Dylan Hernandez: Bill Caplan has always been boxing's warm-hearted friend in a world of pirates
LOS ANGELES — George Foreman sounded as if he was trying to sell me one of his Lean Mean Grilling Machines. I could picture Foreman's smile as the former heavyweight boxing champion and hamburger appliance pitchman dropped Don King-isms as he talked — and talked and talked — about his longtime publicist and friend, Bill Caplan. "He made us all famous," Foreman said over the phone. Hyperbole ...
LOS ANGELES — George Foreman sounded as if he was trying to sell me one of his Lean Mean Grilling Machines.
I could picture Foreman's smile as the former heavyweight boxing champion and hamburger appliance pitchman dropped Don King-isms as he talked — and talked and talked — about his longtime publicist and friend, Bill Caplan.
"He made us all famous," Foreman said over the phone.
Hyperbole like this is commonplace in boxing. Stretching truth is as accepted as punches to the face. And the more Foreman talked, the more he pushed the boundaries of credibility.
"He drew the spotlight to wherever I was," Foreman said, as if his thunderous knockouts had nothing to do with that.
Eventually, Foreman disregarded the truth entirely, making
