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For a second, George looks hurt. Not in a 'Jeez, I've just been clocked by a Joe Frazier left h... Big George still sizzles...

"I wake up all the time in shock and amazement - but most of all I'm happy. I thought my life was over when I lost to Muhammad Ali [in Zaire in 1974]."

"I'm done with boxing. When Larry Holmes asked me to fight him recently, my wife told me 'no'. It was the first time she had put a demand on me in over 20 years of marriage.

George is also upbeat about the state of the modern game. Ask some old-timers what they think of boxing today, and they'll shake their heads and tut.

And, unsurprisingly for a man who was still fighting at 48, George thinks Audley Harrison, Britain's 34-year-old former Olympic champion, has got plenty of time to make the grade.

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