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TIL George Foreman won an Olympic Gold Medal after boxing for only a year and a half and with only 20 amateur fights

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BgQ5k TIL that by 1965, boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson became broke, having spent all of the $4 million he made during his career. When honored with a huge trophy after his final fight, he was so poor that there was not a piece of furniture in his apartment that was strong enough to support it.
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