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Heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman dies, aged 76
Fondly known as Big George, Foreman dropped out of school as a teenager and went on to become an Olympic boxing gold medalist and later heavyweight champion after defeating Joe Frazier. He lost the title to Muhammad Ali in boxing's iconic 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, DR Congo.
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