George Foreman was a big puncher and one of the good guys outside the ring but there was a lot more to him.
As an athlete and a man.
Since his death in recent days only some have mentioned his determination and relentlessness — not enough though — he was as cut throat as they come when it came down to it — no surrender in him.
ABC13 Houston spoke with Foreman’s old sparring pal Brent Bowers:
“It all happened by chance. In 1986, Bowers was working at a boxing club in League City when one of the referees approached him. “He told me that George Foreman’s brothers were looking for sparring partners,” Bowers recalls. He jumped at the opportunity. At that point, Foreman was already an Olympic gold medalist and a boxing legend. He’d held the heavyweight title for a year but lost it in the famous 1974 match against Muhammad Ali.”
He added:
“He never wanted to quit,” Bowers says. “He had a fighting heart. He just wouldn’t stop.”
That’s the thing about Foreman.
He was a good guy and very reformed less vicious man as he aged but he never lost that fighting spirit.
He always came full steam ahead in everything he did in professional sport and life.
He never quit, one of the great things about Foreman.
