Entré dans l’histoire après sa défaite contre Mohamed Ali, l'ancien champion du monde de boxe américain, George Foreman est mort à l’âge de 76 ans
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00:00Breaking news, sad news out of the sporting world.
00:02Boxing legend George Foreman is dead at the age of 76.
00:06Good evening, I'm Dick Brennan.
00:08Christine is off.
00:09He was one of the most beloved sports figures in history.
00:11George Foreman indeed was a puncher and a pitchman.
00:14Steve Obermeyer is here with more on his extraordinary life.
00:17It really was.
00:18It's just a sad day in all of the sports world
00:20because George Foreman was a giant in sports,
00:24in the ring and outside.
00:27He was a man who fought with power and lived with purpose.
00:31George Foreman once shook the world with his fists.
00:34Then he warmed our hearts and our kitchens.
00:37This tough kid from Houston rose to Olympic gold,
00:40then to world heavyweight champion.
00:43His furious fists matched his demeanor then.
00:46When he knocked out Joe Frazier in 1973,
00:49it gave us one of the greatest calls in sports history.
00:52Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
00:57The following year was the rumble in the jungle.
01:00Muhammad Ali knocked him out
01:02and Foreman's air of invincibility was shredded.
01:06He disappeared for a while, became a minister and found peace.
01:11That's when Foreman did something you never see.
01:14He returned to boxing in his 40s.
01:17He was a father to 12 kids,
01:19most named George or some variation of that.
01:22He came back with a bigger belly, but also a bigger smile.
01:26And when he knocked out champion Michael Moore in 1994,
01:30he became the oldest heavyweight champion of all time.
01:33He was 45.
01:35He was a boxer, a father, a preacher,
01:38but maybe most famously, a salesman.
01:41Hi, I'm George Foreman,
01:43and this is my lean, mean, fat-reducing grilling machine.
01:47The George Foreman Grill sold more than 100 million units
01:50and it earned him far more money than boxing ever did.
01:53He may have punched his way into history,
01:55but he laughed his way into our hearts.
01:58And in the end, George Foreman was known less for his knockouts
02:02and more for his comeback, in the ring and in life.
02:06And what he leaves is a legacy of rumbles, redemption and ribs.
02:13And in the end, George Foreman gave us more than knockouts and grills.
02:17He gave us maybe the rarest thing in all of sports, genuine joy.
02:21And that lasts long after his final bell.
02:25Yeah, you know, Steve, you remember,
02:27he was in the shadow of Ali for so long.
02:29Right.
02:30It just sort of changed.
02:31What's crazy is that after he left and he came back,
02:33when he came back, it was like,
02:34it's almost as if he took on Ali's persona
02:37and that's when you found, he found the most kind of success.
02:41I mean, that's when he became beloved in America.
02:44And an entirely different audience, a much younger one, with grills.
02:47Yes, with the grills.
02:48Well done, Steve. Thank you very much.
02:50For more on George Foreman's life and legacy,
02:52go to our website, cbsnewyork.com.