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When he was center stage, working with Jim Lampley and George Foreman on HBO Sports’ World Championship Boxing, the three voices presented their own version of the unanticipated. Foreman ...
Lowell Hickey was relaxing by the pool in Kingston, Jamaica, snoozing after fighting the effects of jet lag. He felt something tickling his feet, opened his eyes, and there was George Foreman, a ...
"Tonight I am flooded with tears after learning of the death of my dear friend and broadcast partner George Foreman," Hall of Fame boxing announcer Jim Lampley said in a statement. " I loved him.
"The old George Foreman smoked, drank, chewed and swore," wrote famed Los Angeles Times sportswriter Jim Murray in 1990. "The George Foreman we all know today is a Santa Claus in boxing trunks." ...
"It happened! It happened!" commentator Jim Lampley shouted in disbelief. Foreman proved that "Age Ain't Nothing But a Number" was more than a song by the late Aaliyah Haughton. He defied the odds ...
International Boxing Hall of Fame broadcaster and close friend Jim Lampley said on Saturday. Lampley made the famous "It happened!" call in 1994 when Foreman, at 45, stunned Michael Moorer to ...
Hall of Fame sportcaster Jim Lampley pays tribute to late friend George Foreman. Lampley said his friend will be remembered for his 'smile' and that he was a man of 'enormous strength'. Ne Zha 2 ...
Upon learning Friday night George Foreman had died at 76, Muhammad Ali’s daughter Rasheda Ali-Walsh said she sent a text message to George Foreman Jr., the oldest son of the former heavyweight ...
Apart from being a champion boxer, successful businessman and preacher, George Foreman — who died Friday at age 76 — also helped bring his life story to the big screen in 2023. Foreman’s ...
Few grew closer to George Foreman in the second chapter of his career than Hall of Fame broadcaster Jim Lampley. Lampley gave an empowering tribute of Foreman after he passed away on Friday at 76 ...
Now in his death, we have time for him again. A week ago, Jim Lampley, Foreman’s long-tine broadcast partner at HBO, told me, “George Foreman and I became friends and a very trusted advisor.
In all, Foreman fought 10 times in Las Vegas. Jim Lampley, the veteran broadcaster who called the Foreman-Moorer fight, including the famous line, “It happened! It happened!” when Foreman won ...