least at one point) in peak physical shape, the cause of his demise seems especially interesting to me.
- rank0 2y agoRIP. My favorite sports story. Heavyweight champ at 25/28 and 45.
- MrMcCall 2y agoIt's a great story, for sure, and I think I watched it live. The way he let his lead left jab linger to cover Moorer's eyes and then slipped in his hammer of a right to KHTFO was brilliant. But I'm partial to Billy Mills 1964 10km gold medal in Tokyo. I love how the co-announcer loses his mind on the American broadcast of the race, because the two favorites were favored so heavily. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVlKVWFmfhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVlKVWFmfhk It's my favorite sports call of all-time, too. Billy Mills is a Native American who faced poverty on his reservation and cruel racism in college. A true American hero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mills
- dkarl 2y agoI didn't think much about George Foreman until I watched When We Were Kings. For me, he was just as interesting as Ali, and I was so impressed with how he returned and reinvented himself after the loss to Ali that he was my personal reference point for resilience and personal evolution. RIP.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoYep. Highly recommend "When We Were Kings".
- tombert 2y agoI didn't know who George Foreman was a little kid, so I saw him in the commercials for the George Foreman Grill and assumed that he was the inventor. I was very confused when I, at age 11, read a comic published in 1990 (I think) and saw an advertisement for (I think) a boxing video game with George Foreman on the cover. I thought "huh, I wonder if he's related to the guy who invented that grill on TV". I asked my mom and she laughed, and that day I truly learned about celebrity endorsements.
- bdangubic 2y agoI can live 50 lifetimes and it wouldn’t be enough to understand celebrity endorsements… Foreman was one of my favorite athletes growing up but unless he was the greatest chef on earth I wouldn’t touch his grill with a wooden stick
- tombert 2y agoI actually had one for a couple years when I lived alone in a fairly small apartment. I really liked it; it cooked hamburgers well enough and it was super cheap, like $15-20 when I bought it during a sale. Obviously a full-sized grill would have been better, but I didn't really have that as an option in my apartment. It was easy to clean, cooked stuff relatively quickly, and neatly fit right next to my toaster. I think it's a good product for what it is. Why they got a retired boxer to promote it, I have no idea.
- MrMcCall 2y agoHe was an affable and funny man, who also happened to be a boxing great. What made him so affable was his deep humanity and kindness. And the endorsement worked, for sure!
- tombert 2y agoOh no question, I saw him in interviews years later and he seemed like a pretty decent dude. He also made fun of himself on King of the Hill, which always has my eternal respect. And the endorsement definitely worked. It's possible that the grill might have still been successful without his branding, but we don't know that what-if, we just know that the grills that had his branding definitely were successful.
- nomilk 2y agoFor anyone curious this is the product (and catch phrase) he was most well known for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABjjmd_XsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABjjmd_XsE
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- ks2048 2y agoBesides boxing and his grill, the thing I always remembered about him was that he named all 5 of his sons "George". (I see on wikipedia, they have numbers and nicknames).
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- asveikau 2y agoWow, I browse with showdead and I see it ... I can understand having criticisms of HN and pg, and I understand being harshly critical when you find a serious security problem, but surely there's a better way to express both of these.
- lovich 2y agoWasn’t the whole white/grey hat ethos based on the idea that if a security flaw exists, someone will use it, so we can help everyone by making them public back doors instead of secret backdoors so anyone who cared about security would know what to fix. This guy is annoying, but his behavior seems in line with that
- Simon_O_Rourke 2y agoA good guy and all around gentleman. My uncle Bryan met him in Topeka in the early 80s and encouraged his career in photography by posing for a few "fighting stance" photos for the local paper.
- somenameforme 2y agoGeorge Foreman is dead. Long live George Foreman! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foreman#Personal_life_and_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foreman#Personal_life_a...
- aucisson_masque 2y agoWhat he did in 1987 Will always be remembered. Truly a masterpiece of ring iq against sheer strength and stamina.
- johndhi 2y agoAs a boxing fan, Foreman is special. So many brutal fights but sharp as a tack, mentally, until the end. Such longevity - became champ again after so many years away from the sport. Such a businessman. From all accounts, such a kind person. What an impact.
- hash872 2y agoRIP George Foreman. As a former combat sports fan, I find it increasingly difficult to watch. These guys (and gals) are doing enormous brain damage to themselves & their opponents. Foreman seemed to have been an outlier that came out OK, but listen to the slurring & garbled speech that comes from any other old fighter. I know someone who's a friend with a longtime UFC fighter- he had an anecdote about the guy putting his kids to bed and temporarily forgetting their names. Great fights are very entertaining, but ethically I really find it difficult to be a fan these days
- SecretDreams 2y agoThis, but also extended to American football. These individuals are well compensated, but many are signing up for much shorter lives.
- AbstractH24 2y agoIt's amazing how long it's taken football to fall from fame for this reason, like boxing did. Not certain it'll ever happen. At least not for the foreseeable future.
- lurn_mor 2y agoI think most folk would gladly shorten their lifespan by decades for a million dollars today - the ultimate sacrifice for future generational wealth? Not that a million gets you anything substantial anymore...
- SecretDreams 2y agoYa the issue is you shorten your lifespan up front by playing from a young age, but only have a small chance of actually getting the generational wealth. Typically, this a sacrifice your parents make for you on your behalf because they sign you up before you really know the downsides and by the time you can know the downsides, you've got your head too many times to be able to figure out the downsides.
- wileydragonfly 2y ago