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  2. He is a two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medalist. As an entrepreneur, he is known for the George Foreman Grill. After a troubled childhood, Foreman took up amateur boxing and won a gold medal in the heavyweight division at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

  3. GEORGE EDWARD FOREMAN was born to J.D. and Nancy Foreman on January 10, 1949, in the town of Marshall, Texas. An impoverished youth, Foreman often bullied younger children and didn't like getting up early for school.

  4. Sep 9, 2024 · Foreman grew up in Houston, Texas, and learned to box in a U.S. Job Corps camp in Oregon. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he won the gold medal in the heavyweight boxing competition.

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  5. George Edward Foreman was born on 10 January 1949, in Marshall, Texas, USA. He was raised by his mother Nancy and stepfather J.D. Foreman whom his mother married after he was born. His biological father was Leroy Moorehead. He grew up with six siblings in a very poor household in Houston, Texas.

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  6. www.biography.com › athletes › george-foremanGeorge Foreman - Biography

    Apr 27, 2023 · George Edward Foreman was born on January 10, 1949, in Marshall, Texas, and grew up in Houstons rough Fifth Ward district. A self-proclaimed thug, he dropped out of school in the ninth...

  7. Born in Marshall, Texas, Foreman grew up there and later in Houston's rough Fifth Ward, where his mother moved to look for work. When Foreman was five, J.D. Foreman, the man Foreman believed was his father, left the family, leaving Foreman and his six siblings with their mother.

  8. May 27, 2024 · Early Life and Struggles. Born on January 10, 1949, in Marshall, Texas, George Foreman was the fifth of seven children raised by Nancy Foreman and JD Foreman, his stepfather.