{"id":27837,"date":"2023-04-25T09:07:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=27837"},"modified":"2025-03-24T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:12:49","slug":"grilling-george-foreman-as-the-legendary-boxers-big-inspirational-biopic-is-about-to-open-nationwide-in-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2023\/04\/grilling-george-foreman-as-the-legendary-boxers-big-inspirational-biopic-is-about-to-open-nationwide-in-theaters.html","title":{"rendered":"Grilling George Foreman as the legendary boxer&#8217;s &#8220;Big&#8221; inspirational biopic is about to open nationwide in theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Here&#8217;s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media &amp; culture: 04\/25\/23<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"BIG GEORGE FOREMAN \u2013\u00a0Official Trailer (HD)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/urKDu40iaXk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Comeback <del>Kid<\/del> Old Guy.<\/strong> Currently the preaching pastor at <strong>The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ<\/strong> in Houston, Texas, <strong>George Foreman<\/strong> is best known as a two-time heavyweight boxing champion (and, of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/george-foreman-talks-cashing-famous-182512698.html\">grillionaire<\/a>) who in 1987 regained his title at the ripe age of 45, becoming the oldest fighter ever to win the heavyweight crown. His amazing comeback story (some may call it a miracle) finally is a major motion picture. <em><strong>Big George Foreman<\/strong><\/em> hits the big screen this Friday (4\/28). I got to speak with him and, besides his powerful story and sincere faith, I was totally knocked out by his great sense of humor. He definitely knows how to deliver a<em> punch<\/em> line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: You&#8217;re an executive producer on <em>Big George Foreman<\/em>. I&#8217;m wondering if you went to the studio with the movie idea or if they came to you.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Foreman: <\/strong>Well, we all came together bit by bit. Of course, the book (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/God-My-Corner-Spiritual-Memoir\/dp\/B00112E8J0\"><em>God In My Corner<\/em><\/a>)<\/strong> was done and (I had) a lot of success with the book. Then it was about putting it to the screen and then the story in pictures. We had a lot of meetings and we talked about it. I even tried to convince them (that) since it was going to be my movie we can write it. Why not change the <strong>Rumble in the Jungle<\/strong> to where I actually beat <strong>Ali<\/strong>?! <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: That would be a twist!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF:<\/strong> (They said) &#8220;This ain&#8217;t a (fictional) movie! We can&#8217;t change that, George!&#8221; I didn&#8217;t like that part. What&#8217;s the use of doing a movie if you can&#8217;t change the outcome?<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: So, what do you hope people take from the movie?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF: <\/strong>The idea that it doesn&#8217;t matter how far down you go, you can always come up and not only once or twice. America is the place where you get second, third and even fourth chances &#8211; and then finding <strong>God<\/strong> there&#8217;s no end to the chances you can get. That&#8217;s what the movie is all about. <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: Tell me about your near-death experience and how that led to your change in attitude.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF: <\/strong>After a boxing match in Puerto Rico (against <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Young_(boxer)\"><strong>Jimmy Young<\/strong><\/a> in 1977) I wanted to get (away) because I had lost. I had gone 12 rounds. I didn&#8217;t feel that bad. I just wanted to prove to the world &#8211; to the world of boxing, that is &#8211; that I could go 12 rounds. I went back into the dressing room (and was) cooling off . That&#8217;s when business picked up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re George Foreman. You don&#8217;t have to worry about that boxing match. You still got your money!&#8221; I said &#8220;I can go home to my ranch. I can retire and die!&#8221; That word sticked in my conversation and I realized in the dressing (that) I was fighting for my life! I heard about athletes dying but I didn&#8217;t want to be (one of them). I fought for my life &#8211; and I lost!<\/p>\n<p>I heard a voice from within me. It said to me &#8220;You believe in God. Why are you scared to die?&#8221; I was afraid! Because I didn&#8217;t really believe in dying or religion. I tried to make a deal with God. I said &#8220;I got money! I&#8217;m still George Foreman! I can give to charity and to cancer!&#8221;And the voice answered me back &#8211; deep within &#8211; &#8220;I don&#8217;t want your money. I want you!&#8221; I knew I had come up against something I had never thought existed &#8211; especially turning down money!<\/p>\n<p>I lost my life that night. It gave out on me. I said &#8220;God, I believe in You.