Boxing icon, George Foreman, is known for many things- as a champ and also as the man who was defeated by the late, great Muhammad Ali. He’s the founder of the Foreman grill that helped America cook a much healthier piece of grilled chicken and fish. Recently, he also became known as the heavyweight who thinks Donald Trump is a wonderful president and slammed Colin Kaepernick’s peaceful protest against injustices against African Americans in America, as “unpatriotic.” Now, just a few days after those statements, he’ll now be known as the heavyweight legend, who is also a helluva backpedaller, because as of Thursday (8-24-17), that’s exactly what he did regarding his prior Kaepernick bashing.

In case you missed Foreman’s slamming of Kaepernick, as well as NBA player, Kevin Durant’s refused to take a trip to the White House as long as Trump resides there, here’s what he said…

George Foreman’s Prior Statements That Caused An Uproar

On Kaepernick and Durant being “unpatriotic”: “(Kaepernick and Durant) haven’t been brought up with people who were patriotic to even point them in the right direction,” Foreman said.

Foreman also compared Durant’s refusing to visit the White House this year, to his younger “ignorant” self, when he refused to visit the White House back in the day, when Richard Nixon was president. Foreman said that he later regretted that decision, because he missed out on a photo op’ with Nixon, even though he was against what Nixon represented. He now thinks that Durant will soon regret his White House skip with Trump for the same reason- a photo op.’ Foreman also called Kaepernick and Durant “sore losers”:

“Your guy doesn’t win and you figure something is wrong, I’m not going to like the guy,” Foreman continued. “I’m against him and everything but that’s all there is, sore loser. Sore loser. I was one.”

As far as Trump, Foreman had this to say: “He’s a good president,” Foreman said. “A lot of people don’t like him, but evidently more do because he was elected President of the United States.” […] “I was broke, too. Bankrupt. Put me back, [Trump] was part of writing those checks, so I could be on the wealthy side again. So I’ll always be grateful to the entrepreneur Donald Trump,” [Foreman] said. “And now President Donald Trump.”

Watch George Foreman Change His Tune On Kaepernick

Now that we’re all caught up on Foreman’s surprising views, let’s take a look at the major backpedalling he’s now doing…at least as it pertains to Colin Kepernick. This came after Foreman received a ton of backlash about his previous statements. In a nutshell, he’s speaking as if he never made those “unpatriotic…sore loser” statements about Kaepernick’s peaceful protesting. Check out his new views below…

Too, Much, Too Little, Too Late

Hmmm…I got love for the iconic champ, so I’ve gotta be real with him. That’s why I’ll end this article with the perfect song for Foreman at this time, “Too Much, Too Little Too Late” by Deniece Williams and Johnny Mathis. Enjoy…