Extra: Boxing & Business with George Foreman

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🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In remembrance of the life of George Foreman, we've gone back to the Motley Fool Radio Show vault to bring you this interview with the former heavyweight champion. From poverty to fame, sport to business, cattle to annuities, Foreman was fully invested in a life well-lived. A world-beater, a rule breaker, and by our measure, a true Fool.

Host: David Gardner
Guest: Mac Greer
Guests from the Vault: Tom Gardner, George Foreman
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
0:09.4	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. Happy weekend. Extra.
0:15.9	Prize-fighting heavyweight champion, entrepreneur, minister, father of 12, including five sons all named George,
0:23.1	and all-around good guy, George Foreman, died last month in a hospital in his native,
0:28.7	Houston, Texas. A colorful figure larger than his six-foot three frame, some would say larger
0:34.9	than life for many years. Big George was a two-time World
0:38.6	Heavyweight champion, an Olympic boxing gold medalist, and of course, the namesake of the
0:43.5	George Foreman Grill. And many other things besides. In fact, he was also the subject of a
0:49.5	Motley Fool interview that aired on our national public radio show, the Motley Fool Radio show, back in 2002.
0:57.6	To fit our show, our NPR show back then, the whole conversation was edited down just to 10
1:03.3	minutes. And I thought you, dear listener, on this lovely weekend, might enjoy hearing that
1:09.3	in celebration of George Foreman's life this
1:11.6	weekend on Rule Breaker Investing. So we're going to air that interview and provide some
1:16.4	commentary and reflection on it. And here to join me in So Doing is our longtime Motleyful producer,
1:22.9	friend, sidekick alongside for many adventures, Mac Greer. Mac, it's great to have you back. David,
1:30.0	great to be here. We last did a celebratory weekend extra together replaying our classic
1:35.3	Motleyful interview, Mac, with Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers. And I love doing that. Loved hearing
1:41.4	your perspective. And so I'm glad to be joined with you this week as we do, I don't know, mystery science theater 3,000. We probably won't interrupt this. But with that George Foreman interview, Mac, before we run the 10-minute tape, is there anything you'd like to share ahead of time? David, a few reflections. When I think about this interview, for a certain generation,
2:01.4	George Foreman is the grill. It's a business story, right? And when we think about that,
2:08.8	George Foreman sold his interest in the George Foreman grill for 137.5 million.
2:18.5	Wow.
2:19.5	So, you know what?
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