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What: “Beyond the Glory: George Foreman.”

Where: Fox Sports Net, Sunday, 8 p.m.

There are a lot of interesting characters in boxing, but maybe none more so than George Foreman.

The latest edition of “Beyond the Glory” takes viewers through Foreman’s rough childhood, his time in the Job Corps, his Olympic glory, his pro career and his work as a boxing commentator for HBO and pitchman for the George Foreman Grill.

Foreman was in the Job Corps when he met his boxing mentor, Doc Broadus. Says Foreman: “He looked at me and said, ‘Well, you’re big enough and you’re ugly enough. Come on down to the gym.’ That was Doc Broadus.”

Of his 1973 fight against then-heavyweight champion Joe Frazier in Jamaica, a fight Foreman won with a second-round knockout, Foreman says, “I was afraid of Joe Frazier. For the first time, entering into a ring, I was afraid of a guy.”

Foreman retired in 1977, came back 10 years later and then, 21 years after first winning the heavyweight championship, won it again when, at age 45, he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round in 1994.

And now, Foreman, a 55-year-old grandfather, is considering another comeback.

-- Larry Stewart