Born on Jan. 10, 1949, in Marshall, Texas, and raised in Houston’s rough-and-tumble Fifth Ward, George Edward Foreman didn’t start life with a silver spoon — or even a spatula. One of seven children, ...
George Foreman became Houston’s only heavyweight boxing champion, and just the second from Texas, with a brutal assault that put Joe Frazier on his back six times in the two rounds that their 1973 ...