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Speaker 1: And it's time now for junior and sportstock. What you

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Speaker 1: got junior? All right, Shirley, Well, let's just talk about it.

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Speaker 1: You know, we had the NCAA March Madness tournament going on.

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Speaker 1: But then I found out that George Foreman died, and

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Speaker 1: I went and did some research and I listened to

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Speaker 1: some tapes from George Foreman speaking, and this is some

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Speaker 1: stuff you need to know about George that we just

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Speaker 1: needn't know. Do you know? Okay? You know? George was

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Speaker 1: born January tenth, nineteen forty nine, in Marshall, Texas. But

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Speaker 1: he grew up in Fifth Ward. Okay, come on, grew

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Speaker 1: up in Fifth Ward. Let me tell you something. He

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Speaker 1: was the original ghetto boy. Okay, way before Faith, way

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Speaker 1: before with the Dwick middle That was George Forman because

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Speaker 1: he dropped out of school at fifteen and at sixteen

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Speaker 1: became became a smuggler, that's what he was doing. And

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Speaker 1: then he went and started working with the Job Corps

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Speaker 1: to get his ged. But then he moved to California

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Speaker 1: and then he started training in boxing, and he started

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Speaker 1: at the Golympics in nineteen sixty eight in Mexico City,

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Speaker 1: where he won gold in the boxing heavyway division. But

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Speaker 1: between nineteen sixty nine when he turned pro in nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy one, he had thirty two bouts thirty two bouts

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Speaker 1: thirty two in that short time speriod and he didn't

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Speaker 1: lose none of the bouts none. He's thirty twenty nine

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Speaker 1: knockouts one year. He had thirteen fights in one year.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot. That's a lot. Wow. I want to

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Speaker 1: say he probably had a good fifteen twenty fights in

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Speaker 1: field ward that we don't know, didn't make the news,

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Speaker 1: that we don't know nothing about. Yeah, we had a

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Speaker 1: scrap baby. Yeah. And then we have the Sunshine Showdown

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Speaker 1: that's George Foreman and Joe Fraser, and that's where we

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Speaker 1: get to turn down, Goes Fraser, kings did Jamai Down

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Speaker 1: Goes Fraser death from Big George Fraser with down six

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Speaker 1: times in that one fight, and go right to make

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Speaker 1: fair by Howard Cosell. And then you know you have

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Speaker 1: the story of the Rumble in the Jungle October nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy four, ANXI year Africa with Muhammad Ali and George

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Speaker 1: Foreman Man. We saw how Howlee won the fight, but

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Speaker 1: to hear George Foreman talk about it. He said Ali

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Speaker 1: was boxing. He said, I was trying to kill that

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Speaker 1: man and he lost that fight. But to talk about

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Speaker 1: their friendship, he said, I really ended up gaining friends. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he said, I ended up getting very close. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: became very close friends. They said, we became phone talkers,

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Speaker 1: which made it funny. He became poked on. He said

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Speaker 1: he was always Funnyhammad Ali and George always funy. He's

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Speaker 1: always competitive. He said, how many kids you got? How

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Speaker 1: many grandkids you got? George and Georgia time said I

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Speaker 1: have three, and Muhammed A Lee would just come back

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Speaker 1: and say I got five. George trash time. George in

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Speaker 1: real life, he was never I wonder how many grand

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Speaker 1: babies are named George? Man, I think they stopped it

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Speaker 1: at the sun. Yeah, not that George, not you, George.

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Speaker 1: That that was great. Thank you. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Morning Show.