Why didnt George Foreman play himself?
Hes still pretty young looking (nothing that a good make up job couldnt save) and he wouldnt have had any difficult acting scenes. With all his other TV roles Im surprised he didnt play himself.
shareWTF? George Foreman couldn't have possibly played himself. He was a focking beast back then...the George Forman you're thinking about is a round Teddy Bear.
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Foreman could have played Foreman? That's like saying todays Ali could have played the Ali back then.
shareNo disrespect meant to Ali AT ALL, but Foreman, POSSIBLY could have gotten into shape like (God I'm gonna butcher his name) But Gov.. Schwartzanegger was able to get back into the SAME shape and weight that he was during T2 so that when he played in T3 he'd look ALMOST exactly the same. Foreman ''possibly' could have done something along those lines....
Ali on the other hand (this is where lightning may strike me) sort of looks like a Parkinson's Patient off his meds and confused.
AGAIN, NO Disrespect meant, Ali was great, but foreman could prolly put in the time, some Human growth hormone in a country where it's legal, and with makeup maybe played his character. But Ali? I Mean you've all seen him... I feel terrible, but no - he couldn't have even tried to do some cameo 'stock footage type looking scene at his age and state of being.
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I hate to break this to you..... but Arnold's body was completely CGI in T3.
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Philosphily also doesn't seem to realize that these events were 30 years ago and although George is looking good, 30 years is a long time to put on a person. Besides George isn't an actor though I have seen him in some commercials.
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enzo2387 you called him a "beast". I actually want to take it one step further. In his prime I would have put my money on Foreman even over Mike Tyson (also in prime). Yes Tyson was powerfully built and hits damn hard but Foreman was HUGE bigger than Tyson and possibly an even harder puncher. Foreman punched WAY harder than Ali and the only reason Ali won the fight is he as very fast on his feet and did a superb job stalling for time and tiring his opponent out by "dancing" around the relatively flat footed Foreman. Toe to toe Foreman would have killed him. Also, no way Tyson could have beaten Ali, and no way Tyson could have put up as good a fight as Foreman did, which is why I think Tyson could not have beaten Foreman.
Ali beat Foreman because Foreman didn't have half the stamina Ali did, which was all Foreman's fault. IIRC, there were reports that Foreman didn't train for stamina, because he was so confident in his ability to knock out any opponent in the 3rd or 4th round at the latest.
Ali used his ability to take a punch (and, I'd assume, the fact that the ropes Ali laid against helped to absorb the blows) to trick Foreman into clobbering Ali's body, doing little damage to Ali and tiring Foreman out.
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