&#8221; Before I could say another word, I was out of this life in a deep, dark river of sadness. Nothing. I was dead. There was no hope! I didn&#8217;t think I was gonna come out of that! I lost everything! All of my wealth disappeared and crumbled.<\/p>\n<p>I got mad and said &#8220;I don&#8217;t care if this is death! I still believe there is a God! When I said that it was like a gigantic hand reached into nothingness and pulled me out &#8211; and I was back alive in that dressing room breathing, blood flowing through my face (and) screaming that <strong>Jesus Christ<\/strong> has come alive in me! I felt blood on my forehead and on my head. I tried to express it to them. They thought I was crazy but I fought eight men to get in the shower and I started screaming &#8220;Hallelujah, I&#8217;m clean! Hallelujah, I&#8217;m born again!&#8221; And, from that point on, I&#8217;ve been screaming it forever since.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: And you became an ordained minister after that.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF: <\/strong>It didn&#8217;t take me long to realize I could go to church and tell this story. The only people that didn&#8217;t think I was crazy was people in church. All of my friends and family thought I had lost my mind. Finally, I gave a testimony here. Then I was ordained a year afterwards so that I could go visit prisoners and hospitals and all of that. That was the beginning of my ministry. I&#8217;ve been telling that same story all these 45 years now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: What brought you back into the ring?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF: <\/strong>The most profound event happened in my life. I got broke! I had all these kids to feed, all these people who were dependent on me. Like I tell everybody, I wish I had been a golfer! I could have gone out and played golf on the green! But all I knew was boxing. I had to go back into boxing. I was a great big man &#8211; 315 pounds! I had to lose a lot of weight! And train!<\/p>\n<p>And I had to listen to people make jokes about me. &#8220;How can George Foreman be the prodigal son of boxing when he&#8217;s looking like the fatted calf?!&#8221; &#8220;He&#8217;ll never be the champion of the world as long as his training camp is next to <strong>Baskin-Robbins<\/strong>.&#8221; I had to listen to all of that &#8211; but I kept training! I kept my mission and, eventually, I got my chance to fight for the championship of the world again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: Did you really believe you were going to become heavyweight champion again?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF: <\/strong>I was a minister (seeking to connect with) money because that&#8217;s the way I would support my youth center. The third day at one of the (church) meetings (someone) said &#8220;Now, it&#8217;s time to give to George. Come on!&#8221; He counted the money and said &#8220;We can give more to George than this!&#8221; And it embarrassed me. It really did &#8211; that, with all of things that I had in life, there I was asking people for their money who didn&#8217;t even have it. I said right then &#8220;I know how to get money. I&#8217;m gonna become heavyweight champion of the world again! That&#8217;s how I&#8217;ll get money!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I didn&#8217;t say I was gonna go back to boxing to get money. I said was going to be heavyweight champion of world again! That&#8217;s what, I guess, really gave me the encouragement that I needed to keep boxing and to become champ of the world again. I started to believe!<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: Because you were doing it for your church.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF: <\/strong>My wife didn&#8217;t want me to go back into boxing. She tried to talk me out of it &#8211; but then she had a vision one night in a dream. She said &#8220;George! You became the heavyweight champion of the world again!&#8221; So, as she kept trying to discourage me, I said &#8220;Don&#8217;t forget about your dream!&#8221;&#8230;It convinced me that I could be champion of the world again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: I&#8217;m no spring chicken either. I remember you as a young boxer. You seemed so surly and kind of nasty in those days &#8211; and now you project such friendliness and happiness.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF:<\/strong> (When I was young) I had gone over three and a half years trying to become heavyweight champ of the world. I sacrificed everything! Friends, family, everything! I wanted to be the champion of the world! So, I wasn&#8217;t a very friendly person because I had my mission to destroy people and become champ of the world. I figured the more I beat them and hurt them then no one would stand up to me. So, I became this mean guy &#8211; but after I found my religion and found God all of these things became impossible for me. I didn&#8217;t even know how to make a fist. For ten years I stopped boxing. I didn&#8217;t even go into the gym. I didn&#8217;t want to have anything to do with sports &#8211; but then one day I did open up a youth center. I was trying to teach these kids how to behave &#8211; but they wanted to box. I said &#8220;You can&#8217;t be angry! You don&#8217;t need to be angry!