{"id":73637,"date":"2025-03-22T08:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T08:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73637"},"modified":"2025-03-22T08:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T08:46:35","slug":"how-boxing-legend-george-foreman-became-the-oldest-heavyweight-champion-ever-after-growing-up-in-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/22\/how-boxing-legend-george-foreman-became-the-oldest-heavyweight-champion-ever-after-growing-up-in-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"How boxing legend George Foreman became the oldest heavyweight champion ever after growing up in poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/22\/03\/96457311-14525545-Former_world_champion_boxer_George_Foreman_poses_while_launching-a-101_1742613424200.jpg\" alt=\"Former world champion boxer George Foreman poses while launching his &quot;Lean, Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine&quot; in 2001\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The oldest world heavyweight champion ever, who regained his title 20 years on at the age of 45, George Foreman is an undisputed legend of boxing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14525545\/George-Foreman-dead-76-boxing-legend-rose-childhood-crime-ridden-neighborhood-Houston-oldest-heavyweight-champion-preacher-making-200million-grill.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The oldest world heavyweight champion ever, who regained his title 20 years on at the age of 45, George Foreman is an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/George-foreman2.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73639,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73637\/revisions\/73639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}