A controversial Olympian, a menacing champ, an ordained minister, a ubiquitous salesman: Foreman lived a quintessentially American life.

George Foreman waved an American flag after defeating Soviet boxer Jonas Čepulis at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. California, waves an American flag after winning the Olympic gold medal ...

George Foreman, the two-time world ... Foreman hands out miniature American flags at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1969. AP. Muhammad Ali taunts Foreman in San Diego in 1972.

Heavyweight champion George Foreman died Friday at the age of 76, ... he wielded an America flag in the boxing ring while bowing to the crowd, in an iconic American Olympics moment.

Widely known for two historic comeback fights. Long before he was a Hall of Famer, Foreman won an Olympic gold medal first in 1968 when waved a small American flag across four corners of an ...

As he entered the public consciousness -- a big man waving a tiny American flag as if it were a conductor's baton -- George Foreman was definitely not of the moment. This was 1968, at the Mexico ...

His growth is an American story we need to hear and cherish at a different, yet still difficult, time. Foreman learned at an early age that he wasn’t for everyone.

George Foreman died at the age of 76 on Friday, March 21, ... so I picked up a small American flag and paraded around the ring to make sure they knew,” he told On the Ropes, ...

(Original Caption) 10/26/1968-Mexico City, Mexico- George Foreman of Houston, TX, waves a small American flag after he won the Olympics heavyweight boxing gold medal to climax America's greatest ...

George Foreman, the two-time world ... Foreman hands out miniature American flags at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1969. AP. Muhammad Ali taunts Foreman in San Diego in 1972.