Former heavyweight champion George Foreman will rejoin the boxing world on Saturday when his son George III squares off with Clyde Weaver for his first professional fight. The elder George is his trainer and manager.
George Foreman is staging a boxing come back but this time not as the boxing champion that he was but as trainer and manager of George Foreman III, nicknamed Monk, who is facing Clyde Weaver in Kinder, La. It will be Monk’s first professional fight with his famous father as his trainer and manager.
Monk is the one of the 10 children of the famous heavyweight champion George Foreman. He is 26 years old and stands 6’5” and weighs 240 pounds. He works as his father’s business manager after getting a business degree.
Monk has not been successful in his amateur boxing career mainly because of the lack of opponents that are willing to fight him.
Las Vegas sun.com reports:
This will be Monk’s first official fight after several attempts at amateur bouts fell through. Turns out no one wanted to face a man with genes like his, even if he was inexperienced.
Monk said he ran into the fathers of a couple of the men he was set to fight.
“They’d say: ‘It was my son, he was going to fight you and he couldn’t sleep at night,”’ Monk said.
Added his father, ‘That George Foreman name can get you in trouble”. You can’t get an amateur career when everybody thinks you are the reincarnation of George Foreman.”
Monk was never allowed by his father to take boxing seriously until after he graduates from college and obtain a degree.
Monk’s sister Natalie knew that one of her brothers would eventually follow his father’s footsteps but she never expected that it was Monk because he is the sweetest and the most gentle among the Foreman boys. ‘I’ve never seen him lose his temper’ Natalie said.
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