He retired from boxing, became an ordained minister in Houston and founded a youth center. He retired with a lifetime record of Outside of the boxing ring, Foreman, who has five sons, all named George, and five daughters, has become enormously wealthy as an entrepreneur and genial TV pitchman for a variety of products, including the hugely popular George Foreman Grill.
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At about midnight on the night of November , Foreman moved to Pasadena, California after quitting school, and he got very much interested in football. His skills in boxing were exceptionally good, and his supervisor advised him to focus on boxing as it will help him to achieve glory and fame. He was linked with several ladies and also had few extramarital affairs. In total, he has been married five times. His first wife was Adrienne Calhoun, and the couple were married for almost three years.
He and his fourth wife, Andrea Skeete, took divorce after three years of their marriage due to the personal differences. Currently, he is married to Mary Joan Martelly for almost thirty-three years. His height is 1. Tall, and weight is kg. After that, he decided to take the boxing as a professional career and went through various dynamic training for the same. The year and were glorious years for him as he won all the fights he participated in.
In , Foreman defeated the champion and became the new king of boxing where his success kept on escalating over the next few years. His first defeat came in the hands of legendary Mohammad Ali, so he took some break and made his comeback after two years in Las Vegas by winning the match.
In , after the game, he became ill and claimed to have suffered a near-death experience, so he switched his career and stopped fighting.
Foreman then became an ordained minister and opened few youth centres and shared his Christian experience on various TV networks. It was Foreman's only defeat by knockout in his professional career. Foreman's quest for another title shot was derailed with a loss to nimble-footed Jimmy Young in March Exhausted and dehydrated after the fight, Foreman claimed to have a religious awakening and retired. Ten years after his loss to Young, at age 38 — and with an extra 50 pounds and a friendlier public persona in tow — Foreman returned to professional boxing.
Foreman failed to impress in his comeback win over Steve Zouski, but he worked himself into better shape as he knocked out a string of improving opponents, and was eventually given a title shot against heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield. Although he lost a bout to Holyfield on April 19, , in Atlantic City, Foreman earned praise for going the distance against the younger champion.
Clad in the same red trunks he wore during his bout against Ali, the year-old Foreman knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their title fight on November 5, , to become the oldest heavyweight champ in history. Though he was stripped of his title belts by the World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation for refusing to fight their mandated opponents, he remained one of boxing's top draws.
On November 22, , Foreman lost a controversial decision to Shannon Briggs in what turned out to be his final fight.
He finished with a professional record of 76 wins 68 by knockout and five losses. By that time, however, the sport that had made him a champion was practically a footnote to his famously successful career.
Already a familiar commercial pitchman, most famously for the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine which made its debut in , Foreman remained busy after leaving the ring for the second time. In October , Foreman finally opened up about the origins of his multimillion-dollar grill idea, claiming that right after getting knocked out by Ali, he had an hallucination that a talking piece of meat demanded to be grilled.
In addition to the famous grill, other Foreman ventures include a clothing line, several books and a short-lived reality show called Family Foreman , featuring Foreman's wife, Joan, and 10 children, including five boys named George. Prior to his marriage to Joan, whom he has been with since , Foreman had been married four times.
Turning to reality TV once more in , Foreman starred in Better Late Than Never , a reality-travel series that takes him — along with his fellow castmates William Shatner , Henry Winkler and Terry Bradshaw — around the world, as they check off their bucket list and explore foreign cultures.
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