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A two-time world heavyweight champion and the man behind the George Foreman grill, “Big George” turns 72 today and the chances are he’s celebrating with the purchase of yet another Corvette. The entrepreneurial boxer has owned dozens of them, and many other Chevrolets besides, but his first love was a convertible Volkswagen Beetle. After a troubled childhood, the Texan took up amateur boxing at 18 and won gold at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. The following year, aged 20, he turned pro and took his first heavyweight title in 1973 in Jamaica with a stunning second-round knockout of the then-undefeated Joe Frazier. Rolls-Royces and heavily customised American luxury cars followed. He defended the belt twice before suffering his first professional loss, to Muhammed Ali, in the iconic Rumble In The Jungle in Zaire in 1974. Foreman retired a few years later after a religious epiphany and became an ordained Christian minister before making a successful comeback to t

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