In Memoriam: Notable people who died in 2025
1 of 14
George Foreman won an Olympic gold medal in boxing in 1968 at age 19. In 1973 he won his first world heavyweight championship.
The 1974 bout in Zaire against Muhammad Ali, called the Rumble In The Jungle, is one of boxing’s most famous matches. Foreman
won his second heavyweight championship in 1994 when he was 45. He retired from boxing in 1997. Foreman also became an ordained
preacher and, in 1994, he began selling his hugely successful George Foreman Grill. In 2003, he was inducted into the International Boxing
Hall of Fame. George Foreman died on March 21, at the age of 76.
