Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World (2023) on Netflix
NR20232h 13mBiographyDramaSport
George Foreman grows up poor and angry in Houston, Texas, where his violent outbursts keep landing him in trouble. The Job Corps brings him to boxing trainer Doc Broadus.
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Plot summary
In Houston, Texas, George Foreman lives with his mother Nancy and his siblings in poverty, and his anger keeps erupting into violent outbursts. As a young adult he joins the Job Corps as a last effort to change his life, where his roommate Desmond Baker becomes a friend and the chairman, boxing trainer Doc Broadus, pushes him to put his rage into boxing instead of fighting. Foreman proves gifted, and a year into boxing he takes Olympic gold for the United States. In Oakland, California he trains with Dick Sadler and former light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, and he meets the journalist Paula.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World (2023)
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- Michael K. Williams was originally cast as George Foreman's trainer and mentor Doc Broadus, but died before production began; Forest Whitaker ended up in the role.
- The film began under the working title Heart of a Lion: its planned late-2021 start in New Orleans was halted by Hurricane Ida's landfall, and production was then shut down until early 2022 for an unreported reason.