&#8221; (But) I taught them and, in return, <em>I<\/em> learned how to box without anger. I was teaching them and <em>they<\/em> taught me. I (would) never punch in anger, ever again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: You actually became good friends with Muhammad Ali, right?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF: <\/strong>Muhammad Ali was one guy I came close to true hate for because he took my title. I didn&#8217;t like it &#8211; but then he ended up becoming one of the guys I loved most. We became so close &#8211; beyond brothers. His family and me &#8211; he, all of us &#8211; became good friends. To the end we became good friends. I still miss him to this day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: How did that friendship happen?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF: <\/strong>(A reporter) asked me&#8230;&#8221;George, what happened? What really happened in that fight in Africa? He expected another excuse from me. I said &#8220;You know what? I lost that fight. I got film! I got pictures to prove that I lost that I lost that boxing match!&#8221; (He) said &#8220;So, you accept it?&#8221; I said &#8220;Yep. God knocked me down when I lost that fight to Muhammad Ali.&#8221; I (finally) realized I didn&#8217;t have any other reason to scandalize him or think harshly of him but to accept him as my friend. That was it once I admitted I had lost that boxing match. It was a good thing for me that I had lost that boxing match because think about what could have happened to me if I had won that boxing match, what direction my life would have gone. So, victory was good &#8211; but that defeat took me all the way to the doorstep of God Almighty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: Of course, you&#8217;ve had other successes &#8211; famously including the George Foreman Grill.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF: <\/strong>Yeah. You know, I had a whole (new) life after I got back into boxing. I started started selling. I really became the darling of Madison Avenue. You talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8cSPFYhB56c\"><strong>Doritos<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Pepsi-Cola<\/strong>,<strong> McDonald&#8217;s,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qugH7w2MsJU\"><strong>Meineke Mufflers<\/strong><\/a>. Man, you name it, I was selling it! So, finally, our friends said &#8220;George, you&#8217;re making all these other companies wealthy. Why don&#8217;t you get your own product?!&#8221; I said &#8220;Okay, how much you gonna pay me?&#8221; They said &#8220;No, no, no, no! Nobody&#8217;s gonna pay you. You get your own product!&#8221; And we started this joint venture with the George Foreman Grill. I even signed my name to it and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L9AWX7BFFzk\">started promoting it<\/a>. I thought I&#8217;d only get about 16 of those grills out of the deal for my family and me. I looked one day and the thing had sold 10,000! Then 100,000! Then 100-million! I couldn&#8217;t believe it! To this day, I don&#8217;t know what happened! What a success!<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: At one point you even had a sitcom that ran briefly. What was that experience like?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF: <\/strong>Every chance I got to spread what I was doing, I would take it. The first sitcom was actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HWEh5fuzlIU\"><em><strong>George<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. I played another George &#8211; (named) Foster. I got a chance to reach people &#8211; people who didn&#8217;t know me but for the old boxing days. I wanted to make myself known as an actor (and) writing the books. Then, of course, later on I did the (reality) sitcom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kVvwR0LvbK4\"><em><strong>Better Late Than Never<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. I always wanted to stay in the public eye so I could continue to tell my story about Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: What is the greatest lesson of your life that you would like people to understand?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GF: <\/strong>The best lesson from my life is to understand &#8211; and I try to tell that to people in church too &#8211; (is) stay alive! I want to encourage people. With all of the bad things that have happened to me, my faith in God has pulled me through &#8211; and He can pull anyone through. Just have faith in God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> <strong>My review of <em>Big George Foreman<\/em> will run on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>John W. Kennedy is a writer, producer and media development consultant specializing in television and movie projects that uphold positive timeless values, including trust in God. <\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em><span class=\"st\">Encourage one another and build each other up &#8211; <\/span><\/em><span class=\"st\">1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media &amp; culture: 04\/25\/23 The Comeback Kid Old Guy. 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