Foreman back on HBO!

from fightnews Foreman working HBO telecast! Former two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman will rejoin Jim Lampley and Larry Merchant on tommorow night's HBO telecast of Samuel Peter vs Wladimir Klitschko and Miguel Cotto vs Ricardo Torres. Foreman abruptly left the HBO broadcast team in February 2004, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family. After 18 months away from the mic, "Big George" returned on August 13 of this year to provide ringside commentary on Don King's pay-per-view telecast of Rahman-Barrett at the United Center in Chicago. With Emanuel Steward working Klitschko's corner Saturday night and Roy Jones in training camp for his showdown with Antonio Tarver next week, HBO asked Foreman to help out this weekend and he accepted.

Comments (17)

Slipx

cool. I bet he'll favor Pete cuz he is a bit similar to him! nyahahahaha! you always make me chuckle..but that is true.. it will indeed be good to see foreman back at what he loves doing- pissing off merchant :-)

20y ago

AintGottaClue

id like to see roy/george/manny for 1 time other then that my favorite combo is george/merchant/lamps, then roy/lamps /merchant

20y ago

Foldem4me

That's great news I'm looking forward to enjoying another appearance by Forman. He's great. I also hope he and Larry get into it a little bit. It should become very amusing, depending upon how many drinks Larry enjoys tonight.

20y ago

beez721

Awesome. I liked when George called fights before, and merchant still mentions about how he and George never got along. I like RJJ and Manny too, though the only thing I don't like about any of them (and I don't think this is their fault, but rather the higher ups at HBO), is that they will almost never count a fighter out who is clearly getting beat. Lampley will say something like "and he clearly has no gas left in his tank," and then it will get countered with, "Yea but you never know with this guy." But like I said, all of them do a great job. I like big george as well. he's not afraid to speak his mind whether it gets him in trouble or not

20y ago

Tha_Greatest6475

They should rotate between the 3... I dont wanna see manny every time, i dont wanna see roy everytime, and i dont wanna see george everytime.

20y ago

drez24

20y ago

abdiel2k3

LOL- it'll be cool as hell to see george back.. i hope he gets into it with larry for old times sake :D damn idk if its kooler that george is back or that yoko has made an appearence havent seen u in a while

20y ago

Super_Lightweight

hmm George is definitely the marketing man, but that actually makes him more fake and less real than RJJ and Manny. To me it don't matter though. I like all3 just fine and it will be good to hear George's voice again.

20y ago

Truth8215

I have to say I think this is cool, its good to see Big George back.

20y ago

_Mr_Soprano

Great News! He's my favorite

20y ago

puppy_dogg

LOL- it'll be cool as hell to see george back.. i hope he gets into it with larry for old times sake :D

20y ago

hollister

awsome guess his comebacks on a pause Yeah, I was just about to ask, is he still coming back? Ya know what, it doesn't matter, he's kinda crazy sometimes, but I like his old ass anyway lol

20y ago

abdiel2k3

awsome guess his comebacks on a pause

20y ago

Pac_Man_Fan_83

I had wondered who they would get since Steward and Jones are busy.

20y ago

RAESAAD

I am happy about this he is very funny even though he usually does not mean to be but he is accurate and real...he will blatantly disagree with anyone of his side kicks...Lampley,Merchant and even Lederman if George don't agree with his scoring.Wrong he is sometimes but who is'nt and he has been in the ring in those situations so he knows best even more than Roy because he has far less ring experience then George and he does tend to lean toward certain guys more than George does he could care less about who wins as long as it is fairly judged and reffed. :D

20y ago

Tha_Greatest6475

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

20y ago

Manny_P

cool. I bet he'll favor Pete cuz he is a bit similar to him! nyahahahaha!

20y ago