How ironically sad that legendary boxer George Foreman and Colin Hart, who for 50 years or so had been the pre-eminent writer on the sport for The Sun, should have died within hours of each other.
Of course, on their respective journeys they met a good few times. The first was in Caracas, Venezuela, in March 1974 before Foreman’s world title fight with Ken Norton. Hart and a handful of other British journalists went to Foreman’s hotel to get some pre-fight quotes. Hart chain-smoked at the time and the world champion called out to him, “hey, you put that out!