He won the world heavyweight championship five years later in a stunning knockout of Joe Frazier in two rounds in 1973, but he lost it to Muhammad Ali the next year in the famous “Rumble in the ...

That made Foreman the oldest boxer ever to hold a version of the world heavyweight championship, a record that endures to this day. His final fight came in 1997, a loss to Shannon Briggs.

“The first time I didn’t believe it. When you fight for the heavyweight championship of the world it does feel unbelievable, it doesn’t feel like you’re really there, it could be a dream.