George Foreman Is Haunted By The Whispers of Muhammad Ali | Friday Night With Jonathan Ross

oh yes let's pick it out it's George Foreman ladies [Music] mr. Follin great pleasure to meet you sir I'm happy to be with you wow you look do you mind me starting with this because you look terrific how old are you are 52 Wow well actually maybe don't look so good then I thought you were like 65 or something but you look good shall I start that again start again okay mr. four would you look Billy out of your 20s it's a pleasure to have you here yeah there's so much I want to tell you about I'm a huge fan of yours but let's start with the one big defining moment in your life in your career which everyone I guess Rises with you but I have to do so as well the moment when you fought Muhammad Ali that defining well one of them I'm beating this gap of five or six rounds I'm in Africa yeah it's hot and I beat him up for six round the seven round then when I thought I had him I hit him in the side and he fell on my ear and he said get oh you got George I don't want to be defined like that okay it was such a big thing it was the rumble in the jungle I call it the mugging in the jungle now came back without anything but you know what I find so interesting about you either I've studied that fire I'm a big boxing fan and that fine particularly I've read books on that fight you know I'm you don't need all this stuff because you were actually there I suppose but I was I was just a youngster then and I've read all this stuff and you know what's interesting is you you seem to be such a different person then we all he beat the devil up but it's more than that cuz you seem you know I've had a transformation and you started raising I have 10 kids and you raised them up to be good sit up straight put a smile on your face some selling this product for so long I started using myself so I'm trying to sit up straight and smile myself yeah you seem happy you see more children more relaxed with you say yeah I'm watching when we're working this is this documentary about the fight in Africa Muhammad Ali is there and my kids are just smiling and having a ball so I decided maybe you should smile huh he hits me in the jaw in the film I call him when I was a fool well you know but you know if you're gonna lose to someone lose to Muhammad ah yeah yeah I did it from this just cuz it's a fantastic film if you haven't seen this already but I'm gonna not show the bit where you get an opt-out how are you going to show the bit where you're still winning this I keep hoping I'm gonna win this fight you well this is just the first three rounds you still got a job oh good good okay this is from when we were Kings er this is back in 1974 this tuple in 1974 enjoyed was the heavyweight champion in the world I'm in zyre I'm in Africa and I wanted a cheeseburger so I go out and have my cook to fry me up one Oh Gracie and all that and I get into the fight the grease Academy bogged down he hit me with a right hand I lose the title 20 years later I get a chance to fight for the title I have this grill it's called a George Foreman lean mean fat reducing bullying machine I put the burger on there just before I was hungry and I go out and I win the title at 45 believe that you believe that would make you the gorilla in vanilla but that's the most shameless piece of product promotion Dyson's that was that was almost beautiful but I've traveled around them but you know what they are you we don't have to talk about this particularly but you do promote now I want to talk about so many things with you but you do promote in America now and over here now I guess it's George has a grill he's put Santa called the lean mean grilling machine is that's right okay that reducing grow I have one it's fantastic thank you look at the size of me and I'm 73 years old I usually you'd never have portobello mushroom oh yeah I've never had egg eggplants until you put them on the George Foreman knocked the flavor into the food told you no I knew I'd wind up on QVC I just didn't think it'd be this I had another few months of the beef onions oh stop it with the onions and the mushrooms let me ask you about your children you have is it ten children yeah we have five daughters and five sir okay and your five sons that they are their names are George Edwards Foreman okay all of them all of them all five of them what happened is when you're gonna be a boxer you got to make preparation to save your money because most boxers go broke then you got to make preparation for memory loss so I go in the house and I'm asking I've asked my wife to please name yourself George two of your daughters are called George's one all of them named why stop there I wish I had not stopped because it gets confusing around them but those when you call George how do I know which one you wanna count I never have when George knows what I'm talking to him you know you seem proud of your parenting skills you've done a good job with your kids I think so and one of your daughter's is it Frieda Sheba Frieda she's a boxer as a matter of fact she's they're six professional boxing matches lost one now a lot of people I guess would think they wouldn't necessarily want their daughters to be a boxer they wouldn't want me in that profession they wouldn't want their sons in it so especially you know ex professional boxers who can see the damage it does you don't have a problem of that Union you know you raise your daughters up and one comes to you and decide I'm gonna do this dad oh no you can't do it I don't want you to do it well I'm gonna do it well I'm not gonna loan you in the money I don't care I'm gonna do it and if all my kids had the same kind of determination and pride within themselves I would appreciate it yeah but to tell a woman what to do let women tell them what to do and not me you know it's you know you're letting your kids do what they want me they must do what they want they just can't live your life you know I know her my life one of Muhammad Ali's daughters boxes as well aha and Leila and I mentioned earlier them together and I told I've told my daughter stay away from those alleys I'm gonna take your title and then start screaming I am the greatest you don't want that in your background but you did do you feel them and I guess most American boxers must feel just in the shadow of Ali you know regardless of what you've achieved and there's no greater shadow to be in no greater I tell everybody asked me who was the best boxer of all time Joe Lewis but I tell you the best man to ever do anything with Muhammad Ali what a great man yeah you know he's bringing out a grilling machine I don't know if your wife [Applause] nothing's second to it I've heard he's just outlast yours just a tiny bit you don't try it do you know I could sit and talk with you all night I suspect that we'll be nowhere near as pleasurable for you as it would be for me so I'm gonna let you go but Georgia genuinely it's an honor to have met you it's a great pleasure I'm sure I speak for everyone here when I said we've enjoyed spending time in your company the George Foreman well what you know what and one inspiration to us all bit yes fantastic used in the plugging that was fantastic that was breathtaking Annette you went within well it's a good machine is it I'm not just saying that you know and any of my relatives watching that's what you're getting

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Length: 8min 26sec (506 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 09 2019