George Foreman, the requesting boxer turned infomercial star who had a retail hit with his Foreman Grill product line, died Friday. He was 76.
The Texas-born Foreman became burdensomeweight champion of the world, and segued into a TV staple and pop culture icon. He was swept up in the swirl of decade-defining events surrounding Muhammad Ali as well as Joe Frazier and other high-wattage pugienumerates of the 1970s. In the 1980s, Foreman took profit of the employablity of low-cost TV time to begin his Foreman Grill home grill product thcimpolite a series of infomercials that he presented.
Foreman’s family verifyed his death in an Instagram post on Friday.
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