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Article: Foreman stripped; WBU takes George's title.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- April 26, 1997
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ATLANTIC CITY -- In the past half dozen years, the heavyweight world has seen Mike Tyson go to prison, Evander Holyfield briefly retire after being diagnosed with a heart malady, Tommy Morrison test positive for HIV, Riddick Bowe wash out of Marine boot camp, Buster Douglas go into a diabetic coma and Oliver McCall have a mid-ring nervous breakdown on national television.
During this same period, the worst thing that happened to George Foreman was that his sitcom got canceled.
He is 48 years old, weighs 253 pounds, and when he laughs, which is often, his ponderous midsection shakes like a bowl full of jelly. He refuses to sit on a stool between rounds ...