George Foreman III, the second of Big George's sons, does bear a striking resemblance to his father. Unfortunately, the resemblance is closer to 40-year-old comeback George than the gold-medal winning monster who terrorized boxing rings in the late '60 and early '70s. Luckily, "Monk" Foreman (as he is known around the house) found an opponent who bears an even greater likeness to the physical form of his current grill salesman father, so he threw his arms at that guy for 90 seconds and presto ... undefeated!

Watching the video of this pathetic excuse for a boxing match makes me sad for the gloves. At least the punching bag in question, Clyde Weaver (now 0-2 lifetime) has an excuse. He needs the money. So what's Foreman's excuse? Why is he even trying to become a boxer? (At age 26, no less.) This horrifying display of athletic ability hardly conjures up images of Daddy's dominance, which he could never match in a million years anyway. And you're not helping matters, Michael Campbell of the Houston Chronicle:

"Monk" Foreman knocked out Clyde Weaver of Parsons, Tenn., in the first round with a series of power hooks that looked like he had cinder blocks in his gloves.

Really? Cinder blocks? Weaver looks more like he's suffering from an ice cream headache than a construction mishap. Do something else with your life, Monk. You have a business degree and all that grill money at your disposal. Open an animal shelter or a hardware store or something. Then you could give Clyde Weaver a real job.

George Foreman's son wins 1st fight with 1st-round KO [Houston Chronicle]
George Foreman III wins debut [The Ring]
[Photo: Karen Wink/AP]

Manufacturer CirTran Corp., based in Utah, approached Holyfield about promoting the $99 grill after he appeared on the TV show "Dancing With the Stars" in 2005. Holyfield dons an apron in a 30-minute commercial that began airing last week describing his product's culinary and health benefits. "I've got a George Foreman grill. It's a good grill," Holyfield, 44, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "But don't you think the latest grill is supposed to be the best grill?"

Well, sure, and I for one am happy that our grill technology is not standing still. That's because I know that the Russians are now laboring to perfect their Nikolai Valuev Beast From The East People's Mechanized Grill. One false step could leave us lagging dangerously behind in the Grilled Meats Race. And speaking of that, Holyfield will climb gingerly back into the ring on Oct. 13 to fight Russia's Sultan Ibragimov at Moscow's Khodynka Ice Palace arena. Holyfield, still fighting. Great Googly Moogly.

Someone Just Give This Guy A Grill Endorsement Already [Deadspin]
Holyfield Vs. Foreman II: Battle Of The Grills [MSNBC]

In his memoirs he says before the fight, his trainer gave him something to drink that tasted like medicinel, "I almost spit it out ... [I told my trainer] 'Man, I know this water has medicine in it,'" Foreman wrote. "I climbed into the ring with that medicinal taste still lingering in my mouth. After the third round, I was as tired as if I had fought 15 rounds. What's going on here? Did someone slip a drug in my water?" he wrote.

We meant not to interrupt Foreman's low-fat basting of meat or the raising of his 65 children named George, but, uh, we do not believe you, George. That fight was 32 years ago; that's older than we are, and we are freaking old. We know that absolutely no one was writing about any possible angle of that fight back then, and no one dispatched any reporters to cover it ... but we still don't quite buy that Foreman just now came up with this. At all.

Buy the book, though; you can only have so many colors of that grill.

Foreman: I Was Drugged Before Fight With Ali [ESPN]